Sentences with phrase «most needy districts»
The state has attempted to lure good teachers into the most needy districts for years, offering incentives like college scholarships that cover tuition, fees, books and the average cost of room and meals, as well as moving incentives and housing assistance for those who relocate to such places.
http://hechingerreport.org/ Not exact matches
New York state owes Onondaga County schools $ 122 million and the neediest district — Syracuse — is owed the most, a report says.
According to the Citizens Budget Commission, most of the $ 1.4 million education increase in this year's budget is allocated outside Foundation Aid formulas; and as a result, affluent districts benefit proportionately more than the neediest districts.
No amount of administrative skill could eliminate the costs to low - income districts of having to re-allocate or retain their more effective teachers to work with their most needy students.
On paper, it looks to most people like a good plan: $ 1.2 billion going straight to needy school districts to hire thousands of new teachers and reduce class sizes in the crucial early grades.
We at the Los Angeles 10th district are using the Dashboard in order to find our most needy & underprivileged schools, in order to plan programs that give back.
However, data from the State Department of Education reveals that about 90 percent of Connecticut's charters serve a less needy population than their host districts: fewer poor children, fewer English Language Learners or fewer students with disabilities, with most having a combination of two or three of these categories.
The state's indifference to the plight of struggling districts contributed to the rupture between former state schools Superintendent John Barge and Deal, prompting Barge's infamous letter to the Legislature in which he wrote, «It is a travesty and a shame what our state is doing to our rural and most needy school districts.