Sentences with phrase «new wealthier students»

However ~ NAEP shows minimalto - no improvement for these students ~ and some losses; whats more ~ white and Hispanic students scores fell by 3 points ~ and black students scores stayed the same ~ so only the influx of new wealthier students with higher scores could account for the small overall gain.

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Tough, a former editor at The New York Times Magazine and the author of Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America (2008), believes that students from schools like KIPP may have «character advantages» over their wealthier counterparts because of the hard work it takes for them to succeed.

A study by the New York State Association of School Business Officials found that spending in wealthier districts for special needs students was almost double the spending in more impoverished districts.

In a big shift that could affect school desegregation efforts, the Capitol Region Education Council says it will begin charging tuition to wealthier families who enroll new prekindergarten students in the agency's coveted magnet schools.

Bailey brushed aside a reporter's question about the optics of the secretary making her first school visit in New York City to one that caters to a wealthy student body, out of sync with the city's school system where about three - quarters of students qualify for free or reduced - price lunches.

He also claims that New York's education budget is too high, without noting that because of the wide disparities of income in the state, children in wealthy districts benefit from much higher spending and students in poorer districts have to make do with far fewer resources.

While different states weigh and conduct the components differently, they, like New York, tie teacher performance only to student growth, not raw test scores, so as not to disadvantage teachers whose students hail from challenging socioeconomic backgrounds versus teachers in wealthy districts.

Cuomo is asking lawmakers to put the needs of Wall Street and the wealthy ahead of the needs of our students, the poor and the middle class,» said Mark Dunlea of Hunger Action New York.

If union supporters carry the day, the world's wealthiest university will become home to the newest chapter of the United Auto Workers (UAW), marking one of the first instances of a private university being forced to accept a union of students against its will.

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Educators began to see that the education of a child in a wealthier community in New York could vary greatly from that of a student in the Midwest or that of a black child in the South.

The high scores of students in a wealthy suburban New Jersey school will reflect the contributions of well - educated parents, a communal emphasis on academic achievement, a stable learning environment at home, and enriching extracurricular opportunities.

In my city, New York, elite private schools such as Dalton, Horace Mann, Spence, Brearley, Riverdale Country School, and at least two dozen more levy tuitions in the range of $ 20,000 a year — exceeding what even the wealthiest New York suburban school districts spend per student.

Kozol points out that the wealthiest suburban school districts surrounding New York City, for example, spend more per pupil to educate their mostly white student bodies than the city spends to educate its mostly minority population.

While some have been critical of Success Academy's intense focus on test - prep, the school's students consistently achieve impressive scores on their New York state exams, routinely outranking students from wealthy neighborhoods and prestigious private schools.

Moreover, like vouchers, online learning is theoretically egalitarian but could further stratify society, as the wealthy and educated exploit new technology before low - income and working - class students do.

Across the board, student groups in poorer districts are less resourced than peers in wealthier districts and will receive more new funding as a result.

New Jersey has one of the highest achievement gaps between wealthy and poor students in the nation.

Or a school so new that the state hasn't ranked it, one that doesn't prioritize smart kids or students from wealthy neighborhoods.

Students who won lottery spots in charter schools scored at levels closer to wealthier suburban students, a new study haStudents who won lottery spots in charter schools scored at levels closer to wealthier suburban students, a new study hastudents, a new study has found.

I created a table and some basic scatterplots to show how charter high schools in New Jersey compare on SAT results to public high schools that serve students in some of New Jersey's wealthiest and poorest towns.

But new voucher programs made them available to wealthy students as well, even those who already had access to excellent public schools.

Students in the wealthiest school districts in New York State enjoy the highest per - pupil funding — sometimes as high as $ 70,000 per pupil.

Charter high schools serve less LEP students than those even served by New Jersey's high schools in the wealthiest communities, let alone the districts located in the poorest communities, yet charter high school operate in communities with high percentages of LEP students.

Many parents, teachers, and students in wealthy school districts think nothing of throwing the terms «failing school,» «low - performing», etc. at anyone from Windham, Hartford, Bridgeport, New Haven — any child from these districts is deemed to be inferior and second - class... it is very hard for the targeted students to overcome these prejudices and for students in wealthy districts to let go of their pre-conceptions.

In New York, it is particularly acute as students at traditional schools are in dire need while charters enjoy the spoils of both public funding and wealthy private benefactors.

While we believe a focus on Pell completion is laudable and absolutely called for, the proposal fails to account for the percentage of Pell - eligible students enrolled within institutions; and, as a result, any new funding will likely benefit wealthy, selective campuses where low - income students are the least likely to enroll.

A new program announced this week by the Harvard Graduate School of Education intends to reduce the achievement gap between wealthy and low - income students.

For instance, Amistad Academy in New Haven reported a significant jump in math and reading proficiency scores on statewide tests, with some students performing «almost as well» as wealthier students in Greenwich, Connecticut.

The new reform groups built ties with a pre-existing conservative network in the state, including pro-school - voucher groups like the Students First PAC, a wealthy political - action committee funded by the libertarian managers of a suburban Philadelphia investment firm.

Leaders of two French - immersion public charter schools in Uptown New Orleans, Audubon Charter School and Lycée Français de la Nouvelle Orléans, both made efforts this week to dispute allegations that their admissions procedures favor students from wealthy families.

A new nationwide survey on the state of arts education in U.S. public schools finds that arts offerings haven't declined as much as expected, but that students in high - poverty schools, particularly at the secondary level, do not receive the same rich exposure to arts opportunities as their wealthier peers.

The new funding begins to close that gap, by providing $ 245 per pupil for low - income students and $ 131 per pupil for wealthier students.

And only three states have larger achievement gaps between their low income and wealthy students on eigth grade reading and math than New Jersey, despite school spending that dwarfs that of almost all other states.

Currently, the highest performing, most qualified teachers in New York City are disproportionately teaching in the city's wealthiest neighborhoods and schools, while schools serving low - income and students of color are disproportionately assigned the least qualified, lowest performing teachers.

In another Albany chamber that same morning, a court prepared to hear the opening argument in a long - running education finance case, Maisto v. New York, that contends students from poorer communities are getting much less in per pupil spending — several thousands less — than their wealthier peers.

A study by the New York State Association of School Business Officials found that spending in wealthier districts for special needs students was almost double the spending in more impoverished districts.

On average, low - income students pay more than three - quarters of their annual family income out - of - pocket to attend a four - year, public or private nonprofit institution — nearly five times the proportion of wealthier families, according to a new report by the nonprofit Education Trust.

A new report says older and wealthier Canadians, as well as students and young couples without children, should invest in TFSAs.

She slammed the New York school system for being «the second most unequal in the country,» noting that there is a $ 10,000 per - pupil funding gap between students in the wealthiest versus poorest school districts.

However, when presented with the opportunity to marry the wealthy businessman Charles Nevelson and move to New York as a society matron rather than alone as a poor student, she did not hesitate to do so.

It was not long before some in the media saw in Kushner, a student at New York University School of Law and son of a wealthy New Jersey real estate developer currently in federal prison, echoes of Charles Foster Kane, the young newspaper publisher portrayed by Orson Welles in the 1941 film Citizen Kane.

The new buildings are typically marketed to attract the wealthiest student, who can pay the high rents that justify the high cost of land and construction.