Sentences with phrase «other poor school districts»

They issued a joint news release (see below) calling on the state to honor a 2006 decision by the state's highest court, which held that the state had provided inadequate financial support to New York City and other poor school districts.

Sanchez, who has held the 25th District seat since 2011, said he wants to continue pressing for improvements in early childhood education as well as better funding for education in New Britain and other poor school districts.

Raymond Abbott's name appeared as lead plaintiff in a court case brought by Camden and several other poor school districts against the State of New Jersey, demanding that the state provide equal funding for all schools.

Not exact matches

It's certainly a win - win situation for these schools, but it also creates a disturbing picture of rich kids nibbling on sushi and having enough money for the team uniforms, while poor kids in a neighboring district are not only getting eating subpar food, they're often selling candy and other junk food to raise money for those same uniforms, further contributing to poor health habits that may last a lifetime.

The Speaker and several other key lawmakers think most of that money should go directly to aid poor school districts.

One irate school superintendent for the Genesee Valley called poor districts going at each other for school aid a «Dickensian competition.»

Houston's schools, which are equally minority and poor, perform well relative to other urban school districts.

The proportion of students in poverty in the majority - black elementary schools has increased over time, and remains at higher levels (currently at 91 percent poor) than the district's other elementary schools (76.6 percent poor.)

Districts could address within - district inequities in lots of ways — they could offer higher salaries to teachers in poorer schools, they could have lower class sizes in poorer schools, or they could expand other services within poorer schools — but local teachers» union contracts often prohibit all of these policy options.

School districts in Washington that show consistently poor performance should be subject to state takeover, monetary penalties, or other consequences, concludes a state panel established to devise a system of accountability for the state's schools.

One would limit the share of state money earmarked for the state's «special needs» school districts in poor, urban areas, while the other would bar the executive...

She also stressed, as did many other witnesses, that school districts with effective mentoring and evaluation programs have successfully identified and helped poor - performing teachers.

Like equalization formulas in other states, the one in Kansas was designed to help poor, primarily urban districts, not the sprawling, land - rich agricultural areas of the state, like Beloit, where Mr. Bottom serves as superintendent of schools.

However, an insistence on the secular control of public funds meant that Catholic and other church - based schools could not receive publicly funded vouchers, even in academically failing school districts where other private schools are unavailable to poor students.

In writing regulations for the new law, Secretary of Education, John B. King, proposes that school districts spend as much per student of state and local funds on students in poor schools as is spent on students in the district's other schools.

And even before California recently revamped its statewide K - 12 funding formula to concentrate more funds in schools with high numbers of ELLs and other vulnerable students, the district was targeting extra money to schools with the greatest number of poor students and English - language learners, he said.

However, the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence can also recommend state intervention if a school district has been unable or unwilling to carry out the agency's recommendations to improve, and persistently poor academic performance alone, regardless of other indicators, warrants intervention.

«We believe money is not the answer,» said Sen. Brown, explaining instead that districts must identify other ways to deal with factors that contribute to poor performance at failing schools.

A decreased Title I allocation is challenging for a district because it can result in fewer district schools receiving funds under Title I. Under Title I school allocation rules, many schools with high numbers of low - income children do not receive support from Title I because they are surrounded by other schools that are even poorer, so the Title I money «runs out» before those schools have the opportunity to receive funds.

Instead of going back to an accountability approach that was supposedly «demoralizing» teachers and school leaders charged with helping poor and minority kids succeed, Petrilli and others prefer the new approaches, which attempt to focus on the growth schools and districts make in helping our most - vulnerable.

Further, the Court found that inadequate funding from the state is leading to inequalities and disparities between wealthy and poor school districts, because some districts are only able to raise a fraction of the money through local levies as other districts, despite having a higher local levy tax rate.

As I have noted, stronger standards alone aren't the only reason why student achievement has improved within this period; at the same time, the higher expectations for student success fostered by the standards (along with the accountability measures put in place by the No Child Left Behind Act, the expansion of school choice, reform efforts by districts such as New York City, and efforts by organizations such as the College Board and the National Science and Math Initiative to get more poor and minority students to take Advanced Placement and other college prep courses), has helped more students achieve success.

In the past few years, the district has approved one charter school and denied at least two others, mostly over concerns about brand - new operators with poor financial plans.

While it is reasonable that these schools would need more money, we now have a system where our «poorest» school districts are spending significantly more than others with little to show in positive academic outcomes.

Ending traditional school funding — especially the use of property tax dollars as a funding source for districts and schools (which account for 34 percent of school funding in the Wolverine State)-- would get rid of excuses traditional districts use to oppose all forms of school choice, keep poor and minority kids out of the schools they operate, and refuse to take on other systemic reforms.

CHICAGO — Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) President Karen Lewis criticized the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) list of schools targeted for closures and other school actions by pointing out that not only does the policy do little to improve student achievement, but the District has a poor record of improving academic achievement among the city's most vulnerable stSchools (CPS) list of schools targeted for closures and other school actions by pointing out that not only does the policy do little to improve student achievement, but the District has a poor record of improving academic achievement among the city's most vulnerable stschools targeted for closures and other school actions by pointing out that not only does the policy do little to improve student achievement, but the District has a poor record of improving academic achievement among the city's most vulnerable students.

The department proposed a rule that would require local school districts to give schools enrolling large numbers of poor children at least as much state and local money as other schools — thus prompting the letter.

But the fact that the Obama administration granted Virginia a waiver in the first place in spite of its record of obstinacy on systemic reform, along with the fact that many of the 32 other states granted waivers (along with the District of Columbia) have also set low expectations for districts and schools to improve the achievement of the poor and minority kids in their care, has put President Obama in the uncomfortable position of supporting the soft bigotry of low expectations for children — especially those who share his race and skin color.

Through the state's capital outlay guarantee, school districts considered «property - poor» can qualify for extra funding for capital projects and needs to put them on even footing with other districts.

-- In a December report on school efficiency and funding, no clear factors were found between funding, efficiency, and achievement, other than poor districts require more money.

What if we were to abolish all school districts and give poor people choices that other people have?

Schools in these poor communities received significantly more money than other «hold harmless» school districts, not counting Bloomfield Hills.

He declared unconstitutional and «irrational» the way Connecticut funds and oversees local public schools; he found that the state government has the enforceable responsibility under Connecticut's constitution to provide all students an adequate education — not just the wealthy suburban kids who rank first nationwide in reading scores, but also the many «functionally illiterate» high - school graduates from the 30 poorest Connecticut school districts, which rank below Mississippi and 39 other states in those same scores.

Just as importantly, the waiver gambit reaffirms the role of states in structuring education without holding them accountable for how they spend federal dollars (or for providing them with high - quality teaching, curricula, and school options); this includes the administration's move through the waiver process to bless implementation of Plessy v. Ferguson - like proficiency targets that allow districts and other school operators to effectively ignore poor and minority students.

Michigan's policy of unfettered charter expansion, together with a money - follows - the - child school funding system decimated Detroit's public schools, along with other poor districts, and has left schools across that state intensely segregated.

Meanwhile Trump's ascent into the White House bodes ill for one of the Obama Administration's most - admirable efforts: Holding districts accountable for overusing out - of - school suspensions and other harsh school discipline that put poor and minority children onto the school - to - prison pipeline, an important issue both on the education and criminal justice reform fronts.

The groups are concerned about additional components of the proposed Senate bill, including elimination of the Federal Maintenance of Effort portion, which would provide districts with more flexibility in how they fund their programs, and the enabling of portability of Title I funds, which would allow funds allocated to poor performing schools to follow its students to other schools they choose to attend.

«There are many relatively high - poverty school districts where students appear to be learning at a faster rate than kids in other, less poor districts,» said lead researcher Sean Reardon.

«These results could easily indicate nothing other than the simple fact that charter schools are typically asked to serve problematic students in low - performing districts with many poor, minority children.»

teacher6402: «The reason that scores and achievement are so low in urban districts is due to many factors: transient leadership, unqualified administrators, lack of curricula, poverty and transient students, lack of parental and community support, politicians posturing at the expense of poor and urban communities, and yes - ineffective teachers who often get in to urban school districts because they lack the skill set and content knowledge to get in to other districts.»

That includes, according to Till and other critics, yawning pay gaps between rich and poor counties and uncertainty for school district leaders now tasked with negotiating scores of contracts with essential administration, critics say.

While California, thanks to wakeup calls in 1906 and 1933, has pushed to bolster schools and other vital structures, there, too, experts say, there are gaps, particularly in poorer school districts.

Do you know anyone with children in schools in Oregon, British Columbia, Washington state, poorer school districts in California, India, or other known seismic hot spots?

Remember, things like a sub-par location, poor light, terrible view, below - average school district, high local crime rate and other negatives might be part of the reason why a home went into foreclosure in the first place.