Sentences with phrase «other wealthy districts»

He says if Syosset and other wealthy districts didn't spend so much on their schools — if they cut some of their impressive programs and high salaries — they would not have to collect so much in taxes.

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She and her friend Gale (Liam Hemsworth) hunt for squirrels to survive — her preferred weapon is a bow and arrow — while hoping not to hear their names called in the Hunger Games, in which a young girl and boy from each district are picked by lottery for an annual, televised death match — killing each other for the amusement of the wealthy and powerful.

Vermont's governor and other state policymakers are looking at ways to make their new school - finance - reform plan more palatable to wealthy districts.

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.

The district owes the state more than $ 200 million — and possibly as much as $ 269 million — in «recapture» payments, money that districts deemed «property wealthy» have to share with other districts

When high school students from a small, wealthy Massachusetts school district known for its excellent schools were found to have messaged each other on Facebook earlier this month using racial and homophobic slurs, school officials and law enforcement immediately stepped in.

Salaries also vary within states where wealthy suburban school districts generally have higher salary schedules than other districts.

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.

In any event, the Darien and Greenwich and New Canaan and Fairfield and many other districts that seem to represent OZ to the impoverished are never good enough and the wealthy pack their precious ones off to private schools generating yet another gap (the dreaded private school gap) in our society!

Some elementary schools in the Hightop district serve mostly white students from wealthy homes; others educate students from less wealthy families and minority backgrounds.

Lara called it «the 1 percent influence on our school district,» in reference to the Occupy movement's claim to represent the other 99 percent of Americans who are not wealthy.

Other than one suburb of Portland, Ore., all of the wealthiest school districts are commuter towns of New York City, located in either Fairfield County, Conn., or Westchester County, N.Y..

Fund my District at 11,000 per student (which is what it costs to educate a student in a wealthy suburban school district) and then we can helpDistrict at 11,000 per student (which is what it costs to educate a student in a wealthy suburban school district) and then we can helpdistrict) and then we can help others.

But he says concerns about worsening pay gaps between wealthy and poor counties may be well - founded, even if states adopt a similar approach to lawmakers in Tennessee and several other southern states, which implemented minimum pay requirements for districts.