Sentences with phrase «own wealthier districts»

He cited the explanation given by a wealthy district for its request to back out of a cross-busing plan with a poor district: The wealthy district did not want to integrate with the poor district because of the latter's «old and dilapidated buildings, lack of adequate equipment and materials, [and] lack of science programs.»

The Governor prioritized education spending in his budget proposal, including growth that is twice what would be allowed under the cap.9 To truly prioritize education the State should reform the Foundation Aid formula to ensure the highest needs districts are properly funded without unnecessarily sending aid to the wealthiest districts.

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.

His $ 157,000 haul was notably low for the chairman of the Appropriations Committee, who represents one of the wealthiest districts in the country.

«With the conceded disparate funding, compounded by the fact that taxpayers within the poorer school districts end up subsidizing, at least in part, the tax credits granted to taxpayers within the wealthier districts, I find that plaintiffs have stated a viable equal protection claim,» Lynch wrote.

The existing Foundation Aid Formula does not properly calculate the local contribution and has too many floors, ceilings, phase - ins, and add - ons that distort the final aid distribution, driving too much funding to wealthy districts.5 The Executive Budget imposes an additional calculation on top of the existing distributions and increases funding to all districts including those that are affluent and not in need of further State support.

And education advocates and their legislative allies (mostly Democrats) are calling for the governor to increase public education aid, noting the gap between high - needs and wealthy districts is growing ever wider.

With Republicans in charge of Albany things like the MTA payroll tax were kept at bay and resources like state school aide disproportionately stayed in wealthy districts, including many on Long Island.

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.

Last month, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy proposed sweeping changes in the state's school financing formula that would dramatically shift education funding from wealthier districts to poorer ones.

He says a larger solution may mean wealthier districts have to give up some of their aid to poorer schools.

The Citizens Budget Commission said in its analysis of the governor's proposal that Cuomo «fails» to improve school aid formulas and favors wealthier districts.

Eliminating the GEA favors wealthy districts, whereas running the state's Foundation Aid Formula — created to more equitably distribute funding to districts — benefits high - need districts.

Wealthier districts are told, in effect, they can afford to make up the difference in lower reimbursements through local spending, he said.

East Aurora is considered a wealthier district by the state, he said, and that means its state aid reimbursements are often less than surrounding districts.

Under the plan, wealthier districts would be hit hardest.

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 in January proposed a tweak that would boost the total amount by 1 percent, or $ 428 million, but critics have said that his plan funnels money to more wealthy districts, thus depriving rural, poor districts — including those in the Adirondack Park — both their rightful share and relief for taxpayers.

Iannuzzi argues that wealthy districts would have an advantage under Cuomo's plan because their residents would be more likely to vote to override a cap.

They use less than one - third the amount of water used by residents of wealthier districts, but pay four or five times as much for the water.

Living below the poverty line, Brittany is six times more likely to drop out of high school than her counterparts in suburban and wealthy districts.

Concerned that varying education programs are creating «two Connecticuts, one for the rich and one for the poor,» the state's department of education is studying whether wealthy districts offer substantially better programs than poorer ones.

Even the wealthiest districts must contribute no more to the foundation formula than 27 percent of the foundation amount.

Texas» approach of funneling money from wealthy districts to poor ones as a way to equalize school spending is likely to be severely curtailed in whatever school finance plan emerges from the session, according to sources in the state.

It cites increases in teacher salaries, a shift in school funding from local property taxes to state taxes, and a reduction in the disparities between poor and wealthy districts as financing changes that were successful «even in the first year.»

Equity: Arkansas has a positive wealth - neutrality score, meaning that, on average, property - wealthy districts have slightly more revenue than poor districts do.

The state's score is positive, meaning that, on average, wealthy districts in the state have more revenue than do property - poor districts.

Nevada is one of only 10 states with negative wealth - neutrality scores, meaning that, on average, property - poor districts actually have more state and local revenue for education than wealthy districts do.

Teachers in the wealthier districts get better technology training, better professional development, and higher pay.

But Oklahoma is one of only 10 states with negative wealth - neutrality scores, meaning that, on average, property - poor districts actually have more state and local revenue for education than wealthy districts do.

All but the wealthiest districts receive their funding entirely from the state rather than from local taxes, a consequence of the 1978 Proposition 13 tax initiative that left local authorities with little ability to raise revenues.

In Texas, for example, the most recent school - funding overhaul was financed largely by forcing wealthy districts to raise their property - tax rates and then distributing the proceeds among their poorer neighbors.

In effect, this was a hyperequity argument, since it took the average spending among wealthy districts as the minimum necessary for their success and then scaled it up for poor districts.

Wealthy districts that get additional funding from their taxpayers aren't likely to want to share it with out - of - district kids.

Her so - called evidence that the school is cooking its books is that Randolph's ACT scores are far below the state average, as if such comparisons to wealthy districts somehow disqualify Randolph's impressive year - over-year improvement in most areas.

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.

In Texas, it has been calculated that $ 2.4 billion of additional school funds would be required to bring all schools in that State up to the present level of expenditure of all but the wealthiest districts — an amount more than double that currently being spent on education.

Again, a teacher seeking to maximize their net pension wealth should stay in a low - salary district for as long as possible, but right before retirement they should seek out the wealthiest district possible.

For example, the survey found that 58 percent of those districts have contract language establishing reverse - seniority layoffs for tenured teachers, compared to only 34 percent of wealthier districts.

Poorer schools struggle with fewer resources and less experienced faculty members than wealthier districts, making it harder for students to keep up, let alone excel.

Even wealthier districts paying higher salaries can not easily find math, science, special education and bilingual teachers, who are in especially scarce supply.

Until three years ago, Beloit, a relatively wealthy district in north central6Kansas, didn't receive one penny from the state through the equalization formula.

A New Jersey judge last week declared the legislature's most recent revision of the state school - finance system unconstitutional because it fails to close the funding gap between poorer and wealthier districts.

Texas lawmakers last week cleared a new school - finance plan that would allow wealthy districts to keep locally generated funds once they exceeded a new state - mandated minimum rate for property taxes.

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

«Illinois has the most inequitable education funding system in the nation, where poorer districts spend as little as $ 6,000 per student while wealthier districts spend up to $ 30,000 per student,» Ostro said in a statement.

Teachers now seek raises by moving to wealthier districts.

Our high school's 11th graders are not only beating the state average in English, but also the wealthiest district high schools in Essex County.

That formula takes into account a district's low - income population, but gaps remain in how much districts spend statewide, with wealthier districts able to spend more on schoolchildren.