Sentences with phrase «poor public schools»

So that children in neighborhoods that had no resources in poor public schools were able to still get a quality education.

A consequence of having a majority - poor public school student population is that these children start kindergarten behind their wealthier peers in private schools, and probably will never catch up.

The state came up with the «foundation aid» formula in 2007 to comply with a 2006 court ruling aimed at helping New York's poorer public schools following a Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit.

How they did it is a fascinating tale of grit and determination, about a committed group of Catholics who gave up their icons, statues, prayers, and catechism, ran a gauntlet of church / state hurdles, partnered with a Baptist congregation in one location and weathered an angry black community in another location — and are now educating hundreds of Chicago's poorest public school children.

Ten years following the devastating storm, some say the experiment to privatize the city's poor public school infrastructure is working.

If we moved to using these richer measures in all of our schools, it could mean that not just upper middle class and affluent kids at schools like Sidwell Friends School, where President Obama's children attend, but poor public school kids too would be taught and expected to demonstrate the ability to think, express original ideas, problem solve, work in teams, do research papers and other kinds of projects requiring critical thinking.

She also supports tax - funded vouchers, which can be used to pay private and parochial school tuition, for families living in neighborhoods with poor public schools.

Despite the competition that Eagle Heights posed to Youngstown Christian for more than a decade, Pecchia said his pastor's motivations were hard to argue with: Poor families deserved a choice other than Youngstown's poor public schools.

During the last administration, teachers» unions were forming low - key alliances with Congressional Republicans to fight Obama proposals that would have directed more funding to poor public schools.

This week's episode of This American Life focuses on some young people who participated in a program that brought together students from a poor public school and a rich private school that are three miles apart.

Spend at least a semester teaching in a poor public school, which now, -LSB-...]

Also, 15 of our poorest public school districts will lose $ 3.6 million slated to extend the school day and offer summer academic programs and lose $ 1.6 million to help public schools transport students.