Sentences with phrase «poor school districts adequate»

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In our poorest districts, a child not yet in kindergarten would be out of college before her school district reached an adequate funding level.

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.

For the last nine years, the state's schools have been underfunded by nearly $ 2 billion from the Mississippi Adequate Education Program, a reform passed in 1997 in response to vast education inequities between poor and not - poor districts.

If they did, they would know that Alexander's plan would all but solidify the Obama Administration's move over the past few years to eviscerate No Child's Adequate Yearly Progress provisions, which have exposed the failure of traditional districts to provide high - quality teaching, curricula, and school cultures to poor and minority children (as well as those condemned to the nation's special ed ghettos).