Sentences with phrase «poor school districts like»

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Mayor Stephanie Miner has once again challenged Gov. Andrew Cuomo, this time by demanding more money for poor school districts like Syracuse.

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Almost as stupid as STAR where New York intentionally overtaxes to build up money to write rebate checks for people like Rump... and to give more aid to wealthy school districts than poor ones.

This short of the $ 1.5 billion education advocates like the Alliance for Quality Education say is necessary to provide more equitable funding for poorer schools deemed to be in high - needs districts.

While a conscientious individual like him seems inherently disdainful of commercial onslaught, he also comes across rather sympathetic to a poor Florida school district that is desperate for budget help but limited in the advertisement they can purchase.

Everyone likes the idea of boosting the number of effective teachers in schools with large numbers of poor and minority students, but in his testimony before the committee, Ed Next executive editor Rick Hess had a few warnings for those who think the obvious course of action is to encourage states and districts to move effective teachers out of schools with affluent kids and into schools with poor kids.

The NAEP scores they focus on do not correspond in most of the cases to the relevant years in which the court orders were actually implemented; they ignore the fact that, as in Kentucky, initial increases in funding are sometimes followed by substantial decreases in later years; and their use of NAEP scores makes no sense in a state like New Jersey, where the court orders covered only a subset of the state's students (i.e., students in 31 poor urban school districts) and not the full statewide populations represented by NAEP scores.

When students finally reach high school, especially if they live in poor neighborhoods, they may find just a smattering of honors or AP classes, nothing like the ample course offerings of well - resourced suburban districts and elite private schools.

But to really understand the disparities in how schools help teachers learn to integrate classroom technology, it helps to compare a district like South Fayette, where 80 percent of students are white and just 13 percent are poor, to a district like nearby Sto - Rox, which is 33 percent white and 77 percent poor.

The school district was very top - down in its approach to education, says Wolters, especially at poor schools like hers where lots of kids struggled on the state standardized tests.

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 schoLike 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 scholike Beloit, where Mr. Bottom serves as superintendent of schools.

The superintendent said she's aware of the challenges faced in urban districts like Rochester: poor attendance, low graduation rates, and students who can't afford a school lunch, for starters.

LAUSD Superintendent John Deasy was in Sacramento Wednesday for a press conference in support of Governor Jerry Brown's proposal to shift more funding to school districts like LAUSD that have large numbers of poor and English Language Learner students.

What is annoying, to say the least, is that despite these difficult economic times, and while we're making a special effort to invest in our poorest, most challenged urban school districts, we've got school administrators like Paul Vallas and Steven Adamowski who begin by hiring consultants and laying off the very Connecticut residents who have been working so hard to make a difference.

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.

And teachers don't seem to matter to people like Connecticut Democratic Governor Dannel Malloy who is not only an adherent to the Common Core and the Common Core Testing fiasco but remains the only Democratic Governor in the nation to propose eliminating tenure for all public school teachers and rescinding collective bargaining rights for teachers working in the state's poorest school districts.

From where EdTrust sits, the uproar over the Florida plan (and similar plans like it) also ignores its contention that Cut the Gap in Half actually forces states, districts, and schools to work harder because they must improve achievement for poor and minority students at annual clips greater than the average rate.

North Carolina, like many states, sets aside additional money for poor districts and disadvantaged students — that is, kids who come from a single - parent family, low - income family, or have at least one parent who did not earn a high school diploma.

Funding disparities between well - off school districts like Lake Washington and poor ones like Tacoma an unintended consequence of state spending plan.

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.