Sentences with phrase «poor school districts while»

Gov. Christine Todd Whitman of New Jersey proposed a budget last week that increases state aid to poor school districts while cutting funds for wealthy suburban districts.

in a poor school district while struggling to save every single dime for the next 5 years so he can start finally building a heathy «useable net worth» portfolio...

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It's certainly a win - win situation for these schools, but it also creates a disturbing picture of rich kids nibbling on sushi and having enough money for the team uniforms, while poor kids in a neighboring district are not only getting eating subpar food, they're often selling candy and other junk food to raise money for those same uniforms, further contributing to poor health habits that may last a lifetime.

While the State knows how much it distributes to each school district, the districts don't report how they distribute these funds to their poorer and richer schools.

In a news conference outside of the Senate chamber, school organizations called for a bump in state aid for districts of $ 2.2 billion in the coming 2016 - 17 budget year, along with a complete elimination of the so - called Gap Elimination Adjustment while also pledging to fully fund Foundation Aid that helps poorer 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.

While the court's 7 - to - 2 decision to invalidate the system was widely expected across Texas in recent weeks, the justices surprised observers by voting 5 to 4 to allow the legislature to wait until next year's regular session to come up with another solution to the problem of funding disparities between rich and poor school districts.

In previous work, one of us found that Washington State's 2004 compensatory allocation formula ensured that affluent Bellevue School District, in which only 18 percent of students qualify for free or reduced - price lunch, receives $ 1,371 per poor student in state compensatory funds, while large urban districts received less than half of that for each of their impoverished students (see Figure 2).

While poorer school districts have higher rates of maltreatment investigations, there are important exceptions to this pattern.

One would limit the share of state money earmarked for the state's «special needs» school districts in poor, urban areas, while the other would bar the executive...

While federal assistance has an ameliorating effect on the difference in school budgets between wealthy and poor districts, the District Court rejected an argument made by the State in that court that it should consider the effect of the federal grant in assessing the discrimination claim.

Also onboard is Marshall Tuck, former president and chief operating officer of Green Dot Public Schools, which has built a chain of charter schools in the district while organizing a parents» «union» and constantly pushing district officials to take bolder steps to improve the performance of children from poor faSchools, which has built a chain of charter schools in the district while organizing a parents» «union» and constantly pushing district officials to take bolder steps to improve the performance of children from poor faschools in the district while organizing a parents» «union» and constantly pushing district officials to take bolder steps to improve the performance of children from poor families.

While ESEA intended school districts to spend as much on poor schools as on richer ones before applying the federal Title I dollars, the truth is, that doesn't happen.

If anything, the District's flourishing charter movement will help Ms. Rhee by offering choice and competition while refuting some of the excuses used to justify the poor performance of urban schools.

While spending millions of taxpayer dollars trying to prevent children in underfunded school districts from having their day in court, the Malloy administration has aggressively expanded privately run charter schools and funded them at levels higher than schools in our poorest districts receive.

The fact is that wealthier school districts spend more than $ 10,000 per year on each child being educated, while poorer districts spend about $ 5,000 per student.

While U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan did his best to spin the administration's efforts as a solution for No Child's supposedly «broken» accountability measures, which he proclaimed, was «misleading» in identifying schools and districts — especially in suburbia — failing to provide high - quality education to poor and minority kids.

While it is reasonable that these schools would need more money, we now have a system where our «poorest» school districts are spending significantly more than others with little to show in positive academic outcomes.

In total, the poorest school districts would lose more than $ 675 million, while the lowest - poverty districts would gain more than $ 440 million.

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.

While schools in Detroit have been allowed to rot, and district and state administrators have had poor mouths, in 2011, A.L. Holmes got a $ 2.8 million school improvement grant from the State of Michigan.

An NJ.com analysis finds while school districts in poor, urban communities have the worst graduation rates, vocational schools have some of the highest.

Maybe students in Alabama's cities are more affluent, while county school districts have more poor students?

Shaw junior high was given more money according to the District CFO in error while many poor schools were not given the money they should have been allotted.

While not every dollar a school spends directly improves academic outcomes, a new report from Rutgers school - finance expert Bruce Baker finds certain kinds of money very much do matter: extra funding for higher teacher salaries and more equitable distribution of resources between rich and poor districts, for example, are correlated with higher student achievement, especially for the neediest kids.

Relatively affluent whites funded separate school districts, while poorer urbanites were left to fund the impoverished schools left behind.

The portability amendment would have slowed states to allocate Title I funds to districts based on the number of poor students who attend, but the White House criticized the idea saying that 25 percent of school districts with high concentrations of poverty, above 25 percent, would lose as much as $ 700 million in federal funds while low - poverty districts would gain as much as $ 470 million.

All in all, Connecticut» 6,000 charter schools students will get that extra $ 2,600 each while the 222,000 students in Connecticut's thirty poorest and lowest performing school districts will get an average of $ 150 each.

Law Center Executive Director David Sciarra said that while about 43,000 3 - and 4 - year - olds attend full - day preschool in the former Abbott districts — the state's poorest — about 39,000 more children around the state are entitled to preschool under the 2008 School Funding Reform Act.

To illustrate Connecticut's irrational system, Moukawsher cited the legislature's decision last session to cut school aid for poor districts while providing more aid for wealthy districts.

The result will be that funding for the average charter school student will go up by $ 2,600 while the funding for the students in the 30 poorest school districts will only go up by $ 150 per student.

Until now, the Malloy administration's primary mechanism to try and force parents to have their children participate in the SBAC / NEW SAT testing was to mislead and lie to parents about their rights, while at the same time, threatening that the state would withhold Title 1 federal funding that is supposed to be used to help poor children if a school district's opt out rate was greater than 5 percent.

The north section of his district, he said, is very affluent, while the south includes some of the state's poorest schools.

Meanwhile restrictions on the expansion of school choice — including charters and even ability to choose courses while in traditional districts — is even more problematic for college - educated families as it is for those from poor households.

A Stanford education professor stated that suburban schools invest in people while poor districts buy more and better machines.

While California, thanks to wakeup calls in 1906 and 1933, has pushed to bolster schools and other vital structures, there, too, experts say, there are gaps, particularly in poorer school districts.