Sentences with phrase «poorer school districts back»

It's about forcing the city to comply with the Campaign for Fiscal Equity which sued over inequitable distribution of funding among wealthier and poorer school districts back in 1993.

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The foundation aid increase backed by the Assembly stands at $ 1.2 billion, a figure backed by public education advocates who say the state is not spending enough on poor and high - needs school districts.

Instead of going back to an accountability approach that was supposedly «demoralizing» teachers and school leaders charged with helping poor and minority kids succeed, Petrilli and others prefer the new approaches, which attempt to focus on the growth schools and districts make in helping our most - vulnerable.

This would also require them to admit that their «social compact» is little more than a step back to the bad old days before No Child's passage, when states, districts, teachers, and school leaders were allowed to ignore the needs of poor and minority children with impunity.

19) New York: The Albany Times - Union looks at how the school district is trying to attract students back into its fold after charter schools are closed for poor performance.