That shift of students from mainly
poorer urban districts to better - off suburban schools has created big financial challenges for the urban districts.
For instance, despite large court - ordered funding hikes to
poor urban districts, the districts that were the focus of Abbott, New Jersey still received a grade of only C in equity (a ranking of 33rd in the nation) from Education Week.
In a decision designed to spark a transformation of New Jersey's school finance formula, the state board of education concluded last week that poor rural districts have been shortchanged in a state known nationally as a leader for providing billions of dollars in extra aid and programs to
its poor urban districts.
Fagen implemented an aggressive mix of reforms typically associated with low - performing,
poor urban districts in this high - performing, affluent Denver suburb.
New Jersey's school - finance system should be discarded because it shortchanges property -
poor urban districts and the disadvantaged students they serve, a state administrative - law judge has ruled.
Many of the nation's teachers, especially in
the poorest urban districts and in the 5,000 school districts classified as rural, had fallen short of that standard.
There are studies that show that kids in
poor urban districts make as much progress as others during the academic year, but they slip back during the summer.
According to a published report in the Connecticut Post, the «Education Reform Plan» that Governor Malloy will announce later this week will include Commissioner of Education Stephan Pryor's plan to give charter schools more public funds including money that will be shifted from helping Connecticut's
poorest urban districts.
The report is the Governor will «increase per - pupil funding for charter schools from $ 9,400 to $ 12,000» and that at least $ 1,000 per - pupil would be a transferred directly for the resource
poor urban districts to the big - time donor supported charter schools that have recruited students from their area.
Governor Malloy and Commissioner of Education Stephan Pryor have announced a plan to give charter schools more public funds including money that will be shifted from helping Connecticut's
poorest urban districts.
Not exact matches
Saying that the state constitution guarantees a «thorough and efficient» education to all New Jersey children, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled that the state must provide more funding to its 31
poorest urban school
districts.
Houston's schools, which are equally minority and
poor, perform well relative to other
urban school
districts.
Most of the 12 municipalities and school
districts that last month filed a lawsuit challenging the Ocean State's school finance system are neither among the state's
poorest nor its most
urban.
It was certainly unusual for an affluent, high - performing suburban
district like Douglas County to aggressively pursue a mix of policies mix primarily designed for
poor, low - performing
urban districts.
State officials have begun auditing 25
districts, most of which are in
poor urban areas.
Districts rich or
poor and
urban or rural, teachers and administrators, equipment suppliers, consultants, building contractors, pension funds — along with the advocacy organizations that everywhere push for more school spending — can detect such opportunities for gain and join forces, at least up to the point at which remedies are specified and the bigger pie begins to be sliced.
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).
Not only did the
district, the largest in the country, take on a student population that had come to symbolize the impossibility of educating a certain kind of child — the
urban poor who entered high school two and three grades behind — but it succeeded in getting those students to graduation.
As is common for large
urban school
districts, the student body of Baltimore city's schools is predominantly minority and
poor.
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.
Should an
urban district pander to white, middle - class families — at the expense of
poor, minority families — in order to boost the achievement of all schools?
On the other hand, Denver's steady improvement has widened the achievement gap, something that happens in many
urban districts that improve, as white and middle - class students raise their scores faster than
poor and minority students.
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...
The Aldine Independent School
District in Texas won the 2009 Broad Prize for
Urban Education last week for its progress in educating an overwhelmingly
poor student population.
Since most parents in
urban districts are
poor, we need a plentiful supply of well - funded vouchers, education tax credits, and tuition - free charter schools.
Thus it might not matter how much
urban districts spend, because as long as they spend less than other
districts they will get the same
poor - quality teachers.
Plaintiffs claimed that this particular diversion of funds deprives school
districts,
poor urban ones especially, of the ability to provide a «thorough and efficient educational system.»
Poor educational opportunities will remain the norm unless we tackle one remaining issue: the structure of
urban school
districts.
Partnership Schools (PNYC) is a network of six
urban Catholic schools in Harlem and the South Bronx, serving over 2,000 students from two of the
poorest congressional
districts in the country, in the heart of one of the richest cities in the world.
The issue has raised arguments about equity for
urban and «property -
poor» school
districts, about Missouri's ability to compete for business with neighboring states, and about the entire system of distributing state aid to education.
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 schools.
But in some
urban districts, all racial groups are
poor and tragically low - performing.
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.
It does not compare with the high rigor and creativity of the programs offered by the teachers in the school
district where I work, which is
urban and
poor.
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.
In the process, Obama and Duncan are retreating from the very commitment of federal education policy, articulated through No Child, to set clear goals for improving student achievement in reading and mathematics, to declare to
urban, suburban, and rural
districts that they could no longer continue to commit educational malpractice against
poor and minority children, and to end policies that damn children to low expectations.
This provision is a direct result of the marriage between big money, i.e., Gates Foundation, Broad folks, Walton Family, etc. and TFA who supplies
urban and
poor districts with inexperienced teachers.
Especially in
urban and rural school
districts, low salaries and
poor working conditions often contribute to the difficulties of recruiting and keeping teachers, as can the challenges of the work itself.
In fact, according to an analysis by
Urban Institute, students in Colorado's
poorest districts receive only an additional $ 401 per student relative to more affluent
districts, a ratio that has remained relatively unchanged for the past 20 years even as we get smarter about the impacts of income inequality and stratification across society.
The National Coalition for Public Education — which includes 50 organizations, including the Children's Defense Fund and the National
Urban League — has also written that portability would expand the amount of students served through Title I and result in the
poorest districts getting less of overall Title I dollars.
Poor - performing
urban districts, more than suburban and rural schools, often are targeted for takeover by their respective states, as documented in some recent cases:
A strain on tight budgets In general, city school
districts suffer disproportionately from a rapidly eroding tax base and an overreliance on local property taxes to finance education, which virtually guarantees
poor and
urban areas will lag behind non-
urban districts.
Although the
poor condition of school buildings is not unique to
urban districts, the magnitude and severity of the problem typically is.
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.
Hispanic, Asian and
poor students surpassed the gains of all other
urban districts in reading.
An NJ.com analysis finds while school
districts in
poor,
urban communities have the worst graduation rates, vocational schools have some of the highest.
In addition,
urban districts with students most likely to benefit from class integration serve predominantly
poor and minority students, with middle - and upper - class families in short supply or opting for private education.
It has always been a project of an uneasy, left - right political alliance: moderate Democrats who feel traditional
urban districts are failing
poor, minority kids, and conservatives who emphasize the idea that free markets can be counted on more than government and unions to produce results.
«As a nation and a state, we have clearly failed to address the inequalities that disproportionally impact many
urban school
districts where kids are
poor and segregated.
The ECS Formula — which was originally designed to be fair — is $ 800,000,000 million underfunded meaning
urban and
poorer districts get far less than they are supposed to get.