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Supporters of certification attribute the low student achievement in the nation's poorest school districts at least partially to the high number of uncertified teachers working in these districts.

We need to stop competitive grants for school funding, which puts the poorer school districts at a further disadvantage.

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In far too many school districts, there are students who would qualify for free meals, except for the fact that their family never fills out the form, either because they forget, or they don't understand that it is important, or (more often) the child is too embarrassed to self - identify as poor in front of his classmates, and so he either doesn't give his parents the form or doesn't turn it in at school.

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.

«With the conceded disparate funding, compounded by the fact that taxpayers within the poorer school districts end up subsidizing, at least in part, the tax credits granted to taxpayers within the wealthier districts, I find that plaintiffs have stated a viable equal protection claim,» Lynch wrote.

She spoke at a press conference Monday organized by the Alliance for Quality Education, an activist group that pushes for more state funding for schools and has said that the current funding distribution favors wealthy, white districts over poor areas with people of color.

«The concern is whether schools and municipalities can continue to deliver services at the levels of spending necessary to stay under the cap and whether the poor school districts will have the hardest time,» Levy said.

The Alliance for Quality Education looked at the school aid in the state budget allotted to 161 of the poorest schools among the over 700 districts in New York.

Some groups condemned the governor for calling on districts to direct more of their state aid to their neediest schools — an exhortation that seemed at odds with his history of fighting the state's Foundation Aid formula, which directs more money to the state's poorest school districts and which advocates argue is itself underfunded.

At the same time, public schools in poorer districts are being asked to do more and more to help address the broader social and economic problems manifesting themselves among school populations.

One irate school superintendent for the Genesee Valley called poor districts going at each other for school aid a «Dickensian competition.»

The proportion of students in poverty in the majority - black elementary schools has increased over time, and remains at higher levels (currently at 91 percent poor) than the district's other elementary schools (76.6 percent poor.)

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.

Michael Petrilli called the Department's recent warning that it would take a closer look at these within - district allocations «meddling,» but it's shameful that our public policies disproportionately place students of color in schools with poor lighting, unsafe or temporary structures, and unequal access to technology and curriculum.

If the superintendents of failing school districts were as adept at fixing schools as they are at making excuses for their poor performance, America would have the best education system in the world.

The New York State Court of Appeals, in a June 23 ruling overturning three lower state courts, acknowledged that school districts» heavy reliance on local property taxes puts poor districts at a disadvantage, but found that the inequities do not violate the state or federal constitutions.

In L.A., however, where most charters serve poor and minority students — and appear to be doing a better job of it than many of their district - school counterparts — there is more at stake.

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?

They include Jim Barksdale, the former chief operating officer of Netscape, who gave $ 100 million to establish an institute to improve reading instruction in Mississippi; Eli Broad, the home builder and retirement investment titan, whose foundation works on a range of management, governance, and leadership issues; Michael Dell, the founder of Dell Computers, whose family foundation is valued at $ 1.2 billion and is a major supporter of a program that boosts college going among students of potential but middling accomplishment; financier and buyout specialist Theodore J. Forstmann, who gave $ 50 million of his own money to help poor kids attend private schools; David Packard, a former classics professor who also is a scion of one of the founders of Hewlett - Packard and has given $ 75 million to help California school districts improve reading instruction; and the Walton Family Foundation, which benefits from the fortune of the founder of Wal - Mart, and which is the nation's largest supporter of charter schools and private school scholarships (see «A Tribute to John Walton,»).

Coverage was narrowed to only three districts: St. Louis, Kansas City, and Wellston, potentially reaching about 8,000 poor and at - risk students in failing schools.

Evaluating ELLs for Special Needs a Challenge Education Week, August 29, 2012 «Faced with a class action five years ago over the poor quality of its special education services, the San Diego school district hired Thomas Hehir, a Harvard Graduate School of Education professor and a former special education chief in the federal Education Department, to take a hard look at how students were faring.&school district hired Thomas Hehir, a Harvard Graduate School of Education professor and a former special education chief in the federal Education Department, to take a hard look at how students were faring.&School of Education professor and a former special education chief in the federal Education Department, to take a hard look at how students were faring.»

In 1989, students at Allen, a poor, inner - city school, ranked 28th out of 33 district schools on standardized achievement tests.

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.

For poor parents unable to afford private - school tuition or a home in a better school district, chartering at last offered improved educational options for their children.

The Disproportionate Impact of Seniority - Based Layoffs on Poor, Minority Students Looking at the 15 largest districts in California authors Cristina Sepe and Marguerite Roza, demonstrate that teachers at risk of layoff are concentrated in schools with more poor and minority students, concluding that «last in, first out» policies disproportionately affecPoor, Minority Students Looking at the 15 largest districts in California authors Cristina Sepe and Marguerite Roza, demonstrate that teachers at risk of layoff are concentrated in schools with more poor and minority students, concluding that «last in, first out» policies disproportionately affecpoor and minority students, concluding that «last in, first out» policies disproportionately affect...

School districts can access Concentration Grants in addition to their Basic Grant funding if at least 15 percent of children who reside within the district are poor, or if there are at least 6,500 poor children.

At no point does a state or school lose money if it continues producing poor results, although districts eventually have to divert federal money to pay for tutoring services.

In an irony unforeseen by effective - schools researchers, lawyers in a school - finance suit in New Jersey are using the concept to argue that poor districts can improve their schools at little or no extra cost to the state.

The only light at the end of the tunnel is the fact that the MassInsight contract ends in just over four months, but watch for Pryor to try and sneak through a contract extension despite Malloy's ongoing promise that he is actually committed to helping Connecticut's thirty poorest school districts.

Over at the State Department of Education, Stefan Pryor got rid of Connecticut's experienced Leaders in Residence and the team of experts who were dedicated to helping Connecticut's Priority School Districts improve educational opportunities in the state's poorest dDistricts improve educational opportunities in the state's poorest districtsdistricts.

That skepticism should grow after looking closely at the individual state targets set for districts and schools to improve student achievement, especially for poor and minority children.

A low - income student enrolling in college is five times as likely to enroll at a top school if s / he comes from a wealthy district rather than a poor district;

Unfortunately, when we looked at the data from California's 20 largest districts, it wasn't clear that poor schools were getting more funding than wealthier 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.

Looking at the 15 largest districts in California authors Cristina Sepe and Marguerite Roza, demonstrate that teachers at risk of layoff are concentrated in schools with more poor and minority students, concluding that «last in, first out» policies disproportionately affect the programs and students in their poorer and more minority schools than in their wealthier, less minority counterparts.

«We believe money is not the answer,» said Sen. Brown, explaining instead that districts must identify other ways to deal with factors that contribute to poor performance at failing schools.

Wealthy districts» ability to raise more revenue at comparable or even lower tax rates has two impacts — wealthy districts are able to outspend poorer districts with comparable or lower tax rates, and homes of similar values are taxed at a higher rate in poorer school districts.

It said that the District's poor and minority students are still far less likely than their peers to have a quality teacher in their classrooms, perform at grade level and graduate from high school in four years.

A 2015 report by the National Research Council, the research arm of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, said the District's poor and minority students were still far less likely than their peers to have a quality teacher in their classrooms, perform at grade level and graduate from high school in four years.

They'll go to another poor school district and get taxed at a higher rate.

It is incredibly telling that Stefan Pryor, the co-founder of Achievement First, couldn't find anyone more capable of managing the Malloy administration's ongoing effort to «help» the state's thirty poorest school districts than someone whose only experience was at Achievement First, Inc..

The strike in a district where the vast majority of students are poor and minority put Chicago at the epicenter of a struggle between big cities and teachers unions for control of schools.

We at IDRA applaud the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund for filing its lawsuit this week against the state of Texas over school funding on behalf of four property - poor school districts and three parents.

As I have noted, stronger standards alone aren't the only reason why student achievement has improved within this period; at the same time, the higher expectations for student success fostered by the standards (along with the accountability measures put in place by the No Child Left Behind Act, the expansion of school choice, reform efforts by districts such as New York City, and efforts by organizations such as the College Board and the National Science and Math Initiative to get more poor and minority students to take Advanced Placement and other college prep courses), has helped more students achieve success.

At Flat Lick, the district's poorest elementary school, 89 percent of students qualify for free - or reduced - priced lunch.

In the past few years, the district has approved one charter school and denied at least two others, mostly over concerns about brand - new operators with poor financial plans.

But two neighboring school districts declined to take the students before a third, Pittsburgh Public Schools, found room at one of the city's lowest - performing high schools, located in one of its poorest neighboSchools, found room at one of the city's lowest - performing high schools, located in one of its poorest neighboschools, located in one of its poorest neighborhoods.

A deeper look at five large districts and charter schools as a sector in Idaho shows that districts did better when they have a lower concentration of poor and Latino students.

Demond Means, a Milwaukee Public Schools graduate who heads one of the state's highest - performing school systems, has been tapped to lead — at least for now — a Milwaukee turnaround district mandated by the Legislature in hopes of turning around some of the city's poorest - performing schools, County Executive Chris Abele is expected to announce ThSchools graduate who heads one of the state's highest - performing school systems, has been tapped to lead — at least for now — a Milwaukee turnaround district mandated by the Legislature in hopes of turning around some of the city's poorest - performing schools, County Executive Chris Abele is expected to announce Thschools, County Executive Chris Abele is expected to announce Thursday.

For instance, at Cleveland's George Washington Carver Elementary School, located in one of that city's poorest neighborhoods, 73 percent of the fourth graders passed the state reading test — a big jump from previous years and more than double the school district avSchool, located in one of that city's poorest neighborhoods, 73 percent of the fourth graders passed the state reading test — a big jump from previous years and more than double the school district avschool district average.