Sentences with phrase «poverty concentration»

Most or all parents attend school open house events in 72 percent of schools that have a low concentration of poverty compared with only 28 percent of schools with a high poverty concentration.

One of the real problems with poverty concentrations is teachers learn to adapt their expectations to the reality they experience.

This reform must start with a determination of essential education resources and end with a funding formula that accounts for district poverty concentration and local fiscal capacity.

With the country's highest level of poverty concentration among blacks and Hispanics, an above - average high school dropout rate and a massive load of debt, Syracuse is in a state of disarray.

• An amendment that would affect Title I funding for low - income students by redistributing funds based on poverty concentrations.

Assessing the impact of the regionalization factor and new high - poverty concentration factor investment in the Learning Assistance Program on districts, schools, and students; and

The Index accounts for differences in state exams and poverty concentration at the school level.

In addition, RIDE manages a number of federal grants and programs that provide funds to school districts for such programs as aid for schools with high poverty concentrations, the education of students with disabilities, and school breakfast and lunch programs.

Poverty concentration was not a factor.

«I think it's safe to say that there's a social science consensus that high - poverty concentrations are bad for education,» said Kahlenberg.

In measuring whether a state provides more or less funding to schools based on their poverty concentration, with the latter described as «regressive,» the state earned a B.

What's frustrated me is that while there is a social science consensus that poverty concentrations are bad for education, there is also an outdated political consensus that there is nothing we can do about it.

The report evaluated the 50 U.S. states on four fairness measures: per - pupil funding levels; funding distribution (whether a state provides more or less funding to schools on the basis of their poverty concentration); effort (differences in state spending relative to the state's fiscal capacity); and coverage (the proportion of children in public schools and the income ratio of private and public school families).

Twenty - nine schools would also qualify for a «poverty concentration» weight — an extra $ 200 per student if 80 percent of the student body comes from low - income families.