Sentences with phrase «poverty districts»

Another important part of the equation involves «progressive» school funding policies, with sufficiently high funding levels and higher rates of funding for high poverty districts.

Looking through the lens of a 40 percent adjustment for poverty — because high - poverty districts generally require additional funds to meet the same standards — the disparities grow.

In these high poverty districts, is a greater proportion of the state allocated money reserved for standardized testing?

Holyoke Public Schools is the lowest performing school and highest poverty district in Massachusetts.

New York, NY — StudentsFirstNY today issued a brief analysis comparing the difference in teacher effectiveness between New York City's high poverty and low poverty districts following the State Education Department's recent release of teacher evaluation data.

Some say the problem is in funding, with one study by the national education think tank Ed Trust showing that New York is among states where the highest - poverty districts receive fewer state and local funds than their wealthier counterparts.

I believe Congress and the state of California need to take a hard look at the challenges that high poverty districts like Oakland face, because our District is hardly unique.

It should end its test - punish - and - privatize agenda that uses high - stakes testing to define students, teachers, and schools in high - poverty districts as failing in order to justify their conversion to privately - managed charter schools.

Students In High Poverty Districts More Than Twice as Likely to be Taught by Non-Effective Teachers

For example, a high - poverty district with lots of Title I - eligible (poor) students weighted heavily in the targeted grants formula would continue to generate disproportionate federal funds for its state's total allocation.

Nationally, 49 states report a shortage of special ed teachers and 90 percent of high poverty districts report a difficulty in attracting highly qualified special ed teachers.

Looking at the percent scoring Excellent or Good on the EOCs, only 2 high - poverty districts performed better — St. Bernard and Jefferson.

Indeed, it would be remarkable if, all other things being equal, low - income students did not perform better in high - poverty charter schools than in high - poverty district schools given the self - selected nature of the classmates and parental community in charter schools.

It punishes students, teachers, and schools in high - poverty districts simply because the students live in segregated poverty,» Hawkins continued.

These formulas send some funds on a uniform, per - disadvantaged - child basis, but direct close to half of federal dollars in a way that recognizes high - poverty districts face greater challenges, using weights to allocate per - eligible funds progressively with respect to a district's poverty rate.

NEA's poll revealed that just 23 percent of all their members and members in high poverty districts believe their districts are well prepared to implement the new standards.

Often these high poverty districts neighbor wealthier school systems where children have access to greater resources.

Ms. Reed, 56, grew up in the high - poverty district tucked into the northwestern corner of Georgia, where the per - capita income is $ 16,500 and nearly a quarter of the 40,000 residents live below the poverty level.

Overall A» grades are found in high - poverty and low - poverty districts alike, says Ramanathan, dispelling the myth that poverty and low performance are inexorably connected.

Some high - poverty districts across Mississippi offer better salaries — but the pay difference is only about $ 1,200 to $ 3,000 at most.

The TEA is bullying you and bullying other high - poverty districts around the state like mine.

«High - poverty districts do not suffer from too few teachers being removed; they suffer from too much teacher turnover,» NEA President Lily Eskelsen García said.

Cracking the Literacy Code Glenn Cook High - poverty districts push to improve students» literacy and their lives.

The report begins by identifying states where combined state and local revenues are systematically lower in higher - poverty districts then goes beyond recent reports on school funding inequities to uncover some nontraditional causes of these imbalances.

Extending that average to the national statistic on principal turnover (22 %) results in «$ 36 million on just hiring costs, not on - boarding, and not training» for high poverty districts nationwide.

In Pennsylvania, for example, the highest - poverty districts spend more than 30 percent less per student than the lowest - poverty ones.

He said he was particularly influenced by a superintendent in a high - poverty district in Colorado who was trained by philanthropist Eli Broad's leadership academy — an arm of the «conspiracy» Baraka the politician inveighed against....

«For a high poverty district like Greenville, MAEP underfunding is devastating,» said Matt Williams, of the Mississippi Center for Justice.

Horry County — a diverse, high - poverty district with over 40,000 students — won national acclaim for its transformation under Dr. Elsberry's leadership, and was rated as one of South Carolina's highest - performing school districts.

Looking at the percent of seniors scoring 18 or higher on the ACT, only three high - poverty districts performed better than New Orleans — St. Bernard, Jefferson and Catahoula.

«Cuomo's test - punish - privatize - and - segregate policy is using high - stakes testing to label students, teachers, and schools in high - poverty districts as failing.

In 1998, in New Jersey's school funding case, called «Abbott,» the state's highest court ruled that preschool is an essential component of a constitutionally adequate education and mandated universal full - day preschool for 3 - and 4 - year - olds in the 31 highest poverty districts in the state.

Even so, only 62.6 percent of MPS kids participate in the program — very low for such a high - poverty district.

Five high - poverty districts have shown the way to greater student learning by systematically focusing on improved teaching, says a new report by one of the nation's largest education coalitions.

Aggressive budget - cutting by states will hit high - poverty districts, and charter schools, the hardest.

We should note here that high poverty does not necessarily imply low spending (in many states, high - poverty districts have the highest spending levels), so our findings here do not bear directly on spending inequality.

The workforce is predominantly white, and the vast majority of the state's staff of color work in Illinois» highest poverty districts.

As a result, some less impoverished schools (in high - poverty districts) are reported as enrolling all ED students, explaining some of the high PI scores in the top right portion of the chart.

Several high - poverty districts in Ohio participate in the Community Eligibility Provision program; in turn, all of their students are reported as economically disadvantaged.

This chart shows key statistical information for the 2001 - 02 school year for five high - poverty districts that were found in a new report to have raised students» test scores over three or more years.

The proposal would provide forgivable loans to as many as 35,000 new teachers for high - poverty districts, and create 15 to 20 new «lighthouse» partnerships for high - quality teacher education between colleges and school districts.