Sentences with phrase «poverty school districts do»

Educators in segregated, high - poverty school districts don't usually have time to reflect on the causes and consequences of growing racial and economic isolation.

Not exact matches

Not only do our 700 school district lines often track patterns of residential economic segregation, there are school districts in this state today — including New York City — with boundary lines within the district that keep children of wealth starkly separated from children of poverty.

In poorer districts, the high concentration of children living in poverty means students come to school with added baggage - hunger, housing instability, exposure to crime and violence - that can affect how well they do in the classroom.

Our version of PBL did work to improve achievement as compared to business - as - usual instruction in high - poverty, low - performing school districts.

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 is true, as Smith points out, that a 2013 Stanford CREDO study finds that low - income students in high - poverty charter schools do somewhat better than low - income students in high - poverty district schools.

In each case, we tried to sample from among schools that had the same high, medium, or low poverty and diversity profiles as did the district overall.

In fact, in a study of a project - based approach to teaching social studies and content literacy to 2nd graders, my colleagues and I were able to close the gap, statistically speaking, between students in high - poverty school districts — who experienced project - based units — and students in wealthy school districts — who did not.

In fact, Cambridge Public Schools received a zero on both the Isolation of Poverty Index and the Isolation of Wealth Index, meaning none of the district's students attend a school where at least 75 percent of their peers have the same economic status as they do.100 Students in Cambridge also outperform their peers in neighboring districts on standardized assessments.101

For instance, the authors excluded districts with poverty rates of less than 20 percent or more than 80 percent — districts with extremely high or low rates can do very little to remedy segregation within their district boundaries.69 The authors also excluded school districts with fewer than ten schools.

In both districts, students in high - poverty schools did not benefit from this influx of parent contributions.

Average district per - pupil spending does not always capture staffing and funding inequities.14 Many districts do not consider actual teacher salaries when budgeting for and reporting each school's expenditures, and the highest - poverty schools are often staffed by less - experienced teachers who typically earn lower salaries.15 Because educator salaries are, by far, schools» largest budget item, schools serving the poorest children end up spending much less on what matters most for their students» learning.

The same month, Stephen Colbert ridiculed Wake County tea party activists for suggesting we should «experiment» to see how kids do in high poverty schools, as if we didn't have enough data from districts like Detroit.

In high - poverty districts, children often arrive at school needing things that more affluent districts simply don't have to provide — but providing them won't necessarily improve test scores.

But he is simultaneously relieved to have the power to make changes and worried that he won't be able to go far enough if the district doesn't allow him to make outside hires.Quitman a school of 493 pre-kindergartners through eighth - graders in Newark's high - crime, high - poverty Central Ward has become a symbol of Superintendent Cami Anderson's new push to turn around the city's struggling schools by closing down the worst of them and replacing staff at others.

Schools that do not get federal poverty money and have decent grades will have to make smaller changes that can be monitored by district administrators.

The law encourages local districts to submit teacher pay proposals for the pilot that could look like one of two distinct models: either pitch a plan that would reward teachers on the basis of how well their students do on tests, or present an idea for paying teachers who work in hard to staff subject areas or rural / high poverty schools and / or taking on additional leadership roles to improve student success.

Texas has their share of students in poverty, so why did the Katy Independent School District spend $ 72.1 million on a new football stadium?

«Schools and districts can not do this alone, particularly in communities facing concentrated poverty and high levels of chronic absence.

«Research shows the best thing you can do to overcome bad parents or no parents or stressed out overworked parents who often come in these generational poverty school districts is four years in a row of an empathetic, well - trained, dedicated teacher,» said longtime education advocate Andy Mullins, who now works as chief of staff to the chancellor at the University of Mississippi.

Atlanta Public Schools Chief Financial Officer Lisa Bracken said the school district has higher costs for several reasons: The expense of city living drives up teacher pay; the district has «low population» schools that lack economies of scale but are kept open «due to urban traffic constraints and community needs;» many students need extra services because they have learning problems or disabilities, don't speak English fluently or come from poverty; and the district has a large unfunded pension liability with growing obligSchools Chief Financial Officer Lisa Bracken said the school district has higher costs for several reasons: The expense of city living drives up teacher pay; the district has «low population» schools that lack economies of scale but are kept open «due to urban traffic constraints and community needs;» many students need extra services because they have learning problems or disabilities, don't speak English fluently or come from poverty; and the district has a large unfunded pension liability with growing obligschools that lack economies of scale but are kept open «due to urban traffic constraints and community needs;» many students need extra services because they have learning problems or disabilities, don't speak English fluently or come from poverty; and the district has a large unfunded pension liability with growing obligations.

The Senate's potential new formula for funding Kansas schools is based on spending at 41 districts where — according to a recent statistical analysis — students are doing well academically relative to local poverty rates.

In terms of achievement, charter schools do not serve similar proportions of students living in poverty, bilingual children, and children with disabilities when compared to the local districts where they are located.

This district public school, which is located in a high - poverty neighborhood in New York City, has historically struggled to engage parents in its educational efforts, and welcomed Family Playlists as a potentially effective tool to do so.

Gordon MacInnes shows that it's possible for high - poverty schools to do a much better job of teaching low - income youngsters to read, through the tale of how a package of reforms, including high - quality pre-K and intensive, data - driven literacy instruction in the early grades, dramatically improved reading performance for children in some of New Jersey's highest - poverty, most troubled districts.

Lake Station schools Superintendent Dan DeHaven said some challenges in working with children who live in poverty have to do with the additional support that must be provided to them; 78 percent of students in his district receive free and reduced - price lunch.

School districts have to look at designing summer reading programs that do not require a significant monetary investment and address poverty area obstacles.

As leaders and educators, we know that enrollment of minority students is not equally balanced across schools, and that today's children see variations of the segregation their grandparents faced in past decades.1 We know that poverty is becoming more concentrated, and that, in the 2015 - 16 school year, 65 percent of students attending city schools did so in high - poverty or mid-high poverty districts.2 We also know that achievement gaps persist among low income3, special education4 and minority students.5