Sentences with phrase «poverty than its district average»

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Urban school districts spend significantly less per pupil on their high - poverty schools than their low - poverty ones, a fact that is routinely masked by school budgets that use average - salary figures rather than actual ones, a new paper suggests.

The upshot, per the article, is that «children in the school districts with the highest concentrations of poverty score an average of more than four grade levels below children in the richest districts.»

The study also compared charter performance to average statewide performance — admittedly, a higher bar, as schools statewide had significantly lower levels of poverty than the charters (and their urban districts).

This means that although the district, on average, has a poverty rate of 64 percent, more than three - quarters of the district's schools have a poverty rate that is either 84 percent and higher, or 44 percent and lower.

Children in the school districts with the highest concentrations of poverty score an average of more than four grade levels below children in the richest districts.

For example, in Trenton City school district, 31 percent of children are living with families in poverty — more than twice the average for New Jersey.

825 in the U.S. — meaning the highest poverty districts received on average $ 825 less per student than the lowest poverty districts.

Leading Educators Fellows stay in high - poverty schools at rates between 10 and 29 percent higher than the district average.

Even after adjusting for cost of living and student poverty variables, they found that districts with lower productivity spent $ 950 more per student than districts with above average productivity, and the most inefficient districts tended to devote an extra 3 percent of their budgets to administration and other nonteaching expenditures.

The 2011 — 12 data reported to NCES indicates that in 24 states, on average the highest - poverty districts spend less per student from state and local funding sources than the lowest - poverty districts spend.