Sentences with phrase «says wealthier schools»

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New Jersey — a wealthy, educated state with ready access to world - class health care in Philadelphia and New York City — has «better access to higher - quality information that lets us be more complete» in screening, Walter Zahorodny, a New Jersey Medical School professor and director of the New Jersey Autism Study, said in a conference call about the findings.

Like many wealthy individuals, the wealthiest school have a wide range of income sources, said Moody's.

A child of Czechoslovakian immigrants, Cherny says he watched his mom and dad — who worked as a school counselor and a teamster, respectively — struggle with a banking system that largely catered to the wealthy.

Mr. Kesselman, a professor in the School of Public Policy at Simon Fraser University, says increasing annual limits will only benefit the wealthy and end up costing Ottawa billions of dollars more than has been anticipated.

She calls it the «major civil rights issue of our time,» and she said Cuomo is furthering policies that favor spending more money on New York's wealthy, predominately white schools than on the state's poorest schools.

«I am worried that the proposals could lead to pupils from poorer areas being disadvantaged as popular schools expand, and wealthier and better informed parents are able to set up their own schools,» Mr Salter said.

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.

Shettima, who also said he can not but praise Tinubu for finding time to come over to Maiduguri on a two - day visit during which he inaugurated 432 houses, 13 primary and junior secondary schools and a fully furnished estate with 26 apartments of five sets of three - storey buildings for medical doctors, recalled that he succeeded in taking control of the Borno APC in 2015 largely because Tinubu refused to support the game plan of a wealthy tyrant.

Cuomo said education advocates have argued for years that local property taxes shouldn't be used to fund schools, because wealthy communities have an obvious advantage.

«This budget was an opportunity to reverse the loss of 30,000 after - school seats cut over the past several years,» de Blasio said in a statement, adding that without asking the wealthiest New Yorkers to pay more in taxes, the budget «affirmed a status quo that continues to leave working families behind.»

Hawkins says Cuomo is trying to «privatize» the schools, and siding with the powerful and the wealthy.

«Talking before wealthy donors at ritzy schools, those are good times for the governor, rather than doing the people's work in Albany,» Kaehny said.

In a big shift that could affect school desegregation efforts, the Capitol Region Education Council says it will begin charging tuition to wealthier families who enroll new prekindergarten students in the agency's coveted magnet schools.

Education — Tax money from the wealthy should be going to the schools, Medina said.

«The Governor says people who support quality public schools are playing politics, meanwhile he is robo calling voters homes and there is a committee of millionaires doing direct mail to force through school cuts and finance tax cuts for the wealthiest New Yorkers.»

«That means that we can now focus our efforts in the coming years on getting New York City schools the Campaign for Fiscal Equity money they are still owed and building equity into the state aid formula so that poor school districts get more state aid than wealthier ones,» Mulgrew said.

Hawkins says Cuomo is trying to privatize the schools, and is siding with the powerful and wealthy.

He recalled advice given to him by his mother and father, who never went to high school and weren't wealthy: «They said, «All you can ask for out of this life, son, is to do what you think is right.

And he said poorer schools will suffer even more than wealthier ones.

He says if Syosset and other wealthy districts didn't spend so much on their schools — if they cut some of their impressive programs and high salaries — they would not have to collect so much in taxes.

Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, a Republican from Long Island, said the additional school aid would flow through both the foundation aid formula — which favors urban districts — and to alleviate the gap elimination adjustment, which would benefit wealthier, suburban districts.

Currently, by funding schools through property tax, people in wealthy neighborhoods often get better schools, she said.

He says a larger solution may mean wealthier districts have to give up some of their aid to poorer schools.

The Citizens Budget Commission said in its analysis of the governor's proposal that Cuomo «fails» to improve school aid formulas and favors wealthier districts.

In calling for a $ 2 billion «Smart Schools» bond referendum to put better technology in schools, Cuomo said the improvements could help bridge the gap between poor and wealthy sSchools» bond referendum to put better technology in schools, Cuomo said the improvements could help bridge the gap between poor and wealthy sschools, Cuomo said the improvements could help bridge the gap between poor and wealthy schoolsschools.

But the Liberal Democrats have attacked the Tory proposals, saying they would allow middle - class parents to create a new generation of grammar schools in wealthy areas.

Opponents have said the idea of giving resources to privately - run schools undermines public schools, and the legislation would unfairly favor the wealthy.

«We will be doing a significant media buy on the issue of who should be sacrificing, whether it's the wealthy or school children,» Iannuzzi said.

At a preemptive news conference with education advocates, The Alliance for Quality Education's Billy Easton says wealthy supporters of expanding charter schools have spent nearly twice that amount, and have contributed large sums to the governor's campaign.

Hawkins said that Cuomo's hostility to public school teachers and their unions and his support for charter schools must be understood in light of his large campaign contributions from wealthy hedge fund managers who profit from the favorable tax treatment of investments in charter schools and who like the fact that most charters are non-union.

New York City mayor Bill de Blasio campaigned on the promise of raising taxes on the city's wealthiest residents to fund universal pre-K and after - school programs for middle schoolers, and de Blasio said earlier Tuesday that he intends to continue pushing for that tax, calling it a «mission» from voters.

Deutsch, with New Yorkers for Fiscal Fairness, points out that Senate GOP Leaders in the past also said they were against taxing the wealthy, but ultimately agreed to the taxes when faced with steep school aid and other cuts.

She calls it the «major civil rights issue of our time», and she says Cuomo is furthering policies that favor spending more money on New York's wealthy, predominately white schools, than on the state's poorest schools.

And he says poorer schools will suffer even more than wealthier ones.

«Voters are responding to Bill de Blasio because he is the only Democrat who will boldly break from the Bloomberg years by raising taxes on the wealthy to invest in universal pre-K and after - school programs, ending racial profiling, and fighting to save community hospitals,» the de Blasio campaign said in a statement.

He is the only Democrat who will break from the Bloomberg years by raising taxes on the wealthy to invest in universal pre-K and after - school programs, ending racial profiling, and fighting to save community hospitals,» de Blasio's campaign manager said in a statement.

«In my view, if you want to go to a private school, whether you're wealthy and you want your child to go to a private school or you are Catholic and want your child to go to a Catholic school or you are Jewish and you want your child to go to a Jewish school, that should not be paid for by public funds,» she said.

The groups say in order to provide tax cuts for the middle and working classes, the wealthy and corporations need to pay more, and some of that money should be used to help the state's schools.

He said his platform was dominated by his belief that the school was giving scholarships to wealthy students with influential parents rather than to poorer students like himself.

In most cases, wealthy outside donors are supporting reform - minded school board candidates who are competing with candidates backed by teacher unions, said Sarah Reckhow, MSU assistant professor of political science and lead author on the study.

The head of the state's school administrators» association said $ 14.2 million in state aid specifically targeted to less wealthy...

Johnson says minorities who are unhappy in their schools are more likely to leave the profession than white teachers, who are more inclined to transfer to wealthier schools.

The Commission says that this gap «can not be explained by their results at school or where they live», because there are significant differences between poorer children and wealthier children living in the same neighbourhood with the same GCSEs results.

Reviewed The Boston Globe, April 23, 2012» «The thesis almost universally accepted throughout the state - that wealthy parents are driving this process - is not found at all,» said Thomas Hehir, one of the study's authors, who is a professor at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education and is a former director of the special education office at the US Department of Education.»

The people will not have a say while the wealthy, who place their children in private schools, will rule the roost.

The Obama administration on Friday said legislation passed this week by Republicans on the House education panel would rob vital federal dollars from the nation's poorest schools and redirect them to wealthier schools.

The poll found that 85 percent of voters say states should take action to correct differences in the quality of education within the state, and 84 percent say their states should adjust school funding to ensure greater fairness between wealthy and poor communities.

Hoxby says, citing one of Massachusetts» best - performing and wealthiest suburban school districts to point out a flaw in any attempt to compare charter schools, which are very often located either in inner cities or rural areas, with American public schools in general.

When admission to school was based on a one - off test, he said, «wealthy parents will find a way through it».

«The trend lines are clear — our poorest counties continue to fall further behind our wealthier counties in terms of resources available to their local schools,» said Forum President and Executive Director Keith Poston.