Sentences with phrase «serve more affluent students»

American Indian Public Charter ranks fifth among all middle schools in California, with the top four serving more affluent student bodies.

Not exact matches

In more than half of the states, there are hundreds of high - poverty schools that receive less funding than schools that serve more - affluent students.

Comparing Oakland with Livermore, which serves fewer and more affluent students, might not be a helpful benchmark.

Students in schools serving predominantly low - income families tend to endure teacher absence at a higher rate than students in more affluent commStudents in schools serving predominantly low - income families tend to endure teacher absence at a higher rate than students in more affluent commstudents in more affluent communities.

However, the PROSPER Act's approach to accountability ignores important lessons from state performance - based funding systems, many of which have been shown to funnel limited state dollars to well - resourced institutions that enroll the most affluent and academically prepared students while failing to support institutions that serve a more representative community.2 Rather than applying an immediate penalty through the blunt instrument of an artificial threshold, an effective accountability system would reward colleges that enroll and graduate Pell - eligible students while providing underperforming and underfunded institutions the time, resources, and support they need to improve.

Students in schools serving a low - income population are more than 2.5 times more likely to have a novice teacher than their more affluent peers.

That test - focused approach served to highlight the vast difference in scores between more affluent students — who, in D.C., are almost all white — and poor and minority students.

And although there are poor students in many — if not most — schools, schools serving more affluent populations have larger budgets overall.

Ohio's «2011 - 12 value - added results show that districts, schools and teachers with large numbers of poor students tend to have lower value - added results than those that serve more - affluent ones.»

And while many have applauded their meteoric rise in North Carolina since a 100 - charter cap was lifted in 2011, some critics have accused the charter movement of serving a more affluent and white student population while exacerbating segregation in North Carolina schools.

A more glamorous town than other more low - key hamlets, like Nature's Valley and Storms River, Plettenberg Bay serves as a seaside playground for the more affluent, and as a post-matric party destination (you'll want to avoid town during the annual Plett Rage Student Festival in early December).