Sentences with phrase «serving more affluent»

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.

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

«A good school serving a challenging area must have as much chance of a high score as a good school serving a more affluent area,» he said.

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

The reason why Academy MATs do not want to take on these schools, that compete with other schools serving more affluent postcodes that produce higher mean CATs score intakes, is because in most cases they know they can do no better than the existing heads and teachers.

According to a new analysis by Empire Center health policy director Bill Hammond, a $ 1.1 billion - dollar state program to reimburse hospital charity care is shortchanging hospitals that serve poorer patient to the benefit of those that serve more affluent populations.

The top public comprehensive district high schools all serve more affluent communities with one notable exception:

At the conclusion of presenting data that exemplify how schools that serve more affluent populations will almost always score higher than schools that serve poorer demographics, Lineburg and his colleagues had this to say:

Jefferson County: Cindy Stevenson, who served as the award - winning superintendent from 2002 - 2012, focused efforts on better supports for teachers, a «strive for greatness,» and more attention towards district managed schools (rather than on charters in the district who tend to serve a more affluent population).

Those that remain frequently do not stay at high - poverty schools, trading difficult - to - lead schools for less demanding leadership roles that serve more affluent populations.

Not exact matches

If I were running the government, I would see to it that school districts that serve the poor would have a larger share of the tax revenue than school districts that serve the affluent, for in the poor districts there is far more ground to be made up to provide the open equality of opportunity, and equality of opportunity must be a part of every just society.

It's no secret that «regular» schools serving predominantly poor children, who face overwhelming challenges that affluent children never have to confront, have more than their share of behavior problems.

The Levittown system serves a more - affluent population that is about 85 percent white.

In the more affluent northwest Philadelphia neighborhood of West Mt. Airy, Kimberly Newman, principal of Henry H. Houston Elementary School, started a prekindergarten program this year to provide a neighborhood school to serve young families.

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.

«Most important,» Thorpe added, «we have to make sure that quality teaching is as prevalent in schools serving poor communities as it is in more affluent ones.

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

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.»

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).

«With the acquisition of mytheresa.com, Neiman Marcus Group takes yet another strategically significant step towards our long range international strategy to more broadly serve the affluent customer around the world,» said Karen Katz, president and CEO of Neiman Marcus Group, in a statement.