Sentences with phrase «several affluent schools»

Tasked with redrawing enrollment boundaries in fast - growing Loudoun County to ease overcrowding, some school board members have suggested doing away with the practice of dispersing students from a cluster of high - density Leesburg apartment complexes to several affluent schools, some up to three miles away.

Not exact matches

North Shore School District # 112, which serves Highland Park and other affluent suburbs north of Chicago, is seeking to detach from its jurisdiction a former Army base that is used for overflow housing for the Great Lakes Naval Training Center, a major Navy installation several miles to the north.

An evaluation study of the district's equity fund highlighted several implementation challenges.65 Some PTAs simply did not comply with the district's policy to give back some dollars, and the district had difficulty figuring out how to exempt some PTA expenses fairly from redistribution.66 The evaluators did not examine how this policy affected PTA revenues, but there was significant pushback from members of the community, with some parents threatening to reduce donations during initial policy negotiations.67 A group of parents voiced that the approach was punitive, and that instead, parents should be encouraged to donate to a separate equity fund or to other, less affluent schools.68 Other districts that have considered establishing an equity fund have feared similar pushback, worrying that rich parents will threaten to leave the district, disinvest in their schools, or decrease their overall contributions.69

Beyond dollars and cents, promoting partnerships between affluent and higher - poverty schools would improve offerings on both campuses.71 Several school systems already take a similar approach — focused on performance rather than demographics — that could be transferred to high - and low - resource schools.

Several studies have shown that teachers in high - poverty schools are absent more frequently than teachers in more - affluent schools, contributing to the instability.

With regard to teacher retention, district leaders in interviews with APA noted that they face a consistent trend where, after several years of teaching in the district, new teachers gain valuable training, coaching, and experience but then many leave SAISD for teaching jobs in surrounding, more affluent school districts.

While only some of Meredith's students want to join the academy debate team — which Meredith and Cammon principal Tamika Green proudly boast beat out several all - gifted debate teams from the district's more affluent middle schools — all of her students seemed excited about the class's projects.

Just one example — several years back, an adjunct colleague lost her job after the start of classes after raising questions about an affluent D / FW suburb high school's Dual Enrollment program in cooperation with her employer, Tarrant County College District

While this gives it one of the highest general fund budgets of any school system in the state, several districts that are from far less affluent communities are not far from that funding level.