Sentences with phrase «so wealthy districts»

The local option tax is capped so wealthy districts do not have an unfair advantage over poorer ones.

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Now he flew into Washington, D.C., and with a Park District lawyer drove an hour or so into wealthy rural Virginia, past estate after estate, until the GPS told him he was at the right one.

When he voted for that bill he said to the people of his district I approve borrowing more money from foreigners to hand it over to the wealthy so we can have an excuse to cut Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security after November!

«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.

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.

«People who are driving into the central business district of Manhattan are pretty uniformly a lot wealthier than people taking public transit, so the folks who would have to potentially change behavior or who would pay a toll are the kind of folks who are already making quite a bit of money anyway, so it's equitable to make sure there's a toll in place,» said Sifuentes.

While different states weigh and conduct the components differently, they, like New York, tie teacher performance only to student growth, not raw test scores, so as not to disadvantage teachers whose students hail from challenging socioeconomic backgrounds versus teachers in wealthy districts.

Here the setting is moved to India, where the not - so - wealthy (but still rich enough to hire servants) Bakshi family resides in a less - than - touristy district.

New Jersey's second - largest categorical program is Parity Remedy Aid, a court - ordered program that targets additional funds to the so - called Abbott districts — the plaintiffs in the Abbott v. Burke school finance lawsuit — to create more equity between them and the state's wealthier and academically more successful districts.

Her so - called evidence that the school is cooking its books is that Randolph's ACT scores are far below the state average, as if such comparisons to wealthy districts somehow disqualify Randolph's impressive year - over-year improvement in most areas.

Indeed, a close look at MCAS results shows there is surprisingly little difference between the quality of teaching in so - called «good» schools (wealthy, suburban schools with high MCAS scores) and «bad» schools (inner - city schools with low scores) when the results are averaged across all teachers in the district and disaggregated by student demographics, specifically race and poverty.

In fact, they got so much new money that spending in some of them eclipsed spending in some of the state's wealthiest districts.

Both agreed that the Legislature should address educators» retirement and health insurance issues and criticized the so - called «Robin Hood» system of distributing revenue from wealthier school districts to poorer ones.

I always say if TFA is so great then send them to the wealthy districts like Avon and Farmington, and the veteran teachers in those communities can come and teach in places like Hartford and Windham.

The issue that divided them so deeply was whether or not school districts need to make sure that schools serving children from low - income families get at least as much state and local funding as wealthier schools.