Sentences with phrase «so wealthy students»

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We will ask the very wealthy to pay a little more in taxes so that we can offer full - day universal pre-K and after - school programs for every middle school student.

So - called high needs schools will be able to raise a maximum of $ 10 more per pupil, while wealthy or low needs schools can raise up to $ 27 per student, under the cap.

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.

I am a medical student in the Caribbean who is hard up and urgently need a wealthy man to sponsor my education so that I can become a meical doctor.

This comedy presents the story of a white college student who desperately wants to enroll in the Harvard Law School, but since his wealthy father refuses to help him pay the $ 54,000 he needs, so he begins taking tanning pills to darken his skin so he will be eligible to win the Bouchard Fellowship which is only awarded to African - American students.

A student is never told, «Sorry, Susie, but your parents are too wealthy so you aren't allowed to attend this school.»

However ~ NAEP shows minimalto - no improvement for these students ~ and some losses; whats more ~ white and Hispanic students scores fell by 3 points ~ and black students scores stayed the same ~ so only the influx of new wealthier students with higher scores could account for the small overall gain.

Or a school so new that the state hasn't ranked it, one that doesn't prioritize smart kids or students from wealthy neighborhoods.

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.

«Obviously, a child considered poor in the United States may be regarded as relatively wealthy in another country,» he wrote, «but the fact that the perceived problem of socio - economic disadvantage among students is so much greater in the United States — and in France too — than the actual backgrounds of students also suggests that what school principals in some countries consider to be social disadvantage would not be considered such in others.»

While minorities and subgroups showed improvements, so did white students and those not from wealthier backgrounds, so the gaps remained at close to the same levels.

Some have argued, and rightly so, that the persistent opportunity gap between low - income students and their wealthier peers should be addressed by extending learning opportunities to all students in high - poverty schools to ensure that they have access to a well - rounded education.

But she failed to note that the top Hartford students, who were the top before Sheff, are now the ones in these choice / charter / magnet schools, so all the State of Connecticut is shamelessly doing is moving some students around, spending money on a small number of schools, and only integrating if wealthy and non-integrated suburban students can benefit.

Lawmakers should give homeless students access to flexible educational options and private school scholarships so that children in these families can have the same quality options as children from middle class and wealthier families.

Allington and McGill - Franzen have assembled an impressive array of evidence to document the importance of providing students with access to books, particularly in those critical summer months when low income students lose so much ground to their wealthier peers.

Not surprisingly, schools serving the most wealthy students get the highest rankings, so this ranking is more reflective of the school community wealth than the power of a school to support student learning.

«Studies have found that students from low - income families lose ground academically over the summer, and also are less likely than students from wealthier families to have access to enriching, non-academic experiences,» said Lucas Held of The Wallace Foundation, which released the guide in partnership with Crosby Marketing Communications of Annapolis, Md. «Many of these parents and students aren't used to thinking of summer as an opportunity for learning, so it was important to listen to them and to market voluntary summer learning opportunities in ways that would appeal to them and to their children.»

Now, I've narrowed down my process to a few key indicators and then just look for the same patterns that have made my students and I so wealthy.

After a year at the Art Students League his money ran out, so he took a job as a chauffeur for a wealthy couple who provided room and board, along with a studio where he could make his smeary impastoed abstractions.

However, when presented with the opportunity to marry the wealthy businessman Charles Nevelson and move to New York as a society matron rather than alone as a poor student, she did not hesitate to do so.

Foreigners and many wealthier immigrants usually don't have student debt and have money that can take advantage of our low dollar — and many pay cash for property, so don't worry about mortgages — and, for investment properties, can leave them vacant and increasingly often do.