Sentences with phrase «suburban school districts spend»

In my city, New York, elite private schools such as Dalton, Horace Mann, Spence, Brearley, Riverdale Country School, and at least two dozen more levy tuitions in the range of $ 20,000 a year — exceeding what even the wealthiest New York suburban school districts spend per student.

Not exact matches

Child Protective Services workers will be spending two days a week in Erie County's 28 suburban school districts, working with district social workers.

The latest push is coming from New Yorkers For A Balanced Albany, a group backed by supporters of charter schools, is spending $ 263,976 on digital, radio and TV ads in the suburban district.

Not far away, in another affluent, suburban school district in Montclair, New Jersey, minutes from an August meeting show the board of education approved spending nearly $ 5 million this year for tuition payments — an average of $ 63,000 per student — on «out - of - district placements» for 79 students with a variety of classifications, including learning disabilities and «other health impairment.»

Kozol points out that the wealthiest suburban school districts surrounding New York City, for example, spend more per pupil to educate their mostly white student bodies than the city spends to educate its mostly minority population.

Even as a commission spent the past two years planning for the largest school district merger in the nation's history — the former Memphis city district and an adjacent suburban system became the unified 140,000 - student, 222 - school Shelby County district on July 1 — the landscape of governance within the legacy city school system was changing rapidly to favor parental choice and more autonomous schools.

Many of these low - spending districts are rural, but some are in suburban or urban areas, such as Cypress - Fairbanks Independent School District on the outskirts of Houston and Burbank Unified School District outside Los Angeles.

Philadelphia, like most urban school districts, spends a significant amount of money on things most suburban districts do not, such as increased security measures, school police, metal detectors, non-teaching hallway patrols, health services, detention centers, discipline schools, teen parenting centers, daycare, nurseries, and non-English-speaking classes.