Sentences with phrase «surrounding suburban school districts»

In 1984, MPS sued the state and the surrounding suburban school districts, alleging that they were cooperating to keep black Milwaukeeans isolated in housing and education.

Since 2001, the Minneapolis Public Schools and surrounding suburban school districts have taken part in the voluntary «Choice is Yours» program, in which the government pays to bus low - income Minneapolis students to suburban schools.

Not exact matches

This is a problem familiar to education reformers: a voluntary 25 - year - old program that sends minority students from Boston to surrounding suburban districts has a waiting list that exceeds 12,000 kids because the receiving schools say they don't have enough space to accept more children.

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.

According to Kyle Crater, the assistant principal of Amanda E. Stout Elementary School, most district staff members live in the surrounding suburban areas in Berks County, rather than urban Reading.

With approximately 16,800 students and more than 2,500 staff, Christina School District serves the City of Newark and its surrounding suburban areas, as well as a portion of the City of Wilmington.

In august, with only three weeks left before school doors opened, the Atlanta Public Schools and its surrounding suburban districts were looking to hire about 1,400 teachers.

It includes a five - year, 21.6 percent increase in base pay that will boost the average annual salary of a D.C. educator from $ 67,000 to about $ 81,000 and gives the city's public school teachers salaries comparable to those in surrounding suburban districts, according to a union survey.

The same politicians that continue to push for a state takeover of Milwaukee Public Schools conveniently leave out the fact that students in MPS are grossly underfunded when compared to students in surrounding suburban districts.

The change process surrounding the introduction of an all - day kindergarten program in a small suburban school district is examined in this case study.