Sentences with phrase «than poor districts»

-- In a December report on school efficiency and funding, no clear factors were found between funding, efficiency, and achievement, other than poor districts require more money.

Equity: Arkansas has a positive wealth - neutrality score, meaning that, on average, property - wealthy districts have slightly more revenue than poor districts do.

Rich districts may choose to spend more than their foundation budget out of locally generated funds, but on average they still spend less than poor districts do.

Wealthier schools in the state spend 80 percent more on student education than poorer districts.

Indeed, if anything, the results indicate that the most affluent districts fare better than the poorest districts, in terms of total funding, when Democrats are in power, although this difference is not statistically significant.

On average, the wealthiest districts educate fewer economically disadvantaged, students of color and English learners than the poorest districts.

A low - income student enrolling in college is five times as likely to enroll at a top school if s / he comes from a wealthy district rather than a poor district;

This allows those wealthier communities to tax much lower than the poorer districts while generating much more revenue for their students.

Despite some state effort to equalize funding levels, the wealthiest school districts tend to have much stronger Penny Power than the poorest districts.

Dallas County's most affluent district, Highland Park ISD, has a tax base that is more than thirteen times greater than its poorest district, Mesquite ISD.

Not exact matches

If I were running the government, I would see to it that school districts that serve the poor would have a larger share of the tax revenue than school districts that serve the affluent, for in the poor districts there is far more ground to be made up to provide the open equality of opportunity, and equality of opportunity must be a part of every just society.

More than 18 months after a coroner found poor safety measures at the family - owned winery were a major cause of the blast, WorkCover has confirmed it has lodged an indictment in the district court against W Drayton and Sons Pty Ltd, trading as Drayton Family Wines.

Also on Thursday, Daley said he believes that Park District programs are offered even - handedly throughout the city despite a Tribune study that concluded teenagers in poor neighborhoods are provided fewer offerings than teens in more affluent areas of Chicago.

The Gap Elimination Adjustment took much more aid back from kids in poor districts than in places like Scarsdale and Chappaqua.

«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.

They say they've already cut back and laid off and that a cap would erode arts, sports and special programs, and hurt poorer and rural districts, which are more dependent on state aid than rich ones with greater property wealth.

In fact, one such group, funded in part by the hedge funder currently trying to murder Argentina for fun and profit, is spending more than three times the poors entire budget in just one sleepy upstate Senate district.

Almost as stupid as STAR where New York intentionally overtaxes to build up money to write rebate checks for people like Rump... and to give more aid to wealthy school districts than poor ones.

If the grant only serves districts with more than half their students from families poor enough to qualify for the free and reduced lunch program, as some of the grant programs do, J - E, at 34 percent, would not qualify.

Indeed, in Education Week «s own dataset, 40 states spend more in the poorest quartile of districts than in the richest.

The proportion of students in poverty in the majority - black elementary schools has increased over time, and remains at higher levels (currently at 91 percent poor) than the district's other elementary schools (76.6 percent poor.)

(This is more states than indicated in Figure 1 because these data include federal funds, targeted at poor districts.)

What about those states at the bottom of Education Trust's spectrum, the ones that spend considerably less on poor districts than on rich ones?

Part of the answer is in the question: states that spend considerably more on poor districts than rich ones can be ranked very low by Education Week because the McLoone Index is measuring the cost of increasing the spending on rich districts toward that on poor ones.

Concerned that varying education programs are creating «two Connecticuts, one for the rich and one for the poor,» the state's department of education is studying whether wealthy districts offer substantially better programs than poorer ones.

In previous work, one of us found that Washington State's 2004 compensatory allocation formula ensured that affluent Bellevue School District, in which only 18 percent of students qualify for free or reduced - price lunch, receives $ 1,371 per poor student in state compensatory funds, while large urban districts received less than half of that for each of their impoverished students (see Figure 2).

As I switch the metric from per - Title I eligible (i.e., from child poverty counts) as in the district - level calculations in Table 1 to per - FRPL - eligible student, the grant amounts shrink as more students participate in free and reduced - price lunch than are poor (and counted for district - level allocations).

As a result of the New Jersey Supreme Court's 1998 Abbott v. Burke ruling, per - pupil spending in some of the state's poorest districts, known as the Abbott districts, increased more than 41 percent from 1996 to 2003.

The state's score is positive, meaning that, on average, wealthy districts in the state have more revenue than do property - poor districts.

Nevada is one of only 10 states with negative wealth - neutrality scores, meaning that, on average, property - poor districts actually have more state and local revenue for education than wealthy districts do.

A negative score means that, on average, students in property - poor districts actually receive more state and local funding per pupil than students in more affluent areas do.

The study, which is scheduled to be published next year, «shows how an often - discussed phenomenon — that schools serving poor children get less qualified teachers than schools in the same district serving more advantaged children — is hard - wired...

Wealthy school districts in Connecticut typically spent $ 1,227 more per student than poorer ones during the 1981 - 82 school year, according to a recent state report.

The district's distinctive aim of going from good to great, rather than from poor to passable, is remarkable in the annals of contemporary school reform.

A study of 49 states by The Education Trust found that school districts with high numbers of low - income and minority students receive substantially less state and local money per pupil than school districts with few poor and minority children.

In L.A., however, where most charters serve poor and minority students — and appear to be doing a better job of it than many of their district - school counterparts — there is more at stake.

On the other hand, Denver's steady improvement has widened the achievement gap, something that happens in many urban districts that improve, as white and middle - class students raise their scores faster than poor and minority students.

But Oklahoma is one of only 10 states with negative wealth - neutrality scores, meaning that, on average, property - poor districts actually have more state and local revenue for education than wealthy districts do.

In these instances, however, the actual flow of new dollars into poor districts is more meager than when Democrats are in control.

Utah is one of only 10 states that have negative wealth - neutrality scores, meaning that, on average, students in property - poor districts actually receive more funding per pupil than students living in wealthy areas.

The technology gap in public education is narrowing, with one computer for every 5.3 students in America's poorest districts — less than half a student behind the national average.

Even students in the poorest districts appear to do better in a competitive system, as exists in the Boston area, than they do in areas in which one or two districts dominate a metropolitan area, like Miami.

Teacher union and school district rules also make the removal of poor teachers much more difficult in public than in private schools.

Thus it might not matter how much urban districts spend, because as long as they spend less than other districts they will get the same poor - quality teachers.

The brainchild of President Obama's Secretary of Education, John B. King Jr., the program had attracted interest from 26 school districts across the country that believed kids would be better off in schools that educate rich and poor, and white and minority students, together rather than separately.

The district has earned a favorable A + Standard & Poor's credit rating and exceeded budgeted student enrollment by more than 300 students.

Across the board, student groups in poorer districts are less resourced than peers in wealthier districts and will receive more new funding as a result.

Maybe something else could explain this phenomenon, but it appears likely that poor students misbehave at higher rates than non-poor students, and in some districts poor students are much more likely to be black.

Poorer schools struggle with fewer resources and less experienced faculty members than wealthier districts, making it harder for students to keep up, let alone excel.

If socioeconomic differences are a major force driving discipline disparities, than we would expect to see bigger discipline disparities in districts with bigger socioeconomic disparities — that is, in places where most of the white students are middle class or above and most of the African American students are poor.