Sentences with phrase «than poor districts do»

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The NCLB law gives parents the choice to withdraw their students and send them elsewhere, rather than address the concentration of low - performing minority students — typically poor ones — that did not have the resources to get find their way to more distant schools in their own districts.

The Obama Administration's decision to allow states to implement supposedly «ambitious» yet «achievable» proficiency targets — usually with lower proficiency rates for poor and minority kids than for middle - class and white counterparts — allow districts and schools to do little to help those kids succeed.

But in many cases, suburban districts are doing only marginally better than big city peers in improving student achievement, and doing terribly by kids from poor and minority backgrounds.

Probationary teachers with more than one poor observation would be given limited support and then terminated if they do not improve It's time for districts to take advantage of this time period to weed out ineffective teachers.»

In district - level analysis, the Education Trust finds that nationally districts serving high concentrations of low - income students receive on average $ 1,200 less in state and local funding than districts that serve low concentrations of low - income students, and that gap widens to $ 2,000 when comparing high - minority and low - minority districts.17 These findings are further reflected by national funding equity measures reported by Education Week, which indicate that wealthy school districts spend more per student than poorer school districts do on average.18

As with black and Latino families from the middle class, poor families of all backgrounds move into suburbia thinking that traditional district schools in those communities will do better in providing their kids with high - quality teaching and curricula than the big city districts they fled.

Given that the percentage of low - income suburban fourth - grade young men struggling with literacy is only seven percentage points lower than that for big - city counterparts (and only six points lower for suburban fourth - grade young women peers than for big - city counterparts), suburban districts are doing as poorly as big - city counterparts in providing the poorest kids with high - quality education needed for success in an increasingly knowledge - based economy.

One way it has done this is to establish schools in poor districts, which may receive more funding than rich ones in some states.