Sentences with phrase «than the poorest schools»

According to the Education Week Quality Counts 2015 report 49 states spend more money on their wealthy schools than their poor schools.

While the state of Connecticut is one of the 49 states who spend more money on their wealthy schools than their poor schools is not held accountable.

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

Not surprisingly, the richest schools are considered better than the poorest schools, based on measures used by the media to rank academic success.

Not exact matches

It's also the case that young men are doing noticeably poorer than young women in the job market — largely because of a growing gender gap in post-secondary schooling.

Why do you think that empty school buildings are better than having churches that are helping poor people that are helping people get off drugs, get out of crime and tutoring students of all faiths?»

As waiting lists for voucher lotteries and a 55 percent increase in charter - school students since 2004 attest, many parents, and disproportionately poor and minority parents, appear more than willing to shoulder this lamentable burden.

Smaller schools have proven to be more effective than larger schools, especially with poor children.

Recent polls consistently show that African - Americans, especially poorer, inner - city people and those with school - age children favor vouchers more than do middle - class whites.

Mother Theresa managed to proved over 500 hospitals and schools for the poor without the government with nothing more than the clothes on her back when she left the convent.

Additionally, this is an education system that promotes inequality and therefore injustice: Schools in the United States are twice as likely to pair poor and minority students with brand - new teachers and almost four times more likely to suspend black students than white students.

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.

In the space of time available to him, of course, Mr. Clinton could offer little more than a hasty outline of this proposal, but he did manage to make clear that what he was referring to was some sort of system whereby American high school (and, as it was to turn out, also college) graduates would exchange some years of service, either as policemen, environmental workers, or offerers of some form of assistance to poor children, in exchange for the government's subsequently paying their college tuition» a kind of GI Bill for non-GIs.

Factor in that poor black children are almost three times more likely to be held back in school than their white counterparts.

Fathers will undertake learning activities that they perceive will benefit their children through: ««a desire to build stronger relationships with their children ««a belief that helping their children to learn is important for their children's success (even when their own school experience was poor) ««a strong desire for their children to do better than they did (Fletcher, 1997).

For multiple years, the suit alleges, Chartwells was paid many millions of dollars more for meals than it should have been, even while the company often delivered food late, failed to provide the full number of meals at some schools, and repeatedly served poor quality or spoiled food.

Selling poor quality meat to public schools (lower standards than those met by fast food industry — where 3/4 of the meat is positive for things so heinous I shudder), as an example.

«That gap now between our richest schools and our poorest schools [is] wider under Gov. Cuomo than it has ever been before, and that's got to stop.»

She calls it the «major civil rights issue of our time,» and she said Cuomo is furthering policies that favor spending more money on New York's wealthy, predominately white schools than on the state's poorest schools.

«That gap now between our richest schools and our poorest schools are wider under Governor Cuomo than it has ever been before, and that's got to stop.»

And the gap between the richest and poorest schools has grown wider today under Andrew Cuomo than it's ever been.

She said about education funding, «That gap now between our richest schools and our poorest schools is wider under Governor Cuomo than it has ever been before, and that's got to stop.»

With non-departmental expenditure rising more than expected because of the economy's poor performance, and large chunks of Whitehall spending on foreign aid, schools and the NHS ringfenced, the chancellor has little choice but to confront politically sensitive areas like defence and the police to achieve the savings.

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

Under this governor, New York is the single most unequal state in the country, and the gap between our richest and poorest schools is wider than it's ever been.

And I will never accept the idea that it's ok for children from poorer backgrounds to do worse at school than their wealthier classmates.

«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.

And he said poorer schools will suffer even more than wealthier ones.

And it's much cheaper and socially responsible than the long - term costs of trapping poorer children in schools that don't work for them.»

«New York's schools are the second most unequal in the entire country,» Nixon, the former Sex and the City star, said in her kickoff speech in March, «and the gap between the richest and the poorest schools has grown wider today, under Andrew Cuomo, than it's ever been.»

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.

- GDP per capita is still lower than it was before the recession - Earnings and household incomes are far lower in real terms than they were in 2010 - Five million people earn less than the Living Wage - George Osborne has failed to balance the Budget by 2015, meaning 40 % of the work must be done in the next parliament - Absolute poverty increased by 300,000 between 2010/11 and 2012/13 - Almost two - thirds of poor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a depoor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a dePoor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a decade

«That gap now between our richest schools and our poorest schools is wider under Governor Cuomo than it ever has been before, and that's got to stop,» Nixon said on the «Today» show.

Wearing red T - shirts emblazoned with «Don't Steal Possible,» more than 18,000 parents, kids and charter school advocates rallied at Cadman Plaza in Brooklyn Wednesday to call for better schools in poor neighbors.

Students who are just learning English are far more likely to miss school and drop out than their peers, a probable contributor to their poor graduation rates.

She calls it the «major civil rights issue of our time», and she says Cuomo is furthering policies that favor spending more money on New York's wealthy, predominately white schools, than on the state's poorest schools.

At 149 schools in the Bronx, less than one in ten can read or do math at grade level, and these schools disproportionately impact poor children of - color — 96 % of the 65,000 students in these failing schools are of - color, and 95 % come from families near or below the poverty line.

And he says poorer schools will suffer even more than wealthier ones.

Overall, students at richer schools did better than those at poorer ones.

The charters have been used for tax breaks by hedge - fund operators; worse yet, he continued, is that they're siphoning away children in poorer neighborhoods whose parents are aware enough to seek something better for them than their local schools, in what he called «a cannibalization of our public - school system... We need to fully fund our schools.»

He said his platform was dominated by his belief that the school was giving scholarships to wealthy students with influential parents rather than to poorer students like himself.

Deaf people who sign have poorer health than the general population, according to a study led by researchers from the School for Social and Community Medicine at the University of Bristol.

Children with poor motor performance at the school entry were found to have poorer reading and arithmetic skills than their better performing peers during the first three years of school.

Children born before 34 weeks gestation have poorer reading and maths skills than those born at full term, and the difficulties they experience at school continue to have effects into adulthood: by the age of 42, adults who were born prematurely have lower incomes and are less likely to own their own home than those born at full term.

One in three high - school students scored less than 0.3 — which is classed as «extremely poor».

Reports from school inspectors over the past year suggest that in primary schools the quality of teaching is poorer in maths than in any other subject.

«Our goal was to show exactly how environmental protection can reduce poverty in poorer nations rather than exacerbate it, as many people fear,» says co-author Paul Ferraro, a professor of economics and environmental policy in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University.

Co-author Professor Daniel Mills of the School of Life Sciences at the University of Lincoln, said: «Humans are known to be very visual in both intra and inter-specific interactions, and because the vision of dogs is much poorer than humans, we often tend to think of them using their other senses to make sense of the world.

«In other words, high school graduates may appear healthier than high school dropouts, not because of their schooling or school environment, but because high school dropouts are much more likely to be poor,» he said.

African Americans are more likely than whites to believe eating a poor diet in childhood (55 % to 42 %), not getting vaccinations as a child (54 % to 43 %), living in poverty in childhood (47 % to 31 %), not graduating from high school (46 % to 26 %), and being born premature or underweight (34 % to 20 %) are extremely important.