Sentences with phrase «to support disadvantaged students»

All of the country's universities were charged with designing programs to attract and support disadvantaged students in exchange for the funding.

While the effort was aimed at supporting disadvantaged students, the researchers found that all students used the lists.

The boost in funding would allow states and school districts to better support the disadvantaged students most affected by sequestration cuts.

Efforts in school improvement include designing high schools for student success, supporting disadvantaged students through community schools, and assisting reforms in persistently low - achieving schools

As a «do tank», the Sutton Trust runs programmes supporting disadvantaged students» entry to top universities and leading professions.

Teachers across the country had the opportunity to win a grant worth up to # 15,000 to develop their idea to support disadvantaged students in English, maths or science.

ESSA gives school districts the opportunity to change the way they leverage federal dollars to support disadvantaged students.

Effectively, recommendation 2 argues that all students in all schools deserve a focus on progress, while recommendation 3 acknowledges your point that we need much more targeted action to support disadvantaged students.

NSBA not only commends the Subcommittee for passing a bill that supports disadvantaged students and special education, but also for including a new general provision on local governance, stating that the Federal government can not mandate or incentivize in any way the adoption of any specific standards or assessments, including Common Core.

This would, in turn, keep in place the current complex set of rules that require school districts to show how they are providing a proportion of increased LCFF funding to support disadvantaged students.

Instead, school districts will have to show how the full amount of supplemental and concentration grants are used to support disadvantaged students.

After LCFF full implementation it may be easier to determine whether school districts are fulfilling LCFF's equity principles because it will no longer be necessary to figure out exactly what proportion of increased LCFF dollars should go to support disadvantaged students.

Federal funding — through programs like Title I, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, and the Perkins Career and Technical Education Act — is crucial to supporting disadvantaged students, students with disabilities, professional development, and college and career readiness.