Sentences with phrase «very poor school district»

I am a teacher in a very poor school district, but I am a mom living in a middle class suburb.

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But the experiment does make the point, I think, that for all the school food improvements we've seen in our district (and I'm grateful for all of them, don't get me wrong), there are still offerings that permit kids to make very poor selections on the lunch line, selections that may well have an adverse impact on their health down the line.

The school district was very top - down in its approach to education, says Wolters, especially at poor schools like hers where lots of kids struggled on the state standardized tests.

The data is very clear, AF students are less poor than students in the district schools, they have less English as a second language needs, they go home to schools where English is usually the primary language and they have less special education needs.

What is annoying, to say the least, is that despite these difficult economic times, and while we're making a special effort to invest in our poorest, most challenged urban school districts, we've got school administrators like Paul Vallas and Steven Adamowski who begin by hiring consultants and laying off the very Connecticut residents who have been working so hard to make a difference.

While not every dollar a school spends directly improves academic outcomes, a new report from Rutgers school - finance expert Bruce Baker finds certain kinds of money very much do matter: extra funding for higher teacher salaries and more equitable distribution of resources between rich and poor districts, for example, are correlated with higher student achievement, especially for the neediest kids.

As one of the poorest school districts in the state and very limited funding for student transportation, the grant will be utilized to purchase and install three special needs buses and one athletic bus with video surveillance cameras.

The north section of his district, he said, is very affluent, while the south includes some of the state's poorest schools.

check on the schools around the property that you are going to buy just so you know if your in a good district or very poor district.