Sentences with phrase «wealthier districts»

The union claims the additional funds helps students in wealthy districts perform better on state exams than those who go to poorer schools.

The local option tax is capped so wealthy districts do not have an unfair advantage over poorer ones.

This method, the report stated, favors wealthy districts over poor districts.

Sure, wealthy districts still produce the best test results, on balance.

They just rejected the most common way wealthy districts pay it.

The budget also asks for increases in state - imposed revenue caps and would set a minimum amount of money the state sends to schools, regardless of how wealthy a district is.

It doesn't happen often in wealthy districts, but it does happen elsewhere.

Students from wealthier districts started the footrace only a few yards from the finish line.

«Illinois has the most inequitable education funding system in the nation, where poorer districts spend as little as $ 6,000 per student while wealthier districts spend up to $ 30,000 per student,» Ostro said in a statement.

In effect, this was a hyperequity argument, since it took the average spending among wealthy districts as the minimum necessary for their success and then scaled it up for poor districts.

A study by the New York State Association of School Business Officials found that spending in wealthier districts for special needs students was almost double the spending in more impoverished districts.

Low - wealth districts will likely struggle to raise revenue to avoid pushing out other educational expenditures, while wealthier districts have the capacity to increase revenue more easily and avoid that trade - off.

Evers first floated the idea in September, saying the money would help to «level the playing field» among school districts by giving extra money to schools in rural areas that have trouble matching salaries offered by wealthier districts.

A minority of wealthy districts rich enough in property taxes to cover basic costs without state aid were exempted from the local limit.

Even wealthy districts like Piedmont are worried.

Tennessee has a positive wealth - neutrality score, meaning that, on average, wealthy districts receive more state and local funds for education than property - poor districts do.

The measure specifically took aim at the state's recapture plan, which redistributes funds from property wealthy districts like HISD to property poor districts.

Wealthy districts raise a large amount of money per pupil with a small increase in local tax rates.

The New York Times quantifies the achievement gap between rich students and poor ones and finds that children with access to the most wealthy districts are more than four grades ahead of students confined to 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.

With about 57 percent of its students eligible for free and reduced - price lunch, Hillsborough has outperformed many wealthier districts in Florida.

This off formula funding tends to distort the equalizing aspects of the school aid formula and give more money to property wealthy districts and their taxpayers.

«The local option tax is capped so wealthy districts do not have an unfair advantage over poorer ones,» reports the A.P..

He says if Syosset and other wealthy districts didn't spend so much on their schools — if they cut some of their impressive programs and high salaries — they would not have to collect so much in taxes.

And it has to address challenges that wealthy districts generally don't, including high poverty and large populations of non-English-speaking and special - needs students.

He says a larger solution may mean wealthier districts have to give up some of their aid to poorer schools.

He also claims that New York's education budget is too high, without noting that because of the wide disparities of income in the state, children in wealthy districts benefit from much higher spending and students in poorer districts have to make do with far fewer resources.

There is also an achievement gap between wealthier districts and their high - poverty, high - minority urban counterparts.

In Texas, for example, the most recent school - funding overhaul was financed largely by forcing wealthy districts to raise their property - tax rates and then distributing the proceeds among their poorer neighbors.

Her so - called evidence that the school is cooking its books is that Randolph's ACT scores are far below the state average, as if such comparisons to wealthy districts somehow disqualify Randolph's impressive year - over-year improvement in most areas.

This fall, for the first time, nearly all of Alabama's $ 2 billion in school funding is being distributed through a formula that gives poor districts extra aid and wealthier districts less than they usually get.

Its members claim that Kentucky's school - finance system favors wealthier districts at the expense of poorer ones and that the state has not spent enough money to equalize resources.

Texas lawmakers last week cleared a new school - finance plan that would allow wealthy districts to keep locally generated funds once they exceeded a new state - mandated minimum rate for property taxes.

Until three years ago, Beloit, a relatively wealthy district in north central6Kansas, didn't receive one penny from the state through the equalization formula.

That formula takes into account a district's low - income population, but gaps remain in how much districts spend statewide, with wealthier districts able to spend more on schoolchildren.

In 2016 the statewide opt - out rate was about 21 %, flat from the year before, but in some Long Island wealthy districts rates were far higher, sometimes topping 50 %.

But it's not just teachers in stable, wealthier districts who deserve secure retirements.

If the Takeover co-authors Kooyenga and Sen. Alberta Darling really cared about Milwaukee children and families, would they be presiding over budgets that provide students in their own wealthier districts with thousands of dollars more than students in MPS?

Districts with smaller tax bases have a harder time matching the local pay supplement wealthier districts can provide to teachers.

It struck me how much school spending has changed since I went to school, when wealthier districts consistently spent -LSB-...]

«Our schools don't have access to resources that are commonplace in wealthier districts such as access to instructional coaches, staff to provide interventions to struggling students, and ESL and bilingual teachers for our increasing population of English learners.»

Here's one thing that Dwyer will explore in the documentary: How the «bad» label can harm a school in an otherwise wealthy district.

80 percent of special needs students in wealthier districts graduate, while just 40 percent of special needs students graduate from lower - income districts.

That is not to say that we shouldn't take stock and appreciate how far we have come; we have mobilized in a way that is unprecedented, with staff, parents, and students uniting to stand up for the kids and for public education in solidarity across the state in the face of a concerted divide - and - conquer strategy (now being further utilized to attempt to placate parents in wealthy districts where opt - out rates and other forms of parental resistance are high).

A study by the New York State Association of School Business Officials found that spending in wealthier districts for special needs students was almost double the spending in more impoverished districts.

Even wealthier districts paying higher salaries can not easily find math, science, special education and bilingual teachers, who are in especially scarce supply.