Sentences with phrase «wealthier districts for»

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.

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.

He cited the explanation given by a wealthy district for its request to back out of a cross-busing plan with a poor district: The wealthy district did not want to integrate with the poor district because of the latter's «old and dilapidated buildings, lack of adequate equipment and materials, [and] lack of science programs.»

Not exact matches

Like it's their place of leisure... In actuality it's the business district for one of the wealthiest cities in the USA.

The city is home to many wealthy residents, and housing costs in the District are out of reach for many.

When he voted for that bill he said to the people of his district I approve borrowing more money from foreigners to hand it over to the wealthy so we can have an excuse to cut Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security after November!

It's about forcing the city to comply with the Campaign for Fiscal Equity which sued over inequitable distribution of funding among wealthier and poorer school districts back in 1993.

The FBI, the U.S. Attorney's office and the Manhattan District Attorney were looking into whether NYPD brass received gifts and expensive trips in exchange for favors from wealthy businessmen with ties to the mayor.

While voters are nearly evenly divided between the two candidates on most issues, Hayworth is viewed as stronger on taxes and the federal budget deficit in a district that favors repealing health care and retaining the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy.

He said the swoop on its law offices, located in Panama's banking district, had begun on Tuesdayon the basis of the news reports about the offshore businesses it created and in some cases ran for wealthy clients around the world.

His $ 157,000 haul was notably low for the chairman of the Appropriations Committee, who represents one of the wealthiest districts in the country.

Port Washington is five times wealthier than, for example, the Onondaga or Solvay districts in Central New York.

She spoke at a press conference Monday organized by the Alliance for Quality Education, an activist group that pushes for more state funding for schools and has said that the current funding distribution favors wealthy, white districts over poor areas with people of color.

Harvey Weisenberg, the longtime assemblyman for the 20th district — which includes everything from the wealthy Five Towns to impoverished North Park — was retiring, and he encouraged Kaminsky to run in 2014.

The schools in the Syracuse City School District have about $ 11,000 less funding for each student than wealthier schools in the state, according to a WSKG news article.

The union is seeking to level the playing field for districts they believe will never be able to keep up with wealthier schools.

Sen. Liz Krueger, whose Upper East Side Senate district is one of the wealthiest in New York, has teamed up with Democratic donor / New Roosevelt Initiative founder Bill Samuels to propose using cash generated by the proposed casino expansion to pay for a publicly - funded campaign system.

And education advocates and their legislative allies (mostly Democrats) are calling for the governor to increase public education aid, noting the gap between high - needs and wealthy districts is growing ever wider.

A new poll conducted for wealthy businessman Mike Whalen's (R) campaign sheds some light on the state of play in eastern Iowa's 1st U.S. House district — one of the most competitive open seats in the country.

«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.

But Rick Timbs, executive director of the East Syracuse - based Statewide School Finance Consortium, argues that the adjustments are minor, and the basic inequities that have plagued less wealthy Upstate districts for years are still in force.

In Jordan - Elbridge, for example, Cuomo's cut is equal to 5.8 percent of the district's general fund, while in Dobbs Ferry, a Westchester County district that is four times wealthier, the hit would be only 1.3 percent.

Wealthy hotel chain owner Jim Graves, who came within 4,300 votes of unseating U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann last year and planned to challenge her again in 2014, unexpectedly announced on Friday that he was ending his bid for Minnesota's 6th congressional district seat.

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.

One question... why is it a problem when DeBlasio raises money to help elect Democrats in upstate districts while the extremely wealthy NYC real estate interests ship boatloads of money upstate for the same purpose?

Susan Lee, an education advocate and the spouse of a wealthy casino executive, founded a homeless shelter and self - funded a failed bid for Congress for a different Nevada district in 2016.

For too long the 10th district has been represented by someone who cares only about the wealthy while ignoring the issues impacting working - class residents.

One of the nation's most conservative districts has made it clear that sacrificing Medicare for continued tax cuts on the wealthiest 2 % and subsidies for oil companies is NOT acceptable.

Lembo will likely be running against Republican Mark Greenberg, a wealthy Litchfield business executive who has run unsuccessfully three times for Congress in the 5th District.

For too long the 10th district has been represented by someone who cares only about the wealthy elite while ignoring the issues impacting working - class residents.

Koppell, if he runs, would be counting on some of the wealthy Democrats to vote against Klein for the failure of comprehensive campaign finance and ethics reform, which stalled thanks to a lack of support from Andrew Cuomo and Klein's Republican partners in the Senate, and on Hispanics in the district who are, in Koppell's words, «very disappointed at the way he failed to get the Dream Act through.»

The district is one of the poorest in the city, and though Mark - Viverito champions policies for the low - income and disadvantaged, she is one of the wealthiest members of the council.

It should be a budget imperative for a state as wealthy as ours, even if it means irritating high - resource school districts which won't do as well, and the Republicans who love them.

A chapter amendment submitted late last night repeal language that would have allowed wealthy and middle - income school districts the option of using some of the additional state aid provided in the two - way deal for either tax relief or restoration of programs.

Cuomo in January proposed a tweak that would boost the total amount by 1 percent, or $ 428 million, but critics have said that his plan funnels money to more wealthy districts, thus depriving rural, poor districts — including those in the Adirondack Park — both their rightful share and relief for taxpayers.

They use less than one - third the amount of water used by residents of wealthier districts, but pay four or five times as much for the water.

She and her friend Gale (Liam Hemsworth) hunt for squirrels to survive — her preferred weapon is a bow and arrow — while hoping not to hear their names called in the Hunger Games, in which a young girl and boy from each district are picked by lottery for an annual, televised death match — killing each other for the amusement of the wealthy and powerful.

The Capitol's news broadcasts recapping the day's victories and death toll feature the same music as and similar graphics to the daily reports on the annual Hunger Games, in which poor and oppressed citizens of the outlying districts would fight to death for the entertainment of the wealthy and powerful of the Capitol.

The elites, the wealthy families that have a disproportionate influence on politics, clearly recognize the dysfunction of large urban school districts and have sought refuge in affluent suburban districts for their own children.

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.

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.

The 5 - to - 2 decision last month marked a victory for wealthy school districts that were alarmed by a 1991 decision by a district court that disparities between wealthy and poor districts should be erased.

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.

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.

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.

Gov. Christine Todd Whitman of New Jersey proposed a budget last week that increases state aid to poor school districts while cutting funds for wealthy suburban districts.

For example, Blind Brook and Bronxville, in Westchester County, experienced a 23 percent and 2 percent opt - out rate, respectively, yet both are wealthy, high - performing districts, and they are located just 13 miles apart.

Kozol points out that the wealthiest suburban school districts surrounding New York City, for example, spend more per pupil to educate their mostly white student bodies than the city spends to educate its mostly minority population.

The Wild World of Teacher Recruiting Some districts and states with teacher shortages of their own are watching teachers leave for jobs in wealthier states or towns.

Again, a teacher seeking to maximize their net pension wealth should stay in a low - salary district for as long as possible, but right before retirement they should seek out the wealthiest district possible.