Sentences with phrase «wealthier districts less»

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If we rely on local communities to raise funds to improve food, we'll soon have a patchwork of wealthier (or more committed) districts with good food, and poorer districts (where, I would note, more children are reliant on school food) with less healthful offerings.

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.

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.

Republicans are seizing on some of the less flattering parts in the story, characterizing the wealthy Eldridge's efforts to reach out in the largely rural district as being more than a bit awkward.

East Aurora is considered a wealthier district by the state, he said, and that means its state aid reimbursements are often less than surrounding districts.

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.

Here the setting is moved to India, where the not - so - wealthy (but still rich enough to hire servants) Bakshi family resides in a less - than - touristy district.

Gov. Edward T. Schafer of North Dakota last week signed into law a school - finance measure that shifts some state funding from property - wealthy school districts to those less able to raise money through property taxes.

On a parallel track, in the 1960s, federal officials recognized that states and local school districts were systematically spending less to educate poor kids compared to wealthier kids.

Across the board, student groups in poorer districts are less resourced than peers in wealthier districts and will receive more new funding as a result.

A Black student in a district with below - average property wealth (less than $ 6,363 per pupil) has an adequacy level of 61 %, but his peer in a wealthier school district is only a bit better at 69 %.

Poorer schools struggle with fewer resources and less experienced faculty members than wealthier districts, making it harder for students to keep up, let alone excel.

Charter high schools serve less LEP students than those even served by New Jersey's high schools in the wealthiest communities, let alone the districts located in the poorest communities, yet charter high school operate in communities with high percentages of LEP students.

As shown below, despite taxing 11 cents less than their counterparts, the top 5 percent of property - wealthy school districts in the state access over $ 1,100 more per WADA than the bottom 5 percent.

After running the numbers, we found that the poorest districts in California actually receive $ 620 less per pupil than the wealthiest districts.

Looking at the 15 largest districts in California authors Cristina Sepe and Marguerite Roza, demonstrate that teachers at risk of layoff are concentrated in schools with more poor and minority students, concluding that «last in, first out» policies disproportionately affect the programs and students in their poorer and more minority schools than in their wealthier, less minority counterparts.

Local school district officials closely monitor the Utah legislative session each year because legislators representing less - affluent school districts inevitably look to the wealthier ones - like Park City - to help fund schools in parts of the state where population is growing.

Some elementary schools in the Hightop district serve mostly white students from wealthy homes; others educate students from less wealthy families and minority backgrounds.

In Pennsylvania, for example, high - poverty school districts spend 33 percent less per pupil than wealthier districts in the state.114

School districts serving communities where property is worth less simply can not generate the same level of revenue at the same tax rate as wealthier communities.

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

Teachers in high - poverty schools report fewer computers and less training on how to use technology with students compared to their colleagues in wealthier districts — leading to decreased confidence for these teachers when it comes to using educational technology.

In approximately 1,500 school districts across the country, there are about 5,700 Title I — or poor — schools that receive, on average, $ 440,000 less per year than wealthier schools.

The seven settled worlds have developed to accommodate this huge leap in expertise, giving the wealthy and highly effective the means to cheat demise by shifting between our bodies, whereas miring the much less privileged in rundown districts...

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