Sentences with phrase «wealthier school districts»

In wealthy school districts around the country, parents and teachers talk often about keeping computer use to a minimum.

Performance evaluations they say, will close the achievement gap between wealthy school districts and poor school districts.

A recent story in the Weston - Redding - Easton patch explained that Weston, Connecticut «is the second wealthiest school district in the United States.»

The budget also wiped out the gap elimination adjustment, a formula established in the wake of the 2008 recession that has diverted money from wealthier school district budgets for general state purposes.

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.

Cities in New York, Illinois and Pennsylvania generally feel the worst financial squeeze, according to the Education Law Center's school funding fairness report, because their local funding sources favor wealthier school districts over needier areas — and because they sometimes spend more money than necessary in affluent suburbs.

The script also explores the disparity between the McFarland runners and their competitors from much wealthier school districts.

In a victory for relatively wealthy school districts, the Virginia Supreme Court has upheld the state's school - funding formula, arguing that eliminating fiscal disparities between school systems is «simply not required by the constitution.»

Adopting yet a new tack as the state races toward a court - ordered school - finance deadline, the Texas House last week passed a bill giving wealthy school districts a list of options for how to reduce their property - tax base.

Below are some inefficient features of the current school finance system that continue to allow mostly property - wealthy school districts sizable funding advantages over mid - and low - wealth school districts:

Many parents, teachers, and students in wealthy school districts think nothing of throwing the terms «failing school,» «low - performing», etc. at anyone from Windham, Hartford, Bridgeport, New Haven — any child from these districts is deemed to be inferior and second - class... it is very hard for the targeted students to overcome these prejudices and for students in wealthy districts to let go of their pre-conceptions.

HISD has to pay because it's considered a property wealthy school district.

However, considering wealthier school districts receive less federal support but often have greater political capital, it is possible that some states may feel considerable pressure to use portability to distribute their Title I, Part A, funds.

But what if some portion of the relationship is due to wealthier school districts choosing to tax themselves more heavily than poorer districts and is not simply attributable to wealth differences?

Something about «creative use of resources» sounded the alarm bells with me, particularly because I've been hearing concerns from media and technology specialist friends in wealthy school districts about having adequate resources to implement SBAC, the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium adaptive tests that will replace the CMT / CAPT in 2014 - 15.

Our hundred wealthiest school districts spend almost $ 10,000 per pupil and they drive up the average, but our hundred poorest school districts are running a deficit of $ 10,000 per pupil.»

Wealthy school districts in Connecticut typically spent $ 1,227 more per student than poorer ones during the 1981 - 82 school year, according to a recent state report.

A judge in Wyoming has ruled that the state's funding formula for major school construction and maintenance projects is unconstitutional because it favors wealthy school districts.

Both agreed that the Legislature should address educators» retirement and health insurance issues and criticized the so - called «Robin Hood» system of distributing revenue from wealthier school districts to poorer ones.

Kozol interviewed a parent from a wealthy school district in Ohio.

Last week Governor Dannel Malloy warned that if lawmakers fail to reach a budget agreement before the end of the month some of the wealthier school districts would see cuts to state aid for education.

Unshockingly, the wealthiest school districts in the state have the best academic performance record.

The Gap Elimination Adjustment (GEA) has created a widening gap between Syracuse and the wealthier school districts in New York, even though was implemented in the 2010 - 11 school year during the recession in order to alleviate the hole in the New York state budget, according to New York State United Teachers, a teachers» union in the state.

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.

In anticipation of a full - on assault by the governor, New York State United Teachers launched a close to $ 1 million TV ad campaign that calls on the governor to «move beyond politics» and focus on the increasing disparity between poor and wealthy school districts.

NEW YORK, NY — Most students in New York's wealthiest school districts can pick from an extensive menu of courses that will prepare them for college.

Palo Alto, Calif — In 1967, John Serrano Sr. was told by his son's school principal that the boy, then 6 years old, was considered nearly gifted, but could receive a decent education only if the family moved out of East Los Angeles to a wealthier school 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.

Feeling the brunt of court - ordered state school - finance reforms designed to reduce the gap between rich and poor schools, wealthy school districts in some states are looking to the creation of local education foundations as a way of restoring programs and keeping local funds out of reach of state policymakers.

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 %.

Under the funding formula, poorer school districts are to receive more money than wealthier school districts.

In fact, in a study of a project - based approach to teaching social studies and content literacy to 2nd graders, my colleagues and I were able to close the gap, statistically speaking, between students in high - poverty school districts — who experienced project - based units — and students in wealthy school districts — who did not.

Students in the wealthiest school districts in New York State enjoy the highest per - pupil funding — sometimes as high as $ 70,000 per pupil.

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.

The new school grades come the same week as the Public School Forum's release of data that show vast differences in per pupil education funding between North Carolina's poor and wealthy school districts.

Every hour spent drilling basic skills is an hour not spent developing the higher - level thinking skills that are emphasized in wealthier school districts.

That's technically called «recapture» or «Robin Hood,» where property - wealthy school districts have to share revenue with the state to supplement education funding in property - poor school districts.

Despite some state effort to equalize funding levels, the wealthiest school districts tend to have much stronger Penny Power than the poorest districts.

The massive reshuffling of black students in Englewood and South Loop wouldn't fly in a wealthier school district.

Wentzell, who spent most of her career in wealthy school districts or selective choice programs, repeatedly asserted on the stand that «leadership is much more important than money.»

Residents that live in wealthy school districts have among the best schools in the nation based on graduation rates, test scores and independent ratings of academic success.

Nearly all of the wealthiest school districts are within a short distance of one of the richest cities in the country.

Other than one suburb of Portland, Ore., all of the wealthiest school districts are commuter towns of New York City, located in either Fairfield County, Conn., or Westchester County, N.Y..

According to the National Center of Education Statistics, all of the wealthiest school districts spend far more per pupil than the national average.

Some school finance experts argue that, while the state's system is indeed complicated, the allotment system aims to direct resources to districts that need cash the most — low - wealth and rural districts that lack the tax base to afford the same K - 12 investment as the state's wealthiest school districts.