Sentences with phrase «wealthier schools»

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

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.

This creates the illusion of spending more on poor schools and less on wealthy schools than is actually being spent.

Less wealthy schools would have just as much of a chance to win as they do now.

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

Furthermore, since wealthy schools would not need state funding, they would oppose increasing funding for the overall school funding plan.

«Testing can not close the gap between wealthy schools and poor schools,» a teacher's aide says in the ad.

That means wealthier schools with fewer needy students are more likely to be able to operate outside of the program.

«This is not surprising, because 40 % of high school maths teachers are not fully qualified to teach mathematics (which means that, with the buying power of wealthy schools, the problem is far worse in socio - economically deprived areas, where in many schools there is not a single qualified maths teacher on the staff).

If students and parents are to have real choices, shuffling urban students between struggling schools in their city is not a satisfactory answer — they must be able to «choose» the predominately white and wealthy schools serving suburban property owners as well.

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 issue that divided them so deeply was whether or not school districts need to make sure that schools serving children from low - income families get at least as much state and local funding as wealthier schools.

He says wealthier schools in his districts were able to rapidly create their own new curriculum to meet the new standards, and even in some cases, hold classes for parents to teach them how to help their children with their new homework.

The comment I made that you quoted — I was thinking about the poor schools that have struggled to get technology, compared to wealthier schools where students have easy access to it.

Wealthy schools also capture the bulk of charitable gifts flowing to higher education.

Because less wealthy schools rely more heavily on state aid, Cuomo's cuts would affect them more.

By school too as atm wealthy schools in big cities send to get more per pupil than schools like the one where my husband works which is very deprived, but in a rural county.

But in the English exams even students in the state's wealthiest schools saw scores slip a bit, from an average of 52 percent in 2013 passing to 49 percent this year.

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.

Low - income schools often have great difficulty retaining effective teachers, who tend to transfer to whiter, wealthier schools when positions become available.

Often these high poverty districts neighbor wealthier school systems where children have access to greater resources.

During the hearing on Tuesday, MPs also expressed concern about the potential «unfairness» of the current exam appeals system, which they said put wealthier schools and parents who could afford to request a re-mark at an unfair advantage.

Of the pre-Katrina wealthier schools, all but Lusher appear to have gotten poorer.

In effect, this allows wealthier schools to use federal money intended to help the poorer schools across town.

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.

Instead, the resources that are consistently linked to predominately white and / or wealthy schools help foster real and serious educational advantages over minority segregated settings.

We eliminated, for instance, Title 1 status because these days, sad to say, the percentage of poor kids a school needs to qualify (I think it's less than 40 percent) means some pretty wealthy schools like Wayzata's and Edina's get Title 1 funding.

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

The California Department of Education gives out educational awards, but mostly wealthy schools qualify.

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.

Federal law says that school districts must spend the money in a way that provides extra help to poor children — that it not be used to provide basic educational services — and requires that Title I schools have comparable services to those in wealthier schools in the same district.

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.

Some critics have suggested that the new transcripts may be a way for wealthier schools, especially private schools like those in the MTC, to give their students an even greater advantage when competing for limited positions at the best universities.

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.

The improved economy and rising stock market have helped repair the damage to university endowments, but the biggest investment gains and largest gifts have flowed to the wealthiest schools, according to a recent analysis by Moody's Investors Service.

Like many wealthy individuals, the wealthiest school have a wide range of income sources, said Moody's.

Like wealthy individuals, the wealthiest school have a wide range of income sources, said a recent report by Moody's, including investment income, gifts, research grants and, for public universities, state support.

While an improved economy and rising stock market have helped private institutions repair much of the Great Recession's damage to their endowments, the biggest investment gains and largest gifts are flowing to the wealthiest schools, according to a recent analysis by Moody's.

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

Are the wealthiest schools getting more of an allocation?

But some of New York's wealthiest schools were still given state grants to resurface running tracks and buy Smart boards, bleachers and a scoreboard, records show.

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.

Wealthier schools in the state spend 80 percent more on student education than poorer districts.