Sentences with phrase «wealthier schools when»

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

Not exact matches

And more recently, Catholic schools and Lutheran schools have demonstrated a staunch commitment to urban education — at a time when many wealthier families fled from our nation's cities.

This seems to indicate that being born wealthy represents a kind of inertia to stay wealthy — you can afford better schools, tuition, universities, housing, and have a large network of other wealthy business connections when you come from a rich family.

He has accepted significant contributions from Ravenel Boykin Curry, a wealthy supporter of education reform and trustee of Girls Prep charter school, which made the news in 2010 when Joel Klein used emergency powers to displace the public school program for autistic children with which Girls Prep was co-located.

«When Poor and Working Class New Yorkers are struggling to attend SUNY schools because of rising tuition, I find it insulting that Governor Cuomo would propose a plan that gives tax breaks to wealthy corporations simply for their proximity to a SUNY campus.

NYSUT, meanwhile, backed a study to determine whether any changes to the funding formula is necessary, which would also take into consideration the impact on a small school district when a resident receives a windfall through inheritance or winning the lottery — a factor that throw aid formulations out of whack in areas with few wealthy people.

Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza ignited the first controversy of his tenure early Friday when he tweeted out a story with the headline «Wealthy white Manhattan parents angrily rant against plan to bring more black kids to their schools.Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza ignited the first controversy of his tenure early Friday when he tweeted out a story with the headline «Wealthy white Manhattan parents angrily rant against plan to bring more black kids to their schools.schools.»

Deutsch, with New Yorkers for Fiscal Fairness, points out that Senate GOP Leaders in the past also said they were against taxing the wealthy, but ultimately agreed to the taxes when faced with steep school aid and other cuts.

He received thunderous applause when he touted his plan to raise income taxes on the wealthy to finance more pre-kindergarten and after - school programs, which would provide more jobs to the union's members.

The voucher program began in 2009, when a group of conservative candidates won control of the district school board and began a sweeping effort to privatize the education system in Douglas County — one of the wealthiest in the country.

You can't look me in the eye and tell me it's okay for «Wealthy William the 8 year old» to get a shiny new iPad and a computer lab with brand new iMacs when «Poor Patrick the 8 year old» attends a school with computers 10 - 15 + years old and no where near enough technology resources for every child in the school to regularly utilize.

When 15 year - old private school student and chronic extracurricular under - overachiever Max Fischer (Jason Schwartzman) becomes disillusioned with his academic career, he meets a detached wealthy industrialist (Bill Murray), and both men learn about love in an awkward romantic triangle with Max's teacher (Olivia Williams).

Still, the professor is lured away from his school responsibilities when the employees of a wealthy businessman, Walter Donovan (Julian Glover), unearth a portion of a stone carving at a building site.

Less than two years ago, when the retired publisher Walter H. Annenberg announced his plans to give $ 500 million to America's public schools, one of his hopes was that other foundations, corporations, and wealthy individuals would join his philanthropic crusade for education.

Because we know that when low - income children of color have access to high expectations, effective teachers, and quality schools, they can perform equally as well as their wealthy, white peers.

When the researchers controlled for demographic variables (for example, wealthy suburbs offer more physics courses) and others, including overall academic achievement, high school physics contributed little more than one point.

When school officials in two districts serving wealthy families — Edina outside Minneapolis and Wilmette outside Chicago — took a hard look at their gender numbers, they found wide and growing gaps.

Although they have been studying the education - finance situation since last October, when a state judge indicated that substantial changes were needed to balance the scales between wealthy and poor school districts, nothing prepared politicians in the state capital for last week's events.

When admission to school was based on a one - off test, he said, «wealthy parents will find a way through it».

Indeed, a close look at MCAS results shows there is surprisingly little difference between the quality of teaching in so - called «good» schools (wealthy, suburban schools with high MCAS scores) and «bad» schools (inner - city schools with low scores) when the results are averaged across all teachers in the district and disaggregated by student demographics, specifically race and poverty.

When that over - $ 1,100 advantage is applied to a school or district of one - thousand students, the wealthiest top 5 percent resource advantage grows to over $ 1.1 million.

Unfortunately, when we looked at the data from California's 20 largest districts, it wasn't clear that poor schools were getting more funding than wealthier schools.

When Liz went to work at The Edward Brooke Charter School, I studied the school and other charter schools in Boston and found high - achieving schools outperforming wealthy suburban towns with kids graduating at high rates and headed on a path of educational suSchool, I studied the school and other charter schools in Boston and found high - achieving schools outperforming wealthy suburban towns with kids graduating at high rates and headed on a path of educational suschool and other charter schools in Boston and found high - achieving schools outperforming wealthy suburban towns with kids graduating at high rates and headed on a path of educational success.

«Several high - quality charter schools across the country are making an amazing difference in our children's lives, especially when charters in inner - city communities are performing as well, if not better, than their counterparts in much wealthier suburbs,» Duncan said.

The Education Law Center argues that it's an important factor because when wealthy families opt out of public education, schools are left with higher concentrations of poor children, and there is less political will to boost funds for public schools.

'» She said the school lost 10 students earlier this year when the wealthier competitor opened up more slots.

States using neovouchers - or backdoor vouchers - to encourage donations to private school scholarship funds or to offset the costs of private school tuitions illegally allow wealthy taxpayers to turn a profit when making charitable contributions to private schools,...

When high school students from a small, wealthy Massachusetts school district known for its excellent schools were found to have messaged each other on Facebook earlier this month using racial and homophobic slurs, school officials and law enforcement immediately stepped in.

And within local areas, when individual sought - after schools used distance as a tie - breaker, it meant that wealthier families could afford to buy houses to get nearer to the front of the queue.

At a time when many wealthy donors attempt to fix U.S. education by funding charter schools, advocacy and political candidates, Mr. Weiss, who is 74 years old, seeks change in the regular public system.

When a Ballou teacher says his students have «mastered the material,» he may be right — but that material may be quite different from what students master at schools that serve a wealthier student body or are highly selective.

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

This lack of trust is reinforced when public officials cozy up to wealthy hedge fund operators, venture philanthropists, and school privatizers, take their marching orders from astroturf advocacy groups, or «rent» supporters, as recently happened during school closing hearings in Chicago.

Unfortunately, carryover effects of prior funding decisions still require the use of hold harmless clauses to ensure that many school districts (including a mixture of wealthy and average wealth districts) continue to receive a least as much state and local revenue as was provided in prior sessions, even when those amounts were inequitable.

Wealthy and upper middle - class parents have the financial means to send their child to a school of their choice or move to a different district when their assigned public school fails to meet their child's needs.

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

The profession isn't known for making teachers wealthy, but individuals can expect reasonable incomes, especially when obtaining graduate degrees and teaching students at secondary school and beyond.

When it comes to education, Californians see the wealthy awash in school choice, the poor with few options and, surprisingly, the middle class with some — but not a lot — of choices in selecting a school, a poll released Thursday shows.

When Cross worked at a wealthier, nearby school district, she had an art budget of roughly $ 7,000 a year.

«When I travel around the country talking about these issues, I inevitably come up against, you know, wealthy folks in the suburbs who say, «Well, but my kids are fine,»» Michelle Rhee, a former Washington, D.C., schools chancellor, said during a recent gathering at The Daily.

For example, in 2015 Rutland had the 15th largest gap (out of 150 areas) between poorer and wealthier children when they arrive at school, with just 52 % of poorer children school ready.

largest gap (out of 150 areas) between poorer and wealthier children when they arrive at school, with just 52 % of poorer children school ready.

While folks with condescending «pull yourself up by the bootstraps» attitudes love the idea of a neighborhood public school system, they most often use this system when they can afford to move their families to the suburbs and wealthier, gentrified city enclaves.

Since 2008, our students have achieved at the highest levels among public middle school students in Massachusetts, including when compared to students from wealthier communities.

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.

I really am interested in how a former undersecretary of education has come to the point that he is so determined to attack teacher tenure, teacher unions and «restrictive work rules» for teachers — especially during a time when public schools have been systematically defunded, forced to jump through hoops (Race to the Top) in order to get what remains of federal funding for education, like some kind of bizarre Hunger Games ritual for kids and teachers, and as curriculums have been narrowed to the point where only middle class and wealthier communities have schools that offer subjects like music, art, and physical education — much less recess time, school nurses or psychologists, or guidance counselors.

When he was 14, after he failed his year at school, Edward's parents had sent him from their home in Nashville to spend a summer with his wealthy aunt and uncle in New Orleans.

So more than a decade later, when she met boisterous, charismatic Charlie Blackwell, she hardly gave him a second look: She was serious and thoughtful, and he would rather crack a joke than offer a real insight; he was the wealthy son of a bastion family of the Republican party, and she was a school librarian and registered Democrat.

When I graduated high school, not only did I have to hold down a job, I had to go to college and pay my very wealthy grandparents rent.

To the US Academy, graduates» blood is on your hands — yours and all your minions», in their infinitely variable guises (the loan officers and administrators, high school advisors who push - push - push college, university faculty and administrators who ply with spoken promises of a far better tomorrow post-graduation, and the online «experts» who keep parroting the hackneyed, specious line that college grads earn more (that, I'm confident, is an illusion of the social backgrounds of those who're employed, as the immensely wealthy father of a good friend of mine pointed out when he recently commented when I shared with him about the job insecurity - college degree paradox that he'd simply «manage my children's trust funds and get them placed at friends» companies.»