Sentences with phrase «wealthier schools where»

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.

Not exact matches

Despite representing a school where more than 60 % of the students are from low - income families, the chess team consistently beats wealthy kids from private schools and magnet schools.

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.

Fixing school food in every community — the relatively wealthy Boulder and Berkeley, as well as the outright destitute parts of the country devastated by the housing debacle and unemployment — requires all of us to work together as one to get the fedreal government to fund school meal programs in a way that provides fresh nutritious food for all students, not just those lucky enough to live where people can afford to take matters into their own hands and make a local fix.

Where Mr. de Blasio has opposed charter schools, Mr. Jeffries has firmly defended them; in April, he addressed a fund - raising gala for the Success Academy organization, a fast - growing charter network heavily backed by wealthy critics of the mayor.

West Genesee doesn't have the extras that wealthier Downstate districts enjoy, such as Long Island's Syosset schools, where kindergartners learn Russian and high schoolers can be trained by Metropolitan Opera coaches.

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.

Bailey brushed aside a reporter's question about the optics of the secretary making her first school visit in New York City to one that caters to a wealthy student body, out of sync with the city's school system where about three - quarters of students qualify for free or reduced - price lunches.

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.

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.

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Times are tough for Andie in school, where she and her friends are tormented by the wealthy students who make... read more

The Extra Man (R for sexuality) Unlikely - buddies comedy about a disgraced, cross-dressing, prep school teacher (Paul Dano) who moves from Princeton to NYC where he shares an apartment with a college professor (Kevin Kline) who spends his evenings as an escort for wealthy widows.

Not only will this help fill the shortfall in places across England, but these schools will also raise standards and provide a new choice for parents in areas where deprivation and low standards have meant no real choice except for the wealthy.

To make sure we go where the need is greatest, we only partner with schools in areas that serve low income communities and where there is a significant attainment gap between these children and their wealthier peers.

He attended a regular district - run public school in Irvington, New York, a wealthy Westchester suburb where the median household income is nearly $ 100,000 and home prices routinely exceed $ 1 million.

In the elite suburbs, where wealthy and politically influential people tend to live, the schools are assumed to be world - class.

Children from wealthier, better - educated families also tend to live in communities where property - tax revenues and school budgets are high.

The Commission says that this gap «can not be explained by their results at school or where they live», because there are significant differences between poorer children and wealthier children living in the same neighbourhood with the same GCSEs results.

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

They even outperformed their peers in the largely wealthy, high - achieving Arlington school district, where 84 percent of third - graders passed.

And at the K - 12 level, a disproportionate fraction of those wealthy people live in major cities where the public school options are unappealing.

For too long, I've seen and heard how wealthy parents in New York City can pick and choose where to send their children to school.

Among the rare schools where such opportunities exist, a study from the journal Educational Policy shows participation to favor students who are wealthy and white.

Nowhere has the battle been more pitched than in Los Angeles Unified, where candidates funded by wealthy pro-charter advocates like billionaire philanthropist Eli Broad and Netflix founder Reed Hastings won a majority of school board seats in the 2017 board election.

School leaders in affluent areas are able to call on support from wealthier parents to provide funding for better facilities, unlike leaders in less advantaged schools, where «parents aren't in a position to help financially».

Since 2007 there has been a national decline in the number of school library / media centers and there are fewer library / media centers operating in high ‐ poverty schools than in wealthier schools, especially low income schools in the inner cities, where the number has dropped by five percentage points.

Schools where students feel safe, engaged and connected to their teachers are also schools that have narrower achievement gaps between low - income children and their wealthierSchools where students feel safe, engaged and connected to their teachers are also schools that have narrower achievement gaps between low - income children and their wealthierschools that have narrower achievement gaps between low - income children and their wealthier peers.

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.

We are here to say it is not acceptable for the wealthiest country in the world to be cutting millions of dollars from schools serving our neediest students; to be cutting teachers by the tens of thousands, to be eliminating art, music, PE, counselors, nurses, librarians, and libraries (where they weren't already gone, as in California); to be increasing class sizes to 40 or 50 in Los Angeles and Detroit.

Senior teachers tend to cluster in wealthy schools, while schools where many children are poor often churn through large numbers of novice, badly paid teachers.

«There's some core principles that all the leaders here believe in — making sure that we continue to provide resources to the poorest school districts and not creating a situation where we can suddenly shift dollars from... poorer districts to wealthy districts, or alternatively, that education aid suddenly can start going to sport stadiums or tax cuts at the state level,» Obama said in remarks to the media after the meeting.

And there are plenty of non-wealthy DC parents who are seeking and finding opportunities for their kids, either in their own neighborhoods, in charter schools or in neighborhoods where the wealthy parents choose to avoid public schools.

The schools are located in food desserts, where there's sacred transportation and other socioeconomic boundaries that wealthier areas do not face.

Bair, having been superintendent in wealthy cities such as Lexington, Massachusetts and Carmel, California, had no experience within cities such as Hartford, where the exodus of white families to the surrounding suburbs contributed to the decrease of white students in Hartford schools and the increase of minority students, in this case black and Puerto Rican students.

Salaries also vary within states where wealthy suburban school districts generally have higher salary schedules than other districts.

He got his start in education through Teach For America in Nashville, where his founding class of Republic Schools scholars outperformed students from the state's wealthiest district in math for three straight years.

Districts where wealthier people live tend to have better schools than lower - income districts.

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 California — one of the wealthiest places in the world — where our public schools rank 46th out of 50 in per - pupil funding, we need greater engagement and investment in our children's education.

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.

Skeptics might assume that these benefits are associated mainly with wealthier schools, where well - resourced libraries serve affluent students.

The article notes a recent Supreme Court case, Board of Education v. Tom F. that let stand a decision permitting a wealthy parent to obtain reimbursement for private school education under federal law, even where the parent did not give the public school an opportunity to address the child's needs and immediately places the child in private school.