Sentences with phrase «wealthiest schools saw»

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.

Not exact matches

Time to wake up and pay attention before a handful of uber wealthy take over the schools completely (see what's happening in Michigan).

On one side are powerful and wealthy figures who see our public schools as a potential source of profit.

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.

Labor had debased the original Gonski plan, so that «the wealthiest private schools continued to see huge cash pouring in and our neediest public schools weren't getting the funding that they needed».

Walmart's Walton family and many wealthy donors use a front - group called American Federation for Children to funnel money into the Hoosiers for Economic Growth PAC (see its new name below), which, in turn, funds the politicians who support school privatization.

In Washington, D.C., for instance, private schools proliferate in the white, wealthier areas of the city and majority - black charter schools are situated in the black, poorer neighborhoods (see figures 1 and 2).

Whenever I see a great school, whether in the wealthiest community or the poorest, it always includes a principal with a strong, clear vision and a plan for how to execute that vision.

But what makes Madison unique is it is a relatively wealthy area making private school an option for many more families than we see in other parts of the state.

Ms. Moskowitz and a number of her teachers saw the network's exacting approach in a different way: as putting their students on the same college track as children in wealthier neighborhoods who had better schools and money for extra help.

Racial gap, special education gap, the Common Core, high stakes testing — I've seen children get the short end of the stick daily in many school districts wealthy or not, though it is far worse for urban students.

Wealthy parents in Reseda can look into their children's educational career and see two options: Send their kids out of their own neighborhood to schools that have pretty low scores OR they can choose to send their kids to one of the several affordable private schools in the area.

The more you are in the red side, the more you can actually see if you are in a wealthy school, you get a lot of support.

Importantly, the gains were seen in all schools, from those serving mostly wealthy students to those with many needy students.

The ability to opt out of a neighborhood school increases the likelihood that a black or Hispanic neighborhood will see an influx of wealthier residents.

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.

In turn, this led to: more demand for urban architecture; more demand for applied art and design - see, for instance the Bauhaus School - and the emergence of a new class of wealthy entrepreneurs who became art collectors and patrons.

It was not long before some in the media saw in Kushner, a student at New York University School of Law and son of a wealthy New Jersey real estate developer currently in federal prison, echoes of Charles Foster Kane, the young newspaper publisher portrayed by Orson Welles in the 1941 film Citizen Kane.