Sentences with phrase «wealthy districts generally»

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Amid a fiscal crisis, taxes rose, and school aid was cut through a program called the Gap Elimination Adjustment that focused most on wealthier, suburban districts generally represented by Republicans.

Or are the kids in poor districts generally worse off than their peers in wealthier districts?

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

Courts have generally determined that location in a relatively wealthy or poor area should not dictate school funding, and remedies have included reducing dependence on local revenues for school funding, introducing formula structures to equalize revenues for lower - wealth districts through compensatory funding, and creating systems to redistribute disparate local revenues to equalize funding access.

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.