Sentences with phrase «wealthy districts receive»

All but the wealthiest districts receive their funding entirely from the state rather than from local taxes, a consequence of the 1978 Proposition 13 tax initiative that left local authorities with little ability to raise revenues.

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The FBI, the U.S. Attorney's office and the Manhattan District Attorney were looking into whether NYPD brass received gifts and expensive trips in exchange for favors from wealthy businessmen with ties to the mayor.

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.

Palo Alto, Calif — In 1967, John Serrano Sr. was told by his son's school principal that the boy, then 6 years old, was considered nearly gifted, but could receive a decent education only if the family moved out of East Los Angeles to a wealthier school district.

The Sequoia Union High School District in Redwood City, California (one of the wealthiest in the state), filed suit in May 2002 in San Mateo County Superior Court to stop Aurora Charter High School from receiving its fair share — either in the form of rent money or buildings — of the $ 88 million bond measure that Sequoia passed in 2001.

Utah is one of only 10 states that have negative wealth - neutrality scores, meaning that, on average, students in property - poor districts actually receive more funding per pupil than students living in wealthy areas.

Across the board, student groups in poorer districts are less resourced than peers in wealthier districts and will receive more new funding as a result.

Until three years ago, Beloit, a relatively wealthy district in north central6Kansas, didn't receive one penny from the state through the equalization formula.

After running the numbers, we found that the poorest districts in California actually receive $ 620 less per pupil than the wealthiest districts.

The schools are primarily located in wealthier, whiter neighborhoods, and while they have many of the freedoms granted charters in how the schools are run, they adhere to all district collective bargaining agreements and also receive their budgets directly from the district.

Public schools would receive a $ 200 increase per pupil in each of the two years, but that would be outside the school funding formula, only compounding the inequities between wealthy and poor districts.

When Rodriguez v. San Antonio ISD was filed, students in poorer districts received only two - thirds of the state funding that was received by students living in wealthier districts.

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.

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

In 23 states, students in the poorest districts receive fewer dollars per pupil than students in wealthier districts.

For instance, a national comparison of per - student funding levels from state and local sources among districts serving low - versus - high percentages of poor students found that in 20 states, districts serving wealthier students received more funding on average than those serving poorer students.

In approximately 1,500 school districts across the country, there are about 5,700 Title I — or poor — schools that receive, on average, $ 440,000 less per year than wealthier schools.