Sentences with phrase «wealthy districts still»

Sure, wealthy districts still produce the best test results, on balance.

About half of low - income students in the state live in more suburban districts and even in the wealthiest districts still fail at two to three times the rate of non-disadvantaged students.

Not exact matches

«That means that we can now focus our efforts in the coming years on getting New York City schools the Campaign for Fiscal Equity money they are still owed and building equity into the state aid formula so that poor school districts get more state aid than wealthier ones,» Mulgrew said.

But Rick Timbs, executive director of the East Syracuse - based Statewide School Finance Consortium, argues that the adjustments are minor, and the basic inequities that have plagued less wealthy Upstate districts for years are still in force.

Here the setting is moved to India, where the not - so - wealthy (but still rich enough to hire servants) Bakshi family resides in a less - than - touristy district.

The report highlights the fact that while state policy decisions over the past 25 years have sought to help poorer districts meet the needs of its students, differences in funding levels still persist and those born into wealthier areas are afforded higher levels of investment in their education.

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.