Sentences with phrase «wealthy school districts»

Something about «creative use of resources» sounded the alarm bells with me, particularly because I've been hearing concerns from media and technology specialist friends in wealthy school districts about having adequate resources to implement SBAC, the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium adaptive tests that will replace the CMT / CAPT in 2014 - 15.

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

Residents that live in wealthy school districts have among the best schools in the nation based on graduation rates, test scores and independent ratings of academic success.

Wentzell, who spent most of her career in wealthy school districts or selective choice programs, repeatedly asserted on the stand that «leadership is much more important than money.»

In wealthy school districts around the country, parents and teachers talk often about keeping computer use to a minimum.

Many parents, teachers, and students in wealthy school districts think nothing of throwing the terms «failing school,» «low - performing», etc. at anyone from Windham, Hartford, Bridgeport, New Haven — any child from these districts is deemed to be inferior and second - class... it is very hard for the targeted students to overcome these prejudices and for students in wealthy districts to let go of their pre-conceptions.

The new school grades come the same week as the Public School Forum's release of data that show vast differences in per pupil education funding between North Carolina's poor and wealthy school districts.

As shown below, despite taxing 11 cents less than their counterparts, the top 5 percent of property - wealthy school districts in the state access over $ 1,100 more per WADA than the bottom 5 percent.

In fact, in a study of a project - based approach to teaching social studies and content literacy to 2nd graders, my colleagues and I were able to close the gap, statistically speaking, between students in high - poverty school districts — who experienced project - based units — and students in wealthy school districts — who did not.

The 5 - to - 2 decision last month marked a victory for wealthy school districts that were alarmed by a 1991 decision by a district court that disparities between wealthy and poor districts should be erased.

Gov. Edward T. Schafer of North Dakota last week signed into law a school - finance measure that shifts some state funding from property - wealthy school districts to those less able to raise money through property taxes.

Wealthy school districts in Connecticut typically spent $ 1,227 more per student than poorer ones during the 1981 - 82 school year, according to a recent state report.

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.

Kozol interviewed a parent from a wealthy school district in Ohio.

Unshockingly, the wealthiest school districts in the state have the best academic performance record.

The Gap Elimination Adjustment (GEA) has created a widening gap between Syracuse and the wealthier school districts in New York, even though was implemented in the 2010 - 11 school year during the recession in order to alleviate the hole in the New York state budget, according to New York State United Teachers, a teachers» union in the state.

The script also explores the disparity between the McFarland runners and their competitors from much wealthier school districts.

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.

A Black student in a district with below - average property wealth (less than $ 6,363 per pupil) has an adequacy level of 61 %, but his peer in a wealthier school district is only a bit better at 69 %.

Students in the wealthiest school districts in New York State enjoy the highest per - pupil funding — sometimes as high as $ 70,000 per pupil.

The fact is that wealthier school districts spend more than $ 10,000 per year on each child being educated, while poorer districts spend about $ 5,000 per student.

Every hour spent drilling basic skills is an hour not spent developing the higher - level thinking skills that are emphasized in wealthier school districts.

Both agreed that the Legislature should address educators» retirement and health insurance issues and criticized the so - called «Robin Hood» system of distributing revenue from wealthier school districts to poorer ones.

Despite some state effort to equalize funding levels, the wealthiest school districts tend to have much stronger Penny Power than the poorest districts.

The massive reshuffling of black students in Englewood and South Loop wouldn't fly in a wealthier school district.

A recent story in the Weston - Redding - Easton patch explained that Weston, Connecticut «is the second wealthiest school district in the United States.»

Nearly all of the wealthiest school districts are within a short distance of one of the richest cities in the country.

Other than one suburb of Portland, Ore., all of the wealthiest school districts are commuter towns of New York City, located in either Fairfield County, Conn., or Westchester County, N.Y..

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.

Not exact matches

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.

Also, I too am a teacher and believe very strongly that this issue is one that is directly linked to socioeconomic status; my school district is a particularly wealthy one, and the school - provided lunches look absolutely NOTHING like Mrs Q's lunches.

It's about forcing the city to comply with the Campaign for Fiscal Equity which sued over inequitable distribution of funding among wealthier and poorer school districts back in 1993.

A study by the New York State Association of School Business Officials found that spending in wealthier districts for special needs students was almost double the spending in more impoverished districts.

«With the conceded disparate funding, compounded by the fact that taxpayers within the poorer school districts end up subsidizing, at least in part, the tax credits granted to taxpayers within the wealthier districts, I find that plaintiffs have stated a viable equal protection claim,» Lynch wrote.

She spoke at a press conference Monday organized by the Alliance for Quality Education, an activist group that pushes for more state funding for schools and has said that the current funding distribution favors wealthy, white districts over poor areas with people of color.

Wealthier schools in the state spend 80 percent more on student education than poorer districts.

The schools in the Syracuse City School District have about $ 11,000 less funding for each student than wealthier schools in the state, according to a WSKG news article.

The union is seeking to level the playing field for districts they believe will never be able to keep up with wealthier schools.

«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.

With Republicans in charge of Albany things like the MTA payroll tax were kept at bay and resources like state school aide disproportionately stayed in wealthy districts, including many on Long Island.

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.

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.

He says if Syosset and other wealthy districts didn't spend so much on their schools — if they cut some of their impressive programs and high salaries — they would not have to collect so much in taxes.

Last month, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy proposed sweeping changes in the state's school financing formula that would dramatically shift education funding from wealthier districts to poorer ones.

Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, a Republican from Long Island, said the additional school aid would flow through both the foundation aid formula — which favors urban districts — and to alleviate the gap elimination adjustment, which would benefit wealthier, suburban districts.

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.

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.

He says a larger solution may mean wealthier districts have to give up some of their aid to poorer schools.

The Citizens Budget Commission said in its analysis of the governor's proposal that Cuomo «fails» to improve school aid formulas and favors wealthier districts.

It should be a budget imperative for a state as wealthy as ours, even if it means irritating high - resource school districts which won't do as well, and the Republicans who love them.