Sentences with phrase «wealthy schools»

If students and parents are to have real choices, shuffling urban students between struggling schools in their city is not a satisfactory answer — they must be able to «choose» the predominately white and wealthy schools serving suburban property owners as well.

The California Department of Education gives out educational awards, but mostly wealthy schools qualify.

The wealthy schools that perform well have small class sizes, and use curricula (at least for math) that was developed at U if C Lab and Phillips Andover.

While the state of Connecticut is one of the 49 states who spend more money on their wealthy schools than their poor schools is not held accountable.

According to the Education Week Quality Counts 2015 report 49 states spend more money on their wealthy schools than their poor schools.

If, as «reformers» suggest, the public school system or the presence of organized labor was really the key factor in harming American education, then those wealthy schools would be in serious crisis — and wouldn't be at the top of the international charts.

We eliminated, for instance, Title 1 status because these days, sad to say, the percentage of poor kids a school needs to qualify (I think it's less than 40 percent) means some pretty wealthy schools like Wayzata's and Edina's get Title 1 funding.

Senior teachers tend to cluster in wealthy schools, while schools where many children are poor often churn through large numbers of novice, badly paid teachers.

Furthermore, since wealthy schools would not need state funding, they would oppose increasing funding for the overall school funding plan.

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This creates the illusion of spending more on poor schools and less on wealthy schools than is actually being spent.

By 2008, the highest - poverty schools were actually hiring fewer teachers on temporary licenses than wealthy schools.»

In calling for a $ 2 billion «Smart Schools» bond referendum to put better technology in schools, Cuomo said the improvements could help bridge the gap between poor and wealthy schools.

By school too as atm wealthy schools in big cities send to get more per pupil than schools like the one where my husband works which is very deprived, but in a rural county.

Because less wealthy schools rely more heavily on state aid, Cuomo's cuts would affect them more.

Wealthy schools also capture the bulk of charitable gifts flowing to higher education.

The improved economy and rising stock market have helped repair the damage to university endowments, but the biggest investment gains and largest gifts have flowed to the wealthiest schools, according to a recent analysis by Moody's Investors Service.

Like many wealthy individuals, the wealthiest school have a wide range of income sources, said Moody's.

While an improved economy and rising stock market have helped private institutions repair much of the Great Recession's damage to their endowments, the biggest investment gains and largest gifts are flowing to the wealthiest schools, according to a recent analysis by Moody's.

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

Are the wealthiest schools getting more of an allocation?

But some of New York's wealthiest schools were still given state grants to resurface running tracks and buy Smart boards, bleachers and a scoreboard, records show.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

States are also supposed to ensure that «highly qualified» teachers are evenly distributed among schools with high concentrations of poverty and wealthier schools.

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.

Low - income schools often have great difficulty retaining effective teachers, who tend to transfer to whiter, wealthier schools when positions become available.

In wealthier schools the results are reversed: parents most value a teacher's ability to keep students happy.

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.

Johnson says minorities who are unhappy in their schools are more likely to leave the profession than white teachers, who are more inclined to transfer to wealthier schools.

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.

The Australian Council for Educational Research's Dr Sue Thomson, who analysed both reports, told Education Review bullying was a problem for 35 per cent of students in poorer schools but only reportedly impacted 5 per cent of those in wealthier schools.

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.

For instance, the administration's equity plans and the campaign against private fundraising for wealthier schools could move great teachers and programming from non-poor to poor schools.

Often these high poverty districts neighbor wealthier school systems where children have access to greater resources.

Of the pre-Katrina wealthier schools, all but Lusher appear to have gotten poorer.

I do admit that, in general, the teachers in the wealthier areas of San Diego were more experienced than teachers in the poorer areas, but it's precisely because the students were well - behaved and motivated that the wealthier schools were able to attract these teachers.

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 %.

The Obama administration on Friday said legislation passed this week by Republicans on the House education panel would rob vital federal dollars from the nation's poorest schools and redirect them to wealthier schools.

More experienced, better - educated teachers flock to the wealthier schools in their districts and take a disproportionate share of the district's state and local monies with them.

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.

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

There will be some who will claim it is because MSD was a wealthier school with engaged parents.

Districts created all sorts of policies and practices that favored the wealthier schools.