Sentences with phrase «while high poverty schools»

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And while he and Rumore agreed that the city's high poverty rate creates particular challenges for schools and that increased funding is necessary for a turnaround, Quinn said the district needs to «get its act together» before asking for any more money.

His new film perceptively follows the journeys of three Indianapolis adults trying to obtain their high school diploma while at different stages in life, even as they juggle the challenges of poverty, crime and low expectations.

While we find only small effects for children from nonpoor families, for low - income children, a 10 percent increase in per - pupil spending each year for all 12 years of public school is associated with roughly 0.5 additional years of completed education, 9.6 percent higher wages, and a 6.1 - percentage - point reduction in the annual incidence of adult poverty.

While 12.4 percent of students in low - poverty schools with gifted programs take part in those programs, that's true of less than half as many (6.1 percent) in high - poverty schools.

Community eligibility allows high - poverty schools to offer school meals at no charge to all students while streamlining school meal program operations, including eliminating school meal applications, which many states and localities have used as the basis for distributing resources to schools and students.

Delaware also plans to provide districts with resources on comprehensive, high - quality induction and mentoring programs, while Connecticut will increase investment in its current program, providing more mentor - mentee time and improved mentor - mentee matches in high - poverty, high - minority schools.

Some districts concentrate Title I funds in their highest poverty schools, while others distribute Title I funds more broadly.

And while the new state school funding formula will send additional money to high - poverty districts, it is unclear if it will be enough to offset the new pension costs.

While many whole - school reform models geared to urban and high - poverty contexts provide excellent professional development for teachers, few provide anything that directly address the needs and experiences for principals in high poverty settings.

The «Gifted Gap» report found that while most high - poverty schools offer programs for gifted students, they tend to be sparsely populated.

In both districts, schools serving the most affluent students received tens of thousands of dollars in additional funding each year from parents, while the highest - poverty schools received very little, if anything, from their PTAs.

In 2013 - 14, for example, the 10 most affluent schools in Portland raised at least $ 750,000, while the 10 highest - poverty schools received very little money in parent donations.

However, high - poverty, high - performing schools are prototypes of what systems and practices can transform behaviors while simultaneously increasing academic and intellectual rigor.

And while Florida's current A-F school grading system tries to adjust for the fact that schools in high poverty areas face challenges that make it very hard for their students to perform well on standardized tests, it's not enough, says Alan Ehrenhalt for Governing Magazine.

While nearly all (96.6 %) library / media centers have computers, the number of computers per schools drops substantially as school poverty increases to the highest level — from 22 to 14 computers.

This channel examines how two elementary schools are successfully meeting the needs of students living in poverty while encouraging them to become high achievers.

If the A-F grading system remains as is, by and large high poverty - serving schools with fewer resources would continue to receive failing grades while schools that serve higher income populations would receive better marks.

While many private schools offer high - quality pre-kindergarten programs and full - day kindergartens, providing enriching educational opportunities for children under age 6, many children who attend public schools, particularly children living in poverty, do not have access to these programs.

Put simply, this means that the best teachers close achievement gaps, while the worst teachers widen them.38 And these results are not just a matter of which teachers receive the less challenging teaching assignments: A major, multiyear study from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation showed that high - performing teachers remained so across schools, regardless of whether those schools were high - or low - poverty.39

Principals who attended more selective undergraduate institutions were less likely to work in high - poverty schools and were less likely to stay in their schools and districts, while those with parent and community outreach experience were more likely to remain in their schools

He contends the move to enlist charters is not evidence - based, would not be financially attractive to charter operators, would cause chaos in the lives of our most vulnerable students while further damaging neighborhoods, would usurp local elected school board control, and would not solve the challenging problems presented by low - performing, high - poverty schools.

While the federal government has offered student loan forgiveness and stipends to incentivize teachers to teach in these areas, researchers have found that nationwide, inexperienced teachers are still more common in rural, high - poverty schools.

The portability amendment would have slowed states to allocate Title I funds to districts based on the number of poor students who attend, but the White House criticized the idea saying that 25 percent of school districts with high concentrations of poverty, above 25 percent, would lose as much as $ 700 million in federal funds while low - poverty districts would gain as much as $ 470 million.

While serving as middle school principal, his school received visitors from all over the state to learn how one of the lowest funded districts in Ohio was also one of the highest performing, despite poverty and limited resources.

CEP allows high - poverty schools (those in which 40 percent or more of students qualify for free meals) to offer meals to all students at no charge while reducing their administrative burden.

At the same time, 25 percent of high - poverty schools scored «Below» state value - added targets while low - poverty schools were half as likely to score «Below.»

While the number of schools that showed improvements as drastic as Broad Ripple's were few and far between, Bennett noted that most of the schools that increased their ratings by three or four letter grades were «high poverty» schools.

While Cane has a point, some would counter that charters enjoy certain advantages that high - poverty DCPS schools don't: for example, a self - selected group of students that is more likely to be motivated, and the option of denying admission to students who arrive midyear.

While students in higher - income towns such as Greenwich and Darien have easy access to guidance counselors, school psychologists, personal laptops, and up - to - date textbooks, those in high - poverty areas like Bridgeport and...

If the A-F grading system remains as is, by and large high poverty - serving schools with fewer resources would continue to receive failing grades while schools that serve higher income populations would receive better marks — a trend we just saw continue for the second year in a row.

While these changes may not appear to be significant when looking at the actual numbers, we see that 81,000 Nebraska kids were living in poverty in 2013, 100,000 children were living in families where their parents lacked secure employment, 119,000 were living in a home with a high cost burden, and 4,000 Nebraska teens were not in school and not working.

We must do more to improve reading proficiency among all kids while focusing attention on children in lower - income families who face additional hurdles of attending schools that have high concentrations of kids living in poverty.»