Sentences with phrase «while wealthier students»

• Low - income students on average are funded at 67 %, while wealthier students are funded at 81 %.

Worse, it creates a stigma around cafeteria meals if only poor students eat them, while wealthier students grab a few slices of pizza from the student activities sale table.

Not exact matches

While they may bill themselves as «reformers,» the wealthy elite don't want to address the real reason why some students in some of our schools are struggling — and that's poverty.»

So - called high needs schools will be able to raise a maximum of $ 10 more per pupil, while wealthy or low needs schools can raise up to $ 27 per student, under the cap.

While different states weigh and conduct the components differently, they, like New York, tie teacher performance only to student growth, not raw test scores, so as not to disadvantage teachers whose students hail from challenging socioeconomic backgrounds versus teachers in wealthy districts.

But now wealthier households tend to live further inland, while poorer households tend to live near the coast,» says the ETH doctoral student.

In 2014, the number of wealthiest students who achieved three or more As increased to 21.13 per cent, while the number of poorer pupils saw a much smaller jump to 2.99 per cent.

While some have been critical of Success Academy's intense focus on test - prep, the school's students consistently achieve impressive scores on their New York state exams, routinely outranking students from wealthy neighborhoods and prestigious private schools.

While the United States spends abundantly on elementary and secondary schoolchildren ($ 12,401 per student per year in 2013 — 14 dollars), it devotes dramatically less than other wealthy countries to children in their first few years of life.

Chile's voucher program has led to widespread socio - economic stratification and a decline in public school enrollment, all while making little to no impact on student achievement.63 The program's design essentially creates three school systems: public schools attended mostly by the lowest - income students; voucher - subsidized private schools attended by more middle - class students, as they can charge additional fees or tuition; and nonsubsidized private schools attended by the wealthiest students.

«Illinois has the most inequitable education funding system in the nation, where poorer districts spend as little as $ 6,000 per student while wealthier districts spend up to $ 30,000 per student,» Ostro said in a statement.

Reliance upon supplemental funding through bonds and overrides disadvantages schools; while wealthy districts may be able to generate additional resources, they don't always have community support and underprivileged communities — serving Latino students in particular — often don't take the risk due to the little reward.

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.

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.

Public school students in wealthier towns like Windham and Bedford perform highly on standardized tests while their low - income peers in Claremont and Stratford lag behind.

However, while proud of their accomplishments, he acknowledges that the state is far from reaching its ideal: closing the achievement gap between white and non-white and wealthy and low - income students.

While about 40 percent of Wiseburn students come from families with incomes low enough to qualify them for free and reduced - price lunch, in one important way, Wiseburn is a wealthy district.

As Gov. Jerry Brown and legislative leaders huddle over rival plans to restructure school funding, lawmakers in Colorado have devised a novel approach to directing more state money to disadvantaged students while calling on wealthier communities to raise their taxes if more is needed.

In New York, it is particularly acute as students at traditional schools are in dire need while charters enjoy the spoils of both public funding and wealthy private benefactors.

This allows those wealthier communities to tax much lower than the poorer districts while generating much more revenue for their students.

While minorities and subgroups showed improvements, so did white students and those not from wealthier backgrounds, so the gaps remained at close to the same levels.

While we believe a focus on Pell completion is laudable and absolutely called for, the proposal fails to account for the percentage of Pell - eligible students enrolled within institutions; and, as a result, any new funding will likely benefit wealthy, selective campuses where low - income students are the least likely to enroll.

Charters tend to have high levels of donations and grants, while schools with more wealthy students have the ability to run fundraisers that provide extra money for the school.

Currently, the highest performing, most qualified teachers in New York City are disproportionately teaching in the city's wealthiest neighborhoods and schools, while schools serving low - income and students of color are disproportionately assigned the least qualified, lowest performing teachers.

Granted, this data may be affected by a number of different factors — merit - based scholarships do not typically take family income into account, for instance — but the research is upsetting enough to leave some educators and families wondering whether universities are targeting and enticing wealthy students with scholarship aid, while not offering as much funding to students in need.