Sentences with phrase «with affluent parents»

Many school districts with affluent parents and a history of good test scores pay lip service to the Common Core and continue with their own curricula.

Not exact matches

Doug Lockwood, a financial planner at Hefty Wealth Partners in Auburn, Ind., says he is having many more conversations with clients lately about young people saving money — although mostly these involve affluent parents expressing their fears over how their grown children will get by in more trying times.

Another part of the answer has to do with early cognitive stimulation: Affluent parents typically provide more books and educational toys to their kids in early childhood; low - income parents are less likely to live in neighborhoods with good libraries and museums and other enrichment opportunities, and they're less likely to use a wide and varied vocabulary when speaking to their infants and children.

Next we heard from Mark Terry, who gave a compelling comparison of his old school district — a low SES urban district with a high ELL population, an 85 % free / reduced qualifying rate, and a high need for meal and nutrition education services — and his current district, which is more affluent with a much lower free / reduced qualification rate and a community of parents who have high expectations for student success and a healthy lifestyle.

So while there's clearly room for improvement in Greene, it feels unfair to compare it to a county which places an unusually high value on exceptional school food, has a student population better conditioned to accept such food, and has affluent parents who can pay the higher price tag that comes with it.

And the fact that his child is in an affluent private school, in which the administration has already allowed him to express his concerns with other parents, signals to me that he's likely to make great strides.

According to the research, only child in the family develops close relationships with parents, builds self - esteem, attains high grasping power, becomes orally advanced, more affluent in education, and receives more support and encouragement from parents.

Elio is an affluent, popular, talented young person with supportive and progressive parents.

Unfortunately, student achievement in many affluent suburban districts is worse than parents may think, especially when compared with student achievement in other developed countries.

The conscience of a liberal should struggle with supporting a system in which the children of the poor are consigned to attend the school that is assigned to them by public officials, regardless of its quality, whereas more affluent parents can shop for the school they want for their children by purchasing a home in the vicinity of the public school they prefer or paying private school tuition.

But even at Piney Branch, which benefits from the vast resources of a huge, affluent school system in Montgomery County, Maryland, it sure seems rickety, held with lots of duct tape and chewing gum, and subject to collapse without just the right staff and parent support.

Most of these families, I suspect, will be relatively affluent and well - educated — either capable of paying the difference between private school tuition and the value of the ESA or able to afford for one parent to stay home with the kids and play teacher.

Affluent parents regularly augment their schools» budgets with contributions for extra programs.

Upper - middle - class parents have the means to spend two to three times more time with their preschool children than less affluent parents.

In reality, senior teachers can and do choose better schools and classes, while parents in affluent towns fight to get their kids into classrooms of teachers with good reputations.

Lower - income African American and Hispanic parents also held a conviction that their kids will need to work in a world with more affluent people.

He acknowledged that the board is frustrated that few schools have applied and that the more affluent schools with heavy parent involvement have raced to ask for independence.

Unfortunately, we could not locate financial data for every PTA, so we could not identify PTA revenues for all of the most affluent and highest - poverty schools.51 Based on available information, however, we expect that, with more financial information, the total PTA revenue for the most affluent schools would be even higher, and students at the highest - poverty schools still would receive minimal parent contributions.

In 2014, parents of students at Horace Mann Elementary School in Northwest Washington, D.C., spent over $ 470,000 of their own money to support the school's programs.1 With just under 290 students enrolled for the 2013 - 14 school year, this means that, in addition to public funding, Horace Mann spent about an extra $ 1,600 for each student.2 Those dollars — equivalent to 9 percent of the District of Columbia's average per - pupil spending3 — paid for new art and music teachers and classroom aides to allow for small group instruction.4 During the same school year, the parent - teacher association, or PTA, raised another $ 100,000 in parent donations and collected over $ 200,000 in membership dues, which it used for similar initiatives in future years.5 Not surprisingly, Horace Mann is one of the most affluent schools in the city, with only 6 percent of students coming from low - income familiWith just under 290 students enrolled for the 2013 - 14 school year, this means that, in addition to public funding, Horace Mann spent about an extra $ 1,600 for each student.2 Those dollars — equivalent to 9 percent of the District of Columbia's average per - pupil spending3 — paid for new art and music teachers and classroom aides to allow for small group instruction.4 During the same school year, the parent - teacher association, or PTA, raised another $ 100,000 in parent donations and collected over $ 200,000 in membership dues, which it used for similar initiatives in future years.5 Not surprisingly, Horace Mann is one of the most affluent schools in the city, with only 6 percent of students coming from low - income familiwith only 6 percent of students coming from low - income families.6

(That's why persons with high irony levels refer to the Academic Performance Index as the Affluent Parent Index.)

Despite the disproportionate concentration of PTA donations in affluent schools, we found that few of the districts with the 50 richest PTAs have policies in place to respond to outsized donations to the wealthiest schools.30 A couple of districts place restrictions on how parent - raised funds can be spent, such as banning their use to pay for school staff.

An evaluation study of the district's equity fund highlighted several implementation challenges.65 Some PTAs simply did not comply with the district's policy to give back some dollars, and the district had difficulty figuring out how to exempt some PTA expenses fairly from redistribution.66 The evaluators did not examine how this policy affected PTA revenues, but there was significant pushback from members of the community, with some parents threatening to reduce donations during initial policy negotiations.67 A group of parents voiced that the approach was punitive, and that instead, parents should be encouraged to donate to a separate equity fund or to other, less affluent schools.68 Other districts that have considered establishing an equity fund have feared similar pushback, worrying that rich parents will threaten to leave the district, disinvest in their schools, or decrease their overall contributions.69

We found that policies that equitably redistribute donations — or divert a portion of the contributions to affluent schools to high - poverty schools with more significant need — did not substantially reduce overall parent contributions.

Parent fundraising tends to exacerbate inequity, since schools with more affluent families are able to raise much more per student.

Activist parents in an affluent part of Mar Vista reported that along with smelling alcohol on him at school, the teacher was verbally abusive to kids, made students cry and helped them cheat on the state standardized test.

Parents, educators and college administrators have long wrestled with the unintended negative side effects of the admissions process, like the intense focus on personal achievement and the unfair advantages of more affluent students.

In affluent and high - performing schools, PTA parents — with booster club money, political clout and enough free time — will march into the principal's office, file petitions with the district and protest until someone does something about a poorly performing teacher.

«This is a huge victory for the Louisiana Scholarship Program, which provides low income families with the same opportunity as more affluent parents already have — the financial resources to send their child to the school of their choice.»

The program affords low - income families with the same opportunity as more affluent parents — the financial resources to send their child to the school of their choice.

The MKC targets affluent urban dwellers who want a small SUV or crossover; Baby Boomers downsizing but unwilling to give up the premium features of bigger SUVs and crossovers; parents with 1 - 2 kids; and women who prefer crossovers for the superior ride height and perceived safety over a passenger car.

They're going after the more affluent parents and children with big allowances.

«My husband and I deliberated for years about whether to have a child at all, partly because parenting in an affluent society is, shall we say, a carbon - intensive activity, and partly because we knew that future generations will probably have to contend with the consequences of a severely disrupted climate.

Panicked parents streamed to this affluent section of northwest Broward County on Wednesday afternoon, as news helicopters broadcast the incident live, police officers crouched behind cars with guns drawn and students congregated on streets, many crying, hugging and calling friends and family.

Parenting support programs have been shown to have positive effects among families with young infants at high psychosocial risk.20 - 25 Our results suggest a benefit from the universal provision of parenting and child development support services to an unselected sample of families with health coverage, who ranged from the affluent and employed to those at greater socioeconomic and psychosocParenting support programs have been shown to have positive effects among families with young infants at high psychosocial risk.20 - 25 Our results suggest a benefit from the universal provision of parenting and child development support services to an unselected sample of families with health coverage, who ranged from the affluent and employed to those at greater socioeconomic and psychosocparenting and child development support services to an unselected sample of families with health coverage, who ranged from the affluent and employed to those at greater socioeconomic and psychosocial risk.

A Class - A seniors housing property needs community dining rooms and other high - quality amenities, and it needs to be in a market that's not merely affluent, but populated with a lot of affluent adult children — by which I mean people ages 45 to 65 whose parents are in need of personal - care services.