Sentences with phrase «with high concentrations»

Additional monies - known as concentration grants - would also be provided to districts with high concentrations of disadvantaged students.

This left some districts — Edgewood and San Antonio ISDs, for example — with high concentrations of minority students and low property values, Drennon said.

Making matters worse, compared to data from 2000, more students now attend schools with high concentrations of poverty.

For six years, he also led an initiative to establish Family - Community Resource Centers in schools serving neighborhoods with high concentrations of poverty and mobility.

Since the program is federally funded, most districts with high concentrations of low - income children can feed all students at little or no extra cost, significantly leveraging the considerable investment New Jersey makes in public education.

But when a team of researchers led by Dr. John Fantuzzo from University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education (Penn GSE) studied every third grader in the Philadelphia public schools, they found strong student achievement in some schools with high concentrations of poverty.

The low - achieving schools were ones with high concentrations of homelessness and child abuse.

Do we need annual testing to tell us that communities with high concentrations of minority students from impoverished households struggle on test based measures?

This sets Minneapolis apart from other cities with high concentrations of minority and low - income students.

Millar said Georgia needs to amend its formula to give more money to school districts with high concentrations of students in poverty.

Conventional wisdom has it that schools with high concentrations of poverty are bad.

Some of those children live in towns with high concentrations of poverty, and some are at - risk kids residing in wealthier communities, he said.

What is also reality for many areas with high concentrations of charter school students is that many charter schools do not draw the EC population to their campuses, or at least the higher need EC populations.

As noted in the 2015 Texas Equity Plan, «schools with high concentrations of minority students and students living in poverty have higher percentages of inexperienced teachers than schools with low concentrations of those students.

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.

At the same time, a dozen states (including those with high concentrations of Latino students like Arizona and Texas) report that a majority of Latino charter students attend intensely segregated minority schools.

While there are some schools with high concentrations of successful EL students, many more are falling far short — in more than 700 schools, no tested EL students met the state standard.

IDRA and ASU, 1999) This document details the requirements for certification and endorsement for prospective bilingual education teachers in seven states with high concentrations of limited - English - proficient (LEP) children — Arizona, California, Colorado, Illinois, New Mexico, New York and Texas.

Targeted funding supprt for schools and school divisions with high concentrations or numbers of students in poverty, English learners, and students receiving special education services;

According to the latest data from the U.S. Department of Education's Civil Rights data collection, Black, Latino, American Indian, and Alaska Native students are more likely to attend schools with high concentrations of inexperienced teachers.

A federal mandate that Title I funding be allocated to eligible students, regardless of the concentration of poverty in their schools, would significantly dilute the impact of this funding and deprive buildings with high concentrations of students in poverty of critical resources.

The additional $ 1 billion would be channeled into Title I, a $ 15 billion grant program for schools with high concentrations of poor children.

If there was any one reason why Brown initiated LCFF with the Supplemental and Concentration grants included it was so districts with high concentrations of challenged students would be better served.

Brown's Local Control Funding Formula, centerpiece of his budget plan for education, is designed to feed more money to districts with high concentrations of disadvantaged students.

We have school districts with few needy children, and those with high concentrations of children living in poverty, English language learners and students with disabilities.

This is especially the case in isolated rural locations and places with high concentrations of children in poverty and children of black, Native American, or non-white Hispanic descent.

Not only are black and Hispanic children more likely to grow up in poor families, but middle - class black and Hispanic children are also much more likely than poor white children to live in neighborhoods and attend schools with high concentrations of poor students.

Last year, Gov. Jerry Brown created the Local Control Funding Formula, which allows school districts with high concentrations of low - income students, English learners and foster youth to allocate millions of state funds.

The law still funnels billions of federal dollars to schools with high concentrations of poor children.

The goal of Title I is to provide low - income students attending schools with high concentrations of other economically disadvantaged students with additional financial support.

The analysis reveals that schools with the highest rates of poverty and the lowest rates of student achievement, as well as those with high concentrations of students of color, are the most likely to have teachers with unsatisfactory ratings.

While federal cuts to education would cause all districts to either reduce services or compensate for deficits with state or local dollars, Trump's proposed budget would have the most severe impact on districts with high concentrations of poverty and other challenges.

And schools with high concentrations of ELL students have higher student - to - teacher ratios.

On average, low - income urban high schools with high concentrations of minority students sent about half, or 51 percent, of their 2013 graduates to college in the fall immediately following graduation.

This chart shows that 38 percent or fewer of the 2013 high school graduates from the bottom quarter of low - income high schools with high concentrations of minorities went to college in the fall of 2013.

Schools with high concentrations of struggling learners and low academic growth as compared to other middle schools across the state will be targeted as expansion schools.

The measure would show that school districts with high concentrations of students from low - income families receive more state and local revenue than districts with low concentrations of students from low - income families.

The number of children from poor families is rising across the district, and there are more schools with high concentrations of poverty than there were 10 years ago.

In addition to suffering from the problems that all voucher bills have in common, this bill would also undermine the main purpose of Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), which is designed to target federal funds to public schools with high concentrations of poverty in order to provide additional educational services for these students.

Such proposals would undermine Title I's fundamental purpose of assisting public schools with high concentrations of poverty and high - need students.

Turning Title I into a voucher directly conflicts with the original intent of Title I, which was first enacted in 1965 and has continued to be reauthorized with bipartisan support in Congress to target and support schools with high concentrations of poverty.

The relatively poor proficiency levels at public schools with high concentrations of ELL students is underscored by comparing the standardized test scores of white and black students who attend the schools in which ELL students are concentrated with the scores of white and black student who attend other public schools.

In criticizing the federal regulation, for example, Weingarten claimed that «the flawed framework... will punish teacher - prep programs whose graduates go on to teach in our highest - needs schools, most often those with high concentrations of students who live in poverty and English language learners.»

Second, the Cristo Rey Schools are Catholic high schools located in urban areas with high concentrations of economically disadvantaged and minority students.

Both proponents and critics have noted that charter schools are over-represented in communities with high concentrations of minorities, yet this fact alone does not explain the higher levels of support in areas with a charter school.

With colleagues from the Center for Research on Education, Diversity, & Excellence, a federal research center at the University of California campus here, Tharp has identified five standards that he says mark effective instruction in classrooms with high concentrations of students from backgrounds outside the U.S. cultural mainstream.

Today, Title I distributes about $ 16 billion annually to schools with high concentrations of low - income students.

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

The Harvard study is the first examination of child - care availability in middle class and low - income neighborhoods in Massachusetts, particularly those with high concentrations of welfare recipients and single mothers.

In particular, it is not known whether teachers leave schools with high concentrations of disadvantaged and low - achieving populations for financial reasons or because of the working conditions associated with serving these students.