Sentences with phrase «with high rates of poverty»

As intended, states targeted counties with high rates of poverty, child maltreatment, and premature birth, among other indicators of risk.

They have an increased risk of dropping out of school, and teen mothers are more likely to be single parents — a condition associated with higher rates of poverty.

Billy Easton, Executive Director of the Alliance for Quality Education, points out that test scores dropped much more dramatically in schools with high rates of poverty where school funding is significantly lower.

However, some of these diseases also are found in areas of the United States with high rates of poverty.

But districts that serve disadvantaged urban areas with high rates of poverty «typically have both high rates and large numbers of chronically absent students.»

Since the 80's and 90's, the education system has added No Child Left Behind, a myriad of high stakes tests, Common Core Standards, teacher evaluations that are tied to pay, to name a few, along with higher rates of poverty and non-English speaking students.

School districts with the highest rates of poverty receive about $ 1,000 less per student in state and local funding than those with the lowest rates of poverty, according to a new report released Tuesday by The Education Trust.

The same is true for students who graduate from a high school with higher rates of poverty or minority enrollment, regardless of the setting.

Like other communities with high rates of poverty, significant numbers of non-English speaking students and relatively high numbers of students who need special education skills, standardized test scores in the old eastern Connecticut mill town were low.

We examined the ESSA plans submitted by every state and the District of Columbia, seeking to gauge whether they're strong, weak, or in - between in achieving three objectives: assigning annual ratings to school that are clear and intuitive for parents, educators, and the public; encouraging schools to focus on all of their pupils, not just their low performers; and fairly measuring and judging all schools, including those with high rates of poverty.

Yet we have schools with the highest number of minority children, with the highest rates of poverty, and with the lowest college readiness rates, with the most undesirable teachers.

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.

Schools with high rates of poverty, low student achievement and high percentages of black and Hispanic students have a disproportionate share of Unsatisfactory rated teachers.