Funding of secular aspects of the abysmally poor schools, particularly for girls, is another worthy goal.
And, surprising as it may seem, the growing educational disparity between rich and poor schools cannot be traced to differences in spending.
Mr. Bloomberg and his schools chancellor at the time, Joel Klein, expanded its Teaching Fellows program, which enticed teachers to work in poor schools by paying for their master's degree.
Supporting successful charter schools helps kids, who by fate were born into areas with poor schools and who have no other alternatives, to attend better schools, go to college and succeed in life.
Although German business looks robust, the country still suffers from many familiar ills (see our survey): an over-regulated labour market, an unreformed public sector (which staged its biggest strikes in 14 years this week), poor schools and universities, and an unresponsive health system.
Poor public schools, and the scarcity of private ones, discourage people from coming to live in the area.
Kent's education authorities are being challenged to work with the schools watchdog after poor performances in Ofsted's primary schools league tables.
English learner students are more likely to be in poor, overcrowded schools and in many places represent an added cost to already cash-strapped school districts.
But a poll of 501 adults carried out on behalf of the Conservative Party found 72% thought truancy and poor discipline in schools had worsened.
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Mr. Weiner, whose mother was a public schoolteacher, repeated ideas he has laid out over the last week: use gifted-and-talented programs to attract students to poor-performing schools, and treat teachers better.
The establishment of a recovery board on Anglesey is the fourth time since September 2010 that a council has required follow-up action because of a poor report by schools inspectors Estyn.
So we've got to upgrade across the board -- not just in poor, underprivileged schools, but across the board -- we've got to upgrade the performance levels of our young people.
The shortfall is projected to climb past a quarter of a million teachers in the next five years -- and that gap is most pronounced in predominately poor and minority schools.
There are just so many poor-performing schools here, and there are so many kids in our city that want to do the right thing, and families that want to put their kids in a quality school.
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Although the city's struggling schools generally face closure because of poor academic performance, the Believe schools are being targeted for fiscal and governance problems.
Independent schools argue that they already offer bursaries and scholarships for poor children (although Scottish schools do less on this front than their English counterparts).
Some parents complained about late decisions on closures and poor communication from some schools.
It highlighted problems including poor performance in primary schools and inadequate arrangements for supporting "challenging schools".
So often these failing communities suffer from very high levels of crime, failing schools, poor quality housing, poor health.
Working in primary schools in poor neighbourhoods, he also contributed to literacy training for adults and education for the visually handicapped.
Policymakers have pushed mostly carrot-and-stick remedies: firing underperforming teachers, giving merit pay to high performers, penalizing schools with poor student test scores.
By any available international standard, America's public schools deliver poor value for money: they cost a lot and their results overall are dismal.
On the other hand, there are definitely schools in poor neighbourhoods that are struggling just to get proper textbooks (while praying for inspiring teachers).
They were twice as likely to be poor pupils on free schools meals and two and half times more likely to have special educational needs.
Equally poor-performing nonprofit schools would not be penalized.
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Hawaii, for example, is the only state with one unified school district operated at the state level. (Not surprisingly, the schools get poor marks.) Only Michigan and New York have a higher proportion of unionised workers.
They listened to experts talk about foundation tax-planning, about big causes like wiring up American schools and helping poor kids overseas.
Wrexham AM John Marek believes the reorganisation is to blame for the poor performance of some secondary schools, including Ysgol Clywedog.
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India's literacy rate is rising, thanks in part to a surge in cheap private schools for the poor, but it is still far behind China's.
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