The non-profit policy group, Education Trust, looked at 14 Ohio districts. Survey author Ross Wiener says students in poor schools in Akron, Canton and Cleveland are disadvantaged because their teachers make less than teachers in schools that are better off.
In Cleveland, the salary difference, per student, can be as much as $1,000.
Wiener: "What's clear is that there are schools that are not getting the benefit of programs that are meant to close the achievement gap."
However, Cleveland Curriculum Chief Eric Gordon says that's misleading.
Gordon: "They show, in their very own charts, that we are the closest of any of the districts surveyed in the distribution of salary."
Gordon says at least three-quarters of all Cleveland students live in poverty -- which makes virtually all city schools poor, when compared with others in the study.
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