Sentences with phrase «categorical aid»

The centerpiece of Governor Walker's education budget is a significant increase in per pupil categorical aid for school districts.

The English language learning population and the cost of serving them has increased rapidly and the per pupil categorical aid has been cut by more than half;

In addition, a $ 140.5 million increase in categorical aid programs supports a number of other initiatives described below.

The Spring Release of the 2018 — 19 Consolidated Application (ConApp) for Funding Categorical Aid Programs collects information related to local educational agencies intention to participate in 2018 — 19 consolidated application programs, legal assurances of compliance as required by state and federal statute, and other required program participation information.

Consolidation Aid — The JFC - approved K - 12 package creates a new sum - sufficient (state moneys will be provided sufficient to fully fund aid demands) appropriation to provide categorical aid funding for two or more school districts that consolidate into one district.

We support the governor's proposed $ 150 million for the creation of new community schools in high - needs districts, but we hope the state will increase this funding to $ 200 million and provide it as categorical aid to adequately support schools.

Michael Borges, executive director of the New York State Association of School Business Officials, said that the state should fund technology purchases through categorical aid reimbursements.

Timbs lauded Cuomo's proposal to begin consolidation, but said instead of adding another round of categorical aid, funding for pre-Kindergarten should be included in the state's school aid formula, distributed based on district - need.

The 10,000 - student elementary school district in Orange County, Calif., stands to lose up to $ 10 million in state and federal categorical aid if its policy isn't brought into compliance.

Yet another school nurse had a discussion with a legislator over categorical aid and whether special education aid is able to cover a substantial portion of the cost of school nursing (it covers only a small portion).

Along with categorical aid, collaboration grants and training are included.

Review of high - cost categorical aids and the consideration of other aids that could be created to meet specific needs;

Special education categorical aids, the primary source of state funding to assist districts with special education costs, have been frozen at $ 368.9 million since the 2008 - 09 school year.

The substantial increases in per - pupil aid and other categorical aids are welcome and vitally important to our public school districts that serve the vast majority of students in Wisconsin and are tasked with preparing all of them for college and / or careers.

Consolidate and target categorical aids in ways that encourage innovation and focus on increasing student achievement, turning around struggling schools, and improving graduation outcomes.

Pocan spoke from the heart about the needs of students in poverty as well as the diverse needs of other students and displayed his understanding that any positive reforms must address these needs, either via categorical aid or a foundation plan.

In a special summer session, legislators approved categorical aid to school districts for gifted education: $ 4 per pupil unit in FY2006 and $ 9 per pupil unit in FY2007 and beyond.

Because many of these districts have property wealth per pupil far above the state average and thus receive little or no general equalization aid, they urged the Commission to continue providing per pupil categorical aid, which districts receive outside the revenue limits.

The budget plan calls for a $ 500 million increase in categorical aids, the first such increase under the current governor.

The state also provides categorical aid for transportation, reading initiatives, professional development, compensatory education, early - childhood education, technology, and school construction.

Funding for public K12 schools in Wisconsin contains many different streams including state equalized aid, local property taxes, state categorical aids and federal aids.

South Dakota provides categorical aid for only one other district characteristic, the number of students in special education.

Categorical aid in the state provides additional money for literacy initiatives, professional development, bilingual education, early - childhood education, teacher retirement, technology, and capital outlays.

North Carolina provides more than a quarter of state education dollars through the third allotment — categorical aid.

Politics, policy, and categorical aid: New inequities in California school finance.

The Assembly GOP plan would increase categorical aids per student by $ 150 in the first year of the budget and another $ 200 in the second and raise the low revenue adjustment to $ 9,800 per pupil in 2018 - 19 from $ 9,100 under current law.

K - 12 school funding would come in about $ 70 million less than the governor's proposal, with less funding for per - pupil categorical aid and $ 50 less per pupil than the governor's call of a $ 200 and $ 204 per - year increase.

One of the funding reforms State Supt. Tony Evers has advanced in the DPI's 2017 - 19 budget request to the governor would «weight» the per - pupil categorical aid to account for students in poverty, students learning English, and students in foster care.

Currently, the transfer amount is indexed to general and categorical aid increases to public schools in the same way per pupil payments to private voucher schools and independent charter school payments are adjusted — which accounts for the governor's proposed increase for private school tuition subsidies of $ 217 per pupil.

The budget, however, does not adequately resolve several equity issues, such as the distribution of equalized aid, school levy credits and categorical aid; the impact of revenue limits; and the identification of student needs.

The proportion of costs covered by the categorical aid appropriations for disabled children and children with limited English language skills continues to decline.

All districts (or their taxpayers) receive extra money for specific programs (such as special adjustment aid, school levy tax credits, categorical aid and integration aid), regardless of wealth or tax effort.

Categorical Aids should be adjusted to address increasing need where appropriate, including increasing FRL rate in the overall equalization aid formula.

(Categorical aid is received outside the revenue limits.)

In addition to increases in per pupil categorical aid, the governor is proposing in his budget significant increases to both Sparsity Aid and High Cost Transportation Aid.

Real increases for 2007 - 8 in combined state and local school spending are about 3.7 %, or half of the quoted 7.4 %, The 2007 - 9 budget deal also included a $ 264 (2.8 %) increase in per member revenues, and increases in some categorical aids; but moved further away from the 2/3 state funding leg of the «three legged stool, leading to a more permanent increase in the percentage of school revenues dependent on local property taxes.

For that extra lift, the general aid formula will weight students living in poverty and the per - pupil categorical aid will be weighted for foster kids, English learners and students from impoverished families.

Increases in categorical aids are also included, in areas such as mental health supports and rural school support.

The Budget proposes increased funding for K - 12 public schools for the first time in six years in the areas of per - pupil funding and some categorical aids.

Others, including the Wisconsin Alliance for Excellent Schools and the School Finance Network have concentrated more on including student poverty either in a foundation formula or as a categorical aid.

Part of the Penny for Kids proposal creates and funds a categorical aid for low income students.