Sentences with phrase «district budget crisis»

«Educate78 has started an #OUSDBudget blog series to delve into the Oakland Unified School District budget crisis.

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But the state is in a budget crisis, with school funding a central issue as Gov. Dannel Malloy seeks to overhaul the state formula to redistribute money to districts in need.

ERIE COUNTY, NY - This past week Erie County Legislator Patrick Burke (7th District) introduced a resolution to reduce the size of the Erie County Fiscal Stability Authority, an entity formed in 2005 as a response to the «Red - Green» budget crisis.

Whoever wins will quickly become immersed in budget crises and the debate over school consolidation as the district looks to downsize.

Delaware lawmakers have approved a bailout, teachers have gotten pink slips, and turnaround consultants have been hired — all for a budget crisis that former leaders of the state's largest school district say doesn't exist.

District officials were negotiating with banks and state education officials last week to stave off the crisis, which they project could leave them $ 26.6 million short — almost a quarter of the district's total budget — if they are allowed to continue operating until the end of the schoDistrict officials were negotiating with banks and state education officials last week to stave off the crisis, which they project could leave them $ 26.6 million short — almost a quarter of the district's total budget — if they are allowed to continue operating until the end of the schodistrict's total budget — if they are allowed to continue operating until the end of the school year.

Each year, as predictably as classes end in June, the School District of Philadelphia faces a budget crisis for the coming school year.

From San Diego to Baltimore, districts are being forced to make painful budget cuts as political and economic forces converge into one of the deepest school fiscal crises in decades.

The budget crisis will ramp up efforts at district consolidation.

State rules surrounding local school - district budgeting procedures contribute to the opposite impression, making it appear that schools are in a perpetual financial crisis.

Jose Cole - Gutierrez, who heads the district's Charter Schools Division, said the budget crisis was a major factor in the tidal wave of charter applications.

Each city in the consortium is unique: Oakland is BAM's largest city, is the only city located west of the Mississippi River, and has faced several external challenges during early phases of the initiative, including a transition in school district leadership and a public school budget crisis.

The Chicago public schools are facing a budget crisis so severe that it threatens to shut down the system next fall unless the Illinois legislature comes up with more money, district officials warned last week.

The U.S. Supreme Court refused last week to hear a challenge by a group of Buffalo, N.Y., school unions to a state fiscal - oversight board's power to set aside labor contracts and impose a wage freeze to help the city and its school district emerge from a budget crisis.

The nation's school districts are facing a budget crisis that is expected to only get worse as the effects of the recession linger.

The HISD crisis comes as the district plans to eliminate up to 250 teaching positions to deal with a $ 115 million budget shortfall.

But they have helped create a two - tier education system — one in which affluent parents can help their schools weather state budget crises and maintain programs less affluent districts can only dream about.

Deasy, yesterday, thanked all district employees for their «sacrifices» during the budget crisis.

Given that the state remains in a budget crisis, «I think there are higher priorities for our state at this time,» Winnetka Public Schools District 36 Superintendent Trisha Kocanda said of the inquiry.

Saddled with a dire budget crisis, her district voted to consolidate three schools.

Originally seen as a challenge to teacher seniority, Reed vs. California was filed in 2009 by the ACLU on behalf of students at three low - income schools against the state and the LA Unified school district, alleging that widespread seniority - based layoffs enacted during the budget crisis of 2008 — 2009 disproportionately affected low income and minority students, depriving them of equal access to a quality education.

Likewise, many school districts, suffering from the severe budget crisis, were struggling to survive, much less make a wholesale shift in academic instruction.

Last fall an Independent Financial Review Panel recommended a reduction of about 10,000 staff members, including administrators, classified and certificated personnel, for a savings of half a billion dollars a year for the district that faces a dire budget crisis.

Charter advocates counter that districts» financial woes began long before charters came on the scene, and students who seek alternatives shouldn't have to suffer just because districts and unions face budget and organizational crises.

Budget «crisis»: Volusia County School Board members say the district is in «crisis mode» after the preliminary budget shows a deficit of $ 4.2 miBudget «crisis»: Volusia County School Board members say the district is in «crisis mode» after the preliminary budget shows a deficit of $ 4.2 mibudget shows a deficit of $ 4.2 million.

Fallin says districts are in for a surprise, as they try to make this change during the worst budget crisis in decades.

The details were daunting: the budget deficit was projected to reach nearly half a billion dollars in three years; a district audit showed LA Unified debt outstripped assets by $ 4.2 billion; unfunded pensions topped $ 13 billion and have more than doubled since 2005; per - pupil funding had doubled but the district still faces financial crisis; and plans for a turnaround included boosting enrollment but not cutting staff.

«It is unfortunate that the state budget crisis has put districts throughout the state in the position to need to reduce school days in order to balance our budgets,» Superintendent Steven Lawrence said.

Districts in Newark, Philadelphia, Chicago, and Detroit, are facing budget crises that have major consequences for learning, and they still educate more than half the children in those cities.

Instead, out of that budget crisis they saw — and realized — the opportunity to improve their school districts.

Those school districts were investing time and resources during the worst budget crisis in history.

Crellin — which ranked as the state's No. 1 elementary school on achievement tests in 2010, according to The Baltimore Sun — was nearly shut down last year because of the district's budget crisis.