Sentences with phrase «districts distribute money»

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Meanwhile, federal investigators — led by Preet Bharara, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York — are examining how money and contracts were distributed to Buffalo Billion, including SolarCity.

Lawmakers unveiled plans to extend deadlines for developing new teacher evaluation criteria as well as changing how state funding is distributed, so districts won't lose out on money if they don't adopt the new evaluations.

Lawmakers said they were still working out exactly how school aid would be distributed; Heastie said there was yet not a deal over how much money would flow through the Foundation Aid formula, which prioritizes need and so helps urban districts, as opposed to restoring cuts from the Gap Elimination Adjustment, which hit suburban areas hardest.

(4) The monies accruing to the District Assemblies in the Common Fund shall be distributed among all the District Assemblies on the basis of a formula approved by Parliament.

A debate over distributing $ 9.9 million worth of so - called «bullet aid» erupted on the floor of the state Senate late this afternoon after Democrats decried a resolution that sent the money to schools Republican - controlled districts.

Instead he wants the money put in the hands of the mayor's office, where it would be distributed as community grants using a merit - based system informed by districts» needs.

Funding for a Queens district led by Councilman Ruben Wills, who was busted last month for allegedly stealing more than $ 30,000 in taxpayer money, was distributed by the speaker and Queens - delegation head Mark Weprin.

The money was distributed evenly between the five libraries in Peralta's district: the East Elmhurst Library, the Jackson Heights Library at 35 - 51 81st St., the Corona Library at 38 - 17 104th St., the LeFrak City Library at 98 - 30 57th Ave. and the Langston Hughes Library at 100 - 01 Northern Blvd. in Corona.

That's being distributed under terms set by state law, as well as the money for addictions treatment, according to the district attorney's office.

In 1994, Congress searched for — and eventually identified — a way to adjust the formula for distributing Title I money to compensate for increases or decreases in school districts» child - poverty rates.

The state uses a foundation formula to distribute money to districts, with a foundation level of $ 2,623 in fiscal 2005.

State aid to school districts is expected to remain at about $ 175 million, although the education department is seeking some refinements in the way the money is distributed...

Hoping to end a lawsuit over the way it distributes school construction money to districts, New Mexico has passed legislation that would make available $ 600 million over the next decade for capital - outlay projects and give preference to cash - poor communities.

The states that chose the schools and districts, distributed the money and were responsible for monitoring progress?

The law allows districts to deduct existing debt - service payments from the funds they must share, but many Florida districts net millions of dollars in annual capital revenue even after making debt payments — money they will now have to distribute proportionally based on enrollments.

Instead of providing money based solely on enrollment, districts that use weighted funding formulas attempt to calculate how much it takes to educate a child with certain needs, such as special education services or remedial help, and then distribute money to schools based on the numbers of students with those needs.

The districts claimed the state had failed its constitutional duty to provide «suitable» funding for public education on two counts: There wasn't enough money overall, and what there was was inequitably distributed among districts.

Earlier this week, his agency proposed new rules that would govern how school districts distribute federal money meant to support the education of low - income kids.

In its draft form, K - 12 money would be distributed based on the Local Control Funding Formula, which directs money to districts based on their enrollment of low - income, foster and homeless children and English learners.

From the initiation of federal aid to local school districts in 1965, Democratic administrations had insisted on formula grants, which distributed federal money to schools and districts based on the proportion of students who were poor, not on a competition among states.

Half of the money is to be distributed to school districts through a grant program, officials said.

Schools receive the largest amount of their state funding through a general fund that distributes money through a formula that gives more to districts with more students with challenges, including those who live in poverty, and less state money to districts with high property values.

In Wisconsin, school districts receive the largest amount of their state funding through a general fund that distributes money through a formula that gives more to districts with more students with challenges, including those who live in poverty.

Oklahoma schools would have faced similar restrictions on about $ 29 million in federal funding through Title I funding of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which distributes money to schools and school districts with a high percentage of students from poor families.

The department's proposed rule — the one that prompted the lobbyists» letter — affirmed that districts could decide for themselves how to distribute their money among schools, whether based on head counts, student - to - teacher ratios, a percentage increase over the previous year's school budget or anything else.

Funding for other area districts includes $ 64,000 to the Monona Grove School District and monies distributed by Cooperative Education Service Agencies (CESA) to the Cambridge, Baraboo, Columbus, and Sauk Prairie districts.

The district said in a press release the money would be distributed through a 2 percent ongoing salary increase retroactive to July 1; a 2 percent lump - sum payment based on 2013 - 14 earnings;...

State funds for special education are inequitably distributed, so sometimes the districts with the highest needs are getting less money per student than districts with lower needs.

With backing from Republican education leaders, a key House committee Wednesday approved a bill that could be a first step toward trying to revise how money is distributed to school districts.

State funds for special education are also inequitably distributed, so sometimes the districts with the highest needs are getting less money per student than districts with lower needs.

Worse yet, funding has continued to go to the federal Department of Education despite its poor showing for all the federal money it was given to distribute to the states and local school districts.

«The district is using its own money to pay those indirect costs after the per pupil funding has already been distributed.

Flores said in joining the GPSN board of directors, she committed herself to making sure the nonprofit distributes an equal amount of money to district schools and the charter sector.

It would distribute new money based on the severity of a student's disability as opposed to the existing formula that dispenses money under the assumption that 16 percent of all students in all districts have at least one of a dozen legally recognized disabilities.

School districts spend most of their money on people, and one of the proposal's biggest impacts would be on how teachers are distributed.

The state superintendent, the highest - ranking elected educational officer, runs the state Department of Education, which measures school performance, assists lagging schools and distributes about $ 9 billion in state money to local school districts.

Portions of the fund are given to states according to a formula based on population figures, and states further distribute the money based on their own formula or districts» share of federal Title I funds.