Sentences with phrase «do school district budget»

How do school districts budget in an era of decreased public funding and still fulfill their mission to increase student achievement?

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In planning its budgets, the park district does not keep count on how many children attend its free after - school activities, raising questions about whether tax money is spent efficiently.

After eight years of work to «fix school food», I am convinced that while on paper it may be possible to draw up a budget to operate a school meal program, including all of the expenses — food, labor, overhead, kitchen facilities, equipment, staff training, office expenses, everything it takes to run a meal program — with nutritious scratch cooked lunches for $ 2.72 apiece, no district of any size is, in fact, doing it, despite the best efforts of many capable people like Ann Cooper.

I would love to see a round up of success stories from large public school districts that don't have celebrity personalities who can influence school boards and reasonable budgets driving change.

As labor accounts for about the same amount as the typical school district pays for food (about 44 % of the budget for the program), it is impossible to determine if other schools or other districts could try to do a similar program with a local restaurant, or even just with their own chef and cooking facilities, unless they know the labor costs.

School districts in this year's budget did receive a boost in foundation aid as well as a complete end to the Gap Elimination Adjustment.

There are 36 school districts that have proposed budgets overriding the cap, double the 18 districts that do so last year.

«Local governments and school districts are putting together their budgets, and they're doing it in the dark with no clear picture of how much state aid they'll get.»

Voters adopted school budgets Tuesday, but some districts did not provide vote counts to The Buffalo News Tuesday night.

As for the Assembly Democratic conference, Heastie said: «We don't want to go home and then in September hear that school districts have to lay people off because they haven't received the funding from the budget because of the linkage of the teacher evaluation and the funding.»

The Erie County resolution, sponsored by the Majority Caucus, also requests that NYS repay the suburban school districts from past budget shortcomings to repair the damage done.

«If you have to live within a budget, like each and every one of us do during these tough fiscal times, why not school districts and local governments.»

At the same time, Cuomo's budget office did not release the school aid runs — projected dollar amounts for districts so they can begin to budget for the next school year.

If the voters in 93 % of the districts voted to support their school budgets, why do we need a tax cap?

School districts do not set their budgets until the spring.

«Whatever the governor comes out with, we do look at that and school districts look at that and they like to kind of touch and feel it and play with and get ready for preparation of their budget,» Flanagan said.

We do know, however, that due to opposition in both houses, education spending in the budget is no longer linked to the reforms, and lawmakers expect to have a district - by - district breakdown of school aid — also known in Albany as «school runs» — in the coming days.

The report claimed a 2010 study done by the city Independent Budget Office severely under - counted the full value and liability of pension and retiree health costs of the district public schools.

School districts will struggle to draft budgets that will be voted on in May, because they don't know how much school aid they will reSchool districts will struggle to draft budgets that will be voted on in May, because they don't know how much school aid they will reschool aid they will receive.

The Greater Johnstown School District's budget was approved by voters 461 - 439 but did not pass.

Not only is Erie County calling for the repeal of the GEA Law, the resolution requests that NYS repay the suburban school districts from past budget shortcomings to repair the damage done.

Local governments and school districts DO depend on property taxes for their budgets.

Among the key findings of the state comptroller's office audit of the Willsboro Central School District: The district overestimated appropriations in the adopted budgets by more than 10 percent over the past three years; the district has accumulated fund balance that exceeds the statutory limit by nearly 12 percentage points, and district officials did not develop a multi-year financiDistrict: The district overestimated appropriations in the adopted budgets by more than 10 percent over the past three years; the district has accumulated fund balance that exceeds the statutory limit by nearly 12 percentage points, and district officials did not develop a multi-year financidistrict overestimated appropriations in the adopted budgets by more than 10 percent over the past three years; the district has accumulated fund balance that exceeds the statutory limit by nearly 12 percentage points, and district officials did not develop a multi-year financidistrict has accumulated fund balance that exceeds the statutory limit by nearly 12 percentage points, and district officials did not develop a multi-year financidistrict officials did not develop a multi-year financial plan.

[50] He does not support a reduction in operational aid for school districts and believes the budget can be balanced without reducing that aid.

But what this long - overdue budget correction will do is force school districts and the medical community and others to live within their means, without relying on excessive payments from the state for support.

It should be a budget imperative for a state as wealthy as ours, even if it means irritating high - resource school districts which won't do as well, and the Republicans who love them.

The bill would also do away with the traditional school budget vote and require districts to simply ask voters to support a tax increase.

Schools Superintendent Pamela Brown says raising attendance is a priority, but doesn't know if the district can hire more attendance teachers on its budget.

With hard work and plenty of district support, Mesquite Elementary School has proven that budget cuts don't have to mean the end of excellence.

There is a provision within ESSA known as the weighted student funding pilot that allows up to 50 districts to apply for permission to adopt weighted student funding systems or student - based budgeting where dollars do follow the child to whatever school they attend.

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.

Schools districts that rely on bond insurance to help them save money on the borrowing they do for construction projects and special programs could be affected by major ups and downs in that industry, at a time when many districts are already nervous about state budget cuts and a sagging national economy.

Though the school district did have to make some budget cuts for the coming year, saving money was not the primary reason for changing the schedule, according to superintendent Alwyn Thoreson.

The school district could not know exactly what Corbett planned to do with the education budget, but it recognized that a big increase in state funding to offset the elimination of federal stimulus funding was unlikely.

With school budgets strained and learning loss evident, I wondered why districts didn't try to claw back some of the days they've granted their teachers for illness and personal leave.

Budgetary shortfalls, school district bankruptcies, teacher and administrator layoffs, hiring and salary freezes, pension system defaults, shorter school years, ever - larger classes, faculty furloughs, fewer course electives, reduced field trips, foregone or curtailed athletics, outdated textbooks, teachers having to make do with fewer supplies, cuts in school maintenance, and other tales of fiscal woe inevitably captivate the news media, particularly during the late - spring and summer budget and appropriations seasons.

The district's $ 5.6 billion operating budget is balanced, technically, but in so doing the school district has left itself extremely vulnerable to financial catastrophe.

When the EITP expanded to include the Cohort 2 schools in 2009, doubling the number of schools implementing the pilot, the budget for district support of the program did not increase.

If schools wished to continue, they had to pay for the materials out of their own budgets, which they didn't need to do if they used district - approved texts such as

If schools wished to continue, they had to pay for the materials out of their own budgets, which they didn't need to do if they used district - approved texts such as Everyday Mathematics.

Given that school districts largely do not have to face the vagaries of «selling» their services to fickle consumers, one might think that balancing the budget would be fairly straightforward.

Budgeting in the Accountability Age Doing more with less has been the challenge for school districts in recent years, but now the demands of the No Child Left Behind Act, coupled with shrinking resources, are making budgeting eveBudgeting in the Accountability Age Doing more with less has been the challenge for school districts in recent years, but now the demands of the No Child Left Behind Act, coupled with shrinking resources, are making budgeting evebudgeting even harder.

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The ruling by District Court Judge David E. Winslow held that the cash - management program, which allows school officials to issue tax - exempt bonds to cover anticipated budget shortfalls, does not violate the state constitution.

Because states and districts don't create highly integrated plans but instead make discrete technology procurement decisions as part of budgeting deadlines or one - off efforts, the tools and networks that schools are using rarely work in concert.

The House Appropriations Committee last week passed a 1996 spending bill that would cut the District of Columbia's budget but does not include proposals to cut the Washington school board's salaries and...

Rochester's interim city school superintendent is talking budget gap - and what the district is going to do to make up for the shortfall.

School districts don't know in March what their budget will be for the next school year, so they typically plan for a worst case sceSchool districts don't know in March what their budget will be for the next school year, so they typically plan for a worst case sceschool year, so they typically plan for a worst case scenario.

Beyer said she is concerned that the budget does not increase teachers supplements, money some districts pay teachers on top of their state salaries, which leaves DPS at risk of falling even further behind the Wake and Chapel Hill - Carrboro school systems.

Whereas it might (absent intervention by a district's personnel director) be possible for the principal of a disadvantaged school to hire a «high - cost» teacher today, the principal would not be willing to do so if the extra cost were going to come out of the principal's own budget.