Sentences with phrase «about funding public schools»

They can't get it through the Legislature, because the Republicans control the Senate, and because the Legislature needs to raise several billion dollars in new revenue to meet a State Supreme Court mandate about funding the public schools.

This year's discussion about funding public schools wasn't significantly different than any other year.

As evidence of the deep divisions on Raise the Age, Senator Thomas D. Croci, a Republican from Long Island, suggested that Mr. Heastie and Mr. Cuomo «care more about keeping teenage drug gang members, murderers and rapists out of jail than they do about funding our public schools, providing tax relief for our families and rebuilding our infrastructure.»

«Unfortunately, the Governor and the Assembly Speaker care more about keeping teenage drug gang members, murderers and rapists out of jail than they do about funding our public schools, providing tax relief for our families and rebuilding our infrastructure,» said Sen. Tom Croci, a Long Island Republican.

Not exact matches

The poll on education funding, done by Environics Research for the Alberta Teachers Association, dealt only with public attitudes about public funding for private schools.

Isn't the question about the use of public funds — why would Christians want to have the 10 Commandments in a public school — isn't that personal?

For decades, discussion about Catholic schools in Britain centred on demands for a fair share of the public funds available.

About three thousand students are already benefiting from the latest wrinkle in five states, «education savings accounts,» which provide even more flexibility to families by allowing those who withdraw their children from public schools to receive a deposit of public funds into government - authorized savings accounts that can be used to pay for private school tuition, online learning programs, private tutoring, educational therapies, or college costs.

Funds are used to raise awareness about child hunger in the U.S.; create public - private partnerships that align kids with the resources they need; support nutrition programs like school breakfast and summer meals; and educate kids and their families on how to cook healthy meals with limited resources.

But truthfully, there are people out there who are very under - educated about food and can benefit from laws that stop tobacco being sold to minors and keep junk out of tax - funded public school lunches.

The new Dr. Deirdre Loughlin Fund will link two of Deirdre's highest priorities: Broad Meadow Brook, where she has served for many, many years as chair of the advisory board; and Worcester Public Schools, where — as a teacher, and later, as a top administrator — she inspired generations of students to be curious and confident about science.

He's certainly concerned about how institutions like school districts and public authorities manage their funds.

As expected, former Queens Sen. Shirley Huntley has pleaded guilty to a mail fraud charge stemming from her embezzlement over a three - year period of $ 87,700 from Parents Information Network, Inc. — a nonprofit that received public funds to (ostensibly) help educate parents about the New York City public school system.

Tentative deals have been reached on parts of a new state budget, including about $ 1 billion in additional funding for public schools, a work - around for some higher - income New Yorkers to reduce the impact of new federal tax deduction limits, and a freeze on what Albany sends to local governments around the state.

Today he commented, «At a time when public concern about the place of religion in schools has never been higher, we need full accountability and transparency with respect to decisions as to which schools are funded.

At a time when the corporate education reformers like Governor Cuomo scapegoat teachers, underfund public schools, and push high - stakes testing linked to Common Core as way to justify the expansion of privately - managed charter schools, she has persistently brought forth real facts about how poverty, segregation, and inequitable school funding affect testing and achievement in public schools.

But Kolb says he knows talks are going on about the top two remaining issues, renewing New York City's rent laws and an education tax credit for donors who give up to a million dollars to fund scholarships for poor children in private schools and fund afterschool activities at public schools.

The Chairman of the Public Interest Accountability Committee (PIAC), Joseph Winful, has expressed doubts about the capacity of the Heritage Fund in its present stage, to meet the needs of the Free Senior High School policy.

«My campaign has always been about achieving tax relief for overburdened Long Island families, fair funding for struggling school districts, and real ethics reforms to restore public faith in government.»

Aside from funding, there's a lot of anticipation about what Cuomo will propose regarding charter schools, to which public education advocates say he is overly beholden due to the big money he has received from deep pocketed charter boosters.

For example, the Archdiocese of New York receives about $ 325 in state funds per student compared to nearly $ 17,000 paid per public school student.

The PTO is not only taking issue with Perry's charter school background, but also charged that he is «profiting off of public school funds,» and making «fraudulent claims» about addressing students» needs.

Parents worry about funding and standards for their public school students and remain least concerned about the amount of testing in classrooms, a survey released by High Achievement New York and Achieve found.

Only about half of the funding for public schools in the United States comes from the federal and state budget.

The Foundation has also funded a graduate student internship through the University at Albany's School of Public Health to help develop the «It's Okay to Talk About It» program.

United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew, however, bluntly blasted DeVos as having a strictly business philosophy rather than an educational one, noting that her whole career has been about removing funding from public schools.

The Moral Mondays movement came to New York State on Jan. 12 as about 1,000 students, parents, advocates and union leaders from New York City and across the state converged on the state Capitol to demand fair and equitable funding for public schools.

We have people lined up, ready to go and we're going to use it as an opportunity to talk both about the democratic process and the real issues in this state: public funding of elections, funding for public schools, fracking, our tax code and the environment.»

Republicans said nothing during the debate over the «big ugly,» which also included about $ 25.8 billion in funding for public schools, revived the 421 - a housing subsidy program, creates a new scholarship program for public colleges, included billions for water infrastructure, spurs municipal service consolidation and extended the state's expiring millionaires tax for two years.

Other challenges, it said, included special schools, such as schools for the blind and the deaf, which were either closing down or about to do so, subvention not being released to the psychiatric hospital in Accra, nearly all statutory funds being in arrears and a significant number of public sector workers, including nurses and district chief executives employed by the government over a year ago not being paid.

They plow some of their profits into promotional industry groups that fund research studies, they make alliances with medical organizations to educate the public about milk, and they provide free materials to schools suggesting that milk is vital to good nutrition.

«One of the responsibilities that we have as scientists, particularly those of us who receive public funding for our research, is to be engaged with the public about our understanding of the way that the world works and also about the limits of our understanding,» said the Stanford University researcher, who holds dual appointments with the School of Environmental Earth System Science and the Woods Institute for the Environment.

Americans» support for using public funds to pay for students to attend private schools apparently was growing even before the U.S. Supreme Court's June decision upholding the Cleveland voucher plan, findings from this year's Phi Delta Kappa / Gallup poll on public attitudes about education suggest.

The Public Account Committee, highlighted where differences in school funding resulted in «some schools receive about # 3,000 a year more than others per disadvantaged pupil».

I don't think public schools need to worry about losing funds.

Because my interest here is in how portability would affect the distribution of federal funds across public schools even if students do not switch to private schools, I do not need any assumptions about the terms private schools would face.

If the mayor were truly concerned about «corporate» funding of public schools, we have to ask, «Does that include all corporate money?»

Kahan told Fisher about New Visions for Public Schools, an education - reform group that helps fund small, theme - based schools in New YorSchools, an education - reform group that helps fund small, theme - based schools in New Yorschools in New York City.

They operate on a shoestring budget: the Arizona schools operate on about two - thirds of the average funding for a child in a traditional public school.

Especially intriguing about the Gates - funded compacts is their top quarterback, Don Shalvey, a former district superintendent who also founded Aspire Public Schools.

If you look at the Fund's «990» tax form, you'll find even more reason to question the veracity of the mayor's concern about the malign influence of private money in public schools.

I tell them that they're being paid with public funds to serve the public's kids, and therefore it's inevitable (and appropriate) that public officials will have a lot to say about how schools work and how they're held accountable.

A unitary accountability system enables the state to fairly and transparently monitor program compliance and inform the public about performance; make difficult decisions about withholding funds, intervening with local boards, and taking over schools and districts; and uniformly and thoroughly administer federal programs.

Resulting in the direction of about $ 146 million in public funding towards private schools last year, the Indiana Choice Scholarship Program has been in operation for about five years to date.

They haven't always agreed — especially on which levels of government should do what, how many forms of school choice warrant public funding, how best to evaluate teachers, and so on — but I'm not talking about consensus on the details of policy and implementation.

The measure calls for a commission consisting of the governor, state superintendent, and legislative leaders to devise means of generating an additional $ 1 billion in state revenue to increase the state's share of public school funding from about 40 percent to roughly 65 percent.

He set about creating «a technical support and advisory group that would seek out the very best of these community leaders, give them the start - up funds and technical advice [finances, payroll system, health care program, implementing curriculum, relations with public authorities] they needed, and help them manage their own schools.»

Gergen also spoke about the need to increase student funding and financial aid at Harvard's public - service schools in order to attract the best students and lessen the burden of education debt.

The addition of about seven public schools with McKay funding within five miles of a public school improved the academic achievement of special education students by about.05 of a standard deviation.

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