Educating teachers, parents and community members
about school finance issues such as Full - Time Equivalency or FTEs, grant funding requirements and limitations along with basic operational costs will allow everyone that is involved with decision - making to develop a realistic vision of what is actually possible based on the amount of funding available.
Not exact matches
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The syllabi devote
about 30 percent of class sessions to operational
issues like
school law,
school finance, and facilities management.
Gov. Sam Brownback, whose «block grant»
school finance plan is at the heart of the dispute, also
issued a statement criticizing the court shortly after the decision was handed down
about 5 p.m. Friday.
Your friend the chair of
finance, who is a bit of an anorak
about this stuff, also tells you that recent changes to funding particularly affect
schools with large sixth forms (that's you), compounded by
issues for some rural areas (that's you too)--
issues that have become sufficiently acute that it has prompted MPs to initiate a debate
about it.
Most of my work in
school finance is actually not
about issues of measuring funding inequities within districts or across districts or states.
Even for those who care deeply
about education
issues, any talk
about school financing is generally enough to make anyone's eyes glaze over.
Also, read our
issue brief
about Local Education Agency Status and learn more
about special education funding in our report: «Getting Lost While Trying to Trying to Find the Money: Special Education
Finance in Charter
Schools.»
Responding to concerns
about the capacity of
finance bosses to deal with
issues in academy chains, EFA boss Peter Lauener said his agency had an «extensive monitoring system» to look at financial
issues, and said any concerns were always discussed with
schools commissioners.
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school finance, race, class, and gender
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For the elected judges on the state's highest civil court, the trick is to survive politically without thinking
about politics — even on big political
issues like
school finance.
Austin, Texas
About Blog This blog on Texas education contains posts on accountability, testing, college readiness, dropouts, bilingual education, immigration,
school finance, race, class, and gender
issues with additional focus at the national level.