Sentences with phrase «additional funding for their school districts»

Each student in one of these categories would be counted as 1.2 students and would thus capture additional funding for their school districts.

Probably everyone in this room believes the state must step up with additional funding for the School District.

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Arizona's largest school district and some others will resume classes after lawmakers approved money for teacher pay raises and additional education funding.

Additional accountability requirements: N.J.S.A. 18A: 33 - 15 to 18 (2007) requires new school districts participating in any of the federally funded Child Nutrition Programs to submit their local policies to the state Department of Agriculture for a compliance check with the state's NJ School Nutrition / Wellness Policy (2005), which contains policy content requirements that go beyond Sectioschool districts participating in any of the federally funded Child Nutrition Programs to submit their local policies to the state Department of Agriculture for a compliance check with the state's NJ School Nutrition / Wellness Policy (2005), which contains policy content requirements that go beyond SectioSchool Nutrition / Wellness Policy (2005), which contains policy content requirements that go beyond Section 204.

If funding for the project is approved, the school district would use the space for physical education classes and additional parking.

The grant will allow us to continue our work funding alternative breakfast programs; to date, the Partners for BIC have helped 36 school districts in 18 states feed over 63,000 additional students at school breakfast.

The pro-school funding group Alliance for Quality Education, in a statement, accused Cuomo of «perpetuating educational racism and economic inequality» for not including billions of additional dollars to comply with a decade - and - a-half-old court order to fully fund schools in poorer school districts.

The pro school funding group Alliance for Quality Education, in a statement, accused Cuomo of «perpetuating educational racism and economic inequality» for not including billions of additional dollars to comply with a decade - and - a-half-old court order to fully fund schools in poorer school districts.

Examples of the early successes of task force members include legally establishing its operating authority and scope of operation in the State Budget, requiring a study of re-use options of the Indian Point property, adding an additional $ 15 million to the State's Power Plant Cessation Mitigation Fund starting in 2020, extending the timeline for payments from that fund, and authorizing the HendrickHudson School District to start a reserve fund to plan for future tax impaFund starting in 2020, extending the timeline for payments from that fund, and authorizing the HendrickHudson School District to start a reserve fund to plan for future tax impafund, and authorizing the HendrickHudson School District to start a reserve fund to plan for future tax impafund to plan for future tax impacts.

«However, in 2006 the Court of Appeals mandated additional funding for the NYC school district of $ 1.93 billion from all sources — not just from State funds.

He said there were «numerous issues» the residents of his district wanted to address in Albany, including the education investment tax credit bill, security funding for private schools and additional funding for infertility drugs.

Although Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposed budget released in January cut state aid to each school district in Southold Town, the state Legislature was successful in restoring those funds and even secured additional aid for Riverhead and Shoreham - Wading River.

One enables school districts to use reserve funds for Sandy recovery expenses; another gives municipalities an additional year to repay state - fund advances.

For example, the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act allocates additional funding to school districts with a high percentage of low - income students, who are more likely to have poor educational outcomes for reasons unrelated to school qualiFor example, the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act allocates additional funding to school districts with a high percentage of low - income students, who are more likely to have poor educational outcomes for reasons unrelated to school qualifor reasons unrelated to school quality.

I explore three broad hypotheses for why African Americans might not have benefited as much as whites from the funding initiatives: 1) kindergarten funding disproportionately drew African Americans out of higher - quality education settings; 2) instead of raising additional revenue to fund local kindergarten programs fully, school districts offered lower - quality kindergarten programs to African Americans or moved funds from existing school programs from which African Americans may have disproportionately benefited; and 3) African Americans were more adversely affected by any subsequent «upgrading» of school curricula as more students entered elementary grades having attended kindergarten.

These supports include additional funding of $ 20,000 per school (up to a maximum of $ 170,000 per district) for superintendent and principal mentoring and monitoring; $ 15,000 for teacher release time for job - embedded professional learning; 2 provincial professional learning sessions for principal and teacher teams from all schools involved; and Ministry developed documents, resources and facilitation, including tracking templates for the collection and analysis of quantitative and qualitative data.

The district also contends that because the mayor and board of education have provided additional funding for traditional public schools ever since the act was passed, those actions have created an authoritative legal precedent.

They not only used the school's existing resources innovatively, but also often secured additional funding from the district office and capitalized on relationships with external stakeholders to garner support for the school.

Those programs include early - childhood programs for the state's 16 largest and neediest cities, school library improvements, 16 urban charter schools, and additional funding for magnet schools to attract students from surrounding school districts.

Property values fell sharply after the recession hit, making it difficult for local school districts to raise significant additional revenue through the property tax to make up for cuts in state funding.

However, I understand there are concerns that some school districts have used this additional funding for expenses not directly related to providing additional services for those students.

To provide additional funding for students «at risk» — those in poverty or headed for academic failure — most states adjust each district's aid level through a weight or use categorical programs to grant school districts money that typically must be spent on specific services.

District leaders developed a set of indicators to track demographic changes and performance, and they used these indicators to designate certain schools as at - risk of declining performance, thus qualifying for additional district support (e.g., staffing, program, fDistrict leaders developed a set of indicators to track demographic changes and performance, and they used these indicators to designate certain schools as at - risk of declining performance, thus qualifying for additional district support (e.g., staffing, program, fdistrict support (e.g., staffing, program, funding).

Only a few have made sustained efforts at capacity building (such as Missouri «s 1993 Outstanding Schools Act provided funding for a state - wide teacher professional development system, or New Jersey «s provision of significant additional resources to high poverty «Abbott» school districts).

In addition to taking advantage of additional funding from the state, and attending mandatory workshops offered by the state for all schools identified as not meeting AYP, district leaders (curriculum superintendent, curriculum directors, school improvement director) conducted their own investigations of the problems in student performance and followed up with district support tailored to each school «s needs.

This challenge is compounded by the fact that charter schools are chronically underfunded, operating, on average nationwide, with only three - quarters of the operational funding of traditional (district) public schools, and typically with no additional funding for facilities or capital infrastructure.

For one, there is a case to be made that districts, particularly those serving a lot of students living in concentrated poverty, need additional funds to encourage effective teachers to work in more challenging schools.

Throughout Washington, D.C., and around the country, parents are raising hundreds of thousands — even millions — of dollars to provide additional programs, services, and staff to some of their districts» least needy schools.7 They are investing more money than ever before: A recent study showed that, nationally, PTAs» revenues have almost tripled since the mid-1990s, reaching over $ 425 million in 2010.8 PTAs provide a small but growing slice of the funding for the nation's public education system.

Advocates of additional funding say students in low - income districts need the state to account for paying social workers, counselors, after - school programs and other costs necessary to mitigate the impacts of poverty.

As school meal participation increases, school districts draw down the associated additional federal and state - funded reimbursements for meals served.

A four - tier formula would use state and local funds to provide the foundation for a high quality education for every student, state funds to help districts with students whose educational needs are truly greater than the norm, and local funds to provide additional programs and services communities want for their schools.

They have already voted no to across the board teacher salary increases and continued the freeze on teachers» salaries that has been in place for 5 years (at the same time passed a tax break for the wealthy, and now, with reduced revenue can not give raises), increased class size, taken away additional pay for Masters degrees, eliminated most of the state's teacher assistants, gone after tenure and offered the top 25 % of the teachers in a district $ 500 to give up their tenure immediately, increased the number of charter schools (many funded by Republicans in the private school business) and finally, the most recent scheme pondered is to let kids go to any school in the state regardless of their home county.

Tier 3 funding would provide additional resources for school districts with students whose educational needs are greater than the norm.

Tuck said his campaign will focus on ensuring that Gov. Jerry Brown's new school funding formula — which provides additional money to districts with large numbers of poor children, English learners and foster youth — is really funneling money to the neediest students and that its accountability measures are more understandable for parents and the public.

Often, additional funds are available through district allotments for staff development or programs for safe schools or drug prevention.

«It masks the true cost of the voucher program expansion and the harm that expansion will do to public schools by «washing» the dollars through the aid formula for public schools» because lawmakers no longer must appropriate additional state dollars to fund voucher expansion because it comes from school district funding, he said.

$ 200 million in one - time funding for College Readiness Block grants to school districts and charter schools serving high school students to provide additional services to help students transition to higher education.

With only days to go until the start of the new school year, Connecticut's 30 Alliance Districts, the thirty poorest school districts in the state, still haven't heard whether they are getting the additional funds that Governor Malloy and the Connecticut General Assembly promised them for tDistricts, the thirty poorest school districts in the state, still haven't heard whether they are getting the additional funds that Governor Malloy and the Connecticut General Assembly promised them for tdistricts in the state, still haven't heard whether they are getting the additional funds that Governor Malloy and the Connecticut General Assembly promised them for this year.

The district is beginning work without philanthropic support for the costs of making this transition, but hopes to obtain funding to support additional school - level design teams.

The Legislature has also taken steps to address the issue by providing additional state funding for the 2017 — 19 biennium to increase school districts» access to attendance data and support districts in identifying successful strategies to address chronic student absenteeism.

Since the 2008 - 09 school year, the state has provided additional funding for small, rural districts outside of their revenue limits through sparsity aid, as a way to lessen certain challenges experienced by rural districts with both a small pupil membership and a sparsely populated area.

The surveys were made available in English, Spanish, Chinese, Hmong, Russian, and Vietnamese and allowed participants to rank different activities for each of the State's Eight Priority Areas as well as suggest additional services and activities for the school district to invest in with LCFF funds.

To address the issues, 75 percent of school leaders encourage an increase in federal funding for school districts to comply with the new standards and 60.3 percent support additional flexibility for school districts to improve their ability to provide good nutrition without harm to instruction, personnel, and other school district operations.

School district leaders say a GOP - authored budget mandate that schools trim class sizes in grades K - 3 beginning with the 2017 - 2018 academic year will have major consequences in North Carolina public school districts without additional state funding or staffing flexibility for district leSchool district leaders say a GOP - authored budget mandate that schools trim class sizes in grades K - 3 beginning with the 2017 - 2018 academic year will have major consequences in North Carolina public school districts without additional state funding or staffing flexibility for district leschool districts without additional state funding or staffing flexibility for district leaders.

The UCLA center also plans to advise California school districts on how to more effectively use additional revenue for high - needs students — English language learners, foster care youth and those from low - income families — they have received through the Local Control Funding Formula.

Moreover, because the LCFF allocates additional funds to school districts based on their number of disadvantaged students — English learners, foster youth, and students from low - income families — increasing funding for the LCFF means more dollars are being provided to improve educational equity.

Prior to full implementation of the LCFF, school districts are required to demonstrate how the additional funding generated by disadvantaged students under the LCFF increases or improves services for these students

TCTA pointed to the significant research based supporting the effectiveness of quality mentoring programs in retaining teachers and contributing to student success in advocating that state support of local school district quality mentoring programs be added as an additional strategy for state use of Title II funds.

He spoke out against the governor's successful push to strip most public employees of collective bargaining rights, and Evers has also advocated for significant increases in school funding — both by increasing state aid to schools and by allowing local school districts to raise additional revenue through property taxes.

Members of the Carrollton - Farmers Branch Independent School District Council PTA came together to advocate for using the only available means of raising additional funds locally — a Tax Ratification Election (TRE).