Sentences with phrase «adequate state funding»

Whereas advocates can and do take to the courts for adequate state funding in the K - 12 sector, there's no such parallel in higher education.

But Veronica Vanterpool, an MTA board member representing the city, decried a lack of adequate state funding for the agency, saying that «contributes to the problems that we're experiencing today.»

As The Wichita Eagle explains, the suit was filed by four school districts but the ruling applies to all of Kansas» public schools: «The districts claimed the state had failed in its constitutional duty to provide «suitable» funding for public education on two counts: Ensuring adequate state funding overall, and equitably distributing it among districts.»

Returning the District to local control does not let the PA legislature off the hook for providing adequate state funding to the School District of Philadelphia.

So what are schools and teachers to do if they think more adequate state funding, especially with a Republican controlled Legislature?

It is truly disheartening that many lawmakers refuse to support adequate state funding for education so all of PA's public school students have an opportunity for success, but instead are working to funnel taxpayer dollars to private schools and make it easier for school districts to cut teachers.

We also urge lawmakers to stop spending time and energy on efforts that will make it easier for school districts to cut teachers and instead focus on what parents throughout the Commonwealth want for their children: adequate state funding so that all of our children will receive the educational opportunities they will need to be successful in school today and in their lives after they graduate.

But law societies have little control or mandate over how law schools deliver legal education, and Bronner emphasizes that the success of teaching hospitals is largely due to adequate state funding, which is notably absent for many proposed legal clinics.