Sentences with phrase «also funds public schools»

«Connecticut currently finds itself with a school - finance system that not only defies logic but also funds public schools arbitrarily and inequitably,» said Katie Roy, founder of the Connecticut School Finance Project, which organized the coalition.

Not exact matches

The Clinton platform also focuses heavily on education, including a call to broaden computer science education in public schools, revamp job training programs, and provide more funds for minority colleges to help tackle tech's diversity problem.

She's also shown just how closely corporate funders can work with local public schools.

Paul serves on the FCC's Technological Advisory Council; the Board of the Public Affairs Council; the Advisory Board for Princeton University's Center for Information Technology Policy; and the Board of the Partnership Fund for the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, where he also Chairs the Corporate Advisory Board.

These partnerships also provide a range of funding opportunities, and many grants are broad enough to include support for the fees associated with public use of school kitchens.

We also think that there are serious public health risks to funding schools that opt out of providing vaccinations.

Former teacher Linares said he also intends to focus on education, and called for more funding to help community schools and provide wrap - around services for public school students.

One is an education tax credit that would give donors a tax break for funding scholarships to allow poor children to attend private schools, and also for money given to extra curricular programs at public schools.

But Lipton also said there is «more to do,» like restoring «progressivity» to the state's tax code, closing the carried interest tax loophole, and investing in a new «social contract» on public education that ensures full funding for schools — including universal pre-K (an early de Blasio priority)-- and restoration to the public university system to pre-recession levels.

Also at 8:30 a.m., the New York League of Conservation Voters Education Fund hosts the final installment of its Getting NYC to 80 × 50 policy forum series, New York University Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, second floor, 295 Lafayette St., Manhattan.

The measure also would require charters — publicly funded but privately managed schools — to enroll special - education students and English - language learners at rates comparable to traditional public schools in their districts.

Cuomo also wants to add 100 new charter schools in the state, which are publicly funded by taxpayers but don't have to follow all the rules and regulations that public schools must obey.

The foldout also includes commitments to «support our public schools» and to «close the $ 4.4 billion annual gap in funding owed by the state to public schools» — a figure apparently derived from the Court of Appeals» 2003 Campagn for Fiscal Equity, Inc. v. State decision, which ruled Albany had shortchanged the city billions in education funds.

The budget also provides an overall funding increase for public schools of 4 percent, although for some districts, the increases will not make up for a budget maneuver enacted seven years ago during a financial meltdown in Albany.

Also at 1 p.m., AQE releases a report, «Gubernatorial Delinquency: Cuomo's Failure to Fund New York State's Public Schools», which gives a detailed accounting of how much the state owes schools in every Assembly and Senate district in New York, Sen. Neil Breslin and Assembly members Pat Fahy John McDonald and Angelo Santabarbara will attend, LCA Press Room, Legislative Office Building, 198 State St., Schools», which gives a detailed accounting of how much the state owes schools in every Assembly and Senate district in New York, Sen. Neil Breslin and Assembly members Pat Fahy John McDonald and Angelo Santabarbara will attend, LCA Press Room, Legislative Office Building, 198 State St., schools in every Assembly and Senate district in New York, Sen. Neil Breslin and Assembly members Pat Fahy John McDonald and Angelo Santabarbara will attend, LCA Press Room, Legislative Office Building, 198 State St., Albany.

Speaking at the inaugural conference of the Ibadan School of Government and Public Policy at the University of Ibadan, Oyo State, he also accused local government chairmen in the country of embezzling the remaining council funds after Governors would have diverted a sizable portion.

Also at 11:30 a.m., charter school advocates rally to call on equal funding with public schools, state Capitol, Albany.

«The Government not only needs to ensure that it is able to demonstrate that its funding reform proposals are fit for purpose, but it also needs to secure confidence from schools, teachers and the public that these are the right proposals in the circumstances.

The mayor also started the «Mayor's Heroin and Prescription Opioid Public Awareness Task Force,» gave $ 70,000 to expand the «Too Good for Drugs» anti-drug program in schools and set up a dedicated fund to provide 7,000 free naloxone kits to community - based organizations.

They also said the governor is proposing a $ 1 billion increase in aid to public schools and assumes the level of health care funding from the federal government will remain flat for the next fiscal year.

The IDC will also advocate for up to $ 20 million in funding for the QualitystarsNY program to provide strategic direction and improvements to the approximately 330 centers, family - home providers and public schools that the program serves.

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.

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.

The freeze on charters» per - pupil funding won't officially end for another year, but these innovative public schools will get direct state grants to reduce the gap this year — and also get markedly more facilities funding.

He has also proposed extending college tuition assistance to undocumented immigrants — a proposal known as the Dream Act — as well as creating a new tax credit to offset donations to private and parochial school scholarship funds and public schools.

He said his progressive tax reforms would also fund «A Green New Deal for New York» featuring full employment, living wages, single - payer health care, fully - funded public schools, affordable housing and mass transit, and a 100 percent clean energy system by 2030.

Other areas of our work that also have human rights and equalities angles include our campaigns around state - funded religious schools, religious education, for public service reform, and on ethical issues such as abortion and assisted dying.

Rudin is also expected to provide funding for local public schools.

Reif also argues that while the Senate Republicans want to eliminate a statewide cap on charter schools and make other charter - friendly changes, they are also pushing to increase funding for public schools beyond what Gov. Cuomo is proposing.

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.

Amanda also served as the Director for Participatory Budgeting for Council District 30, where she spearheaded the allocation of over one million dollars in capital funds, as voted on by thousands of local residents, to improve public schools, libraries, and parks in the district.

The governor's proposal also calls for federal support to keep Brooklyn's ailing hospitals open, changing the controversial Common Core school curriculum, ending standardized testing for grades K - 2, begin construction of four new casinos in the fall, allow public funding of political campaigns and reforming the state's ethics policy.

Little said she would also prioritize tax and regulatory relief for small businesses, a restoration of Gap Elimination Adjustment, or GEA, funds for public schools and monies for invasive species eradication.

«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.

He also sits on the advisory board for Education Through Music LA, which builds curriculum and funds music education in LA public schools.

And every fall since 2001, the Education Trust, a national organization devoted to closing the achievement gap in our public schools, has issued «The Funding Gap» report, also ranking states by the equity of their K - 12 finance systems.

Information on how funds are allocated between different programs and expenses and how funds are distributed between states, districts, schools, and students could also influence public opinion in important ways.»

«This is also a very important example of the benefits of the Gonski schools funding system — $ 224 million of additional Gonski funding is going to greatly benefit public schools right across the state and this is yet another example of the importance of all governments around Australia committing to fully funding the Gonski model.»

The plaintiffs also allege that they have been injured because some of their children attend public schools, and because when a student uses a private scholarship to switch from public to private school it reduces district funding.

Also in 2010, Representative Phillip Owens, the chair of the House Education and Public Works Committee introduced a bill aimed at establishing a more sustainable funding policy for CSD, and despite being stalled by opponents representing traditional districts, the 2011 - 12 state budget included a funding increase for CSD schools.

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

The agreement also solidifies funding for D.C.'s public schools and public charter schools.

It also has a strong relationship with the public schools of Massachusetts, and I wanted to see public schools in action that had better funding and higher test scores than my native state of California.

The court also failed to distinguish the programs from other Arizona policies through which beneficiaries use public funds to attend private and religious schools.

In a complex yet constitutional process, Title I funds provided services to students in parochial schools through funds granted to the public school districts.The public districts — in addition to taking care of their own students — also purchased books and hired teachers for the parochial school students.

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.

Under our new strategy, we will also make # 10 million of National Lottery funding available to help this process of opening up school sport facilities for wider public use and help them maximise the use of all their pools, pitches and sports halls.

Also, the District of Columbia is alleged to have provided traditional public schools with supplemental funding, support for operational expenses, and in - kind services, such as security from city police, that it has not granted to charters.

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.

If funds are equitably shared with public options and schools are held accountable, he argues, this can also be a system that is politically feasible.