Sentences with phrase «approve of giving their schools»

I strongly support the community school model, as does the great majority of Americans — in the latest PDK poll, 74 % of respondents said they would approve of giving their schools additional public money to provide wrap - around services focusing on mental health, nutrition, college counseling, and other needs.

Not exact matches

Since we have hundreds of schools waiting for salad bars at any given time (right now we have 385 on the approved waiting list), this can take some time.

The school says it did not approve the awards that were given out this year, and that the administrators were not aware of the award and would not have allowed it.

Later this month the Republican - dominated U.S. House likely will approve a cost - cutting bill that would dismantle the 48 - year - old National School Lunch Program, giving control of school - based feeding programs to individual sSchool Lunch Program, giving control of school - based feeding programs to individual sschool - based feeding programs to individual states.

However, pollster Steve Greenberg says that when given the specific wording of the amendment on the ballot in November and asked whether they would vote yes or no to approve an amendment to «allow the Legislature to authorize up to seven casinos in New York State for the legislated purposes of promoting job growth, increasing aid to schools, and permitting local governments to lower property taxes through revenues generated,» 55 percent said yes they would approve it, compared to 42 percent who say no they would not.

Cuomo, gave his final approval to the spending bill that was approved by state lawmakers last month, at a bill signing ceremony before an auditorium of high school students in Queens.

Only 44 percent of respondents approved of the job City Council Speaker Christine Quinn is doing, and even less — 39 percent — give Schools Chancellor Joel Klein the thumbs up.

The state Senate has approved a bill giving a five year extension of mayoral control, but additionally providing for increases in then number of charter schools.

ALBANY — Board of Regents chancellor Merryl Tisch didn't give a direct answer when asked whether voters next month should approve a $ 2 billion bond act to boost technology in schools.

«Given that only one new drug has been approved for lupus patients in the last 50 years, there is a pressing need for more specific and less toxic drugs to treat it and other autoimmune disorders,» says Means, who is an assistant professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

The Massachusetts legislature gave its final endorsement to a controversial constitutional amendment that, if approved by a majority of the state's voters later this year, would permit state aid to private - school students.

While the law gives ODE the power to prevent any ineffective authorizer from approving new schools, it may only close authorizers with which it has contracts (13 out of nearly 70 authorizers statewide).

That feature is what lost the support of longtime social - justice warrior (and founder of the pro school choice Black Alliance for Educational Options) Howard Fuller, who in July shocked many allies by stating his opposition to the Nevada plan: «Parental choice should be used principally as a tool to empower communities that face systemic barriers to greater educational and economic opportunities... I could never approve of a plan that would give those with existing advantages even greater means to leverage the limited number of private school options, to the detriment of low - income families.»

Los Angeles — By a razor - thin margin, California voters last week approved a measure giving public schools and community colleges hundreds of millions more in revenues this year and assuring them a set percentage of the state's budget in future years.

We have provided some element of support to around 70 per cent of the currently open and approved Free Schools and our Development Programme is designed to ensure we give our most intensive help to groups that we believe have the highest potential to become outstanding schools, particularly where they will reach deprived commuSchools and our Development Programme is designed to ensure we give our most intensive help to groups that we believe have the highest potential to become outstanding schools, particularly where they will reach deprived commuschools, particularly where they will reach deprived communities.

Given the priority that teachers tend to give to religion, we might reasonably expect to find them more disapproving of the ruling than other Americans.At the same time, however, teachers have a relatively high level of education, and the more education Americans have, the more they tend to approve of the Supreme Court's ban on school prayer.

After more than a decade of trying, Virginia lawmakers have finally approved legislation giving state voters the right to elect school - beard members.

OLYMPIA, Jan. 3. - The state's powerful teachers» union will challenge the charter - schools measure approved by voters last November, perhaps no surprise given the longstanding opposition of the Washington Education Association - but it remains unclear whether state schools superintendent Randy Dorn will join in the lawsuit or file one of his own...

Along with public school districts being given the opportunity to be named as authorizers of charter schools, a new state panel was formed under the law to also approve or deny charter schools in any district in the state, according to Jack Archer, senior policy analyst for the state Board of Education.

South Brunswick Charter approved amid questions surrounding charter operator's financial conduct and conflicts of interest After very little discussion, members of the State Board of Education gave final approval today to 26 charter schools that intend to open...

The federal ESSA regulations give the state Board of Education the authority to draft and approve a school accountability plan based on test scores and other factors that is approved only by the federal Department of Education.

Clemons is not only a founding Board Member of the recently opened New Haven Montessori Charter School and served, up until last year, as a Board Member of one of the Achievement First, Inc. charter schools in New Haven, Clemons's company was given a no - bid contract that was approved and funded by the Connecticut Board of Education, a contract that has already netted Clemons» company more than $ 500,000 with a lot more public funds to come.

After nearly a decade of wrangling over the role the federal government should have in education, Congress is poised to approve an overhaul of the 2002 No Child Left Behind law that would give more authority to Maryland and other states to address their failing schools.

Given that reauthorization of the ESEA continues to languish in Congress, the waivers that U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan approves could set the landscape for school accountability for years to come.

Given a paucity of information and our continued opposition to voucher proposals that shift funding away from public schools, the nation's school leaders can not encourage the Senate HELP Committee to approve Ms. DeVos's nomination.

In its September 9, 2016 meeting, the Utah State Board of Education: • Preliminarily approved an amended new rule giving the Board some oversight to the Utah High School Activities Association, but not dealing with student athlete transfer.

Exam boards» acceptance of requests increased by five per cent, with the vast majority (95 per cent) of approved requests given to pupils sitting exams in adverse circumstances — especially cases of «significant flooding» in schools, the report said.

So with no public hearing, no input from parents, teachers, taxpayers or citizens, the Board of Education is scheduled to APPROVE — changing the structure of SAND Elementary and re-naming it «Capital Prepatory School II» and then giving both «SAND Elementary and Capital Prepatory» to a new «non-profit management organization (Perry's company) and via a Memorandum of Understanding.

Malloy's bill required that school governance councils be given the opportunity to; (1) to review the fiscal objectives of the draft budget for the school and provide advice before it was submitted, (2) participate in the hiring process of administrators, (3) work with school administration to develop and approve a school compact, (4) be involved in developing and approving a written parent involvement policy outlining the role of parents in the school, (5) participate in analyzing school achievement data and school needs relative to the improvement plan for the school, (6) assist the principal in making programmatic and operational changes for improving the school's achievement and the list goes on.

Under new changes approved earlier this year in Fairfax County, VA., middle and high school students will be given «multiple opportunities» to complete assignments before they can be handed a zero at the end of the quarter.

The changes, which would give Einstein a second campus at 5316 Michoud Boulevard, Intercultural's current campus, and an authorized maximum enrollment of 500 students at that campus, were approved by the Orleans Parish School Board on Monday.

The School Board, however, does not approve of giving awards to students where the basic purpose is obviously commercialism.

Legislation approved by the 2014 General Assembly in HB 157 and SB 276 states that in the conversion of an existing public school, students who attend the school and the siblings of such students shall be given the opportunity to enroll in advance of the lottery process and the requirement that at least one - half of the public charter schools per divisions shall be designed for at - risk students does not apply.

At the same time, he said, the law approved by the Legislature last week gives considerable powers to the State Board of Education to establish procedures for how to hold school districts accountable for the money they will receive.

The other large basket of waivers the board approved last year were given to districts enrolled in the Quality Education Investment Act - a program that came out of a court settlement and offered struggling schools extra state support on the condition of meeting several performance and administrative goals.

However, in a study examining elementary school parents» opinions about standardized tests and performance assessments, most parents approved of both types of measures and actually gave stronger approval ratings to performance assessments (Shepard & Bliem, 1995).

Not only has Jumoke / FUSE taken more than $ 53 million in public funds for their charter school but they were given control and the associated public funding to take over public schools in Hartford and Bridgeport and approved for another charter school in New Haven before the Hartford Courant reported on the criminal background of the company's CEO and the FBI raised the company's offices.

The passage of that bill gives the Connecticut legislature, for the first time, the authority to approve the formal funding of any proposed charter schools.

He has touted a federal version of Florida's tax credit scholarship program, which gives corporations and businesses a tax credit if they donate money to state - approved nonprofit organizations that award scholarships to low - income students to attend private and religious schools.

The bill gave the authority to approve charter schools to the state legislature instead of keeping it in the hands of the officials at State Board of Education, who are appointed by the governor, and would make charter schools responsible under the Freedom of Information laws to disclose the same information as all other publicly funded entities.

«The law does not specify the number of classes or instruction taught on line... Whitmore Lake has given full approval to the Cyber School Board by issuing a contract... The MDE does not approve a local curriculum.»

If the administration signs off on the $ 2.2 million transfer from charter schools to the vo - techs, it would then need to be approved by the Finance Advisory Committee, a panel of top state officials responsible for giving final approval to inter-agency budget transfers.

«We continue to work closely with the charter community, and in each of the past several years we've approved an increasing number of co-location requests, giving students and families increasing school options.

That's the order state lawmakers have given education officials barely a year after the State Board of Education approved a complex formula for formally identifying Indiana's best - and worst - performing schools.

Georgia's charter school law, passed in the early 1990s, initially gave only local school boards and the state board of education the power to approve the conversion of standard public schools into charter schools, according to the Augusta Chronicle.

Given that charters are competition with their schools, suburban districts have little incentive to either approve charters, authorize high - quality operators, or, as in the case of the fracas two years ago between the Fulton County district in Georgia and the Fulton Science Academy (now a private school), keep them around if they show up the competition.

The board unanimously approved the pact, which will cost the cash - strapped school system millions of dollars because the district will now give charter schools state money that it previously kept for traditional schools» special education programs.

The ARC Scholarship Competition, held every May, gives thousands of dollars in direct financial aid to students attending ARC Approved Schools.

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