Sentences with phrase «as the school district faces»

Calls for altering the cap are back again this year as school districts face the prospect of setting budgets that allow for less than a 1 percent increase in the levy, or the amount collected in taxes.

As school districts face zero inflation and virtually no room under the state's cap on property taxes, the number of school districts seeking overrides of the limit has doubled, according to the New York State School Boards Association.

The number of children in Northwest Indiana from low - income families and eligible for free or reduced - price lunch has climbed in the region and across the state, as school districts face tighter budgets and reduced state funding.

Not exact matches

As most would guess, kids with more disadvantages, such as poverty and less educated parents, come to school less prepared, which pulls down average test scores at districts where more kids face these challengeAs most would guess, kids with more disadvantages, such as poverty and less educated parents, come to school less prepared, which pulls down average test scores at districts where more kids face these challengeas poverty and less educated parents, come to school less prepared, which pulls down average test scores at districts where more kids face these challenges.

Yet I don't think that failure has been due to a lack of commitment on the part of my district; rather, as explained to those of us on the Nutrition Services Parent Advisory Committee, a district as large as ours (300 schools) faces unique challenges in relying on local sources to supply produce for its 200,000 meals served daily.

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To provide information on challenges that school districts have faced, this testimony draws on work GAO conducted as part of its ongoing study of implementation of the changes.

They are working with impossibly tight funding; they may face high turnover of labor; they may be at the bottom of the food chain within their school district, viewed as little more than an annoying adjunct department vaguely linked with mystery meat, ladies in hairnets, and the persistent complaint that «school food sucks.»

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Despite their importance as alternative options for parents and students in failing districts, many parochial schools in New York State are experiencing financial hardship, and parents can face steep costs to enroll their children in such schools.

Mayoral control is commonly proposed as a solution for failing school districts like Syracuse's, which faces low graduation rates and test scores.

«The state considers approximately one third of all districts in the state as high need, and the additional funding will benefit most school districts in the state, especially in the face of a state - imposed 2 percent property tax cap that restricts local revenues,» Moody's found.

Even though Rockland school districts are facing challenges, they have not been hit as hard as northern counties where enrollment rates in some districts have dropped by as much as 25 percent since 2000, and are expected to continue dropping.

During a contentious three - hour debate on Thursday, Jewish lawmakers condemned the legislation as anti-Semitic, arguing that many of the state's roughly 700 school districts have faced similar fiscal and academic challenges to East Ramapo.

Thiele said Long Island school districts would face the increases in their LIPA bills even as they labor under the state - mandated 2 percent tax cap.

Ulster County Legislator Rich Gerentine said he had worked with Skartados on a number of projects, including getting funds to help the Marlboro school district as it faced a property tax crunch.

Now a combination of Quomo's low ball budget proposal along with the poorly constructed tax cap in place school local school districts need to portray the extremely unpopular cuts they now face (loss of electives and AP options; cuts to music, art and athletics; increased class size) as being directly the result of decisions made by our legislators in Albany.

Jordan, a former school superintendent who served as the interim head of the Onteora District for a spell, faced off against fellow Republican Frank Stapleton, nominated by former GOP Club head Gerry Setchko and seconded by Gutmann, and Democrat Tim Malloy, who left the board last year and was seeking cross-endorsement, nominated by Gutmann and Rice.

Faced with calls that he be removed from the Buffalo School Board for comments about President and First Lady Obama, Carl P. Paladino is doubling down on his criticism of the district - as well as some of his political opponents.

As the Syracuse City School District goes into its budget process, it's looking at a $ 24 million spending gap, a revenue problem stemming from years of stagnant state aid in the face of rising educational costs.

As K - 12 and university institutions and school districts shift to an online strategy, an important question is to ask, which courses should be online, face - to - face or blended?

Over the past few years, as cash - strapped states and school districts have faced tough budget decisions, spending on teacher compensation has come under the microscope.

As schools throughout the eastern half of the United States reopened after last month's severe winter storms and record - breaking low temperatures, district officials faced the difficult task of restoring order to their instructional programs.

Once again, school districts, private firms, and even states face powerful incentives (as with «proficiency» under NCLB) to set their standards at levels that lots of young people will meet, whether or not that has anything to do with «mastery.»

The cost to states for designing and administering high school exit exams is modest compared with the «rapidly escalating» costs school districts face as they try to raise student performance on the exams, concludes a report released last week.

Scott says her children now have access to extracurriculars and the opportunity for more face time with teachers, which she says is a benefit of enrolling in a district - level virtual school, as opposed to one that operates nationally.

The San Luis Coastal Unified School District and the other six board members sued in state court last November to prevent Caroline Botwin, an English teacher, from taking office, arguing that she would face numerous conflicts of interest serving as both a school - board member and a teSchool District and the other six board members sued in state court last November to prevent Caroline Botwin, an English teacher, from taking office, arguing that she would face numerous conflicts of interest serving as both a school - board member and a teschool - board member and a teacher.

Alternative teacher certifications are becoming a nationwide trend as a stopgap for districts facing teacher shortages in their schools.

This fall, more than 10,000 Chicago public school students faced retention as the school district implemented a program to eliminate social promotion and enforce consistent standards of achievement.

Each year, as predictably as classes end in June, the School District of Philadelphia faces a budget crisis for the coming schoolSchool District of Philadelphia faces a budget crisis for the coming schoolschool year.

Even as school officials across the country continue to weigh cutbacks because of the still - bleak economy, Greg Murry, the superintendent of this 9,000 - student district, faces an enviable challenge: how to spend, within a tight time frame, an economic - stimulus windfall of up to $ 7 million.

Its large urban districts, referred to as the «Big Eight,» have faced sharply declining enrollment due to both shrinking populations and an influx of charter schools.

Inasmuch as private sector, nonprofit, and governmental managers outside of K - 12 schooling face many of these same challenges in their work, there is no reason why talented individuals from these sectors should not also be considered for positions as school principals and district administrators.

When faced with soaring transportation costs and students on buses for as long as four hours each day, some rural school districts pared the fifth day of instruction into fourths and tacked this time onto the end of the remaining four weekdays, creating a four - day school week.

Referring to the red tape and often maddening work rules she faced as principal of a district school, Icahn 3 principal Marcy Glattstein notes: «Coming from the DOE, what I appreciate most about Icahn is that it's human.

As an increasing number of schools and school districts adopt online learning as a way to boost graduation rates, address multiple student populations, expand their course catalogs, and personalize learning, understanding the challenges and obstacles that educators face as they introduce new programs is keAs an increasing number of schools and school districts adopt online learning as a way to boost graduation rates, address multiple student populations, expand their course catalogs, and personalize learning, understanding the challenges and obstacles that educators face as they introduce new programs is keas a way to boost graduation rates, address multiple student populations, expand their course catalogs, and personalize learning, understanding the challenges and obstacles that educators face as they introduce new programs is keas they introduce new programs is key.

Join Todd Wirt, assistant superintendent for academics with Wake County Public School System (WCPSS), N.C., and Carol Wetzel, senior director with Discovery Education, as they discuss the challenges WCPSS faced implementing Common Core State Standards across the district and how they determined the best way to scale professional development for its 11,000 teachers as they embarked on this digital and instructional journey.

Both businesses and school districts face risks as they navigate an emerging and highly competitive market for data tools.

As schools across the country move toward implementing the Common Core State Standards, district officials face a major challenge: How do they make the new academic expectations understandable to parents?

Yet as the use of digital learning tools grows, districts and schools face an increasingly complex set of challenges — such as cost, device management, and implementation — that often inhibit efforts aimed at using technology to improve learning.

Those who engage responsibly in exercising their rights and freedoms will not have their chances of admission compromised, nor will current admissions be revoked, regardless of whether they face disciplinary action by their schools or districts as a result of peaceful protest.

Just as California school districts are facing new pressures to implement the Common Core State Standards and other key educational reforms, many of them are struggling with what some officials are calling the early impacts of a long - feared teacher shortage.

Locating new schools is just one of many issues facing charters in the District, as well as in cities across the country where charters are growing, including Kansas City and Cleveland.

What began as a pulse - check of rural schools» use of technology to address the obstacles facing their communities evolved into a deep look at what is working to increase college and career readiness and economic opportunity in historically underserved districts.

School districts with high levels of socioeconomic diversity face significant challenges as they try to satisfy diverse educational preferences.

As the recent contract dispute at the American Federation of Teachers made clear, the A.F.T. and the National Education Association are not just labor unions: They are employers faced with many of the same issues as the school districts with which their members negotiatAs the recent contract dispute at the American Federation of Teachers made clear, the A.F.T. and the National Education Association are not just labor unions: They are employers faced with many of the same issues as the school districts with which their members negotiatas the school districts with which their members negotiate.

Backers of time - honored electives ranging from band to consumer sciences fear they are being crowded out of the school day as districts, facing tougher state and federal requirements, devote more time and money to core academic subjects.

The nation's school districts are facing a budget crisis that is expected to only get worse as the effects of the recession linger.

As reported by WILL, «In 2011, Oconomowoc School District faced a budget shortfall of almost $ 500,000.

The journal featured the partnership in two blog posts, one by REL Northwest researchers Havala Hanson and Jennifer Esswein, who describe the urgent conditions that led to the research - practice partnership's formation, and another by Homedale School District Superintendent Rob Sauer, who writes about the challenges facing Idaho's rural districts and how data and evidence are needed to create a common language for collaborators as they look for solutions.