Sentences with phrase «asked state school districts»

The Minnesota Medical Association asked state school districts to examine and possibly adjust their high school starting times.

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The Broward school district is also asking the state to exempt Stoneman Douglas students from the testing requirements.

We're not sure what's in the water in Pennsylvania, but after one school district in the Keystone State distributed buckets of rocks around school to pelt shooters as a last resort, and another handed out tiny baseball bats to thwart would - be attackers, we asked readers what you thought of these...

Schools can serve healthy lunches, but whether kids will eat them is a question that has been asked often since the 2012 - 13 school year, when districts across the United States raised the nutritional quality of meals to meet updated national standards.

The property tax cap is now in its sixth year, and according to David Albert with the New York State School Boards, most of the state's nearly 700 school districts are asking for increases that are within the limits of theState School Boards, most of the state's nearly 700 school districts are asking for increases that are within the limits of thSchool Boards, most of the state's nearly 700 school districts are asking for increases that are within the limits of thestate's nearly 700 school districts are asking for increases that are within the limits of thschool districts are asking for increases that are within the limits of the cap.

Five Long Island school districts, all in Suffolk, are asking voters to approve an override of their state - imposed property tax caps — more than twice as many as last year, according to the state comptroller's office.

Greenport voters will likely be asked to pierce the state property tax cap this year as school administrators plan for what is expected to be among the largest tax levy percentage increases of any Long Island district, according to data recently filed with New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli's ofstate property tax cap this year as school administrators plan for what is expected to be among the largest tax levy percentage increases of any Long Island district, according to data recently filed with New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli's ofState Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli's office.

Oneida County Executive Anthony Picente, Jr. and Rome Mayor James Brown announced today that Oneida County and the city of Rome have been asked to be co-applicants for a NYS Department of State Local Government Efficiency Grant that is being applied for by the City of Rome School District.

When asked what issues he would focus on to serve specifically the town / village of Harrison, Buchwald said that he would continue to push for the passage of a local hotel occupancy tax, attempt to relieve some of the property tax burden specific to Harrison, seek funding to repave the state roads within the town, and continue his support of the «great Harrison Central School District.»

The property tax cap is now in its sixth year, and according to David Albert with the New York State School Boards Association, most of the state's nearly 700 school districts are asking for increases that are within the limits of theState School Boards Association, most of the state's nearly 700 school districts are asking for increases that are within the limits of thSchool Boards Association, most of the state's nearly 700 school districts are asking for increases that are within the limits of thestate's nearly 700 school districts are asking for increases that are within the limits of thschool districts are asking for increases that are within the limits of the cap.

At 8:30 a.m., educators representing 11 state - supported schools serving deaf, blind and severely physically disabled students will kick off their lobby day, where they'll ask lawmakers to treat the students equally and increase state funding by 4.8 percent — the same percentage increase Cuomo has recommended for public school districts in his proposed 2015 - 16 executive budget, 3rd Floor Terrace, Legislative Office Building, Albany.

Maryvale School District officials are asking residents to write letters to state representatives to encourage Cuomo to release figures on the planned state financial aid.

Some members of the District Parent Coordinating Council are ready to force the issue of failing schools in Buffalo by filing complaints this week with the state and federal governments asking for a federal receiver or special master to run the school system.

Five Long Island school districts, all in Suffolk, are asking voters to approve an override of their state - imposed property tax caps — more than twice as many as last year.

Buckley also asked Cash if protests against school board member Carl Paladino have been a distraction as the district awaits a hearing next month by the State Education Commissioner.

The state significantly expanded its testing and funding for installation of private systems only after students from the Hoosick Falls school district held a press conference to ask Gov. Andrew Cuomo for help.

Almost 98 percent of school budgets were approved in statewide voting Tuesday, including the majority of school districts asking for overrides of the state's mandatory property tax cap.

Looking ahead to next month's potential cash - flow crisis, Megna said Paterson will send up a separate bill asking for the statutory authority to push some of the payments due to school districts by June 1 to later in the month, allowing the state to draw more heavily on its pool of short - term emergency funds.

A parents organization in the Westhill School District in Onondaga County is asking families to consider having their third through eighth graders refuse to take the next round of state english and math tests.

In New York almost 98 percent of school budgets were approved in statewide voting Tuesday, including the majority of school districts asking for overrides of the state's mandatory property tax cap.

The UFT / NYSUT lawsuit, which asks the court to overturn the Charter School Committee's action, said the new rules would not only «significantly undercut the quality of teaching in SUNY - approved charter schools,» but also would create «an essentially fake certification process, one not valid for employment in New York's public school districts, other charter schools or the public schools of other states.&School Committee's action, said the new rules would not only «significantly undercut the quality of teaching in SUNY - approved charter schools,» but also would create «an essentially fake certification process, one not valid for employment in New York's public school districts, other charter schools or the public schools of other states.&school districts, other charter schools or the public schools of other states.»

Cuomo only asking the people to support the cap without any mention of mandate relief is the hamburger bun without the burger and simply fuels the opposition's (they say mandate relief before tax cap) claim that tax cap alone is a big - government scheme to take power away from and defund local towns and school districts and increase the power of the larger state government which created the property tax problem in the first place by passing the mandates which are the biggest property tax drivers and now refuses to change those mandates.

Budget director Robert Megna said during a briefing with reporters after the address that school districts will be able to submit proposals asking for the money, and the state will try to «accommodate» those with «reasonable plans.»

Asked about this in 2015, then - Medical District for City School District of New Rochelle Dr. Adreinne Weiss - Harrison was vague about whether pizza sales as fundraisers was illegal at public schools in New York State.

The New York State Education Department has asked the District to decide on plans or shut down the low performing schools.

The group says it has filed 2,500 public records requests with government agencies across the state, including tiny villages and school districts, asking for their «checkbooks» — records of all expenditures in a given year.

Among those asking for the state to make changes is Shelly Chizzonite, a counselor in the East Syracuse Minoa School District.

We want stability with the New York City school children, and like I said — putting more requirements on the City of New York school district that we're not asking of anyone else in the state is not something that we're entertaining.»

Asked how she plans to scale up her network, Moskowitz said, «We're about the seventh - largest school district in New York state.

The Syracuse City School District asked for $ 7 million from the state in order to balance its budget.

The governor also asked the state Legislature to eliminate K - 2 standardized testing, saying that «there's no reason school districts should make 5 - year - olds take standardized tests.»

The district has asked the state to impose a three - year expansion on charter school expansion in the city.

Federal officials have asked states that received awards under the Reading Excellence Act to submit performance reports by the end of this month detailing the progress made in local districts and schools in improving reading achievement.

In the study, respondents were first asked to guess the average amount of money spent per child in their school district and the average salary of a public school teacher in their state.

The Kansas City, Mo., school district asked a federal judge last week to void a vote by the state board of education to strip the system of its state accreditation.

This enormous cash nexus that swamps anything any business entity has contributed creates a huge problem for President Obama's Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, who is asking states and school districts to put merit pay into place.

We found, to our frustration, that our school's administration barred us from asking for a meeting or otherwise directly contacting a number of district and state officials.

This study combines data on teacher requests (by parents) and teacher evaluations (by principals) from 12 elementary schools in a midsized school district that asked to remain anonymous, in the western United States.

On Oct. 5, Ms. Neeley had sent a guidance letter to school boards allowing them to grant their district superintendents the authority to ask the state for permission to exceed the class - size cap of 22 students per teacher in grades K - 4.

For example, some respondents were asked whether the following statement is true or false: «Under the Common Core, the state of Louisiana and its local school districts decide which textbooks and educational materials to use in their schools.»

I would, therefore, ask Hanushek and Lindseth to stop tilting at windmills and to join with me in instituting a dialogue in major areas in which we do agree, like the fact that courts can and should hold states and school districts accountable for better performance, and that «school funding policies must recognize the underlying heterogeneity of students and their educational challenges and ensure that all schools have the means to succeed» (Hanushek and Lindseth, Schoolhouses, Courthouses, and Statehouses, page 218).

Lawyers for the state of Ohio last month asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit to overturn a federal district court's ruling that expanded the state's responsibility to fund school desegregation in Lorain County under the terms of a consent decree.

Nearly half of California's school districts have asked to be exempted this year from a new state regulation that requires high school students to pass an Algebra 1 class to receive a diploma.

As reported elsewhere, the survey asked about school spending, charters, vouchers, teacher unions, bilingual education, digital learning, state take - overs of troubled district schools, teacher unions, merit pay, teacher tenure, and many other matters.

When hearings begin Feb. 14, the court will be asked to determine if the state has carried out Judge Recht's order for overhauling the West Virginia schools — a verdict that sent school districts in many other states to court hoping for similar outcomes.

Survey respondents were asked to state the percentage of teachers in their local school district they think deserve one of the five grades on the traditional A-to-F scale.

That is, absent a clearly articulated view about the federal government's strengths and weakness, what it should and shouldn't do, and how it ought to interact with families, schools, districts, and states, an administration is asking for trouble.

The capacity challenges for states and school districts are immense as they contemplate taking on the new standards, which call for bringing greater depth to science understanding and asking students...

If we contemplate asking 5 to 10 percent of teachers to find a job at which they are more effective so they can be replaced by teachers of average productivity, states and school districts would have to change their employment practices.

I might ask about how the school prepares students for state assessment tests, what particular challenges the job presents, the skills the district is looking for in the principal they hire, but certainly I asked nothing to do with salary or vacation days, since those questions would send wrong signals in an initial interview.