Sentences with phrase «because public school dollars»

Critics have long complained that charters don't enroll the most difficult to educate students, and that they drain money from districts because public school dollars move with students to whatever school they attend.

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«Which of course is a problem, because every dollar that has to be supported by the general fund is a dollar out of the classroom,» said Ed Wilkins, the school nutrition director for the San Francisco Public Schools.

«I am voting for this resolution because of the more than half a billion dollars in new funding it asks our state to deliver to non-charter New York City publics schools,» Avella said at the time.

Most public school teachers participate in defined benefit (DB) pension plans, which because of different accounting rules contribute significantly less today for each dollar of future retirement benefits than private - sector DB pensions or defined contribution (DC) pension plans.

Don McAdams, founder of the Center for Reform of School Systems, says that philanthropy typically involves modest dollars but can have an outsized influence because of its agility and public impact.

Put it all aside because the fact is that full - time virtual charter schools, which are funded by public dollars, are on the defensive in the battle of public perception, which will, at some point, have public policy consequences.

Second, Don McAdams, founder of the Center for Reform of School Systems, argued that philanthropy typically entails limited dollars in the grand scheme of things, but has an outsized influence because this money is nimble and can be used to drive a state or a district's reforms, where it's hugely difficult to redeploy more than a sliver of public funds.

If certain families don't want to attend these schools because they don't want their students taking these assessments, then they can find a private option that doesn't use public dollars.

At the same time, the mayor said he got the best deal he could for the city because he secured additional dollars for public schools.

And because education is not just a «private good» — all of our welfare depends on an educated populace — isn't it appropriate for the public to demand that schools meet certain standards, especially when taxpayer dollars are involved?

So when she says she is for public schools it is important that she distinguish between real public schools and charters that are only public because they get tax dollars.

And school district administrators frequently oppose charter schools because the charter schools use public dollars but operate independently and out of the direct control of the local school board.

While voucher usage is higher in big cities, the financial effect is felt in every school district because the voucher dollars come out of Tuition Support, in effect reducing the dollars supporting students in all public schools.

That's because along with the per - pupil increase and some boosts in aid, the committee's recommendation shifts a hefty chunk of tax dollars to private voucher schools, funding that could have restored public education funding that's been lost to years of cuts.

«It masks the true cost of the voucher program expansion and the harm that expansion will do to public schools by «washing» the dollars through the aid formula for public schools» because lawmakers no longer must appropriate additional state dollars to fund voucher expansion because it comes from school district funding, he said.

Many public schools are forced to do more with less because lawmakers who voted for the last state budget increased state tax dollars to private schools.

They did so on a novel legal theory that centered on treating private schools like public schools for disability law purposes because private schools receive public dollars via a state - funded voucher.

Because the schools are private, they can teach that with impunity — and public dollars are paying for children to get such an education.

Public school families are fighting over scarce resources, and the reality is that school districts like Freehold Borough have seen significant student population increases without corresponding dollars and schools like University Heights Charter School in Newark have had to cut back on needed mental health services and arts programming because they lack fuschool families are fighting over scarce resources, and the reality is that school districts like Freehold Borough have seen significant student population increases without corresponding dollars and schools like University Heights Charter School in Newark have had to cut back on needed mental health services and arts programming because they lack fuschool districts like Freehold Borough have seen significant student population increases without corresponding dollars and schools like University Heights Charter School in Newark have had to cut back on needed mental health services and arts programming because they lack fuSchool in Newark have had to cut back on needed mental health services and arts programming because they lack funding.

Because charter schools receive less in public funding than other public schools, it forces them to make difficult choices on how to spend their scarce dollars — and because many charter schools don't receive facilities funding, they also pay for their own buildings, which puts them at a significant financial disadvBecause charter schools receive less in public funding than other public schools, it forces them to make difficult choices on how to spend their scarce dollars — and because many charter schools don't receive facilities funding, they also pay for their own buildings, which puts them at a significant financial disadvbecause many charter schools don't receive facilities funding, they also pay for their own buildings, which puts them at a significant financial disadvantage.

The White House concedes that «stimulus» is a negative word and avoids its use because it obviously didn't stimulate jobs, but Stimulus dollars will stimulate the takeover of our children's minds under Common Core Standards, the moniker for forcing national curriculum standards on all public schools.

As the New York court observed, funneling public dollars into a charter school is inconsistent with the State's constitutional obligation, because «to divert public education funds away from the traditional public schools and toward charter schools would benefit a select few at the expense of» the majority of students in public schools.

Because they are public schools they are funded by local, state and federal tax dollars.

«Because of the failed leadership in Tallahassee, Hillsborough County schools are having to cut teachers, including bilingual classroom aides, and can't even afford to repair air conditioning in certain schools — while brand new for - profit schools are being funded and built with tax dollars that should be going to our public schools,» Cruz said.

More funding for charter schools has been a contentious issue because both traditional public schools and charter schools compete for the same limited pot of education dollars from the state.

Those oh - so - elusive SBAC results: after millions of dollars squandered on broadband improvements, tedious test prep, and time diverted from actual learning, our students, parents, and teachers have been prevented from getting the test results because no one in educational leadership today has figured out how to «spin» the results without facing the consequences of this poorly designed, invalid, questionably - standardized assessment that was perpetrated on our public school students.

because the dollars aren't there to pay them like traditional public school teachers.

What is absolutely clear is that according to the documents Perry and his private company provided the New York Board of Regents, control of Hartford's Capital Prep Magnet School was critical to his plans, not only since he would be collecting a multi-million dollar management fee for running Hartford's public magnet school but because he would be using Capital Prep to employee the majority of the members of his private coSchool was critical to his plans, not only since he would be collecting a multi-million dollar management fee for running Hartford's public magnet school but because he would be using Capital Prep to employee the majority of the members of his private coschool but because he would be using Capital Prep to employee the majority of the members of his private company.

They can't get it through the Legislature, because the Republicans control the Senate, and because the Legislature needs to raise several billion dollars in new revenue to meet a State Supreme Court mandate about funding the public schools.