Sentences with phrase «control over the education dollars»

And that means giving them more control over the education dollars spent on their children — a threat to unions, bureaucracies and others vested in controlling options and funding.

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Brown's Local Control Funding Formula flipped authority over spending billions of dollars in state education money — most of it targeting disadvantaged students — from Sacramento to local school boards.

Signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown on July 1, 2013, the Local Control Funding Formula aims to ensure that a higher percentage of state education dollars are directed toward California's highest need students and provides local school districts with more control over spending decControl Funding Formula aims to ensure that a higher percentage of state education dollars are directed toward California's highest need students and provides local school districts with more control over spending deccontrol over spending decisions.

Spurred on by new flexibility under the Every Student Succeeds Act and revenue shortfalls, and amid one - party control in most states, legislators this year tackled longstanding questions over who should be in charge of education policy, how to better spend K - 12 dollars, and what school success should look like.