Sentences with phrase «current funding formula»

«The current funding formula is a post code lottery favouring metropolitan areas, rather than based on need.

The speaker said he wants to create a timetable to «fully» phase in foundation aid, the current funding formula that most helps high - needs school districts such as New York City.

The current funding formula was based on an adequacy study the pair conducted for the state in 2005 and updated five years later during the state's 2010 recalibration effort.

What one education advocate describes as a «perfect storm» over school finance is brewing in Georgia, as a top lawmaker pushes to replace local property taxes for education with a statewide sales tax, even as the state gears up to fight a lawsuit from school districts over the current funding formula.

«The current funding formula was written almost two decades ago and has not kept up with the needs of the classroom of the 21st Century,» Speaker Gunn said.

We looked at the current funding formula, problems, and potential solutions.

Additionally, Advance Illinois» Ostro emphasized that the distribution of these dollars for education is also inequitable, because the current funding formula is complex and different funding streams work at cross-purposes.

We agree that the current funding formula for schools makes no sense, that principals are forced to discriminate against experienced teachers, that schools, kids, teachers all get hurt.

Our current funding formula relies on property taxes, making it easier for wealthier communities to put more towards their local schools.

A recent study presented to the Joint Legislative Program Evaluation and Oversight Committee revealed inequities in the current funding formulas and made suggestions for entirely new ways to allocate money to the local school districts.

A recent study presented to the Joint Legislative Program Evaluation and Oversight Committee revealed inequities in the current funding formulas and made suggestions for entirely new ways to...

SB 213 ultimately changed the current funding formula by requiring a portion of total student funding to be «backpack funding» following low - income students and English Language Learners to the schools where they were actually enrolled.

Holtz: Yes, I believe the current state funding formula is «adequate;» however, I believe we could focus more of our efforts within the current funding formula on rural transportation costs along with additional support for our high poverty districts.

Be it resolved that PARSS supports continuing the implementation of the current funding formula, based on the Costing Out Study and placed in law (HB 1067).

The result of the current funding formula is a preference for litigation over a negotiation model, there being insufficient funds for the latter to be fully developed while funds are being devoted to ensure Court proceedings are advanced.