The statement announcing his decision said, «neither the Governor, the Legislature nor the Court have provided... leadership» in an ongoing
debate over school funding.
The current
debate over school funding must move beyond teacher salaries and whether the books in public schools are tattered.
Not exact matches
There are no shortage of issues that I hope will be the focus of
debate in this election (urban sprawl, inner city
schools, regional amalgamation, and others that I plan to write about
over the next six months), but the one issue that may have the potential to create a major wave is the Katz Group «s desire to have the City of Edmonton to
fund $ 400,000,000 for a new downtown arena.
Most Americans assume that the separation of church and state is a fundamental principle deeply rooted in American constitutionalism; that the First Amendment was intended to ensure that government does not involve itself with religion (and vice versa); and that contemporary
debates over such vexing issues as
school prayer, voucher programs, government
funding of faith - based organizations, and the rights of religious minorities represent ongoing attempts to realize the separation intended by the Founders and like - minded early Americans.
Over the years, Congress has mandated federal nutrition standards,
funded fresh fruit and vegetable programs and
debated, but never acted on, banning various «junk foods» from
schools.
«
Funding for New York State
schools should not be held hostage due to the ongoing
debate over how best to reform our education system.
«Westchester is consistently shortchanged on
school funding, and now we see why: our own state senator won't pay his
school taxes, and when the
debate over funding is going on in Albany, he's not there to represent us,» said Astorino campaign spokesman Bill O'Reilly.
Republicans said nothing during the
debate over the «big ugly,» which also included about $ 25.8 billion in
funding for public
schools, revived the 421 - a housing subsidy program, creates a new scholarship program for public colleges, included billions for water infrastructure, spurs municipal service consolidation and extended the state's expiring millionaires tax for two years.
Watch for heightened
debate - and finally some decisions - about recurring issues: the state's Brownfield Tax Credit program, justice reforms (see below), renewing the New York City mayor's power
over its massive
school district, and, of course,
school funding.
A marathon
debate over education
funding continues in Ohio, where
school groups are already divided
over a May 5 ballot measure that proposes hiking the state sales tax by 1 cent in order to raise revenue for
schools.
The CALS construct is defined as a constellation of the high - utility language skills that correspond to linguistic features prevalent in oral and written academic discourse across
school content areas and that are infrequent in colloquial conversations (e.g., knowledge of logical connectives, such as nevertheless, consequently; knowledge of structures that pack dense information, such as nominalizations or embedded clauses; knowledge of structures for organizing argumentative texts)
Over the last years, as part of the Catalyzing Comprehension Through Discussion
Debate project
funded by IES to the Strategic Educational Research Partnership, Dr. Paola Uccelli and her research team have produced a research - based, theoretically - grounded, and psychometrically robust instrument to measure core academic language skills (CALS - I) for students in grades 4 - 8.
The most heated discussion focused on the state's merit - pay program, which lawmakers decided to
fund for the 1985 - 86
school year at $ 16.6 million, despite a rancorous
debate over the quality of the evaluation process that has been used to choose the first year's crop of merit teachers.
Given the ferocity of the
debate over vouchers, it is often forgotten that early in the history of the United States, religiously affiliated
schools at times received generous public
funding from states and cities.
Political expediency and self - interest are well to the fore as parliament starts to
debate the plan, which is closer to the original Gonski model than present arrangements and would inject an extra A$ 18.6 billion in federal
funding across the government, Catholic and independent
school sectors
over a decade.
But
debate continues
over whether such privately run, but publicly
funded,
schools are an improvement
over other public
schools.
Furthermore, in accepting public
funds, religious
schools run the risk of being mired in political
debates, battles
over regulation and accountability, and disruptive inquiries into their
school standards in admission, curriculum, and hiring practices.
Thus, in accepting government
funds, they run the risk of being mired in political
debates, battles
over regulation and accountability, and disruptive inquiries into their
school standards and curricula.
Nationwide the charter
school sector has grown
over the past few decades amid a
debate about its virtues and drawbacks — and even whether the publicly
funded schools are public or private entities.
Johnson's amendment highlights longstanding and multi-faceted
debates among voucher proponents, disability rights advocates and public
school advocates
over whether private
schools that get taxpayer -
funded vouchers should be subject to the same rules governing public
schools.
As well as the
debate over the overall budget for
schools, the government will have to decide whether to press ahead with a new formula for allocating
funding to individual
schools.
The studies come amid a growing
debate over the question of whether charter
schools are inadequately
funded compared with traditional public
schools, and if / how they improve student achievement better than the traditional
schools.
This time the
debate is
over SB 1, a Democratic plan to repair Illinois»
school funding formula.
Finally, RFA assessed the impact of DEC
funding on the coalition and on the
debate over school governance in NYC.
As the Trump administration seeks to expand
school choice nationwide, the academy was thrust into the national spotlight last month as part of a heated
debate over whether
schools that receive money from taxpayer -
funded vouchers can discriminate against certain groups of students, such as LGBT children or students with disabilities.
But
school choice advocates across the nation saw the decision as a game changer in the divisive
debate over publicly
funded vouchers for private religious
schools.
Yet after years of
debate over perceived declines in access to arts education in U.S.
schools, efforts are underway to expand
funding and opportunities for students to draw, drum or dance.
In a brazen effort to hand
over Hartford's Clark Elementary
School to Friendship Charter Schools of Washington D.C. and divert more scarce public funds to another out - of - state charter school management company, a special meeting of the Hartford Board of Education has suddenly been called for tomorrow to approve a resolution «requesting» that Stefan Pryor, Governor Malloy's Commissioner of Education, use his authority to simply hand Clark Elementary over to Friendship Charter Schools without any further debate or discu
School to Friendship Charter
Schools of Washington D.C. and divert more scarce public
funds to another out - of - state charter
school management company, a special meeting of the Hartford Board of Education has suddenly been called for tomorrow to approve a resolution «requesting» that Stefan Pryor, Governor Malloy's Commissioner of Education, use his authority to simply hand Clark Elementary over to Friendship Charter Schools without any further debate or discu
school management company, a special meeting of the Hartford Board of Education has suddenly been called for tomorrow to approve a resolution «requesting» that Stefan Pryor, Governor Malloy's Commissioner of Education, use his authority to simply hand Clark Elementary
over to Friendship Charter
Schools without any further
debate or discussion.
While explicitly avoiding the
debate over the existence of charters and carefully noting that he was looking at the problems associated with a poorly regulated sector taking public
funds, Mr. Oliver looked at financial scandals and fraud in charter
schools across the country:
The National Rifle Association has dramatically increased its
funding to
schools in recent years amid a national
debate over guns and
school violence, an Associated Press analysis of tax records...
The Pennsylvania
School Boards Association and Commonwealth Foundation are policy opponents in the
debate over giving students taxpayer -
funded vouchers.
(from The New York Times) Some advocates for
school choice saw a Supreme Court ruling issued Monday as a «game changer» in the
debate over publicly
funded vouchers for private
schools.
Over the last six months,
school funding has been an almost constant feature in policy debate, from the proposed introduction of a National Funding Formula to the longer running cuts and freezes schools are facing to their b
funding has been an almost constant feature in policy
debate, from the proposed introduction of a National
Funding Formula to the longer running cuts and freezes schools are facing to their b
Funding Formula to the longer running cuts and freezes
schools are facing to their budgets.