Sentences with phrase «decisions around school funding»

Some mainstream Democrats, though, downplayed the political contention of issues like charter schools and the tax credit and even differences in nuanced positions regarding the Common Core standards and how the Board of Regents should be governed, arguing that those are secondary to decisions around school funding.

Not exact matches

It's around this point during the summer break that local school districts must make staffing decisions for the upcoming year based on how the state has decided to fund the classroom.

Race to the Top funding will be used across the four required areas — adopting standards and assessments to prepare students to succeed in college and the workplace, using data systems that measure student performance and assist educators in using data to make instructional decisions, ensuring effective teachers and principals, and turning around the lowest performing schools.

With the passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act, principals face even greater uncertainty around state policy decisions concerning new accountability requirements, principal evaluation systems, and funding for schools.

I agree with what Diane Ravitch has to say about the wrong - headedness of organizing the public school experience around testing, as well as the inappropriateness of basing school funding decisions and teacher firings on test results.