Sentences with phrase «different school districts spend»

The focus on how much different school districts spend, in school finance litigation and legislative deliberation, he added, «appears misguided.»

Not exact matches

Each school district's tax cap is different, largely because the law exempts increases in several categories of spending.

Mrs. Bush is equally articulate about «backpack spending» (the institute is sponsoring a project on school - district productivity that includes 20 different researchers» papers); teacher autonomy («Obviously, if you are held accountable as the principal of your school and you don't have the authority to change anything, by either hiring or firing, or setting up another structure that your school district doesn't allow, then how can you be really accountable?»)

Key players in Texas» school - finance debate have offered sharply different views on the need for new state spending to achieve court - ordered equity among rich and poor districts.

The bottom line, said the plaintiffs, was that the state aid formula for school districts (at the time the state provided 42 percent of the total spent by the districts) was «an incoherent, unsystematic aggregation of approximately 50 different formulas» that were «reformulated each year.»

While Melissa Jamula argues that «People who say money doesn't make a difference have never spent a day in the Reading School District,» those who do spend some time reviewing the district's finances would agree with Jamula - but perhaps come to a very different conclusion about the cause of the District,» those who do spend some time reviewing the district's finances would agree with Jamula - but perhaps come to a very different conclusion about the cause of the district's finances would agree with Jamula - but perhaps come to a very different conclusion about the cause of the problem.

According to interviews with more than a dozen teachers and school administrators in five different districts, students in New York are taking more practice tests, and they're spending more time on math and reading — and less on other subjects — since Common Core was put into place.

Summer school is sometimes associated with long hours spent wasting away the summer, but the Rochester City School District is trying to paint a different pischool is sometimes associated with long hours spent wasting away the summer, but the Rochester City School District is trying to paint a different piSchool District is trying to paint a different picture.

Like the wide gap that exists in household incomes in Charlevoix, Emmet and Cheboygan counties, local school districts have vastly different spending levels.

Citing a different provision, he said, «The law specifically says that school districts shall not include teacher pay when they measure spending for purposes of comparability.»

Career pathways for teachers may look different depending on school district contexts, but the roles for teachers along any given pathway often reflect teachers» time spent in the profession, individual strengths, interests, and specific leadership responsibilities.

Although they represent the extremes, these very different districts illustrate a troubling pattern that emerges in the school - spending data: The 10 most expensive schools have some of the lowest graduations rates, and the 10 schools that spend the least per student have some of the highest.

For a district qualifying under this paragraph whose charter school tuition payments exceed 9 per cent of the school district's net school spending, the board shall only approve an application for the establishment of a commonwealth charter school if an applicant, or a provider with which an applicant proposes to contract, has a record of operating at least 1 school or similar program that demonstrates academic success and organizational viability and serves student populations similar to those the proposed school seeks to serve, from the following categories of students, those: (i) eligible for free lunch; (ii) eligible for reduced price lunch; (iii) that require special education; (iv) limited English - proficient of similar language proficiency level as measured by the Massachusetts English Proficiency Assessment examination; (v) sub-proficient, which shall mean students who have scored in the «needs improvement», «warning» or «failing» categories on the mathematics or English language arts exams of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System for 2 of the past 3 years or as defined by the department using a similar measurement; (vi) who are designated as at risk of dropping out of school based on predictors determined by the department; (vii) who have dropped out of school; or (viii) other at - risk students who should be targeted to eliminate achievement gaps among different groups of students.

«I've spent time in hundreds of different school models, if not a thousand, just given the roles I've had in education over the years, and I think you can become kind of numb or just comfortable with the status quo of classrooms in which kids aren't engaged, and the teachers have lost their mojo or love for teaching because they're given a scripted curriculum from their district that they have to follow, and they have no ability to be entrepreneurial or creative.»

School districts, charter groups, and states generally don't spend time creating a comprehensive strategy for communicating with parents who speak different languages.