Sentences with phrase «district budgeting system»

A district budgeting system that allocates actual dollars and provides principals with autonomy to make tradeoffs with scarce resources would help ensure that all schools get a fair shot at hiring talented teachers without forcing those with less expensive staffs to subsidize the others.

Not exact matches

Although the systems» price is more than $ 5,000 over the Park District's budget for such a purchase, staff cited the purchase's importance and deferred purchasing carpet for the Springbrook course's clubhouse until next winter.

They think they are the governing body of the Chicago Park District, appointed by Mayor Washington and confirmed by the city council to have complete authority over the park system's 7,300 acres, its 3,400 employees and its $ 320 million annual budget.

The new budget doubles the program appropriation to $ 770 million, and expands the funding eligibility list to include facilities owned by school districts, housing authorities, library systems, fire districts and private non-profit colleges and universities.

Why is it you would use the governor's extensive budgeting powers to force an indefensible, costly, laughable, and quickly repudiated teacher evaluation system onto local school districts but you will not utilize the same budgeting power to force anti-corruption measures onto Flanagan and Heastie?

Districts and Municipalities should be encouraged to plan their budgets like any other year, and plan to override the cap when essential services will suffer — because taxes will not go down under the current property - tax based system (or healthcare system or pension system).

Nassau's sewer and storm - water district saved no money during the first year the county's sewer system was run by a private company, according to the county's Office of Legislative Budget Review.

When the comptroller announced the system earlier this year, he said those local governments and school districts identified as experiencing fiscal stress would be offered an array of services from his office, including budget reviews and multi-year financial planning.

Given the «funding roller coaster» the Library has been on since 2000, including in 2010 when budget cuts forced a reduction in service hours (98.5 total per week), plus cuts in programming and staffing, the Library System Trustees voted to pursue becoming a Special Legislative District Public Library (SLDPL) in September 2011.

In his first budget address to the legislature, Murphy said he would use the extra revenue to ramp up state aid for school districts, increase funding for the beleaguered NJ Transit and a make a larger payment into the cash - strapped public worker pension system.

Hendrick Hudson School District, a system with nearly 2,500 students, derives about a third of its annual budget — or $ 24 million — from Indian Point Energy Center owner Entergy Corp..

Local school district trustees in Toronto, along with those in the Ottawa - Carleton and Hamilton - Wentworth systems, defied the Progressive Conservative government by refusing to submit balanced budgets in July to protest what they say is an inadequate school finance system.

Cincinnati adopted its own version of this budgeting system during the 1999 - 2000 school year, and other districts are considering following suit.

The Burgin school district's $ 100,000 budget deficit, which officials there attribute to the loss of 50 students in the 368 - student system over the past three years, has forced the school board to cut a janitorial position, trim the athletic budget, freeze salaries, and raise property taxes.

There is a provision within ESSA known as the weighted student funding pilot that allows up to 50 districts to apply for permission to adopt weighted student funding systems or student - based budgeting where dollars do follow the child to whatever school they attend.

The language in the budget proposal says it would be an increase of $ 1 billion in Title I to encourage states and districts to adopt student - based funding systems where money, including state, local and federal funds, follows the child to the school that they attend within the public sector.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry has signed legislation that will make some significant changes in the state's accountability system and budgeting requirements for schools, including tougher high school graduation standards and elimination of a requirement that school districts must spend 65 percent of their operating budgets on classroom instruction.

The state of Arizona faces a severe disruption in its budget, and some of its school districts face the loss of millions of dollars in federal impact aid, because the U.S. Education Department has declared the state's system for equalizing resources among districts inadequate.

The typical urban school district's personnel and budgeting systems leave principals without much say in hiring teachers or allocating resources.

Have you ever gone to a public school district budget presentation in another system?

Budgetary shortfalls, school district bankruptcies, teacher and administrator layoffs, hiring and salary freezes, pension system defaults, shorter school years, ever - larger classes, faculty furloughs, fewer course electives, reduced field trips, foregone or curtailed athletics, outdated textbooks, teachers having to make do with fewer supplies, cuts in school maintenance, and other tales of fiscal woe inevitably captivate the news media, particularly during the late - spring and summer budget and appropriations seasons.

School districts — or, less often, states — ran their own transportation systems and food services, among the biggest budget items after teacher salaries.

With nothing but financial hardship on the immediate horizon, many districts are taking new approaches to scouring their budgets for potential savings — and, in some cases, also comparing their performance against that of other school systems.

On Election Day, voters in 31 school districts around the state will decide whether to raise property taxes to pump an additional $ 1 billion into the school system in the form of bond issues for buildings or mill levy overrides for operating budgets.

Leveling the Playing Field: Creating Funding Equity Through Student - Based Budgeting When Cincinnati Public Schools devised a reform strategy for improving student performance, it became clear that the district's traditional budgeting system was inBudgeting When Cincinnati Public Schools devised a reform strategy for improving student performance, it became clear that the district's traditional budgeting system was inbudgeting system was inadequate.

The report also found that since teacher salaries and benefits make up the bulk of school budgets, a fair funding system was needed to provide an equitable distribution of high - quality teachers in all districts.

That council, which Villaraigosa will dominate by virtue of a voting system weighted by each city's population, is also supposed to review the district's annual budget, though final control would still rest with the school board.

The Chicago public schools are facing a budget crisis so severe that it threatens to shut down the system next fall unless the Illinois legislature comes up with more money, district officials warned last week.

The latest scandal to rock the school system, an unexpected and embarrassing $ 80 million budget shortfall revealed in September 2001, seems to indicate that the District's woes are far from settled and that Vance has yet to appoint a team of professionals whom he can trust.

And he adds there's continued pressure on the District's budget from charter schools in the city - which receive a portion of the school system's revenue.

The district's rapidly increasing obligations to the Chicago Teachers» Pension Fund represent one of its biggest liabilities, putting enormous stress on the school system's budget as it makes hundreds of millions of dollars worth of annual pension payments.

Beyer said she is concerned that the budget does not increase teachers supplements, money some districts pay teachers on top of their state salaries, which leaves DPS at risk of falling even further behind the Wake and Chapel Hill - Carrboro school systems.

With this budget bill not likely to be finalized until some time in June, and with the Ohio Department of Education being given until the end of October to create this new shared attribution system, could someone at the Statehouse please explain how schools and districts are supposed to begin the year with this highly - accountable process is such drastic flux?

With this year's budget bill likely to be officially enacted just as late, school boards will again be scrambling over the summer months to revamp their processes, forms, and, in the case of most large districts, updating their local evaluation - system software to keep up with the moving target that is OTES.

He started a new job as the assistant superintendent for facilities and transportation services in the neighboring 181,500 - student Fairfax County system — the largest district in Virginia and the one where he first worked as a senior school budget analyst.

But they have helped create a two - tier education system — one in which affluent parents can help their schools weather state budget crises and maintain programs less affluent districts can only dream about.

He was primarily responsible for moving the district from a traditional staffing - based budget model to a system of student - based allocations / budgeting and school autonomy.

I also hope that the District can modernize its back - end systems like hiring, budgeting, and enrollment to support this unique school and all district schools going District can modernize its back - end systems like hiring, budgeting, and enrollment to support this unique school and all district schools going district schools going forward.

Advocates have also criticized what they describe as the limited scope of the state panel's inquiry — which was meant to determine whether the district's electronic system for individualized special education plans, data collection requirements, budget process or transportation policies unlawfully delayed or denied services.

The dollars were modest compared to the school system's multibillion - dollar annual budget, but school district officials said the Race to the Top grant could have provided critical services as well as additional jobs.

The new version keeps the current system, with two years as the standard period, but would allow a third year of probation if the district develops an improvement plan to address deficiencies that a teacher's evaluation identified and then makes training and other help for teachers a budget priority.

When the Illinois legislature gave Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley direct control of the city's faltering school system in 1995, Daley appointed Vallas, the city's budget director, to take the reins of the nation's third largest district.

This week, as part of his proposed budget, the governor is tying a four percent increase in the $ 20 billion in subsidies given by the state to traditional school districts and charter schools to implementation of the new teacher evaluation system by next year.

The Eugene district and others in Oregon have faced continuing budget shortfalls that resulted in shorter school years, larger class sizes and weakened support systems.

With school budgets already limited by a conservative - led state legislature that critics say chronically underfunds public education, the district turned to Diplomas Now, an education nonprofit whose aim is to increase graduation rates using a data - driven system of early intervention.

Furthermore, it turns out that The Vallas Turnaround System «includes not just improving academic performance but also stabilizing districts by balancing their budgets and reorganizing their administrations.»

This budget proposes an increase of $ 1 billion in Title I funding that is specifically, «dedicated to encouraging districts to adopt a system of student - based budgeting and open enrollment that enables Federal, State, and local funding to follow the student to the public school of his or her choice.»

Ms. Nadel - Hayes joins Envision after nearly nine years at OUSD, including Financial Services Director in the Budget Department, where she developed and implemented a budget monitoring and management system for 86 schools and 40 departments, and as Manager of Operations Support leading a team of coaches charged with optimizing operational systems at schools across the disBudget Department, where she developed and implemented a budget monitoring and management system for 86 schools and 40 departments, and as Manager of Operations Support leading a team of coaches charged with optimizing operational systems at schools across the disbudget monitoring and management system for 86 schools and 40 departments, and as Manager of Operations Support leading a team of coaches charged with optimizing operational systems at schools across the district.

It is a comprehensive, sequential system for educating students with identifiable needs (The Association for the Gifted [TAG] 1989); it is often designed by a curriculum committee; and it is supported by a district or school budget.

But New Orleans has a unique education system comprised mostly of independent charter schools that set their own budgets, under two authorities — the Louisiana Recovery School District and the Orleans Parish School Board.