Sentences with phrase «districts millions of dollars each year»

Chronic absenteeism and truancy costs school districts millions of dollars each year in lost income, and disproportionately increases the likelihood that certain groups of students will drop out.

Chronic absenteeism and truancy also costs California school districts millions of dollars each year.

Not exact matches

This has cost District taxpayers millions of dollars each year and resulted in poorer quality food for our children.

Skinner and the federation agree that if the bill fails, taxpayers could save millions of dollars because park district borrowing - and tax rates - will go down when current bonds are retired, probably within the next few years.

«She has no right to spend millions of dollars without letting residents vote on it,» said Hadac, 34, an attorney who was a Berwyn Park District commissioner before she moved to Grayslake three years ago.

«In our seven years at D.C. Public Schools, we have significantly increased the quality of food service while saving the District millions of dollars,» he said.

Separately, Dave Weigel confirms that «SaveMyCare, an independent pro-Democratic group, has purchased a half - million dollars of spots in 24 districts where Hillary Clinton won at least 45 percent of the vote last year», though it's unclear from his article whether these are digital, TV or both.

The projected 10 percent increase in pension costs for the 2018 - 19 school year will mean tens of millions of dollars in extra expenses for districts in Nassau and Suffolk counties alone.

Distributing tons of pork around the district and backed by a near - million - dollar war chest «the best looking man in the Senate,» 76 this year, is still a force.

State Senator Pedro Espada, Jr., who has spent the past year boasting of the «millions» of dollars he has brought into his Bronx district as one of the state's most powerful lawmakers, appears to have left the vast majority of that money on the table.

Ultimately, after final budget negotiations last year, Ossining received an additional $ 2.2 Million dollars in Foundation Aid, yet remained one of the most underfunded Foundation Aid school districts in the state.

For a second year in a row, I am excited to give my neighbors in the 7th District the chance to weigh in on how to spend $ 1 million of their own tax dollars,» said Council Member Mark Levine.

«Thanks to my seniority, I have also been able to deliver millions of dollars in benefits to senior centers, libraries, parks in our district as well as providing support year after year for local nonprofit civic and service organizations that deliver vital services to veterans, youth and social service organizations that help our neighbors in need.»

Once dynamic, she has become stale, standing with Chris Quinn last year when her constituents went for deBlasio, supporting Cuomo this year when Zephyr Teachout won this district by a 2 - 1 margin, and making secret deals to give away millions of dollars in Hudson River Park air rights to developers.

With my experience as an investigator, I want to work side by side with our County Executive and District Attorney to continue the crack down on Medicaid fraud and abuse that costs our taxpayers millions of dollars each year.

During the past few years, the Los Angeles school district has engaged in overwhelming, intentionally harassing audits, which go well beyond any reasonable accountability and have cost the taxpayers millions of dollars.

An audit in the Berkeley Unified School District, in Berkeley, California, showed that the district was spending nearly a quarter million dollars each year to get rid of garbage, much of it produced in kitchens and cafDistrict, in Berkeley, California, showed that the district was spending nearly a quarter million dollars each year to get rid of garbage, much of it produced in kitchens and cafdistrict was spending nearly a quarter million dollars each year to get rid of garbage, much of it produced in kitchens and cafeterias.

But despite its efforts, the district estimates that millions of dollars in state aid were lost this year.

The April 30 decision was the latest turn of events in a six - year, million - dollar court battle between the 155,000 - student district and the two parents, who have accused school officials of financial mismanagement.

The district is in the second year of an ambitious master plan to pump millions of dollars into arts programming and staff in schools, and though officials are proud of the progress they've made, they know they have a long way to go.

Over the last six years schools and districts have spent millions of dollars equipping their students and faculty with iPads and Chromebooks, often in an attempt to create one - to - one classrooms.

Similar to what district administrators had estimated, the House breakdown shows Miami - Dade might have to share as much as $ 23.2 million with its charter schools next school year, or about 12 percent of its capital dollars after debt payments.

Meanwhile, student performance had earned the district an «F» from the state for several consecutive years, and CMSD's debt totaled tens of millions of dollars.

For years, traditional school districts watched resentfully as philanthropists and foundations poured hundreds of millions of dollars into new charters.

They allege that these laws unjustly require Newark, a struggling school district, to retain ineffective teachers, while cutting millions of dollars each year from other areas of education spending or laying off more effective teachers when faced with funding deficits.

As 2014 neared, states were spending hundreds of millions of dollars each year on testing and on test preparation materials; the schools in some districts and states were allocating 20 percent of the school year to preparing for state tests.

In Hartford, this translates into an evaluation system in which the district not only wastes over a million dollars each year to participate, but, 22.5 % of the evaluation is based on student standardized test performance and another 22.5 % is based upon parental involvement.

Malloy claims that his «initiative» is providing Connecticut's 30 most struggling school districts with another $ 132 million in state aid, but the truth is that this year's increase is only about $ 45 million and that in order to get those funds, school districts were required to accept a series of new mandates and programs aimed at further implementing Malloy's corporate education reform agenda and diverting scarce public dollars to private companies.

That year, students at the school created the state's first Gay Straight Alliance, and the ensuing backlash prompted the Salt Lake City School District to shut down all extracurricular clubs amid threats that Utah's lawmakers would change state law or forgo millions of dollars in federal education funding if the alliance remained.

But the worst hit of all has come from the continuing and increasing siphoning of district dollars to charter schools — a whopping $ 25 million this year alone.

«Now, this of course, comes from a school district that gets hundreds of millions of dollars from New Jersey state taxpayers every year because of a failed, and I believe, unconstitutional court requirement that we put disproportionate funds into a small number of school districts,» he said.

This was in a district where parents were among those who first brought the Abbott v. Burke school - equity case 30 years ago — a landmark case that brought hundreds of millions of dollars more in funding to the district as a whole but has had a less - visible impact in individual classrooms.

State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson has given Los Angeles Unified a one - year reprieve from a ruling requiring the district to spend potentially hundreds of millions of additional dollars on English learners and low - income children to comply with the state's new school funding law.

The DC voucher, which is the only federally funded voucher in the country, authorizes $ 20 million a year in federal taxpayer dollars to fund private schools in the District of Columbia.

For years, OCO leaders have phone banked and door knocked to bring hundreds of millions of dollars into Oakland Unified School District

But big cost increase will be in fast - tracking the required technology, with some districts saying they are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars — if not millions to have the necessary computers and bandwidth in place next year.

The legislature has willingly and knowingly severely underfunded urban school districts like Bridgeport for decades, but now wants to potentially point their finger at those very same cities and claim they are at fault for the performance of their public schools while allowing the proliferation of charter schools, which this year alone drained $ 5 million dollars from the BPS.

While the State of Connecticut spends hundreds of millions of dollars every year to reduce racial isolation in our urban school districts, as required by Connecticut's Constitution and Courts, Governor Dannel Malloy is pumping more than $ 100 million a year into Connecticut Charter Schools despite the fact that they have become a primary vehicle for the segregation of our public school system.

Two new grants created in the 2011 budget exemplify the ways we can direct funding to encourage innovation and support successful programs and educators: the Excellence in Performance Grant for Teachers provides 15 million dollars over two years for districts to reward their best teachers, and the Innovation Fund Grant — which gave ten Indiana schools, districts, and organizations each a portion of 5 million dollars to support ground breaking new programs, like the one at Herron High School, a charter school here in Indianapolis led by Janet McNeal, who joins us tonight.

Voters in the Mt. Diablo school district approved a $ 348 million bond measure in 2010 that helped pay for an $ 80 million solar project at about 51 schools that is expected to save millions of dollars in energy costs over 30 years.

In Northville, MI he developed a model which decreased the need for special education placement and saved millions of dollars each year for the district.

The Park City School District is looking at a budget increase of about 7 million dollars for next school year.

(Santa Monica, CA)-- September 2, 2010 — Global Green USA and the Santa Monica - Malibu Unified School District celebrated last night's board passage of the School District's decision to adopt a plan for installing solar panels on nine elementary schools that will generate nearly two - thirds of all the power needs for the schools, save the district $ 2.8 million - $ 5.1 million dollars and reduce 24,000 tons of CO2 emissions over the next twenty fivDistrict celebrated last night's board passage of the School District's decision to adopt a plan for installing solar panels on nine elementary schools that will generate nearly two - thirds of all the power needs for the schools, save the district $ 2.8 million - $ 5.1 million dollars and reduce 24,000 tons of CO2 emissions over the next twenty fivDistrict's decision to adopt a plan for installing solar panels on nine elementary schools that will generate nearly two - thirds of all the power needs for the schools, save the district $ 2.8 million - $ 5.1 million dollars and reduce 24,000 tons of CO2 emissions over the next twenty fivdistrict $ 2.8 million - $ 5.1 million dollars and reduce 24,000 tons of CO2 emissions over the next twenty five years.

In Illinois, which added more than 700 gigawatts of wind last year, wind farms have generated tens of millions of dollars in tax revenue for local governments and school districts, according to a recent Illinois State University study.