Sentences with phrase «districts more flexibility»

However, it would give states and school districts more flexibility in how they meet their required level of funding.

He advocated increasing investments in education, helping to pass Proposition 30 in 2012 and leading the effort to give local school districts more flexibility to make spending decisions.

The State School Board's recent decision to eliminate physical education, arts and health courses as core statewide requirements for middle - school students is seen as a way to give local districts more flexibility in designing curriculum, which is a positive development in the context of allowing more local control over education policy.

Tying districts» hands when it comes to teacher wages is inconsistent with two other items in the bill that are designed to give districts more flexibility in lean times, said Bonoff.

The intent of California's Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) is to give districts more flexibility with their state funding but at the same time to create a new school finance system that recognizes that students with specific demographic factors need greater support to address their academic needs and improve educational outcomes: English Learners, low income students and foster youth.

So when the state gave local school districts more flexibility in creating their budgets to serve students more equitably, Olson made sure that attendance figured prominently in his spending plan.

LCFF gives more funds to districts that have higher numbers of students who are low - income, English learners, homeless, and foster youth and gives districts more flexibility in spending.

Some are expecting that the governor will fully fund the Local Control Funding Formula, which he created in 2013 - 14, that gives school districts more flexibility in spending and allocates more funds to districts with larger numbers of low - income students, English learners, and students who are in foster care.

Gov. Nixon also blocked some funding for busing assistance and signed bills giving school districts more flexibility in deciding how to spend money during tough budget times.

A House committee approved legislation last week that would give school districts more flexibility in meeting new federal nutritional mandates for school meals.

Provisions of the new Title I law intended to give school districts more flexibility are generating anxiety among some educators, who fear the federal promises of increased latitude may prove too good to be true.

Requiring «highly qualified early educators,» dedicating existing federal funds for an early - education matching - grant program, and giving districts more flexibility to use Title I money for pre-K-3 programs are some of the major recommendations in a report on revamping the federal No Child Left Behind Act to improve schooling for younger children.

Cuomo convened the mandate relief council in 2011, and during his first three years in office has helped localities by capturing cost increases in the Medicaid program and taking over its administration from counties, giving school districts more flexibility in how they set up bus transportation and imposing a less - generous pension plan for newly hired workers.

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«So that's why I think this is important because it's not a mandate on the school district; it's just giving them more flexibility in how to best govern their school district.»

But, sources said, that money will have more flexibility so districts can also use it to beef up full - day kindergarten programs.

Waiver: Comprehensive flexibility that the U.S. Department of Education has granted to more than 40 states and the District of Columbia from key requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act (the current version of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act) in exchange for embracing certain Obama administration education - redesign priorities on teachers, testing, standards, and school turnarounds.

Moreover, states and local districts ought to be given more flexibility in deciding how to spend federal funds designated for technical assistance.

It would require state accountability systems to designate schools and districts based on their performance against these targets (so there would be a bit more flexibility than NCLB or waivers).

Republican presidetial hopeful Elizabeth Hanford Dole last week outlined her vision for reshaping federal education policy, calling for significantly more flexibility for states and school districts.

It would eliminate many «set - asides» for special populations, giving more flexibility to states and school districts.

The legislature passed several school - related resolutions, including one urging the state department of education to implement a pilot project that could offer more flexibility to a group schools in Hawaii's statewide school district.

It would make sense to work toward more assignment flexibility by school districts.

And the California state school board this month approved an Orange County district's plan to teach its limited - English - proficient students mostly in English under a revised state policy that gives schools more flexibility to stop teaching students in their native languages.

It is unclear to us how releasing states and school districts from federal accountability and granting them maximum flexibility is anything more than a return to the status quo.

Chris Gabrieli, who directs a Boston nonprofit focused on bringing charter school - like flexibilities to district schools, says the charter bill ideally should be an opportunity to think even more broadly about strategies to help those students.

By becoming a charter district, Dublin City Public Schools is more accountable to the state for student outcomes but also has increased flexibility from rules and regulations.

California's watershed 2013 Local Control Funding Formula created more spending flexibility and put districts in the driver's seat for deciding how to spend substantial new dollars.

As Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin considers signing into law the 2013 - 2015 Wisconsin budget, school districts around the state are already using new tools and flexibility to exercise more control over their budgets.

It goes something like this: Step away from federal heavy - handedness around states» accountability and teacher credentialing systems; keep plenty of transparency of results in place, especially test scores disaggregated by racial and other subgroups; offer incentives for embracing promising reforms instead of mandates; and give school districts a lot more flexibility to move their federal dollars around as they see fit.

State and district leaders have a great new opportunity under the 2015 federal Every Student Succeeds Act: more flexibility in spending the funds they receive than in prior versions.

Now that districts have more flexibility in how they use their resources under the Local Control Funding Formula, «we wanted to seize the moment» to steer the conversation about how to reform education toward community schools, Niebuhr said.

«A bipartisan bill will not have everything that everyone wants, but it must build on our common interests: high standards; flexibility for states, school districts and schools; and a more focused federal role that promotes equity, accountability and reform,» U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said in a statement about Harkin's bill Tuesday.

(Va.) Despite recent efforts of the Obama administration to provide states more flexibility in developing new accountability systems, school districts across the nation continue to rely on performance measures tied to conventional testing systems, according to a new report.

Vargas says he's asking for flexibility with special education adding, the district is not receiving the support it needs from the federal government when it comes to resources, «We have some children that are have multiple challenges and therefore require year - round education, it requires more resources to be devoted to meeting their needs.»

This was a huge breakthrough for the district sector to be able to have the same flexibility from laws and rules as did the charter sector and teachers have the autonomy of chartered school teachers and also keep the same amount of money as district schools which is considerably more than the chartered schools.

The LAO's warning also comes as Gov. Jerry Brown and legislative leaders begin negotiations over next year's budget, in which the governor wants to provide more flexibility to local districts on spending decisions.

A state legislative committee tasked with making recommendations to the General Assembly for how to improve public education in North Carolina issued a modest report on Tuesday, proposing more flexibility for local school districts in implementing third grade...

A majority of survey respondents said that to meet the standards, they favored more district flexibility or more money from the federal government to meet the standards.

Wisconsin, which placed 26th in round one, got more buy - in from districts and their teachers» unions by offering districts more grant money for signing on and for giving them the flexibility to determine the scope and breadth of the changes they will implement, said state schools Superintendent Tony Evers.

I commend the mayor for opening up more PROSE schools and allowing a percentage of district schools more freedom and flexibility, but his statement that charters are not sharing is simply untrue.

All indications are that when ESEA is finally reauthorized states and local district leaders will get what they say they want: significantly more flexibility.

ESSA gives states more flexibility to decide their own testing policies, including what to do if a school or district falls below 95 percent.

With more than 30 district and charter school partners in greater Indianapolis, Fellows have unique flexibility to find a school that fits their skills and interests.

House lawmakers came back to the Senate proposal by asking for more flexibility for school districts, allowing them to choose between giving teachers a full 8 percent raise or using some of that money to preserve teacher assistant positions.

«There has to be more flexibility in the district bureaucracy to allow more innovation and creativity at schools.

Having greater flexibility in this area would allow the District Committee to better balance the first and second semesters and provide more instructional days prior to state testing.

The amendment was informed by NSBA's legislative governing body, the Delegate Assembly, and is a solid step toward providing school districts with more flexibility to respond to the needs of all students.

A + Colorado is concerned that the Colorado Department of Education will not use the flexibility of ESSA to strengthen current efforts to improve our lowest performing schools and instead will move towards a more hands - off approach to these schools and districts.