Sentences with phrase «districts precious dollars»

As growing numbers of legislators indicate their support for A4165 / S2767, officials within the New Jersey Department of Education have apparently initiated a campaign to block its passage by claiming that the proposed legislation would cost districts precious dollars.

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The district made the change because it anticipated a significant drop in federal funding during the recession, and needed to prioritize how it spent precious federal dollars on schools with higher concentrations of low - income students.

At SIG's onset, I went on the record predicting it would end as a monumental, possibly historic, waste of precious resources — investing billions of dollars in dysfunctional schools embedded in dysfunctional districts against the clear lessons of decades of research and experience.

And the attitude from district administration on down is that standardized test proficiency levels drive rankings, «so there is no need to expend precious dollars and personnel boosting the achievement of kids who need no boost.»

Conservatives insist the program gives children in struggling school districts an alternative, but opponents see it as vote of no confidence in public education and complain it pulls precious state dollars away from public schools.

Due to the details of the APPR regulations, district funds must be funneled to staff development and outside scoring even as New York State taxpayers» precious dollars are funneled to testing companies and other vendors.