Sentences with phrase «districts receiving federal funds»

In 2006, the USDA required all school districts receiving federal funding for school meals to create a wellness policy that addressed food - related policies, nutrition education, and physical activity.

Under that designation, districts receive some federal funding but are relatively free to decide how to spend it.

Federal civil rights laws require school districts receiving federal funding to intervene when peer bullying and harassment occurs.

Not exact matches

«Every school district that receives federal funding has been required to have a wellness policy since 2006,» Davis said.

The suit mentions the Common Core curriculum, noting additional federal funds districts have received through Race to the Top have constituted less than one - third of the amount needed for proper implementation, and the state has so far not provided additional funds to cover that cost, or the additional costs of the new teacher performance evaluation requirements.

The Syracuse City School District also received more than $ 1 million in federal funding this year.

District will receive $ 4 million in federal transportation funds for the third phase on the Grand Concourse

Under the terms of federal School Improvement Grants that the DOE was awarded to help these schools succeed, the school district and the union must jointly develop a teacher evaluation system in low - achieving schools that receive the funds.

Federal investigators» interest in Percoco came to light in late April, when the administration acknowledged that it had received a wide - ranging subpoena from the office of U.S. Attorney for the Southern District Preet Bharara seeking information about actions taken by a half - dozen current or former members of the administration, including Percoco, that might have benefited two dozen companies that had received state funds or other benefits.

This project receives funding from the following sources: Federal: Yes State: Yes Local: No This project falls within the geographical boundaries of the following legislative districts:

For the first time, states receiving federal K - 12 education funding would be required to hold districts and schools accountable for the achievement...

Although officials from the 4,000 districts nationwide that receive federal impact - aid funds have been outspoken in their opposition to cuts in the program recommended by the Reagan Administration, the Fairfax school board was the first in the country to threaten military families with tuition charges to make up for the lost support.

In 1994, Congress passed the Gun - Free Schools Act, which requires that each state receiving federal funds under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act must enact a state law that requires all school districts to expel from school for least one year any student found bringing a gun to school.

The district is scheduled to receive $ 149 million in federal stimulus funds, but only $ 11 million of this can go toward reducing the deficit.

Parents of female basketball players at Franklin High School have sued, claiming that because it does not schedule as many girls» games during «prime time» slots as it does boys» games, the school district is in violation of Title IX, which forbids discrimination based on sex in programs receiving federal funds.

As most readers know, ESSA requires all fifty states and the District of Columbia to update their NCLB - era education policies and practices, including their school accountability systems, if they want to continue receiving federal funds.

It must ensure that all educational institutions that receive federal funding — which means 14,000 public school districts and more than 7,000 institutions of higher learning — comply with Title IV, Title IX, section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1974 and Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, and the Age Discrimination Act of 1976.

Washington — Five states no longer require school districts to keep records showing that they do not allocate less local funding to schools receiving federal Chapter 1 funds, and 31 other states have relaxed standards by which they judge «comparability,» according to the General Accounting Office.

It also allows charters to receive their share of federal funds in cash rather than in the form of services from districts.

And finally, the Colorado Education Association (CEA) charged that district schools shouldn't have to share local tax dollars, since charters didn't share the unique funding they received through grants, donations, and charter - specific federal funds.

In 2010, 11 states and the District of Columbia received funding to develop program report cards as part of their federal Race to the Top grants.

On the surface, the current dispute about Title I comparability (the requirement that schools within a district must receive comparable resources from state and local sources for education of disadvantaged children before federal funds are added on) is all about money.

We compared how districts fund schools that are eligible to receive federal Title I dollars with other schools in their grade span — elementary, middle, or high school grades — and found vast disparities throughout the country in how districts spend state and local dollars on Title I schools.

For example, we found that in the second year — the first year of narrowing comparability gaps — states and districts would be responsible for closing gaps by around $ 2.3 billion in exchange for receiving more than $ 14.6 billion in federal Title I funds.

Programs serving the nation's economically disadvantaged students and those with disabilities are receiving massive funding boosts through the federal stimulus package — $ 13 billion for Title I aid and $ 11.3 billion for special education — but how school districts choose to use the money may set them up for problems when it dries up.

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.

Congress adopted Title I in 1965 to ensure that districts and schools serving large concentrations of students in poverty received a greater portion of federal funds to address the compounded impact of poverty on student learning.

For decades, Title I of ESEA has included important fiscal requirements to ensure that federal funding is supplemental to state and local education funding and that states and districts do not reduce their own spending in response to receiving federal dollars.

The first was a quantitative analysis of student academic outcomes, comparing results for schools that received federal School Improvement Grant (SIG) funding to similar schools in the same districts that did not.

As a result, there is a role for federal government to set clear expectations for school funding via a minimum spending threshold for districts to be eligible to receive Title I funds.

Under the law, students in all schools are tested, but the only schools and districts subject to penalties are those that receive federal Title I funding, awarded to schools with large numbers of low - income students.

However, if a state can demonstrate that it is ensuring that its high - poverty districts and schools receive more state and local funding than its low - poverty districts and schools, the federal funding is supplemental by definition, and the state is meeting the intent of these key fiscal requirements.

School districts in Mississippi receive funding from three sources: state, local, and federal contributions.

Most low - income schools and districts currently receive funding that can be used to improve school schedules, with the costs of a 9 - to - 5 school day within the bounds of current allotments of federal funding.

Thirteen school districts and nonprofit agencies will receive $ 5.4 million in federal funding as part of the Public Charter Schools Grant Program Planning and Implementation Grant (Round 2).

The bill repeals certain aspects of ESEA, such as requirements for how much states and school districts must spend before receiving federal funding, and eliminating more than 65 federal education programs.

While this didn't mean that schools received no funding, the extreme decrease in state and federal funding, (as well as later freezes and sequestrations as the legislature attempted to deal with the state budget), meant that Kentucky's school districts were forced to rely on their other source of income: property taxes.

Ross C. Santy, director of EdFacts, told state and district officials who attended a National Center for Education Statistics conference in Washington, D.C., last week they would still have to report student achievement data to receive federal funding, like Title I and school improvement grants.

Public schools are funded largely by local property taxes, though many districts also receive funding from state and federal sources.

Cross pollinating best practices and identifying barriers to school success are two benefits of monitoring, a mandate for school districts that receive federal funds.

The federal government also insists on regular testing in school districts that receive federal funds for disadvantaged children.

Roberts was one of four schools in the district to receive $ 2 million in federal funding from a School Improvement Grant.

To qualify for these funds, districts must receive some federal Title I money, a funding source used to educate poor students.

All federal funds are tied to these programs and each district will receive funding, or not, based on their performance.

In $ ite ™ includes all sources of funding (federal and state grants, town / city general revenue funds, state aid, and other specialized funds that each district may receive) to analyze each district's expenditures prior to 2009.

Some background for you: The federal economic - stimulus bill required districts receiving state stabilization funding to report school - level expenditures, including teacher salaries.

Even ardent Trump supporter, PA Congressman Lou Barletta, disagrees with the White House on this issue, stating that the afterschool program in his district that receives federal funding, ``... has a record of success when it comes to providing kids with educational opportunities they otherwise wouldn't have had and benefiting families in Northeastern Pennsylvania who balance work and raising their kids in a healthy environment.»

Under Jones» proposal, a school district voting for independence would receive 90 percent of the ISD's state and federal funds directly.

Pro-rating this to exclude charter schools (a rough estimate that should understate federal funding received by district schools), we are left with $ 72.7 million.

The ISD would retain 10 percent of all dollars it receives from the seceding district, either from its own levy or from federal and state funds.