Sentences with phrase «districts with more money»

Specifically, the law provides school districts with more money to support low - income students, foster youth and English learners.

Having challenged New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo in a 2014 gubernatorial primary, Teachout came into the Democratic contest in the 19th District with more money and name recognition than her primary opponent, Will Yandik.

Not exact matches

«We spoke with our architects and found out that for what we wanted, we will need more money than we first anticipated,» said Park District Director Diane McCray.

Right now, the Park District does not have the money to do anything with it, and would have to go back to its voters to ask for more money to build a golf course or water park, like they've been talking about.»

Three times in the late 1990s the district went to voters to ask for more money to deal with the costs of overcrowding and make ends meet.

The Park District argued money from the sale of the parcel — a sloped area in the park's northwest corner with trees, grass and a maintenance shed — would benefit the public more than the land itself.

With resources on site, the district would not have to spend more money on utilities.

More money would help with incorporating spices (training, recipe formulation, increased scratch cooking, ect) to replace salt but there's a certain level of sodium that is present in processed foods, even commodity processing: which is a staple in school districts.

The Professor's out - of - state — much less out - of - district — fundraising doesn't begin or end with California: the ardent Iranian Nuclear Deal and taxpayer - paid campaign proponent has also raised more money out of New England than out of New York.

The Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus Vance Jr., stepped into the void left by the Legislature when he agreed to pay for Governor Cuomo's prison education plan with more than $ 7 million in criminal forfeiture money secured from banks.

This is just the latest step in our renaissance, over the last few weeks with the Legislature's partnership we have passed and signed bond resolutions to fund the relocation and upgrading of our Medical Examiner's Office; funding for the new Sheriff's Police Academy; money to turn more of Building «A» into useable office space; funds for the relocation of the District Attorney's Special Victims Unit; plans for construction of a Board of Elections Storage Building and a bond to fund the replacement of the Samsondale Avenue Bridge in West Haverstraw.

Easton, with AQE, says the governor's budget proposal to freeze property taxes and phase out a utility tax, worth a combined $ 500 million, could be scrapped in order to provide more money for needy school districts.

With election day drawing nearer, Republican donors are pouring more and more money into the 19th District race — in all, they've reportedly spent $ 5.5 million to boost Faso.

Some groups condemned the governor for calling on districts to direct more of their state aid to their neediest schools — an exhortation that seemed at odds with his history of fighting the state's Foundation Aid formula, which directs more money to the state's poorest school districts and which advocates argue is itself underfunded.

Alicea said the district is working with elected officials to obtain more money for school security.

Hawkins» platform includes a call for a $ 15 hourly minimum wage rate, a ban on hydrofracking, using government money to hire unemployed workers for public projects, a single - payer healthcare program, rejecting the Common Core teaching standards (and the federal money that came with them), refiguring school aid to give more help to poorer districts and raising taxes on the richest New Yorkers.

In Manhattan, Inez Dickens» District 9 received the most money, ranking sixth city - wide, with more than $ 940,000 for local groups.

New research from the National Bureau of Economics confirms what teachers have always known: Money does make a difference for schools, and districts with large proportions of high - need students need comparatively more money than districts with fewer high - need studMoney does make a difference for schools, and districts with large proportions of high - need students need comparatively more money than districts with fewer high - need studmoney than districts with fewer high - need students.

They simply don't have the LEGAL authority to cut the overwhelming majority of their expenses and with the double digit cut in state aid most local school districts will receive, they will have to make up for that money by significantly jacking up property taxes... which are far more regressive and oppressive than income taxes.

The stark analysis from the governor, released one day after he held his first budget negotiation with legislators, shows his resolve in demanding his education reforms in order for local school districts to get more money.

A House - Senate conference committee's final bill includes more than $ 500 million a year for seven states and the District of Columbia, according to U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, D - N.Y., who worked with Reps. John Katko, R - Camillus, and Richard Hanna, R - Barneveld to restore the money.

Compared to the general Nevada funding formula or the formulas that govern most district and charter schools nationally, the Nevada ESA program looks positively progressive in giving more money to kids starting off with less.

Aesop claims on its website that it saves districts money: its «fill rate» — that is, the number of classrooms it fills with a sub — is so high that schools don't need to use more costly downtime teachers.

Few jurisdictions have passed significant voucher and tax - credit legislation, and most have hedged charter laws with one or another of a multiplicity of provisos — that charters are limited in number, can only be authorized by school districts (their natural enemies), can not enroll more than a fixed number of students, get less money per pupil than district - run schools, and so on.

Both of these grant programs provide relatively more money to districts with higher proportions of low - income students, which also tend to be lower - performing districts.

Promising money to states if they come up with sensible ideas seems to work more effectively than punishing schools and districts for low performance.

When the public is provided with specific information on the current level of expenditure in the local school district, it is less willing to spend more money on schools than when this information is not given.

With little stimulus money expected to be left for construction after states make up for recession - driven budget cuts, districts are scrambling for some $ 24 billion or more in zero - or low - interest bonds under the $ 787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

The new system affords far greater local control and guarantees that districts with substantial populations of disadvantaged kids receive more state money — lots more.

In some districts, such as Clark County, which is home to Las Vegas, population growth has meant the district can't build enough schools to meet demand or find enough teachers, especially when you can potentially make more money with tips as a card dealer in a casino.

Specifically, districts enrolling more students with special needs require more money.

Spending index: While no consensus exists about how much money is necessary to provide an «adequate» education, it is clear that districts with certain characteristics tend to require more aid.

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.

More experienced, better - educated teachers flock to the wealthier schools in their districts and take a disproportionate share of the district's state and local monies with them.

All four candidates said they supported Gov. Jerry Brown's major education policy that reformed how the state funds education, called the Local Control Funding Formula, which gives more money to districts with high numbers of English learners, low - income students, and students in the foster care system.

And even before California recently revamped its statewide K - 12 funding formula to concentrate more funds in schools with high numbers of ELLs and other vulnerable students, the district was targeting extra money to schools with the greatest number of poor students and English - language learners, he said.

According to their research, districts that were already advantaged — with larger tax bases and more educated parent populations — received more money in private donations.29

«The mandates that come with [Race To The Top] will cost districts more than whatever money it brings to the district,» blogs education historian Diane Ravitch.

Districts with higher per - pupil costs — those with many disadvantaged students, for example — don't necessarily get significantly more money.

With the philanthropic money — not counting community partnerships that provide educational and facilities improvements — Partnership schools spend only about $ 650 more per student per year than the average district student, for whom about $ 11,000 is budgeted by the state.

Tuck said his campaign will focus on ensuring that Gov. Jerry Brown's new school funding formula — which provides additional money to districts with large numbers of poor children, English learners and foster youth — is really funneling money to the neediest students and that its accountability measures are more understandable for parents and the public.

According to Education Week's Alyson Klein, thanks to the U.S. Department of Education's new «Weighted Student Funding Pilot» program, school districts now have the chance for local, state, and federal funding to «follow children, so that kids with greater need have more money attached to...

With more money on hand, some districts are looking to bring their staffs back to pre-recession levels, but the state has a long way to go before it reaches a basic level of student - to - teacher ratio, the report states.

Yes, there will be more money under a Bush or other proposal (until tax cuts and military spending increases and economic slowdown intervene), but this federal money will be wholly inadequate for needed improvements while saddling states, districts, schools, and their students with massive testing requirements.

Evers» current budget request asks for $ 5.5 million to provide rural school districts with grant money to pay teachers to retain and recruit them; increase transportation funding for rural school districts and millions more in funding for bilingual - bicultural programs and programs aimed at students who are learning English as a second language.

The district with the lowest property tax rate (Gibraltar budgeted $ 17,897) spent more money per pupil than the district with the highest property tax rate (Elmwood budgeted $ 15,388).

According to Education Week's Alyson Klein, thanks to the U.S. Department of Education's new «Weighted Student Funding Pilot» program, school districts now have the chance for local, state, and federal funding to «follow children, so that kids with greater need have more money attached to them.»

Weingarten declined to comment on the sum the AFT spent, but the consultant said that most of the money went to unlimited and unregulated communication with union members, intense outreach to the union's more than 2,000 members in the district and to the between 30,000 and 40,000 AFL - CIO members in Washington, D.C.. Each group received three mailings and several live calls; the union also did its own polling on the race.

The district owes the state more than $ 200 million — and possibly as much as $ 269 million — in «recapture» payments, money that districts deemed «property wealthy» have to share with other districts

Take Nevada, a state that's seen strong population growth, in some districts such as Clark County - where Las Vegas is - they just can't build enough schools to meet demand or find enough teachers when you can potentially make more money with tips as a casino card dealer.