Sentences with phrase «dollar school improvement»

(In NYC's defense, Obama's seven billion dollar School Improvement Grants Program posted not much better results.)

Voters in the Greece Central School District have approved a 34 and a half million dollar school improvement plan.

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Though there is a nearly two - year - old state mandate that opens the free summer lunch program to all children in Illinois — whether or not they're in summer school — there has not been much improvement in participation, and officials say millions of federal dollars available for the meals are going untapped.

Improvements to the school's pool, field house, and water main are included in the budget and are expected to cost seven million dollars.

He has delivered over 40 million dollars in funding to our district that has resulted in the improvement of our senior programs, our public schools, and our public safety.

«I will again be allocating a full $ 2 million dollars to capital projects proposed, and voted on by community members that focus on the improvement of local schools, streets, parks, and libraries.

Now, the Obama administration has sought to boost school improvement through Race to the Top by getting states and districts to compete for some federal dollars with promises to execute needed reforms.

Even worse, across all cohort - one schools, the average reading - proficiency increase was a mere five points — a cost of one billion dollars for each point of improvement in reading proficiency.

With the largest single pool of federal education dollars in history flowing to states and school districts, education - related companies have been looking to gain a share of the cash, marketing themselves as uniquely equipped to help with improvement efforts.

Superintendent Michael Bennet (2005 - 2008) spearheaded Denver Public Schools» improvement by embracing charter school expansion, giving principals more decision - making power, and using student - based funding, in which dollars followed children to their schools of choice, to spur compeSchools» improvement by embracing charter school expansion, giving principals more decision - making power, and using student - based funding, in which dollars followed children to their schools of choice, to spur compeschools of choice, to spur competition.

Fifteen to twenty chapters so far have chosen to do so, raising thousands of dollars for worthwhile school improvements and projects.

«It is critically important that the millions of dollars in federal funds going to school improvement be used as effectively as possible to...

Even when we estimated the probability that an incumbent won a majority of the votes in each precinct, or accounted for test - score changes and levels as a function of dollars spent on students, or measured the relationship between an incumbent's vote share in one election and the previous election, the overwhelming weight of the evidence indicated that school board members were not being judged on improvement or weakening in school test scores.

Citing a new report from the Government Accountability Office, Sens. Tom Harkin, D - Iowa, and Arlen Specter, R - Pa., say they will be watching closely to make sure the Department of Education is monitoring how states spend the school improvement dollars available under the No Child Left Behind Act.

By giving parents «private accounts» to spend on digital learning, tutoring, and the like, it could weaken schools» larger improvement efforts, which are mostly funded by these federal dollars.

Those schools are now subject to strong improvement efforts, backed by billions of dollars in federal support.

The favorable bond rating enabled the school board to raise billions of dollars to finance the first citywide capital improvement project in decades.

«CPS says they have to close schools and disrupt communities to save money, yet they are spending untold millions of dollars on standardized testing instead of small class sizes and other important improvements that might actually help struggling schools.»

The city funneled millions of dollars of additional resources for high school electives and college - level courses this year, and the school system has for years been working on organizational improvements for tracking students in the highly mobile school system and monitoring their progress toward graduation.

The state has doled out School Improvement Grants to 39 Priority Schools statewide, amounting to $ 95 million dollars.

When the Aurora Expeditionary Learning Academy (AXL) in Aurora, CO refinanced higher cost debt through the Mountain West Charter Schools Fund, it was able to lower its overall facilities financing burden while funding additional improvements, resulting in more dollars for the classroom.

This year, most of those schools in every state received substantial federal School Improvement Grants, often a million dollars over three years, with the expectation that they will be «turned around» or made into much better schools.

And it's even more difficult when the Mayor, the City Council, the current Schools Chancellor and the city's leading newspaper do not have any real interest in knowing whether principals and teachers received hundreds of thousands of dollars in undeserved bonuses, or whether hundreds of children were inappropriately promoted or denied remedial attention, or whether their school system's dramatic improvement was a hoax and a lie.

Without federal school improvement dollars — Washington has exhausted its grant, writes Elliott — there isn't money to pay a lead partner.

On top of this requirement, Hartford public schools paid $ 1.5 million dollars for capital improvements on Achievement First's school building, which the charter uses for free.

That would result in the loss of hundreds of millions of dollars to California, including funds for Headstart pre-school programs and School Improvement Grants for the state's most underperforming schools.

Meanwhile, House funding for the teaching pilot program — approved in last year's budget negotiations — would total $ 8.8 million in recurring and non-recurring dollars, bankrolling a three - year program that provides financial incentives for educators to become school leaders in order to spur performance improvements in the classroom.

«The previous administration spent $ 7 billion of your dollars on School Improvement Grants, thinking they could demonstrate that money alone would solve the problem.

School choice is an increasingly popular issue in state legislatures nationwide as more and more states consider expanding educational options to help children get a better education, spur public school improvement, and save taxpayer doSchool choice is an increasingly popular issue in state legislatures nationwide as more and more states consider expanding educational options to help children get a better education, spur public school improvement, and save taxpayer doschool improvement, and save taxpayer dollars.

The Obama Administration has identified more than 5,000 schools in need of such improvement, and allocated nearly $ 17 billion dollars to fund the efforts by states and districts.

Last week, the Colorado State Board of Education turned its back on the 83,475 students in turnaround and priority improvement schools when they gave Aurora Central High School and HOPE Online a free pass to continue to continue to collect our tax dollars despite not educating our students.

ESSA requires that states employ evidence - based interventions and use 7 % of their Title I dollars to support these school - improvement efforts.

The legislation will save charter schools and taxpayers millions of dollars every year and directly impact student improvement.

Why spend tax dollars on a human resources function when parents are crying out for improvements to their neighborhood schools?

Because the previous administration spent seven billion of your dollars on «School Improvement Grants,» thinking they could demonstrate that money alone would solve the problem.

The Oregon Legislature this year authorized the sale of $ 123 million in state - backed general obligation bonds to fund a new School Capital Improvement Matching Program to help stretch local dollars and address urgent school facility needs across the School Capital Improvement Matching Program to help stretch local dollars and address urgent school facility needs across the school facility needs across the state.

Those oh - so - elusive SBAC results: after millions of dollars squandered on broadband improvements, tedious test prep, and time diverted from actual learning, our students, parents, and teachers have been prevented from getting the test results because no one in educational leadership today has figured out how to «spin» the results without facing the consequences of this poorly designed, invalid, questionably - standardized assessment that was perpetrated on our public school students.

Recognizing that principals are essential to most school - improvement efforts, the revised law governing the federal government's major source of dollars for public schools offers states and districts new funding possibilities for activities to promote effective school leadership.

Obama has joined the three presidents preceding him in favoring a far different policy of school improvement than that epitomized by Title I. Instead of additional dollars for extra services for children, the creation of academic standards and tests to measure achievement is seen as the way to increase the quality of American schools, especially that of schools with concentrations of low - income children.

We've created the Three Levers eBook to help to help answer the following questions that will allow you to leverage the assets you already have and work towards your school improvement goals with fewer dollars spent:

Furthermore, there is no separate so - called school improvement funding stream within Title I. Instead, states must now set aside 7 percent of their Title I funds — or the amount the state previously received under Sections 1003 (a) and 1003 (g) of NCLB, whichever is greater — to support school improvement, and they have significant flexibility in terms of how these dollars are used.

«The judge's decision means the new funding rules and other changes to Florida's education law will require school boards to be fair and share a portion of their capital improvement dollars with charter schools in their districts,» said Haag.

John has also travelled to Tanzania and Malawi, Africa, where, through his efforts, hundreds of thousands of dollars have been donated to provide clean water sources and improvements to schools for the poorest of the poor.

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The proposed law in Florida — a response to the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School — is part of a wide - ranging Senate bill that would allow some school employees to carry guns, increase the age to buy firearms and provide millions of dollars for school safety improvements and mental health proSchool — is part of a wide - ranging Senate bill that would allow some school employees to carry guns, increase the age to buy firearms and provide millions of dollars for school safety improvements and mental health proschool employees to carry guns, increase the age to buy firearms and provide millions of dollars for school safety improvements and mental health proschool safety improvements and mental health programs.

Completed a 2.5 Million Dollar capital campaign in four months for major school improvements including new athletic complex and media center.