«Texas charter schools are taking
dollars out of the classrooms for facilities that they could be using to pay teachers, to help students with more innovative... curriculum ideas and to be able to serve their students better.»
There is no excuse for ignoring the fact that charter schools must take
dollars out of classrooms to pay the rent.
«Which of course is a problem, because every dollar that has to be supported by the general fund is
a dollar out of the classroom,» said Ed Wilkins, the school nutrition director for the San Francisco Public Schools.
Not exact matches
If you're a schoolteacher, chances are you spend a couple thousand
dollars out of your own pocket every year buying supplies for children in your
classroom.
School decision makers 1) plug in simple information, 2) explore different ways to expand school meals programs like moving breakfast to the
classroom or serving afterschool meals, and 3) come
out with hard data about costs, number
of students served and federal reimbursement
dollars.
The pro-Cuomo Committee to Save NY is backing up a recent TV spot supporting the governor's proposed education aid cuts with a mailer that accuses school superintendents
of going behind closed doors and «taking money
out of classrooms — but putting hundreds
of thousands
of dollars in their own pockets.»
Indeed, according to the analysis conducted by the authors
of this report, the use
of school vouchers — which provide families with public
dollars to spend on private schools — is equivalent to missing
out on more than one - third
of a year
of classroom learning.
Many teachers invest hundreds to thousands
of dollars out of their own pocket for materials and supplies for their
classroom every year.
Eight - five million
dollars was moved
out of teacher assistants and into
classroom teacher funds.
Lawmakers moved a large chunk
of that $ 105 million
dollars out of teacher assistants and into a fund to pay for
classroom teacher positions.
Right now, if I were a school superintendent, I'd likely have to go
out and hire a contract research firm for a few hundred thousand
dollars to come in to help me analyze my school data to tell me whether or not that group
of classrooms was outperforming comparison
classrooms elsewhere in my district or in the state.
Instead
of having a process that could last a year and costs tens
of thousands
of dollars, this plan will get the bad teacher
out of the
classroom immediately and off the payroll and
out of the teaching profession in a matter no more than 90 days.
In the midst
of statewide protests over low teacher pay and school spending, new federal data show that nine
out of 10 teachers spend their own money — often hundreds
of dollars — on
classroom supplies.
You can throw millions
of dollars at a great math program, but if the
classroom is
out of control and the teacher can't teach... then the best curriculum in the world won't improve your scores.»