Sentences with phrase «dollars out of school districts»

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Soon after the Civil Eats piece came out, four Nutrition Services employees devoted what must have been considerable time and effort (not to mention the taxpayer dollars that directly pay their salaries) to write a scholarly article for the Journal of Applied Research on Children: Informing Policy for Children at Risk entitled «Sugar In School Breakfasts: A School District» s Perspective.»

Buffalo Public Schools, always strapped for cash, missed out on hundreds of thousands of dollars when it underbilled for providing special education services to students from other school districts, a new state audit found.

Instead, the release cites McDonald's support last December of a «3 billion dollar tax increase even though his campaign pledge was not to support taxes,» and his backing of a recent attempt to «weaken the tax cap» by allowing school districts to bond out pension costs.

The Alliance for Quality Education's Billy Easton says New York has fallen far behind in carrying out an order issued eight years ago form the state's highest court saying schools, particularly the poorest districts, deserve billions of dollars more in state funding each year.

The Town of Lewiston, Niagara County Legislature and the villages of Lewiston and Youngstown, as well as the Lewiston - Porter school district, have voiced their dissent despite the risk of losing out on the millions of dollars in revenue from taxes and fees that CWM would pay over the lifetime of the new landfill.

Looking forward, the 2010 — 11 and 2011 — 12 school years pack a one - two punch, with school district leaders facing the end of ARRA dollars and answering tough questions about programs and personnel that have been (and will be) cut, while trying to figure out what, if any, economic recovery is in store at the state and local levels.

School - district officials across the country are bracing for possible battles in their respective statehouses over legislation that could leave districts paying out hundreds of thousands — perhaps millions of dollars annually in unemployment benefits.

The administration doesn't want to let reform - minded school districts miss out on Race to the Top funding just because their states are recalcitrant dinosaurs in the grip of teacher unions, etc.S o they're going to try something unusual: channeling dollars AROUND the states and directly to districts.

And school district administrators frequently oppose charter schools because the charter schools use public dollars but operate independently and out of the direct control of the local school board.

«Bear in mind that scholarship dollars travel out of the district whereas endowments tend to work for the benefit of the community more directly advancing education at home and in the school.

AQE recently put out a report showing that the state collectively owes school districts billions of dollars, stemming from a decades - old school - funding lawsuit.

Add in the tens of million spent by local school districts on computers and internet expansion so that students can take the on - line tests, along with the substitute teachers who were brought in so that full - time teachers could be pulled out to «learn about the Common Core,» and well over $ 150 — $ 200 million dollars (or more) in public funds have been diverted from instruction to the Common Core and Common Core testing disaster.

An evaluation study of the district's equity fund highlighted several implementation challenges.65 Some PTAs simply did not comply with the district's policy to give back some dollars, and the district had difficulty figuring out how to exempt some PTA expenses fairly from redistribution.66 The evaluators did not examine how this policy affected PTA revenues, but there was significant pushback from members of the community, with some parents threatening to reduce donations during initial policy negotiations.67 A group of parents voiced that the approach was punitive, and that instead, parents should be encouraged to donate to a separate equity fund or to other, less affluent schools.68 Other districts that have considered establishing an equity fund have feared similar pushback, worrying that rich parents will threaten to leave the district, disinvest in their schools, or decrease their overall contributions.69

While voucher usage is higher in big cities, the financial effect is felt in every school district because the voucher dollars come out of Tuition Support, in effect reducing the dollars supporting students in all public schools.

Based on original research in four districts, we show that teacher cost averaging drives significant amounts of money (several hundred dollars per pupil in many cases) out of schools serving poorer students and toward better - off schools.

Ending traditional school funding — especially the use of property tax dollars as a funding source for districts and schools (which account for 34 percent of school funding in the Wolverine State)-- would get rid of excuses traditional districts use to oppose all forms of school choice, keep poor and minority kids out of the schools they operate, and refuse to take on other systemic reforms.

She estimates that, if enrollment is evenly distributed across the five districts, her school would receive about $ 1 million, or $ 200,000 from each district out of budgets that total more than half a billion dollars.

This is the proposal aggressively pushed by a governor who is billions of dollars behind the state's constitutional obligation to fund public schools equitably, who continues to use accounting tricks to cheat school districts out of millions of dollars owed under the already inadequate funding in the state budget, who has restricted districts from increasing revenue locally without a super-majority, and then has the nerve to blame strangled school districts for not raising test scores.

«I do not want my tax dollars wasted on this stuff because at the end of the day the money they spend on this will cause already strapped districts to cut out of school the things that kids love — art, music, gym, language.»

Choice A: Young Minnesotans with the desire to help children and teach as a career - who complete the required degrees in both education and desired subject areas, pass the state required tests, complete months of student teaching that requires them to plan for and teach full days, are hired without the district paying a private organization thousands of dollars, are paid salary and benefits negotiated through a union, are not sought out by big corporations, banks, and Wall Street because of their service and skills gained from 2 years of teaching, and continue their careers paying their own way, without discounts from grad schools, in pursuit of advanced or additional degrees.

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.

She details how teachers and school districts could benefit by switching from doling out raises through percentage - based cost of living increases to fixed - dollar payouts.

Thurmond passed legislation to provide millions of dollars to school districts to keep kids in school and out of the criminal justice system, fought for money to make sure that all California youth in foster care can go to college, and increased funding for early education programs.

Chronic absenteeism and truancy costs school districts millions of dollars each year in lost income, and disproportionately increases the likelihood that certain groups of students will drop out.