Sentences with phrase «education funding levels»

Unnecessarily maintaining special education funding levels because of an inflexible federal requirement does not allow districts to efficiently allocate limited resources to serve the maximum number of students.

The secretary has been a controversial figure for teachers as he is a proponent of merit pay proposals based on test scores as well as other measures, such as peer review and classroom observations.The march came only a few days after Secretary Duncan defended current education funding levels.

Jane spoke in a debate on education funding at the Liberal Democrats» Spring Conference in Liverpool to stress the positive impact that protecting English education funding levels in real terms would have on Welsh budgets.

The House also eliminates the current maintenance of effort requirement for states and districts, which stipulates that states and school districts must maintain their own education funding levels at 90 percent or more of the funding they provided in the preceding year to access federal funds.

While IDEA currently provides district leaders with a few exceptions, such as a decrease in special education enrollment to readjusting their current special education funding levels, the recession acutely highlighted how the exceptions need to be broadened at the local level.

In July, AASA spearheaded the introduction of an important bill in Congress that will provide districts with flexibility to ensure they are not wrongly penalized for changes in their special education funding levels that in no way impact the provision of special education to students with disabilities.

Our model would cut taxes for 2.7 million residents in 117 cities and towns while maintaining local control and education funding levels.