Sentences with phrase «enact education funding reform»
This budget assumes that the State will enact education funding reform along the lines of Senate Bill 1, which is the only evidence - based funding model that has won approval from the General Assembly.
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Clinton urged Silver's Assembly to «absolutely» pass a Senate bill that would more than double the cap to 460 from 200 — and «not just because of the federal funding» (the up to $ 700 million that New York could win in a competition for states that enact education reforms).
«So if the proposed reforms are enacted, it may be reasonable to assume that districts would receive current law funding amounts for such aid categories as building, transportation, BOCES and excess cost (special education) aid, as well as other categories.
For example, a routine March 3 announcement of several appointments to the board of the Fund for the Improvement and Reform of Schools and Teaching — a program enacted in 1988, years before Secretary of Education Lamar Alexander conceived America 2000 — includes this quote from the Secretary:
Tom Evenson, spokesman for Walker, said the governor will review the proposal but is «committed to fully funding public education while enacting reforms that lead to continued property tax relief.»
In order to better serve its student population, the state has enacted several reforms in recent years — and state funding for K — 12 education has increased for six consecutive years.
Last week, Eduflack wrote about recent efforts by Congress to provide some needed funding for teachers» jobs by cutting funding for many of the education reforms, like Race to the Top, just enacted or increased last year.
However, thanks to the education reform legislation enacted by last year's legislature it has «dramatically and comprehensively altered the public education system the plaintiffs ask this court to declare unconstitutional» (p. 2, Motion to Modify Scheduling) The state also claims that the funding that accompanied those reforms, laid out in the Mahoney affidavit, was substantial.