Sentences with phrase «equitable school financing»

Now, nearly four decades later, Connecticut still doesn't have a fair and equitable school financing system.

The Commission recommended more equitable school financing systems, measures to ensure effective teachers and curriculum, and access to high quality early childhood education.

By contrast, Education Trust's report, reflecting the effect of Abbott, ranked the Garden State as the second most equitable school finance system in the country.

California's new Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) 1, signed into law in 2013, promised a new school finance system that would provide both more local control and a more equitable school finance system.

LCFF was designed as a step towards a more equitable school finance system.

As you consider the governor's proposed changes, we ask that you take these areas for improvement into consideration, and continue to take steps toward a truly equitable school finance system for all of Connecticut's public school students.

As you consider the governor's proposal and possible adjustments to the FY 2019 budget, we ask that you take these areas for improvement into consideration, and continue to take steps toward a truly equitable school finance system for all of Connecticut's public school students.

And they have a chance to push Connecticut toward an equitable school finance system that works for all students and meets their learning needs and the needs of their schools and communities.

Connecticut's low - income students need and deserve an equitable school finance system that recognizes, and takes into account, the variety of challenges they may face that can impact their educational success.

College access advocates need to develop long - term structural solutions to these disparities such as equitable school finance laws and more generous financial aid policies.

Not exact matches

It would certainly appear equitable, in light of the tortured history of school - finance litigation in Ohio.

Many of the individuals who are driving education policy in this country... sent their own children to abundantly financed private schools where class sizes were 16 or less, and yet continue to insist that resources, equitable funding, and class size don't matter — when all the evidence points to the contrary (Haimson, 2009).

The state's charter law must support new and high - performing operators; the state's school finance system must provide equitable, student - based funding; facilities must be made available to new and growing schools; educator certification rules must fit the needs of successful schools; and so on.

The long - term funding solution is twofold: equitable funding and access to publicly financed school facilities.

One might think that the same voters who wanted to reform school districts would also want to reform the school finance behemoth — assuming they understood that 66 might make school finance more equitable, targeted and transparent.

This document presents a brief explanation of the goal of school finance reforms, followed by summaries of the main bodies of evidence that illustrate how equitable and adequate school funding improves student outcomes.

Do state school finance reforms that provide more equitable and adequate funding matter?

«Connecticut needs and deserves an equitable school - finance system that is based on the learning needs of students, and the schools that serve them.»

In a few weeks, Governor Doug Ducey's Classrooms First Initiative Council will take the first, small step towards creating an equitable, efficient state school finance system that benefits all of our students.

In this way, the general assembly established a relatively equitable system of financing school general operating expenses supported by a uniform system of local property taxation.

While not every dollar a school spends directly improves academic outcomes, a new report from Rutgers school - finance expert Bruce Baker finds certain kinds of money very much do matter: extra funding for higher teacher salaries and more equitable distribution of resources between rich and poor districts, for example, are correlated with higher student achievement, especially for the neediest kids.

At the same time, states are increasingly focused on developing more equitable K — 12 education financing systems, including reducing funding disparities between districts and providing additional funding for high - poverty school districts.

To me, it's completely unrelated to the agenda from Brown, which was about getting equal access to educational opportunities for students — you know, initially through desegregation, but the heritage of Brown is also a large number of school finance reform lawsuits that have been trying to advocate for equitable resource distribution between districts and schools.

Former Texas Solicitor General James Ho made the case for equitable funding for public charter school students and TCSA General Counsel Denise Pierce drove the point home at the school finance trial before the Supreme Court of -LSB-...]

a school finance formula based on individual student needs, which provides adequate and equitable funding for public schools, and is funded through a balanced tax policy at both the state and local levels.

Such a study is the necessary first step to developing a rational, effective and constitutional education funding and finance system that provides a truly adequate and equitable educational opportunity to every K - 12 public school student in Connecticut.

Recent research out of the Madison - based Wisconsin Policy Forum shows Wisconsin ranks high nationally for providing adequate funding in an equitable way to K - 12 schools — although researchers acknowledge the state's school finance system has its challenges, after «years of layering new programs and funding methods on top of one another.»

The recently completed state budget was made tough because of a lack of revenues; positive school finance reform requires adequate, sustainable and equitable revenue sources.

Many of the individuals who are driving education policy in this country, including New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Jeb Bush and Bill Gates, sent their own children to abundantly financed private schools where class sizes were 16 or less, and yet continue to insist that resources, equitable funding, and class size don't matter — when all the evidence points to the contrary.