Sentences with phrase «federal funding for schools where»

I don't know, based entirely on the lede, the education one could be criticizing him for not pushing legislation to ban federal funding for schools where teacher unions have collective bargaining powers.

The Department of Education's proposal to amend ESSA would label most Westchester public schools as «in need of improvement» and would cut federal funding for any school where 5 percent of students or more opt out of Common Core testing.

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After leaving the City Council, Zellnor became chair of his Neighborhood Advisory Board where, through community organizing, he helped secure nearly $ 400,000 in federal funding for job training, after school programming, and tenant protection.

For the first time in history, federal education funds will be linked to a student, so that parents can send their child to any public or charter school, or to a private school, where permitted.

HB 644 established the Charter School Transportation Grant Pilot Program to fund up to 65 percent of student transportation costs for charter schools where at least half of students qualify for federal free or reduced lunch.

As in Washington, D.C., where the federal government agreed to send $ 2 in aid to the public schools for every $ 1 it spent on the voucher program, Spence found it politically necessary to continue sending 15 to 25 percent of the per - pupil funding to the school districts for each student who chose to use a voucher.

She previously served as Project Director at Worcester Community Action Council, Inc. where she developed and implemented a federal ARRA - funded program that provided employability skills, job development, and academic preparation for low - income out - of - school 16 - 24 year olds.

Page Tompkins, Ed.D. is the founding Executive Director of the Reach Institute for School Leadership in Oakland, California, where he works with novice teachers and emerging school leaders, and is the Project Director for a federal Teacher Incentive Fund prSchool Leadership in Oakland, California, where he works with novice teachers and emerging school leaders, and is the Project Director for a federal Teacher Incentive Fund prschool leaders, and is the Project Director for a federal Teacher Incentive Fund project.

At the federal level, Congress considered allowing Title I funds targeted for low - income students to follow them to the school where they enroll, but that idea was ultimately scrapped in the final version of NCLB's successor, the Every Students Succeeds Act.

Trump's campaign plan for school choice was scant on details: He did not say where the $ 20 billion in federal funding would come from or how it would be doled out.

H. R. 2218 provides federal support to fund construction and / or renovation costs for charter schools at a level not provided for traditional public schools, despite the fact that many of the traditional public schools throughout the country are overcrowded, and these facilities are where the vast majority of students are educated.

Federal funds are paying for an expansion of pre-school programs in Springfield, Massachusetts, where children from poor families have historically struggled academically and dropped out before graduating from high school.

NCLB instituted a system of standardized tests nationwide, which are meant to act as a kind of national barometer for educators — and for federal officials deciding where to send education funding — that is, as a tool for comparing performance across schools and school districts.

I really am interested in how a former undersecretary of education has come to the point that he is so determined to attack teacher tenure, teacher unions and «restrictive work rules» for teachers — especially during a time when public schools have been systematically defunded, forced to jump through hoops (Race to the Top) in order to get what remains of federal funding for education, like some kind of bizarre Hunger Games ritual for kids and teachers, and as curriculums have been narrowed to the point where only middle class and wealthier communities have schools that offer subjects like music, art, and physical education — much less recess time, school nurses or psychologists, or guidance counselors.

Similar concerns about coercion have been expressed in respect of the Tiwi Islands where there is a concern that the federal government will not deliver on a $ 10 million funding commitment for a new boarding school if the community rejects a proposed 99 year lease.