Sentences with phrase «federal school dollars»

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In addition, they partner with the Department of Education and schools to service over $ 51 billion dollars in student loans under the Federal Family Education Loan Program.

The resolution also asks for more federal dollars for school police...

If a dozen different public school systems were to embark on a five - year experiment as part of a larger nation - wide experiment encouraged by federal dollars, local teams of educators, parents and community leaders would need to devise appropriate local models.

These resources include private sector dollars, the community partners that support LA's Promise schools, and the millions of public sector dollars that flow from the state and federal governments.»

Not only will The Wellness Impact help you make your case for the positive impact school breakfast has on student cognition and behavior, it can help you make your «dollars and cents» case as well; BIC often has a dramatic impact on participation numbers at breakfast, which means leaving fewer federal reimbursement dollars on the table.

Schools must follow the HHFKA standards to receive federal dollars for their lunch programs.

Though there is a nearly two - year - old state mandate that opens the free summer lunch program to all children in Illinois — whether or not they're in summer school — there has not been much improvement in participation, and officials say millions of federal dollars available for the meals are going untapped.

But while fast food customers can vote with their dollars, our nation's school children, particularly those whose lower economic status forces them to rely on federal school meals, lack any voice in the matter.

504s are a part of U.S. civil - rights law, and if your child's school receives any federal dollars, it's obligated to provide a plan and abide by it.

But why is it that those so vehemently opposed to using federal dollars to improve school food never seem to object to using federal dollars to subsidize in all manner of ways the corporations manufacturing the junk food we currently feed our children?

For example, what if districts with lower property values received more federal reimbursement dollars for school meals than districts with higher property values, with the affluent districts making up the difference via a higher lunch price for paying students?

Now, of course, the food stamp program may lose significant funding if Congress continues to look to SNAP dollars to fund the stalled child nutrition bill (the CNA), which covers school food, as well as WIC and other federal food programs.

Right now, the federal reimbursements for school meals are so woefully inadequate that food service directors have less than a dollar to spend on creating a healthy lunch.

But I've often wondered if the skills acquired in a high - end restaurant kitchen have much to do with the problems faced by school food departments: extremely tight budgets (just a dollar per meal for food), reams of federal regulations, often seriously deficient infrastructure, and a notoriously fickle and hard - to - please clientele.

School decision makers 1) plug in simple information, 2) explore different ways to expand school meals programs like moving breakfast to the classroom or serving afterschool meals, and 3) come out with hard data about costs, number of students served and federal reimbursement doSchool decision makers 1) plug in simple information, 2) explore different ways to expand school meals programs like moving breakfast to the classroom or serving afterschool meals, and 3) come out with hard data about costs, number of students served and federal reimbursement doschool meals programs like moving breakfast to the classroom or serving afterschool meals, and 3) come out with hard data about costs, number of students served and federal reimbursement dollars.

In the meantime, while the pending child nutrition legislation in Congress seeks to raise federal reimbursement for school meals by a mere six cents — rather than the one dollar advocated by reformers like Chef Ann — we need to exploit every opportunity to bring more funds to schools.

That's very different situation from a high school like Holy Trinity where kids have no other lunch options (besides lunch from home), keeping the level of federal reimbursement dollars higher.

The federal government is now giving Dr. Wansink a million dollars to spread these ideas to schools as part of a «Smarter Lunchrooms Initiative.»

Yesterday I published my interview with Paul Boundas, the restaurant chef who has brought wholesome, delicious scratch - cooking to Holy Trinity High School in Wicker Park, Illinois and says that he does so using the same federal dollars as any other school operating under the National School Lunch PrSchool in Wicker Park, Illinois and says that he does so using the same federal dollars as any other school operating under the National School Lunch Prschool operating under the National School Lunch PrSchool Lunch Program.

«In the short term, I call on the State Department of Education, local school districts and the union leadership to expedite their negotiations on a teacher evaluation system to prevent the loss of hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding.

He said schools have an billion and a half dollars in reserve funds and leftover monies from the federal stimulus program, which ended last year, enough to cover the reductions.

New York faces a June 1 deadline for relaxing rules for charter schools to boost its chances of winning about half a billion dollars from the federal Race to the Top program.

Three school districts in Western New York will share hundreds of thousands of federal dollars, because Uncle Sam has land within their respective districts that can not be taxed.

Maple Street Charter School, the for - profit charter school hoping to open in Rochester next year, has paid tens of thousands of dollars to a lobbying firm at the center of a rapidly expanding federal investigation into improper influence in ASchool, the for - profit charter school hoping to open in Rochester next year, has paid tens of thousands of dollars to a lobbying firm at the center of a rapidly expanding federal investigation into improper influence in Aschool hoping to open in Rochester next year, has paid tens of thousands of dollars to a lobbying firm at the center of a rapidly expanding federal investigation into improper influence in Albany.

FBI agents and Rockland district attorney's office investigators fanned out across Ramapo today with search warrants demanding that vendors provide records and account for equipment allegedly bought by religious schools with millions in federal education technology dollars.

The UFT has issued a memo warning of a potential loss of millions of dollars in federal funds for more than 1,200 New York City public schools if Trump's administration adopts a voucher system for schools.

New York is poised to receive millions of dollars in much - needed school funding, thanks to the passage of a critical $ 26 billion federal jobs bill in Congress on Aug. 10.

To avert a situation where New York is forced to return hundreds of millions of sorely - needed federal dollars, we urge you to consider introducing «shot clock» style measures to ensure that all school districts will fully implement the state's new teacher evaluation framework in accordance with the Race to the Top timeline.

The Republican leader sent a letter to de Blasio on Monday, claiming the city has failed to meet a state requirement by filling out a form that shows, building by building, how schools spend local, state and federal tax dollars.

For example, the state would cut $ 50 million in Medicaid funding from the city unless Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration comes up with a plan in the next five months to receive $ 100 million more in federal Medicaid dollars for preschool and school supportive health services.

The school is eligible to receive millions of dollars in federal money to improve its performance, but Dr. Tisch said its problems ran so deep — students read far below grade level, and there was little instruction taking place — that money alone might not be enough to solve them.

«I and other members of the Senate Democratic conference stood firm against mid-year cuts to schools and also rejected health care cuts that would have cost New York hundreds of millions of dollars in lost federal funds,» Onorato said.

More than 700,000 students in more than 1,200 New York City schools — including large high schools in all five boroughs — would face higher class sizes, have fewer teachers and lose after - school academic and enrichment programs if President - elect Trump makes good on a campaign promise to pull billions of federal dollars away from public schools to pay for private vouchers, a UFT analysis has found.

President Donald Trump on March 16 took the first step to make good on his campaign promise to shift federal tax dollars from traditional public schools to a «choice» program that promotes charters, private and religious schools.

«With this agreement, we will be able to bring millions of dollars in federal funding to these struggling schools and recruit top quality teachers to help students succeed and mentor other staff,» Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott said in a staschools and recruit top quality teachers to help students succeed and mentor other staff,» Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott said in a staSchools Chancellor Dennis Walcott said in a statement.

Both sides had hailed the original agreement as a victory, which would help to «bring millions of dollars in federal funding to these struggling schools and recruit top quality teachers to help students succeed and mentor other staff,» in Walcott's words.

Between 1986 and 1995, federal funding for biomedical research almost doubled, with half of those dollars allocated to academic research, and much of that portion allotted to medical schools.

With millions of grant dollars on the line, representatives of the 16 state finalists for federal Race to the Top prize money will go to Washington next week to make final, in - person pitches to the U.S. Department of Education for investment in their brand of school reform.

That action, on April 11, 1965, was a watershed in the evolution of the federal role in American schooling, a turning point both in sheer dollars — by some estimates, federal K - 12 spending tripled between 1964 and 1966 — and influence on districts nationwide.

Democratic senator Mary Landrieu, a cosponsor of the «Three R's» bill, worked tirelessly, and against considerable opposition from members of both political parties, to increase the targeting of federal education dollars to low - income communities and schools in an effort to better support their school reform efforts.

It sanctions and provides assistance to all low - performing schools, not just those that receive federal Title I dollars.

Now, the Obama administration has sought to boost school improvement through Race to the Top by getting states and districts to compete for some federal dollars with promises to execute needed reforms.

What's more, schools that don't make AYP have to set aside a portion of their federal Title I dollars for tutoring and school choice.

Regulations and guidance can create a «safe place» for forward - leaning state and local leaders that want to align their federal funds with their own decisions — and dollars — by which to expand school choice.

I do expect the administration to make an effort to act on President - elect Trump's campaign proposal to devote 20 billion federal dollars to expanding school choice for low - income students, but it's a bit hard to see a Republican Congress either approving that much new spending or even redirecting existing funds on which districts currently rely.

And to receive federal dollars, districts must give parents the freedom to use this information to select the school of their choice — traditional public, charter, or private.

Lawmakers considering portability or other federal voucher programs must understand that the concept of federal dollars going into a «backpack of cash» that follows eligible students to the schools of their choice, whether public or private, is only part of the story.

Portability would make significant changes to how federal dollars allocated at the state level flow across and within school districts, private schooling aside.

Rules like the so - called comparability loophole — which allows districts to use average instead of actual teacher salaries for budget calculations — mean federal dollars are not getting to the schools and students who need them the most.

For both the between - schools and between - districts analyses, the dollars analyzed include total operating funds from federal, state, and local governments, and use real - dollar teacher salaries.