Sentences with phrase «federal school improvement dollars»

Without federal school improvement dollars — Washington has exhausted its grant, writes Elliott — there isn't money to pay a lead partner.

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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.

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.

With the largest single pool of federal education dollars in history flowing to states and school districts, education - related companies have been looking to gain a share of the cash, marketing themselves as uniquely equipped to help with improvement efforts.

«It is critically important that the millions of dollars in federal funds going to school improvement be used as effectively as possible to...

By giving parents «private accounts» to spend on digital learning, tutoring, and the like, it could weaken schools» larger improvement efforts, which are mostly funded by these federal dollars.

Those schools are now subject to strong improvement efforts, backed by billions of dollars in federal support.

This year, most of those schools in every state received substantial federal School Improvement Grants, often a million dollars over three years, with the expectation that they will be «turned around» or made into much better schools.

Recognizing that principals are essential to most school - improvement efforts, the revised law governing the federal government's major source of dollars for public schools offers states and districts new funding possibilities for activities to promote effective school leadership.