Sentences with phrase «few additional districts»

It is not fun,» said Gilbert, who noted that districts on track for extra help can choose to opt out — and that the county may be able to support a few additional districts that didn't qualify.

Not exact matches

«It may help a few districts get through the year, but many reports I've seen of schools welcoming the additional money have said they're still going to move forward with cuts.»

As school budget planning continues over the next few weeks, we may see additional districts deciding to seek voter approval for an override.»

Dan Donovan dismissed complaints that he's participated in too few forums and confirmed that he does not plan to attend any additional candidate forums or debates ahead of the May 5th 11th Congressional District special election.

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos says the additional district is likely to be included in new legislative district maps that he says will be released within the next few weeks.

School Board Vice President Thomas Ham echoed the senator's remarks regarding the relationship between mandates and funding, and said any additional funding Saugerties has received in the past few years has been offset by increased mandates, leaving the district at «status quo.»

«For the past few years, my office had one Deputy dedicated as an SRO for all of these school districts, but today I am very pleased to say we can better serve these schools and communities with an additional SRO.

Research has shown that beyond very small schools and school districts, there are few opportunities for economies of scale in education because most of the costs increase with enrollments and are not fixed costs that decline with additional clients.

Due to logistic realities, observers might not be able to physically visit classrooms more than a few times a year but through technology, such Facetime, Skype, video recording, could gather additional evidence of whether teachers are meeting district expectations.

Giving the teachers the go - ahead — even when it results in more paperwork, going to battle for reprieve from a district mandate, or finding a few more funds or additional evenings — is always the right thing to do when it's in the best interest of students and innovation in the classroom.

All districts with fewer than 600 students receive additional funds.

Only a few have made sustained efforts at capacity building (such as Missouri «s 1993 Outstanding Schools Act provided funding for a state - wide teacher professional development system, or New Jersey «s provision of significant additional resources to high poverty «Abbott» school districts).

Moreover, the state, in violation of its own laws, concentrates charters in a few districts, forcing those financially strapped districts to pay additional millions to the charter schools for special education and transportation.

Because high performing educators in those small districts have fewer schools to move around to if they want to receive additional pay to work in lower performing schools as required under such programs, those teachers would be more likely to choose to work in a district that can offer that sort of advantage — something Hall said would simply draw even more quality teachers away from rural schools.

Just a few weeks ago, Bridgeport, Windham and other school districts cheered when the Legislature approved and Governor Malloy signed legislation that allocates an additional $ 98 million as part of the new «education reform» act.

If school is cancelled for more than a few days the district can and should insist that additional school days be tacked on at the end of the school year.

Of the state's 115 local school boards, only a few small rural districts don't pay any additional supplements on top of the state's base salary.