Sentences with phrase «fight over school funding»

With a fight over school funding looming, Richmond City Council and School Board hold their third joint meeting

Not exact matches

«I've kept my promise to fight for Long Island by voting over 175 times against raising taxes, delivering a $ 20 million increase in aid for South Shore schools, and passed a plan to prevent corrupt pols from receiving taxpayer funded pensions.

«That's why I've voted over 175 against tax increases, passed a plan to strip convicted politicians of their pensions, delivered a $ 4 billion middle class tax cut, and fought for an additional $ 20 million in funding for South Shore schools.

The Democrats fought over everything from immigration policies, taxes and school funding, and their open warfare was played out by advisers on Twitter and by lawmakers on the Senate floor.

Wozniak reiterates the «this is a distraction (from the real fight over funding cuts) argument that has been floated by the state Council of School Superintendents.

The district has been fighting for some time over funding, with the Orthodox Jewish - controlled school board diverting funds to Yeshivas — religious private schools that educate a minority of students — and away from the public schools attended by a majority of students, many of whom are black and Latino.

The fight over extending mayoral control of New York City schools is heating up with state Sen. Majority Leader John Flanagan said he can't consider the issue until he knows how the city spends $ 9 billion in state funds.

A judge ruled that New York has met its «constitutional obligation» to provide enough aid to eight small - city schools, a key victory for the state in its fight with education groups over school funding.

Past efforts have included fighting for more education funding in the state budget and better governance rules over city schools.

Mayor Bill de Blasio took a shot a Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Friday, comparing his inability to fulfill a decade - old court order on school funding to President Trump's court fight over his refugee and immigration ban.

Despite the school's ongoing legal battle with the Pennsylvania School Boards Association and a bitter dispute over funding with the state education department, the president of Einstein's board of trustees vowed last week to fight the revocschool's ongoing legal battle with the Pennsylvania School Boards Association and a bitter dispute over funding with the state education department, the president of Einstein's board of trustees vowed last week to fight the revocSchool Boards Association and a bitter dispute over funding with the state education department, the president of Einstein's board of trustees vowed last week to fight the revocation.

What one education advocate describes as a «perfect storm» over school finance is brewing in Georgia, as a top lawmaker pushes to replace local property taxes for education with a statewide sales tax, even as the state gears up to fight a lawsuit from school districts over the current funding formula.

Lost in the recent fight over TV ads about racial inequality in New York City schools is another sort of inequality — that kids in charter schools only receive a fraction of the funding that all other public school children receive.

Public education advocates will have many opportunities in the coming months to fight for greater funding for our children's schools and against state takeovers that hand our democratically controlled school boards over to private third party operators.

But this year was different because there was a fight between a Republican governor and a Democratic legislature over school funding.

Watchdog.org: Charter schools seek to join legal fight over funding in Mississippi http://bit.ly/2bGhDzi

The battle lines have been drawn for a fight over funding in 2016, with the Department for Education (DfE) insisting schools can be more efficient and schools asserting that, with 80 per cent of their spend going on staffing, the curriculum is at risk if staffing is cut.

And unlike in Anne Arundel, where he repeatedly fought with then - county executive John Leopold (R) over school funding, Maxwell comes to Prince George's with a good relationship with Baker, to whom he will report directly.

The district is in a legal fight with the California Charter Schools Association over the funding formula used to allocate space for charters.

Dear U.S. Secretary John B. King, Jr.: Write regulations for the Every Student Succeeds Act that ensure schools serving poor students get the federal funds they were intended to get and don't back down from the fight over supplement - not - supplant, nine Democratic senators — including presidential contender Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont — wrote in a letter Monday.

Public school families are fighting over scarce resources, and the reality is that school districts like Freehold Borough have seen significant student population increases without corresponding dollars and schools like University Heights Charter School in Newark have had to cut back on needed mental health services and arts programming because they lack fuschool families are fighting over scarce resources, and the reality is that school districts like Freehold Borough have seen significant student population increases without corresponding dollars and schools like University Heights Charter School in Newark have had to cut back on needed mental health services and arts programming because they lack fuschool districts like Freehold Borough have seen significant student population increases without corresponding dollars and schools like University Heights Charter School in Newark have had to cut back on needed mental health services and arts programming because they lack fuSchool in Newark have had to cut back on needed mental health services and arts programming because they lack funding.

The amendment is the latest turn in a long - running fight over whether private schools receiving voucher funds should be held to the same non-discrimination standards under ADA as public schools.

Over the years, charter schools have fought many battles for equity, funding and even survival.

Over the past two years, Gov. Tom Wolf has championed our schools, fighting for increased education funding.

Bradley funded WILL primarily to be a «litigation center» to aid the fight over school vouchers, to attack public sector unions and to backstop Wisconsin's right - wing infrastructure.

The bill could also allow charters to collect damages from local school systems in the event they won a court fight with the system over funding.

Rochester family part of statewide fight over charter school funding Allison Norlian, News 8 - May 13, 2014

Over the years, charter school advocates have fought for and been successful in convincing the legislature to incrementally increase funding for charter schools in the SCPCSD.

Inslee on 14 December proposed using a price on carbon to support the state's primary and secondary education system and end a long - running fight with lawmakers over how best to comply with a 2012 court ruling that said the state had not adequately funded its schools.

In May, Saskatchewan said it would once again invoke the Charter's notwithstanding clause in a fight over Catholic school funding; it's the fifth time a province has used it to override a fundamental right.