Sentences with phrase «financial challenges for school»

«There are always financial challenges for school districts to do as much as they want to do, and that's where we can provide that value.»

The combined effect of the lost revenue from selling treats along with declining sales of the regular lunches has created financial challenges for some school cafeterias.

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Of the nine winners who did report challenges building their startups because of student - loan debt, only three left school owing more than $ 35,000, the average amount for class of 2015 graduates (the highest in U.S. history), according to a report by financial aid resource Edvisors.com.

To address challenges, SNA has advocated for greater financial support for school meal programs and practical flexibility under whole grain and sodium mandates.

They included Kathleen Rice, a U.S. representative from Long Island who unsuccessfully challenged Schneiderman in the 2010 Democratic primary; Preet Bharara, the former U.S. attorney from Manhattan; Alphonso David, Cuomo's chief counsel; Michael Gianaris, a state senator from Queens and chief political strategist for the Democratic conference; Zephyr Teachout, a Fordham Law School professor who ran for governor in 2014; Letitia James, the New York City public advocate; Carrie H. Cohen, a former federal prosecutor who handled the trial of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver; Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, D - N.Y.; and Benjamin Lawsky, formerly the state's top financial regulator.

It includes Kathleen Rice, a United States representative from Long Island who unsuccessfully challenged Mr. Schneiderman in the 2010 Democratic primary; Alphonso David, Mr. Cuomo's chief counsel; Michael Gianaris, a state senator from Queens and chief political strategist for the Democratic conference; Zephyr Teachout, a Fordham Law School professor who ran for governor in 2014; Carrie H. Cohen, a former federal prosecutor who handled the corruption trial of the former Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver; Representative Sean Patrick Maloney; and Benjamin Lawsky, formerly the state's top financial regulator.

According to The Key's findings, financial worry has spread significantly among school leaders in the last year with 51 per cent considering budget pressures and lack of funding as the biggest challenge for the coming academic year.

TES has reported that Tony Foot, director of the Department for Education's funding group, is under «no illusion» about the financial challenges schools are due to face as a result of rising costs and real terms budget cuts.

In January, the Florida Supreme Court dismissed a legal challenge to the state's Tax Credit Scholarship Program, thereby preserving financial aid opportunities for thousands of low - income students to attend private schools.

These were ambitious goals for Cleveland's schools, given their academic and financial challenges.

Although among the group only Utzinger had any prior fundraising experience, they decided to issue a «cohort challenge» to their Ed.D. peers with the goal of convincing every member of the first - year cohort — 32 in total — to contribute to the HGSE Fund, which seeks to raise resources for many areas of the Ed School including financial aid, Gutman Library, and faculty and student support services.

This offered schools new levels of autonomy but under a rigorous accountability framework and new challenges for schools in terms of financial reporting.

(But it has proven more challenging at the primary level, where England has some 11,000 schools enrolling fewer than 250 pupils each, without the organizational or financial wherewithal to succeed as free - standing organizations — though the government is devising schemes for getting them to share services and pool resources.)

For nearly a century, City Schools were under mayoral control, vulnerable to the corruption and financial mismanagement that challenged City Hall.

The plan would provide tuition grants for students who finished high school, met income requirements, took challenging high school courses, applied for federal and state financial aid, and earned a B average.

The current climate is certainly a very challenging one for schools with so much change happening at such a quick pace and with a financial climate that is putting the squeeze on every aspect of school life.

With schools facing growing financial challenges and tighter budgets, it has become even more crucial that schools are able to purchase science equipment and resources which deliver high quality and excellent value for money.

With a background in financial software development, Deklotz was accustomed to a team approach to tackling challenges, and she deployed it for schools — first when she and other science teachers met to talk about lesson planning once a week, and later as an administrator.

In their responses, they talked about the challenges — financial and in human - resource needs — they faced in providing effective support for increasing numbers of schools requiring special interventions, as stipulated by government policies.

The Chief Financial Officer of Springfield, who had to go through the challenges of pricing all of the district supports for schools, said that even while the district may lose some funding because schools may decide to not to buy a particular service, this new process with defined district service prices and contracts allowed the district to be far more customer orientated and effective.

«With budgets already stretched, and uncertainty about future funding, ASCD is sensitive to the challenges school leaders face when making financial decisions for their staff and students,» said Deb Delisle, ASCD Executive Director and CEO.

But the challenges of Ofsted expanding its remit to all private schools are not purely financial — it has recently come in for criticism from a number of agencies and organisations, most recently the Association of School and College Leaders on its use of contract inspectors, indicating that their training is not up to standard.

A new report by The Key, an information support service for schools, found the percentage of school leaders citing financial worry as their biggest challenge rose to 51 per cent this year, from 31 per cent in 2016.

By coupling priority hiring for high - needs schools with sustained financial incentives for teachers to assume positions in more challenging schools, high - needs districts can attain expanded access to diverse, high - achieving teacher candidates.

If application fees are a challenge for your family, contact the Financial Aid officer at that school to request a fee waiver.

After decades of financial and administrative struggles, Frederick Douglass High — once a school with a reputation for excellence — became one of the most challenged schools in the city.

As we've traveled across the state over the past two and a half years, speaking about school finance and meeting with thousands of Connecticut residents, we have increasingly heard more and more calls for greater, more accessible, and more approachable information about Connecticut's financial state and fiscal challenges.

School systems blame a shortage of qualified teachers — less than 20 percent say they feel competent enough to teach personal finance — and funding need for textbooks as challenges to incorporating financial literacy in curriculums.

The charter school incubator, New Schools for Georgia, is designed to particularly assist charters in their infancy, often their most challenging time, by helping them establish effective governing boards, boost financial sustainability and develop clear missions.

That shift of students from mainly poorer urban districts to better - off suburban schools has created big financial challenges for the urban districts.

As a result, students with disabilities can pose an enormous financial challenge for strapped schools and districts, and many administrators view these students as an economic burden to be avoided at all costs (Zollers and Ramanathan 1998).

Particularly for school choice activists of a conservative or libertarian bent (including University of Arkansas» Jay P. Greene and Greg Forster at the Milton & Rose D. Friedman Foundation), thinking through these issues means challenging their own ideology — especially their misguided belief that choice alone will lead to improvements in school quality and serve as the best form of accountability — as well as their own financial concerns as members of a sector of American public education.

LAs also provide schools with a safety net when they experience challenging issues by providing advice and access to specialist staff, for example, around issues to do with asbestos, school budgets, redundancies, financial management, staff health, disability access or challenging parents.

While the DfE's recent announcement to increase school funding by # 1.3 bn over two years will help the financial situation for schools, the Institute for Fiscal Studies argues that schools still face an enormous financial challenge as their budgets will have fallen by 4.6 per cent in real terms between 2015 and 2020.

As a priority, we call for additional data to enable the real story of academies» income and expenditure to be told within the wider context of schools» financial challenges and increasing pupil numbers.

High school seniors from across the state earned $ 2,000 for college while learning important financial literacy skills through the 2017 — 2018 Iowa Financial Know - How Challenge: Senior Scholarship sponsored by Iowa Studenfinancial literacy skills through the 2017 — 2018 Iowa Financial Know - How Challenge: Senior Scholarship sponsored by Iowa StudenFinancial Know - How Challenge: Senior Scholarship sponsored by Iowa Student Loan ®.

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The facts support that high school students are typically unprepared for the financial challenges ahead of them as they prepare for college or entering the workforce:

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For teachers who are required to contribute to their school retirement plan, it's never a good idea to rely solely on a public pension plan when states are facing so many financial challenges.

These 30 Iowa high school seniors earned top scores in the Iowa Financial Know - How Challenge: Senior Scholarship to receive $ 2,000 scholarships for fall 2018 college expenses.

Nader Tehrani, dean of the architecture school at Cooper Union (where Franch is a professor) described her as «maybe the only person I can think of who can address the realities of the Architectural Association's financial challenges with a bold and frontal stance, using it as an opportunity for the setting of new pedagogical and intellectual priorities.»