Sentences with phrase «fix public education funding»
At her first official campaign event, Nixon pledged to fix public education funding and the crumbling NYC subway system, and also teed off on Cuomo, calling him out on his progressive credentials.
http://www.nystateofpolitics.com/ Not exact matches
The governor's speech was about closing Rikers Island, fixing public housing and equitable education funding — all issues tuned to appeal to an African - American audience, and potentially at stake in the state budget.
The city's education community sent a clear message Tuesday from downtown Los Angeles to legislators in Sacramento: the governor's funding formula has not «fixed» the state's woefully underfunded public education system.
Most recently, the Texas Education Agency offered a temporary fix for the 2016 - 2017 school year but we need to find a lasting solution during the next Legislative Session, particularly since public charter schools do not receive any facilities funding from the state.
Also, the state Supreme Court's McCleary v. State of Washington education - funding ruling lends fresh urgency to fixing the state budget to better support public schools from early learning to college.
Spokesman John Johnson said the budget proposal fixes a «broken» funding formula and «reinvests» in public schools, which have experienced cutbacks in overall state aid, and in special education funding, which has been frozen since 2006.
At a time when many wealthy donors attempt to fix U.S. education by funding charter schools, advocacy and political candidates, Mr. Weiss, who is 74 years old, seeks change in the regular public system.
For parents, teachers and public school advocates who were looking to see if Malloy was going to soften his pro-corporate education reform industry agenda, there was no sign that the governor intended to hold Connecticut's charter schools accountable for their use of public funds nor was there a suggestion that the Malloy administration was going to fix their unfair «Teacher Evaluation» program by decoupling the inappropriate Common Core Test scores from the evaluation process for Connecticut's public school teachers.
Now it is time for this case to be heard, so that the public will have clearly laid before them the facts we all know to be true: Pennsylvania's system of funding education has been broken for generations, and if we are to prosper as a Commonwealth, it must be fixed.
Vouchers and voucher - like «education savings accounts» similarly reduce per - student funding for public school systems without providing relief on fixed costs.
«My child shouldn't have to win the lottery to have access to a high - quality education,» read one sign, while another asked «How could you fix the way our state funds public schools without including ALL public schools?»
Some will see this as yet another financial responsibility for the state and its taxpayers at a time when the Legislature already must fix funding of K - 12 public education and meet other needs.