Sentences with phrase «for equity in school»

Through our work advocating for equity in school discipline, we often run into the same questions from site and district administrators.

We have alumni who work in public policy organizations, serve on local school boards, practice education law, and fight for equity in school finance or, as physicians in low - income communities, provide quality health care for children.

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• Pearson, a U.K. - based educational materials provider, is in talks with a consortium of Asian private equity houses to sell its English - language school unit for more than $ 350 million, according to the Financial Times.

It is like waiting for the storms to end, and for the sun to come out — only you don't really know when that will be — especially because the CTO you just hired right out of grad school in exchange for equity is shaping out to be a horrible meteorologist.

The Creative Destruction Lab is a seed stage program for massively scalable science - based ventures that launched from the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management in 2012 with a goal of $ 50 million in equity value creation in five years.

He is currently an Entrepreneur in Residence at UNC — Chapel Hill, and teaches in the Minor in Entrepreneurship as well as serving as the instructor for two private equity classes at Kenan - Flagler Business School.

Other economists don't agree that you need $ 350,000 to be considered rich, however an amount of money that exceeds $ 200,000 per year is enough for a family to lead a more than comfortable lifestyle; this means having the chance to live in a big house, send the kids to private schools, have enough money to travel internationally, own at least 2 cars, and have no debt except a mortgage which will help them build equity.

AC: Since kids eat lunch every day at school (whether it's packed for them at home or offered in a school cafeteria), I see it as a perfect opportunity to talk about the ways that their food is connected to their environment, their health, their community and issues of equity around the world.

Their stated mission is to advance «excellence, innovation, and equity in schools by endowing leadership and learning for principals for the benefit of all children.»

A reader hoping for an in - depth analysis of inequalities in the American educational system and promising approaches towards school reform would likely be better off picking up a copy of Linda Darling - Hammond's book, The Flat World and Education: How America's Commitment to Equity Will Determine Our Future.

«The state's rapidly improving economic picture means there's a real opportunity for the state to more fully invest in its public schools, including dedicating new money to Foundation Aid as a way of increasing equity and further helping students to thrive,» said NYSUT President Andy Pallotta.

It's about forcing the city to comply with the Campaign for Fiscal Equity which sued over inequitable distribution of funding among wealthier and poorer school districts back in 1993.

«We're going to demand that Governor Cuomo provide the funding that was afforded to us in a court decision for our schools,» she said as she joined advocates to push for more funding under the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, which in 2007 won a lawsuit against the state to provide increased education funding to the city.

Nixon said Cuomo is not obeying a 12 - year - old court order in the Campaign for Fiscal Equity case, which says the state needs to spend billions more on schools in order for them to become equitable.

These public schools have been chronically underfunded for years, as the state's highest court found in the Campaign for Fiscal Equity (CFE) ruling.

I am fighting for true equality for all; for equal pay and fair treatment at work, expanded voting rights, educational equity, criminal justice reform, freedom from gun violence in our schools and on our streets, and health care for all Americans.

The Initiative is modeled after President Barack Obama's My Brother's Keeper initiative for young men and the city's Young Men's Initiative — and will be funded with $ 20 million in City Council and private philanthropic funds to pursue recommendations like hiring more guidance counselors in school, expanding the Nurse - Family Partnership program, and requiring city agencies to have «gender equity liaisons.»

Having partnered with Brian for years when he served in the State Assembly, I know he will a powerful advocate for our community by funding and promoting equity and diversity in our public schools, preserving and expanding affordable housing, and promoting services for seniors and New Yorkers of all ages.»

(Released February 17, 2017) This report examines how 10 high need school districts on Long Island are impacted by the proposed 2017 Executive Budget in relation to how much they are owed under the Campaign for Fiscal Equity statewide settlement of 2007.

Mike Rebell is the man responsible for the Campaign for Fiscal Equity Lawsuit in which courts found the state underfunded New York City public schools.

«The court order in the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit was founded on the principle that all schools need adequate funding levels in order to provide every student a «sound basic education.»

Staff at Edward R. Murrow HS in Midwood, owed $ 10 million in Campaign for Fiscal Equity funds from the state, put together a multilanguage video telling the governor what the school needs and have sent photos with the same message to the governor and sent postcards to legislators urging them to stand against Cuomo's policies.

He even hit the Cuomo for not honoring Gov. Eliot Spitzer's plan to reimburse the city billions in education dollars the State Court of Appeals determined Albany owed in the Campaign for Fiscal Equity decision, and for favoring the proliferation of charter schools.

First, advocates who seek additional aid for education frequently invoke the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit and the Legislature's adoption of «Foundation Aid» in 2007, insinuating that the CFE lawsuit found that schools statewide were underfunded and that the court ordered additional funding statewide.

After being elected to Community School Board 6 in 1986, he and attorney Michael Rebell founded the Campaign for Fiscal Equity in 1991.

The foldout also includes commitments to «support our public schools» and to «close the $ 4.4 billion annual gap in funding owed by the state to public schools» — a figure apparently derived from the Court of Appeals» 2003 Campagn for Fiscal Equity, Inc. v. State decision, which ruled Albany had shortchanged the city billions in education funds.

The rally, organized by the Rise and Resist and the Alliance for Quality Education (AQE) in recent weeks, is part of a statewide push to fulfill the 2007 Campaign for Fiscal Equity court ruling that mandates education funds be distributed to New York's school districts to ensure all schools can provide students with a «sound basic education.»

«It is not obviously the same as addressing the core inequality as created by the absence of a resolution in the Campaign for Fiscal Equity case, this is not a follow - through on that commitment by the state, but it does look like a substantial step forward for school aid,» Mr. de Blasio said.

James held a rally at City Hall on Sunday to call on the State to fully fund city schools in line with the Campaign for Fiscal Equity and to criticize Gov. Cuomo's education reform policies.

He broke into politics by co-founding the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, which in 1993 sued Albany for billions of dollars it argued the state owed to city public schools — and eventually won, though Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration has since resisted delivering the funds.

«That means that we can now focus our efforts in the coming years on getting New York City schools the Campaign for Fiscal Equity money they are still owed and building equity into the state aid formula so that poor school districts get more state aid than wealthier ones,» MulgrewEquity money they are still owed and building equity into the state aid formula so that poor school districts get more state aid than wealthier ones,» Mulgrewequity into the state aid formula so that poor school districts get more state aid than wealthier ones,» Mulgrew said.

That agenda fails to pay the city the $ 2.5 billion in state aid that schools are owed from the 2006 settlement of the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit, despite a $ 5 billion state budget surplus.

Lasher is running against Marisol Alcantara, a former union organizer for the New York State Nurses Association, and Robert Jackson, a former councilman who is also a plaintiff in a landmark case by the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, which argued that New York was under funding schools and not meeting its constitutional burden to provide children with a «sound basic education.»

Mulgrew welcomed the Council's support in two statewide initiatives: lobbying Albany to increase state aid in light of the $ 2 billion the state owes New York City public schools as a result of the Campaign for Fiscal Equity court settlement, and supporting full funding for Teacher Centers.

In particular, he hit the governor over his failure to deliver the billions of dollars that the state's highest court determined Albany owed New York City schools in the 2003 Campaign for Fiscal Equity v. State casIn particular, he hit the governor over his failure to deliver the billions of dollars that the state's highest court determined Albany owed New York City schools in the 2003 Campaign for Fiscal Equity v. State casin the 2003 Campaign for Fiscal Equity v. State case.

The schools were supposed to get around 5.5 billion more dollars in education aid, after the Court of Appeals ruled in 2006 in the Campaign for Fiscal Equity case.

Legislators, union leaders and activists rallied outside City Hall today to attack Gov. Andrew Cuomo for what they alleged was his failure to honor a Court of Appeals decision in the Campaign for Fiscal Equity v. New York State case, which determined that Albany had shortchanged New York City schools some $ 15 billion.

He went on to say that it was «disgraceful» that the state administration had not paid money owed to schools through the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, especially because most of that money would go to high need schools in minority neighborhoods.

Ultimately, however, his plan falls short by allocating less than $ 1 billion in new education money this year at a time when public schools are still owed more than $ 4.4 billion in Campaign for Fiscal Equity (CFE) funding.

He also noted education spending was in many ways driven by the result of the Campaign for Fiscal Equity's 2006 court decision and the following year's legislation enhancing resources for public schools.

they chanted, demanding the state honor a settlement in the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit that requires it to provide more aid to under - funded school districts.

«The way to show he supports educational equity with more than fine words in a long speech is to fund Foundation Aid,» said Jasmine Gripper, legislative director of the Alliance for Quality Education, a group that fights for school funding.

In a move widely seen as dismissive of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's education initiatives, Miner and de Blasio on Monday called upon state officials to revise school aid based on the Citizens for Fiscal Equity court decision, which held that New York City schools were inadequately funded.

Turning rhetoric into reality will be a tough call — public spending cuts show no sign of letting up and the combination of rising demand for school places, lack of accountability and cuts to education budgets in real terms will need careful consideration if we are to improve standards and equity in education within the next administration.

More money for city schools, ordered more than 15 years ago by the state's highest court, in the Campaign for Fiscal Equity case.

An Albany County state supreme court justice has ruled against plaintiffs from eight «small city school districts» who contended that the state has failed to adequately fund them in light of the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit that almost a decade ago found that New York City schools had been systemically shortchanged when it came to state aid.

At 9 a.m., Assemblywoman Deborah Glick participates in panel on «Women's Pay Equity: Getting Even» at the New School's Center for New York City Affairs, Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, Arnhold Hall, I - 202, 55 W. 13th St., Manhattan.

There are unfunded mandates and lack of aid from the state, and while he has provided more money for education, it is less than the Campaign for Fiscal Equity settlement [the 2006 court ruling requiring the state to pay billions in backpay to shortchanged school districts]... When [Assembly Speaker Carl] Heastie proposed a slightly progressive income tax, he just rejected it.

The Urban Youth Collaborative called the bill «an unprecedented step to subsidize private education using the public's money,» noting in its release that according to the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, «New York City schools are owed $ 2.3 billion» under court judgements against the city and state for not providing a minimum adequate education in the public schools.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew and Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña slammed Cuomo for the governor's failure to pay the city the $ 2.5 billion in state aid that city schools are owed from the 2006 settlement of the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lSchools Chancellor Carmen Fariña slammed Cuomo for the governor's failure to pay the city the $ 2.5 billion in state aid that city schools are owed from the 2006 settlement of the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lschools are owed from the 2006 settlement of the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit.