Sentences with phrase «for needy districts»

Russell said she thinks the GEA will remain in the budget this year, but is hopeful it can be substantially reduced for needy districts.

Not exact matches

«In Arlington Heights, we're not seeing a lot of needy kids, but these families are very busy,» said Coletta Hines - Newell, the director of food services for Arlington Heights Elementary School District 25, where officials kicked the pilot breakfast program last week.

State officials attributed the success to the state's roughly $ 1.4 billion cash incentive program for growing, needy districts.

lExpand an after - school supper program for the needy - now offered in the District, Maryland and 12 other states - to all states.

For example, forest preserve districts in Cook and DuPage Counties, which cull deer herds as a way to protect the ecosystem, donate the meat to the needy as well.

Meals for Needy money is available to San Francisco, but the school district can elect to keep that money for other programs and not provide it to food service... BUSD elects to give that money to their food service department in support of healthy food.

The only tiny little point I would correct is that Meals for Needy Pupils money is NOT available to San Francisco, or to about 2/3 of the other school districts in California.

To see which districts do qualify and how much they get, go here http://tinyurl.com/34hn4hf and use the drop down menu to choose «2009 - 10» for «period», then, for «entity», chose «school district» then, for «program», choose «meals for needy pupils» then for «county» choose San Francisco (or Alameda if you want to ultimately find Berkeley's funding) finally you will choose the school district (for SF, choose SF Unified) and that will bring you to the button called «preview report»; click and see the funding report for 2009 - 10 You will see that SF received $ 0 from Meals for Needy Pupils, while Berkeley is shown as receiving over $ 900needy pupils» then for «county» choose San Francisco (or Alameda if you want to ultimately find Berkeley's funding) finally you will choose the school district (for SF, choose SF Unified) and that will bring you to the button called «preview report»; click and see the funding report for 2009 - 10 You will see that SF received $ 0 from Meals for Needy Pupils, while Berkeley is shown as receiving over $ 900Needy Pupils, while Berkeley is shown as receiving over $ 900,000.

The districts which have been able to offer something better either have extra funding, as is the case in Berkeley with their Meals for Needy Pupils revenue, or outside funding / fundraising, as is the case in Boulder.

Especially in districts with large numbers of needy students, federal subsidy dollars can more than pay for breakfast, meaning extra cash to help support the entire meal program.

Cuomo also proposed a $ 15 million increase in state spending for pre-kindergarten programs, particularly in the neediest school districts.

School funding has always been a perennial battle at the state Capitol, with lawmakers pushing for a slice of the state pie for their districts, while education advocates have decried the complicated formula they say has starved the neediest districts.

Lawyers for the plaintiffs say the court's ruling could affect needy districts statewide.

Easton, with AQE, says the governor's budget proposal to freeze property taxes and phase out a utility tax, worth a combined $ 500 million, could be scrapped in order to provide more money for needy school districts.

Some groups condemned the governor for calling on districts to direct more of their state aid to their neediest schools — an exhortation that seemed at odds with his history of fighting the state's Foundation Aid formula, which directs more money to the state's poorest school districts and which advocates argue is itself underfunded.

The District Director of Health, Madam Florence Ansogmwine who took delivery of the items, thanked the First Lady, Mrs. Mahama for being a mother, a friend and a blessing to the needy and vulnerable, saying the people of Nadowli - Kaleo District will be eternally appreciative of her kind gesture towards them.

State Sen. Jim Tedisco lauded the district and its administrators for spending the funding on hiring more teachers and expanding programs aimed at needy children and proposing a budget that cuts school taxes.

The District Chief Executive (DCE) for his part said the assembly will continue to support brilliant but needy students at various levels of the academic ladder, provision of physical infrastructure, motivation packages for teachers as well as provision of teaching and learning materials.

In comparison with almost any other intervention, these are very large improvements for some of the school district's neediest students.

The school already has over a decade's experience opening its campus to public school enrichment camps and initiatives like Growing Girls and Gardens, where they are taking best practices from their venerable independent school for girls, working with the school district, and applying the learning to benefit some of the city's neediest students — walking the walk to offer outstanding education and opportunity for promising girls.

Those programs include early - childhood programs for the state's 16 largest and neediest cities, school library improvements, 16 urban charter schools, and additional funding for magnet schools to attract students from surrounding school districts.

We realized that we needed more space within the district than just the two classrooms for our Students and Teachers Achieving Remarkable Success (STARS) program, which focuses on our neediest students with autism and communication disorders.

Investing $ 2.8 billion would ensure that every district has at least 80 % of the funding they need to support students, a substantial step in the right direction for Illinois» neediest districts.

During his eight years in Tallahassee, the governor established a far - reaching accountability system, including limits on social promotion in elementary school; introduced a plethora of school choice initiatives (vouchers for the disabled, vouchers for those in failing schools, tax - credit funded scholarships for the needy, virtual education, and a growing number of charter schools); asked school districts to pay teachers according to merit; promoted a «Just Read» initiative; ensured parental choice among providers of preschool services; and created a highly regarded system for tracking student achievement.

Philadelphia, Guilford County, N.C., and four small districts in northern New Mexico have scooped up the last of the $ 42 million in federal grant money on offer this fall for rewarding teachers and principals who get higher student test scores in needy schools.

Throughout Washington, D.C., and around the country, parents are raising hundreds of thousands — even millions — of dollars to provide additional programs, services, and staff to some of their districts» least needy schools.7 They are investing more money than ever before: A recent study showed that, nationally, PTAs» revenues have almost tripled since the mid-1990s, reaching over $ 425 million in 2010.8 PTAs provide a small but growing slice of the funding for the nation's public education system.

Consequently, schools, especially in Connecticut's neediest districts, can not afford basic educational tools such as a sufficient number of teachers, reasonable class size, adequate school facilities, services for at - risk children, electives, AP classes, even books, computers and paper.

This program provides facilities rent and lease assistance to charter schools, which do not have existing district facilities to use, that are serving some of California's neediest students (as defined by eligibility for the Free / Reduced - Price Meals Program).

Tuck said his campaign will focus on ensuring that Gov. Jerry Brown's new school funding formula — which provides additional money to districts with large numbers of poor children, English learners and foster youth — is really funneling money to the neediest students and that its accountability measures are more understandable for parents and the public.

For instance, in Colorado, the state settled a school facilities lawsuit in 2000 by agreeing to set aside $ 190 million over 11 years for construction and repair projects in the state's neediest districFor instance, in Colorado, the state settled a school facilities lawsuit in 2000 by agreeing to set aside $ 190 million over 11 years for construction and repair projects in the state's neediest districfor construction and repair projects in the state's neediest districts.

The state has attempted to lure good teachers into the most needy districts for years, offering incentives like college scholarships that cover tuition, fees, books and the average cost of room and meals, as well as moving incentives and housing assistance for those who relocate to such places.

Meanwhile, some traditional districts are losing millions of dollars to charter schools and voucher / voucher - like programs, forcing them to cut back on resources for students, many of them the neediest in the country.

The cuts are hitting hardest at school districts with a high share of disadvantaged students, as federal funding primarily pays for programs that serve needy and disabled students.

While not every dollar a school spends directly improves academic outcomes, a new report from Rutgers school - finance expert Bruce Baker finds certain kinds of money very much do matter: extra funding for higher teacher salaries and more equitable distribution of resources between rich and poor districts, for example, are correlated with higher student achievement, especially for the neediest kids.

So over time, he is committed to moving the [per - pupil] base funding (which averages roughly $ 8,500 — 30 percent below the national average) up for all districts, even those with lower numbers of needy students.

As Own Davis recently reported for the Nation, Newark's charter schools chronically underserve the neediest student population in the district.

Among other things, the new legislation sets an adequacy target for each school district, and the new distribution model takes into account local resources and prioritizes funding for the state's neediest districts, a much needed move away from inequity in the funding system.

Rather they serve less needy children and when adjusting school aggregate performance measures for the children they serve, they achieve no better current outcomes on average than the schools they are slated to take over... The assumption that charter takeover can solve the ills of certain district schools is specious at best.»

For the past few years, Connecticut's ten neediest districts received increases of less than $ 300 per pupil per year on average, with strict strings attached mandating that they spend that money only the way Commissioner Pryor wanted it spent.

Charters also tend to exclude a district's neediest children, without any accountability for these practices.

Instead the fate of funding for Connecticut's neediest school districts rests with a group of consultants who have no meaningful experience with Connecticut's communities.

His new attacks on public education include taking $ 17.1 million out of traditional public schools, which will curtail extended day and summer programs in needy school districts, make universal preschool impossible, not fund priority districts as promised and at less than last year, and limit aid for transportation of students.

Draining more money from impoverished school districts will not improve education for Connecticut's neediest children.

Connecticut seems to accept a constricted vision of education for its neediest children that is never imposed on more affluent districts.

An important corollary to this last point is that district leaders need to summon the fortitude to make sometimes controversial decisions if principals of the neediest schools are to receive the resources and backing required for success.

Stand fought for a $ 223 million increase in appropriations for schools and successfully defeated legislation that would have redirected early childhood funds, expanded programs that lack real accountability, and eliminated funding to needy school districts.

-- California gives Los Angeles Unified School District an extra year to account for spending on needy kids.

Gov. Bruce Rauner on Tuesday vetoed a sweeping education bill, saying the proposed funding formula that Democrats sent him «put Chicago in line for millions more» that would be «diverted from other, needier districts.»

In other words, the State Board of Education has come up with an anti-accountability accountability plan — one that would make it difficult for Californians to figure out which students and what schools are improving; to know whether schools deemed as improving have actually improved; and to assess how well districts are doing with the state's neediest students, its 1.4 million English - language learners.

(Read The 74's Conor Williams on how California districts used money meant for needy kids on across - the - board teacher pay hikes and hiring assistant principals)