Sentences with phrase «for poor school districts»

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Mayor Stephanie Miner has once again challenged Gov. Andrew Cuomo, this time by demanding more money for poor school districts like Syracuse.

Additionally, MAEP was designed to provide increased funding for poorer school districts, or those without a strong local tax base.

Not exact matches

Imagine a school board for a poor district.

Raymond Abbott's name appeared as lead plaintiff in a court case brought by Camden and several other poor school districts against the State of New Jersey, demanding that the state provide equal funding for all schools.

If I were running the government, I would see to it that school districts that serve the poor would have a larger share of the tax revenue than school districts that serve the affluent, for in the poor districts there is far more ground to be made up to provide the open equality of opportunity, and equality of opportunity must be a part of every just society.

It's certainly a win - win situation for these schools, but it also creates a disturbing picture of rich kids nibbling on sushi and having enough money for the team uniforms, while poor kids in a neighboring district are not only getting eating subpar food, they're often selling candy and other junk food to raise money for those same uniforms, further contributing to poor health habits that may last a lifetime.

In far too many school districts, there are students who would qualify for free meals, except for the fact that their family never fills out the form, either because they forget, or they don't understand that it is important, or (more often) the child is too embarrassed to self - identify as poor in front of his classmates, and so he either doesn't give his parents the form or doesn't turn it in at school.

But the experiment does make the point, I think, that for all the school food improvements we've seen in our district (and I'm grateful for all of them, don't get me wrong), there are still offerings that permit kids to make very poor selections on the lunch line, selections that may well have an adverse impact on their health down the line.

So when some districts have a PMC of up to $ 3.00, those students will be paying for poor fiscal management of school food service operators.

In the District, a majority of students are poor, and many rely on the school nutrition program for meals.

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.

The pro-school funding group Alliance for Quality Education, in a statement, accused Cuomo of «perpetuating educational racism and economic inequality» for not including billions of additional dollars to comply with a decade - and - a-half-old court order to fully fund schools in poorer school districts.

Billy Easton of the Alliance for Quality Education said «the gap between rich and poor school districts is growing under Gov. Cuomo.»

She spoke at a press conference Monday organized by the Alliance for Quality Education, an activist group that pushes for more state funding for schools and has said that the current funding distribution favors wealthy, white districts over poor areas with people of color.

Take that out of the proposed $ 805 million in school spending for this year and it leaves only $ 105 million which will hurt all of the school districts and be particularly devastating to those in poorer areas that desperately need funds.

He also joined Paladino is calling for education reform, declaring the disparity between schools in rich and poor districts «the civil rights issue of our time.»

In a news conference outside of the Senate chamber, school organizations called for a bump in state aid for districts of $ 2.2 billion in the coming 2016 - 17 budget year, along with a complete elimination of the so - called Gap Elimination Adjustment while also pledging to fully fund Foundation Aid that helps poorer districts.

«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,» Mulgrew said.

The pro school funding group Alliance for Quality Education, in a statement, accused Cuomo of «perpetuating educational racism and economic inequality» for not including billions of additional dollars to comply with a decade - and - a-half-old court order to fully fund schools in poorer school districts.

Sanchez, who has held the 25th District seat since 2011, said he wants to continue pressing for improvements in early childhood education as well as better funding for education in New Britain and other poor school districts.

Morris Peters, a spokesman for the Budget Division, acknowledged that poorer districts rely on state aid for a larger share of their operating budgets, but said the cuts were structured «progressively, accounting for each school district's wealth, student need, administrative efficiency and tax burden.

The Alliance for Quality Education looked at the school aid in the state budget allotted to 161 of the poorest schools among the over 700 districts in New York.

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.

Almost as stupid as STAR where New York intentionally overtaxes to build up money to write rebate checks for people like Rump... and to give more aid to wealthy school districts than poor ones.

This short of the $ 1.5 billion education advocates like the Alliance for Quality Education say is necessary to provide more equitable funding for poorer schools deemed to be in high - needs districts.

Democratic Senate hopeful Chris Eachus is blaming Republican incumbent Bill Larkin's poor attendance record in Albany for the financial hardship of the North Rockland School District.

The Alliance for Quality Education's Billy Easton says New York has fallen far behind in carrying out an order issued eight years ago form the state's highest court saying schools, particularly the poorest districts, deserve billions of dollars more in state funding each year.

Hawkins» platform includes a call for a $ 15 hourly minimum wage rate, a ban on hydrofracking, using government money to hire unemployed workers for public projects, a single - payer healthcare program, rejecting the Common Core teaching standards (and the federal money that came with them), refiguring school aid to give more help to poorer districts and raising taxes on the richest New Yorkers.

The paper aims to debunk concerns over the cap hurting poorer school districts, the criticism that a cap would allow for 2 percent annual tax increases and that the teacher - union supported circuit - breaker solution.

Specifically, Ms. Nixon has blasted Mr. Cuomo for underfunding schools, accusing him of neglecting children of color in the poorest districts.

But because Cuomo and lawmakers» pre-K program requires districts to spend money up front and wait nearly a year for reimbursement, it will be especially difficult for poor schools to launch new programs.

She is also calling for an increase of $ 2.2 million in Foundation Aid, which provides more aid to poorer school districts.

We need to stop competitive grants for school funding, which puts the poorer school districts at a further disadvantage.

Magee criticized Iannuzzi's administration for its response to Cuomo's property - tax cap, over which the union eventually sued, arguing that it disproportionately limits poor school districts» ability to raise revenue.

«Governor Cuomo's first budget makes heartlessly large cuts to our schools to finance tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires and students in poor and middle class districts will lose the most educationally,» the group's executive director, Billy Easton, said in a statement.

Despite Cuomo's comments about the differences between rich and poor districts, his address brought a lukewarm response from the Alliance for Quality Education, which focuses on the wealth disparities among schools.

One irate school superintendent for the Genesee Valley called poor districts going at each other for school aid a «Dickensian competition.»

Cuomo provides $ 25 for all - day pre-kindergarten in the state's poorest school districts, and will give out $ 20 million in grants to districts who want to extend the school day or school year.

While a conscientious individual like him seems inherently disdainful of commercial onslaught, he also comes across rather sympathetic to a poor Florida school district that is desperate for budget help but limited in the advertisement they can purchase.

A number of districts across the country have moved to equalize across schools the share of poor students, as measured by eligibility for subsidized lunch.

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Poor - performing school districts are increasingly signing up with these online services to provide remedial and after - school instruction for students.

I then assume that each school district receives that amount for each poor student enrolled in 2014 - 15: that is, I assume that no students take their vouchers to private schools.

For example, the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act allocates additional funding to school districts with a high percentage of low - income students, who are more likely to have poor educational outcomes for reasons unrelated to school qualiFor example, the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act allocates additional funding to school districts with a high percentage of low - income students, who are more likely to have poor educational outcomes for reasons unrelated to school qualifor reasons unrelated to school quality.

Making matters worse for immigrant children is the fact that many enter poor school districts with insufficient English language learner courses and certified teachers.

Districts rich or poor and urban or rural, teachers and administrators, equipment suppliers, consultants, building contractors, pension funds — along with the advocacy organizations that everywhere push for more school spending — can detect such opportunities for gain and join forces, at least up to the point at which remedies are specified and the bigger pie begins to be sliced.

In previous work, one of us found that Washington State's 2004 compensatory allocation formula ensured that affluent Bellevue School District, in which only 18 percent of students qualify for free or reduced - price lunch, receives $ 1,371 per poor student in state compensatory funds, while large urban districts received less than half of that for each of their impoverished students (see Figure 2).

«Our decision today should... not be taken as excusing the school district's actions, or as condemning Myisha for being a poor student,» Gorsuch wrote.

Everyone likes the idea of boosting the number of effective teachers in schools with large numbers of poor and minority students, but in his testimony before the committee, Ed Next executive editor Rick Hess had a few warnings for those who think the obvious course of action is to encourage states and districts to move effective teachers out of schools with affluent kids and into schools with poor kids.

As is common for large urban school districts, the student body of Baltimore city's schools is predominantly minority and poor.