Sentences with phrase «forced local school districts»

This lack of state funding is the major factor that has forced local school districts to raise their property taxes to their current levels.

Because schools rely so heavily on state aid, cuts to state funding (especially formula funding) generally force local school districts to scale back educational services, raise more revenue to cover the gap, or both.

Fully fund the Education Finance Act — the state has failed to fully fund this legislation that provides crucial funding for school districts statewide, forcing local school districts and county governments to increase millage year after year.

An across the board pay raise instituted without taking this funding structure into account will force local school districts to come up with extra funds to be sure all teachers get the same pay raise.

Raising the stakes considerably, Gov. Bobby Jindal pushed through a set of measures this spring forcing local school districts to rewrite policy with these new evaluations in mind.

And in the Asheville area, students like Cloos said their walkout was put off by recent snowfall, which forced local school district leaders to cancel classes for the day.

Not exact matches

In the tradition of the Humanitarian Bowl (the former name of the Famous Idaho ® Potato Bowl), many events during game week will raise funds and awareness for local charities, including the United Way, Optimist Youth Football, Big Brothers Big Sisters, the Boise School District, Treasure Valley YMCA, Boys and Girls Clubs, Girl Scouts, and Armed Forces personnel.

From Schaumburg to Elmhurst to Chicago Ridge, a growing number of suburban school districts are joining forces with local park officials to create day - care programs for children of working parents.

The tax cap, enacted in 2011, forces school districts and local governments to keep tax increases at 2 percent or the rate of inflation (with other factors built in for adjustments)-- unless approved by a 60 percent «supermajority.»

Onondaga County District Attorney Bill Fitzpatrick will be one of four chairs on the task force local leaders are convening to prevent a Parkland - like school shooting in central New York.

The governor said the state is «living in the margin of our means» and now has run out of money three times — including today (he didn't elaborate), forcing him to hold back scheduled payments to school districts and local governments.

«But, continuing a wasteful and costly pension system, while local school districts and fire houses are forced to close, is not a reality.

Sen. Marc Panepinto, who is no fan of the push for mayoral control over the troubled Buffalo public school district, suggested during a CapTon interview last night that there are forces bigger than a certain local assemblywoman behind the effort.

The concern is that without serious changes to how local governments and school districts are forced to spend their money, which the cap is meant to address, the measure will be overridden.

«It's forced discipline at the local level, whether it's a city, a town, a village or a school district,» Skelos said.

School districts, teachers unions and local government officials are concerned that the cap was passed without a real effort at chipping away at unfunded state mandates, while the Cuomo team argues that once the cap is in place, governments and school boards will be forced to make the difficult (and presumably correct) spending choices while retaining essential serSchool districts, teachers unions and local government officials are concerned that the cap was passed without a real effort at chipping away at unfunded state mandates, while the Cuomo team argues that once the cap is in place, governments and school boards will be forced to make the difficult (and presumably correct) spending choices while retaining essential serschool boards will be forced to make the difficult (and presumably correct) spending choices while retaining essential services.

Why is it you would use the governor's extensive budgeting powers to force an indefensible, costly, laughable, and quickly repudiated teacher evaluation system onto local school districts but you will not utilize the same budgeting power to force anti-corruption measures onto Flanagan and Heastie?

Mr. Adams was also recently named to Governor Cuomo's Task Force on Mandate Relief, tasked with finding ways to reduce the costs of mandated programs, identify mandates that are ineffective and outdated, and determine how school districts and local governments can have greater ability to control expenses.

Reacting to the concerns of local school districts, the Alaska State Board of Education has endorsed a concept that will recognize «local diversity» in the implementation of a plan for a statewide school - improvement proposed by the Governor's Task Force on Effective Schooling.

And the school likely wouldn't have such classes, some teachers here say, if the U.S. Department of Education's office for civil rights hadn't forced the Salt Lake City district to bolster its services for English - learners in response to a complaint by a local activist in 2001.

Saying they support «diversity by choice,» members of a task force led by three local mayors are urging the Wake County, N.C., school district to abandon a student - assignment plan that aims for economic integration and adopt a neighborhood - schools approach instead.

In 1978, the Education Task Force of the Sonoma County (California) Commission on the Status of Women, recognizing that concern, persuaded a local school district to hold a Women's History Week to promote the teaching of women's history.

Perhaps, if the state government or the local school district were forcing the CTA to be the exclusive representative of all bargaining - unit workers.

Florida's 650 charter schools could see as much as an extra $ 96.3 million coming their way in 2017 - 18, thanks to a controversial provision in a sweeping education bill Gov. Rick Scott signed into law that forces school districts to hand over some of their local tax dollars.

The average New York State school district will have to increase property taxes by almost one - fourth and lay off 7 percent of its certified work force if budget cuts proposed by Gov. Mario M. Cuomo are enacted, a survey of local school officials indicates.

The proposal redirects hundreds of millions of dollars from public schools — often, school districts that rely most heavily on federal aid, forcing them to cut vital services or raise local property taxes.»

Under a New Jersey statute that allowed local school districts to fund the transportation of children to and from schools, the Board of Education of Ewing Township authorized reimbursement to parents forced to bus their children to school using regular public transportation.

Special education costs are there, no matter what: Charter schools do not force «financially strapped» local districts to pay for additional special education costs.

The district superintendent was forced into the drastic option after the local union refused to accept an offer by the district that would pay teachers $ 30 per hour to help students after school.

From an experience perspective, I thought it was important to bring experience growing up in public schools on Vandenberg Air Force Base in Lompoc, serving as a senior leader in the central office of a large, complex public school system in Chicago — with over 600 schools serving almost 400,000 students — and as an executive at a nationwide nonprofit working through state agencies and local districts to support public education.

Despite the unanimous vote by local school board members, the State Board overturned the APS board's decision and will force APS to maintain the HOPE campuses within their district.

Local school districts have been forced to tax at the $ 1.50 at maximum rate allowed by law precisely because of the lack of state investment.

Specifically, IDEA has been woefully underfunded for years and as a result, school districts have been forced to raise taxes and dip into general education budgets to make up the shortfalls created by rising special education expenditures in local communities.»

Some school districts have been able to save jobs with local funds, but many more have been forced to cut those positions from classrooms.

The modest website is http://www.cfep.uci.edu/gsa/ — Shelly Beck, mom of Mason L. Jeff Langdon, Director of Curriculum and Instruction K - 8, Oak Hills School Local School District Through a task force comprised of stakeholders (teachers, parents, board members, etc) from the Oak Hills School District, Jeff Langdon and his administrative team researched, organized, and implemented an amazing and innovative way to achieve success for his schools.

Brought on by a legislative order to trim class sizes in K - 3, school districts will seek respite or significant funding boosts from lawmakers in the New Year, lest local K - 12 leaders be forced to lay off thousands of teachers across North Carolina to make room for more core subject teachers.

But local district chiefs said the loss of flexibility would force school systems to spend millions to create new classroom space and might jeopardize K - 3 arts, music and physical education teachers — so - called «specialty» subjects.

Choice advocates would have us believe that having more options will lead to innovation and force the local district to improve or close schools.

A group of California teachers belonging to a local chapter of the National Education Association, the largest teachers union in the country, are suing to overturn state laws that allow school districts to force public sector workers to join unions as a condition of employment.

Opponents continuously argued state budget cuts over several years forced local districts to furlough teachers and trim school days from the calendar.

They forced school districts throughout PA to cut 20,000 educational professionals from our children's classrooms; increase class sizes; eliminate music, art and countless other electives; raise local property taxes; eliminate tutoring and extra help programs; and much more.

The bill, which did not move, would have forced the District of Columbia to direct its local funds away from its public schools to pay for students to attend private schools.

And the Malloy administration is still pushing their new legislative proposal to repeal local budget flexibility for selected school districts that aren't able to force 95 percent of parents to allow their children to take the absurd SBAC test

We discovered through our emmy - award winning series of reports, local school districts are being forced to let go of teachers who are teaching with a temporary teaching certificate until they pass the test even if the teacher is deemed a highly effective teacher.

Stark County School Superintendent Jerry Klooster, a member of the task force that helped develop Vision 20/20 in 2012, said the goals of the group include developing a balanced state assessment system; making it easier for teachers from out - of - state to get a license to teach in Illinois; recognize that not all districts are the same, have varied resources and expectations, and differentiated accountability; and adequate funding of education based on local factors rather than «one size fits all.»

While it remains unclear whether Governor Dannel Malloy's new education funding scheme includes a «money follows the child formula» that would force local districts to use local tax dollars to subsidize the privately owned and operated charter schools in their communities, the Governor's budget does shovel even more state taxpayer funds to the charter school industry.

School districts throughout Connecticut face fluctuating special education costs that can wreak havoc on local budgets and force districts to dip into general education funds, or hinder their abilities to provide special education students with the resources they need.

It is now clear that parents have the fundamental right to opt their children out of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) test and that local school districts can not force children who are opted out to sit in the «Testing Rooms» for the eight to eight and half hours that children will be forced to take these destructive tests.

Local school districts will be forced to redirect more money from their general education budgets to cover the federal shortfall for special education.

School leaders counter that, without additional specialty cash or local flexibility over class sizes, districts will be forced to lay off thousands of arts and P.E. teachers to clear funding space for new core subject teachers in K - 3.