Sentences with phrase «formula of the block grant»

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• The block grant from the UK government to Scotland will continue to be determined via the operation of the Barnett formula.

Grants for Chapter 1 compensatory education, Chapter 2 block grants, drug - free schools and communities, vocational education, education of the handicapped, and math and science teaching, among a host of other programs, all rely on funding formulas that use censusGrants for Chapter 1 compensatory education, Chapter 2 block grants, drug - free schools and communities, vocational education, education of the handicapped, and math and science teaching, among a host of other programs, all rely on funding formulas that use censusgrants, drug - free schools and communities, vocational education, education of the handicapped, and math and science teaching, among a host of other programs, all rely on funding formulas that use census data.

The block grants essentially froze school funding at the level of the 2013 - 14 school year, to give the Legislature two years to rewrite the formula for paying for public education.

Kansas switched to a block grant in mid-2015, preventing a meaningful comparison of current education funding with the formula used previously.

Brownback and his allies in the Legislature successfully repealed the state's school finance formula in 2015, replacing it with two years of «block grants.»

The centerpiece of Brown's plan is the Local Control Funding Formula, which rolls virtually all of the state's current maze of spending on schools into a more simplified block grant system where districts with higher numbers of English learners and students receiving subsidized meals would be provided additional dollars.

One of those formulas, the Education Cost Sharing (ECS) formula — the state's main education equalization aid grant — hasn't been faithfully used in years and has left communities and districts with a system of unpredictable block grants.

Along with putting a new Education Cost Sharing (ECS) formula into statute and moving away from — beginning in FY 2019 — the practice of allocating ECS funds to towns via arbitrary block grants, the ECS formula passed by the General Assembly incorporates several key elements to establishing a fair and equitable school funding system for Connecticut.

As this editorial board has repeatedly noted, instead of formula dollars going specifically to help struggling students — as Brown promised in 2013 — formula dollars are instead treated like block grants by many districts.