Sentences with phrase «from equitable school funding»

Our recent wins — from equitable school funding to more fair discipline policies have created an opportunity for great change in our schools.

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The Moral Mondays movement came to New York State on Jan. 12 as about 1,000 students, parents, advocates and union leaders from New York City and across the state converged on the state Capitol to demand fair and equitable funding for public schools.

While North Carolina continues on a path of disinvestment in public education, equitable and adequate school funding is perhaps more critical than ever now that children from low - income families make up the majority in the United States» public schools, according to a report released by the Southern Education Foundation earlier this year.

Many school systems have gotten the message that they need to be more data driven, and they are now awash in data - not just yearly student test scores, but figures on how different groups of students are doing in particular subjects or grade levels, how successful a school is at attracting and retaining teachers or closing the achievement gap among disadvantaged students, or how equitable funding is from school to school.

MARCH, 14 2018 Charter school advocates from across the state will gather at the Georgia Capitol with HB 787 sponsor Rep. Scott Hilton, the Georgia Charter Schools Association and other elected officials in support of more equitable funding for state charter sSchools Association and other elected officials in support of more equitable funding for state charter schoolsschools.

The LCFF is a much needed step in the right direction to ensure that all California schools receive equitable funds from the state.

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.

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.

Here's a repost from October — «And yet, in her 10/14 email and video about Foley's «Money Follows the Child» plan, Sheila Cohen states, «CEA supports public charter schools that are fully state funded in an equitable way.»

In addition, the dollars coming from the state's Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) targeted student population funds — the dollars intended to be the most equitable — disproportionately favor high schools in LA Unified.

However, to make success in college and career a reality for Carver students and students from other high - need schools in Los Angeles, equitable funding is needed to provide significantly more tangible resources to schools and students who need it most.