Sentences with phrase «from needy school»

In addition to the usual arguments about how such a system diverts funds from needy school districts and / or skims away the best students and their highly - involved parents (an argument that is also applied to charter schools yet, strangely, not to NYC ’s

On his blog, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan called the proposal «a good first step,» especially in promoting «transparency on resource inequities and rejecting earlier proposals to allow resources to be siphoned away from our neediest schools.»

Taking more money away from needy schools would likely widen these gaps.

Though many of the corporate - style reformers argue that their preferred priorities of more high - stakes testing, the elimination of teacher tenure, and expansion of charter schools will narrow the achievement gap, there is no evidence to indicate that these policies will work, and in fact, recent evidence suggests that such policies will further cause high - quality teachers to flee from our neediest schools.

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In particular, there are three aspects of the House bill that ought to especially worry parents, health advocates and those who are concerned about fighting childhood hunger: the bill takes a decidedly unscientific approach to setting school nutrition standards, it would most certainly re-open the school junk food floodgates, and it will drop millions of needy kids from a much - lauded program that currently offers them free school meals.

The Works Progress Administration, a New Deal program, was established in 1935 and took over school lunches as means of employing women from needy households.

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.

State Sen. Jim Tedisco of Glenville is proposing that proceeds from the sale of what he is calling a «Guardians For Schools,» license plate be used to fund armed guards — and other security measures — at needy New York state sSchools,» license plate be used to fund armed guards — and other security measures — at needy New York state schoolsschools.

The new ability of New York charter schools to set aside seats for employees» children drew fire from the United Federation of Teachers, which said such «nepotism» defied charters» stated goals of serving the neediest children.

The New York City school system, which has two - thirds of the state's needy children and 40 percent of its teachers, could receive $ 300 million from the Race to the Top program, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said in a press conference.

And NYCAN Executive Director Christina Grant said, «When we disproportionately place our lowest - performing teachers in front of our neediest students, we are closing the escape hatch that great schools have long provided from poverty and the status quo.

Inside Philanthropy's L.S. Hall offers «four takeaways» on the $ 120 million donation from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Dr. Priscilla Chan to needy schools in the Bay Area.

MORIAH A grant from the Glenn and Carol Pearsall Adirondack Foundation will help keep Moriah Central School's BackPack Program for needy kids rolling.

With his halting French and bashful ways, the emigré at the film's centre, Antek Liebmann (Godehard Giese), seems quite far from a parading peacock: simple in look and affect, he, a school teacher, does not seem overly complicated or needy in his dealings with the friendly and curious locals.

Even so, many schools, especially the neediest urban schools, continue to suffer from a lack of the basic supplies and enriching supplementary materials their students need.

Massachusetts has not backed away from high standards, even as some needy schools struggle to keep up.

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.

So, to review: Hunter is not accountable to the DOE, has its own admissions process that it declines to reveal or justify, doesn't backfill, can not objectively prove it adds value to a given student's education, regularly expels those who can't keep up academically, is not ethnically or economically diverse, diverts resources from the needy to the already advantaged, and culls the top students from the city's other public elementary and high schools.

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.

Money would then be available to bring needy schools up to 95 per cent of the government's schooling resource standard (SRS), which is calculated by taking a base cost for educating each student and adding money for disadvantage (such as coming from a low socio - economic background, being indigenous, or living in a remote area).

Shanker had the idea in 1988 that a group of public school teachers would ask their colleagues for permission to create a small school that would focus on the neediest students, those who had dropped out and those who were disengaged from school and likely to drop out.

Aiming to fill future vacancies left by the expected retirements of thousands of teachers in the next few years, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed legislation following this year's legislative session that seeks to remove barriers that discourage out - of - state teachers from working in the state and provides incentives to encourage skilled teachers to work in the neediest schools.

And there are plenty of well - intentioned civic leaders, philanthropists, and education reformers who view charters as a sideshow, one that deflects energy and resources away from the majority of needy children who remain in district - operated schools.

Georgia's program also promised to designate scholarships for students in «failing public schools» from low socioeconomic levels, but as a 2013 New York Times article exposed, the program has «[benefited] private schools at the expense of needy children.»

«The truth is,» he wrote, «that the students in these schools are poised to become the latest victims of a failed educational strategy — one that ignores the possibility of strengthening schools, closes them on the basis of mysterious and ever - changing criteria and shuffles thousands of our neediest students from one struggling institution to another.»

Eli Pollak, an eighth - grader at Hamilton Middle School in Madison, has started a fund to award trips to students from needy familes.

From the Boston Public Library, we have Director of Library Services, Deb Froggatt, a former school librarian and two current school librarians, elementary librarian Morgan Van Clief and Fenway High's Bonnie Mcbride all focusing on helping neediest students

Instead of trips to the beach or a day at the ballpark, hundreds of teachers went to «summer school» to dive into professional development and to learn from their peers about what's working — and what's not — to improve education for needy students at priority schools.

Throughout the reauthorization process, NEA's focus has been threefold: decouple standardized testing from high - stakes decisions, create an «opportunity dashboard» to help close opportunity gaps in needy schools and elevate the voices of educators in the policymaking process.

We are here to say it is not acceptable for the wealthiest country in the world to be cutting millions of dollars from schools serving our neediest students; to be cutting teachers by the tens of thousands, to be eliminating art, music, PE, counselors, nurses, librarians, and libraries (where they weren't already gone, as in California); to be increasing class sizes to 40 or 50 in Los Angeles and Detroit.

Misguided policies that weaken public education by diverting public funds from already - strained public schools or by enriching private companies at the expense of our neediest students, however, will continue to meet NASSP's vigorous opposition.

The bill directs savings from the prison sentencing reform initiative prop 47 and additional one - time funds to ensure that schools and community partners coordinate strategies to support our neediest students and families.

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.

For example, the Washington Supreme Court has barred a blind student from using vocational rehabilitation funds to pursue seminary studies [xxxii]; forbidden a program that provided textbook and tuition assistance grants for needy students at public and private, including religious, schools [xxxiii]; and struck down a program that allowed students from private, including religious, schools to ride public school buses.

Citizens for Public Schools believes that allowing or promoting more charter schools in Massachusetts would drain desperately needed resources from traditional public schools, which continue to serve our neediest students and faSchools believes that allowing or promoting more charter schools in Massachusetts would drain desperately needed resources from traditional public schools, which continue to serve our neediest students and faschools in Massachusetts would drain desperately needed resources from traditional public schools, which continue to serve our neediest students and faschools, which continue to serve our neediest students and families.

Worse, they divert scarce resources from schools that serve the neediest students and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.

He has dedicated has career to serving his community's neediest and youngest school children as a preschool teacher of 3 - and 4 - year - olds from Richmond, Virginia's toughest neighborhoods.

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.

It is true that upper income communities benefit significantly from SALT, but it is also true that states with even vaguely progressive school funding systems depend upon those communities being able to foot their own school bills so that state aid can get to needier communities.

Importantly, the gains were seen in all schools, from those serving mostly wealthy students to those with many needy students.

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

Governor Malloy's tenure has been characterized by denigrating teachers, vigorously opposing adequate funding of public schools and vastly increasing financial support for privately run charter schools which fail to serve the state's neediest children, including English Language Learners and students with disabilities, have disturbingly harsh disciplinary policies, increase racial isolation, drain public money from needy public schools and have even been implicated in fraud and theft.

As opposed to collecting individual applications for free and reduced - price meals, the CEP allows LEAs and schools meeting the eligibility requirements to use information provided from other direct certification programs, including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and the Temporary Assistance Program for Needy Families (TANF).

The district tries to help needier schools by offering them donated equipment, a lower - cost leasing program and shopping events where schools can buy repurposed technology from within CPS.

Luke Messer, a Republican Congressman from Indiana who is a friend of Mike Pence and who founded the Congressional School Choice Caucus already suggested that some or all of the money for Trump's school choice program could come from the $ 15 billion the federal government spends on Title I. Grabbing money intended to help public schools that serve the nation's most needy children and turning it into an uncontrolled experiment in vouchers and unregulated charter schools is exactly the kind of project Betsy DeVos would rSchool Choice Caucus already suggested that some or all of the money for Trump's school choice program could come from the $ 15 billion the federal government spends on Title I. Grabbing money intended to help public schools that serve the nation's most needy children and turning it into an uncontrolled experiment in vouchers and unregulated charter schools is exactly the kind of project Betsy DeVos would rschool choice program could come from the $ 15 billion the federal government spends on Title I. Grabbing money intended to help public schools that serve the nation's most needy children and turning it into an uncontrolled experiment in vouchers and unregulated charter schools is exactly the kind of project Betsy DeVos would relish.

Requires applications to include a student recruitment and retention plan and allows SBE to deny a charter renewal when a school made insufficient efforts to effectively attract, enroll, and retain students from among the same educationally needy populations.

But structural inequities in the LCFF prohibit many charter schools from receiving concentration grants for all of their neediest students, because their concentration grant funding is capped at the district average.

This disappointing result was because appropriations were never sufficient to realize the large - scale impact envisioned by Johnson, the desire to focus extra aid on the most educationally needy students isolated them from other instruction, and the schools targeted for aid were often staffed by less experienced teachers.

Proof of public assistance, including Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Reference from Integrated Community / Communidad Integrada (ciiccolorado.org) Two most recent pay stubs W - 2 1040 Proof of children in the reduced - cost school lunch program Proof of unemployment benefits currently or within the last three months Proof of Food Stamps Latest award letter for Social Security or disability payments Proof of Medicaid Extreme medical expense or other demonstrable extreme financial hardship Court documents showing amount of child support or spousal maintenance

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