Sentences with phrase «from public school districts»

The shift of funds away from public school districts creates further stresses on traditional public schools.

Most users have come from public school districts; high - school coaches use the service to stay connected with student athletes, and teachers employ it to elicit participation from shy students.

Generally, the vouchers are paid for through a mixture of general purpose state revenue or money taken away from the public school district where the student resides.

We withdrew our son from the public school district and placed him in a cyber / charter school.

Local taxpayers have no say over charter school costs, which are deducted from a public school district's Chapter 70 state education aid, based on the number of students attending charter schools.

In some states, charter school operators can purchase school buildings from public school districts... using taxpayer money.

Rather than drawing state aid funding away from all public school districts in the state as the «2r» funding model does, the «2x» funding model draws state aid funding directly from the district in which a «2x» charter student resides.

As part of Education Commissioner Dianna Wentzell's «leadership strategies,» designed to urge superintendents to «encourage» parents to have their children take the SBAC test rather than to opt out, the commissioner called in superintendents from public school districts across the state to the department's Hartford headquarters for a «training session» on how effectively to communicate with parents.

«Neither of those appear to have been considered to date as we have significant segregation by race as well as income, special needs and Limited English Proficiency between charter schools and their sending districts, and we have charter schools draining necessary resources from public school districts,» she said.

School tax levies — that is, revenue raised through local property taxation — will rise next year by an average 2.78 percent in Suffolk County and an average 2.42 percent both in Nassau County and statewide, according to figures from public school districts released last week by the state comptroller's office.

It is highly unusual for a tenured administrator to be fired from a public school district in New York.

Cybercharter advocates and entrepreneurs are not surprised at the criticism (and lawsuits, nearly all of which have been unsuccessful) they have been handed from public school districts, Democratic legislators resistant to educational choice initiatives, and teachers unions.

Senior Lecturer Mandy Savitz - Romer, co-author of the book Ready, Willing, and Able: A Developmental Approach to College Access and Success, believes the conversation with traditional educators and those who hold the purse strings — from public school district officials to private school parents — needs to be reframed.

As it is, Quall said, the state's Running Start program, which allows high - school students to earn credit at community colleges, effectively transfers $ 20 million a year from public school districts to the colleges.

Since a large chunk of a charter's revenue comes from the per - student fees they receive from the public school district or state, the shortage of students left many charters far short of the revenues they had projected.

The Oak Street school receives $ 1.8 million a month from public school districts that send students with special education needs there.

NAACP has already released a national statement about charter schools, saying they do not believe it is the direction we should be headed towards, particularly because they increase segregation and take resources away from the public school district.

While the first two models were from public school districts, independent schools have also adopted visions of student outcomes.

In the first year a pupil receives a special needs voucher, the private school would receive $ 12,000 from the public school district.

A controversial proposal before Congress that would redirect federal Impact Aid funding away from public school districts and toward education savings accounts (ESAs) for students in military families is drawing criticism from the very families it is intended to benefit.

«That's why publicly funded vouchers pauperize schools; they drain cash away from public school districts, particularly those that serve disadvantaged kids who can least afford it.»