Sentences with phrase «funded schools across the state»

The school districts suing the state — Kansas City, Kan., Wichita, Hutchinson and Dodge City — allege that Kansas has failed to meet its constitutional duty to adequately fund schools across the state.

Indeed, tempers are flaring as North Carolina public school officials are seemingly tightening their vetting process for new charters, publicly - funded schools across the state gifted with increased flexibility in their operations.

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For example, the US Department of Education's Race to the Top Fund, which offered $ 4 billion in grants to states that developed successful educational reforms, spurred innovations that hold promise for school systems across the country.

This includes 6.5 mills that go to the state fund, 5.6 mills that go to Jefferson County's general fund, 7.9 mills that go to things like roads and bridges and another 8.2 mills that go to schools across the county.

«Mr. Speaker, today in First Nations communities across the country, the unemployment rate can reach 80 %, half of the housing units are in a pitiful state and schools and students receive 30 % less funding than others,» Thomas Mulcair reported.

Even without any additional funding from the department, schools across the state have increased their local food spending.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo Tuesday announced $ 35 million in funding available for high - need school districts across the state to establish after - school programs.

Per - pupil funding levels should be adequate across all programs and settings — both school districts and community based organizations — in order to support high - quality pre-k for 3 - and 4 - year - olds, and the state should establish a timeline for ensuring adequate resources while expanding access to all eligible children, particularly in high - need communities.

«In states across America, legislators have been pressured into a toxic game of cross-border business poaching that drives millions of dollars in tax breaks and subsidies to wealthy executives — draining funds we need to invest in infrastructure, schools, parks, and other public goods that is the bedrock of economic health.»

Across the state, there are school districts that are cutting Kindergarten, so to fund pre-K and not fund K - 12, that just is nonsensical.»

Late last month, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration broke with the longstanding tradition of providing school districts across New York State with «runs,» the projected aid increases, based on the governor's education funding proposal, which district officials use to help shape their own budgets.

Throughout budget negotiations budget writers said members projects were cut and priorities were reshuffled to fund the $ 400 million «Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Act,» which included $ 67 million for a controversial program to arm school personnel and more funding for mental health services in schools across the School Act,» which included $ 67 million for a controversial program to arm school personnel and more funding for mental health services in schools across the school personnel and more funding for mental health services in schools across the state.

Association members say they aren't happy they didn't receive enough funds in the budget to put law enforcement officer in each school across the state.

For the last 17 years, I've been fighting for better schools and more equitable education funding all across New York state.

A new report on public school funding across the country finds that most states are now providing less support per K - 12 student than before the 2007 - 2009 Great Recession — and that some states continue to cut funding.

By shining a light on school - level funding inequities before the school year begins, the final budget can serve as an important new protection for students of color, low - income students, and other historically under - served groups of students across the state.

New York charter school advocates are emboldened by promises from Senate leadership and Gov. Andrew Cuomo to increase funding for charter schools across the state.

Cuomo has addressed the funding inequities impacting school districts across the state, Skahen said, and she remains optimistic for the SCSD.

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 schState 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 schstate converged on the state Capitol to demand fair and equitable funding for public schstate Capitol to demand fair and equitable funding for public schools.

They have offices in six cities across the state, and now regularly advocate for an agenda that includes ending the school - to - prison pipeline, increasing funding for community schools and pre-kindergarten programs, and railing against the expansion of privately - run charter school networks, what Easton calls the «privatization» of public education.

As attorney general, Cuomo exposed what he described as systemic pension fund abuses in which government contractors — including lawyers and doctors for school districts across the state — wrongfully had themselves listed as employees in order to collect taxpayer - funded pensions.

One day before voters decide school budgets across New York state, Schenectady School District officials welcomed elected leaders to Mont Pleasant Middle School to discuss the impact of a significant funding incschool budgets across New York state, Schenectady School District officials welcomed elected leaders to Mont Pleasant Middle School to discuss the impact of a significant funding incSchool District officials welcomed elected leaders to Mont Pleasant Middle School to discuss the impact of a significant funding incSchool to discuss the impact of a significant funding increase.

Meanwhile, education advocates on Tuesday began their lobbying efforts with a rally calling on more equitable funding for high - needs schools across the state.

As an advocate for better schools and more equitable education funding all across the state, affordable housing, LGBTQ equality, clean energy, legalizing marijuana, and women's reproductive rights, Cynthia Nixon is running a grassroots campaign for governor without corporate funding.

In November, New York voters will be asked to approve a $ 2 billion bond act to fund technology upgrades in schools across the state.

It calls on Cuomo to compensate schools across the state for funds they haven't received over the last 10 years or more.

To conduct the U.S. National Science Foundation - funded study, researchers examined a group of 4,451 students from 752 high schools across the United States and followed them from 2002 to 2012 using the records of the Education Longitudinal Study of the U.S. National Center for Education Statistics.

Pupils across the country have enjoyed a fresh start for 2016 as they returned to state ‑ of ‑ the ‑ art new school buildings funded through the government's flagship rebuilding programme at the start of January.

After the proposition passed, state union representatives immediately lobbied the state attorney general to issue a «clarification» explaining that performance pay actually meant an across - the - board bonus for every teacher in a school or district, regardless of performance, and that funding classrooms directly actually meant passing the funding through the district first so the district, rather than the school, can make the major funding decisions.

In response to lawsuits that identified large within - state differences in per - pupil spending across wealthy and poor districts, state supreme courts overturned school - finance systems in 28 states between 1971 and 2010, and many state legislatures implemented reforms that led to major changes in school funding.

«This is also a very important example of the benefits of the Gonski schools funding system — $ 224 million of additional Gonski funding is going to greatly benefit public schools right across the state and this is yet another example of the importance of all governments around Australia committing to fully funding the Gonski model.»

Any voucher - type proposal that relies on funds currently appropriated to Title I would not simply shift funds from public to private schools — it would significantly redistribute federal funds within states across school districts, and within districts across public schools, reducing progressivity.

[9] These weights mean two states with the same number of poor and non-poor students would get more Title I funds if those students are economically segregated across school districts.

The Victorian Government has announced $ 1.6 million in grant funding for the latest in digital equipment for 150 secondary schools across the state.

School Finance (2018) The School Finance Analysis examines both school spending and measures of financial equity, which capture the distribution of funding across districts within a School Finance (2018) The School Finance Analysis examines both school spending and measures of financial equity, which capture the distribution of funding across districts within a School Finance Analysis examines both school spending and measures of financial equity, which capture the distribution of funding across districts within a school spending and measures of financial equity, which capture the distribution of funding across districts within a state.

Pupils across the country have enjoyed a fresh start for 2016 as they returned to state - of - the - art new school buildings funded through the government's flagship rebuilding programme at the start of January.

In response to large within - state differences in per - pupil spending across wealthy / high - income and poor districts, state supreme courts overturned school finance systems in 28 states between 1971 and 2010, and many states implemented legislative reforms that spawned important changes in public education funding.

It is my goal here to show how within an individual state (where, as most recently proposed, portability's fiscal impact would be), portability would change the distribution of Title I funds across all districts, and within a district, across schools currently participating in Title I versus those who do not.

In the most regulated environment, larger participants — those schools with 40 or more students funded through vouchers in testing grades, or with an average of 10 or more students per grade across all grade levels — receive a rating through a formula identical to the school performance score system used by the state to gauge public school performance, inclusive of test score performance, graduation rates, and other outcome metrics.

Kevin Courtney, general secretary of the NUT, the largest teachers» union, said: «The announcement that there is to be an extra # 320 million to fund up to 140 new free schools demonstrates an extraordinary lack of judgement at a time when state schools across the country are tipping out their piggy banks to search for the loose change to run their schools, let alone engaging in any capital upgrading.

Nearly every teacher, parent, and student across the United States is familiar with the fund - raising hullabaloo that grips most schools in the fall and spring.

According to a report from the Department of Education, pupil illness now accounts for 60 per cent of all absences across state - funded primary, secondary and special schools.

It is too soon to tell whether other states will follow the lead of Colorado and Florida, but the stories of how the laws were passed in the two states remind us that across the country, the politics of charter schools and charter funding vary greatly.

While more money sounds like it will produce a greater windfall for Australian schools, the priority in which they receive these funds is still determined by the individual states and territories, not by the Commonwealth, thereby producing markedly varied results across the country.

The School Finance Analysis examines both school spending and measures of financial equity, which capture the distribution of funding across districts within a School Finance Analysis examines both school spending and measures of financial equity, which capture the distribution of funding across districts within a school spending and measures of financial equity, which capture the distribution of funding across districts within a state.

Analyzing how districts distributed their state allocations across schools under California's landmark 2013 weighted student funding overhaul, districts varied enormously on whether they distributed more or fewer of the new and newly flexible dollars to the highest - needs schools.

Two new national reports paint a grim picture of unfair and inequitable funding of public education across states, with schools serving the highest proportion of impoverished students most often on the losing end.

Funded by: Spencer Foundation Amount: $ 350,000 Dates: 1/1/16 — 12/31/19 Summary: This project expands the present research study by adding an ethnographic investigation of learning processes at the most promising no excuses and progressive schools with the goal of amplifying the value and effects of scholarship and practice of civic education in urban secondary schools across the United States.

But with state policy driving the allocation of the lion's share of school funding, education financing across the country varies significantly among communities in terms of how much is spent, how funding is allocated, and where the money comes from.

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