Sentences with phrase «funded separate school districts»

Relatively affluent whites funded separate school districts, while poorer urbanites were left to fund the impoverished schools left behind.

Not exact matches

Looking ahead to next month's potential cash - flow crisis, Megna said Paterson will send up a separate bill asking for the statutory authority to push some of the payments due to school districts by June 1 to later in the month, allowing the state to draw more heavily on its pool of short - term emergency funds.

Republicans defended the increase in charter school funding as part of an agreement included in a separate education bill (HB 7055) that will let school districts keep their local property taxes for maintenance and construction rather than share it with charter schools.

Frank Hagen, retired from principalships in Maryland and Delaware, admits he would be tempted to use the $ 10,000 to buy MegaMillions or PowerBall tickets to increase the potential payoff and fund a school separate from the district.

By using the threat of effectively denying the children of military personnel access to public education, the bill seeks to force the federal government either to increase its impact - aid payments to districts or to establish separate schools, with full federal funding, on the bases.

It's true that New York charters get several thousand dollars less in operating funds per student than the city's district schools do — and, even more important, they do not get separate capital funding for facilities in Gotham's extremely pricey real - estate market.

In two separate lawsuits, opponents of educational choice alleged that Nevada's ESA violated the state constitution's mandate that the state provide a «uniform system of common schools» (Article 11, Section 2), its prohibition against using public funds for sectarian purposes (Article 11, Section 6), and a clause requiring the state to appropriate funds to operate the district schools before any other appropriation is enacted for the biennium (Article 11, Section 10).

The legislature did not explicitly create a separate appropriation for the ESAs, but rather diverted the funding that the state would otherwise have spent on those students had they enrolled in a district school.

Their Executive Director reports technically to the Commissioner, but they have a separate Board of Directors and they also receive some state funding and other funding they generate on a fee basis from services they provide to school districts.

But the fund helped convince most charters that an enrollment system where parents had to submit separate applications to multiple district and charter schools, particularly as options grew, was neither sustainable nor equitable.

Don't say: That's not true, we do not steal money from public schools Instead, say: Charter schools are public schools, and are funded through their own line item in the state budget which is separate from district schools.

An evaluation study of the district's equity fund highlighted several implementation challenges.65 Some PTAs simply did not comply with the district's policy to give back some dollars, and the district had difficulty figuring out how to exempt some PTA expenses fairly from redistribution.66 The evaluators did not examine how this policy affected PTA revenues, but there was significant pushback from members of the community, with some parents threatening to reduce donations during initial policy negotiations.67 A group of parents voiced that the approach was punitive, and that instead, parents should be encouraged to donate to a separate equity fund or to other, less affluent schools.68 Other districts that have considered establishing an equity fund have feared similar pushback, worrying that rich parents will threaten to leave the district, disinvest in their schools, or decrease their overall contributions.69

have established a policy that urges the federal government to grant flexibility to school districts to establish preschool programs for all three - and four - year - olds through a separate funding stream that develops, coordinates, and enhances the quality and availability of preschool programs;

If you listen to firsthand accounts of African Americans who were in public schools in this country in the»50s and»60s, they were separated from white students into separate schools, and in African American schools, they typically only had a teacher funded by the school district.

«A «state's rights» educational system is structured to be «separate and unequal — 50 states, 3,067 counties, tens of thousands of cities, 15,000 school districts and 85,000 schools — all «separate and unequal,» each with varying degrees of opportunity, funding and quality,» says Sharpton.

Huge Spending Gaps Between School Districts, Report Finds Vast inequities still exist in education funding across the nation, contributing to an academic achievement gap that separates the students at well - funded schools from those who attend campuses with fewer resources, according to a report released Tuesday.

With the abolition of multiple separate streams of «categorical» funding that districts had to spend on specific programs, officials emphasized that districts will have far greater flexibility in how they spend state funds — beginning in the coming school year.

The one exception was Washington, D.C., where the voucher funds come from a separate source and therefore a decrease in district school enrollment does not affect their funding.

(See chart below) This rapid growth is one clear result of State policy increasing funds and policy supports for public school choice programs that are operated by separate, non-traditional school districts such as CREC and charter districts.

Charters frequently begin with less revenue per student and then must spend significant portions of those funds on transportation and facilities — necessary functions for which traditional district schools often receive separate funding allocations.

Finally, the initiative will provide additional funding to the six districts that already are part of Wallace's separate, $ 75 - million Principal Pipeline Initiative, which began in 2011 and aims to help those districts develop a large corps of «instructional leaders» — principals who are well trained and supported to improve teaching and learning in their schools.

The law does continue a separate, competitive funding program, the Teacher and School Leader Incentive Fund, to allow states, school districts, or non-profits or for - profits in partnership with a state or school district to apply for competitive grants to implement teacher evaluation systems to see if the country can learn more about effective and fair ways of linking student performance to teacher perforSchool Leader Incentive Fund, to allow states, school districts, or non-profits or for - profits in partnership with a state or school district to apply for competitive grants to implement teacher evaluation systems to see if the country can learn more about effective and fair ways of linking student performance to teacher perforschool districts, or non-profits or for - profits in partnership with a state or school district to apply for competitive grants to implement teacher evaluation systems to see if the country can learn more about effective and fair ways of linking student performance to teacher perforschool district to apply for competitive grants to implement teacher evaluation systems to see if the country can learn more about effective and fair ways of linking student performance to teacher performance.

Sending funds to the district, and then having each district set up separate salary schedules makes the funding of schools more complex.