Sentences with phrase «funding goes to the classroom»

Excerpt: «Reforming the Common Core, increasing aid to local schools, and making sure that educational funding goes to the classroom and benefits our students, rather than being squandered on additional layers of unnecessary government bureaucracy.»

Funding our schools is important; however, we must make sure to keep our focus on fixing our broken system so that funding goes to the classroom and supports a system that is based on the accountability and effectiveness of the adults in this system — the teachers, principals and administrators who serve our students.

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The First Lady indicated that children have dreams to go to school, and to realize their full potential, but they need a helping hand to achieve those dreams and that was the reason for the gathering which aims to raise funds to put up a six classroom block at Ayaakomase, near Nsoatre in the BrongAhafo Region to supplement governments efforts.

The funds will go towards the purchase of new classroom equipment, security cameras as well as physical repairs to the school's like P.S. 119X, Bronx Community High School and The Parkchester School.

The post goes on from there, addressing the governor's assertion on the percentage of expenditures devoted to classroom instruction versus administrative costs, as well as his insistence that districts can make up the difference in lost aid with reserve funds and economize by reducing waste, fraud and abuse.

Catherine Snow: Incorporating Rich Language in Early Education Educations Funders Researchers Initiative, November 18, 2013 «Taking on the task of improving reading skills, for all children and especially for those scoring at the bottom of the skill distribution, requires three simple things: first, we must provide all children with experiences designed to ensure a broad knowledge base and rich language before entry to kindergarten; second, we must redesign post-primary instruction to focus on discussion, analysis, critique, and synthesis; and third, we must redirect resources from testing children to assessing what is actually going on inside classrooms,» writes Professor Catherine Snow.

It's worth asking administrators if these kinds of supports exist, and it's important to keep in mind how valuable it is to fund them, even if the money doesn't appear to go directly into the classroom.

As funding for OERI grew through the 1990s, a large share continued to go to the centers and labs or to activities only loosely related to research or development, such as distributing funds for introducing more technology in the classrooms (see Figure 1).

Giving the teachers the go - ahead — even when it results in more paperwork, going to battle for reprieve from a district mandate, or finding a few more funds or additional evenings — is always the right thing to do when it's in the best interest of students and innovation in the classroom.

The Commission will examine factors that impact spending in education, including: school funding and distribution of State Aid; efficiency and utilization of education spending at the district level; the percentage of per - pupil funding that goes to the classroom as compared to administrative overhead and benefits; approaches to improving special education programs and outcomes while also reducing costs; identifying ways to reduce transportation costs; identifying strategies to create significant savings and long - term efficiencies; and analysis of district - by - district returns on educational investment and educational productivity to identify districts that have higher student outcomes per dollar spent, and those that do not.

The «Go Fund My Education» contest is open to anyone, as long as they are from the UK and are raising money for a cause related to education (e.g. classroom needs, field trips, school sports, alternative learning, tuition fees, etc.).

I highly recommend going to DonorsChoose.org to create a funding opportunity for a Kinect in your classroom.

It is about time to inform this President that teachers that are let go because of lack funds can not deliver any results in the classroom.

But wait a sec — since we're a grassroots group of classroom teachers, how are we going to bake enough gluten - free, nut - free cupcakes, the sale of which will fund our grassroots movement?

Because public charter schools» per - pupil funding is often inequitable compared to that of traditional public schools (about 75 - 80 % on average when compared to traditional schools nationwide), virtually all charter schools must use operational funding — money which otherwise would go towards educational purposes and classroom teaching and learning — to cover capital budget shortfalls.

What could we do to shine a spotlight on what is going on in the classrooms, what great work these schools are doing, and the fight for equitable funding for all students?

«We're going to continue to protect our classroom and we're going to continue to whittle down the deficit as we wait for the state of Illinois and Gov. (Bruce) Rauner to finally wake up and realize that they are protecting a discriminatory funding system, penalizing not only kids in Chicago but poor, minority kids throughout the state of Illinois,» Claypool said after a midday news conference.

«The 20 - year extension of Prop 301, which otherwise would have expired in June 2021, cements into statute a vital funding stream that drives more than $ 640 million into public education every year — with the lion's share going directly into Arizona K - 12 schools to support teachers» salaries and classroom operations.

And I will continue to prevent wasteful spending so more of our money goes into the classroom — and fight for a fair share of funding from Sacramento for local schools.

Research calls into question the assumption of many program funders and designers that student test scores will rise if after - school programs are tied closely to what goes on in the classroom.

In fact, even with no additional taxes school funding goes from an increase of approximately $ 111 per child in the Governor's budget, to $ 250 per child with the «Classrooms and Kids» proposal.

More than 55 teachers union groups in Washington state have voted to go on «rolling walkouts» not only to protest the lack of funding for public schools but also the diversion of hundreds of millions of dollars away from the classroom and into the pockets of Wall Street corporations that make the high stakes tests.

The proposal lead more than one resident to wonder if John Jay was about to go apartheid with funding going to a separate school that catered to white students rather than being invested in John Jay's existing mold -, asbestos -, and minority - filled classrooms.

«Because of the failed leadership in Tallahassee, Hillsborough County schools are having to cut teachers, including bilingual classroom aides, and can't even afford to repair air conditioning in certain schools — while brand new for - profit schools are being funded and built with tax dollars that should be going to our public schools,» Cruz said.

This results in significant savings for public charter schools so that funds that would have gone to fees and interest, now go towards students for classroom instruction and materials.

All of the different companies who are offering incentives and sponsorship this year have paid to take part; that funding keeps NaNoWriMo in action and goes to support the classroom programs under the Young Writer's Program.