Sentences with phrase «funds out of public schools»

The scheme would funnel public funds out of public schools and into private schools by allowing parents to use a voucher to pay for some or all of their child's private school tuition.

I am against any alternate education system that siphons funds out of the public school system or puts our schools under the influence of corporate entities.

They argue that the tax - credit programs draw needed funds out of the public school system, redirecting money to private schools that aren't accountable for student performance.

Critics of the voucher system say the program will siphon desperately needed funds out of the public school system to offer what would effectively be a tax break to families who can already afford to send their children to private schools.

Not exact matches

On Tuesday night, at least 200 people came out to a high school to listen to Dr. Tipirneni, who spoke of her support for a public health insurance option, «common - sense» gun control, and robust funding for Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

Second, I would ask the candidate to abolish the local property tax as the source of school funding and instead fund the public education of every American child out of the federal income tax.

But truthfully, there are people out there who are very under - educated about food and can benefit from laws that stop tobacco being sold to minors and keep junk out of tax - funded public school lunches.

«Which of course is a problem, because every dollar that has to be supported by the general fund is a dollar out of the classroom,» said Ed Wilkins, the school nutrition director for the San Francisco Public Schools.

The budget laid out by Mayor Bill de Blasio, Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito and members of the City Council designates funds for crime prevention in public housing developments, enhanced services for inmates, free school lunch for middle schoolers, child care for low - income families, and...

«Unfortunately, the Governor and the Assembly Speaker care more about keeping teenage drug gang members, murderers and rapists out of jail than they do about funding our public schools, providing tax relief for our families and rebuilding our infrastructure,» said Sen. Tom Croci, a Long Island Republican.

We also think that there are serious public health risks to funding schools that opt out of providing vaccinations.

«I am running to build a real Democratic State Senate majority that finally fully funds our public schools, protects tenants from being thrown out of their homes and strengthens our loophole ridden rent laws, passes badly needed ethics reforms, election reforms and real criminal justice reforms and makes Andrea Stewart - Cousins the first woman Senate Majority Leader, breaking up the so - called «three men in a room.»

«Sometimes, some of these issues take a lot longer to negotiate and compromise with, and you shouldn't be holding up funding for our schools, and funding for our roads, and funding for local governments to keep property taxes down, because of some of these major, broader public policy issues that should be kept out of the budget.»

Nurses from Kaleida stepped in and took over duties in the Buffalo Public Schools as part of a deal worked out in 2005, after funding for school nurses was eliminated by Erie County, which had previously provided the service to city sSchools as part of a deal worked out in 2005, after funding for school nurses was eliminated by Erie County, which had previously provided the service to city schoolsschools.

Not to discount the value of that $ 350,000 union slush fund spiff, which Bharara will figure out anyway, de Blasio's wholly undemanding relationship with the UFT amounts to a profound betrayal of his responsibility to the city's 1.1 million public - school children.

The Department of Education's proposal to amend ESSA would label most Westchester public schools as «in need of improvement» and would cut federal funding for any school where 5 percent of students or more opt out of Common Core testing.

Cuomo said his plans to extend public tuition assistance to undocumented immigrants — the Dream Act — and a plan proposed tax credit offsetting donations to private and parochial school scholarship funds (as well as public schools) were «highly likely» to fall out of talks because the State Senate and Assembly were «dug in» in their respective opposition.

Lucy Anderson from the National Policy Forum said Labour must seek to re-establish a form of local authority control over schools and Heather Wakefield from UNISON said that local government has been the biggest victim of the coalition's austerity binge and that, with privatisation, huge amounts of public funds were wasted when local government contracted out public services.

«He isn't promising his campaign contributors that he is going to raise the minimum wage, ban fracking, make health care a right, fully fund our public schools or opt out of Common Core - aligned high - stakes testing.

President Nana Akufo - Addo last Friday said it is most appropriate to use a part of the country's oil revenue to fund the policy, which was rolled out last September to offer free education to persons who qualify into public senior high schools.

This has been borne out in their various proxy battles over the future of charter schools, the funding of the Metropolitan Transportation authority's capital plan, the growth of e-hail giant Uber, and how long the mayor should have authority over the city's public schools.

As evidence of the deep divisions on Raise the Age, Senator Thomas D. Croci, a Republican from Long Island, suggested that Mr. Heastie and Mr. Cuomo «care more about keeping teenage drug gang members, murderers and rapists out of jail than they do about funding our public schools, providing tax relief for our families and rebuilding our infrastructure.»

She estimated Buffalo schools would be owed more than $ 100 million in aid from the state, had Albany followed the decision that came out of a landmark school funding lawsuit won by the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, a group Nixon got involved with when her oldest teenager began as a kindergarten student in a New York City public school.

Key recommendations for government in the report that won API support were: for play to be embedded within a Whole Child Strategy under the aegis of a Cabinet Minister for Children responsible for cross ‑ departmental roll out and co-ordination; for government to require local authorities to prepare children and young people's plans including strategies to address overweight and obesity with its physical, mental and emotional consequences; for funding for play to be ring - fenced within local authority budgets; to address barriers to outdoor play for children of all ages and abilities; to extend the Sport England Primary Spaces and Sport Premium programmes to all schools with a broader scope to incorporate a wide variety of physical literacy activities including play; to communicate through public information campaigns to parents and families the value of active outdoor play, including risk or benefit assessment; and to improve public sector procurement practice for public play provision.

The principal of a traditional public school is not charged with coaxing capital funds out of voters, scoping out real estate, or overseeing construction.

The program allows businesses to receive an 85 percent tax credit on contributions to nonprofit scholarship organizations that fund low - and middle - income families attending the private school, home school, or out - of - district public school of their choice.

This program may yet lift the performance of our pupils as they go through the school system, although problems remain: out of Australia's total expenditure on early childhood education in 2010, parents contributed almost half the cost and only 56 per cent was met from the public purse — compared with an OECD average of 82 per cent public funding — and the rest was from private sources, probably parental pockets.

As Paul Hill, founder of the Center on Reinventing Public Education, has pointed out, we can leapfrog our system of school finance to truly fund education, not institutions; move money as students move; and pay for unconventional forms of instruction.

He set about creating «a technical support and advisory group that would seek out the very best of these community leaders, give them the start - up funds and technical advice [finances, payroll system, health care program, implementing curriculum, relations with public authorities] they needed, and help them manage their own schools.»

The willingness of public schools to put students into special education might be constrained if those schools feared that students would walk out the door with a voucher and all of their funding.

The charter school movement turned 25 last year, yet the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools identified only 3 out of 43 states — California, Colorado, Utah — and the District of Columbia as having laws that support access to capital funding and facilities.

Over time, competent private schools have grown their base of public funding while patently low - grade schools have shrunk or been ushered out of the choice programs.

Another 30 percent neither support nor oppose public funding for online education for students who drop out of high school, and 31 percent oppose funding.

To explore the issue of public funding, we randomly assigned respondents to one of four questions that identified different targets of online education: rural residents, advanced students, students who dropped out of school, and home - schooled children (Q. 9).

In 2007 they approved funding for the first public Waldorf methods high school, in the Sacramento Unified School District; and (3) Three key findings on urban public schools with Waldorf methods: (a) In their final year, the students in the study's four California case study public Waldorf - methods elementary schools match the top ten of peer sites on the 2006 California test scores and well outperform the average of their peers statewide; (b) According to teacher, administrator and mentor reports, they achieve these high test scores by focusing on those new three R's — rather than on rote learning and test prep — in a distinct fashion laid out by the Waldorf model and (c) A key focus is on artistic learning, not just for students but, more importantly perhaps, for the aschool, in the Sacramento Unified School District; and (3) Three key findings on urban public schools with Waldorf methods: (a) In their final year, the students in the study's four California case study public Waldorf - methods elementary schools match the top ten of peer sites on the 2006 California test scores and well outperform the average of their peers statewide; (b) According to teacher, administrator and mentor reports, they achieve these high test scores by focusing on those new three R's — rather than on rote learning and test prep — in a distinct fashion laid out by the Waldorf model and (c) A key focus is on artistic learning, not just for students but, more importantly perhaps, for the aSchool District; and (3) Three key findings on urban public schools with Waldorf methods: (a) In their final year, the students in the study's four California case study public Waldorf - methods elementary schools match the top ten of peer sites on the 2006 California test scores and well outperform the average of their peers statewide; (b) According to teacher, administrator and mentor reports, they achieve these high test scores by focusing on those new three R's — rather than on rote learning and test prep — in a distinct fashion laid out by the Waldorf model and (c) A key focus is on artistic learning, not just for students but, more importantly perhaps, for the adults.

Under the provisions in the 2015 state budget, funds for the voucher program will now come directly out of funds that would have otherwise gone to local K - 12 public schools.

Parents who take their children out of public schools can use ESA programs to fund their children's private or religious school education.

Fast forward to 2017: President Donald Trump and U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos have championed a plan to provide federal funding for private school voucher systems nationwide, which would funnel millions of taxpayer dollars out of public schools and into unaccountable private schools — a school reform policy that they say would provide better options for low - income students trapped in failing schools.

Nine California public schools serving military families - considered to be among the most dilapidated facilities in the nation - are likely to lose out on badly - needed funding for long - overdue upgrades as a result of sequestration.

Portfolios from Pittsburgh Public Schools (LeMahieu, Eresh, & Wallace, 1992) grew out of the ARTS PROPEL project, a privately - funded project to design instruction - based assessment in visual arts, music and imaginative writing.

Nina Rees, president and CEO of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, shared some recent public charter school accomplishments including that six out of the top 10 high schools in the U.S. are charter schools (US News and World Report); Colorado recently passed a law equalizing funding for charters and traditional public schools; the new administration has proposed an increase in spending for charter schools by 50 percent; and the creation of a unified traditional public school - charter board in Los AnPublic Charter Schools, shared some recent public charter school accomplishments including that six out of the top 10 high schools in the U.S. are charter schools (US News and World Report); Colorado recently passed a law equalizing funding for charters and traditional public schools; the new administration has proposed an increase in spending for charter schools by 50 percent; and the creation of a unified traditional public school - charter board in Los ASchools, shared some recent public charter school accomplishments including that six out of the top 10 high schools in the U.S. are charter schools (US News and World Report); Colorado recently passed a law equalizing funding for charters and traditional public schools; the new administration has proposed an increase in spending for charter schools by 50 percent; and the creation of a unified traditional public school - charter board in Los Anpublic charter school accomplishments including that six out of the top 10 high schools in the U.S. are charter schools (US News and World Report); Colorado recently passed a law equalizing funding for charters and traditional public schools; the new administration has proposed an increase in spending for charter schools by 50 percent; and the creation of a unified traditional public school - charter board in Los Aschools in the U.S. are charter schools (US News and World Report); Colorado recently passed a law equalizing funding for charters and traditional public schools; the new administration has proposed an increase in spending for charter schools by 50 percent; and the creation of a unified traditional public school - charter board in Los Aschools (US News and World Report); Colorado recently passed a law equalizing funding for charters and traditional public schools; the new administration has proposed an increase in spending for charter schools by 50 percent; and the creation of a unified traditional public school - charter board in Los Anpublic schools; the new administration has proposed an increase in spending for charter schools by 50 percent; and the creation of a unified traditional public school - charter board in Los Aschools; the new administration has proposed an increase in spending for charter schools by 50 percent; and the creation of a unified traditional public school - charter board in Los Aschools by 50 percent; and the creation of a unified traditional public school - charter board in Los Anpublic school - charter board in Los Angeles.

A really thought out plan where now less than two years later public schools are laying off teachers because of lack of funds.

While debating the final version of the legislation on the House floor on Friday, Rep. Tricia Cotham (D - Mecklenberg) called out Mitchell and others like him who could, with this legislation, hire family and friends through a private charter school company and pay them anything they like with public funds.

Add in the tens of million spent by local school districts on computers and internet expansion so that students can take the on - line tests, along with the substitute teachers who were brought in so that full - time teachers could be pulled out to «learn about the Common Core,» and well over $ 150 — $ 200 million dollars (or more) in public funds have been diverted from instruction to the Common Core and Common Core testing disaster.

Applicants must sign an agreement to continue teaching Mathematics or Science (including Technology / Engineering) full time in a Massachusetts public school for a term of service after completion of courses or program (no longer teaching out - of - field) or repay funds as defined by the scholarship terms and conditions.

A common refrain I hear in the course of my reporting and writing about school vouchers — a program that is set to take a large bite out of our public coffers in North Carolina in the months and years ahead — is that at the end of the day, it's the parents who should be the enforcers of accountability for this publicly funded effort to shift state money into private schools.

The Kentucky Court of Appeals ruled that an arrangement between a county board of education and a religious college, under which the college was paid tuition fees and building maintenance fees for the education of county high school students out of public school funds, violated Kentucky's Blaine Amendment.

At least one out of five public school students in Oakland Unified attend charter schools but this measure does not guarantee charter schools a fair share of the funding.

On the heels of Tuesday's election, four Democratic legislators are planning a bill to give property taxpayers the final say on whether they want to be on the hook for tax dollars taken directly out of public schools to fund vouchers.

Charter schools will siphon students and funding out of public neighborhood schools across the district without changing the fixed costs of running those schools, or necessarily reducing the need for staffing and services in those schools.