Sentences with phrase «help school districts fund»

Under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), which provides the major source of federal funding to help school districts fund educational services to students with disabilities, the federal share of funding that Congress initially promised in 1975 is up to 40 percent of the average per pupil expenditure.

IDEA was first enacted in 1975 and provides the primary source of federal funding to help school districts fund educational services to students with special needs.

The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), first enacted in 1975, provides the primary source of federal funding to help school districts fund educational services to students with special needs.

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In others, a third party — for example, a school district or hospital — helps make up for the user's lack of funds.

The increase in funding will help ensure that students, teachers and school district staff can focus their energy on teaching and learning.

The Partners for BIC grant is targeted to help high - need schools and districts cover up - front costs commonly associated with implementing breakfast - in - the - classroom; funds can be used to purchase equipment and supplies, provided some staff support and training, or to procure marketing materials and other related costs.

Although the state has surplus funds, there has been no consideration for increasing state aid to help school districts finance the needed improvements to the school lunch programs.

The grant will allow us to continue our work funding alternative breakfast programs; to date, the Partners for BIC have helped 36 school districts in 18 states feed over 63,000 additional students at school breakfast.

LeBarre said the bond measure was approved because the school district worked with members of the community, discussing the need for resources to help boost their children's long - term success with improved nutrition and the plans for how the funds will be used to accomplish these goals.

We were invited to visit some of our funded districts in Ohio to help celebrate National School Breakfast Week.

Foundation aid funding is typically seen as helping poorer school districts around the state that can not rely as heavily on revenue from property taxes.

Board of Regents Chancellor Betty Rosa said the $ 3.5 million will help the privately run, publicly funded schools spread their successful lessons to district classrooms.

The law, which reduces the amount of state aid received by school districts, was first imposed in the 2010 to help close New York State's multi-billion dollar deficit by taking funding away from schools.

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.

According to Bob Salierno, assistant superintendent of business, an $ 800,000 carry - over from the current budget, plus $ 200,000 from the employee retirement fund helped the school district balance its budget.

Cuomo is proposing a $ 28 million bailout for the Yonkers school district in Westchester County, using money from a new $ 100 million fund to help failing schools in upstate.

In a news conference outside of the Senate chamber, school organizations called for a bump in state aid for districts of $ 2.2 billion in the coming 2016 - 17 budget year, along with a complete elimination of the so - called Gap Elimination Adjustment while also pledging to fully fund Foundation Aid that helps poorer districts.

ALBANY — Governor Andrew Cuomo on Sunday proposed a $ 100 million fund to aid underperforming schools «north of the Bronx,» a large chunk of which would help close a $ 28 million deficit in Yonkers, the state's fifth - largest school district.

As you all know, Member Items and Capital Funds were the only way that a State Legislator used to be able to help those struggling groups such as little leagues, senior centers, schools, and not - for profit organizations in their districts.

An increase in federal funding for certain school districts will help several districts in New York, including one in Orange County near West Point.

The state significantly expanded its testing and funding for installation of private systems only after students from the Hoosick Falls school district held a press conference to ask Gov. Andrew Cuomo for help.

SUPPORT legislation that provides funding for local school districts to invest in security equipment and school resource officers to help secure school infrastructure.

Ulster County Legislator Rich Gerentine said he had worked with Skartados on a number of projects, including getting funds to help the Marlboro school district as it faced a property tax crunch.

Senate Appropriations Chairman Rob Bradley, a Fleming Island Republican, said the Senate has agreed with the House on how to use local property taxes to help fund the 67 school districts.

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Under the terms of federal School Improvement Grants that the DOE was awarded to help these schools succeed, the school district and the union must jointly develop a teacher evaluation system in low - achieving schools that receive the School Improvement Grants that the DOE was awarded to help these schools succeed, the school district and the union must jointly develop a teacher evaluation system in low - achieving schools that receive the school district and the union must jointly develop a teacher evaluation system in low - achieving schools that receive the funds.

YONKERS, N.Y. (AP)-- Gov. Andrew Cuomo is proposing a $ 28 million bailout for the Yonkers school district in Westchester County, using money from a new $ 100 million fund to help failing schools in Upstate New York.

The state would also help local governments and school districts set up their own charitable funds.

The speaker said he wants to create a timetable to «fully» phase in foundation aid, the current funding formula that most helps high - needs school districts such as New York City.

The Education Investment Tax Credit will increase funds in two areas — donations to public schools, school districts and teacher - driven projects; and scholarships to help low - and middle - income students attend religious and other tuition - based schools, according to the NY Archdiocese.

1) Poverty Your father, former Governor Mario Cuomo, backed the creation of the Kiryas Joel school district in 1990, which helped the community tap state funding for special - education students.

«I've helped secure two new public schools for the district (an elementary school on 17th Street and most recently, a new middle school at 75 Morton St.), fought NYU's irresponsible campus expansion plan, established a legal defense fund for rent - stabilized tenants... and brokered a deal to renovate Washington Square Park,» he said.

State education officials in Idaho say they hope their pledge to report on how districts use a proposed $ 20 - million school - improvement fund will help boost total education funding during the next legislative session.

California's school funding model is nearly «impossible to comprehend» and should be made more transparent and more focused on helping districts that serve large numbers of students who are the most expensive to educate, a new report argues.

EW: Schools» dependence on revenue from fund - raisers is increasing; some school districts, including New York City, are seeking more help from the private sector.

The previous year, the Gates Foundation funded a project helping four school districts implement UDL — two in Maryland, one in Massachusetts, and one in Indiana.

Each year, the district pays the museum $ 35,000 per grade to help support the school, three - fourths of which funds museum education staff, who meet regularly with teachers and a curriculum integration specialist to brainstorm opportunities to tie lessons to collections and exhibits.

One sensible move is to embrace full Title I portability, so that states can use federal funds to help low - income students attend the district, charter, or private school of their choice.

School districts simply do not have the expertise to help — or, worse, actively get in the way — and potential sources of technical assistance like the Coalition of Essential Schools are thinly funded and reluctant to intrude.

Allocating funds based on the number and characteristics of students that attend a school, instead of more typical methods of district - based budgeting and funding personnel, has the potential to facilitate public school choice by helping to ensure district schools of choice receive equitable funding.

The Department of Education should continue to provide information and technical assistance to states, school districts, and local schools by funding education experts to help educators improve their overall operations or classroom teaching.

The state would grant $ 500,000 to each district to help fund the schools, with the requirement that the money be divided equally between boys and girls.

Boston public schools that want to join the district's network of «pilot» schools can tap into a new fund to help pay for planning and implementation.

With funding from major foundations and with state and district efforts to train teachers to become content curators, as opposed to content consumers, OER is helping to mobilize educators and librarians to bring quality, curated content to school and college classrooms in ways that students learn best.

Upset by Oregon voters» rejection this spring of a constitutional amendment to ensure stable funding for schools, Dana Coffin, a senior at Cascade Union High School, began talking with her friends about ways they could help their district.

The school district's response was to spend available funds on initiatives that might help in the short run, even if it left the district vulnerable in the long run.

They would still be «in need of improvement,» and the states and districts would still be expected to assign federal funds to help students in these schools succeed.

So far, the vast majority of its funds have served to sustain the status quo, funding the most traditional line items and actually helping schools and districts go about their everyday business.

The cash - strapped state just doesn't have the funds to help school districts cover the cost of a new evaluation plan, as state law requires, Kirst said.

The program is a hybrid: it gives formula grants to states, but to receive their share of funds (fixed amounts calculated by a formula tied to the states» levels of need) states had to submit applications specifying in detail how they would set up competitive grant programs for their districts aimed at helping low - performing, high - poverty schools improve reading instruction in grades K — 3.