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.
Not exact matches
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.
Andrea Vecchio, an East Islip taxpayer activist, said she has a solution to
help poorer districts: spread the wealth from commercial properties by equally distributing those tax revenues to all
school districts.
Hawkins» platform includes a call for a $ 15 hourly minimum wage rate, a ban on hydrofracking, using government money to hire unemployed workers for public projects, a single - payer healthcare program, rejecting the Common Core teaching standards (and the federal money that came with them), refiguring
school aid to give more
help to
poorer districts and raising taxes on the richest New Yorkers.
At the same time, public
schools in
poorer districts are being asked to do more and more to
help address the broader social and economic problems manifesting themselves among
school populations.
New York state Gov. Andrew Cuomo said there's a need to tackle funding inequities in
poorer school districts in his State of the State Address earlier this month, and Syracuse City School District administrators said they agree: The local district needs more
school districts in his State of the State Address earlier this month, and Syracuse City
School District administrators said they agree: The local district needs more
School District administrators said they agree: The local district needs mo
District administrators said they agree: The local
district needs mo
district needs more
help.
While a conscientious individual like him seems inherently disdainful of commercial onslaught, he also comes across rather sympathetic to a
poor Florida
school district that is desperate for budget
help but limited in the advertisement they can purchase.
They include Jim Barksdale, the former chief operating officer of Netscape, who gave $ 100 million to establish an institute to improve reading instruction in Mississippi; Eli Broad, the home builder and retirement investment titan, whose foundation works on a range of management, governance, and leadership issues; Michael Dell, the founder of Dell Computers, whose family foundation is valued at $ 1.2 billion and is a major supporter of a program that boosts college going among students of potential but middling accomplishment; financier and buyout specialist Theodore J. Forstmann, who gave $ 50 million of his own money to
help poor kids attend private
schools; David Packard, a former classics professor who also is a scion of one of the founders of Hewlett - Packard and has given $ 75 million to
help California
school districts improve reading instruction; and the Walton Family Foundation, which benefits from the fortune of the founder of Wal - Mart, and which is the nation's largest supporter of charter
schools and private
school scholarships (see «A Tribute to John Walton,»).
Part of a broader assessment - and - accountability plan, the proposal would
help poor schools and save money for
districts, state leaders say.
Taking a new tack toward resolving Michigan's long - running dispute over
school - finance equity, Gov. John M. Engler has announced a plan to
help close the gap between rich and
poor districts by making better - off systems bear more of the burden of
school - employee retirement costs.
Indeed, the most important (and uncertain) premise of Reading First was that it could catalyze and support meaningful change in the SEAs — could
help them build agile expert systems that gave high - quality support to
schools and
districts — and thereby improve reading achievement among the
poor, not just in isolated
schools and
districts as in the past but across entire states.
But to really understand the disparities in how
schools help teachers learn to integrate classroom technology, it
helps to compare a
district like South Fayette, where 80 percent of students are white and just 13 percent are
poor, to a
district like nearby Sto - Rox, which is 33 percent white and 77 percent
poor.
She also stressed, as did many other witnesses, that
school districts with effective mentoring and evaluation programs have successfully identified and
helped poor - performing teachers.
Like equalization formulas in other states, the one in Kansas was designed to
help poor, primarily urban
districts, not the sprawling, land - rich agricultural areas of the state, like Beloit, where Mr. Bottom serves as superintendent of
schools.
The plans of both candidates offer a smorgasbord of remedies to close the achievement gap between
poor and affluent
school districts, including approaches to
help schools close the digital divide.
Many of these revisions will
help close the equity gap of over $ 1,000 per student between the wealthiest and
poorest school districts that is inherent in Texas's continuing over-reliance on disparate property tax values across the state, as noted in the chart below.
The only light at the end of the tunnel is the fact that the MassInsight contract ends in just over four months, but watch for Pryor to try and sneak through a contract extension despite Malloy's ongoing promise that he is actually committed to
helping Connecticut's thirty
poorest school districts.
Gone were the three retired superintendents, all with extensive experience
helping larger,
poorer school districts.
Over at the State Department of Education, Stefan Pryor got rid of Connecticut's experienced Leaders in Residence and the team of experts who were dedicated to
helping Connecticut's Priority
School Districts improve educational opportunities in the state's poorest d
Districts improve educational opportunities in the state's
poorest districtsdistricts.
This is particularly true in stressed
poorer districts and
schools, the
schools,
districts, and students that education reform was designed to
help.
If anything, the
District's flourishing charter movement will
help Ms. Rhee by offering choice and competition while refuting some of the excuses used to justify the
poor performance of urban
schools.
Instead of going back to an accountability approach that was supposedly «demoralizing» teachers and
school leaders charged with
helping poor and minority kids succeed, Petrilli and others prefer the new approaches, which attempt to focus on the growth
schools and
districts make in
helping our most - vulnerable.
The Obama Administration's decision to allow states to implement supposedly «ambitious» yet «achievable» proficiency targets — usually with lower proficiency rates for
poor and minority kids than for middle - class and white counterparts — allow
districts and
schools to do little to
help those kids succeed.
It is incredibly telling that Stefan Pryor, the co-founder of Achievement First, couldn't find anyone more capable of managing the Malloy administration's ongoing effort to «
help» the state's thirty
poorest school districts than someone whose only experience was at Achievement First, Inc..
As I have noted, stronger standards alone aren't the only reason why student achievement has improved within this period; at the same time, the higher expectations for student success fostered by the standards (along with the accountability measures put in place by the No Child Left Behind Act, the expansion of
school choice, reform efforts by
districts such as New York City, and efforts by organizations such as the College Board and the National Science and Math Initiative to get more
poor and minority students to take Advanced Placement and other college prep courses), has
helped more students achieve success.
The Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System is being dropped by half of Massachusetts
school districts in favour of a new test (PARCC) which the Commissioner of the state's Department of Elementary and Secondary Education said would «
help the state reduce the stubborn achievement gaps between rich and
poor, white and minority, by giving teachers better information about which kids need extra support».
As Dropout Nation has reported over the past year, the Obama waiver gambit is already allowing 37 states and the
District of Columbia to ignore
poor and minority kids, rendering them invisible altogether, through such subterfuges as lumping all of subgroups into a so - called super subgroup category that obscures data on the performance of
districts and
schools in
helping each and all kids.
It's a debate that includes disputes over whether charter
schools — untied to neighborhood boundaries — should be leveraged to
help integrate public
schools racially and socioeconomically, whether
poor students benefit more from diverse classrooms, and whether charters are indeed less integrated than their
district school counterparts.
According to a published report in the Connecticut Post, the «Education Reform Plan» that Governor Malloy will announce later this week will include Commissioner of Education Stephan Pryor's plan to give charter
schools more public funds including money that will be shifted from
helping Connecticut's
poorest urban
districts.
Since
school districts are dependent primarily on local property taxes and often have a depressed economic base, this investment
helped the Institute demonstrate how important it is for the legislature to increase funding to
poor, rural
schools in the state.
Title 1 is a federal grant that provides state governments with extra funds to give to local
school districts to
help pay for programs targeted at
helping poor children do better in
school.
Governor Malloy and Commissioner of Education Stephan Pryor have announced a plan to give charter
schools more public funds including money that will be shifted from
helping Connecticut's
poorest urban
districts.
Also, 15 of our
poorest public
school districts will lose $ 3.6 million slated to extend the
school day and offer summer academic programs and lose $ 1.6 million to
help public
schools transport students.
The four Leaders in Residence and the three retired superintendents of
schools, all of whom at had been successfully working with these priority
school districts to enhance their local education programs were gone and Pryor replaced them with a $ 1 million contract with a well - connected, out - of - state company called MassInsight that proceeded to send in a series of inexperienced consultants to
help Connecticut's
poorest school districts.
Then there's question four: How can a state
help poor and minority kids get high - quality education when the elimination of AYP and subgroup accountability as the levers for holding
districts and
schools responsible have been replaced with new systems that render those kids invisible?
Until now, the Malloy administration's primary mechanism to try and force parents to have their children participate in the SBAC / NEW SAT testing was to mislead and lie to parents about their rights, while at the same time, threatening that the state would withhold Title 1 federal funding that is supposed to be used to
help poor children if a
school district's opt out rate was greater than 5 percent.
It has been clear long ago that the Obama waiver gambit allows states to ignore
poor and minority kids, rendering them invisible altogether, through such subterfuges as lumping all of subgroups into a so - called super subgroup category that obscures data on the performance of
districts and
schools in
helping each and all kids.
At issue is how thousands of
school districts prove that they are using $ 15 billion in federal Title I dollars to provide extra
help for
poor children in tens of thousands of
schools nationwide.
Federal law says that
school districts must spend the money in a way that provides extra
help to
poor children — that it not be used to provide basic educational services — and requires that Title I
schools have comparable services to those in wealthier
schools in the same
district.
The Trump Administration's proposed $ 250 million increase in funding for the federal Charter
School Fund (as well as another $ 1 billion in Title I funds devoted to expanding intra-district choice for low - income children) is offset by the elimination of $ 2.2 billion in funding for Americorps, the program that
helps districts provide
poor and minority children with Teach for America recruits proven to improve their academic achievement.
They go to professional development for
school librarians, and to
help provide equity between
poor and rich
districts» book budgets.