Sentences with phrase «how school dollars»

California changed how school dollars would be spent first, and then directed the state's Board of Education to devise rules for how spending would be monitored, starting in 2014 - 15.

Not exact matches

Which survivors of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting should be considered victims of traumatic — but non-physical — injury could prove vexing for a committee deciding how to split millions of dollars donated for victims.

Why can't we all just mind our own business when it comes to peoples bedrooms and wedding albums, neither side get's to preach in schools, though I understand how you would think of it as the atheist getting his way by just not having you preach your God to his children in a publicly funded school, but he's not sending an atheist spokesman to influence your children, he just doesn't feel it's right to allow the religious spokesman into the schools to influence any children on his tax dollar.

Maybe «Wilma» and others like her, who are the real heroes in the fight for better school food, who do their work day in and day out without benefit of media adulation or hundreds of throusands of outside dollars to support their programs, might find comfort and inspiration in making their own Healthy School Food Continuum and reminding themselves of just how far they have come against overwhelmingschool food, who do their work day in and day out without benefit of media adulation or hundreds of throusands of outside dollars to support their programs, might find comfort and inspiration in making their own Healthy School Food Continuum and reminding themselves of just how far they have come against overwhelmingSchool Food Continuum and reminding themselves of just how far they have come against overwhelming odds.

In Buffalo, public school officials led invited guests on a tour of a handful of schools, hoping to show them how the dollars secured from their respective governments are impacting the students.

«Henderson later described consulting as «the most improbable business on earth»: «Can you think of anything less improbable [sic] than taking the world's most successful firms, leaders in their businesses, and hiring people just fresh out of school and telling them how to run their businesses and they are willing to pay millions of dollars for this advice?»

Let me give you an example of how merging school districts in one Erie County town could result in millions of dollars in savings without the closing of one school or the layoff of a single teacher, teacher's aide, janitor or other direct educator to children.

The $ 213,000 ad campaign, which will run through the end of May, takes a bit of a satirical approach, staging a school «bake sale» at which participants are trying to sell 1.3 billion cupcakes (presumably at $ 1 a piece) «because that's how many dollars Albany's cut from education this year alone.»

«It's forced school districts and others to discipline how they're spending taxpayer dollars.»

The Hempstead school board Monday night voted to seek the state comptroller's help in how to pay down a multimillion - dollar budget deficit, about $ 2 million of which officials said is tied to increased enrollment in local charter schools.

The Republican leader sent a letter to de Blasio on Monday, claiming the city has failed to meet a state requirement by filling out a form that shows, building by building, how schools spend local, state and federal tax dollars.

The Hempstead school board voted to seek the state comptroller's help in how to pay down a multimillion - dollar budget deficit, about $ 2 million of which officials said is tied to increased enrollment in local charter schools.

He did not mention how hard our parochial schools have been hit nor did he relish in the MTA Payroll tax that will save non-public schools 8 million dollars next year.

Topics in the Q&A included the source of money for the City's planned pre-K advertising campaign, the City's target number of pre-K applicants, whether Speaker Silver thinks the proposed income tax surcharge should be pursued next year, how the pre-K selection process will work, how the City will cover the approximately $ 40 million annual gap between the estimated cost of pre-K and the amount provided in the state budget, when parents will learn whether their pre-K application has been accepted, how the City will collect data and measure success of the pre-K program, whether the existing pre-K application process will be changed, how the City will use money from the anticipated school bond issue, the mayor's reaction to a 2nd Circuit ruling that City may bar religious groups from renting after - hours space in public schools, the status on a proposed restaurant in Union Square, a tax break included in the state budget that provides millions of dollars to a Bronx condominium project, the «shop & frisk» meeting today between the Rev. Al Sharpton and Police Commissioner Bratton and a pending HPD case against a Brooklyn landlord.

So the million dollar question is: how to wear a fanny pack and look modern without bringing back unwanted memories of elementary school?

And they must learn how to best communicate these tradeoffs to the community, making clear that schools can't do everything with the dollars at hand.

So how can school districts dramatically increase productivity and stretch the school dollar?

In Durham, schools receive updates on their energy consumption during the year, reports on how the level compares with the previous year, and what the energy consumption equates to in dollars.

How do schools with limited technology and limited technology dollars accomplish the same goals of effective formative assessment?

While that presents plenty of hardships, it also offers local officials a golden opportunity to rethink the way we run schools and to boost productivity and efficiency, a point I make in my new policy brief, «How School Districts Can Stretch the School Dollar.»

Portability would make significant changes to how federal dollars allocated at the state level flow across and within school districts, private schooling aside.

If you add a cap, say the $ 20 billion figure that President Trump has said he wants to devote to school choice, then you have to figure out how to allocate the available dollars under that cap to different states, and you have to figure out a way to do it that is predictable from one year to the next, such that there aren't huge fluctuations that would cause the programs to ebb and flow dramatically.

How do schools seem to sponge up every last dollar?

How in the world do you spend billions and billions of dollars and get no results — especially after Secretary Duncan promised it would turn around 5,000 failing schools and hailed it as the biggest bet of his tenure?

I recently submitted public comments on the proposed SNS regulation, which emphasized the importance of considering how proposed changes would affect spending decisions and, ultimately, students, as opposed to simply calculating how many dollars would be transferred from one school to another.

Our center has taken the first systematic look at what implementing personalized learning schools costs, how school leaders are spending their funds, and what it might take to make personalized learning financially sustainable with public dollars.

It's a useful question for policymakers who must decide how to allocate dollars for highways, health care, and schooling, but for those of us working in the K - 12 arena, the more relevant question is: How do we most wisely spend the dollars we hahow to allocate dollars for highways, health care, and schooling, but for those of us working in the K - 12 arena, the more relevant question is: How do we most wisely spend the dollars we haHow do we most wisely spend the dollars we have?

To tell you how life can be for someone who's poor and black or poor and Latino — everyone wants to hear that — but to tell a story about how all of a sudden that person went to one of the oldest, most prestigious boarding schools in the country with a multimillion dollar endowment, then went to Harvard Law after Harvard undergraduate?

Most of the crucial decisions about how U.S. schools run and who teaches what to whom in which classrooms are still made in 14,000 semi-autonomous school districts, nearly all of them run by locally elected school boards, often with campaign dollars supplied by those with whom they negotiate collectively, and managed by professional superintendents, trained in colleges of education and socialized over the years into the prevailing culture of public education.

Citing a new report from the Government Accountability Office, Sens. Tom Harkin, D - Iowa, and Arlen Specter, R - Pa., say they will be watching closely to make sure the Department of Education is monitoring how states spend the school improvement dollars available under the No Child Left Behind Act.

«I can tell you this — if you gave the American people a choice today between using federal dollars to renovate and build new public schools or using public tax dollars to pay for private school vouchers, there would be no question how the American people would vote,» asserted U.S. Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley in a speech made when the report was released.

Parker Baxter, scholar in residence at the University of Colorado Denver School of Public Affairs, is co-author, with Todd Ely and Paul Teske, of «A Bigger Slice of the Money Pie,» on how charter schools in Colorado and Florida have gained a larger share of local tax dollars.

Moreover, the federal share of the school dollar — a dime — isn't big enough to yield much leverage over how the system works.

How many total dollars these suits have contributed to the rapid increase in education spending is unknown, but we do know that, since 1989, adequacy lawsuits have been launched in more than 30 states, and a vast majority of them have resulted in a court award to plaintiffs mandating more money for schools.

A crowd of protesters gathered on the sidewalk outside a government building in Lower Manhattan last June, collectively demanding that the city and state reach an agreement on how to pump billions of new dollars into New York City schools - and settle its contentious, decade - long school adequacy lawsuit.

In her new book, Follow the Money: How Foundation Dollars Change Public School Politics, Sarah Reckhow picks up where I left off.

Pell Grants for Kids would provide more federal dollars for schools while also encouraging more local control - I mean more control by parents and teachers - over how that money is spent.

The current funding process dictates how federal dollars are to be spent and imposes heavy regulations on local schools.

Certification requirements also dictate how states will appropriate millions of tax dollars to universities and colleges, and they determine the structure of incentive programs so critical to school districts in times of teacher shortages.

How can it be that we pile dollars upon dollars and launch reform after reform yet have so little impact on student learning in our public schools?

When your school's equipment comes up for replacement, think about how you can use those dollars to expand your capabilities, and to keep current with modern tech tools.

In contrast to past practice where school districts dolled out their local capital dollars based on school facility needs, the new sharing requirement under HB 7069 calculates how much is owed to charters on a per - student basis.

The district made the change because it anticipated a significant drop in federal funding during the recession, and needed to prioritize how it spent precious federal dollars on schools with higher concentrations of low - income students.

Analyzing how districts distributed their state allocations across schools under California's landmark 2013 weighted student funding overhaul, districts varied enormously on whether they distributed more or fewer of the new and newly flexible dollars to the highest - needs schools.

We compared how districts fund schools that are eligible to receive federal Title I dollars with other schools in their grade span — elementary, middle, or high school grades — and found vast disparities throughout the country in how districts spend state and local dollars on Title I schools.

While neither of those things will actually happen, there is increasing danger of a compromise whereby the federal government continues to disburse billions of dollars to local schools but plays no meaningful role in determining how — or how well — that money is spent.

In compiling this report, the authors conducted extensive research — including interviews with state and district officials, along with an examination of curricula price lists — which provides a detailed picture of how public schools could increase the return on investment, or ROI, of taxpayer dollars.

The final version was published in «Stretching the School Dollar: How Schools and Districts Can Save Money While Serving Students Best,» edited by F. Hess and E. Osberg (Harvard Education Press, 2010).

These schools are sharing $ 5 billion in federal tax dollars in a massive, three - year rescue effort, but no one nationally is tracking how the money is spent and no one can say whether the influx of cash will end up helping kids.

Breaking Down School Budgets: Following the Dollars into the Classroom This analysis by Marguerite Roza published by Education Next in summer 2009 examines ways in which per - pupil spending in high schools varies by subject and course level, and demonstrates how isolating spending on discrete services can 1) identify the relationships...