Sentences with phrase «hurts poorer school districts»

Ritz says legislation focused on who does what on the board, as well as the funding formula that hurts poorer school districts, pushed her to thinking about a gubernatorial run.

The paper aims to debunk concerns over the cap hurting poorer school districts, the criticism that a cap would allow for 2 percent annual tax increases and that the teacher - union supported circuit - breaker solution.

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Take that out of the proposed $ 805 million in school spending for this year and it leaves only $ 105 million which will hurt all of the school districts and be particularly devastating to those in poorer areas that desperately need funds.

The latest entrant last week was the NAACP: A letter from the group, distributed by NYSUT, argued the cap was hurting poor and minority school districts by widening the state's achievement gap.

His cuts have hurt middle - class and poor schools across the state, but despite the crisis, the Philadelphia school district has attracted a new generation of middle - class families eschewing the suburbs for city life — a diverse constituency that state politicians will find it far more difficult to ignore, at least in the long term.

At a time when state budget cuts are currently hurting students and teachers at neighborhood public schools, CEA President Sheila Cohen said it would have been unconscionable for the state «to divert precious education funds to expand charter schools at the expense of traditional public schools and to the detriment of all students, but especially minority students in the state's poorest school districts.»