Sentences with phrase «in needy schools»

Throughout the reauthorization process, NEA's focus has been threefold: decouple standardized testing from high - stakes decisions, create an «opportunity dashboard» to help close opportunity gaps in needy schools and elevate the voices of educators in the policymaking process.

Philadelphia, Guilford County, N.C., and four small districts in northern New Mexico have scooped up the last of the $ 42 million in federal grant money on offer this fall for rewarding teachers and principals who get higher student test scores in needy schools.

Cuomo also proposed a $ 15 million increase in state spending for pre-kindergarten programs, particularly in the neediest school districts.

«The court said the state is not meeting its constitutional obligation on funding in needy school districts,» Mulgrew said.

Now in its third year of offering bonuses to experienced teachers to transfer to struggling schools, the Hamilton County (Tennessee) school district, which includes urban Chattanooga, has seen student scores soar in their neediest schools.

But while many in the cash - strapped state cheered the $ 12.5 million for raising reading achievement in the neediest schools, others were scrambling to salvage the state's existing literacy initiative after a federal panel suggested it is not aligned with current research in the...

NYC Program Fast - Tracks Teachers to Needy Schools Facing teacher shortages, especially dire shortages in its neediest schools, the NYC Board of Education is offering mid-career professionals and recent college graduates a six - week summer teacher - training program.

Project Tutor was created to prepare community volunteers to work in the neediest schools and support reading and math instruction.

Aiming to fill future vacancies left by the expected retirements of thousands of teachers in the next few years, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed legislation following this year's legislative session that seeks to remove barriers that discourage out - of - state teachers from working in the state and provides incentives to encourage skilled teachers to work in the neediest schools.

«It was about changing the culture in our neediest schools towards one of excellence, and demonstrating, in a time of great financial stress in our state, that we can do something really dramatic and bold in our most difficult schools,» Raymond said.

While some of these proposals offer higher compensation or other financial incentives for educators to work in the neediest schools, others reward high - level performance focused on improved student achievement and other identified criteria.

Not only does this seriously disrupt children's lives, but it also undermines communities and fatally weakens the effort to recruit and keep high - quality teachers in our neediest schools.

Right now, schools with the highest needs students are being targeted for closure or other damaging prescriptions that disrupt children's lives and undermine any effort to recruit and keep high - quality teachers in our neediest schools.

While one in five of the state's teachers had become a National Board Certified Teacher (NBCT), policymakers no longer showed much interest in cultivating their leadership potential or encouraging them to teach in the neediest schools (Koppich, Humphrey, & Hough, 2007).

His new attacks on public education include taking $ 17.1 million out of traditional public schools, which will curtail extended day and summer programs in needy school districts, make universal preschool impossible, not fund priority districts as promised and at less than last year, and limit aid for transportation of students.

«Connecticut's May 2012 education reform law provides for state intervention to implement «turnaround plans» in the neediest schools.

While some of her loans were forgiven because she chose to work in a needy school, in a needy subject area, she still wishes she could do it over.

Not exact matches

Today, Milton Hershey School, the institution he and his wife founded, nurtures more than 2,000 financially needy boys and girls in grades K - 12.

In my dealings at colleges and high schools, the mellennials are far more self absorbed and needy as past generations.

Muslims need to teach kids in schools love humanity and respect others, not if you are non muslim you are devil, you don't have to repeat it on tv or radio channels which religion is peacful, people are not dum they know all religions are for peace, but where is the peace in practically, showing hatred or having thoughts of islamization the world, stop evil thinking of conversion of anyone to islam that is not peaceful religion or thoughts.help the poor and needy, give equal respect to male and female respect democracy and more important develop tolerence.intolerence is the basic evil of human race.

School officials, especially in big cities, were concerned about how the changes might affect their ability to feed needy students.

The entitlement and mandatory programs covered in the analysis are Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, unemployment insurance, SNAP (formerly known as the Food Stamp Program), SSI, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), the school lunch program, the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), the Earned Income Tax Credit, and the refundable component of the Child Tax Credit.

The findings led Sullivan to conclude in his report that the National School Lunch Program, meant to provide basic nutrition to needy students, was «ripe for fraud and abuse» because of layers of bureaucracy, incentives for high enrollment, and minimal checks and balances.

In particular, there are three aspects of the House bill that ought to especially worry parents, health advocates and those who are concerned about fighting childhood hunger: the bill takes a decidedly unscientific approach to setting school nutrition standards, it would most certainly re-open the school junk food floodgates, and it will drop millions of needy kids from a much - lauded program that currently offers them free school meals.

CEO allows schools to serve free breakfast and free lunch to all students when 40 percent or more of students are certified for free meals without a paper application, which includes students who are directly certified (through data matching) for free meals because they live in households that participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), or the Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations (FDPIR), as well as children who are automatically eligible for free school meals because of their status in foster care or Head Start, homeless, or migrant.

The Works Progress Administration, a New Deal program, was established in 1935 and took over school lunches as means of employing women from needy households.

«In Arlington Heights, we're not seeing a lot of needy kids, but these families are very busy,» said Coletta Hines - Newell, the director of food services for Arlington Heights Elementary School District 25, where officials kicked the pilot breakfast program last week.

And I've promised to get back to two readers on a really big question: why we do even have a national school lunch program in the first place, and / or why do we care if those who aren't financially needy participate in it?

In other words, the neediest schools are forced to comply with these guidelines in order to be reimbursed for providing meals to their studentIn other words, the neediest schools are forced to comply with these guidelines in order to be reimbursed for providing meals to their studentin order to be reimbursed for providing meals to their students.

Burke suggested an essay contest in Chicago schools, a lecture series or some kind of banquet for the needy in honor of the milestone.

The program subsidizes lunch and breakfast for nearly 32 million needy kids in most public schools and many private ones, and those schools must follow guidelines on what they serve.

lExpand an after - school supper program for the needy - now offered in the District, Maryland and 12 other states - to all states.

For some of these needy children, meals eaten at the school — lunch, breakfast, or snacks in the after - school cooking classes — will be the only meals of the day.

Meals for Needy money is available to San Francisco, but the school district can elect to keep that money for other programs and not provide it to food service... BUSD elects to give that money to their food service department in support of healthy food.

But that doesn't ensure every needy school - age child in the city gets the proper nutrition, officials add.

The only tiny little point I would correct is that Meals for Needy Pupils money is NOT available to San Francisco, or to about 2/3 of the other school districts in California.

When school is in session, needy families know their kids can eat at least one nutritious meal each day at little or no cost.

Identified students include those who qualify for free meals because they live in households that participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), or Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations (FDPIR), as well as children who are certified for free school meals without submitting a school meal application because of their status as being in foster care, enrolled in Head Start, homeless, runaway, or migrant students.

Cuomo's plan would spend $ 1.5 billion over five years, with $ 100 million in the first year targeting needy school districts.

To a large extent, state fiscal policies have caused great pressure on property taxes in needy cities, counties and school districts, including decisions: to reduce revenue sharing; to decrease the share of local school budgets covered by state aid, to divide the non-federal share of Medicaid costs without considering ability to pay, and to allocate STAR benefits... (read more)

She also requested that the First Lady to use her influence to help establish more Vocational schools and also achieve scholarships for needy students in the region.

More than half the new funding would go toward meeting a nearly decade - old court order that found the state has traditionally underfunded its schools in needy districts.

De Blasio has expanded wraparound services citywide and it has produced results, but the GOP and IDC are still withholding billions in funding for needy schools.

«NYSUT believes strongly that the tax cap undemocratically deprives taxpayers of their constitutional right to determine local school funding levels, while exacerbating existing funding inequities that harm the state's neediest and most vulnerable students,» the union said in a statement.

Easton, with AQE, says the governor's budget proposal to freeze property taxes and phase out a utility tax, worth a combined $ 500 million, could be scrapped in order to provide more money for needy school districts.

Indeed, the governor — in both his annual State of the State speech and a policy book released later in the day — sounded warnings about the importance of lifting the neediest New Yorkers out of poverty through comprehensive education programs that address academics while also battling hunger, improving mental health and providing after - school care.

The New York City school system, which has two - thirds of the state's needy children and 40 percent of its teachers, could receive $ 300 million from the Race to the Top program, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said in a press conference.

The letter hits the state for not meeting a court order to provide needy schools that were traditionally underfunded billions of dollars more in aid, an obligation Cuomo has repeatedly argued has been met.

And NYCAN Executive Director Christina Grant said, «When we disproportionately place our lowest - performing teachers in front of our neediest students, we are closing the escape hatch that great schools have long provided from poverty and the status quo.

«Thanks to the efforts of Assembly Speaker Carl E. Heastie (a Bronx Democrat) and Gov. Andrew Cuomo, schools in many of our neediest areas will receive an increase in foundation aid,» Mulgrew said.