Sentences with phrase «in public school funding»

Teachers continue to demand a substantial increase in public school funding so schools can buy new textbooks and technology and increase pay for support staff positions.

Nor can the gains in education be easily attributed to changes in public school funding.

In reality, however, competition is playing a growing role in public school funding.

And he says the protests have been a long time in coming, with states seeing massive reductions in public school funding alongside the growth of controversial private school voucher programs.

He also opposed any increase in funding for private voucher schools, which state law now ties to an increase in public school funding.

Study details a persistent resource gap in public school funding between NC's highest & lowest - wealth counties.

A new study from the Public School Forum of North Carolina confirms a large and growing gap in public school funding between the wealthiest and the poorest counties.

The group's poll surveyed 300 voters in New York, finding 61 percent of voters backed a more equitable balance in public school funding for rich and poor communities.

Last year's rankings are in parentheses following each program name; however, changes may be just as much due to changes in public school funding as they are program funding.

DALLAS — Texas» lieutenant governor said Friday that the state is prepared to forfeit billions of federal dollars in public school funding in defiance of an Obama administration directive requiring schools to allow transgender students to use bathrooms and locker rooms consistent with their chosen gender identity.

In PA we only need to look to 2011 to see how anti-public education lawmakers can create and exploit budget deficits to justify massive cuts in public school funding.

Nixon, a 51 - year - old Manhattan mother of three, is a longtime advocate for fairness in public school funding and fervent supporter of Democratic New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, who has frequently clashed with Cuomo on a range of issues.

Nixon, who has been involved in public school funding activism for 16 years, slammed Cuomo for not providing enough state aid to the Buffalo city schools.

The new policy memo found expanding the statewide Wisconsin Parental Choice Program (WPCP) could worsen disparities in public school funding.

It's a 100 percent solution to the most pressing problems in public school funding — and it's called Weighted Student Funding.

In response, KIPP laid out plans to grow to 42 schools by 2020 — a formidable target under any circumstances, and made all the more challenging by the contraction in public school funding.

A new study from the Public School Forum of North Carolina shows a large and growing gap in public school funding between the wealthiest and poorest counties.

RALEIGH, NC (April 6, 2016)-- A study released today by the Public School Forum of North Carolina details a persistent resource gap in public school funding between the highest and lowest - wealth counties in the state.

But this year, Walker has won support from some of his previous foes, including state Superintendent Tony Evers and groups representing public schools, by proposing a big increase in public school funding.

«The tax cap and tax freeze directly impair... local control, worsening New York's already gross — and growing — inequality in public school funding,» Korn said.

The memo found if the program expands, it could shift millions of dollars in public school funding to the WPCP and private schools.

Hired and managed the art teachers that provided after school art classes after arts funding was cut in the public schools

The researchers also found that respondents were more likely to support an increase in public school funding as an abstract idea than they were to support an increase in public school funding through taxes, specifically.

Dr. Glass's frustration with Colorado's current legislative process for allocating ~ $ 1 Billion in Public School Funding — comes across as crystal clear as his personal name sake.

Just a week after a series of bills began circulating to limit local school board control of school referenda, Wisconsin voters went to the polls to pass about $ 700 million in public school funding.

Indeed, the May convergence in Raleigh may be one of the largest educator rallies in North Carolina in some years, some say, and it comes in a year when teachers in many GOP - controlled states have been organizing for, among other things, better pay, better pensions and an overall increase in public school funding.

In the past two state budgets WEAC was a key part of the statewide coalition that fought off cuts and won modest increases in public school funding.

RALEIGH, NC (March 28, 2017)-- A study released today by the Public School Forum of North Carolina spotlights a stark and growing gap in public school funding between the highest and lowest - wealth counties in the state.

Our 2018 edition confirms what we've seen develop over these last two decades: a chronic and growing gap in public school funding between the highest and lowest - wealth counties in the state.

An annual study of local school finance in North Carolina by the Public School Forum of North Carolina details a large and persistent resource gap in public school funding between the highest and lowest wealth counties in the state.

RALEIGH, NC (January 9, 2018)-- A new study released today by the Public School Forum of North Carolina confirms a chronic and growing gap in public school funding between the highest and lowest - wealth counties in the state.

HB 21 is a comprehensive education bill providing for an additional $ 530 million in public school funding, charter school facility funding and an Education Savings Account program for children with special needs.

A study released today by the Public School Forum of North Carolina spotlights a stark and growing gap in public school funding between the highest and lowest - wealth counties in the state.