Sentences with phrase «inadequate state funding for public schools»

In any place, including Connecticut, inadequate state funding for public schools makes it virtually impossible to adequately respond to the growing challenges associated with the factors the led to this lack of educational achievement.

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This is the proposal aggressively pushed by a governor who is billions of dollars behind the state's constitutional obligation to fund public schools equitably, who continues to use accounting tricks to cheat school districts out of millions of dollars owed under the already inadequate funding in the state budget, who has restricted districts from increasing revenue locally without a super-majority, and then has the nerve to blame strangled school districts for not raising test scores.

Most Californians say state funding for their local public schools is inadequate, and most favor ballot proposals likely to increase it, according to PPIC's 12th annual survey on Californians and education.