Sentences with phrase «inequitable funding»

We urge the Governor to sign SB1 and end the era of inequitable funding of our schools.

Particular emphasis was placed on how inequitable funding for public schools can hamper efforts to boost academic outcomes and improve achievement among vulnerable student populations, as well as on exploring what could be done to change it.

Panelists will discuss how inequitable funding for public schools hampers efforts to boost academic outcomes and improve achievement among vulnerable student populations.

«I hope that WFP mounts a vigorous campaign, especially on the issue of education, pointing out that the Cuomo administration has tolerated highly inequitable funding, limited the ability of districts to tax themselves to meet their needs, and shown preference for charter schools — which enroll 3 % of the state's children — over public schools.

I salute GeorgiaCAN's advocacy for funding to be included in the FY2019 budget because we must stop short - changing students in Charter schools with inequitable funding.

The Native Title Report 2001 expresses concern at the administration of the right to negotiate provisions by tribunals and governments; as well as inequitable funding levels within the native title system that disadvantage native title representative bodies.

He also came out against Race to the Top, calling it the program a recipe for inequitable funding among the states — such as Alabama — that lose out.

Tragically, many states and the federal government are going in the other direction, weakening accountability systems that were set up to protect children at risk, enabling a retreat from high standards, and allowing states and districts to maintain inequitable funding formulas.

DFER makes no reference to regressive tax policy and inequitable funding formulas that keep families poor and schools under - resourced — actually poverty keeps families trapped.

A bipartisan committee formed earlier this year issued a report acknowledging the need to change the existing system, and Manar cited Illinois» inequitable funding as evidence that the current mechanism needs to change.

«But the real issue remains inequitable funding and inadequate resources.

Cities that exemplify cooperation are resolving inequitable funding, developing cross-sector strategies for special education, creating common accountability standards across school type, co-training leaders, and partnering on other critical endeavors.

The guidebook also offers an extensive treatment of the sector's most challenging policy issues, including inequitable funding levels, acquiring suitable facilities, and human - capital obstacles such as inflexible rules on certification and collective bargaining.

We forget that these qualities are not implicit in government - run schools... [which have wrestled with challenges like] inequitable funding or the disproportionate assignment of minority students to special education.

As part of a $ 40 million increase in funding he has proposed for K - 12 education in the 1995 - 97 biennium, Governor Schafer would put $ 25.5 million into a supplemental fund earmarked for evening out inequitable funding among school districts.

The reason for this crisis is because of inadequate and inequitable funding at the state level.

Here, the guiding principle is that states hold the ultimate responsibility for operating inequitable funding systems.

Inequitable funding schemes that put high - poverty schools and districts at a disadvantage are compounded in rural contexts by the difficulty... Continued

Justices presented the decision as the Legislature's one last chance to fix inequitable funding, quoting from a school finance bill passed this year, House Bill 2655, that lawmakers had hoped would clear court review.

Inequitable funding puts the state's charter sector at a crossroads — either state and city officials find a solution to the facilities crunch, or the number of new high - performing charter schools will grind to a halt.

Will this policy of inequitable funding based on teachers» salaries change?

«The federal government must take bold action to address inequitable funding in our nation's public schools.»

Tiffany Moyer - Washington (TMW): I've noticed throughout the years how much insufficient and inequitable funding impacts the quality of education.

Fast forward to the present day and aldermen are proposing a moratorium on new charter schools, the school district is closing charter schools without a strong oversight process, and inequitable funding still exists.

This concentration cap is indefensible, is contrary to the stated aims of aiding the most needy students, and prolongs systemic inequitable funding.

Sadly, Connecticut has been defaulting on this duty for decades as short - term fixes and patchwork policies have failed to address the roots of inequitable funding across the state's public schools.

Two new national reports paint a grim picture of unfair and inequitable funding of public education across states, with schools serving the highest proportion of impoverished students most often on the losing end.

Inequitable funding systems in Illinois and other states promote economic segregation by making local areas overly dependent on local funding for schools.

But despite the amazing work these schools are doing, they are faced with inequitable funding and have been for far too long.

«Advance Illinois undertook the analysis necessary to understand how inequitable funding gaps were growing and impacting our most vulnerable students,» said Marin Gjaja, Co-Chair, Advance Illinois.

Districts are still stuck with a 2 % tax cap, which requires a 60 % supermajority to overturn; New York City still has the most charter - friendly legislation in the nation; the state will still have highly inequitable funding.

The Caring Society and AFN alleged AANDC discriminates against 160,000 First Nations children living on reserve and in the Yukon, on the basis of race, by providing insufficient and inequitable funding for child and family services.

«We filed the lawsuit because there is clearly an inequitable funding of education in New York state,» said Iannuzzi.

«We filed the lawsuit because there is clearly an inequitable funding of education in New York State,» said Iannuzzi.

Similarly, many schoolchildren today attend schools that lack sufficient and equitable funding in part because of Rodriguez, which foreclosed the federal judicial accountability that could require states to remedy their inequitable funding disparities.

Charter schools, whose leaders increasingly complain of inequitable funding, on average get nearly $ 2,000 less per student than regular public schools, a detailed analysis of 16 states and the District of Columbia has found.

Burris also sets up a false choice suggesting that advocates of standards are somehow ignoring, «The problems of racially isolated schools, inequitable funding, and insufficient academic and socio - emotional resources in high poverty schools.»

And these schools, like all of our state's charter schools, know all - too - well the challenges associated with unfair and inequitable funding.

Calling on Albany to end the inequitable funding of their children, charter school parents, educators and students were joined by Assemblyman Marcos A. Crespo (D - Bronx) and Assemblyman Michael Blake (D - Bronx) for a day of action and voter registration event at Harriet Tubman Charter School in the Bronx.

Calling on state lawmakers to end the inequitable funding of their children, charter schools from across Rochester came together today for a day of action and voter registration event at Rochester Academy Charter School.

No, we are not looking for special deals that rescue us while leaving a broken system of inequitable funding and prejudicial attitudes intact.

ROCHESTER, NY — Calling on state lawmakers to end the inequitable funding of their children, charter schools from across Rochester came together today for a day of action and voter registration event at Rochester Academy Charter School.

Because of inequitable funding, students in low - income and majority African American and Latino districts are too often faced with larger class sizes, fewer special classes like art and music, outdated textbooks and increased student activity fees, when they need the opposite.

The segregated state of our schools helps maintain the inequitable funding that determines families» educational options.

We can't ignore the impact of poverty, racially and socioeconomically segregated schooling, and inequitable funding.