Sentences with phrase «into community schools»

The governor called for $ 2 billion more in school funding spread out over two years, and $ 100 million dollars to turn struggling schools into community schools with expanded hours and services.

They also like the inclusion of more money to turn schools in poor areas into community schools with more services for children.

All struggling schools should be transformed into community schools.

The plan involves a $ 100 million investment into the transformation of failing and high needs schools into a community schools model to help students in poverty.

Included in the school aid is $ 175 million in funding to transform failing schools and other high needs schools into community schools.

Ninety - four schools will be turned into community schools over the next year, as part of a long - awaited $ 150 million plan to improve low - performing schools.

On the bus, Kaplan nodded along as Waters spoke; turning Dunbar into a community school certainly seemed like a no - brainer.

Return to your district with on - the - ground and system - level methods to identify, leverage and retool assets into a community schools movement.

Buffalo Public Schools administrators are telling the School Board they want to turn School 66 in North Buffalo into a community school, starting in the fall of 2018.

Find out how St. Jude school liaisons help ease children back into their community schools.

In response to a KERA story this spring focused on the organization's efforts to turn Dade and other campuses into community schools, Nutall sent an indignant email to trustee Miguel Solis, who was quoted in the piece broadly endorsing the community schools concept, and several DISD administrators saying Dade's success had been «hijacked.»

During the webinar, participants heard first - hand from three community school initiative leaders from Chicago, Cincinnati, and Tulsa, about how they, in partnership with their school district and community partners, are integrating expanded learning time into community schools.

The Barringer students, who were initially prevented from leaving school building by staff and police offficers, want their school to be transformed into a community school.

The governor called for $ 2 billion more dollars in school funding spread out over two years, and $ 100 million dollars to turn struggling schools into community schools with expanded hours and services.

During his budget testimony in Albany earlier this month, de Blasio highlighted his administration's attempt at turning around struggling schools: a $ 150 million Renewal Schools program to add academic supports and turn the schools into community schools with social services.

All parties — Brim, Elizalde, and Nutall — were quick to say that the idea of turning Dunbar into a community school isn't dead.

Announcing Monday that the city's worst schools will be turned into community schools, Mayor Bill de Blasio transformed a little - remarked campaign promise into the centerpiece of his administration's vision for improving schools, and a hallmark of his education platform.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has pushed for reform of the state's «failing» schools, outlining the receivership plan in his 2015 combined policy and budget address and in his 2016 address pushing for further funding to turn the schools into community schools.

Community Schools: The budget also includes $ 175 million in funding to transform failing schools and other high needs schools into community schools.

In addition, the deal also provides $ 24.8 billion to aid public schools, including dedicate $ 100 million to transform failing schools into community schools.

We're cutting taxes for the middle class, making record investments in education with $ 1.4 billion in new funding, turning failing schools into community schools, and ending the GEA in New York once and for all because we believe that our tomorrows can be better than our yesterdays.

Of that amount, $ 75 million will be used to convert the state's «struggling» and «persistently struggling» schools into community schools and the remainder will be for other community schools.

CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story incorrectly attributed the following quote: «If we really want to help poor children, we should be taking this $ 150 million that the governor has allocated for this particular tax credit and put that into the community schools pot.»

«If we really want to help poor children, we should be taking this $ 150 million that the governor has allocated for this particular tax credit and put that into the community schools pot,» Ron Deutsch, executive director of the Fiscal Policy Institute, said, referring to schools that provide wrap - around social services.

He's proposing to invest $ 100 million to transform failing schools and «other high needs schools» into community schools, Cuomo announced in a press release.

He reiterated the union's support for alternatives to state receivership for struggling schools, such as transforming them into community schools as New York City is doing as part of its School Renewal Program.

It will have the authority to convert the school into a community school, alter or replace curriculum, increase teacher salaries or extend the school day or school year, among other things.

The de Blasio administration is banking on the community school model to help turn around some of the city's worst schools: the administration is investing $ 150 million to turn 94 struggling schools into community schools.

The district wants to turn all of its schools into community schools — neighborhood hubs that offer expanded learning programs and wellness centers to meet students» mental and physical needs.

We should have started first with those extreme concentrations of poverty, breaking them up into community schools that served their entire needs as human beings, allowing for respectful learning cultures.

Significantly, these school districts and communities are not just organizing individual community schools; they are working to transform every school into a community school, where both the school district and the community share responsibility for ensuring better outcomes for young people.

In 2012, the UFT turned six existing public schools — three elementary schools and three high schools — into community schools («UFT Press Release 2016a).