Sentences with phrase «into needy schools»
Microsoft Corp., which faces scores of private lawsuits for allegedly using its monopoly position to overcharge computer buyers for its software products, announced a sweeping settlement plan last week that would include the launch of a $ 1 billion company - sponsored program to pour technology into needy schools.
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The proper focus for state policy is to get exceptionally needy toddlers and three - and four - year - olds into intensive preschool sequences that impart the knowledge and skills they will need to thrive in primary school.
States can also transfer a portion of their Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) funds into the CCDF and use it for after - school and summer programs.
It's emotionally wringing, as a few of these needy - earnest - capable kids with anxious, hopeful parents make it through the lottery into high - performance charter schools while others — far too many others — do not.
(It should be tightly targeted on school readiness for very needy kids — and the feds should start by turning Head Start into the education program that it has never been.)
Schools have the potential to serve as a corrective, a way to bring students of different socioeconomic backgrounds together and to bring resources and opportunity into the lives of needy kids.
In this forum, Education Next asks Julie Mikuta and Arthur Wise whether Teach For America is a valuable strategy for recruiting the best and brightest into education and energizing school improvement, or a distraction and a device for sending ill - prepared neophytes to serve some of the nation's neediest students.
Instead of trips to the beach or a day at the ballpark, hundreds of teachers went to «summer school» to dive into professional development and to learn from their peers about what's working — and what's not — to improve education for needy students at priority schools.
Still, despite the frustrations, school leaders and advocates alike gave nearly universal praise to the first year of the shift for bringing educators closer to their communities and providing insight into what the state's neediest students require.
Among other things, the new legislation sets an adequacy target for each school district, and the new distribution model takes into account local resources and prioritizes funding for the state's neediest districts, a much needed move away from inequity in the funding system.
Luke Messer, a Republican Congressman from Indiana who is a friend of Mike Pence and who founded the Congressional School Choice Caucus already suggested that some or all of the money for Trump's school choice program could come from the $ 15 billion the federal government spends on Title I. Grabbing money intended to help public schools that serve the nation's most needy children and turning it into an uncontrolled experiment in vouchers and unregulated charter schools is exactly the kind of project Betsy DeVos would rSchool Choice Caucus already suggested that some or all of the money for Trump's school choice program could come from the $ 15 billion the federal government spends on Title I. Grabbing money intended to help public schools that serve the nation's most needy children and turning it into an uncontrolled experiment in vouchers and unregulated charter schools is exactly the kind of project Betsy DeVos would rschool choice program could come from the $ 15 billion the federal government spends on Title I. Grabbing money intended to help public schools that serve the nation's most needy children and turning it into an uncontrolled experiment in vouchers and unregulated charter schools is exactly the kind of project Betsy DeVos would relish.