Sentences with phrase «issues by school districts»

Three of the state's largest public education advocacy groups are leading opposition to legislation that would greatly restrict the use of long - term bond issues by school districts.

• Spread the word about school suspension and expulsion rates, including how many were issued by the school district, how many were issued at each school, the reasons for the suspension and the number of suspended students who were low - income, English learners, foster youth, African American, Latino and / or male.

He said that in many cases the initial money would come from the stimulus package, noting that some $ 24 billion is available for schools, and mostly untapped so far, through bonds issued by school districts, cities or states.

Not exact matches

Municipal bonds are issued by state and local governments in the US as well as other public authorities, such as school districts.

The controversy over the injunction issued in October 1997 by Alabama Federal District Judge Ira M. DeMent restricting religious activity in public schools, as well as the continuing controversy in the state concerning Judge Roy Moore's courtroom display of the Ten Commandments, can be....

School districts long struggled with the issue of feeding children whose parents couldn't or wouldn't pay, and Diane Pratt - Heavener, spokesperson for the School Nutrition Association, recently asserted on Take Part that the improved meal standards mandated by the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act have only worsened the problem.

And if you're a layperson like me, I also recommend taking a look at the slides for this 2012 School Nutrition Association presentation by two food service directors, just to get a taste of the struggles districts face in handling this delicate issue and the costs they incur both in lost meal charges in trying to collect on delinquent accounts.

I've come to recognize that «school food» is a behemoth of an issue, with longstanding, complex problems that are rooted primarily at a federal — not district or school — level, and which are compounded by much larger societal issues relating to food production and consumption.

Chicago Public Schools began laying off 200 lunchroom workers Friday in the latest round of pink slips issued by the cash - strapped district.

lRaise the federal reimbursement by 6 cents per lunch for school districts that comply with new meals standards to be issued by the Agriculture Department.

Meanwhile, in Barrington Unit School District 220, partial returns showed voters in Lake and Cook Counties were approving by 58 percent and 67 percent, respectively, a $ 19.4 million bond issue.

ROSELLE — The issue of a swimming pool for Lake Park High School was brought to the Roselle Park District board Wednesday night as local citizens, led by Barb Layer, sought to determine if there was any Park District interest in seeing that one be built.

As the chairperson of the nutrition committee of HISD's School Health Advisory Council (SHAC), I'm working with a dedicated group of parents and public health professionals to address the issue of a la carte foods in HISD — both the items sold by the district itself (like the Flaming Hot Cheetos above) and items sold by parent and student groups (usually in violation of state rules) as campus fundraisers.

In the last month I volunteered, as I try to regularly, at the kitchen of a local homeless shelter; I made a donation to Mazon: A Jewish Response to Hunger; I brought canned food to a food drive; I continued to work toward improving school food in my district by attending SHAC and Food Services PAC meetings; and I hope I increased awareness of various food policy issues through my writing on The Lunch Tray and The Huffington Post.

What I liked best about this format for presenting information was the «360 degree» perspective it offered: Casey gave the issue a framework, with useful advice on how to persuade principals and administrators to implement in - classroom breakfast programs; Nora followed, sharing her personal story with using free / reduced programs when her children were young, and stressing the importance of taking care of «the whole child»; Rosario charmed the crowd with her experiences implementing in - classroom breakfast in her district, sharing a story about how excited her kids got about breakfast after a power outage — not how excited they were about the return of electricity, but about getting breakfast; Barry inspired the group by explaining how he took his successes as a school food director as a springboard to a new career as a consultant, replicating and spreading that success in other classrooms.

A $ 3 million bond issue planned by Lake County Community School District 102 to complete a middle school in Buffalo Grove and add six classrooms to a primary school in Prairie View has been called off in the wake of an Illinois Appellate Court rSchool District 102 to complete a middle school in Buffalo Grove and add six classrooms to a primary school in Prairie View has been called off in the wake of an Illinois Appellate Court rschool in Buffalo Grove and add six classrooms to a primary school in Prairie View has been called off in the wake of an Illinois Appellate Court rschool in Prairie View has been called off in the wake of an Illinois Appellate Court ruling.

Apparently Bruske's blog post was picked up by The Washington Post yesterday and some hard questions are now being asked about whether the DC school district has been aggressive enough in monitoring the rebate issue.

«I hope that my lawsuit against Chartwells and the settlement announced today will help improve the food programs for D.C.'s school children, which has always been my goal,» Mills said in a statement issued Friday by Phillips & Cohen, a District - based law firm that filed Mills's whistleblower lawsuit in 2013.

My fear stems from the fact that a renowned economists and a vice Presidential candidate of a party whose philosophy stands on ideals of conservatism, will confidently move around with a message of establishing one factory in each district at this point of our national reconstruction.How do you implement such a policy after scrapping 70 % of taxes across, build 350 secondary schools, free secondary school etc.You sum up all these deceitful platitudes and you begin to shiver.We are made to believe that the issue of unemployment would be buried under their government forgetting that, we were made to lineup in hot sun to register for employment only to be told in 2005 by Ghana Statistical service that unemployment figure for that year was the highest do far and remains the highest today.The lowest unemployment figures recorded between 2001 - 2016 was recorded in 2013 under Mahama.So who possess the practical record to support his call.

• Providing Mandate Relief: Governor Cuomo issued an Executive Order creating the «Mandate Relief Redesign Team» («Team») to review unfunded and underfunded mandates imposed by the New York State government on school districts, local governments, and other local taxing districts.

East Aurora's school district is under significant fiscal stress, according to a report issued Thursday by state comptroller Thomas DiNapoli.

Providing Mandate Relief: Governor Cuomo today issued an Executive Order creating The «Mandate Relief Redesign Team» («Team») to review unfunded and underfunded mandates imposed by the New York State government on school districts, local governments, and other local taxing districts.

BY MICHAEL CAHILL Pattern for Progress issues a report analyzing how solid Rockland's educational infrastructure is for the coming decade Declining enrollment rates and a shrinking tax base will have a profound effect on Rockland County's school districts over the next eight years, according to a report from the Hudson Valley non-profit Pattern for Progress.

But she resigned in protest because she didn't like the way the issue was handled by the school district, which had been facing mounting pressure over the past couple of weeks from parents who wanted to retain Kaleida's longtime pediatric nurses.

Actual increases in tax collections imposed by districts may end up being more or less than 2 percent, depending on local factors such as bond issues to fund school reconstruction or repairs, which are exempt from the cap.

Meanwhile, on the thorny issue of charter school funding — a tuition aid un-freeze that would see aid increase by $ 1,500 per student paid out by a school district — a potentially large hit for any locality, including $ 200 million for New York City — the proposal would be to have flat funding for charters this year.

Some members of the District Parent Coordinating Council are ready to force the issue of failing schools in Buffalo by filing complaints this week with the state and federal governments asking for a federal receiver or special master to run the school system.

Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions, but subject to such requirements as the legislature shall impose by general or special law, indebtedness contracted by any county, city, town, village or school district and each portion thereof from time to time contracted for any object or purpose for which indebtedness may be contracted may also be financed by sinking fund bonds with a maximum maturity of fifty years, which shall be redeemed through annual contributions to sinking funds established by such county, city, town, village or school district, provided, however, that each such annual contribution shall be at least equal to the amount required, if any, to enable the sinking fund to redeem, on the date of the contribution, the same amount of such indebtedness as would have been paid and then be payable if such indebtedness had been financed entirely by the issuance of serial bonds, except, if an issue of sinking fund bonds is combined for sale with an issue of serial bonds, for the same object or purpose, then the amount of each annual sinking fund contribution shall be at least equal to the amount required, if any, to enable the sinking fund to redeem, on the date of each such annual contribution, (i) the amount which would be required to be paid annually if such indebtedness had been issued entirely as serial bonds, less (ii) the amount of indebtedness, if any, to be paid during such year on the portion of such indebtedness actually issued as serial bonds.

Voters in the Highland Central School District approved the Highland Public Library's $ 4.8 million bond issue proposal at the polls on Tuesday by a 62.5 percent majority.

In signing the bill Tuesday, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo also directed the Health Department to issue emergency regulations to require school districts to test water for lead by Oct. 31.

However, under state law, that goal only applies to contracts issued by state agencies and authorities; it does not apply to state funding given to localities such as cities, counties, towns, villages and school districts, which amounts to approximately $ 65 billion annually.

«This is the real scandal in Albany, the alarming fact that state government has stood by and done nothing as generation after generation of students have passed through failing schools,» Cuomo said in a series of press releases he issued Thursday naming each failing school and the legislators whose districts they are located in.

Millions of dollars can be saved by merging smaller school districts in Erie County, and consolidating districts «demands serious consideration,» according to a report issued Monday by Erie County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz.

BY SARA GILBERT On Tuesday, August 21, the North Rockland Central School District board met for the last time before the 2012 - 13 school year begins to discuss final reports, finance issues, officially establish tax rates and finalize appointments and resignaSchool District board met for the last time before the 2012 - 13 school year begins to discuss final reports, finance issues, officially establish tax rates and finalize appointments and resignaschool year begins to discuss final reports, finance issues, officially establish tax rates and finalize appointments and resignations.

The City School District of New Rochelle paid a $ 6,500 assessed by the New York State Department of Labor after the District was issued a notice of violation related to an asbestos incident at the George M. Davis Jr..

The issue of equitable aid was at the heart of the $ 1.11 billion lawsuit brought by the Alliance for Quality Education on behalf of 26 students in eight small city school districts, including Kingston, in 2008.

Given the claims by the District, it seems reasonable that someone would have studied the issue of performance of students from the various schools within New Rochelle.

The petition, which was posted on the Power of Ten's website and has been signed by over 4,000 people, was submitted to Legislator Ellen Jaffee, who will deliver it to Education Commissioner John King at the capitol building, a move made to raise awareness for issues in the troubled school district.

They issued a joint news release (see below) calling on the state to honor a 2006 decision by the state's highest court, which held that the state had provided inadequate financial support to New York City and other poor school districts.

UFT members from Districts 13, 14 and 17 as well as high schools from those areas heard UFT President Michael Mulgrew speak about the proposed federal education budget cuts, the attack on unions by far - right privatization advocates, the dangers to hard - won benefits if a state constitutional convention is held in 2018 and other pressing issues.

Once a student is referred to the Center by his or her school district, an interdisciplinary team identifies issues and sets out to work directly with the youth, the family and school district to address their unique needs.

The Buffalo School District issued after 11 p.m. Sunday issued by Nathaniel Kuzma, Deputy General Counsel, Executive Director of Labor Relations:

The department amended its regulations in the wake of a 1983 ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia in National Soft Drink Association v. Block that the department exceeded its rulemaking authority when it issued orders on the «time and place» in which junk food could be sold on school grounds.

On the talk show, produced by the Houston Independent School District, parents focus on critical issues in their children's education.

In a statement issued Jan. 17, Superintendent John W. Wight explains the decision by California's El Tejon school district to drop the course Philosophy of Design.

That was the angle drew national attention to this local race, but the key issue was how to help the district schools move beyond failed reforms backed by the previous board majority.

They've proven themselves able to secure the requisite start - up capital — by becoming enterprising fundraisers, by «partnering» with others who have deeper pockets, by finding creative ways to keep start - up costs down, or by going without amenities that are standard - issue in the typical district school.

The board's decision to commission a study on the issue was driven by frustration with trying to improve schools for the district's 44,000 students as funding dwindles.

As Marks concluded, «specific guidance from the Supreme Court would be welcomed by school districts» to resolve this difficult issue.

A Maryland school district's curriculum and classroom assessments represent what teachers need to help students reach ambitious academic goals and succeed on state tests, concludes a report issued by a group pushing for greater student achievement.