Sentences with phrase «leave districts free»

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The village is offering the parks a three - year rent - free lease on the building, leaving the district responsible for only utility bills and maintenance, according to village officials.

The USDA, which manages the NSLP, could not provide specific information about districts participating leaving program, but most that have come out publicly about dropping the program have predominantly white populations of students and have a very low percentage of students receiving free or reduced - price lunches.

The U.S. Department of Education's plan to grant states broad flexibility under the No Child Left Behind Act will free up as much as $ 800 million in money school districts now must set aside for tutoring students, but may mark a significant financial blow to an education industry that has grown up around serving low - performing schools.

And when charters don't enroll high - cost special ed kids and suspend the kids that they don't want, district schools are left with a more challenging task because we do have to give them a public education, a free and appropriate education.

Some school districts looking to save time and money have switched to four - day school weeks, either leaving the fifth day free or available for tutoring and parent conferences.

In a push to provide more children with free tutoring under the No Child Left Behind Act, the Department of Education is expanding two pilot programs that allow school districts to offer the extra assistance a year earlier than usual, and to serve as tutoring providers even if they themselves have been deemed poor performers.

The flexibility means mandates under No Child Left Behind, like a free tutoring program in the Rochester City School District known as Supplemental Educational Services, will no longer be required.

The worst fear of those of us who opposed the measure — that Question 2 would dismantle public education, district by district, and leave charter schools free from accountability to the communities in which they reside — will not come to pass.

When the charter school expansion first started to take off, some states freed up transitional funds to help school districts cope with declining enrollments and fiscal fallout as students left for charters.

It has always been a project of an uneasy, left - right political alliance: moderate Democrats who feel traditional urban districts are failing poor, minority kids, and conservatives who emphasize the idea that free markets can be counted on more than government and unions to produce results.

That means charter schools bring millions of dollars into a community for their own operation, as well as free up millions for local school districts by taking students, but leaving the funds.

Over the past several years, the department has freed 39 states and the District of Columbia from the strict rules on accountability, testing and spending embedded in No Child Left Behind.

Students who leave a public school district to attend a charter school — an independent public school that operates free of district oversight — take with them a slice of state aid that would have gone to the local district.

In April 2014, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit found the regulation's requirement that issuers describe their products as «not been found to be DRC conflict - free», to be a violation of the First Amendment's right to free speech, but the court left the bulk of the conflict minerals Rule intact, including the requirement to report on supply chain due diligence measures.