Sentences with phrase «less school funding»

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«Mr. Speaker, today in First Nations communities across the country, the unemployment rate can reach 80 %, half of the housing units are in a pitiful state and schools and students receive 30 % less funding than others,» Thomas Mulcair reported.

Both schools pull in more athletic revenue than the majority of front - line Big 12 candidates, but they have way worse men's basketball programs, smaller fanbases, less academic funding, and lower university rankings than the league's averages.

While some school districts already serving better food might appear to be «doing more with less,» they usually have extra funding or costly resources, such as a central kitchen for scratch cooking, which other districts lack.

Often, the cost of the snacks is less than the USDA reimbursement, and Dairy Dollars for Schools even provides funds to help you implement the program.

While most experts agree that the HHFKA's «6 cents per lunch» reimbursement increase was insufficient to pay for healthier school food, the Noem / Miller approach is not to ask Congress for a funding increase but instead to allow schools to go back to serving kids the less healthy food they're used to eating.

If we rely on local communities to raise funds to improve food, we'll soon have a patchwork of wealthier (or more committed) districts with good food, and poorer districts (where, I would note, more children are reliant on school food) with less healthful offerings.

While the funding in the current bill is less than the Obama administration asked for, Vilsack vows that his department will do everything it can to help schools do the best with what money they are given.

Since most countries have free government supported public schools, your education cost is less (even if you spend time helping your school do fund raising).

In December 2013, another KSHF survey found that most school meal programs (88 percent) needed one or more pieces of equipment to help them meet nutrition standards, but only 42 percent of respondents reported that they had funding for capital purchases, and less than half of those had a budget that was adequate to meet their equipment needs.

To get serious about school food and its consequences, policy makers need to focus less on tinkering with funding formulas, surplus agricultural commodities, and % of calories from fat while focusing more on stopping kids from devouring plate after plate of hamburgers and cheesy noodles.

Compared to the larger public schools around, this school gets less funding, which means less supplies and other necessities teachers need in the classroom.

Cuomo's preliminary budget allocates $ 300 million less for the NYC Department of Education than was expected, according to a new report, and Cuomo wants to cut funding for charter school lease compensation by $ 86 million.

The tax cap, however, is less popular within education advocacy circles, who have blamed the provision for stifling school funding on the local level.

He says schools saw a record increase in state aid in the state budget, and no school has been punished with less state funding for not enacting the new teacher evaluations.

«And we're hearing that those proposals may end up containing significantly less than the $ 2.2 billion required to fully fund all of New York's public schools and provide our kids with the small class sizes, full curricula, and other resources they need to succeed.»

With no discussion and in less than two minutes, the state's Smart Schools Review Board approved the second round of funding allocations to 36 districts from the $ 2 billion Smart Schools bond act approved by voters in 2014.

New York should not spend hundreds of millions of dollars on a process that could leave New York with less environmental protections, less funding for our schools, etc..

Billy Easton, with the pro school funding group Alliance for Quality Education, says he doesn't think the boycotts will end and the controversy will subside until the teacher reviews are less dependent on the tests.

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.

Susan Schnebel, superintendent of Islip schools, said that next year's downward fluctuation in the cap could leave her district with $ 1.1 million less in operating funds than it has this year.

This morning, the New York City Independent Budget Office released data showing charter schools housed in private space receive 16 % less funding per student than district schools.

Cuomo says under his plan the state operating budget increases by less than 2 percent while increasing school aid and Medicaid funding at approximately 4 percent.

The schools in the Syracuse City School District have about $ 11,000 less funding for each student than wealthier schools in the state, according to a WSKG news article.

Iris Chen, director of the city's Fund for Public Schools, resigned this week — making her the seventh top official to step down from the de Blasio administration in less than two years.

What Hammond's analysis of school funding fails to account for is that New York State's share of the burden for supporting K - 12 education has fallen from 49 % in 2001 to less than 40 % in recent years.

Anticipating less state aid and property tax revenue, the Syracuse City School District is counting on its own fund balance and state legislators to make up the difference in next year's school bSchool District is counting on its own fund balance and state legislators to make up the difference in next year's school bschool budget.

Long Island school districts lack a reliable funding stream for public pre-K and serve less than one - third of an estimated 28,000 eligible 4 - year - old children, even as support grows for a universal program available to all children.

A new report on public school funding across the country finds that most states are now providing less support per K - 12 student than before the 2007 - 2009 Great Recession — and that some states continue to cut funding.

As you may already be aware, social interventions which hitherto were funded by donors in the NPP era such as the School Feeding Programme (for less than 500,000 pupils) and other social protection interventions, are now fully funded by our Government,» he said.

Funding provided by the Cuomo administration is now $ 9 billion less than required by court orders, leading to deep cuts for the Syracuse City School District schools and all throughout the State.

Ultimately, however, his plan falls short by allocating less than $ 1 billion in new education money this year at a time when public schools are still owed more than $ 4.4 billion in Campaign for Fiscal Equity (CFE) funding.

The fear is that it could be the tipping point for relatively mobile wealthier people to move their primary residence elsewhere, leaving the state with less revenue to fund schools.

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.

Less funding results in less numerous and less qualified teachers, worse equipment and an overall worse school environmLess funding results in less numerous and less qualified teachers, worse equipment and an overall worse school environmless numerous and less qualified teachers, worse equipment and an overall worse school environmless qualified teachers, worse equipment and an overall worse school environment.

While only 22 % percent of New Yorkers think the recently enacted state budget is either excellent or good for the people of the state, at least 71 % agree that creating a $ 2.5 billion clean water infrastructure fund, increasing aid to local school districts by $ 1.1 billion, allowing ride - sharing services to operate in the state, and making SUNY / CUNY tuition free for families making less than $ 125,000 will make New York better, according to a new Siena College poll of New York State registered voters released early Monday morning.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Anticipating less state aid and property tax revenue, the Syracuse City School District is counting on its own fund balance and state legislators to make up the difference in next year's school bSchool District is counting on its own fund balance and state legislators to make up the difference in next year's school bschool budget.

With the added funding, no school will get less than 87 percent of its «Fair Student Funding» allocation, the mayofunding, no school will get less than 87 percent of its «Fair Student Funding» allocation, the mayoFunding» allocation, the mayor said.

For every move de Blasio has made to treat charters less favorably relative to traditional public schools than they were treated by the previous administration, Cuomo has countered with promises of more charter funding and benefits.

According to the report, 28 percent or 189 school districts in New York state receive less funding now than they did in 2008.

Currently, school funding is tailored to particular areas, with wealthier counties typically receiving less than the most deprived inner - city councils.

If more scientists come to think of a new publication as a larval stage of scientific knowledge and if fewer schools and funding agencies prize the high - profile journal article — basing tenure, grant and promotions on it — then researchers will feel less pressure to cut corners and manufacture dramatic results.

«What we found was that African - American students, older adults, students who attend part - time, those who had a GED versus a high school diploma and those assigned to the lowest level of developmental education brought significantly less performance - based funding to the institution,» McKinney said.

Over the course of eight days, you'll not only hike the steep five - hour final ascent of the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu, but also poke around less - traveled ruins, visit a Peruvian school partially funded by proceeds from this trip, and wander the Pisac Market, where local artisans sell their wares.

Compared to the general Nevada funding formula or the formulas that govern most district and charter schools nationally, the Nevada ESA program looks positively progressive in giving more money to kids starting off with less.

Because parish members receive a discount on their tuition, a voucher student whose family belongs to the church nets the school $ 1,700 less in state funds than if they were nonmembers.

- The government should introduce a dedicated fund to support highly able pupils, particularly those from less advantaged backgrounds who fall behind at school.

And when provided with the actual numbers on salaries and spending, the researchers say, Americans experience «sticker shock» — and become much less likely to support an increase in government funding for public schools.

Schools in these «reformed» districts would continue to receive public funding, but they would have to meet only the state's requirements for private schools, which are less stringent than those for public sSchools in these «reformed» districts would continue to receive public funding, but they would have to meet only the state's requirements for private schools, which are less stringent than those for public sschools, which are less stringent than those for public schoolsschools.

Less than a quarter of secondary schools are optimistic about funding for the next financial year.

Research indicates that privately funded school - choice programs are less likely to be overregulated than publicly funded programs.