Magee criticized Iannuzzi's administration for its response to Cuomo's property - tax cap, over which the union eventually sued, arguing that it disproportionately
limits poor school districts» ability to raise revenue.
Not exact matches
New York State United Teachers President Dick Iannuzzi says the cap, passed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the legislature in 2011, arbitrarily
limits property tax increases to two percent, regardless of whether a
school district is rich or
poor.
While a conscientious individual like him seems inherently disdainful of commercial onslaught, he also comes across rather sympathetic to a
poor Florida
school district that is desperate for budget help but
limited in the advertisement they can purchase.
One would
limit the share of state money earmarked for the state's «special needs»
school districts in
poor, urban areas, while the other would bar the executive...
Table 1 presents the mean SAT scores in Verbal and Math, plus the percentage of students eligible for FREE lunch (not Free and Reduced because the negative influence on achievement comes from FREE lunch eligibility), percentage of students who are
limited English proficient (LEP) and the percentage of students with special needs for
districts located in the A, B, (NJ's
poorest communities) and I, J DFG's (NJ's wealthiest communities), plus those for charter
schools (denoted by an «R» on the scatter plots).
Instead, it is likely that the most effected by budget cuts will be working class and near
poor children, those children who attend
school districts that receive
limited federal dollars but lack the advantages of high local property values or
school taxes.
In
districts across the country — even ones in cities with some form of
limited movement for kids —
poor parents, typically those who are black or Hispanic, are forced to enroll their kids in underperforming
schools when there are good ones nearby, sometimes just blocks away.
After a
poor review partly based on questions about the financial viability of the small
school, the
district quietly
limited new enrollees to siblings of current students.
As one of the
poorest school districts in the state and very
limited funding for student transportation, the grant will be utilized to purchase and install three special needs buses and one athletic bus with video surveillance cameras.
Information in the hiring process:
Schools and
districts sometimes engage in weak hiring processes because they have outdated technology,
poor capacity to transmit information, and
limited time for candidate demonstration lessons.