Sentences with phrase «limits poor school districts»

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.

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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.
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