Sentences with phrase «local school districts whose»

Some area legislators are hoping to move forward legislation they say will provide relief to local school districts whose officials are worried about meeting mandated class - size limits this fall.

Not exact matches

Jackson, whose farm is about 3.5 miles from the school, said he has tried for years to sell his produce to local school districts but it's been difficult.

Should deductions be eliminated for state and local taxes, the immediate impact would likely be on the school districts and communities whose budgets depend on that revenue.

But the governor did succeed in setting in motion another overhaul of the teacher evaluation system, whose details will be worked out in the months ahead by the State Education Department and in negotiations between each local school district and its teachers union.

Creasman and his peers discuss these needs during site visits of schools in the state and through the Kentucky Educational Development Corporation, a local cooperative of school districts whose members jointly negotiate with vendors to reduce costs for education technology.

Using census data to sort districts within each state by the federal poverty rate among school - age children, the group identified the poorest and richest districts - those with the highest and lowest poverty rates, respectively, whose enrollments compose 25 percent of the state's total enrollment - and matched that information with education revenues from state and local (but not federal) sources.

Two types of charter schools operate in Massachusetts: Horace Mann charter schools are effectively «in - district» charters whose applications must first be approved by a host school district and, with a few exceptions, the local teachers union.

The San Francisco Chronicle describes the case of a student with learning disabilities and an anxiety disorder whose parents «enrolled him in a $ 30,000 - a-year prep school in Maine — then sent the bill to their local public school district.»

That is the case in Connecticut, whose state legislature revised its law regulating cell phone possession in schools to give local districts more latitude in dealing with the issue, said Vincent Mustaro, senior staff associate for policy for the Connecticut Association of Boards of Education (CABE).

Each school district shall designate one or more employees or representatives to facilitate the prompt enrollment of students who are released or conditionally released and whose duties shall include, but are not limited to, the receipt of student records and serving as a district contact person with residential facilities and State and local agencies.

Washington — An independent assessment of the Education Department's initial review of how federal block - grant funds have been used charges that many of the 23 jurisdictions whose programs were evaluated by the department have not adequately monitored local school districts» use of Chapter 2 money.

A four - tier formula would use state and local funds to provide the foundation for a high quality education for every student, state funds to help districts with students whose educational needs are truly greater than the norm, and local funds to provide additional programs and services communities want for their schools.

These included a strong vision of and value for public education in which almost Finnish children participate as the creator of Finland's future society; resulting high status for the country's teaching profession whose members are stringently selected through rigorous university - based teacher education programs that confer Masters degrees on all of them; a widespread culture of collaboration in curriculum development among teachers in each school district; an equally robust culture of collaboration among all partners in strong local municipalities where most curriculum and other policy decisions are made; and a system of widespread cooperation and trust instead of US - style test - based accountability.

Stamps, 44, a neighborhood native whose mother was a prominent community activist, said the local alderman warned district officials at a recent hearing that «for those two schools to merge would be catastrophic.»

The CCEE's purpose is to support school districts whose LCAPs have not been approved by their local county offices of education.

What is needed instead is a fundamental shift in direction in federal education policy, and ESSA is not it; therefore every family that can afford it should opt out of state schooling whenever possible until No Child Left Behind's failed strategy for social improvement via annual testing and publishing the results is abandoned entirely, and until Sacramento gets serious about subsidiary devolution, which implies that assessing and reporting on the results of local schools should be left to the local districts, whose citizens may have different priorities and values that the state and federal governments should learn to respect.

To add further context as Newark prepares to regain local control of its district,, two weeks ago the Star - Ledger interviewed Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, whose stance on alternatives to traditional Newark schools remains muddy at best.

Seattle is an example of a school district whose local levy cap will be less than $ 1.50 per thousand because it is capped by the per pupil limit of $ 2,500 per pupil which comes to about $ 0.60 per thousand for a maximum local levy.

A charter school is a public school whose operation is autonomous from the local school district and based on a contract with the State Board of Education.

On behalf of parents of public school students across Connecticut, I am writing to request that you add an agenda item to the April 6, 2015 State Board of Education Committee meeting to review and address the actions taken by your Interim Commissioner of Education and other State Department of Education staff as they relate to the issue of a parent's fundamental and inalienable right to opt their children out of the Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) testing program and how local school districts should deal with children whose parents have opted them out of the SBAC testing.

Now that the 2016 Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) testing season has begun for school districts across Connecticut, there has been a significant and disturbing increase in the number of reports that local school districts — driven by Governor Dannel Malloy's State Department of Education — are engaged in the unethical abuse of children whose parents have refused to allow their children to participate in the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory SBAC testing program.

Allows SBE to grant new state or local charters only to those located in a town (1) with at least one school in the commissioner's network of schools or (2) whose district is designated as a low - achieving district.

But of course, parents have the fundamental right to protect their children and there is absolutely no federal or state law, regulation or policy that allows the state or local school districts to punish children whose parents refuse to allow their children to be abused by this Common Core testing system.