Sentences with phrase «local school funding»

Much of local school funding comes from property taxes, and so affluent districts can afford better schools.

Each local authority has a «schools forum» with which it makes decisions on local school funding.

At the same time, because local school funding is so dependent on local property taxes, disparities in property wealth lead to disparities in opportunities for children.

If families choose to leave the district to attend another school (i.e., a charter school), local school funds remain with the district.

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The legislature changed both the funding of capital expenditures and the equalization funds for local school funding to the disadvantage of low - wealth districts.

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«NYSUT believes strongly that the tax cap undemocratically deprives taxpayers of their constitutional right to determine local school funding levels, while exacerbating existing funding inequities that harm the state's neediest and most vulnerable students,» the union said in a statement.

Budget, anticipating a 12 percent rise in local school funding, projects an increase in the state's average per - pupil spending from $ 5,074 to $ 5,287.

«We had to convince voters of the value of charter expansion while [the other side] simply needed to falsely position charters as the root cause of local school funding issues.»

The Community Foundation of the Ozarks has a successful entrepreneurial model that builds upon relationships with individuals and families of means to establish substantial local school funds.

The defense retorted that BESE has no authority to adopt local school funding formulas.

House Minority Leader Themis Klarides, a Derby Republican, says the plan contains deep cuts to addiction services, $ 36 million is cut from local school funding and special education and $ 13 million in cuts to state payments for hospitals.

Dixon adds that «After the hearing, Dianne Kaplan deVries, project director for the Connecticut Coalition for Justice in Education Funding, said that drastically changing the system for local school funding is important.

«Maybe that's why he became a federal corruption prosecutor and fought so hard for Sandy victims and local school funding.»

The number one issue which people raised in Twickenham on the doorsteps was cuts to local school funding, so where we focused on issues other than Brexit, it worked effectively.

Now, local school funding is apparently more secure than ever before.

Federal and local school funding will continue to be distributed to school districts as it has been in the past; only state funding will be included in the ESAs.

The group is examining the relationship between state and local school funding, the levels of funding required to meet constitutional standards, and any needed policy changes that reflect the geographic diversity of the state.