Sentences with phrase «many school districts around the state»

Foundation aid funding is typically seen as helping poorer school districts around the state that can not rely as heavily on revenue from property taxes.

The report from the group — an annual snapshot based on a survey of school districts around the state — found nearly half of the state's district have lost fund balance over the last year.

His conference, he said, doesn't want to see «600 school districts around the state not get the funding that is needed to educate our children... We probably will put forward some legislation to deal with this situation before we leave.»

That's led school districts around the state to complain that they won't know how much state aid they're getting for the new school year in time to get their budgets ready for the May statewide vote.

(One answer: New York City would still prefer to avoid the belt - tightening that's already on the drawing board in other school districts around the state.)

On Election Day, voters in 31 school districts around the state will decide whether to raise property taxes to pump an additional $ 1 billion into the school system in the form of bond issues for buildings or mill levy overrides for operating budgets.

Enrollment in educator preparation programs has dropped by more than 70 percent over the last decade, and has fallen below the number of estimated hires by school districts around the state.

As Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin considers signing into law the 2013 - 2015 Wisconsin budget, school districts around the state are already using new tools and flexibility to exercise more control over their budgets.

CTBA analysis shows that school districts around the state would see their funding threatened by Governor Bruce Rauner's amendatory veto of Senate Bill 1, the Evidence Based Model for School Funding Reform.

The report looks at specific approaches of school districts around the state, including in Oakland and San Francisco, around their ELLs and provides recommendations within the context of the many ongoing changes in the state, including LCFF.

He announced this week that he will fund every live request from Wisconsin teachers — nearly 700 projects from 140 school districts around the state.

Eleven school districts around the state will hold referendums on Tuesday, with eight of those districts requesting money to maintain class sizes and programming in the wake of reduced state aid, rising costs and, in some cases, declining enrollment.

For more information on strategies that school districts around the state are using to improve their community communications and outreach around LCFF, click here.

What's exciting about Reilly & Climb Higher is that the work has transformed into building and sustaining strong and vibrant open systems amongst the coalition members and with school districts around the state.

School districts around the state have continued to warn about a wide range of negative consequences of smaller class sizes without additional funding.

It's primary day in Indiana, and 10 school districts around the state are posing ballot referenda asking voters to raise property taxes to help fund schools.

After many years of teacher layoffs in California, school districts around the state are hiring again.

PRINCETON — Many are becoming more aware of the new public education initiative, Vision 20/20, which addresses current issues and inefficiencies many school districts around the state are facing today.

The analysis by the district finds that school districts around the state would bear the biggest burden of covering the shortfall, contributing $ 47 billion, or 63 percent of the total, through increased contributions over 32 years.

«This reduction can be made up only through increased property taxes in school districts around the state,» a DPI analysis of the last proposal said.

Not exact matches

The laws around school discipline vary from state to state and district to district.

We're not sure what's in the water in Pennsylvania, but after one school district in the Keystone State distributed buckets of rocks around school to pelt shooters as a last resort, and another handed out tiny baseball bats to thwart would - be attackers, we asked readers what you thought of these...

Guidance Materials: The Board of Education has produced a Model Wellness Policy (2012) based on science, research, and existing practices from exemplary states and local school districts around the country.»

SNA's Keys to Excellence is a state of the art online self - assessment tool that allows you to compare your school nutrition program's performance with other districts in your area and around the country.

School districts and other state agencies around the country coordinate with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).

State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia on Thursday ordered the acting chief of the troubled Hempstead school district to send her monthly progress reports on efforts to turn the system around, declaring that local authorities have not yet «adequately addressed» festering problems.

State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia on Thursday appointed veteran administrator Jack Bierwirth as a «distinguished educator» for the Hempstead school district, a highly unusual move to bolster efforts to turn around the chronically troubled system.

«The state budget enacted last year gave school district leaders hope after several difficult years that financial prospects for their schools might at last be turning around,» said Deputy Director Bob Lowry.

The revised plan, which would be included in the state budget, would also give districts more time to turn around what Cuomo calls «failing» schools or districts before a state - appointed «receiver» could seize broad authority over them.

Contract impasses in 10 districts around the state prompted King to yank federal «School Improvement Grants.»

The Alliance for Quality Education has been touring schools around the state to document what they say is the erosion of districts in economically depressed areas.

Much controversy the past year in school districts across the state centered around Common Core Learning Standards.

The state labeled Hughes a «persistently low - achieving» school in early 2010 because of its low test scores, and despite an infusion of state funding and efforts to turn it around, it has not markedly improved, district Chief Academic Officer Laura Kelley said.

AG Eric Schneiderman announced the parent company of Chartwells catering, which provides cafeteria services around the state, including 39 school districts, will pay $ 18 million to settle a suit that it didn't properly pass along discounts on the food it bought.

A coalition of schools groups — ranging from the umbrella organization for the state's teachers union and the Council on School Superintendents — called for a variety of funding reforms for districts around the state ahead of next year's budget negotiations.

State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia, in a highly unusual move, appointed veteran educator Jack Bierwirth as a «distinguished educator» for the Hempstead school district to bolster efforts to turn around the chronically troubled system.

But only around 65 of the states more than 700 school districts will be ready, says New York State School Boards Association's executive director Tim Kschool districts will be ready, says New York State School Boards Association's executive director Tim KSchool Boards Association's executive director Tim Kremer.

The Rochester City School District is expected to submit its final plan to the State Education Department on May 15th to turn East High School around.

The waiting lists to get into charter schools are around the block in the districts of state Assembly members who haven't challenged attempts to limit the alternative schools, according to data obtained by The Post.

I'm going to bring community leader, other elected officials at the local, state and federal level, have access to other financial and human resources to give the school board and the superintendent what's needed to turn the city around, which is to turn the school district around.

Officials from several states criticized the scoring of the contest, which favored states able to gain support from 100 percent of school districts and local teachers» unions for Obama administration objectives like expanding charter schools, reworking teacher evaluation systems and turning around low - performing schools.

Cattaraugus County: After two threats at the Chatauqua Lake School and Randolph Academy Union Free School District, Gov. Andrew Cuomo ordered state police to increase patrols around schools to protect against copycat shooting threats.

Under then - Education Commissioner John B. King Jr., the district regularly failed to comply with state mandates and develop plans for turning around its struggling schools.

From what I can tell in talking with my friends around the state and country, we were the very last school district on the planet to let out for summer.

States should insist that districts take aggressive action to turn around dropout factories and schools where the vast majority of students are demonstrably not on track for success.

For example, a 2005 report in Illinois found almost no opposition to arts education among principals and district superintendents, yet there were large disparities in school offerings around the state.

Virtual charter schools can attract students from all around the state, without regard to any traditional school - district boundary.

99, took on a daunting challenge: figure out how to turn around the Lawrence Public Schools, the only school district in Massachusetts ever to be placed in state receivership.

State interventions to improve struggling local school districts have a mixed record, but in Lawrence, Massachusetts, a state takeover seems to be turning things arState interventions to improve struggling local school districts have a mixed record, but in Lawrence, Massachusetts, a state takeover seems to be turning things arstate takeover seems to be turning things around.

Within weeks of Hurricane Katrina, officials turned the city's schools over to the state - run Recovery School District (RSD) and gave the RSD five years to turn them around.