Sentences with phrase «meeting over the school budget»

Even a meeting over the school budget turned into a battleground last night for the continuing fight over Lancaster schools use of Redskins as the sports team nickname.

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Although the food service director likely has no control over the cafeteria time allotment, he / she might be able to point to other barriers that make lengthening the lunch difficult (ratio of students: cafeteria size etc., budget for labor) 6) Schedule a meeting with the school principal and share your concerns and ask how you might help to arrive at a solution.

We're unlikely to see him poring over dense regulations, struggling to meet an underfunded budget, lamenting the lack of a real school kitchen in which to cook and store food, dealing with a cafeteria too small to accommodate his students, competing with fast food outlets because of an open school campus, or, most importantly, battling an unyielding Congress for more school food funding.

-LSB-...] to see him poring over complex regulations, struggling to meet an underfunded budget, lamenting the lack of a real school kitchen in which to cook and store food, dealing with a cafeteria too small to accommodate his students, -LSB-...]

Also at 6:30 p.m., NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer and Assembly members Robert Carroll and Jo Anne Simon co-host a town hall meeting about concerns over President Donald Trump's budget proposals, John Jay High School, 237 Seventh Ave., Brooklyn.

«The staying power of service - learning can be seen in that it has survived and continued over these past five years, despite considerable pressures, such as school budget cuts, focus on meeting state mandates, and concerns with implications of No Child Left Behind,» said Ellen Tenenbaum, a researcher at Westat, the firm responsible for conducting the survey.

We work together with schools to explore their unique context and to put together a package of reflections / workshops / trainings over a year which can meet their needs within an agreed budget for the year.

All schools will have considerable autonomy — including control over staffing, the authority to set their own budgets, and the freedom to offer extended school days or longer school years — but will be held accountable for results, and funds will follow students as they choose the schools that best meet their needs.

President Barack Obama's fiscal year 2010 budget request includes a $ 52 million increase in the Charter School Grants Program, providing $ 268 million and representing the first step toward meeting the Administration's commitment to double financial support for the program over the next four years.

They are unique in the nation in that they have autonomy over budget, staffing, governance, curriculum and assessment, and the school calendar to provide increased flexibility to organize schools and staffing to best meet students» needs, while operating within the economy of scale of a large urban public school district.

This budget language has the effect of allowing school divisions to carry - over, for appropriation in fiscal year 2003, state fund balances for any Direct Aid to Public Education account with the exception of the SOL Algebra Readiness program and those required to meet the Standards of Quality (i.e., Basic Aid, Textbooks, Vocational EducationSOQ, Gifted Education, Special EducationSOQ, Remedial EducationSOQ, VRS Retirement, Social Security, and VRS Group Life).

The proposed contract also requires IMACS» governing council and parent organization to meet annual fundraising goals to help fund the school's budget, totaling $ 700,000 by both groups over five years.

Somewhat overshadowed by the growing controversy over Mayor - elect Rahm's schools pick, this Tribune story shows the intention of the privatizers not to listen to the research about charters or to the reasonable concerns of interim CPS CEO Terry Mazany, who said about his decision to postpone consideration of new charter contracts at his first board meeting last January: «We simply do not have any budget flexibility to allocate dollars that will not lead directly to improved educational outcomes for all of our students.»

For school communities that have experienced budget freezes or mid-year fund re-allocations over the last two years, the information from the April 11th school board meeting indicates that the district is still struggling with financial stability and that there are signs that school budgets could be impacted again for a third straight year.

Despite operating with a drastically smaller operating budget than they had planned for, Tangi Academy has met every desegregation requirement and has achieved a balanced at - risk and special education student population — an accomplishment that TPSB has struggled to achieve in many of its own schools for over the last half century.

«We at DFER applaud Mayor Muriel Bowser and Deputy Mayor Niles for prioritizing public education in the proposed FY2017 budget, which invests an additional $ 220 million dollars for full modernization of DCPS schools over the next two years, ends the «phases» approach, and increases the Universal Per Pupil Funding Formula to allow for schools to better meet the needs of every child.

The consultation also shows that local authorities were concerned about their ability to meet the target because maintained schools have control over their own budget and recruitment.

The State Department of Education took over Windham Schools because of a widening «achievement gap» between white and Hispanic students, and because the fiscal situation of the schools was far from healthy, as lean annual budgets failed to meet the real needs of the Schools because of a widening «achievement gap» between white and Hispanic students, and because the fiscal situation of the schools was far from healthy, as lean annual budgets failed to meet the real needs of the schools was far from healthy, as lean annual budgets failed to meet the real needs of the system.

Over the 24 years Lily Din Woo has been the principal of Public School 130 in Lower Manhattan, her typical day changed very little: sick or misbehaving students, budgets, curriculum woes and meetings with parents, many of whom do not speak English.