Sentences with phrase «money out of the school system»

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Not only does this system mean that kids can no longer make a lunch out of a bag of Cheetos (unless they bring it from home), it also reduces the very real social stigma created when kids with money in their pockets can buy enticing junk food while poorer kids have to eat the comparatively «uncool» school meal.

Duncan told reporters at the White House on Wednesday that the Kanawha County school system was already handing out pink slips in anticipation of the automatic cuts that, among other things, will impact the amount of federal money states get through September.

But public financing of elections, a system designed to take the big money out of politics, would be «key» to any ethical reforms of state government, he said Wednesday at a daylong symposium on ethics and government at Albany Law School.

In the absence of vouchers, only parents with enough money are able to seek out good schools by going private; but under a voucher system, they argue, with the cost of private education much reduced (or zero), many more parents would be able to — and would want to.

As Paul Hill, founder of the Center on Reinventing Public Education, has pointed out, we can leapfrog our system of school finance to truly fund education, not institutions; move money as students move; and pay for unconventional forms of instruction.

There are several education systems that spend far more money in schools than Australia but get less quality out of the system that is also less equitable.

To prevent money from slipping out of little or not - so little hands, and to avoid the problems that missing lunch money spawns — hungry / cranky children, staff becoming lending agents, and searches for stale snack food — some schools are adopting pre-payment systems for their lunch programs.

There's a solid chance that the Kansas City Public Schools Retirement System (KCPSRS) could be out of money in just 20 years.

Value - added testing would at least give voters some idea of whether they are getting their tax money's worth out of the school system by giving them at least some information on how the schools are doing.

To get their share of the money, they had to quickly identify some of their most academically troubled schools, craft new teacher - evaluation systems, and carve out more time for instruction, among other steps.

Opponents of charter schools, led by the state teachers» union, say the schools will lack accountability and will take too much money out of the already under - funded education system.

Teachers unions across Washington opposed the initiative from day one, saying it diverts money from the traditional schools, the schools lack a consistently high success rate for students and the measure allows out - of - state operators to run schools within the public school system and without traditional oversight.

They are instead, parallel school systems — each necessitating separate layers of bureaucracy and oversight and each siphoning money out of the taxpayer supported school system.

So, for example, instead of just utilizing money to arm police officers in schools, we also are allowing individual school communities to make decisions about putting more mental health for students, to provide advocacy in the support system and not just move kids out of school or automatically engage them in the judicial system that we know can happen too often.

This strategy is a direct result of the Malloy administration threat that any school district that allows more than 5 percent of their parents to opt out, will lose money — in this case — federal funds that are supposed to be used to provide extra support to the poorest child in the local school system.

Thurmond passed legislation to provide millions of dollars to school districts to keep kids in school and out of the criminal justice system, fought for money to make sure that all California youth in foster care can go to college, and increased funding for early education programs.

They argue that the tax - credit programs draw needed funds out of the public school system, redirecting money to private schools that aren't accountable for student performance.

The Editorial Board treads familiar, almost entirely mythological, ground with their defense of annual testing of all students: Once upon a time, the federal government «kept doling out education money to the states no matter how abysmally their school systems performed,» and the requirement for mass standardized testing was «to make sure that students in all districts were making progress and that poor and minority students were being educated.»

Michigan's charter school «industry» — and that's what it is, an industry; not an educational system, but rather a business model designed to steal public money and slip it into private bank accounts — is wildly out of control, an unregulated Wild West playground for unscrupulous hucksters, quacks and charlatans who see our school system and our children as an untapped well - spring of profits.

In her new book, Follow the Money, political scientist Sarah Reckhow discusses the rise of a new generation of education philanthropists, the differences among them, and how their work has played out in some big city school systems.

As Edward Abbey pointed out two decades ago, «It should be clear to everyone by now that crude numerical growth does not solve our chronic problems of unemployment, welfare, crime, traffic, filth, noise, squalor, the pollution of our air, the corruption of our politics, the debasement of the school system (hardly worthy of the name «education»), and the general loss of popular control over the political process — where money, not people, is now the determining factor.»