Sentences with phrase «money school districts spend»

In working with parents and advocates, one key factor I focus on is helping them understand how much money school Districts spend per student.

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He spent more money on his meals than the school district could spend, and brought in more (and better skilled) labor than the school district could afford — in fact, he basically opened a branch of one of his restaurants in a high school — which is in no way working «within the constraints.»

Some parents say it's unfair for Township High School District 214 to spend the majority of next year's money for facility improvements on the swimming pool at Buffalo Grove.

In planning its budgets, the park district does not keep count on how many children attend its free after - school activities, raising questions about whether tax money is spent efficiently.

Shows like Jamie Oliver's «Food Revolution,» and school districts like Chef Ann Cooper's former district in Berkeley, CA and current district in Boulder, CO, are often held up as examples of what's possible in school food reform, yet it's seldom ever mentioned that in each of these cases, far more money is being spent on those meals than the current federal reimbursement rate — and far more than that rate plus six cents.

We are told over and over that there's not enough money to fix school lunch, yet we live in a country where we consistently spend 2, 3, 4 or even 5 times more for our daily coffee than we do on food for our children's school lunch, which in most school districts amounts to less than a dollar.

However, stories like this one just add fuel to the «large school districts are just inefficient in the way they spend their money» fire, and weakens what should be the unified message of school food reformers — «it just costs more to do it right.»

Democrats are blasting the TV ad money being spent by a independent expenditure committee backed by charter school advocates in the race for the 37th Senate district in Westchester County.

The budget also includes a new policy that requires school districts to report more details about how they plan to spend the money on a school - by - school basis.

A committee of the state Board of Regents recommends spending $ 2.1 billion more on schools in the new state budget, saying it's time to continue an effort begun a decade ago to funnel more money to the state's poorest school districts.

The list of entities eligible to spend SMFP money also would be expanded under the new budget to include «special act school districts, schools for the blind and deaf and other students with disabilities subject to article 85 of the education law, and private schools for students with disabilities authorized pursuant to chapter 853 of the laws of 1976.»

But Mujica's statement also seems to suggest some of the blame should be placed on school districts and the need for a great understanding of how money is or isn't being spent.

The statement in large part places the onus on school districts to find ways of spending the money the state sent to them, not simply adding more cash to their coffers.

New York City spends more money on fringe benefits for teachers and other education personnel than any other school district in country, according to a new study.

Jim Tallon, a former assemblyman and chair of the Board of Regents» state aid committee, expressed broad criticisms of Cuomo's budget proposal, arguing the spending plan should have included more information about the distribution of funding and more money for pre-K for upstate school districts.

The concern is that without serious changes to how local governments and school districts are forced to spend their money, which the cap is meant to address, the measure will be overridden.

Gov. Scott Walker issued 99 partial vetoes of the $ 76 billion state budget on Wednesday, including a provision that would have allowed low - spending school districts to raise more money from property taxes.

Cuomo has also called for greater transparency in how schools receive and spend money, arguing the inequities will be highlighted on the local, district level.

Independent expenditure groups backed by well - funded charter school organizations are gearing up to play a role in battleground Senate districts, spending money that could bolster Republicans in what is expected to be a difficult election year.

Mechanicville is just one of the more than half - dozen local districts where voters will decide Tuesday whether to spend the money on hiring a full - time school resource officer.

As our Matt Hunter reports, in a number of Capital Region districts, voters will be deciding whether to spend the money to have a full - time police officer stationed at the school.

A «Smart Schools Commission» will advise school districts on best funding targets for various educational technology needs, and districts will spend their money with competitive bidding.

But because Cuomo and lawmakers» pre-K program requires districts to spend money up front and wait nearly a year for reimbursement, it will be especially difficult for poor schools to launch new programs.

A committee of the New York State Board of Regents recommends spending $ 2.1 billion more on schools in the new state budget, saying it's time to continue an effort begun a decade ago to funnel more money to the state's poorest school districts.

School board members have complained for years about the money the district spends on outside consultants.

«For Pattern for Progress, which has spent years working on shared services and consolidation of services in school districts, in towns, in villages, the notion that some of the tax relief money will be used to incentivize further efforts in this area is terrific, because it is something that always needs a push,» says Drapkin.

In the study, respondents were first asked to guess the average amount of money spent per child in their school district and the average salary of a public school teacher in their state.

In fact, the multiplicity of high - spending / low - achievement districts would seem to indicate that money is decidedly not the measure of a good school, that the approach fails on fundamental grounds of science.

Instead of having options on how they spend their money, school districts will have no choice but to withhold the pension funding.

States and school districts may find it tricky to navigate what is required and how money can be spent, which can lead to funds being used in «safe» and «permissible» ways rather than the ways that educators deem most useful.

The amount of money actually spent annually on children in school districts across the United States varies widely.

Using these systems, district leaders could spotlight schools that reap high returns on the money spent, given their mix of students.

Another possible explanation for our findings of large school - spending effects is that how the money is spent matters a lot and that districts use the resources that come from unexpected increases in school spending more productively than they use other resources.

In contrast, placing equity into the accountability context would put state policymakers in the role of telling districts or schools how to spend their money, forcing all schools to spend the same amount of money on the same things.

Corrected on Nov. 7, 2015: An earlier version of this blog post incorrectly indicated how a Montclair, New Jersey school district spent $ 5 million; the money was for, not from, tuition payments.

Texas» approach of funneling money from wealthy districts to poor ones as a way to equalize school spending is likely to be severely curtailed in whatever school finance plan emerges from the session, according to sources in the state.

Leadership matters a lot, but it's a constellation of political leadership and school district leadership and a city that's had money to spend and is able to make investments.

Also, instructional per - pupil spending has increased in all affected public school districts, contradicting the belief that school choice programs take money away from public school students, the report says.

The big news out of the latest is official confirmation that school districts spent less money per student in 2010 - 11 than they had the year before, the first one - year decline in nearly four decades.

Litigating against a school district costs time and money that many parents don't have, and school districts are increasingly willing to spend.

Researchers have proposed that districts pay teachers a bonus for the days they don't take off, or give their schools the money that would have been spent on subs as a collective incentive, or set up a reward system for teachers with good attendance (the Columbia study found that only 3 percent of teachers had perfect attendance).

Given that Florida public schools spend close to $ 17,000 per disabled student and that the McKay program contains a roughly representative distribution of disability types, taxpayers are actually saving quite a bit of money with special education vouchers, and public school districts are certainly not being «financially punished.»

A frequent metric, however misguided, for measuring school quality is the amount of money a district spends per pupil annually.

One group of local citizens — teachers and other employees of the school district — has an intense interest in everything the district does: how much money it spends, how the money is allocated, how hiring and firing are handled, what work rules are adopted, how the curriculum is determined, which schools are to be opened and closed, and much more.

For instance, the AFT acknowledges, after some hemming and hawing, that most charter schools spend less public money than most district schools.

Following a spirited debate about federal spending priorities in education, the House education committee approved a bill last week that would authorize new money to help districts improve school facilities, including making them more environmentally friendly.

The Washington - based center took at look at how school districts have spent money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the economic - stimulus law passed by Congress last year.

While Melissa Jamula argues that «People who say money doesn't make a difference have never spent a day in the Reading School District,» those who do spend some time reviewing the district's finances would agree with Jamula - but perhaps come to a very different conclusion about the cause of the District,» those who do spend some time reviewing the district's finances would agree with Jamula - but perhaps come to a very different conclusion about the cause of the district's finances would agree with Jamula - but perhaps come to a very different conclusion about the cause of the problem.

Uncle Sam could then cease and desist from telling states and districts how to run their schools, how to «qualify» and evaluate their teachers, how and on what to spend their money, what to do about low - performing schools, to whom and how to provide choices among which sorts of schools and how many of them, etc..

First, the state and federal finance systems for schools tend to be too complex and impose far too many limitations on how districts can spend their money.