Sentences with phrase «money school improvement»

Produce and promote high quality, innovative, value for money school improvement products and services;

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During the summer, teachers are either teaching summer school for a meager amount of money over what they earn during the school year, or they are paying money for continuing improvement courses that they can not afford on their teacher's salary.

That is to say, Lunch Money is a really great way for parents to get up to speed on how school lunch programs operate and areas where there may be clear room for improvement, but no parent should assume that just by reading Lunch Money he or she fully understands the challenges faced by their own food services director.

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.

The superintendent gave her an ultimatum to sign a fraudulent federal grant application for school lunch facility improvements when he planned to use the money for athletic facilities or quit.

in other words, how does a parent like me convince the school board that money mishandling in the back of the house is a problem AND improvements there are worthy of consideration as a possible source of funding for better school food?

As decisions affecting my constituents are taken, however, they will be furious to see that, although they can not have their new school buildings or road improvements for now, more and more of their hard - earned money is being handed over to Europe.»

Elia did not say how much she thought should be allocated to the 124 struggling schools, but did stress that the money is necessary for improvement.

ST. GEORGE — Students from high schools around Staten Island had a hand in directing taxpayer money to fund improvements to their campuses as part of a $ 22 million investment from Borough President James Oddo's office.

«I don't know how raising an extra $ 50 million for traditional public school and school improvement organizations is taking money away from public education,» Bradford said.

This money, which represents the second highest percentage of this year's capital allocations, will go towards technology upgrades and other physical plant improvements in public schools across The Bronx.

«One of the concerns I've always had is that monies are allocated to schools based on eligibility, but once they have made improvement they lose their monies,» said Regent Judith Chin.

Rafal - Baer said she believes school improvement isn't simply a matter of spending more money.

The World Bank estimates that the recent increases could push 100 million people who escaped poverty in the past decade back into it, and push the poor deeper in as the cost of bare survival consumes money that might otherwise have bought extra protein, schooling, farm improvement or medicine.

In the early1900s, Daniel and his young son H.W., acting on a tip from a man named Paul Sunday (Paul Dano), scout out the Sunday family ranch and its surrounding areas in the poor little California town of Little Boston, promising its residents schools, church improvements, and lots of money.

The Local Government Association (LGA) says that the money should be used to maintain improvement capacity within the schools system, which will be beneficial to both council - maintained schools and academies.

In the past, school improvement grant money had come with little to no strong direction from the federal government, and never with so much funding attached.

USING THE FUNDING The aim of the money is to make additional and sustainable improvements to the quality of PE and sport offered by schools.

In 2009, the federal government overhauled the Title I School Improvement Grant program, increased its value to $ 3.5 billion with money from the recovery act, and spelled out four turnaround options from which perennially failing schools would have to choose to get a share of the funding.

Schools must publish details on how the money is spent online, including the amount received; a full breakdown of how it has been, or will be spent; the impact the school has seen on its pupils» PE and sport participation and attainment; and how the improvements will be sustainable in the future.

This finding is always followed by claims that schools need lots more money to produce real improvement and that the most challenging NCLB requirements are unreasonable and need to be relaxed.

The later studies also acknowledge that NCLB is producing academic improvements, yet the schools still need more money and relaxed requirements.

The remaining money would be used for professional development related to data analysis (quantitative and qualitative) for school improvement... and maybe just a few lottery tickets.»

In the end, ACORN supported the city's proposal to limit choice to just the 48 schools and to use most of the money that would have gone into busing to fund improvements in the failing schools.

DeVos Says More Money Won't Help Schools; Research Says Otherwise (NPR) Paul Reville discusses Massachusetts» rise and improvement in education performance.

The School Improvement Grant (SIG) program, initiated at the same time and distributing just about the same amount of money, turned up just 37 mentions.

Though he has argued that the problem with the city's schools wasn't a lack of money but a lack of managerial safeguards, he has also taken credit for «massive increases» to education budgets as proof that he has supported education improvement.

Even with just 8,600 schools in need of improvement, it is not possible for state education agencies to develop and implement effective turnaround strategies, no matter how much money is available.

If a school district wants to fund a programme of improvements beyond their annual tax income, they can borrow money against their future tax revenues, through a mechanism called a Bond Programme.

This led some economists of the time to conclude that «input - based» policies such as providing more money to schools, reducing class sizes and improving teacher qualifications had «failed», and that improvements in schools now depended on giving teachers direct incentives to raise student performance:

«I always say school improvement doesn't have to cost a lot of money, it's just about the way that you can address it strategically.

Those improvements could be used by the entire community, McNeely added, «and there would probably be a little money left to paint ram [the school mascot] paw prints on the sidewalks that lead to the gym and ball fields.»

While most school closures are decided locally, the Education Department's School Improvement Grant gives underperforming school districts money for shakeups or turnarounds, including closchool closures are decided locally, the Education Department's School Improvement Grant gives underperforming school districts money for shakeups or turnarounds, including cloSchool Improvement Grant gives underperforming school districts money for shakeups or turnarounds, including closchool districts money for shakeups or turnarounds, including closures.

«What's being done with this money is unimpressive,» Hess said, adding that the rush to spend it «really lends itself to a lot of fly - by school improvement.»

Another problem is that the money goes directly to individual schools, so reforms are schoolwide, not districtwide, making lasting change more difficult to achieve, said Keith Owen, Colorado's associate education commissioner for accountability and improvement.

Maryland's legislative effort to funnel more money to schools for everything from textbooks to teacher salaries is resulting in educational improvements, concludes a preliminary report.

With that additional money in hand, it seems obvious that schools below the cutoff would be doing more improvements than schools above the cutoff, such as using different instructional approaches, different hiring practices, developing teachers and principals and so on.

We are back to the Coleman report, but updated this way — money can matter, but spending more on schools does not yield big improvements.

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Trinity Lutheran Church v. Comer and seemed troubled by a Missouri grant program that bars state money from going to religious schools for playground improvement.

New Hampshire lawmakers» attempt to accept $ 9 million in Goals 2000 money was quickly thwarted last week when Gov. Stephen Merrill vetoed the bill, reiterating his opposition to the federal school - improvement program.

But unless newly hired teachers are protected from the rigid seniority policies of states and school districts, many of these improvement efforts will fail, and the money will be wasted.

Howard University Middle School of Mathematics and Science pays no rent to the university, saving the charter $ 1 million a year and allowing it to spend $ 700,000 in facilities money on school improveSchool of Mathematics and Science pays no rent to the university, saving the charter $ 1 million a year and allowing it to spend $ 700,000 in facilities money on school improveschool improvements.

«CPS says they have to close schools and disrupt communities to save money, yet they are spending untold millions of dollars on standardized testing instead of small class sizes and other important improvements that might actually help struggling schools.»

Schools taking the money have to adopt one of four controversial improvement models.

A clear majority of justices at the U.S. Supreme Court seemed troubled Wednesday by a Missouri grant program that bars state money from going to religious schools for playground improvement.

Looking for creative ways to help close the near - $ 20 billion budget shortfall, state Senators have proposed shifting $ 165 million of the newly approved School Improvement Grant money to a program supporting low - performing schools created four years ago out of a court settlement with the governor.

The Department for Education said the money specifically to help MATs «build their capacity to take on and deliver improvement in underperforming local schools».

At the time, the trust said the costs were generated from school improvement and leadership work, and no public money allocated to pupils was used for the accommodation payments.

Nolt emphasized that the study focused on schools that received School Improvement Grants money between 2010 and 2013.

The Fernwood School, in Wollaton, has successfully applied for around # 3m of funding through the Government's Condition Improvement Fund (CIF), which allocates money to improve and expand school builSchool, in Wollaton, has successfully applied for around # 3m of funding through the Government's Condition Improvement Fund (CIF), which allocates money to improve and expand school builschool buildings.