Sentences with phrase «money than district schools»

This isn't a big business movement; these are schools in districts that need them, trying to make sure kids get a good education — and they're doing it with less money than district schools.

Not exact matches

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.»

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.

In fact, only about 50 of the more than 700 school districts in the state have even submitted applications for the money, officials said.

The state provides more than half of the money to run Syracuse and its school district — $ 339 million out of a combined budget of $ 633 million.

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.

Long Island school districts stand to recover more than $ 117 million in lost state financial aid during the coming year, according to the region's education leaders who say the money will help compensate for tighter state property tax limits.

North Fork school districts will be getting more money back from Albany next year, after state leaders passed a 2014 - 2015 budget Tuesday that will grant more than $ 265,000 than previously suggested by Gov. Andrew Cuomo earlier this year.

«That means that we can now focus our efforts in the coming years on getting New York City schools the Campaign for Fiscal Equity money they are still owed and building equity into the state aid formula so that poor school districts get more state aid than wealthier ones,» Mulgrew said.

Almost as stupid as STAR where New York intentionally overtaxes to build up money to write rebate checks for people like Rump... and to give more aid to wealthy school districts than poor ones.

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.

There are unfunded mandates and lack of aid from the state, and while he has provided more money for education, it is less than the Campaign for Fiscal Equity settlement [the 2006 court ruling requiring the state to pay billions in backpay to shortchanged school districts]... When [Assembly Speaker Carl] Heastie proposed a slightly progressive income tax, he just rejected it.

New research from the National Bureau of Economics confirms what teachers have always known: Money does make a difference for schools, and districts with large proportions of high - need students need comparatively more money than districts with fewer high - need studMoney does make a difference for schools, and districts with large proportions of high - need students need comparatively more money than districts with fewer high - need studmoney than districts with fewer high - need students.

New York State School Boards Association Executive Director Tim Kremer says 13 districts proposed budgets that exceeded the 2 percent tax cap and 77 percent passed: «The voters came out and said «we understand that you're gonna need more money than what the cap would allow.

They simply don't have the LEGAL authority to cut the overwhelming majority of their expenses and with the double digit cut in state aid most local school districts will receive, they will have to make up for that money by significantly jacking up property taxes... which are far more regressive and oppressive than income taxes.

According to a G.A.O. report, which was done at the request of Representative William H. Natcher of Kentucky, chairman of the appropriations subcommittee on labor, health and human services, and education, two - thirds of rural districts that receive federal drug - free school grants say the money covers more than half of their total drug - education program.

The unions recognize that they have less control over private contractors than over the districts, and that the success of private contractors could well promote the flow of jobs, money, and control from public to private schools.

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.

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 other words, as a result of political opposition, the vast majority of school districts, even in conservative Texas, turned down extra money from the state rather than adopt merit pay.

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.

That may not appear to be much these days, when a single failed firm may gobble up $ 85 billion in government money, but recall that this was a school district, in 1984, of 37,000 students (it had fallen from 51,000 at the beginning of the case), with a budget of less than $ 100 million.

A study of 49 states by The Education Trust found that school districts with high numbers of low - income and minority students receive substantially less state and local money per pupil than school districts with few poor and minority children.

The overall salary package provided more potential money than teachers would have earned through the Los Angeles school district's salary schedule.

-- Budget Cuts Force Tough Choices School districts across the country are coping with the problems that arise when school funding provides less money than schoolsSchool districts across the country are coping with the problems that arise when school funding provides less money than schoolsschool funding provides less money than schools need.

A host of new, small schools opening in Chicago will get more money than regular district schools, officials have decided.

On the other hand, charters get 19 percent less money per student than district - operated schools, according to one analysis.

Few jurisdictions have passed significant voucher and tax - credit legislation, and most have hedged charter laws with one or another of a multiplicity of provisos — that charters are limited in number, can only be authorized by school districts (their natural enemies), can not enroll more than a fixed number of students, get less money per pupil than district - run schools, and so on.

Money trickling, rather than pouring, into state coffers means there is little available to flow out to school districts.

Three pivotal school board members, who were elected less than three months ago on a platform of keeping the Minneapolis - based company in Hartford, said last week that their support for the experiment had withered during more than two months of negotiations over how much money EAI should receive from the district.

The SNS provision in ESSA says that school districts need to show that their resource allocation methodologies prevent any Title I school from getting less state and local money than it would have if it didn't participate in Title I.

A group of Rhode Island school districts that hired a private contractor to save money on school - lunch programs is having to swallow more than it bargained for.

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

Second, Don McAdams, founder of the Center for Reform of School Systems, argued that philanthropy typically entails limited dollars in the grand scheme of things, but has an outsized influence because this money is nimble and can be used to drive a state or a district's reforms, where it's hugely difficult to redeploy more than a sliver of public funds.

Promising money to states if they come up with sensible ideas seems to work more effectively than punishing schools and districts for low performance.

The officials in the Universal Services Administrative Co. in Washington sent a letter last week to the Ysleta school district in Texas rejecting its bid for more than $ 18 million in E-rate money.

When the public is provided with specific information on the current level of expenditure in the local school district, it is less willing to spend more money on schools than when this information is not given.

Because the salaries of senior teachers are much higher than those of newcomers (usually by more than $ 25,000 / teacher), districts have to spend a lot more money on the schools where senior teachers cluster — and they fund this by spending a lot less on the schools that senior teachers avoid.

The U.S. Department of Education said in a statement that it «has not had to withhold money — yet — over this requirement because states have either complied or have appropriately addressed the issue with schools or districts that assessed less than 95 percent of students.

Moreover, the charters are achieving these results for less money per student than the district schools.

The release quotes CER leader Jeanne Allen saying, «the real fight» is not whether teachers are paid well enough and schools are adequately funded but how to «ensure money follows students and doesn't continue to get wasted on a bloated bureaucracy and top - heavy school districts that have grown dramatically faster than enrollment.»

More than one district has used extra funding for disadvantaged kids, rather than general grant money, to augment school policing.

It is no secret that some school districts spend their money better than others.

Money for staff training also is more plentiful at the school than elsewhere in the 45,000 - student district.

As senior - level administrators are both the stewards of the pension system and the recipients of the highest net benefits, the authors conclude, «There is no reason to expect school administrators or their organizations to support reforms that would provide a more modern and mobile retirement system for young educators» and suggest that districts could be recruiting young teachers more effectively by putting money in upfront salaries rather than in end - of - career pension benefits.

Philanthropy helps to a degree, yet district schools get even more money from nonpublic sources than charters do: $ 571 per pupil versus $ 552.

A study more specific to Florida — Charter High Schools» Effects on Long - Term Attainment and Earnings — showed that students who attend Florida charter high schools are more likely to stay in college and earn more money than their counterparts in district sSchools» Effects on Long - Term Attainment and Earnings — showed that students who attend Florida charter high schools are more likely to stay in college and earn more money than their counterparts in district sschools are more likely to stay in college and earn more money than their counterparts in district schoolsschools.

This was a huge breakthrough for the district sector to be able to have the same flexibility from laws and rules as did the charter sector and teachers have the autonomy of chartered school teachers and also keep the same amount of money as district schools which is considerably more than the chartered schools.

Throughout Washington, D.C., and around the country, parents are raising hundreds of thousands — even millions — of dollars to provide additional programs, services, and staff to some of their districts» least needy schools.7 They are investing more money than ever before: A recent study showed that, nationally, PTAs» revenues have almost tripled since the mid-1990s, reaching over $ 425 million in 2010.8 PTAs provide a small but growing slice of the funding for the nation's public education system.