Sentences with phrase «more equitable funding»

After a year - and - a-half of work, «most board members said they were satisfied that the document meshes with and advances the state's larger comprehensive effort for school improvement combining new academic standards, more equitable funding and a locally driven accountability system.»

Can you imagine how great the school would do if it received facilities aid or more equitable funding for its students?

The goal of Brown vs. New York is to get more equitable funding for charter schools.

Overall, the report found, communities have been doing their best to address the conditions of their schools, but they are in need of additional support and more equitable funding.

Leaders of both the NEA and AFT have sought to rally the public to their side by talking up their vision for improving public education: More arts classes and fewer standardized tests, more equitable funding and fewer school closures.

Other states have developed more equitable funding systems from which PWC can model its reform.

A proposed ballot initiative for 2018 to advance better and more equitable funding of public schools.

MARCH, 14 2018 Charter school advocates from across the state will gather at the Georgia Capitol with HB 787 sponsor Rep. Scott Hilton, the Georgia Charter Schools Association and other elected officials in support of more equitable funding for state charter schools.

Evers, in a statement, said more equitable funding for schools and engaging school communities are key to shrinking achievement gaps.

This will help guide our lawmakers to make the necessary changes to create a more equitable funding system.

Findings were based on a two - year study of four districts pursuing more equitable funding practices to address their achievement gaps: Atlanta Public Schools; New York City Department of Education / Empowerment Schools; Portland, Ore., Public Schools; and Lane County District Number 4J in Eugene, Ore..

In earlier eras, reformers wanted such things as a better curriculum, better - prepared teachers, better funding, more equitable funding, smaller classes, and desegregation, which they believed would lead to better public schools.

The federal government has a critical investment role to play in 1) supporting the replication and scale - up of the best providers through its grant programs; 2) improving access to low - cost public facilities for charter schools through its own funds and by leveraging existing public - school space; 3) pushing states and local districts toward more equitable funding systems for all public school students, including those in charter schools; and 4) supporting efforts to create early - stage, innovative, and scalable models that incorporate greater uses of learning technology.

It's a simple fact that charters in most places need more equitable funding.

Meanwhile, education advocates on Tuesday began their lobbying efforts with a rally calling on more equitable funding for high - needs schools across the state.

However, board member Luis Reyes, a researcher at Hunter College in Manhattan, said the graduation goal would prove «delusional» unless the state provides more equitable funding for schools in poor neighborhoods.

Senate Republicans blame Democrats for the G.E.A. and argue that their leadership has led to more equitable funding for schools.

This short of the $ 1.5 billion education advocates like the Alliance for Quality Education say is necessary to provide more equitable funding for poorer schools deemed to be in high - needs districts.

Widely affirmed proposals call for the restructure of low - performing schools, more emphasis on the basics, safer classrooms, more rigorous graduation standards, periodic measurement of progress through some kind of standardized tests, longer days and year - round schooling, decentralization into smaller learning communities and greater freedom for those smaller units, smaller classes, better - qualified teachers and improved salaries, more parental input and more equitable funding.

Not exact matches

With this in mind, James says her next big goals are to make the funding situation more equitable for local women and to push local early - stage startups toward commercialization.

We do support, however, changes to the funding and management of the federal employees» pension plans, including the move to more equitable contribution rates, changes in retirement provisions for new employees, among others.

Other key promises include reforming the Alberta Heritage Savings and Trust Fund after the Alaska Permanent Fund, and working with the federal government to gain a more equitable distribution of federal transfer payments.

While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

Also, many countries have social insurance taxes, typically impose on the basis in employment income, that fund universal pensions, health care and other social services, in which the distributions of benefits may be more equitable that the taxes that pay for them.

Transit: Albanese advocates for expanded bus service, a «more equitable tolling formula» and funding the MTA through the personal income tax already collected.

Senator Dan Squadron added a plea for support of his pending legislation for collaborative funding for NYC Parks between the City and the various Park Conservancies to advance their more equitable care.

ALBANY — Governor Andrew Cuomo argued Wednesday that a state - funding mechanism for pre-kindergarten is more equitable for districts across the state than a competing proposal from New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio to fund his program with a tax on the city's highest earners.

Gipson said he supports shifting the funding of education from property taxes to an income - based tax that he said would be more equitable than the current property tax structure.

For the last 17 years, I've been fighting for better schools and more equitable education funding all across New York state.

The group's poll surveyed 300 voters in New York, finding 61 percent of voters backed a more equitable balance in public school funding for rich and poor communities.

He believes part of the key to education reform is less testing and more equitable, full funding for education.

As an advocate for better schools and more equitable education funding all across the state, affordable housing, LGBTQ equality, clean energy, legalizing marijuana, and women's reproductive rights, Cynthia Nixon is running a grassroots campaign for governor without corporate funding.

Three days earlier, Mr. Cuomo's budget director, Robert Mujica, issued an 1,100 - word statement about «fair and equitable» school funding — an issue Ms. Nixon has advocated around for more than a decade.

The group found 44 or more members of the 2014 Council supporting steps to strengthen committees relative to the speaker and more than three - dozen advocating greater member authority in drafting bills as well as more equitable and transparent allocation of discretionary funds to each Council district.

«There has to be a more equitable plan that accomplishes our shared goals of cleaner air, reduced congestion and sufficiently funding our mass transit system,» Markowitz said.

Nixon has worked over the years with the Alliance for Quality Education, a group heavily funded by unions that has pushed for more equitable distribution of state aid to public schools.

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Allocating funds based on the number and characteristics of students that attend a school, instead of more typical methods of district - based budgeting and funding personnel, has the potential to facilitate public school choice by helping to ensure district schools of choice receive equitable funding.

First, just as the states refused to make good on the «equal» part of «separate but equal» after Plessy, for more than 40 years states have failed to provide equal access to the funding needed to achieve excellent schools for all children, largely because of a lack of federal accountability for equitable school funding.

As well, more equitable allocation of funds between schools increases equity in student outcomes.

After working for more than two decades to close the charter - school funding gap, charter advocates celebrated two victories in 2017 when Colorado and Florida both passed laws — the first in the country — mandating equitable access to certain local tax revenues for charter schools.

The department rewards states with lower variation coefficients, which it interprets as reflecting a more equitable distribution of funding across the state.

And rather than more funding for expanding prisons or school vouchers, why not fund a higher minimum wage, paid family leave, universal early childhood education, and full, equitable funding for all our schools, starting with our poorest communities?

This faith - based charter compromise could lead to a renewed urban school system — one based on equitable funding, more diverse options, parental choice, and comprehensive transparency and accountability.

In arguing for the elimination of the local school board, Chester Finn and Lisa Keegan («Lost at Sea «-RRB- state, «[State - level child - centered funding] would create not only a more equitable system, but also more effective schools.»

Don Shalvey: It's equity — equitable support, funding, and opportunities, and more cooperative support.

California's new Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) 1, signed into law in 2013, promised a new school finance system that would provide both more local control and a more equitable school finance system.

Tens of thousands have joined us for Charter School Advocacy Day throughout the years, where elected officials and their staff heard our calls for equitable funding, the elimination of the charter cap, and more.

Our funding formula should be student - centered, equitable, and ensure that more money gets to the classroom.

That may mean endorsing reforms to ensure more equitable local funding, or agreeing to share fundraising proceeds among schools.