Sentences with phrase «more money all school districts»

The compromise language is designed to give more money all school districts while still making sure districts like LAUSD with a large concentration of low - income and English language learning students get a big boost.

Not exact matches

If the American public are led to believe that the reason school food is suffering is because districts are managing their money inefficiently and not because it just costs more, then there will be no call to adequately fund school food.

But in those districts in which the company does operate under the NSLP, Justin explains how the new school food regulations can tie the hands of schools wanting to offer students the sort of appealing variety likely to attract fully paying customers (thus bringing more money into the program), and not just those students who are economically dependent on the school meal.

Any school that bans homemade lunches also puts more money in the pockets of the district's food provider, Chartwells - Thompson.

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.»

When students do so, it means more money in a district's coffers for the betterment of everyone's school food.

These sound like great resources, but school districts also say they need more money.

Park commissioners Tuesday night expressed hope District 54 eventually would contribute to the project, or that the school's parent organization would somehow raise the money for a more elaborate facility.

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.

More money would help with incorporating spices (training, recipe formulation, increased scratch cooking, ect) to replace salt but there's a certain level of sodium that is present in processed foods, even commodity processing: which is a staple in school districts.

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.»

The amount of MNP money that a school district receives varies from one community to another; in 2009 - 10, Oakland got about 16 cents, while next door in Berkeley, the amount was more like $ 1.40.

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

I bought a home in a rich neighborhood because it is close to my work place, but I think other school districts would benefit more from my money.

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 school district then hired him back to be a principal «saving» money they said because they weren't paying in to his pension any more.

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.

Cuomo, speaking to reporters in Syracuse a few days before the school districts asked for the money, said it's going to be difficult next year to fulfill all the requests for more funds.

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.

Advocates of increasing education funding had a setback yesterday, as the state's highest court narrowed a lawsuit that sought more money for school districts statewide.

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.

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.

And while he and Rumore agreed that the city's high poverty rate creates particular challenges for schools and that increased funding is necessary for a turnaround, Quinn said the district needs to «get its act together» before asking for any more money.

Easton, with AQE, says the governor's budget proposal to freeze property taxes and phase out a utility tax, worth a combined $ 500 million, could be scrapped in order to provide more money for needy school districts.

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.

Some groups condemned the governor for calling on districts to direct more of their state aid to their neediest schools — an exhortation that seemed at odds with his history of fighting the state's Foundation Aid formula, which directs more money to the state's poorest school districts and which advocates argue is itself underfunded.

Alicea said the district is working with elected officials to obtain more money for school security.

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.

In office a couple of months and getting a late start CeCe wrangled lots more money from the Gov for local school districts.

I can sell this house and buy one that (literally) costs 50 % more money for the same house (or slightly smaller), in a much worse location, but in a better school district.

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.

Hawkins» platform includes a call for a $ 15 hourly minimum wage rate, a ban on hydrofracking, using government money to hire unemployed workers for public projects, a single - payer healthcare program, rejecting the Common Core teaching standards (and the federal money that came with them), refiguring school aid to give more help to poorer districts and raising taxes on the richest New Yorkers.

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.

Proponents say the gaming will create thousands of jobs and put more money into school districts and help lessen property tax bills.

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.

You have more money coming from other areas to support your school district.»

Cuomo, speaking to reporters in Syracuse a few days before the school districts asked for the money, says it's going to be difficult next year to fulfill all the requests for more funds.

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.

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.

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.

The stark analysis from the governor, released one day after he held his first budget negotiation with legislators, shows his resolve in demanding his education reforms in order for local school districts to get more money.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Mayor Stephanie Miner has once again challenged Gov. Andrew Cuomo, this time by demanding more money for poor school districts like Syracuse.

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.

Compared to the general Nevada funding formula or the formulas that govern most district and charter schools nationally, the Nevada ESA program looks positively progressive in giving more money to kids starting off with less.

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.