Sentences with phrase «more public school funding»

More than 800 UFT members boarded buses headed for Albany at dawn on March 27 to lobby state lawmakers for more public school funding, charter school accountability, an extended and enhanced millionaire's tax, support for Community Learning Schools and other important education initiatives.

Not exact matches

The Clinton platform also focuses heavily on education, including a call to broaden computer science education in public schools, revamp job training programs, and provide more funds for minority colleges to help tackle tech's diversity problem.

On the question of whether public funding for elite private schools that charge more than $ 10,000 per year per student in tuition should be eliminated, 75 per cent of respondents agreed and more than half, 53 per cent, agreed strongly.

In more recent times, Catholics ran schools from the early 19th century onwards, with some public funding from the 1850s

Keep it at home, practice it all you want in your heart, but when it comes to voting for prayer in public school, or more military funding of Israel, make that vote with everyone in mind, not just your narrow religious world view.

About three thousand students are already benefiting from the latest wrinkle in five states, «education savings accounts,» which provide even more flexibility to families by allowing those who withdraw their children from public schools to receive a deposit of public funds into government - authorized savings accounts that can be used to pay for private school tuition, online learning programs, private tutoring, educational therapies, or college costs.

Mehta acknowledged in his essay that some of this inequity is on the supply side: Schools that have the freedom and resources to adopt the techniques of deeper learning are more likely to be well - funded independent schools or public schools in wealthy suburbs or neighboSchools that have the freedom and resources to adopt the techniques of deeper learning are more likely to be well - funded independent schools or public schools in wealthy suburbs or neighboschools or public schools in wealthy suburbs or neighboschools in wealthy suburbs or neighborhoods.

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.

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.

• increase public funding for after - school programs • serve suppers instead of (or in addition to) snacks • recruit more school districts to provide after - school suppers and snacks • support and expand year - round participation by integrating the Afterschool Supper Program with the Summer Food Service Program • streamline and simplify the Afterschool Supper Program • serve meals during weekends, holidays and unanticipated school closures; and • improve meal quality

After Park District officials declined an offer to feature a Nativity scene in a public park, the Thomas More Society filed a complaint and the Illinois Nativity Scene Committee lobbied to place a privately funded depiction of the birth of Jesus at North School Park.

The Chicago - based Thomas More Society, on behalf of former Arlington Heights resident Jim Finnegan, sent a letter to Park District officials and village leaders this week asking that a privately funded Nativity scene be allowed in the public North School Park.

«I am voting for this resolution because of the more than half a billion dollars in new funding it asks our state to deliver to non-charter New York City publics schools,» Avella said at the time.

«Unfortunately, the Governor and the Assembly Speaker care more about keeping teenage drug gang members, murderers and rapists out of jail than they do about funding our public schools, providing tax relief for our families and rebuilding our infrastructure,» said Sen. Tom Croci, a Long Island Republican.

Although the amendment wouldn't directly affect funding (and such) for public schools, in the long term anything that makes alternative education feasible for more people could lead to a reduction in the status of public schooling.

Republican Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan nudged New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio to provide more information on how the city spends $ 9 billion in state funding for education as a precursor to considering an extension of mayoral control of public schools.

The real goal seems to be to take more and more children from the public schools and put them into private schools and shrink the funds that would be available to the public schools that give all of America's children the chance to get ahead.

Former teacher Linares said he also intends to focus on education, and called for more funding to help community schools and provide wrap - around services for public school students.

America could lose more than a million jobs if the Senate votes to repeal the Affordable Care Act, according to a report from George Washington University's Milken Institute School of Public Health and the Commonwealth Fund.

But Lipton also said there is «more to do,» like restoring «progressivity» to the state's tax code, closing the carried interest tax loophole, and investing in a new «social contract» on public education that ensures full funding for schools — including universal pre-K (an early de Blasio priority)-- and restoration to the public university system to pre-recession levels.

Nixon, 51, has been a longtime advocate for more funding for public schools and a critic of what she calls unequal distribution of education funds.

One proposal released Wednesday by Cuomo's tax department would create one or more state - operated charitable funds to receive taxpayers» contributions for healthcare and public schools.

Of the nine donors or foundations that gave the Fund for Public Schools $ 1 million or more this year, six gave specifically to the computer science program.

Nixon, an actress known for her role in the HBO series «Sex and the City» is a prominent advocate for public education funding and has often pushed Albany to spend more money on schools, criticizing Cuomo's stance on funding issues.

The Greens have called for Foundation Aid to be fully funded immediately, for the school aid formula to be reformed so it is more need - based, and for the state to support school desegregation programs such as intra - and inter-district public school choice, consolidation, and incentives (such as magnet schools).

ALBANY — Unlike past proposals, Governor Andrew Cuomo's new legislation establishing an education tax credit offers more incentives for donations to private school scholarship funds than public schools.

With $ 30 billion more in state revenue, we could restore full funding for public schools and colleges, pay for the state mandates on local governments through increased revenue sharing, cut regressive local property and sales taxes, and build the infrastructure and services of the Green New Deal.

Cuomo's proposal is more restrictive than the legislation, which is designed to incentivize donations to private school scholarship funds as well as public schools.

The group praised Gov. Andrew Cuomo for his free college tuition plan announced Tuesday, but said more funding is needed for New York public schools.

Her position is cheered by her liberal base — which plays an important role in a Democratic primary — because it has long sought more state and local funding for public schools and for progressive state programs.

De Blasio said the costs will make it difficult to fund current and future initiatives such as adding more police and fixing failing public schools.

The Department of Education's proposal to amend ESSA would label most Westchester public schools as «in need of improvement» and would cut federal funding for any school where 5 percent of students or more opt out of Common Core testing.

De Blasio's key challenges now include renewing mayoral control of the public schools and getting the state to live up to more of its court - ordered funding obligation.

In the last four weeks alone, the Fund For Great Public Schools has poured more than $ 1.1 million into the race to bolster Eachus against Republican Sen. Bill Larkin.

The UFT has issued a memo warning of a potential loss of millions of dollars in federal funds for more than 1,200 New York City public schools if Trump's administration adopts a voucher system for schools.

The Buffalo Public Schools could hire as many as 300 more bus aides, if funding can be found.

Jones, a Democrat, previously expressed support for middle - class tax relief, an increase in education funding for public schools and more tools to fight the state's opiate epidemic.

Kim says he no longer thinks it's the right priority, and that there needs to be more focus on fully funding public schools first.

As Borough President, I worked to create more than 27,000 new seats in 48 new public schools, fought to strengthen the role of the local Superintendents, and provided funding to modernize our schools so they can meet the challenges of future.

Ultimately, however, his plan falls short by allocating less than $ 1 billion in new education money this year at a time when public schools are still owed more than $ 4.4 billion in Campaign for Fiscal Equity (CFE) funding.

If the State Legislature approves the Assembly's budget increase for education aid — it could mean more funding for Buffalo Public Schools.

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.

I am voting Green because Howie Hawkins and Brian Jones will fully fund our public schools, will stop the over-testing of our students, and will not open more privately managed charter schools.

Perhaps the chancellor didn't want to fund schools and thought that teachers and teaching assistants are simply more overpaid public servants.»

Parents, citizens and local officials gathered in Buffalo Wednesday to demand that New York State provide more funding for public schools.

Mulgrew said the full payment of the CFE funds would help New York City public schools reduce class size and better serve the growing population of English language learners and special education students with more teachers, guidance counselors, social workers, school psychologists and school nurses.

He opposes asking for more federal funding in order to provide free lunches to all public school students, regardless of family income.

ALBANY — More than 1,000 charter - school students and teachers descended on Albany Tuesday to demand equal funding with regular public schools.

The freeze on charters» per - pupil funding won't officially end for another year, but these innovative public schools will get direct state grants to reduce the gap this year — and also get markedly more facilities funding.

Other topics Epstein wants to tackle in Albany include more funding for public schools, strengthening gun control laws and establishing a single - payer healthcare system.