Sentences with phrase «more state funds»

So charters will get more state funding than the local school district, plus local districts will now pay them an additional penalty for each charter school student.

Some mechanisms attempt to reach this goal by bringing the bottom up — districts with less local revenue receive more state funds.

Does this mean he'll support more state funding for politics?

The state's largest teacher union is crying foul over potentially more state funding for charter schools.

He also wants to make sure more state funds are sent to the MTA for subway and bus riders in the area.

More state funding appears to buy pennies on the dollar in lower tuition.

There are clearly areas where more state funds are needed.

The 200 parents who traveled with UFT members to Albany that day added their voices to the call for more state funding for schools.

Monday's news conference featuring the «Sex And The City» star was organized by the Alliance for Quality Education, a group that Nixon joined long ago to seek more state funding for schools.

Mr Clegg's Liberal Democrats have a vested interest in seeing more state funding of political parties, since they receive a comparatively paltry amount in private donations relative to the «big two».

Cuomo's plan would also direct more state funding to expand computer science programs and continue the state's mentoring program.

Beebe, an Air Force veteran who owns an information technology business, said that simply pouring more State funds into education is not the solution.

Pouring more state funds into a particularly expensive low - carbon technology isn't an option.

But despite their failure, the Governor and the state department of education is taking its failed model to school districts across the state and have recently passed a ill fated voucher program that will take put more state funds in the private sector and fail more children.

PLANS for the overhaul of Karratha's central business district are progressing with development applications lodged and more state funds allocated to revitalisation projects.

He said that the district would appreciate more state funding for school resource officers, or SROs.

Despite getting flak from civil rights advocates over his decision to veto bills that would have legalized specific kinds of pocket knives and offering more state funds to compensate lawyers designated by the court to represent defendants who don't make enough money to afford a lawyer for defense in a criminal case, people roared in applause throughout Cuomo's speech.

Actions — not words and feelings — are what matters, which is why this administration fought for and delivered more state funding to New York City than ever before — $ 30 billion this year — raised the minimum wage to $ 15, passed the country's strongest paid family leave policy, enacted full - day universal Pre-K without additional taxes, secured unprecedented funding to modernize the MTA, and is rebuilding LaGuardia, and reconstructing Penn Station.»

The city of Syracuse is ready to jump into a competition for more state funds meant to spark the upstate economy.

«Albany's fixation on steering more state funds to schools isn't translating into property tax relief.

«Everyone is hoping there will be more state funds available and create more workforce housing in the area.»

«As chair of the Assembly education committee, I know our majority and Speaker Carl E. Heastie have consistently fought for more state funding so that all of our students can finally receive the sound, basic education they desperately deserve.»

We need to elect leaders into the state legislature who appreciate our value as an institution and are willing to shower us with more state funds.

Under normal circumstances, the city's board of education and the unions would join forces to win more state funding and seek pension relief for Chicago schools.

South San Antonio Independent School District superintendent Abelardo Saavedra said ELL funding calculations could better mirror the state's approach to special education students, who receive two to five times more state funding than a regular student.

The deadline is one that State Education Commissioner John King set last month after the city and teachers union failed to agree on a new teacher evaluation system: By Feb. 15, he said, the city would have to detail its implementation plans or lose more state funds.

The people who were the financial backers of Achievement First then created ConnCAN and ConnAD, the two lobbying and advocacy groups designed to support the effort to shift more state funds to Achievement First and Connecticut's other charter schools.

DPI estimates roughly 94 percent of state school districts would receive more state funding under this proposal.

During his election - night speech, Evers cited more state funding and improving the rhetoric around the teaching profession as priorities.

The matrix employs a multi-tiered funding system through which students with the most profound needs requiring very expensive services draw down significantly more state funds than those who are diagnosed with minor speech problems, for example.

The Attorney General's office also found that K12 and its affiliated schools collected more state funding from the California Department of Education than they were entitled to by submitting inflated student attendance data and that the company leaned on the nonprofit schools to sign unfavorable contracts that put them in a deep financial hole.

The school district is in contract negotiations with its labor groups, and UTLA asked the school board to join its call for more state funding as part of its bargaining proposal.

Testimony in a lawsuit seeking more state funding for small urban school districts drew to a close yesterday amid claims from supporters of the plaintiffs that the state hired an expert witness known for questioning the value of school desegregation.

Mayor Bill de Blasio, who has tangled with Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the Republican State Senate to get more state funding for anti-homelessness initiatives, applauded the Schneiderman plan though no one from his office attended the event.

I doubt that Cameron could get Tory MPs to vote for more state funding of political parties either.

He has promised to flat fund education for two years, essentially an 8 % cut, introduce an A-F grading system for all schools and create in - district school choice, all while adopting market - based «Money Follows the Child» to direct more state funds to privately run charter schools.»

While KERA intended for poverty - stricken neighborhoods to receive more state funding, the amount of funding received per at - risk student varies, and in recent years, that amount has plummeted.

«The scale of the Conservatives» boundary problem Main Tory MPs shouldn't vote for more state funding of party politics»

The press conference was organized by the Alliance for Quality Education, a group that Nixon has long been associated with that advocates for more state funding for schools.

She spoke at a press conference Monday organized by the Alliance for Quality Education, an activist group that pushes for more state funding for schools and has said that the current funding distribution favors wealthy, white districts over poor areas with people of color.

Council co-chairman Rob Simpson says that means the stakes are higher this time around, because there are more state funds than ever for the winners to pump into their regional economies.

It's also pushing for more state funding to help districts provide pre-kindergarten classes and internet access.

A spokesperson for the deputy prime minister made clear the government could not see a case for more state funding «at a time when budgets are being squeezed and economic recovery remains the highest priority».

The state budget hearing is an annual mayoral ritual that forces Mr. de Blasio and other mayors from across the state to travel to Albany in the dead of winter for a never - ending, occasionally humiliating pursuit of more state funding.

Republican State Senator Jim Seward is turning to town leaders in a push to for more state funding for

More than 1,000 UFT members descended upon Albany on March 9 to advocate for more state funding for the city's public schools.

PIVOT members are also meeting with Assembly woman Addie Russell to push for more state funding to fight heroin addiction.

Yelyzaveta Kalinichenko, a special education teacher at Wadleigh Secondary School for the Performing and Visual Arts, and 13 fellow educators from District 3 squeezed into the office of state Sen. Liz Krueger to appeal for more state funding for New York City public schools.