Sentences with phrase «most needy school»

The state's indifference to the plight of struggling districts contributed to the rupture between former state schools Superintendent John Barge and Deal, prompting Barge's infamous letter to the Legislature in which he wrote, «It is a travesty and a shame what our state is doing to our rural and most needy school districts.

The authors» suggestion that states could use a «triage» approach to focus resources on the most needy schools confuses what is likely to happen, based on the available resources, with what needs to happen in order to meet state and federal standards.

Not exact matches

aims to help some of the most needy students gain access to health services close to school.

In particular, there are three aspects of the House bill that ought to especially worry parents, health advocates and those who are concerned about fighting childhood hunger: the bill takes a decidedly unscientific approach to setting school nutrition standards, it would most certainly re-open the school junk food floodgates, and it will drop millions of needy kids from a much - lauded program that currently offers them free school meals.

The program subsidizes lunch and breakfast for nearly 32 million needy kids in most public schools and many private ones, and those schools must follow guidelines on what they serve.

New York state owes Onondaga County schools $ 122 million and the neediest district — Syracuse — is owed the most, a report says.

«NYSUT believes strongly that the tax cap undemocratically deprives taxpayers of their constitutional right to determine local school funding levels, while exacerbating existing funding inequities that harm the state's neediest and most vulnerable students,» the union said in a statement.

On a day when budget negotiations are said to be winding down, Nixon came to Albany to join the Alliance for Quality Education in calling for $ 1.5 billion more in education funding, with most of that going to needy schools.

Our story focuses on Anita (Amanda Seyfried), who has the unfortunate - for - her nickname «Needy,» and Jennifer (Megan Fox), who is the most popular girl in school in spite of being in color guard.

For the neediest or most troubled schools in urban areas, even the differentials calculated in Figure 2 would probably not be sufficient to stem the high levels of turnover in such schools.

Philanthropy has also contributed to this narrowing as it directed most of its K — 12 dollars toward strategies and schools that promised to boost achievement for the neediest kids.

Some of the most effective charter schools thrive because the culture of the organization is nimble and informal, inspiring teachers to work as cohesive, trusting teams and put forth monumental effort on behalf of the neediest students.

There can be no reasonable doubt that testing has created momentum for positive change — particularly in schools that serve our neediest and most neglected children.

On paper, it looks to most people like a good plan: $ 1.2 billion going straight to needy school districts to hire thousands of new teachers and reduce class sizes in the crucial early grades.

Seniority, tenure, bumping rights, LIFO — all of these policies make it easier for teachers to choose (and remain in) the schools they want and harder for administrators to assign them — especially the most senior and likely most effective among them — to schools where they might do more good in classrooms with more challenging (but needier) kids.

«It was about changing the culture in our neediest schools towards one of excellence, and demonstrating, in a time of great financial stress in our state, that we can do something really dramatic and bold in our most difficult schools,» Raymond said.

Launched more than a decade ago as an edict of the Abbott rulings, New Jersey's school construction program for its neediest cities was once touted as among the nation's most ambitious.

We at the Los Angeles 10th district are using the Dashboard in order to find our most needy & underprivileged schools, in order to plan programs that give back.

Our most needy students need our best teachers, yet our highest need schools have the least experienced teachers, the most turnover and are becoming burnout factories for those who remain.

As a result, a number of exceptional educational options for some of Orange County's most needy children will open in the fall of 2016, including USC College Prep in Santa Ana and Unity Middle College High School in Orange.

He added that layoffs often impact the neediest schools as those campuses are typically staffed with the most junior teachers.

The most needy students were getting cut out of the school's offerings.

Luke Messer, a Republican Congressman from Indiana who is a friend of Mike Pence and who founded the Congressional School Choice Caucus already suggested that some or all of the money for Trump's school choice program could come from the $ 15 billion the federal government spends on Title I. Grabbing money intended to help public schools that serve the nation's most needy children and turning it into an uncontrolled experiment in vouchers and unregulated charter schools is exactly the kind of project Betsy DeVos would rSchool Choice Caucus already suggested that some or all of the money for Trump's school choice program could come from the $ 15 billion the federal government spends on Title I. Grabbing money intended to help public schools that serve the nation's most needy children and turning it into an uncontrolled experiment in vouchers and unregulated charter schools is exactly the kind of project Betsy DeVos would rschool choice program could come from the $ 15 billion the federal government spends on Title I. Grabbing money intended to help public schools that serve the nation's most needy children and turning it into an uncontrolled experiment in vouchers and unregulated charter schools is exactly the kind of project Betsy DeVos would relish.

This disappointing result was because appropriations were never sufficient to realize the large - scale impact envisioned by Johnson, the desire to focus extra aid on the most educationally needy students isolated them from other instruction, and the schools targeted for aid were often staffed by less experienced teachers.

A new article in The Atlantic details another example of how the most needy kids in our schools are not getting the money that was...

Today, when White speaks in support of the Common Core, he can seem to talk minimally (or too little) about its impact on middle - class schools, reserving his most impassioned rhetoric for the ways in which the Common Core will help the poorest and neediest in the state, offering those students the caliber of education rich kids in high - performing East Coast suburbs are getting.

Proof of public assistance, including Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Reference from Integrated Community / Communidad Integrada (ciiccolorado.org) Two most recent pay stubs W - 2 1040 Proof of children in the reduced - cost school lunch program Proof of unemployment benefits currently or within the last three months Proof of Food Stamps Latest award letter for Social Security or disability payments Proof of Medicaid Extreme medical expense or other demonstrable extreme financial hardship Court documents showing amount of child support or spousal maintenance

Or you know... there are those of us who start and run 501 (c) 3 animal rescues for free in our spare time away from our full time unrelated jobs and don't make excuses that we will do it when we retire or (better yet, my favorite * insert eye roll *) when we «win the lottery» I save HUNDREDS of senior, special needs, medically needy, shy, plain and hospice animals every year and find them forever homes I manage to do this while living in the most expensive area in the country, going back to school for another graduate degree and maintaining my other life responsibilities including my family and even other volunteer obligations.

Justin Harmon, a spokesman for Cooper Union, said in a statement that «the decision to charge tuition was tremendously difficult» but he said the neediest students will get more financial aid and the school will still be «among the most affordable elite institutions in the world.