Sentences with phrase «neediest schools»

«The court said the state is not meeting its constitutional obligation on funding in needy school districts,» Mulgrew said.

His new attacks on public education include taking $ 17.1 million out of traditional public schools, which will curtail extended day and summer programs in needy school districts, make universal preschool impossible, not fund priority districts as promised and at less than last year, and limit aid for transportation of students.

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.

In addition to the usual arguments about how such a system diverts funds from needy school districts and / or skims away the best students and their highly - involved parents (an argument that is also applied to charter schools yet, strangely, not to NYC ’s

The district tries to help needier schools by offering them donated equipment, a lower - cost leasing program and shopping events where schools can buy repurposed technology from within CPS.

Microsoft Corp., which faces scores of private lawsuits for allegedly using its monopoly position to overcharge computer buyers for its software products, announced a sweeping settlement plan last week that would include the launch of a $ 1 billion company - sponsored program to pour technology into needy schools.

For instance, Richardson Independent School District superintendent Jeannie Stone described to lawmakers a program within her own district through which some of the highest performing teachers receive higher pay and are incentivized to teach in the district's neediest schools where students are less likely to have access to high quality teachers.

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.

Money would then be available to bring needy schools up to 95 per cent of the government's schooling resource standard (SRS), which is calculated by taking a base cost for educating each student and adding money for disadvantage (such as coming from a low socio - economic background, being indigenous, or living in a remote area).

Following two decades in which courts spurred significant reforms in our nation's neediest schools by interpreting the education clauses of their state constitutions to guarantee an «adequate» education for all students, the years 2005 to 2008 have seen a dramatic change in the judicial response to adequacy litigation.

Cuomo administration officials say that the state has already fulfilled its funding requirements for needy schools many times over.

Cuomo's plan would spend $ 1.5 billion over five years, with $ 100 million in the first year targeting needy school districts.

Nevertheless, some advocates were left wanting more — or, specifically, some indication that the governor plans to fund the state's neediest schools at sufficient levels.

The letter hits the state for not meeting a court order to provide needy schools that were traditionally underfunded billions of dollars more in aid, an obligation Cuomo has repeatedly argued has been met.

The Wards and their colleagues on the Omega board craved quality financial - management support, and k.i.d.s. was set up to help provide it to worthy but needy schools like this one.

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.

Our primary finding is that principal - hiring practices — even in pioneering districts — continue to fall short of what is needed, effectively causing needy schools to lose out on leaders with the potential to be great.

But whether the proposed changes are common - sense measures that would better and more reliably identify needy schools or attempts to duck accountability is largely in the eye of the beholder.

The report's main author, Grattan school education program director Peter Goss, says the indexation gap frees up money to use to improve needy schools and lift the quality of teachers.

Private management allows for a large system to contract for change on a limited basis — for, say, several needy schools — without having to change the entire school system, as ambitious internal reforms would demand.

Secretary Duncan Addresses School Leaders U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan called for a cadre of «warrior principals» for our nation's neediest schools during his remarks to the leaders of the state and national principals organizations at the 2009 National Leaders» Conference.

My website, Unique Teaching Resources, made donations to these two needy schools using all of the income that I earned during December 2009.

Well - wishers can also help needy schools pay their utility bills using the smart energy power meters.

«He needed to sit down and talk about how to keep the best teachers in needy schools.

De Blasio has expanded wraparound services citywide and it has produced results, but the GOP and IDC are still withholding billions in funding for needy schools.

Technology won't fix America's Neediest Schools.

In other words, the neediest schools are forced to comply with these guidelines in order to be reimbursed for providing meals to their students.

But that doesn't ensure every needy school - age child in the city gets the proper nutrition, officials add.

She's been working with them for years to get more money to the state's neediest schools.

A spokesman for the governor, Rich Azzopardi, said 80 percent of the major portion of the state's school aid, known as foundation aid, already is directed to the state's neediest schools.

Cuomo also proposed a $ 15 million increase in state spending for pre-kindergarten programs, particularly in the neediest school districts.

But state Assemblyman Charles Barron (D - East New York) interrupted his speech on Tuesday, saying the city's neediest schools are still struggling.

Cuomo says 70 percent of this year's school funding increase will go to the state's neediest school districts.

«I am not sure that the governor is willing to agree to that substantial increase in aid, but I would like to at least eliminate it for the neediest schools this year,» she said.

The Watertown Times: «Northern New Yorkers have honest politicians, and we have needy school districts.

«Without reasonable, thoughtful modifications to the tax cap — such as recognizing enrollment growth and counting capital expenses for BOCES — public schools will again be looking at cuts that erode educational quality, especially in the neediest school districts.»

As part of the celebration of the World Teachers» Day, GNAT selects a Needy School and some pupils / students in the host region to benefit from GNAT's largesse.

Cuomo's campaign spokesperson, Abbey Fashouer, counters that he «has made education equity a central focus of his tenure, investing a record $ 27 billion with a focus on our neediest schools, while demanding accountability measures so that the door to opportunity is open for every child — regardless of income, zip code or ethnicity.

has made education equity a central focus of his tenure, investing a record $ 27 billion with a focus on our neediest schools, while demanding accountability measures so that the door to opportunity is open for every child — regardless of income, zip code or ethnicity.

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.

«His proposal said, «Do not go to a needy school, and don't teach the neediest students.

A spokesman for the governor, Rich Azzopardi, says 80 percent of the major portion of the state's school aid, known as foundation aid, is already directed to the state's neediest schools.

The state teachers» union, meanwhile, blamed King for the stalemate, slamming the the Dec. 31st deadline as «an arbitrary exercise of brinksmanship» that would disrupt services to the neediest schools.

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.