Sentences with phrase «neediest schools at»

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In my dealings at colleges and high schools, the mellennials are far more self absorbed and needy as past generations.

I have a hard enough time getting out of bed at 5:15 am and then am greeted by a dog extremely needy for attention, kids to get ready for school, email to respond to, social media to monitor and loads of other things — like dishes and laundry!

All I know is that we've got to find a better way to take care of our needier students with their lunches while they are at school.

For some of these needy children, meals eaten at the school — lunch, breakfast, or snacks in the after - school cooking classes — will be the only meals of the day.

That's roughly one - fourth the number of children who qualify at schools for free or reduced price lunches — widely regarded as the only nutritious meal many needy kids receive during the school year.

When school is in session, needy families know their kids can eat at least one nutritious meal each day at little or no cost.

State Sen. Jim Tedisco of Glenville is proposing that proceeds from the sale of what he is calling a «Guardians For Schools,» license plate be used to fund armed guards — and other security measures — at needy New York state sSchools,» license plate be used to fund armed guards — and other security measures — at needy New York state schoolsschools.

School funding has always been a perennial battle at the state Capitol, with lawmakers pushing for a slice of the state pie for their districts, while education advocates have decried the complicated formula they say has starved the neediest districts.

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.

State Sen. Jim Tedisco lauded the district and its administrators for spending the funding on hiring more teachers and expanding programs aimed at needy children and proposing a budget that cuts school taxes.

With his halting French and bashful ways, the emigré at the film's centre, Antek Liebmann (Godehard Giese), seems quite far from a parading peacock: simple in look and affect, he, a school teacher, does not seem overly complicated or needy in his dealings with the friendly and curious locals.

The next morning, Jennifer arrives at school without any knowledge of the previous night's events, but when male classmates begin turning up brutally murdered, Needy discovers that Jennifer is the one responsible.

Despite Warnings, College Board Redesigned SAT in Way that May Hurt Neediest Students Reuters, 9/21/16 «Daniel Koretz, a professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, said some professors would want to know whether students can follow university - level math lectures.

She writes: «scholarship programs have been twisted to benefit private schools at the expense of the neediest children.»

Fourth, Congress could enact Senator Lamar Alexander's proposed «G.I. Bill for Children,» which would give needy K — 12 students grants (in participating states) the equivalent of Pell Grants with which to pay tuition at the private school of their choice.

Missouri should not have a system that puts our neediest communities at a disadvantage when it comes to recruiting talented teachers and states should not impose a tariff on attracting quality teachers and school leaders.

Instead it would furnish needy families with vouchers that could be redeemed for education at any state - approved school.

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The combination of needy younger students with older students thrilled to feel needed has benefited both groups of youngsters — despite concerns expressed at the outset of the program by elementary and high school teachers and parents.

At the University of Notre Dame, the Alliance for Catholic Education program trains recent college graduates to become teachers and principals in needy Catholic schools across the nation.

Neither side is wholly satisfied: liberals complain that not every needy kid has equal access to charter options and that not every charter is good at meeting every kid's needs, while conservatives lament that the hand of government still weighs upon these schools and the marketplace is constrained in multiple ways.

The results of such an analysis allow us to reality - test the broad cautions voiced by the Friedman Foundation, the Cato Institute, and others — in particular their warning that holding schools to account for student achievement (especially via conventional state testing programs) will surely cause them to turn their backs on such programs and thus leave needy children without good educational options at all.

Georgia's program also promised to designate scholarships for students in «failing public schools» from low socioeconomic levels, but as a 2013 New York Times article exposed, the program has «[benefited] private schools at the expense of needy children.»

Consequently, schools, especially in Connecticut's neediest districts, can not afford basic educational tools such as a sufficient number of teachers, reasonable class size, adequate school facilities, services for at - risk children, electives, AP classes, even books, computers and paper.

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.

Eli Pollak, an eighth - grader at Hamilton Middle School in Madison, has started a fund to award trips to students from needy familes.

Instead of trips to the beach or a day at the ballpark, hundreds of teachers went to «summer school» to dive into professional development and to learn from their peers about what's working — and what's not — to improve education for needy students at priority schools.

Misguided policies that weaken public education by diverting public funds from already - strained public schools or by enriching private companies at the expense of our neediest students, however, will continue to meet NASSP's vigorous opposition.

At the same time, 13 per cent of respondents said their school was forced to run a food bank for needy pupils.

To attempt to level the playing field, we should at least be equipping schools to provide supports to needy children that affluent parents provide their children.

At the same time, Corbett scrapped a school funding formula that aimed to send more state dollars to schools serving high numbers of needy students.

«This year's results reveal noteworthy achievement gains in many districts...» our neediest students continue to perform significantly worse than their wealthier peers, especially at the high school level.

The cuts are hitting hardest at school districts with a high share of disadvantaged students, as federal funding primarily pays for programs that serve needy and disabled students.

Let's be absolutely clear: a donation of a million dollars will be subsidized by tax payers to the tune of $ 750,000 for scholarships that might go to people earning $ 300,000 annually while genuinely needy families will get a $ 500 coupon for tuition (which is about 1/24 the average cost of tuition at a Catholic school in the United States) and teachers will get slightly less than the cost of 10 packs of multi-colored Sharpies.

For example, the Washington Supreme Court has barred a blind student from using vocational rehabilitation funds to pursue seminary studies [xxxii]; forbidden a program that provided textbook and tuition assistance grants for needy students at public and private, including religious, schools [xxxiii]; and struck down a program that allowed students from private, including religious, schools to ride public school buses.

Rather they serve less needy children and when adjusting school aggregate performance measures for the children they serve, they achieve no better current outcomes on average than the schools they are slated to take over... The assumption that charter takeover can solve the ills of certain district schools is specious at best.»

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.

The new budget proposal takes aim at a host of elementary, secondary and higher education programs that serve needy students, redirecting those funds toward K - 12 school choice in the form of vouchers, tax credits and charter schools.

In 2015, at least 30 states were funding their schools at lower levels than they had before the Great Recession, with those serving the neediest students often the hardest hit.

But structural inequities in the LCFF prohibit many charter schools from receiving concentration grants for all of their neediest students, because their concentration grant funding is capped at the district average.

33 In it, he argues that schools should «spur on the strivers,» even at the expense of more needy students.

Guatemala, District D - 3 - US$ 25,000 was awarded to Lions to implement the Lions Quest: Skills for Growing program at some of the neediest public schools in Guatemala City; benefitting more than 6,000 students.