Sentences with phrase «neediest schools by»

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.

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.

Not exact matches

How many orphanages, wells, hospitals, schools, shelters, water purifiers, warm blankets, clothes for the needy, homeless shelters, soup kitchens, rehab programs, homes, charitable organizations, etc were built and / or started by missionaries or religious organizations?

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!

Congress is trying to pass a bill by next week that would expand school lunch and other programs to feed needy children.

To a large extent, state fiscal policies have caused great pressure on property taxes in needy cities, counties and school districts, including decisions: to reduce revenue sharing; to decrease the share of local school budgets covered by state aid, to divide the non-federal share of Medicaid costs without considering ability to pay, and to allocate STAR benefits... (read more)

The education tax credit, a proposal lobbied for by Cardinal Timothy Dolan, would allow for private donations to public schools and create scholarship programs for needy students to receive access to private education, including parochial schools.

Lactose - intolerant children could get enough calcium by drinking alternatives such as soy milk or calcium - fortified juices, but the federally funded program, which provides free meals to needy children, won't reimburse schools for a lunch if they substitute nondairy alternatives for milk.

If you run a small school in a poor city, and you're trying to boost outcomes for your students by awarding scholarships to encourage attendance and achievement, do you give the scholarships to the best students, or to the neediest?

Never mind that the constituents of many such Democrats are needy inner - city families whose children are ill served by the schools those union members teach in.

(It should be tightly targeted on school readiness for very needy kids — and the feds should start by turning Head Start into the education program that it has never been.)

The additional $ 1.2 billion promised by the Coalition will be delivered using state and territory assessments of the neediest schools, as was recommended by the Gonski review, along with a number of other conditions (such as a standardised Year 1 assessment of literacy, phonics and numeracy against national standards, as well as a minimum standard of literacy and numeracy skills for Year 12 students).

Informed by this work, he directed over $ 5.5 million to the district's neediest schools.

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.

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).

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.

Aiming to fill future vacancies left by the expected retirements of thousands of teachers in the next few years, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed legislation following this year's legislative session that seeks to remove barriers that discourage out - of - state teachers from working in the state and provides incentives to encourage skilled teachers to work in the neediest schools.

Moreover, it can lead to unintended consequences such as shutting schools that are actually benefitting students (as measured by growth), discouraging new - school startups in needy communities (if social entrepreneurs believe that «failure» is inevitable), or thwarting the replication of high - performing urban schools.

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AB 1594 by Assemblyman Mike Eng, D - Monterey Park, would require charter schools to provide each qualified, needy pupil with one nutritionally adequate free or reduced - price meal as defined under the federal child nutrition program regulations, each school day.

Unions have also argued in briefs that there isn't evidence linking the least effective teachers to the neediest schools, and that there's no evidence students named in the lawsuit have been taught by the worst teachers.

This program provides facilities rent and lease assistance to charter schools, which do not have existing district facilities to use, that are serving some of California's neediest students (as defined by eligibility for the Free / Reduced - Price Meals Program).

We are here to say it is not acceptable for the wealthiest country in the world to be cutting millions of dollars from schools serving our neediest students; to be cutting teachers by the tens of thousands, to be eliminating art, music, PE, counselors, nurses, librarians, and libraries (where they weren't already gone, as in California); to be increasing class sizes to 40 or 50 in Los Angeles and Detroit.

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.

For instance, in Colorado, the state settled a school facilities lawsuit in 2000 by agreeing to set aside $ 190 million over 11 years for construction and repair projects in the state's neediest districts.

March 4, 2015 (New York)-- Schools Chancellor Carmen Farina joined hundreds of Educators 4 Excellence - New York members Wednesday to discuss ways our neediest students can access higher academic expectations set by the Common Core State Standards.

Governor Jerry Brown wants to dramatically restructure the way California allocates funding to schools by providing extra funds to districts with large numbers of needy students.

Our neediest schools in the poorest neighborhoods are being shut down and evangelized with «choice» offered by charter schools, many of which are cold business enterprises.

A committee of local education leaders established by Act 467 approved 10 -1-1 a formula that ensures the schools serving the neediest students in our city are receiving the funding they need to support those 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.

Side by Side charter has significantly fewer needy children than its host district — which brings me to Ms. Dichele's other claim: that her school spends less than public schools.

This bill is substantial as advocates say it will provide equity for the neediest students in Louisiana's schools by eliminating a behavioral intervention long shown to do more harm than good.

The original federal education law was created by Congress 50 years ago to fund schooling for the neediest students.

Governor Malloy's tenure has been characterized by denigrating teachers, vigorously opposing adequate funding of public schools and vastly increasing financial support for privately run charter schools which fail to serve the state's neediest children, including English Language Learners and students with disabilities, have disturbingly harsh disciplinary policies, increase racial isolation, drain public money from needy public schools and have even been implicated in fraud and theft.

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 citywide coalition of community groups is demanding that 80 % of $ 1 billion in new school funding headed to L.A. Unified be spent on needy students according to decisions made by local schools rather than district bureaucrats.

Mr. Epstein argued that the new approach would actually provide greater financial support to needy students, by allowing the school to subsidize not only their tuition but also the expense of living in New York, which he said drove some qualified students off to better - endowed institutions.

It also enables well - wishers to make generous contributions by paying electricity bills for schools, hospitals, and the needy.