Sentences with phrase «needy school districts»

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.»

This would disproportionately impact the state's neediest school districts, officials say, especially in rural areas, where regional BOCES programs help small districts offer services to students they wouldn't be able to afford on their own.

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.

The new formula drives dollars to the neediest school districts, those that have the fewest local resources and are the least well - funded.

The new formula drives dollars to the neediest school districts, those that have the fewest local resources and are the -LSB-...]

Stand fought for a $ 223 million increase in appropriations for schools and successfully defeated legislation that would have redirected early childhood funds, expanded programs that lack real accountability, and eliminated funding to needy school districts.