Sentences with phrase «needy schools many»

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

The service has also delivered these meters to needy schools, allowing anyone around the world to pay for their electricity with cryptocurrency.

Some of the more needy schools, with untrained teachers and few books or equipment are in the far south.

Taking more money away from needy schools would likely widen these gaps.

Throughout the reauthorization process, NEA's focus has been threefold: decouple standardized testing from high - stakes decisions, create an «opportunity dashboard» to help close opportunity gaps in needy schools and elevate the voices of educators in the policymaking process.

Throughout Washington, D.C., and around the country, parents are raising hundreds of thousands — even millions — of dollars to provide additional programs, services, and staff to some of their districts» least needy schools.7 They are investing more money than ever before: A recent study showed that, nationally, PTAs» revenues have almost tripled since the mid-1990s, reaching over $ 425 million in 2010.8 PTAs provide a small but growing slice of the funding for the nation's public education system.

Philadelphia, Guilford County, N.C., and four small districts in northern New Mexico have scooped up the last of the $ 42 million in federal grant money on offer this fall for rewarding teachers and principals who get higher student test scores in needy schools.

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.

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.

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).

NYC Program Fast - Tracks Teachers to Needy Schools Facing teacher shortages, especially dire shortages in its neediest schools, the NYC Board of Education is offering mid-career professionals and recent college graduates a six - week summer teacher - training program.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Massachusetts has not backed away from high standards, even as some needy schools struggle to keep up.

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 National Cristina Foundation also matches donated technology with needy schools and nonprofits.

Inside Philanthropy's L.S. Hall offers «four takeaways» on the $ 120 million donation from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Dr. Priscilla Chan to needy schools in the Bay Area.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Trying to figure out how to stay in touch with the generally apathetic Dan while her needy school - age beau Rory (Max Carver) doesn't seem to be much better of an option, Katie's year of rest and relaxation becomes much more menacing than she ever could have predicted.

Or it can mean a yearlong campaign that targets the best education schools, courts top students, and doesn't let up until a hundred newly minted teachers have signed contracts and been matched to the neediest schools in the system.

(The housing bubble also explains the meteoric increase in school spending in recent years, such as in Montgomery County, Maryland, where rapidly rising housing values allowed the district to spend lavishly on the neediest schools in the system.)

Florida is piloting a bonus program in four school districts this year, in an effort to draw teachers to needier schools, said Jim Warford, chancellor of the Florida Department of Education.

Now in its third year of offering bonuses to experienced teachers to transfer to struggling schools, the Hamilton County (Tennessee) school district, which includes urban Chattanooga, has seen student scores soar in their neediest schools.

But while many in the cash - strapped state cheered the $ 12.5 million for raising reading achievement in the neediest schools, others were scrambling to salvage the state's existing literacy initiative after a federal panel suggested it is not aligned with current research in the...

As a result, many are transferred to needier schools.

WASHINGTON — The federal government should double funding for the Chapter 1 program and target it narrowly to the neediest schools and students, two RAND Corporation researchers assert in a report released last week.

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).

School partnerships do have exciting potential to level the playing field — but to make that dream a reality, policymakers and district leaders will have to go to greater lengths to help the neediest schools establish secure relationships.