Sentences with phrase «new equitable funding»
Later as the first African American and female superintendent of San Francisco Public Schools, she introduced a program to target additional resources and create a new equitable funding formula for schools.
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We do support, however, changes to the funding and management of the federal employees» pension plans, including the move to more equitable contribution rates, changes in retirement provisions for new employees, among others.
Secretary of the Senate Angelo Aponte briefed reporters at the Capitol today on the chamber's new guidelines for the use of taxpayer - funded media — including everything from bulk mailings to Websites — and insisted the majority is striving for an equitable distribution of resources.
«Infrastructure funding allocated annually to each municipality through an established formula, will ensure a fair and equitable distribution of taxpayer dollars to benefit all New Yorkers,» said Clifton Park Town Supervisor Phil Barrett, who conceived of the idea for the S.W.A.P. Program.
ALBANY — Governor Andrew Cuomo argued Wednesday that a state - funding mechanism for pre-kindergarten is more equitable for districts across the state than a competing proposal from New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio to fund his program with a tax on the city's highest earners.
In a letter sent to hedge fund and opportunistic fixed income managers, Trustees of the New York City Employees Retirement System (NYCERS) called on its hedge fund managers and opportunistic fixed income managers who invest in distressed debt and might therefore, at present or in the future, hold Puerto Rican municipal obligations, to «negotiate in good faith to find a just and equitable solution to» repayment of the municipal debt at the center of Puerto Rico's economic crisis.
For the last 17 years, I've been fighting for better schools and more equitable education funding all across New York state.
«New York State United Teachers today issued early endorsements to three incumbent state senators who have reliably stood with parents and educators in fighting for fair and equitable funding while vigorously opposing the climate of over-testing that is harming students and public schools,» NYSUT said in a statement.
«We're having excellent discussions about parity, which is good for the state, MTA, roads and bridges, making sure that we have an equitable distribution just like education funding across the State of New York.»
The group's poll surveyed 300 voters in New York, finding 61 percent of voters backed a more equitable balance in public school funding for rich and poor communities.
The Moral Mondays movement came to New York State on Jan. 12 as about 1,000 students, parents, advocates and union leaders from New York City and across the state converged on the state Capitol to demand fair and equitable funding for public schools.
As County Executive, Poloncarz pledged to create a new funding process that would be utilized for the 2013 Erie County Budget to ensure all cultural institutions throughout Erie County had the opportunity to compete for County support, with final decisions being made in a fair and equitable manner.
Members of the Radical University Professionals (RUP) staged a rally at Peace Park across from the SUNY New Paltz campus on Tuesday, demanding equitable funding for the SUNY system and a fair contract for professors.
Members of the Radical University Professionals staged a rally at Peace Park across from the SUNY New Paltz campus on Tuesday, demanding equitable funding for the SUNY system and a fair contract for professors.
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But in a sign that charter schools have matured, lawsuits have recently been filed in Washington, D.C., and New York State demanding equitable funding.
The state's charter law must support new and high - performing operators; the state's school finance system must provide equitable, student - based funding; facilities must be made available to new and growing schools; educator certification rules must fit the needs of successful schools; and so on.
They should continue to support funding for the replication and expansion of high - quality charter schools, and they should make new investments in research and support for parent information, equitable funding and facilities, and innovative, low - regulation approaches to equity and effectiveness in schools of choice.
These cities vary widely in terms of providing publicly - funded transportation for students, prompting new questions on how student transportation can be an enabler of, rather than a barrier to, equitable access to high - quality education in urban areas.
California's new Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) 1, signed into law in 2013, promised a new school finance system that would provide both more local control and a more equitable school finance system.
As the fight for economic and educational justice continues, an important lawsuit on equitable funding for charter - school students is moving through New York's courts and faces a critical moment.
The state is trying to say that students in Buffalo, Rochester and elsewhere in New York state are getting a «sufficient education» and that «equitable funding for charter schools is not required.»
In the wake of the CCJEF ruling, charter school parents, leaders, and elected officials came together last week to call for charters to be part of a new, equitable school funding system.
Our Western NY Advocacy Manager Duncan Kirkwood went on Time Warner Cable's Capital Tonight to discuss the Brown v. New York case and the fight for equitable funding.
New Haven clergy came together to call on state lawmakers to come up with a solution for equitable school funding.
No funding formula is perfect, but we believe a new formula should be equitable, transparent, and student - centered.
CHICAGO (August 31, 2017)-- Advance Illinois applauds Illinois» new, more equitable school funding formula that puts kids first and ends an era of the state having the most inequitable school funding system in the country.
Findings were based on a two - year study of four districts pursuing more equitable funding practices to address their achievement gaps: Atlanta Public Schools; New York City Department of Education / Empowerment Schools; Portland, Ore., Public Schools; and Lane County District Number 4J in Eugene, Ore..
We are thrilled to share with you our Equity Dashboard, a new data tool that shows Illinois» progress toward equitable and adequate funding for all school districts.
We advocate aggressively for new charter schools in Georgia and for fair and equitable funding for all our schools.
A key strategy to improving educational outcomes and closing achievement gaps for children from low - income families is improving state finance systems to ensure equitable funding and increased access to resources, according to a new study from Educational Testing Service (ETS).
Whereas, the Hawkins / Jones platform of a Green New Deal calls for equitable funding for all of our schools, reduced class sizes across the state, support for programs that promote desegregation in our schools, an end to zero - tolerance discipline policies driving the school - to - prison pipeline, and allowing schools to develop methods of assessment organic to the learning process, and
• The Local Control Funding Formula has a dual goal: to create a new school accountability system and to establish a more equitable distribution of fFunding Formula has a dual goal: to create a new school accountability system and to establish a more equitable distribution of fundingfunding.
Title II - A funds can be used for a number of critical priorities, such as addressing teacher shortages, providing essential professional development, recruiting and preparing new teachers, retaining teachers, achieving more equitable distribution of effective and experienced teachers, and addressing the persistent underrepresentation of teachers of color in the profession.
While not every dollar a school spends directly improves academic outcomes, a new report from Rutgers school - finance expert Bruce Baker finds certain kinds of money very much do matter: extra funding for higher teacher salaries and more equitable distribution of resources between rich and poor districts, for example, are correlated with higher student achievement, especially for the neediest kids.
Support new public funding to provide what is needed to build and maintain adequate and equitable school facilities.
Along with putting a new Education Cost Sharing (ECS) formula into statute and moving away from — beginning in FY 2019 — the practice of allocating ECS funds to towns via arbitrary block grants, the ECS formula passed by the General Assembly incorporates several key elements to establishing a fair and equitable school funding system for Connecticut.
Local Control Funding Formula / Local Control and Accountability Plan: California has adopted a new funding model called the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) that is designed to make the schools more equitable and provide resources for students who have been historically underserved, such as English Language Learners, low income students, and youth in fosteFunding Formula / Local Control and Accountability Plan: California has adopted a new funding model called the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) that is designed to make the schools more equitable and provide resources for students who have been historically underserved, such as English Language Learners, low income students, and youth in fostefunding model called the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) that is designed to make the schools more equitable and provide resources for students who have been historically underserved, such as English Language Learners, low income students, and youth in fosteFunding Formula (LCFF) that is designed to make the schools more equitable and provide resources for students who have been historically underserved, such as English Language Learners, low income students, and youth in foster care.
This new program aims to strengthen the role of state charter schools in efforts to achieve policy and advocacy wins, particularly around equitable funding and charter school growth (especially in the approval and funding of new schools).
New school funding policies must be adopted in order to ensure equitable resources for all.
In a recent article by Nina Rees, President and CEO of the National Association of Public Charter Schools, shed light on a lawsuit in New York could set an important precedent for the education system and equitable funding.
Illinois enacted a new, more equitable school funding formula in 2017.
(Ohio) Lawmakers have passed a steady barrage of bills in recent years aimed at making Ohio's school funding more equitable — but new research shows the state still has a ways to go.
Recent research out of the Madison - based Wisconsin Policy Forum shows Wisconsin ranks high nationally for providing adequate funding in an equitable way to K - 12 schools — although researchers acknowledge the state's school finance system has its challenges, after «years of layering new programs and funding methods on top of one another.»
«Those who really want to end public education as we have it now are now poised to move on different state legislatures with ESA laws similar to Nevada,» said David Sciarra, the executive director of the Education Law Center, a New Jersey group that advocates for equitable school funding and helped organize the legal case against Nevada's voucher program.
The goal of Brown vs. New York is to get more equitable funding for charter schools.
Now, with the passage of a new, equitable education funding formula and the implementation of Illinois» state plan under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), the Report Card will soon display additional information on district spending, and school spending, and student growth and performance broken down by demographic subgroups.
Many of the individuals who are driving education policy in this country, including New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Jeb Bush and Bill Gates, sent their own children to abundantly financed private schools where class sizes were 16 or less, and yet continue to insist that resources, equitable funding, and class size don't matter — when all the evidence points to the contrary.
After a year - and - a-half of work, «most board members said they were satisfied that the document meshes with and advances the state's larger comprehensive effort for school improvement combining new academic standards, more equitable funding and a locally driven accountability system.»
A memorandum from the Ministry of Education explained that, «the new funding formula is a more transparent, evidence - based and equitable approach to allocating provincial child care funds that respond to demands for services.