Sentences with phrase «new school aid formula»

Gov. Brian Schweitzer of Montana has signed into law a measure that he believes will satisfy a court order requiring the state to find a new school aid formula.

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To limit school aid growth in future years, the budget proposes a new Gap Elimination Adjustment formula in permanent law that limits growth in the out - years based on the growth in personal income.

In addition to formula - based aid, the Governor proposes $ 50 million in new competitive grants for prekindergarten, after school programs, and other programs.

«That means that we can now focus our efforts in the coming years on getting New York City schools the Campaign for Fiscal Equity money they are still owed and building equity into the state aid formula so that poor school districts get more state aid than wealthier ones,» Mulgrew said.

The new aid formula will send $ 76 million more in state aid to beleaguered Chicago public schools this year.

The speaker said he wants to create a timetable to «fully» phase in foundation aid, the current funding formula that most helps high - needs school districts such as New York City.

State Sen. Michael Nozzolio is touting part of a proposal supported by Senate Republicans to use a $ 3.3 billion settlement with a French bank for education aid and the elimination of the Gap Elimination Adjustment, a state formula that has reduced aid for several central New York school districts.

A task force studying educational improvement in Nebraska has called for a long list of reforms, including a new school - finance formula, far more state aid for schools, higher pay and longer contracts for teachers, a master - teacher program, and the establishment of statewide high - school graduation requirements.

In a decision designed to spark a transformation of New Jersey's school finance formula, the state board of education concluded last week that poor rural districts have been shortchanged in a state known nationally as a leader for providing billions of dollars in extra aid and programs to its poor urban districts.

Under the plan prepared by the Governor's Commission on Excellence in Education — a 30 - member panel of school - board members, teachers, school administrators, and representatives of higher education, business, and government selected by Gov. Robert Kerrey — the state would provide at least 50 percent of the total cost of public education and would develop a new state - aid distribution formula...