Sentences with phrase «new school funding headed»

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.

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Kathy brings her experience in business operations, finance, and as a former Head of School, and has ushered in new initiatives, expanded staff, and launched a financial assistance fund that will extend the reach and impact of Challenge Success.

With 96 percent of the votes tallied Tuesday night, Park Ridge District 64 looked like it was heading for victory on a $ 23 million bond issue to build a new middle school and to upgrade technology, and on an education fund property - tax increase of 59 cents per $ 100 of equalized assessed valuation to pay for operating expenses.

Brannan's request comes in response to mounting pressure on state legislators to secure funding for New York City public schools as Albany lawmakers head into budget negotiations.

The head of a group that approves New York charter schools said Monday that it would be «very difficult» for Success Academy Charter Schools to expand if hedge - fund manager Daniel Loeb doesn't step down from the charter network's board in light of his recent racial schools said Monday that it would be «very difficult» for Success Academy Charter Schools to expand if hedge - fund manager Daniel Loeb doesn't step down from the charter network's board in light of his recent racial Schools to expand if hedge - fund manager Daniel Loeb doesn't step down from the charter network's board in light of his recent racial remark.

OSP manages city - affiliated, independent 501 (c) 3 nonprofits, including the Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City, whose chairwoman is First Lady Chirlane McCray; the Fund for Public Health, whose chairwoman is Dr. Mary Bassett, commissioner of the city's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH); and the Fund for Public Schools, which is headed by the city's schools chanSchools, which is headed by the city's schools chanschools chancellor.

That outcome was stunning given the speaker's long identification with the LGBT community — as the 1991 campaign manager and later chief of staff to Tom Duane, the Council's first out gay member; as head of the New York City Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project; as a demonstrator arrested year after year in protests against the exclusion of openly gay participants in Manhattan's St. Patrick's Day Parade; and as a Council member who pursued a range of initiatives in support of the community, including a school anti-bullying law, a requirement that the city only do businesses with contractors with anti-discrimination policies in place, and funding for LGBT homeless youth services, senior services, and the capital needs of the LGBT Community Center.

Discussing the funding, John Wood, head teacher at Queensferry Community High, said: «The school's staff, pupils, parents and partners are excited by the new build and the contribution we can make to its design.It will give us opportunities to make sure that the facilities are appropriate for the most up - to - date thinking around learning and the courses that we can offer our young people.

Russell Hobby, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT), says that the new freedoms didn't come with additional funding, meaning that most schools do not have the money to offer the larger pay rises.

If a student takes a course in a district school from an online provider (say, Apple or Google or the new group Joel Klein is heading up for Rupert Murdoch), then some of the funding should go to the district school, with the balance to the designer of the curriculum.

Around 1990, the Administration for Children and Families decided it would commit substantial funds to hold a biennial conference promoting research for the Head Start Program, and it recruited as organizers John Fantuzzo, professor of human relations at University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education; Catherine Tamis - LeMonda, a professor of applied psychology at New York University's Steinhardt School; and Faith Lamb - Parker, an assistant clinical professor of Population and Family Health at Columbia.

Three - quarters of school heads believe the attainment gap has started to close and almost all expect progress in the next five years as a result of national attainment funding, new research has shown.

«We are taking action and providing new funding to help small and rural schools deal with the unique challenges they face, such as small pupil numbers and issues in recruiting head teachers and staff.

Other major donors to Luke Bronin's campaign for mayor of Hartford is New Haven charter school activist Alex Johnston who, as the original head of ConnCAN, consistently pushed for diverting scarce public resources from public schools to the privately owned, but publically funded charter schools.

There will also be funding for a northern branch of the New Schools Network, and Bradford head Sir Nick Weller will report on transforming education across the northern powerhouse.

EAST LANSING, Mich. — The new head of the Michigan Education Association says the union became involved in a recall effort against a sitting legislator because voters are frustrated with public school funding and taxes, while a teacher and former local union president says teachers are frustrated with union spending on recalls, according to separate media reports.

A group of primary school head teachers in the Erdington area of Birmingham say they have devastating findings about the impact the government's new funding formula will have.

In a written parliamentary statement, she said the first stage consultations on the new national funding formulae for schools and high needs, published in March, «have been met with an overwhelmingly positive response from head teachers, teachers, governors and parents».

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The department has argued that the new funding formula will provide a much fairer basis for allocating funds to schools and will give head teachers more certainty over their future budgets and long - term planning.

The heads were further angered when this week's Budget allocated # 360m extra funds for new free schools and grammars, but nothing more for running costs for existing schools.

If you want to understand where public education reform is heading, look south and east to Florida, where the governor - elect, Rick Scott, is talking about a new funding student formula that is more likely to destroy the public school system than accomplish anything else.

Even Nick Timothy, Mrs May's deposed former joint chief of staff, who once headed the publicly funded free schools pressure group the New Schools Network, said in his leaving statement that many people «are tired of austerity&schools pressure group the New Schools Network, said in his leaving statement that many people «are tired of austerity&Schools Network, said in his leaving statement that many people «are tired of austerity».

His funding has enabled the Whitechapel Gallery to realise 3 projects over 4 years: a permanent post, The Daskalopoulos Head of Education & Public Programmes, held by Sofia Victorino, who runs the Gallery's programme of learning with talks, events, courses, schools, family and community programmes; a new initiative, the NEON Curatorial Award; and a cultural programme between Athens and London, the NEON Curatorial Exchange.