Sentences with phrase «over school funding»

Nearly every state has faced lawsuits over school funding.

The dispute over school funding has been escalating - with head teachers threatening that they could have to start cutting hours or operating four - day weeks.

The incoming education secretary will face pressures over school funding and decisions about university tuition fees.

But this year was different because there was a fight between a Republican governor and a Democratic legislature over school funding.

Too often, tensions over school funding drive district and charter schools apart.

And while the Democrats and I.D.C. members might spar over education reform proposals, there will likely be battles over school funding along more traditional partisan lines.

(Calif.) Taking clear control of the debate over school funding governance, Gov. Jerry Brown made a rare appearance at the state board of education meeting Thursday saying the draft regulations pending before the panel met a balance between flexibility and accountability.

Head teachers and governors have been campaigning over school funding shortages for much of this academic year - warning of teacher job losses and narrowing subject options.

Education Secretary Michael Gove attempts to play down a row within the coalition over school funding, focussing instead on Labour's record.

campaign over school funding shortages say that if the government is serious about promoting social mobility in education, then it needs to look at how low funding seems to mirror low mobility.

Jules White, a West Sussex head teacher who co-ordinated letters sent to 2.5 million parents over school funding concerns, says too often schools policy has been sidetracked by «dubious ideological pursuits» or «tinkering around the edges».

The Education Council meeting will no doubt ignite the most recent battle in a long and protracted war over school funding — one that is seemingly without end.

Mr White, a West Sussex head teacher who has co-ordinated letters sent to 2.5 million parents over school funding concerns, says that whoever is education secretary needs to make a priority of teacher supply and funding.

Mr White said Mr Hinds would have to «urgently address» core problems over school funding and teacher shortages.

Wichita attorney Alan Rupe has been suing Kansas for nearly 30 years over school funding.

With a fight over school funding looming, Richmond City Council and School Board hold their third joint meeting

This is why, when plaintiffs sue over school funding or tenure rules, state governments — not districts — are the defendants.

Although I would like to take you to task over your assertions over school funding and the your contention that you have had children, I'll restrain myself.

Was it because she's said to have clasheed with John McDonnell at Labour's manifesto meeting, criticising the emphasis on the expensive axing of tuition fees over school funding?

Gun control, transparency over school funding and housing matters were among issues still being negotiated Wednesday in Albany as Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and lawmakers tried once again to close down a new state budget in advance of a self - imposed Friday deadline as religious holidays loom.

The loss means the Legislature continues to have sole discretion over school funding, but public school advocates say they aren't ready to give up yet.

A judge ruled that New York has met its «constitutional obligation» to provide enough aid to eight small - city schools, a key victory for the state in its fight with education groups over school funding.

Since 2005, courts in Oklahoma, Kentucky, and Oregon have dismissed such cases on motion, holding that control over school funding is the sole province of the elected branches of government.

Like many states, educators in Kansas have a long and often contentious history with the Legislature over school funding.

Greening, who was re-appointed as education secretary earlier this month after narrowly keeping her seat in the general election, faced pressure from MPs on both sides over school funding details as she made her first speech in this parliament.

That same year, the teachers union was dueling with the governor over school funding.

We at IDRA applaud the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund for filing its lawsuit this week against the state of Texas over school funding on behalf of four property - poor school districts and three parents.

Claims over school funding shortages became an election battleground and a doorstep issue with voters.

The leaders of the state's budget - writing committee are divided over a school funding plan Assembly lawmakers are considering that includes a $ 91 million cut to Gov. Scott Walker's proposed $ 649 million spending bump for public schools.

With tension continuing to build over school funding and teacher pay, will heads finally join classroom teachers on the picket line under his leadership?

And in North Carolina, which has seen a surge in charters since the GOP takeover of the N.C. General Assembly in 2011, bickering over school funding between traditional public schools and charters is an annual affair.

Geoff Barton, the general secretary of ASCL, described the survey findings as «stark», and claimed the work of schools will be «increasingly eroded» unless the government takes «urgent action over the school funding crisis».

With the governor set to lay out his proposals for education aid this week, numerous advocacy groups, rank - and - file legislators and a group suing the state over school funding have been pitching changes they would like to see.

Charters and traditional public schools have been clashing, sometimes in court, over school funding shares for years.

He's been suing Kansas over school funding since 1989.

A legal battle over school funding has been raging for years in Kansas.

«Setting aside political debates over school funding and philosophy to examine one school's real - world experience, Jyllian Gunther's THE NEW PUBLIC... is a fine addition to the larger conversation and has theatrical appeal.»

Education Secretary Michael Gove attempts to play down a row within the coalition over school funding, focussing instead on Labour's record.

Mark Desetti, legislative director of the KNEA, said the anti-retention campaign is connected to the ongoing legal dispute over school funding.

New Education Secretary Damian Hinds has made a priority of social mobility - but he will also have to make some big decisions about the pressure over school funding.

Read the full story, «Inside Mississippi's Confusing, Controversial and Deceptive Ballot War Over School Funding.»

Head teachers in England say any reshuffle of ministers needs to be more than «window dressing» - and must get to grips with core problems over school funding and staffing shortages.

Rupe has been suing Kansas for nearly 30 years over school funding and is right in the middle of the ongoing Gannon case that is currently tugging at negotiations in the statehouse.

Now that fall has arrived, the temperature in Arizona is cooling off just as a fight over school funding is heating up (again).

The head teachers sending this letter are part of a regionally based campaign over school funding shortages.

The union's advocates are expected to pressure lawmakers for an increase of at least $ 1.5 billion — a figure that education advocates have argued satisfies a lawsuit over school funding.

Texas had been plagued with decades of legal and political battles over school funding.

A number of schools in England have been closed or disrupted as a result of the one - day strike staged by the National Union of Teachers (NUT) over school funding.

The current debate over school funding must move beyond teacher salaries and whether the books in public schools are tattered.