Sentences with phrase «poor school districts»

The resources of poorer school districts do not match those of suburban ones, and that is criminal.

I am a teacher in a very poor school district, but I am a mom living in a middle class suburb.

Making matters worse for immigrant children is the fact that many enter poor school districts with insufficient English language learner courses and certified teachers.

In the battle to get poor school districts adequate or equitable funding, at least there seemed a moral purpose to the argument.

He also proposed cutting business taxes and spending billions on property tax relief that he says would particularly benefit poor school districts.

New York state Gov. Andrew Cuomo said there's a need to tackle funding inequities in poorer school districts in his State of the State Address... Read more»

For poor school districts in Arizona, the fund represented the only ongoing source of funds for major repairs and improvements to their schools, according to Tim Hogan, a lawyer for The Arizona Center for Law in the Public Interest, which had filed earlier lawsuits challenging Arizona's funding methods for school construction.

Raymond Abbott's name appeared as lead plaintiff in a court case brought by Camden and several other poor school districts against the State of New Jersey, demanding that the state provide equal funding for all schools.

Gov. Christine Todd Whitman of New Jersey proposed a budget last week that increases state aid to poor school districts while cutting funds for wealthy suburban districts.

Supporters of certification attribute the low student achievement in the nation's poorest school districts at least partially to the high number of uncertified teachers working in these districts.

In a unanimous May 9 ruling, the state's high court said the 31 Abbott districts — which got their name from long - running litigation over how to properly fund poor school districts — would have to make do with about the same amount of aid in 2006 - 07 that they did in 2005 - 06.

Foundation aid funding is typically seen as helping poorer school districts around the state that can not rely as heavily on revenue from property taxes.

The paper aims to debunk concerns over the cap hurting poorer school districts, the criticism that a cap would allow for 2 percent annual tax increases and that the teacher - union supported circuit - breaker solution.

The opinion, which had been expected last fall, upheld every aspect of a law that had been challenged by poor school districts, wealthy districts, the state, and even a small group of parents who argued that the mediocrity of Texas schools should be constitutional grounds to allow vouchers to send children to private schools.

It's about forcing the city to comply with the Campaign for Fiscal Equity which sued over inequitable distribution of funding among wealthier and poorer school districts back in 1993.

He fought Gov. Andrew Cuomo's ill - considered property tax cap that has hobbled poorer school districts in the state.

«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 Speaker and several other key lawmakers think most of that money should go directly to aid poor school districts.

CNN: New Jersey governor's school budget ruled unconstitutional The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that $ 500 million must be restored to the state's poorest school districts after it found part of Gov. Chris Christie's controversial 2011 budget to be unconstitutional.

Magee criticized Iannuzzi's administration for its response to Cuomo's property - tax cap, over which the union eventually sued, arguing that it disproportionately limits poor school districts» ability to raise revenue.

Cuomo has given legislators a big incentive to pass most, if not all, of his plan: an increase in state education spending of $ 1.1 billion if his ideas are enacted, as opposed to a boost of $ 377 million if they are rejected (where Cuomo could show real political bravery is by directing the bulk of that money toward poorer school districts).

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Mayor Stephanie Miner has once again challenged Gov. Andrew Cuomo, this time by demanding more money for poor school districts like Syracuse.

At a time when poorer school districts in Alabama are asking parents for $ 90 donations in order to purchase copier paper, Gov. Guy Hunt this month released $ 450,000 from the state education budget for the financially strapped Alabama Symphony Orchestra.

The New Jersey Supreme Court has granted Gov. Jon S. Corzine's request to hold funding for the state's poorest school districts flat for the 2006 - 07 school year.

Democrats say the net effect of the provision would be to drain billions of dollars from poor school districts, where the funds are needed most.

And it is what fuels the controversy over state school funding generally — poor school districts under - resourced compared to districts that are rich in property valuation.

SB 457 provides $ 50 million for charter school facilities funding and an equal amount to property poor school districts.

Connecticut experts with decades of educational experience working with Connecticut educators were replaced by five out - of - state consultants with virtually no experience working with the biggest issues facing poorer school districts; poverty, language barriers and the large number of students who need special education services.

Miner and de Blasio said many poor school districts, including Syracuse and New York City, would benefit from the change.

Sanchez, who has held the 25th District seat since 2011, said he wants to continue pressing for improvements in early childhood education as well as better funding for education in New Britain and other poor school districts.

New York state Gov. Andrew Cuomo said there's a need to tackle funding inequities in poorer school districts in his State of the State Address earlier this month, and Syracuse City School District administrators said they agree: The local district needs more help.

But in some cases, they will — like in a recent lawsuit in Connecticut where the judge's ruling admonished the state for not using a sensible approach to funding poor school districts and gave the state 180 days to develop a new school funding plan.

Gov. Cuomo pushed back against claims made by Nixon that the state is doing enough to help poor school districts, insisting the problem is transparency in per - school funding.

Ritz says legislation focused on who does what on the board, as well as the funding formula that hurts poorer school districts, pushed her to thinking about a gubernatorial run.

He clerked for Chief Judge J. Clifford Wallace of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and for Chief Justice William Rehnquist of the Supreme Court, and worked for two years as a public - interest lawyer in New Jersey, on a landmark case in state court about increasing funding for poor school districts.

The pro-school funding group Alliance for Quality Education, in a statement, accused Cuomo of «perpetuating educational racism and economic inequality» for not including billions of additional dollars to comply with a decade - and - a-half-old court order to fully fund schools in poorer school districts.

A committee of the state Board of Regents recommends spending $ 2.1 billion more on schools in the new state budget, saying it's time to continue an effort begun a decade ago to funnel more money to the state's poorest school districts.

«I proposed 75 percent of the increased State funding go to poorer school districts.

Billy Easton of the Alliance for Quality Education said «the gap between rich and poor school districts is growing under Gov. Cuomo.»

«With the conceded disparate funding, compounded by the fact that taxpayers within the poorer school districts end up subsidizing, at least in part, the tax credits granted to taxpayers within the wealthier districts, I find that plaintiffs have stated a viable equal protection claim,» Lynch wrote.

Syracuse is by far the poorest school district in Central New York, and one of the poorest in the state.

That increase includes $ 338 million in foundation aid, money that aims to rectify decades - old funding inequities between the richest and poorest school districts.

«The concern is whether schools and municipalities can continue to deliver services at the levels of spending necessary to stay under the cap and whether the poor school districts will have the hardest time,» Levy said.

Poorer school districts have been struggling under the constraints of the property tax cap.

«There's a mobilized, active, volunteer force ready to go out there and work on campaigns,» said Billy Easton, the executive director of the Alliance for Quality Education, a group that has pushed Cuomo to spend more on education aid, especially in poorer school districts.

The pro school funding group Alliance for Quality Education, in a statement, accused Cuomo of «perpetuating educational racism and economic inequality» for not including billions of additional dollars to comply with a decade - and - a-half-old court order to fully fund schools in poorer school districts.

Timbs acknowledges that there are some poor school districts on Long Island that need the extra money, and that Island residents have a higher cost of living and pay high property taxes.

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.