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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.
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«Governor Cuomo's policies have caused the spending gap between rich and poor school districts to grow 24 percent to a record setting $ 9,923 per pupil,» said Jasmine Gripper, AQE's legislative director, in a statement after the budget passed.
The 93 staff members of the sole high school in Central Falls, R.I., the state's poorest school district, were told they would be dismissed, using federal regulations as a justification, after negotiations between the district superintendent and the teachers» union broke down over...
Poor - performing school districts are increasingly signing up with these online services to provide remedial and after - school instruction for students.
Some 11 years after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Texas's system of financing public schools, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund has launched a new challenge in state court, charging that the finance system denies students in poor districts equal educational opportunity and should be declared unconstitutional.
That skepticism should grow after looking closely at the individual state targets set for districts and schools to improve student achievement, especially for poor and minority children.
After the governor declares a state of emergency in a district due to finances, poor academic performance, or concerns for student safety, the superintendent and the school board are immediately removed.
«There's some core principles that all the leaders here believe in — making sure that we continue to provide resources to the poorest school districts and not creating a situation where we can suddenly shift dollars from... poorer districts to wealthy districts, or alternatively, that education aid suddenly can start going to sport stadiums or tax cuts at the state level,» Obama said in remarks to the media after the meeting.
After 25 years of teaching English and journalism to high school students in one of New Jersey's poorest school districts, I had a new job.
After a poor review partly based on questions about the financial viability of the small school, the district quietly limited new enrollees to siblings of current students.
19) New York: The Albany Times - Union looks at how the school district is trying to attract students back into its fold after charter schools are closed for poor performance.