Sentences with phrase «properly fund our schools»

What does it say about our society if we would rather send children to such mutilating procedures but yet lack the political will to properly fund school nutrition and ban junk food advertising to children?

Amedore said in a statement on Saturday that he was focused on properly funding schools, investing in infrastructure and creating economic opportunity.

Parents and pupils will be furious that Government missed the opportunity with the new National Funding Formula to properly fund all schools and every child's education.»

Still, the ordinance is gaining momentum while members of the Chicago Teachers Union and the TIF Ordinance coalition demand that the mayor properly fund the schools.

It is now time to properly fund our schools so that every child has equal access to a quality education.

Poston agrees, calling this week for a «wide - open» approach to studying school funding that considers, among other things, whether the state is properly funding schools to meet children's needs.

Rather than using the limited resources to properly fund schools, the Government is spending billions of our taxes purchasing land for new free schools.

Charter schools and traditional district schools are both public schools and both (along with other types of public schools) have suffered from the inability to properly fund our schools.

Not exact matches

Democratic state Senate candidate Sara Niccoli in a radio interview Tuesday questioned the wisdom of funding school districts primarily through property tax revenue, saying the state is a generation behind in properly funding education.

Jackson was the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit against New York State for failing to properly fund the city's public schools.

«The conversation we should be having is: «How can New York State properly fund its public schools, which serve all students?»

Without knowing how much state funding they will receive, school boards will not be able to properly develop their budgets and estimate their tax levies.»

«Government now needs to properly address the issue by committing to provide long term and sufficient funding for school places so that councils and schools can continue to successfully meet the need.»

A Department of Education audit of the Center for State Scholars, an Austin, Texas - based program designed to encourage high school students to take rigorous classes, shows that program administrators did not properly account for $ 1.09 million in federal funds and may not have the capability to handle the program in the future.

Parents and school governors should unite with teachers in demanding the Government fund our education properly.

A lack of funding has seen many schools turn off their HVAC systems, or fail to properly maintain them.

The report highlights some of the most high - profile multi-academy trust (MAT) failures such as the Wakefield City Academies Trust and says the DfE was unable to properly explain what happens to a school's funds when its academy trust fails.

Dr Bousted added: «Fundamentally the government must fund schools properly.

Title I funds may be used to conduct an income survey, but only under very specific circumstances (e.g., the survey can not be needed to meet any state or local requirements, it must be necessary to properly operate the Title I program in the school district, and costs must be reasonable).

In this blog post, Erin Haynes says the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) promises unprecedented opportunities and funding for incorporating our nation's many indigenous cultures and languages into public schools if implemented properly.

Equalizing school funding is a critical value, and we should properly reject a system in which children's educational resources are dependent on the value of tax ratables in the city where they happen to live.

We have seen our state's lawmakers expedite legislation in the face of several recent challenges and implore them to work in a timely manner to properly and equally fund all school districts throughout South Carolina.

It's not the status of the school that makes it successful, it's good leadership and governance and great teachers plus properly funded support for schools which struggle.

Kevin Courtney, joint general secretary of the National Education Union, said the government «has its priorities badly wrong» and it would be «better and fairer» if access to drama, music and dance was «properly funded» at all schools.

Even after 2006, charter schools in California continue to operate year in and year out without regulator - level audits that are designed specifically to determine whether the public dollars funding these privately managed schools are being spent properly.

I believe that neighborhood public schools should be properly funded and resourced so they can be those anchors.

Six school districts are participating in an initiative funded by The Wallace Foundation to ensure that a large corps of school leaders is properly trained, hired, and developed on the job.

Public Schools which are properly funded and accountable to the communities that they serve are instruments of democracy.

As a result of this business first mentality, rather than properly fund neighborhood schools, officials in Chicago, Philadelphia, New Orleans, New York and even right here in Connecticut push a political agenda in which underfunded community schools are closed and replaced with privately - run «schools of choice.»

Ensuring schools have sufficient funding to educate our children properly must become the top priority for Education Secretary Damian Hinds.»

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said teachers are often scapegoated to explain low - student achievement when policymakers refuse to properly fund K - 12 education — and she doesn't appear to see unions as the driving force behind keeping less - than - stellar teachers at low - performing schools.

One can believe that public schools should not be uniform, but that in receipt for their funding - whether through vouchers, tax credits, or charter models - they should be properly regulated and held fully accountable.

Reporting in 2010 on the lack of charter - school oversight in states throughout the country, the Office of the Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Education raised concerns that state - level education departments were failing «to provide adequate oversight needed to ensure that Federal funds [were] properly used and accounted for.»

I would love to see an initiative where funds are raised for the schools and the schools are properly trained to manage gifted children.

Although the commission provided a guide for how to distribute state funds, it did not provide an answer to another crucial question: How much actual state funding do all Pennsylvania schools need to properly educate their students?

While the Office has audited fewer than half of all charter schools, they have exposed some form of internal control deficiency or mismanagement in 95 percent of their audits.5 The majority of charter schools in New York are left to operate year in and year out without regulator - level audits, specifically audits that are designed to determine whether these publicly funded, privately managed schools are spending public dollars properly.

Shaw had lower class sizes than other schools and did not have to rely substitutes regularly teaching their students as did many other schools who were not properly funded.

Undertaken properly, it will support a review of the school's priorities, ensuring adequate funding is available to make those priorities happen.

We can not properly fund our traditional public schools and charter schools will worsen the funding crisis.»

While Governor Dannel «Dan» Malloy's budget fails to properly fund public schools in Connecticut it does provide for an increase in the number of privately run charter schools.

Add in Malloy and Pryor's absurd teacher evaluation system, along with Malloy's failure to properly fund Connecticut's Education Cost Sharing school funding formula and you have a situation that could easily cost Malloy ten times the number of votes he won by in the 2010 election.

We will not rest until Connecticut has leaders who will join us in the fight to properly fund public schools and support our children and their future rather than the present lot who seek to undermine and destroy our schools and our parental rights.

At the same time Luke Bronin says that HE deserves a good chunk of the credit for Malloy's 2nd chance initiative because has Malloy's lawyer he was involved in the policy process in the Governor's Office, but none of the blame for Malloy's failure to properly fund public schools.

As a result of the campaign by parents, trade unions, teachers, heads and support staff to ensure our schools are properly funded, the Government has found # 1.3 bn over the next two years from other parts of the Department for Education's budget.

«If the Government learnt any lessons from the General Election it should be that parents and the general public expects our schools to be properly funded, and for this new Treasury money is vital.

Just as our students, families and staff fought for our schools to stay open, Green Dot will make our voices heard and let lawmakers know they must take additional action now to fully fund Washington state's public schools and properly address the McCleary lawsuit.

The failure to properly fund Connecticut's public magnet schools is not only a travesty for the students who were looking forward to attending these schools, but it is nothing short of a disaster for Connecticut's public education system.

Malloy's failure to properly fund the state's magnet schools didn't stop him from attending the recent ribbon cutting at the new Connecticut River Academy Magnet School's $ 57 million school building in East Hartford where he told students, «This is our gamble, our bet, our investment in your future, that is saying that we want Connecticut to be as successful as it ever was, in fact we want it to be more successful... You have the opportunity to see the tone, to make sure that each student that follows you understands how high the bar has been set.&School's $ 57 million school building in East Hartford where he told students, «This is our gamble, our bet, our investment in your future, that is saying that we want Connecticut to be as successful as it ever was, in fact we want it to be more successful... You have the opportunity to see the tone, to make sure that each student that follows you understands how high the bar has been set.&school building in East Hartford where he told students, «This is our gamble, our bet, our investment in your future, that is saying that we want Connecticut to be as successful as it ever was, in fact we want it to be more successful... You have the opportunity to see the tone, to make sure that each student that follows you understands how high the bar has been set.»

Russell Hobby, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, said: «Any expansion of hours must be properly funded, as school budgets are extremely tight.

Public schools aren't properly funded in North Carolina, says Mark Jewell, president of the N.C. Association of Educators, which advocates for the state's teachers at the General Assembly.