Sentences with phrase «provided state funding for some school»

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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 schState of New Jersey, demanding that the state provide equal funding for all schstate provide equal funding for all schools.

About three thousand students are already benefiting from the latest wrinkle in five states, «education savings accounts,» which provide even more flexibility to families by allowing those who withdraw their children from public schools to receive a deposit of public funds into government - authorized savings accounts that can be used to pay for private school tuition, online learning programs, private tutoring, educational therapies, or college costs.

While there is a role for State / Federal involvement in local school food service, it is IMHO limited to [1] providing funding, especially to lower - income schools, to allow all schools to meet a minimum standard (NOT based on the needs of agri - business!

Professional Development: The state provides funds for staff development in the area of HIV and offers other professional development opportunities for school nurses.

The act includes a requirement for all state - funded schools — including academies — to provide free school lunches on request for all pupils in reception, year 1...

In addition to Annual Fund fundraising, ambassadors will be encouraging other SNA members in their state to apply for available scholarships, use resources provided for Breakfast in the Classroom and other Foundation programs, join in research efforts to develop best practices, and nominate individuals for the annual School Nutrition Hero awards.

«Cuomo's approach has solved nothing for either our school children or our homeowners because he has refused to provide the state funding our schools need which has resulted in local taxpayers paying a record share of the cost of funding schools.»

The BHA opposes state funding of Steiner schools because of concerns about pseudoscience on the curriculum (including scepticism of evolution and vaccinations and support for homeopathy), homeopathy being given to pupils by the schools» «anthroposophical doctors», and the fact that a number of private and at least one state school has opted out of providing vaccinations.

Republican Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan nudged New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio to provide more information on how the city spends $ 9 billion in state funding for education as a precursor to considering an extension of mayoral control of public schools.

Worked with the Legislature and Governor to approve legislation that continues the appointment of monitors in East Ramapo, provides new oversight authority for the monitors and the Department over the school district's budget, and provides $ 3 million in state funds to restore and expand educational programming for the public schools within the district;

«We're going to demand that Governor Cuomo provide the funding that was afforded to us in a court decision for our schools,» she said as she joined advocates to push for more funding under the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, which in 2007 won a lawsuit against the state to provide increased education funding to the city.

«For our schools to continue to improve and provide our students with the best education possible, they must have proper and equitable funding — our State Aid Proposal is aimed at making that happen,» State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia said.

«The Educational Conference Board strongly recommends the following actions to blunt the detrimental impact of this year's low cap and provide schools with the state funding needed to continue to provide critical services for students next year.»

The Obama administration's proposal would have provided federal funding covering three - quarters of the average costs of community colleges, with states footing the remaining 25 percent, allowing for two free years of school for students who attend at least half - time and maintain a 2.5 GPA.

Coupled with the issues we have seen with the Steiner Academy Hereford teaching pseudoscience, providing homeopathy for pupils and opting out of offering vaccinations, we do not think that Steiner schools should be state - funded.

ALBANY — Lawmakers sometime late Wednesday or Thursday are hoping to adopt a final state budget that provides tuition breaks for some college students, legalizes ride - hailing in upstate and relies on millionaires to help fund new spending on everything from schools to state agencies.

The STAR program provides a state - funded offset for property - based school taxes through payments the state sends to school districts each year that are then subtracted from a homeowner's bill.

Cuomo's budget provides 4.4 percent more aid to schools and would fund his proposal from the State of the State address for longer school days and school years.

We are going to win the majority because we have the right candidates and the right message, and whether it's providing record support for schools, delivering a 20 percent middle - class income tax cut, or ensuring every region of the state gets its fair share of infrastructure and economic development funding, New Yorkers know that Senate Republicans have their backs.»

«The inclusion of competitive tax parity, a plan that keeps the three Western New York racetrack casinos as vital partners to state and localities, and the assurance that our two successful downstate partners can continue providing good paying jobs and generating significant funding for schools are significant improvements from earlier drafts of this bill and critical to our support,» said Association President James Featherstonhaugh in a statement.

The final measures passed Sunday by the Senate provide for the flow of funds to state agencies, money to be sent to school districts, public college tuition to be cut or raised for students depending on their family incomes, and non-fiscal matters, including the legalization of ride - hailing upstate.

Besides the additional resources, Elia also requested at the hearing that the state provide more resources to NYSED to implement the receivership program, clarify the predictability of funding for struggling schools over time, and the option to change the timeline for schools to improve and enter receivership.

At 11:45 a.m., clergy members join students, parents and education advocates to rally for a Moral Monday event to call on the state to provide Schenectady City Schools with adequate funding, War Room, 2nd Floor, state Capitol, Albany.

Lasher is running against Marisol Alcantara, a former union organizer for the New York State Nurses Association, and Robert Jackson, a former councilman who is also a plaintiff in a landmark case by the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, which argued that New York was under funding schools and not meeting its constitutional burden to provide children with a «sound basic education.»

Funding provided by the Cuomo administration is now $ 9 billion less than required by court orders, leading to deep cuts for the Syracuse City School District schools and all throughout the State.

they chanted, demanding the state honor a settlement in the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit that requires it to provide more aid to under - funded school districts.

New York State is being sued for withholding millions of dollars in funding for nine of its lowest - performing schools, refusing to provide funding even after the schools were removed from the «receivership» list.

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.

The governor's support for ride - sharing services, providing schools with adequate funding and fighting the state's opioid epidemic are among some of the proposals the Assembly Minority Conference has long supported and warrant serious consideration.

Parents, citizens and local officials gathered in Buffalo Wednesday to demand that New York State provide more funding for public schools.

Representatives from the Alliance for Quality Education, PUSH Buffalo and Citizen Action were among the group calling on New York State to provide the funding owed to area schools.

Charter school advocates on Tuesday called on the state to increase facilities funding for charters, highlighting a little - noticed provision in new pro-charter legislation that only provides additional resources for new or expanding schools.

«In a three - way race, I think that a candidate who wants a $ 15 - an - hour minimum wage, health care for all, a Green New Deal to provide full employment while acting on climate change, and who supports progressive taxes to adequately funds our schools and local governments will have the most support among the voters,» stated Hawkins.

However, board member Luis Reyes, a researcher at Hunter College in Manhattan, said the graduation goal would prove «delusional» unless the state provides more equitable funding for schools in poor neighborhoods.

On Wednesday, members of the city council's Progressive Caucus, including Councilman Daniel Dromm, chair of the Education Committee, came to Albany asking state legislators to adopt a budget that provides funding mandated by the Campaign for Fiscal Equity court decision, excludes additional resources for charter schools, leaves the charter school cap at current levels and provides more local control over the city's schools.

The state Legislature adopted it one year after a 2006 ruling in a lawsuit brought by the Campaign for Fiscal Equity that ordered New York to provide enough funding to schools to ensure a «sound, basic education» for all public school children.

NYSUT, meanwhile, again urged the state to fully fund schools under the terms of a 2007 settlement in the high - profile Campaign for Fiscal Equity case, which required the state to fix its school funding formula and fulfill its constitutional obligation to provide a «sound, basic education» to all children.

On topic question topics included the mayor's proposed $ 20 million allocation for arts programs and whether this is all new spending, whether it's typical for elementary schools to have arts teachers, the mayor's proposed $ 4.4 billion capital spending to address classroom overcrowding, how many new classroom seats that spending would produce and where they would be located, whether all trailers used by schools would be eliminated, the definition of «problematic behavior» used in dealing with the Absent Teacher Reserve, what the state funding to be used for middle school after school programs would have otherwise been used for and DoE support for schools that will participate in the program providing increased school autonomy.

Among the question topics were his reaction to the pre-K funding contained in the state budget agreement and the absence of his proposed income tax surcharge, what funding has been provided in the state budget for the middle school after school portion of his initiative, the outlook for his as yet unfulfilled request for state approval of additional red light cameras in the City and the lingering pain of Bill Buckner's bobble in Game 6 of the 1986 World Series.

Senate Republicans, while opposing the DREAM Act, which would allow taxpayer - funded state tuition assistance programs to be used on the colege kids of illegal immigrants, support the education tax credit that would provide a benefit for those who donate to private and public schools.

They also pushed for the full restoration of Teacher Center funding and more state aid to allow for the expansion of the UFT's Community Learning School Initiative and the Positive Learning Collaborative, a joint UFT - Department of Education program to create safe and supportive learning environments by providing educators with strategies to respond to challenging student behavior.

Years after the Kingston City School District joined seven other small - city school districts in suing the state for what plaintiffs claimed were funding inequities, a judge ruled this week that the state had met its «constitutional obligation» in providing those districts with enough School District joined seven other small - city school districts in suing the state for what plaintiffs claimed were funding inequities, a judge ruled this week that the state had met its «constitutional obligation» in providing those districts with enough school districts in suing the state for what plaintiffs claimed were funding inequities, a judge ruled this week that the state had met its «constitutional obligation» in providing those districts with enough money.

We support the governor's proposed $ 150 million for the creation of new community schools in high - needs districts, but we hope the state will increase this funding to $ 200 million and provide it as categorical aid to adequately support schools.

Nixon, who has been involved in public school funding activism for 16 years, slammed Cuomo for not providing enough state aid to the Buffalo city schools.

The results provide worrying evidence of a failure to further advance research authorship by women, as Kathryn M. Rexrode, MD, MPH, associate professor of medicine and faculty director of Office for Women's Careers at Harvard Medical School, Boston, states in an editorial accompanying The BMJ article: «Authorship is necessary for career progression and is also a symptom of success; it is the culmination of career development, mentorship, funding, and support.

The report from the Washington - based advocacy group Pre-K Now, released this month and presented at a conference here, shows that states are increasingly seeking to support their pre-K programs through school funding formulas embedded in state law, which provide the most stable source of revenue and the greatest potential for growth.

The Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL), a Federal Government - funded group that provides leadership for the Australian, State and Territory Governments in promoting excellence in teaching and school leadership, has released guidelines to develop school leadeSchool Leadership (AITSL), a Federal Government - funded group that provides leadership for the Australian, State and Territory Governments in promoting excellence in teaching and school leadership, has released guidelines to develop school leadeschool leadership, has released guidelines to develop school leadeschool leadership.

«Comprehensive schools have demonstrated that it is possible to provide high - quality, inclusive education for all children, with 86 per cent of state - funded schools currently rated good or outstanding.

Defra is providing support for additional packs for state ‑ funded primary schools in England.

Imagine that states instead channel funds directly to schools and require that the schools contract with a school support organization (SSO) for an array of services similar to what its district's central office now provides (see Figure 1).