Sentences with phrase «public school funding crisis»

It is deeply troubling that instead working to fix PA's public school funding crisis, many lawmakers are instead trying to advance the agenda of the school privatization lobby, which will create more costs for taxpayers and even deeper deprivation for students in public schools.

Given the well - documented consternation this year over a public school funding crisis spurred by lawmakers» demands that schools reduce class sizes in kindergarten through third grade, it's an important, albeit tentative, promise.

Not exact matches

The Little Rock, Ark., public schools are facing a cash - flow crisis that will force them to close next month unless efforts to secure an infusion of funds prove successful, the district's superintendent, Ruth Steele, said last week.

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Today, billions of taxpayer dollars are being diverted from the nation's public schools to charter schools and with those funds has come a growing crisis of so - called education entrepreneurs who are using some of those scarce public funds to line their own pockets.

That responsibility made a huge difference as Connecticut's financial crisis forced flat - funding on all public schools, despite rising costs.

This e-news features a link to a video documenting the school pushout crisis in Florida, a report on Restorative Justice Practices in Chicago Public Schools, the DSC's comments on the Department of Education's Proposed Teacher Incentive Fund, and education news from around the country.

We have a tendency to be apocalyptic in times of crisis — particularly when it comes to school funding — and the public frequently accuses us of crying wolf, but the current crisis that local districts in Connecticut are trying to deal with is very real.

North Carolina's largest public school system may be warning of «enormous disruptions» without speedy action from state lawmakers on a looming class size funding crisis, but key education leaders in Raleigh tell Policy Watch there's little sign Republican lawmakers in the General Assembly will act soon.

Oregon's public school districts are facing a fiscal crisis, but it has nothing to do with inadequate funding.

Sadly, our State and nation are forcing millions of children out of their homes due to an economic crisis created by the same Wall Street gamblers who are now threatening our public schools by funding fake charter school groups.

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

They constituted a pivotal moment in a struggle involving Corbett, well - funded education reformers bent on privatizing public schools, a battered teachers union, and students and parents attempting to navigate a school system in which fiscal crisis has become the only constant.

«We are also encouraged to see that the proposal makes significant progress toward addressing the historical disparity in funding levels that students in charter schools have experienced relative to traditional public schools, a problem that was made only more severe during the state's funding crisis of recent years.

MYTH: In this financial crisis, there is no additional funding available for education, but even if there were, increased funding does not improve education, Chicago's public schools already enjoy equitable funding, and if a community wants to raise more funds it has that option.

These members of the Deformer «advance force» parrot a regressive agenda of union - busting, tenure - smashing, and teacher - demonizing, paired with an obsessive devotion to standardized testing, «data driven decision making», charter school expansion, and privatization as the «answers» to the «crisis in public education» — while remaining seemingly oblivious to the fact that it was their policies that manufactured the crisis they claim to be addressing, and which are paying off so handsomely for the investors who fund their charter schools and pay their generous salaries.