Sentences with phrase «public school spending across»

This map, using Research Center data, was produced by NPR for a series on public school spending across the states.

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For lawmakers to truly curb government spending across New York State they need to get public school teacher and administrator salaries, as well as the five - and six - figure payouts many of them receive upon retiring, back into the realm of what's normal for middle - income earners.

In response to large within - state differences in per - pupil spending across wealthy / high - income and poor districts, state supreme courts overturned school finance systems in 28 states between 1971 and 2010, and many states implemented legislative reforms that spawned important changes in public education funding.

The U.S. public school system is characterized by large funding differences across districts, but what about differences in school spending within districts?

The large spending gap exists primarily because of the variation in property wealth across the state, which in large part determines how much local revenue can be generated to support public schools.

Since 2000, the Gates Foundation has spent roughly $ 2 billion dollars in the creation of small schools in public school districts across the United States.

This attack on the EITC is befuddling, given that the expansion of educational tax credits, a $ 75 million increase, is less than public schools across Pennsylvania spend in one day.

The President's budget would cut federal education programs across the board and use the money to spend about $ 400 million to expand charter schools and vouchers for private and religious schools, and offer another $ 1 billion to push public schools to favor charter and private schools.

This measure will help mitigate the impact of the automatic, across - the - board spending cuts known as sequestration and restore critical programs to public schools across the nation.

Principals from the District's traditional public schools and public charter schools will spend the next 11 months learning how to better manage their schools — working together — as part of a program aimed at improving school leadership across the city.

Another example: across the nation, some for - profit companies that run charter schools engage in self - serving real estate deals, hide their financial practices from public view, assert that they own assets that were purchased with public monies, and spend large sums to influence state legislators.

As a person who works closely with teachers locally, and who has spent the last five years working closely with teachers across the country — from both district and charter settings — I can tell you first hand that you will be hard pressed to find anyone working in a school today who agrees our public schools are «flush with cash.»

Eileen B. Sigmund, Arizona Charter Schools Association President and CEO, released the following statement today on the Fiscal Year 2018 state budget: «On behalf of public charter schools across Arizona, we commend Governor Ducey for signing into law a pro-education spending plan that makes critical investments in K - 12 students, teachers and sSchools Association President and CEO, released the following statement today on the Fiscal Year 2018 state budget: «On behalf of public charter schools across Arizona, we commend Governor Ducey for signing into law a pro-education spending plan that makes critical investments in K - 12 students, teachers and sschools across Arizona, we commend Governor Ducey for signing into law a pro-education spending plan that makes critical investments in K - 12 students, teachers and schoolsschools.

North Carolina public school leaders say a legislative mandate to decrease class sizes in the early grades may have a devastating impact on school systems across the state, forcing districts to spend millions more hiring teachers or cut scores of positions for those teaching «specialty» subjects such as arts, music and physical education.

More than 10,000 teachers from more than 20 districts scattered across Colorado are demonstrating as part of a burgeoning teacher uprising from the East to the interior West that is demanding more tax dollars be spent in public schools.

These 1 % ers (they provide less than 1 % of overall education spending across the US) have used their money and political clout to force ineffective and harmful changes in our public schools.

... so the 1 %, who are pulling ALL of the CCSS and RTTT strings, and their lackeys in Washington and state capitals across the land can grab all of those billions and billions of public dollars spent on public education AND PRIVATIZE AMERICA»S SCHOOLS.

The Atlanta public schools, like many districts across the country, have eliminated recess in elementary schools as a waste of time that would be better spent on -LSB-...]

Analysis from the Public School Forum of North Carolina indicates that disparities in local spending have been increasing in recent years, mostly as a result of the variation in property wealth across the state.