Sentences with phrase «public schools financed largely»

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Its School Construction Authority is the rare local entity that has soup - to - nuts responsibility for financing, building, and overseeing public schools, largely because it is now controlled directly by the mayor.

Yet in public K — 12 education, there is a curious twist on this pattern: school districts have largely lost their monopoly on education programming, but are still the only game in town when it comes to financing, developing, and deploying public school buildings.

In 2004, voters repealed a charter school law after a hard - fought campaign financed largely by the statewide teacher's union, which argued that charters would siphon money from other public schools.

This includes offering a new vision of structuring public education, based largely on the portfolio model Hill and his successor at CRPE, Robin Lake, have advanced for the past decade, as well as crafting a new approach for financing education that expands high - quality school options for children and their families.

This study focuses on an aspect of school finance which remains largely unaddressed by the public policy literature, namely the relationship between school district credit constraints, crucial investments in public schools, and underserved student populations.

But largely outside of the public eye, a number of states have made dramatic changes to their finance systems to redirect funding to low - income school districts.

Public schools are financed largely through property taxes, which has created an inequitable distribution of resources within school districts and states, despite additional resources from states and the federal government.