Sentences with phrase «received by the local school district»

By law, this amount may not exceed the per - pupil base foundation received by the local school district where the charter school is geographically located.»

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Those teachers and others also would receive new «transition scores» calculated by the state, based on information provided by local school districts.

James Petro, the town's land development manager, said casino - related money received by the town would help the tax base and benefit local school districts.

They simply don't have the LEGAL authority to cut the overwhelming majority of their expenses and with the double digit cut in state aid most local school districts will receive, they will have to make up for that money by significantly jacking up property taxes... which are far more regressive and oppressive than income taxes.

Federal officials have asked states that received awards under the Reading Excellence Act to submit performance reports by the end of this month detailing the progress made in local districts and schools in improving reading achievement.

A proposed change in the Minnesota school - aid formula would raise the level of state support for local districts by about 15 percent, but at the same time would reduce state - subsidized property - tax credits, thereby leaving the amount of money schools receive essentially unchanged.

A study of 49 states by The Education Trust found that school districts with high numbers of low - income and minority students receive substantially less state and local money per pupil than school districts with few poor and minority children.

Washington — Five states no longer require school districts to keep records showing that they do not allocate less local funding to schools receiving federal Chapter 1 funds, and 31 other states have relaxed standards by which they judge «comparability,» according to the General Accounting Office.

While these schools receive public funds, they operate unfettered by most state and local district regulations governing other public schools.

In every school district and supervisory district, the trustee, trustees, board of education or board of cooperative educational services, shall submit a written semiannual report to the Commissioner of Education, by January 15th and July 15th of each year, commencing July 1, 1985, setting forth the substance of each complaint about the use of corporal punishment received by the local school authorities during the reporting period, the results of each investigation, and the action, if any, taken by the school authorities in each case.

providing the parent or guardian or unaccompanied youth with a signed and dated acknowledgment verifying that the local educational agency liaison has received the form petition and supporting documents and will either accept service of these documents on behalf of the school district employee or officer or school district or effect service by mail by mailing the form petition and supporting documents to any school district employee or officer named as a party and, if the school district is named as a party, to a person in the office of superintendent who has been designated by the board of education to accept service on behalf of the school district;

In other states, free online high schools are administrated by local school districts or by private organizations that receive permission by forming charter schools.

Instead, it is likely that the most effected by budget cuts will be working class and near poor children, those children who attend school districts that receive limited federal dollars but lack the advantages of high local property values or school taxes.

However, if a state can demonstrate that it is ensuring that its high - poverty districts and schools receive more state and local funding than its low - poverty districts and schools, the federal funding is supplemental by definition, and the state is meeting the intent of these key fiscal requirements.

Public schools are funded largely by local property taxes, though many districts also receive funding from state and federal sources.

Students are eligible for the program if the student's resident district is not a school district in which the pilot project scholarship program is operating and the student satisfies one of the following conditions: the student attends a local public school that has received a grade D or F by the state's performance index score, the student is assigned to a community school but would otherwise be assigned to a qualifying school, the student attends a local public school that was ranked in the lowest 10 percent of public schools in two of the three most recent rankings and the public school was not declared to be excellent or effective in the most recent rating system, or the student is enrolling in grades K — 12 for the first time and would be assigned to a qualifying school as long as they are at least 5 years old by Jan. 1 of the school year.

In May, the district received letters of credit from two local banks that would allow it to borrow enough money to keep the financially strapped schools open for the entire 1998 - 99 school year - temporarily avoiding the threatened takeover by the state.

The best professional learning for teachers helps them acquire, practice, and apply new skills to better serve their students.2 But despite annual investments of $ 18 billion by federal, state, and local agencies into professional learning for educators, many teachers still do not receive the kind of professional learning that helps them grow and improve their practice.3 Less than one - quarter of teachers say that they have changed their instruction as a result of professional learning, likely in part due to the lack of a consistent professional learning strategy across states and school districts.4 Learning Forward, a nonprofit association dedicated to supporting professional learning for educators, contends that the current state of professional learning is one of «inertia.»

Charter schools also contribute to the local levy by paying property tax, which remains with the school district since charter schools do not receive it as part of their funding.

In district - level analysis, the Education Trust finds that nationally districts serving high concentrations of low - income students receive on average $ 1,200 less in state and local funding than districts that serve low concentrations of low - income students, and that gap widens to $ 2,000 when comparing high - minority and low - minority districts.17 These findings are further reflected by national funding equity measures reported by Education Week, which indicate that wealthy school districts spend more per student than poorer school districts do on average.18

School districts with the highest rates of poverty receive about $ 1,000 less per student in state and local funding than those with the lowest rates of poverty, according to a new report released Tuesday by The Education Trust.

Local charter schools will receive more money to educate disabled students and more freedom from the Los Angeles Unified School District in the process, under an agreement approved Tuesday by the Board of Education.

School district liaisons are required to ensure that young children experiencing homelessness have access to and receive Head Start, early intervention programs (Part C of the Individuals with Education Act), and preschool programs administered by local educational agencies.