Sentences with phrase «school aid system»

In 2002, the court ruled that the state's school aid system was unconstitutional.

Legislators from both Republican - controlled chambers agreed May 25 on a bill that keeps the old school aid system mostly intact, while reducing state property...

On Jan. 3, the Kansas Supreme Court unanimously declared the state's school aid system insufficient, and gave lawmakers until April 12 to fix the problem.

Lawmakers also face a state supreme court deadline of March 24 to revise the school aid system, which the court declared unconstitutional a year ago.

Not exact matches

Parents and students should first determine their earliest deadlines for filing for aid and whether their school or state uses a first - come, first - served system for any of its aid, Chany said.

Completely scrap the the funding for private schools, but in the event it's not politically expedient for the government heading into an election, at least consider a reduction in funding levels to financially aid the public system and alleviate some of the pressures they currently are experiencing with class size, lack of teachers and the challenges inherent in providing school lunch programs.

In Bolivia, I saw how sponsorship money has funded everything from guinea pig farms, to after - school programs, to hearing aids, to irrigation systems, to marriage counseling, to maternal health initiatives, to alcoholism support groups, to dams.

(2) Parochial school aid: In addition to supporting a voucher system, the Reagan administration has been indefatigable in its desire to channel public money generally into private schools.

The government's method was to offer private schools four options: (1) continued independence with no aid, (2) integration into the public school system, (3) a permanent «contract of partnership» in which the classes under contract would be taught according to public school schedules by teachers under contract to the state, and (4) a «simple contract» of limited duration in which the designated classes would be taught by teachers hired by the school but certified by the state.

In other recognizably democratic nations besides our own there exist systems of aid for religious day schools, their faculties and pupils — systems that have not resulted in the consequences the court fears and presumes to be inescapable.

This week I have seen how sponsorship money has funded everything from guinea pig farms to after - school programs to hearing aids to irrigation systems to marriage counseling to maternal health programs to alcoholism support groups.

He also referenced the fact that New York is now one of three states placed on a watch list for losing hundreds of millions of Race to the Top dollars by US Education Secretary Arne Duncan because it has «hit a roadblock» on significant policy provisions of qualifying for the aid, including establishment of the peformance evaluation system and creation of a database to track student records across school districts.

Nevertheless, Cuomo was successful this year in forming a new teacher evaluation system as well as making it harder for teachers to obtain tenure — a move that state lawmakers felt they had no choice but to accept given the policy's linkage to an increase in school aid.

The biggest shares of foundation aid go to school systems in New York City and other urban and poor suburban areas.

For eight years, a case has wandered through New York's court system: impoverished small cities suing Albany, saying the state's system for allocating school aid is not fair to them.

Third, to ensure ongoing compliance with the implementation of the evaluation system, school districts will continue to remain ineligible for annual state education aid increases if the district fails to implement their approved evaluation system.

Cuomo later angered teachers by pushing a new evaluation system, and he has increased aid to public schools at a level that they say is not adequate.

«First, what percentage of State funding should be used to equalize the disparity presented by our inherently inequitable property tax funding system; and second, what percentage of State and local aid should go to the poorer, lower performing schools.»

Cuomo has proposed an extra $ 1 billion in school aid, but only if lawmakers agree to revamp the state's new teacher evaluation system and require more experience for teachers to qualify for tenure.

ALBANY — Governor Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders have agreed on a framework for the state budget with at least a $ 1.4 billion increase in school aid, a plan to allow the state education department to develop the new teacher evaluation system and tighter disclosure requirements for lawmakers.

The $ 530 million includes $ 254 million that the city has to contribute to an $ 836 million short - term emergency plan unveiled by MTA chairman Joe Lhota to fix the city's beleaguered subway system — which has been plagued by delays and service problems over the last several months — and $ 140 million less than the city had expected to receive in state aid for city schools.

ALBANY — With nearly $ 2.32 billion in state school aid increases on the line, Assembly Democrats are attempting to decouple the link between aid and implementation of the teacher and principal evaluation system, Speaker Carl Heastie told POLITICO New York on Thursday.

Earlier this year, and as part of Race to the Top requirements, the state did direct New York school districts develop their own teacher evaluation systems, known as annual professional performance reviews plan (APPR), lest the districts risk losing additional available state aid.

Cuomo said lawmakers still haven't reached full agreement on the mechanics of raising the minimum wage, increasing school aid or creating a system of paid family leave for the state.

From Molinaro's view, groups of people were leveraged against each other, whether it was county leaders seeking certainty for their finances, the New York City school system and how it's leadership structure is formed or the communities affected by flooding that are in need of aid.

Joseph Dragone, assistant superintendent for business in the Roslyn school system, noted that his district would lose more than 2 percent in operating aid next year based on the governor's plan.

Schools will be given one year to implement an evaluation system or risk losing educational aid.

[Cuomo is reportedly holding back a promised 4 - percent increase in school aid in exchange for a tougher teacher evaluation system.

With nearly $ 2.32 billion in state school aid increases on the line, Assembly Democrats are attempting to decouple the link between aid and implementation of the teacher and principal evaluation system, Heastie said.

As the school year starts, many school districts across the state still need to grapple with the issue of a teacher evaluation system, especially if they want to continue to receive state aid.

Earlier this year, the state did mandate that New York school districts develop their own teacher evaluation systems, known as annual professional performance reviews plan (APPR), or risk losing additional state aid.

Mr. Perales said if there is no evaluation system fully implement by school districts before Jan. 17, 2013, then the state won't give those school districts aid.

Cuomo threatened to withhold an increase to school aid if lawmakers did not comply with an extensive overhaul of the state's education system.

Republicans in the NY Senate are every bit as interested in big spending as the Democrats, providing huge amounts of aid to their already prosperous school systems in the suburbs.

The school system's basic problem is that most years it spends more than it takes in, with costs rising rapidly and sometimes more than increases in state school aid.

«Mr. Cuomo's adversarial stance toward teachers borders on disdain,» Astorino wrote of the series of battles Cuomo has had with teachers over everything from Common Core educational standards to an evaluation system to the level of state aid to public schools.

In a preliminary injunction made public yesterday, a court ordered that the State can not withhold $ 260 million in aid from NYC schools in response to the City and teachers» union failing to reach an agreement on a new teacher evaluation system.

«If you believe in a two - party system of government like I do, then I need to win this election,» said McGrath, who pledged to fight for increased school aid and against Common Core standards.

A judge has temporarily blocked the state from withholding approximately $ 250 million in school aid from New York City as a penalty for the city's failure to reach agreement with the UFT on a new teacher evaluation system by the Jan. 17 deadline.

The state Legislature set the January deadline for school districts to comply with a 2010 state law requiring a new evaluation system for all teachers or forfeit their share of the state's 3 percent increase in annual school aid.

In his first budget address to the legislature, Murphy said he would use the extra revenue to ramp up state aid for school districts, increase funding for the beleaguered NJ Transit and a make a larger payment into the cash - strapped public worker pension system.

Charter school provisions are often traded for things like mayoral control of city schools or additional education aid to the broader public school system.

Governor Cuomo and the state Legislature adopted an executive budget that committed an additional 4.4 percent ($ 639 million increase) in school aid for New York City next fiscal year, welcome news which should have been a bonus for our school system.

«First Aid, CPR and AED training need to become part of a larger culture of safety within workplaces,» said Michael Kurz, MD, chair of the American Heart Association's Systems of Care Subcommittee and associate professor at the University of Alabama School of Medicine in the Department of Emergency Medicine.

Teachers» Free Labor, Out - of - Pocket Expenses Aid School Systems Teacher Kathleen Modenbach reflects on the free labor and out - of - pocket expense teachers willingly give.

School systems with a per - pupil assessed valuation that is below 90 percent of the state's per - pupil assessed valuation receive more state aid.

«The caprice of local political conditions can not be permitted to harm the educational opportunity of a child,» the five - member panel wrote in its Sept. 15 report to Franklin Circuit Judge Ray Corns, who declared the current school - aid system unconstitutional last May.

The state of Arizona faces a severe disruption in its budget, and some of its school districts face the loss of millions of dollars in federal impact aid, because the U.S. Education Department has declared the state's system for equalizing resources among districts inadequate.

In January, the UFT and the school district ended negotiations over a new evaluation system in the city, which could lead to the loss of $ 450 million in state and federal aid.

The net effect of their arguments is to provide aid and comfort to those who would resign themselves to the educational status quo and explain away the school system's shortcomings.