Sentences with phrase «school budget crisis»

Each city in the consortium is unique: Oakland is BAM's largest city, is the only city located west of the Mississippi River, and has faced several external challenges during early phases of the initiative, including a transition in school district leadership and a public school budget crisis.

School budget crises are continuous, teachers union leadership is combative, and minority community involvement is generally ineffective.

Not exact matches

But the state is in a budget crisis, with school funding a central issue as Gov. Dannel Malloy seeks to overhaul the state formula to redistribute money to districts in need.

It was the largest tax amnesty program in U.S. history — at a time when a budget crisis forced California to cut funding for schools, colleges, and police departments.

This funding can come in the form of a state reimbursement for free and reduced price meals paid on top of the Federal reimbursement; for example, the state of California is supposed to give schools an extra.219 for every meal served to a qualifying low income child (in fact, due to the ongoing budget crisis in California, that reimbursement has not always been paid for every qualifying meal in recent years.)

New York's political leaders were on track to extend the court order to apply to all schools in the state and to fulfill the monetary obligation, but it was derailed after the 2008 recession and resulting state budget crisis.

«It's pretty shocking that the Mayor did not include a single real solution to New York City's failing schools crisis in his budget presentation.

The president of the College of New Rochelle resigned as the school considered declaring «an imminent financial crisis» that could lead to budget cuts and faculty layoffs, according to a statement from the chairwoman of its board of trustees.

Whoever wins will quickly become immersed in budget crises and the debate over school consolidation as the district looks to downsize.

Calling the Albany budget crisis and its threat to rob city schools of as much as $ 600 million in state aid «the most dangerous thing this union has faced in 30 years,» UFT President Michael Mulgrew told the April 21 Delegate Assembly that members had to redouble their efforts to get the message out to elected officials that «children can't be made to pay for the mistakes of Wall Street.»

The school faces a budget crisis that requires it to restructure its debt and cut its operating budget by $ 10 million.

Delaware lawmakers have approved a bailout, teachers have gotten pink slips, and turnaround consultants have been hired — all for a budget crisis that former leaders of the state's largest school district say doesn't exist.

District officials were negotiating with banks and state education officials last week to stave off the crisis, which they project could leave them $ 26.6 million short — almost a quarter of the district's total budget — if they are allowed to continue operating until the end of the school year.

While other systems were being devastated by fiscal crises, their schools could boast a balanced budget.

Each year, as predictably as classes end in June, the School District of Philadelphia faces a budget crisis for the coming schoolSchool District of Philadelphia faces a budget crisis for the coming schoolschool year.

From San Diego to Baltimore, districts are being forced to make painful budget cuts as political and economic forces converge into one of the deepest school fiscal crises in decades.

The stalemate over a solution to the Chicago schools» budget crisis continued last week, as a federal judge gave the system another 10 days to operate without a balanced budget.

If schools could have used the recession and budget crisis as an opportunity to cut their least - effective teachers, student achievement would actually have risen.

The immense pressure on school budgets resulting from the current funding crisis means that it is imperative that new funding is available to all schools to fund these increases.

State rules surrounding local school - district budgeting procedures contribute to the opposite impression, making it appear that schools are in a perpetual financial crisis.

The greatest challenge facing America's schools today isn't the budget crisis, or standardized testing, or «teacher quality.»

«The government must address the funding crisis in schools — freezing school budgets in a time of rising inflation will only make the journey more difficult.

Six teaching unions have warned that a national teaching crisis is fast approaching as government limits to teachers» pay and «real terms cuts» to school budgets risk undermining standards.

In focusing on who should be laid off in times of budget crises, he omits the larger problem at play: full and fair funding of our schools so all kids have access to the classes — like music, art and physical education — and opportunities they need.

Jose Cole - Gutierrez, who heads the district's Charter Schools Division, said the budget crisis was a major factor in the tidal wave of charter applications.

Due to the budget crisis in state government, Louisiana's private school voucher program will not be able to take all students in the fall.

Widespread teacher layoffs, larger class sizes and increased economic hardship for children are among the impacts California's budget crisis and the recession have had on public schools and students, according to a report released Thursday.

The Chicago public schools are facing a budget crisis so severe that it threatens to shut down the system next fall unless the Illinois legislature comes up with more money, district officials warned last week.

The U.S. Supreme Court refused last week to hear a challenge by a group of Buffalo, N.Y., school unions to a state fiscal - oversight board's power to set aside labor contracts and impose a wage freeze to help the city and its school district emerge from a budget crisis.

The nation's school districts are facing a budget crisis that is expected to only get worse as the effects of the recession linger.

campaign, says the latest survey shows the «stark reality as to how bad things are» and that schools are «stating unequivocally that their budgets remain in crisis».

But they have helped create a two - tier education system — one in which affluent parents can help their schools weather state budget crises and maintain programs less affluent districts can only dream about.

It was a fiasco — albeit one that lasted several years before the Fairfax School Board voted it out during the budget crisis of the early 90s.

Given that the state remains in a budget crisis, «I think there are higher priorities for our state at this time,» Winnetka Public Schools District 36 Superintendent Trisha Kocanda said of the inquiry.

In the budget crisis that is crippling our schools, nothing has changed but the date on the calendar.

Saddled with a dire budget crisis, her district voted to consolidate three schools.

Originally seen as a challenge to teacher seniority, Reed vs. California was filed in 2009 by the ACLU on behalf of students at three low - income schools against the state and the LA Unified school district, alleging that widespread seniority - based layoffs enacted during the budget crisis of 2008 — 2009 disproportionately affected low income and minority students, depriving them of equal access to a quality education.

Overall, school maintenance and operations (M&O) budgets have been on a downward trend for quite some time, helping contribute to the current education infrastructure crisis.

Just like other public schools, charters are also being affected by the persistent budget crisis and looming cuts.

Likewise, many school districts, suffering from the severe budget crisis, were struggling to survive, much less make a wholesale shift in academic instruction.

It is time for a real, serious and honest look at Connecticut's school funding crisis, not the cop - out version that has been recently proposed as part of Connecticut's budget plan.

The disclosure comes in the midst of a funding crisis with schools expected to slash # 3 billion from their budgets by 2020.

The FY14 budget request also proposes new money to support school safety, including $ 50 million for school climate transformation grants that would help schools create positive learning environments and reduce bullying, and $ 30 million for emergency management grants that would help schools prepare for and respond to crisis events.

For the first time in years, Prop. 30 offered financial relief for LAUSD's cash - strapped schools, which have weathered a budget crisis, teacher layoffs, and dismally low per - pupil funding.

The California Teachers Pension Fund (CalSTRS), the largest fund of its kind in the United States, is facing a $ 70 billion budget crisis, and there are growing concerns that Prop 30 money could be diverted from local schools and into the pension system.

Trenton's Special Education Secret (and one piece of its budget crisis): 900 Children Bussed Away Each Day to Other Schools

«This is a total distraction from addressing the most pressing crises facing schools the shortage of school places, recruiting enough qualified teachers, and cuts to school budgets.»

They claim the reason for what they call a «crisis» is that schools now have to meet a number of additional staff costs from their own budgets.

It's the latest intervention in the school funding crisis, following growing reports of dwindling budgets.

(Kan.) As the state supreme court continues to hear arguments in a landmark school funding adequacy suit, falling revenues over the first two months of the fiscal year have deepened the state's budget crisis.