We know that teachers aren't short on awesome ideas to try with students in the classroom, but all too often, school budgets don't have the wiggle room to cover out - of - the - box projects, extra tech, or mid-year supply restocking.
Safety is a big issue, but parents still want their children to have the extras that typical
school budgets do not cover.
Most
school budgets do not allow for massive start - up costs for new programs.
So we need to give as much time to give them clarity to get
their school budgets done.»
So I think we should try to give... as much clarity and time to get
their school budgets done.
Another added: «Our school can only afford to run the programme with the government funding as our already tight school budget doesn't allow for it at all.
Not exact matches
«A
school will say, «Well, Kantis, we don't have the
budget now to bring you in,»» says Simmons.
One of the valuable things I found at Ryerson was a very underutilized
budget for the debating team at the
school, and with a friend and some other people at
school we really strived hard to build [the team] into something, and we
did.
The
budget does not consider other cost - saving measures and
does not include daycare or private
school costs.
If your business provides a service for other small businesses, like a business coach or consulting firm, you may want to build your promotions around when you know businesses are
doing their annual
budgeting, or around back to
school timing and focus on continued learning.
In his recent
budget speech, the Finance Minister pointed out that 40 per cent of our villages
do not have proper roads, that 1.8 lakh villages
do not have primary
schools, that 4.5 lakh villages have drinking water and sanitation problems, that there is a shortage of 140 lakh rural dwellings.
I have gone over the same problems in pastoral counseling and wandered through the same routine with
budget planning, the same search for Sunday
school teachers, I could lament that after all these years we don't seem to be making progress.
Why
do we cut
school budgets when these are the children that nee us most?
How dumb you all are, get real... why don't you feed the poor, provide books for
schools with no
budget, get the homeless shelter, instead you have some senile old fart making predictions and you're all running away to hide in caves because it's the end?
Even individuals, when they
do such planning as
budgeting for their financial needs, work in order to place meals on their tables, decide where to send children to
school or
do shopping in order to get the value for their money et cetera, they are involved in politics.
While caterers in many
schools worry about wasting their
budget on meat - free options that children simply
do not eat, creative cuisine of this calibre can tempt pupils all week long, not just on a Meat Free Monday.
A stubborn egoistic pensioner who would try to
school all fans about how Leicester
did it on a shoe string
budget.
Back then,
schools did not offer athletic scholarships, and college had not been in the Trice family
budget.
While we believe that scratch - cooked dressings are the best option, we also recognize that many
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But what
did that prove — that someone operating completely outside the constraints of a regular
school meal program (financial, regulatory, and social) can
do things differently than someone who is forced to stay on
budget and follow the rules?
one challenge
school food reform has is that when menu changes (with healthier ingredients or scratch cooking) participation goes down (kids reject the taste), and that doesn't provide the
budget to maintain the changes.
remember, most
schools don't have a lot of
budget to broadcast menu changes to parents and students.
Anne L. Bryant, executive director of the
school boards association, said it was «disappointing» that the law «
does not provide adequate funding,» which she said would «challenge
schools» ability to provide
school nutrition by adding a new funding burden for
schools at a time when there are critical
budget shortfalls.»
«While
budgets are tight right now, there are
schools across the country that are showing that it doesn't take a whole lot of money or resources to give our kids the nutrition they deserve.
In planning its
budgets, the park district
does not keep count on how many children attend its free after -
school activities, raising questions about whether tax money is spent efficiently.
And many
budget - strapped
schools today simply don't want to risk the added price.
If your food service says they can't make the changes you are requesting because they don't have the resources, it's important to sit down with them and members of the
school administration and go over their
budgets and resources.
After eight years of work to «fix
school food», I am convinced that while on paper it may be possible to draw up a
budget to operate a
school meal program, including all of the expenses — food, labor, overhead, kitchen facilities, equipment, staff training, office expenses, everything it takes to run a meal program — with nutritious scratch cooked lunches for $ 2.72 apiece, no district of any size is, in fact,
doing it, despite the best efforts of many capable people like Ann Cooper.
LeeAnn B: Well... I think it all comes down to
budget constraints and whether a
school could afford either water delivery or the labor needed to wash cups, provided they even have the facilities to
do the washing.
But I've often wondered if the skills acquired in a high - end restaurant kitchen have much to
do with the problems faced by
school food departments: extremely tight
budgets (just a dollar per meal for food), reams of federal regulations, often seriously deficient infrastructure, and a notoriously fickle and hard - to - please clientele.
I would love to see a round up of success stories from large public
school districts that don't have celebrity personalities who can influence
school boards and reasonable
budgets driving change.
As labor accounts for about the same amount as the typical
school district pays for food (about 44 % of the
budget for the program), it is impossible to determine if other
schools or other districts could try to
do a similar program with a local restaurant, or even just with their own chef and cooking facilities, unless they know the labor costs.
The guest judge (Kass out of the White House)
did say that he would only take $ 4 for operating expenses out of their $ 138
budget to serve those 50 children, and that most
schools had to spend much more than that on supplies, staff, etc..
Do the right thing today and go out and vote NO on your local
school budget especially if they're trying to go over what's allowed by the tax cap.
School districts in this year's
budget did receive a boost in foundation aid as well as a complete end to the Gap Elimination Adjustment.
President & CEO of the Long Island Association Kevin S. Law said, «Tough times calls for tough decisions and Governor Cuomo has shown courage and leadership with his proposed
budget that lowers spending,
does not propose new taxes and supports a property tax cap along with mandate relief to our
schools and local governments.
Governor Cuomo is seeking an expansion of 100 more charter
schools, but the plan
did not make it into the recently enacted state
budget.
«Governor Cuomo's entire argument on
school funding is just one big excuse to ignore the lives of students who are black or brown or working class,» said Nixon, who added that the governor's
budget «
does not value the lives of the majority of New York's children.»
There are 36
school districts that have proposed
budgets overriding the cap, double the 18 districts that
do so last year.
He's already said he
does not want to raise any more taxes, and he's holding to a commitment to increase spending on
schools and health care by 4 % in the new
budget.
The Executive
Budget takes two steps backward for one step forward — with improvements to target poverty this year outweighed by the loss of predictability and transparency in future years and by not
doing enough to ensure that
schools serving low - income students and students of color receive the resources they need to increase achievement and opportunity.
The governor again called on lawmakers to slash state spending and predicted the failure to
do so on the local level would lead voters to reject
school budgets across the state today.
If you don't live in the City of Rochester, you may be voting on a
school budget.
«Local governments and
school districts are putting together their
budgets, and they're
doing it in the dark with no clear picture of how much state aid they'll get.»
Voters adopted
school budgets Tuesday, but some districts
did not provide vote counts to The Buffalo News Tuesday night.
He
did, however, successfully lobby the state for extra funding after a $ 55 million
budget gap was revealed in the
school's 2013 and 2014 financial operations — roughly 6 percent of the city's overall
budget.
Also, the governor's
budget does not include charter
schools in the smart
schools bond act.
The state Council of
School Superintendents raised a package of issues on Wednesday with Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposed education
budget, arguing the funding plan doesn't go far enough and that the tax cap makes it difficult for
schools to raise revenue.
What are we
doing about failing
schools, how
do we pay teachers and what we are paying for are questions that are implicitly raised in every
budget.
Klug said Wadleigh's middle
school students didn't have physical education last year and lost their only guidance counselor and math coach because of
budget cuts.