Sentences with phrase «school district funding»

Thus school district funding is tied to the sources of state general funds — typically receipts from sales taxes and income taxes.

You honestly want school district funding to be based upon how much each district can scrape together?

This grant is for programs and projects that directly benefit students for which school district funding may not be available.

Subject: Request by Siskiyou County Office of Education to waive a portion of California Education Code Section 35330 (b)(3), to authorize expenditures of school district funds for students to travel to Oregon, to experience the Ashland Shakespeare Festival, Science Works Museum, and to tour Southern Oregon University.

«It masks the true cost of the voucher program expansion and the harm that expansion will do to public schools by «washing» the dollars through the aid formula for public schools» because lawmakers no longer must appropriate additional state dollars to fund voucher expansion because it comes from school district funding, he said.

The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), first enacted in 1975, provides the primary source of federal funding to help school districts fund educational services to students with special needs.

IDEA was first enacted in 1975 and provides the primary source of federal funding to help school districts fund educational services to students with special needs.

The president - elect of the American Association of School Administrators is under scrutiny for spending up to $ 20,000 in local school district funds for promotional materials highlighting himself and his district at a time when he was seeking that leadership position.

He inherited a $ 55 million shortfall in school district funds due to accounting errors begun under the prior administration, and fixed the problem without resorting to layoffs or cuts in education programs.

Cuomo today announced that the first school district funding requests from the $ 2 billion Smart Schools Bond Act, passed in 2014, have been approved.

Governor Cuomo today announced that the first school district funding requests from the $ 2 billion Smart Schools Bond Act have been approved.

DiNapoli's office isn't recommending any changes, but he said that it's worth keeping an eye on how the law affects school district funding.

That's with an operating budget of $ 290 million, not including Syracuse City School District funding.

Increasing the price of unsubsidized meals, dipping into reserves and other school district funds, delaying investments in equipment, facilities, and other necessities, and reducing staff and hours, are just a few of the alternatives school districts have had to do.

School district funding levels were set based on a 1990 census of student enrollment, and changed little as a result of the state's «hold harmless» provision which maintains state aid from previous years regardless of fluctuations in student enrollment.

The Education for Tomorrow's Job Act would give school districts funding flexibility to implement integrated instructional strategies, and to encourage partnerships between school districts, business and community organizations, and institutions of higher education.

Focusing on nationwide education finance policies, his work also analyzes the impact of school finance reforms and tax and expenditure limits on school district funding, as well as the effect of recessions on school district revenues.

The Torrance Unified School District funded 6.4 elementary physical education teachers this year primarily as a benefit for classroom teachers, and secondarily for the value they bring, he said.

North Carolina provides school districts their funding via several «allotments.»

Acts 16 - 03 (May Special Session)-RRB- made changes to Alliance District and Priority School District funding distributions, as well as the Minimum Budget Requirement (MBR) for Alliance Districts.

During the first year, a private foundation funded the project; in the subsequent two years, Little Rock School District funded the plan at some schools, and private funders (the Brown Foundation, Hussman Foundation, and Walton Family Foundation) did so at other schools.

Administered by LA County's arts education initiative, Arts for All, these grants are matched by school district funds and offer resources to advance high quality instruction in dance, media arts, music, theatre and visual arts.

The study, unveiled today Sept. 14 at a state Capitol press conference, is a follow - up to an earlier study that developed a «Funding Disparity Ranking» of Wisconsin public schools that allows an «apples - to - apples» comparison of school district funding and spending capacity.

This document details the various parts of Alliance District funding and Priority School District funding and provides a list of town - by - town Alliance District and Priority School District entitlements.

In addition to steep reductions in school district funding, Walker's budget calls for a 10 percent cut to grants for programs such as bilingual - bicultural education and 4 - year - old kindergarten.

Two controversial aspects of SB1184 had been made into Idaho State Board of Education (SDE) rule before the November referendum: a requirement that all students take at least two online courses to graduate from high school, and a fractional ADA funding formula that would have helped fund online courses, in part, from school district funding.

The next round of tests is coming up, and there are questions about what the high opt - out numbers mean... for teacher evaluations, for school district funding, and more.

Jeremy is a former high school social studies teacher whose interests include school consolidation, school district funding and equity, and technology in education.

The «Funding Disparity Rank» provides for an apples - to - apples comparison of school district funding and spending capacity.

School district funding is divided into three categories: Basic grants given for all students, with different levels based on grade span; supplemental grants for students in poverty, English learners and foster children, called high - needs students; concentration grants for school districts with more than 55 percent of high - needs students.

The school district funded the program last year to revamp student breakfast and lunch menus.

While some modest changes were recently legislated, they applied exclusively to new state special education appropriations and only to school district funding.

Spanish - speaking families need more assurances that their children won't be discriminated against while at schools, and more insight into the way that the school district funds teaching English as a second language, an advocacy group told Orleans Parish School Board officials at a town - hall meeting Thursday evening in Central City.

School district funding and now teacher pay are tied to test scores in these two disciplines, among other factors.

The cost of such examinations, including X-rays and tuberculin tests, must be paid out of school district funds.