Note: This is a very important clarification that is often not known or understood by
school district personnel since it appears in the discussion section of the IDEA regulations in the Federal Register.
Not exact matches
Miller Place is the first Long Island
district to publicly acknowledge the posting of armed security
personnel since the Feb. 14 shootings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High
School that killed 17 students and teachers but other local systems are moving in that direction.
Cuts to
personnel and other expenses are on the table for the Niagara Falls
School District, since the district faces a $ 6.5 million budget gap and can't increase the overall tax levy because of restrictions related to the state's
District,
since the
district faces a $ 6.5 million budget gap and can't increase the overall tax levy because of restrictions related to the state's
district faces a $ 6.5 million budget gap and can't increase the overall tax levy because of restrictions related to the state's tax cap.
The state
school board last month ended its oversight of the Logan County
district, granting the local
school board power to direct curriculum and
personnel for the first time
since 1992.
Since some 80 percent of
school -
district budgets are absorbed in
personnel costs, local
school boards, when pressed fiscally, quite naturally give consideration to
personnel cutbacks and salary freezes.
Determining how to address issues of youth violence can be tricky to negotiate
since many
school districts don't have the additional time, commitment, and
personnel, or financial support necessary to do so.
And
since districts have varying technology capacities, in terms of bandwidth, devices and expert
personnel, this will result in unequal
district - by -
district and even
school - by -
school test experiences.
Arizona initially restricted ESA eligibility to students with special needs, though lawmakers have
since expanded eligibility to include foster children, children of active - duty military
personnel, students assigned to
district schools rated D or F, gifted students, and children living in Native American reservations.
In addition to ESEA waiver requirements that
districts incorporate evaluation data into
personnel decisions (though compensation isn't specified), the Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF), a federal grant program that has allocated over $ 2 billion
since its inception, began supporting state and
district efforts to implement performance - based compensation in 2006.79 Grantees from across the country have included Miami - Dade County Public
Schools, Mississippi, Pittsburgh Public
Schools, Seattle Public
Schools, and Washington, D.C. Public
Schools (see Case Study: Lessons From Washington, D.C.'s IMPACT System).