Sentences with phrase «school districts around the state»

In papers filed with the measure proposal, the law firm cited 10 cases of misconduct in school districts around state to demonstrate the need for such a focused law.

I am inspired and moved by incoming news of the numerous school districts around the state that are providing substantial support to hurricane survivors.

Enrollment in educator preparation programs has dropped by more than 70 percent over the last decade, and has fallen below the number of estimated hires by school districts around the state.

The report from the group — an annual snapshot based on a survey of school districts around the state — found nearly half of the state's district have lost fund balance over the last year.

(One answer: New York City would still prefer to avoid the belt - tightening that's already on the drawing board in other school districts around the state.)

Governor Jerry Brown's proposal to delay implementation of «transitional kindergarten» for 4 - year - olds has triggered doubt and confusion in many school districts around the state.

What's exciting about Reilly & Climb Higher is that the work has transformed into building and sustaining strong and vibrant open systems amongst the coalition members and with school districts around the state.

Foundation aid funding is typically seen as helping poorer school districts around the state that can not rely as heavily on revenue from property taxes.

His conference, he said, doesn't want to see «600 school districts around the state not get the funding that is needed to educate our children... We probably will put forward some legislation to deal with this situation before we leave.»

And as municipalities and school districts around the state gear up to develop budgets with the cap in mind (or, in some cases, attempt to override it) DiNapoli's office has produced a website to help officials navigate the new requirements

Comptroller Tom DiNapoli's office on Thursday reported 26 school districts around the state face a form «fiscal stress» on their budgets — a steep decrease from last year.

That's led school districts around the state to complain that they won't know how much state aid they're getting for the new school year in time to get their budgets ready for the May statewide vote.

The goal of the formula is to balance the inequalities among school districts around the state.

Those numbers were the worst among the so - called «Big 5» city school districts around the state, and significantly below many of the suburban districts.

Evers said while most school districts around the state also have such a screening test, the tests are not consistent.

Eleven school districts around the state will hold referendums on Tuesday, with eight of those districts requesting money to maintain class sizes and programming in the wake of reduced state aid, rising costs and, in some cases, declining enrollment.

In the last three years, teacher leadership has been driving implementation and policy decisions in the Camas School District around the state's new teacher evaluation model as well as alignment toward the Common Core.

The State Leadership Team is working with Public School Districts around the State to implement the Idaho Model School Policy on Adolescent Relationship Abuse and Sexual Assault Prevention and Response.

After heavy lobbying by school districts around the state, Corbett and the state legislature settled on a 7 percent cut in the basic education subsidy, but they also made deep cuts to other state grants for education.

The report looks at specific approaches of school districts around the state, including in Oakland and San Francisco, around their ELLs and provides recommendations within the context of the many ongoing changes in the state, including LCFF.

Heading into the holiday weekend, Republicans hadn't reached an agreement about the most controversial proposal in Gov. Scott Walker's 2013 - 15 budget proposal — the expansion of private school vouchers to Madison and other school districts around the state.

«This reduction can be made up only through increased property taxes in school districts around the state,» a DPI analysis of the last proposal said.

On Election Day, voters in 31 school districts around the state will decide whether to raise property taxes to pump an additional $ 1 billion into the school system in the form of bond issues for buildings or mill levy overrides for operating budgets.

CTBA analysis shows that school districts around the state would see their funding threatened by Governor Bruce Rauner's amendatory veto of Senate Bill 1, the Evidence Based Model for School Funding Reform.

«Also, those standards will be used to shape curriculum that is offered in the school districts around the state.»

He announced this week that he will fund every live request from Wisconsin teachers — nearly 700 projects from 140 school districts around the state.

For more information on strategies that school districts around the state are using to improve their community communications and outreach around LCFF, click here.

Enrollment in educator preparation programs has dropped by more than 70 % over the last decade and fallen below the number of estimated hires by school districts around the state.

After many years of teacher layoffs in California, school districts around the state are hiring again.

School districts around the state have continued to warn about a wide range of negative consequences of smaller class sizes without additional funding.

It's primary day in Indiana, and 10 school districts around the state are posing ballot referenda asking voters to raise property taxes to help fund schools.

The analysis by the district finds that school districts around the state would bear the biggest burden of covering the shortfall, contributing $ 47 billion, or 63 percent of the total, through increased contributions over 32 years.

This brings the total of state - funded school retrofits in Oregon up to 22 schools in 16 school districts around the state, from metropolitan Portland to rural (and coastal) Myrtle Point.