Sentences with phrase «school districts spend as»

In writing regulations for the new law, Secretary of Education, John B. King, proposes that school districts spend as much per student of state and local funds on students in poor schools as is spent on students in the district's other schools.

Not exact matches

I wasn't even paying attention to the food at my daughter's elementary school here in the District of Columbia until I had an opportunity to spend a week as an observer in the kitchen.

As an umpire registered by the Illinois High School Association, I have spent the last nine years officiating for teams in the Chicago Public Schools and Chicago Park District.

In Glen Ellyn Elementary School District 41, the board was asking for a tax increase because it kept a promise to increase spending only as much as needed during the campaign for a March 1988 referendum.

Shows like Jamie Oliver's «Food Revolution,» and school districts like Chef Ann Cooper's former district in Berkeley, CA and current district in Boulder, CO, are often held up as examples of what's possible in school food reform, yet it's seldom ever mentioned that in each of these cases, far more money is being spent on those meals than the current federal reimbursement rate — and far more than that rate plus six cents.

I spent 20 + years, mostly at the Manager and GM level of restaurants (no fast food types) prior to then spending 16 years as a Food Service Director for school districts.

TLT: Here in Houston, as in most school districts, about $ 1 of the government's $ 2.74 reimbursement rate is spent on the food itself.

Nearly half of the 669 school districts seeking voter approval for budgets on Tuesday, May 16 are presenting spending plans that increase property taxes as high as the 2011 property tax cap law allows, according to an analysis by the Empire Center for Public Policy.

Nearly half of the 669 school districts seeking voter approval for budgets on Tuesday, May 15 are presenting spending plans that would increase property taxes as high as the 2011 property tax cap law allows, according to an analysis released today by the Empire Center for Public Policy.

Greenport School District officials preparing next year's school spending plans are describing the process as daunting because they're bound to.77 percent tax levy growth for 2016School District officials preparing next year's school spending plans are describing the process as daunting because they're bound to.77 percent tax levy growth for 2016school spending plans are describing the process as daunting because they're bound to.77 percent tax levy growth for 2016 - 17.

Unlike the gimmicks that preceded it, such as the state - subsidized School Tax Relief (STAR) program, the cap has slowed the growth of local property taxes across the board, putting a speed limit of sorts on local government and school district speSchool Tax Relief (STAR) program, the cap has slowed the growth of local property taxes across the board, putting a speed limit of sorts on local government and school district speschool district spending.

Recall Cuomo's 2011 - 12 budget address in which he singled out superintendents — particularly Syosset's Carole Hankin, whose more than $ 500,000 in salary and benefits is the highest in the state — as a prime example of wasteful spending by school districts.

«The comptroller is really looking at, as we move into next year, whether or not the tax cap, which is at its lower point ever for school districts for the upcoming fiscal year, for 2016 - 17, to see the impact of that and whether or not if forces more districts to spend down that fund balance, to rely on borrowing, and if the impact does push anybody else into fiscal stress next year,» Butry says.

Gillirband — who attended Dartmouth College and UCLA Law School before spending a decade as a litigator in Manhattan — attributed her more conservative prior positions to the conservative and overwhelmingly white demographic of the 20th Congressional District, which first elected her to the House in 2006.

As for the cap on property taxes, she said it prevented school districts from increasing spending on needed educational initiatives.

The Buffalo Public School District has a new school budget with more spending and staff cuts as individual schools get a say on spending in their builSchool District has a new school budget with more spending and staff cuts as individual schools get a say on spending in their builschool budget with more spending and staff cuts as individual schools get a say on spending in their buildings.

NYSUT's spending on behalf of mainly Democratic Senate candidates in swing districts comes as supporters of charter schools have spent heavily in independent expenditure efforts of their own.

We do know, however, that due to opposition in both houses, education spending in the budget is no longer linked to the reforms, and lawmakers expect to have a district - by - district breakdown of school aid — also known in Albany as «school runs» — in the coming days.

Superintendent David Gamberg described the recent estimate as «fluid» since district administrators and school board members are still finalizing next year's spending plan.

School districts and local governments have voiced concerns that a 2 percent cap as proposed by Cuomo — and approved by the Republican - led Senate in January — would be too difficult to live within because of required spending for debt, health care administration and distribution and pensions.

Teachers, parents, union leaders and even some school superintendents and board members in New York are clothed in blue to show their concern for what they see as an overemphasis on testing, an under - emphasis on state education funding, and inequitable spending between districts.

«We will also present our Shared Services Plan that we spent the last few months working on collaboratively with local city, town and village officials as well as school districts and BOCES.

Dixon spent most of the 2011 - 2012 school year as the district's interim school superintendent, but was passed over for the permanent position when the school board appointed Dr. Pamela Brown in July.

As our Matt Hunter reports, in a number of Capital Region districts, voters will be deciding whether to spend the money to have a full - time police officer stationed at the school.

And Assemblywoman Catherine Nolan, another veteran Democrat who chairs that chamber's education committee, also predicted that the governor's decision to allow his Division of the Budget to oversee and potentially limit the spending of big school districts, such as New York City's, could backfire.

Jesse Hamilton has spent his entire career helping people, including over 15 years as an elected official in Crown Heights, eight years as President of the School Board and the last eight representing our community as District Leader of the 43rd Assembly District.

But in exchange, local governments and school districts would have to stay within the state - imposed 2 percent cap on spending growth as well as consolidate or share services in long - term savings plans approved by Albany.

Plus, as usual, districts used every tax - funded promotional device at their disposal to urge a «yes» vote — supported by a heavy barrage of advertising funded by the chief organizational beneficiary of school spending, the New York State United Teachers union.

As the Syracuse City School District goes into its budget process, it's looking at a $ 24 million spending gap, a revenue problem stemming from years of stagnant state aid in the face of rising educational costs.

Mrs. Bush is equally articulate about «backpack spending» (the institute is sponsoring a project on school - district productivity that includes 20 different researchers» papers); teacher autonomy («Obviously, if you are held accountable as the principal of your school and you don't have the authority to change anything, by either hiring or firing, or setting up another structure that your school district doesn't allow, then how can you be really accountable?»)

In order to remove the confounding influence of unobserved factors that have an impact on both school spending and student outcomes, we calculate how much spending in a given school district would have been predicted to change due solely to the passage of an SFR, and use that prediction, rather than the spending change the district actually experienced, as our key variable.

Established in 2004 as part of compromise legislation that also included new spending on charter and traditional public schools in the District of Columbia, the OSP is a means - tested program.

Researchers studying spending differences between districts have established 0.1 as an acceptable level of equity, and we follow this convention in our analysis of between - school spending differences.

Over the past few years, as cash - strapped states and school districts have faced tough budget decisions, spending on teacher compensation has come under the microscope.

(The housing bubble also explains the meteoric increase in school spending in recent years, such as in Montgomery County, Maryland, where rapidly rising housing values allowed the district to spend lavishly on the neediest schools in the system.)

As public budgets have grown tighter over the past decade, states and school districts have sought ways to control the growth of spending.

The Baltimore school board spent much of last week at loggerheads with the state as the district resisted an order to restructure three troubled schools.

In 1993, following a state supreme court order to equalize public school spending, the state's school finance system adopted a provision known as the «Robin Hood» law that requires property - rich districts to subsidize poorer districts within the state.

Texas» approach of funneling money from wealthy districts to poor ones as a way to equalize school spending is likely to be severely curtailed in whatever school finance plan emerges from the session, according to sources in the state.

I spent 11 years as a middle school science teacher and three years as a professional developer for small and rural districts in Florida, and have been a middle school assistant principal for the past three years.

Adjusting for many other factors that can affect student performance, Chingos compares changes in the rate of gain in student test performance in school districts that were forced to reduce class size with changes in the rate of gain in other districts that could spend the funds as they saw fit.

He spent 24 years as a middle and high school science teacher before becoming the lead technology facilitator for a school district in the Chicago suburbs.

In my city, New York, elite private schools such as Dalton, Horace Mann, Spence, Brearley, Riverdale Country School, and at least two dozen more levy tuitions in the range of $ 20,000 a year — exceeding what even the wealthiest New York suburban school districts spend per stSchool, and at least two dozen more levy tuitions in the range of $ 20,000 a year — exceeding what even the wealthiest New York suburban school districts spend per stschool districts spend per student.

In 2016, when a random selection of respondents were asked if spending in their school district should be increased (as opposed to either being cut or remaining at current levels), 61 % supported the idea (see Figure 10a).

Fortune smiled on California school district administrators last week as voters approved millions of dollars worth of local bond measures while rejecting a proposed statewide restriction on districts» administrative spending.

99, assesses early childhood and elementary teachers in the District of Columbia Public Schools as a master teacher, having spent 16 years in the classroom teaching kindergarteners through fifth - graders.

In a dramatic turn of public opinion, Californians defeated a ballot measure that would have capped administrative spending by the state's nearly 1,000 districts at 5 percent of their total budgets and required that the other 95 percent go to classroom expenses, such as teachers» salaries and school supplies.

Researchers have proposed that districts pay teachers a bonus for the days they don't take off, or give their schools the money that would have been spent on subs as a collective incentive, or set up a reward system for teachers with good attendance (the Columbia study found that only 3 percent of teachers had perfect attendance).

Now in her second year as principal, Rosalind Chivis had a hand in the school's start - up and spent several years in the district central office before being sent to rescue SOF.

The recommendations come from the Academic Achievement and Accountability Commission, known as the A + Commission, which has spent a year weighing how to hold the state's public schools and districts more accountable for students» academic performance.