Sentences with phrase «school dollars move»

Critics have long complained that charters don't enroll the most difficult to educate students, and that they drain money from districts because public school dollars move with students to whatever school they attend.

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George Peabody College was a normal school in Nashville that would very likely come into a million dollars with the dissolution of the Peabody Trust, and Kirkland was working energetically to persuade its trustees to move their college across Nashville next to Vanderbilt, thereby making a well - funded school of education available to the university at no cost to itself.

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More than a decade after the state's highest court ordered New York lawmakers to spend billions of dollars more a year on schools, Governor Cuomo and his top aides are moving further away from ever fulfilling the order, say critics.

WBFO's senior reporter Eileen Buckley talked with New York State Assembly woman Crystal Peoples - Stokes who says Carl Paladino needs to move - on and not waste the school district's dollars.

WBFO's senior reporter Eileen Buckley talked with New York State Assembly woman Crystal Peoples - Stokes who says Paladino needs to move - on and not waste the school district's dollars.

This follows Cuomo's about - face on boosting state help for the New York City Housing Authority, and his support for a billion - dollar hike in state school aid — all moving to grab issues Nixon had raised.

When federal Race to the Top dollars became available, Pawlenty launched a statewide charter school initiative and moved to hone math and science instruction in schools.

There are a variety of ways to remove funding from chronically low - performing schools and transfer it to better schools (including moving the dollars in the figurative «backpacks» of the students) that merit serious consideration.

Weighted student funding (WSF) As with most major reforms of school finance, doing WSF right entails complex formulas, oft - changing allocations of money (when a kid shifts schools, for example, or moves to the next grade, or her needs change), sophisticated building - level budgeting, and the integration of dollars from multiple sources that carry different requirements.

It could move federal funds away from high - poverty schools (which get most Title I dollars today) to low - poverty ones;

After hearing that institutions like Notre Dame University and Chicago Public Schools have adopted Google Apps I think they are starting to catch on, especially considering the latter is estimated to save 6 million dollars by moving to Google Apps.

The move saved more than a half million dollars, which the district then used to bolster its funding in elementary and middle schools, where it had experienced a significant rise in class sizes.

Schools will find it easier to satisfy the terms of the DCL by moving around a few dollars than by making significant changes in personnel policy.

It goes something like this: Step away from federal heavy - handedness around states» accountability and teacher credentialing systems; keep plenty of transparency of results in place, especially test scores disaggregated by racial and other subgroups; offer incentives for embracing promising reforms instead of mandates; and give school districts a lot more flexibility to move their federal dollars around as they see fit.

During its inaugural 2014 - 15 year, the program moved forward while the state Supreme Court considered the constitutionality of sending public dollars to private, religious schools that are subject to very little oversight by the state.

We fear that following Mr. Duncan's lead will move us at a breakneck speed down a $ 5 billion - dollar path to privatization, national standardized tests, and loss of local control over schools, leaving our children even farther behind.

The now - stillborn school reform effort undertaken by the Los Angeles Unified School District, for example, flourished under reform - minded California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (whose state board backed charter school chain Green Dot's successful move to force the district into a corner) and a state legislature that was seeking a share of Race to the Top doschool reform effort undertaken by the Los Angeles Unified School District, for example, flourished under reform - minded California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (whose state board backed charter school chain Green Dot's successful move to force the district into a corner) and a state legislature that was seeking a share of Race to the Top doSchool District, for example, flourished under reform - minded California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (whose state board backed charter school chain Green Dot's successful move to force the district into a corner) and a state legislature that was seeking a share of Race to the Top doschool chain Green Dot's successful move to force the district into a corner) and a state legislature that was seeking a share of Race to the Top dollars.

The AFT website moves into Bizarro territory when it concludes its mini anti-choice rant by informing us that public money used to subsidize private school tuition means «less accountability for taxpayers» dollars, a false hope for a handful of kids, and fewer resources for school reforms that actually work.»

But it costs thousands of dollars per student, and charter schools must weigh that against the chance that those students will move to another charter school before they enter testing grades, according to researchers.

Wealthy philanthropists invested millions of dollars into their own playbook for reforms that spread to Newark and other cities, including Chicago: Close failing schools with low enrollment and test scores; create «charter schools» that get public money but are run by private groups; and move to a business model that makes fundamental changes in hiring, firing and evaluating teachers.

Just as importantly, the waiver gambit reaffirms the role of states in structuring education without holding them accountable for how they spend federal dollars (or for providing them with high - quality teaching, curricula, and school options); this includes the administration's move through the waiver process to bless implementation of Plessy v. Ferguson - like proficiency targets that allow districts and other school operators to effectively ignore poor and minority students.

As the state spends literally hundreds of millions of dollars to address its moral, legal and constitutional responsibility to make our schools less racially isolated, Connecticut's charter schools are moving Connecticut in exactly the wrong direction.

At a district level, thousands of dollars are saved when schools move away from purchasing textbooks.

Tennessee's legislature had just passed a law allowing the state's education agency to take the reins of the state's worst - performing schools and either run them directly or hand them over to a charter operator, a move that stood to drain potentially millions of state - aid dollars from the already financially struggling district.

«What we are seeking here today are lead California industries partnering with school districts, partnering with community colleges and partnering with regional and economic leaders to move forward multi-million dollar applications that will establish pathways that combine academic rigor and career application in the leading growth sectors of our economy,» Senate leader Darrell Steinberg, who championed the Career Pathways grant program through the Legislature, said during a media call.

While Cobey expressed support for moving public dollars into private education, he once again made clear his position on a bill that would move oversight of public charter schools away from the State Board of Education to a new, independent board.

(Calif.) A multi-million dollar grant to help schools address student behavior; parameters for the revamped Adult Education program, and a deadline extension for adopting new school performance metrics were among the flurry of budget moves approved in Sacramento late last week.

Forget moving to make the Buckeye State take full responsibility for education funding (and thus transforming school dollars into a voucher - like system in which kids can attend any school within the state).

The state's move effectively shifted control over spending decisions from the state legislature to local school districts and eliminated a slew of state - imposed spending rules that many local districts saw as impediments to doing the most with their dollars.

For decades, the life cycle of the young, middle - class D.C. resident has gone something like this: Move to the District, get a good job, meet a nice boy or girl, get married, have a kid and — faced with mediocre public schools or the prospect of tens of thousands of dollars in yearly private school tuition — move to the subuMove to the District, get a good job, meet a nice boy or girl, get married, have a kid and — faced with mediocre public schools or the prospect of tens of thousands of dollars in yearly private school tuition — move to the subumove to the suburbs.

Opting not to undertake expensive and time which would cost millions of dollars, many of these cash financial settlements with patent trolls sacrificing scarce resources that should have to providing needed public transportation to move people to their jobs, school to providing needed public transportation to move people to their jobs, schools, and places of worship.»