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Additionally, the U.S. Department of Education has promoted charter school expansion through competitive grant programs like Race to the Top (RTT), the Investing in Innovation (i3) Fund, and the Charter School Program's Replication and Expansion for High - Quality Charter Schools grant.64

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Road repaving, bridge and building maintenance, school construction, and telecommunication system expansions are common projects that may not generate revenue streams collectible through tolls or other means.

This stops bank failures disrupting money and payments and hence helps achieve monetary outcomes desired by the Austrian school of economics: reducing excessive state interference in the market for credit (through bank regulation, lender of last resort and bail - out) and discouraging unsustainable money and credit expansions (leading to financial crisis and depression).

From school breakfast expansion in ten new districts through Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom, to the recent announcement that the... Continue reading →

From school breakfast expansion in ten new districts through Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom, to the recent announcement that the USDA will lift the protein and grain limits, school nutrition has stayed in the headlines.

The governor and legislature have sought over the past five years to compensate for limits on local property taxation through expansion of state financial aid to schools.

We have not resisted Michael Gove's emaciation of local authorities» involvement in education in England with the quangoisation of schools through a massive expansion in the number of Academies.

Through the years, Silver became a leading voice for liberal causes, fighting for more school aid, prekindergarten expansion, a «millionaires» tax» on high earners and rollback of Rockefeller - era drug laws.

May has already dropped plans to push through social care funding changes dubbed the «dementia tax», and an expansion of grammar schools since the election.

Also in 2007, Quinn's Middle School Task Force recommended «every middle - grade student have access to after - school programming through expansion of [the Department of Youth and Community Development's] Out - of - School Time Initiative and Beacon programs.&School Task Force recommended «every middle - grade student have access to after - school programming through expansion of [the Department of Youth and Community Development's] Out - of - School Time Initiative and Beacon programs.&school programming through expansion of [the Department of Youth and Community Development's] Out - of - School Time Initiative and Beacon programs.&School Time Initiative and Beacon programs.»

Green's feature debut is an expansion of his 2015 short Stop, but the film is told through differing views: the bystander who filmed the act, a black police officer, and a high - school baseball phenom inspired to take a stand.

Provided through the Education Funding Agency, CIF is designed to address health and safety issues in school buildings, as well as supporting expansion projects and efforts to improve energy efficiency.

Through the implementation of No Child Left Behind, the Common Core, new teacher evaluations, the expansion of Teach for America, changes in the state's teacher pension plan, the rise of charter schools, the testing opt - out movement, etc., teacher attrition in Colorado has stayed pretty much the same.

One of the most consequential reforms to unfold over the past year is also one of the most recent: the expansion of school choice through a change to 529 college savings accounts.

Accountability systems have worked well with other reforms — such as effective choice policies, the expansion of early - childhood - education and other school - readiness programs, and efforts to improve the teaching force through evaluation and tenure reform — to improve education for children around the country.

Keppel led the school through a period of unprecedented expansion.

All of this has set the stage for education industry lobbyists to achieve an unprecedented expansion in for - profit elementary through high school education.

Operating through the lens of equity, Dr. Chang also announced the expansion of the Exam School Initiative preparatory program.

Through the Teachers and School Leader Incentive Program, ED shall award competitive grants to eligible entities for the development, implementation, or expansion of performance - based compensation systems or human capital management systems.

Developing a comprehensive district choice program that includes expanding the number of high - quality seats through replication and expansion of high - quality charter schools.

His latest book, On the Rocketship: How Top Charter Schools Are Pushing the Envelope (Jossey - Bass, 2014), follows leading charter school network Rocketship through a challenging school year to discover the key factors in its success and explore the ongoing challenges to its expansion.

PAA opposes efforts to privatize public education through the expansion of charters, vouchers or other privately - run programs at the expense of regular public schools.

By rejecting the second prong used to great effect by Mike Bloomberg and Joel Klein — improvement from outside the system through the expansion of public charter schools — you cripple yourself.

Expressing concern about the feasibility to do just that, State Board member Wayne McDevitt ran through a lengthy list of all of the oversight and monitoring responsibilities that are placed on the shoulders of a very understaffed Office of Charter Schools, which include dealing with exploding charter school numbers and their associated acquisitions, renewals, revocations, expansions, replications and even litigation.

While it may not be widely known, many of the positive changes seen in education reform over the past few decades — from replication of high - quality charter schools to expansion of teacher residency programs — have been made possible, at least in part, through partnerships with AmeriCorps and other national service programs.

John Dalziel, Deputy Principal External Relations, and a National Leader of Governace with the National College for Teaching and Leadership, is working with Webster Primary Academy to strengthen governance and help the school through an expansion project.

Most of the legal changes needed for the expansion of the academies programme and to allow groups to set up free schools were passed in the Academies Act, which went through Parliament in the summer.

Since the 2008 - 09 academic year, charters have added 650,000 seats — which includes more than 300,000 additional students through new schools, and 350,000 who are being served through the expansion of existing ones.

From centrist Democrats who think that choice should only be limited to the expansion of public charter schools (and their senseless opposition to school vouchers, which, provide money to parochial and private schools, which, like charters, are privately - operated), to the libertarian Cato Institute's pursuit of ideological purity through its bashing of charters and vouchers in favor of the voucher - like tax credit plans (which explains the irrelevance of the think tank's education team on education matters outside of higher ed), reformers sometimes seem more - focused on their own preferred version of choice instead of on the more - important goal of expanding opportunities for families to provide our children with high - quality teaching and comprehensive college - preparatory curricula.

Through a comprehensive programming process, the High School Expansion Committee determined the overall needs for the PCHS Expansion to accommodate the incoming 9th grade class and to provide the required spaces to meet the current and future high school program School Expansion Committee determined the overall needs for the PCHS Expansion to accommodate the incoming 9th grade class and to provide the required spaces to meet the current and future high school program school program needs.

These include the Carolina Abecedarian Project, Head Start / Follow Through, the Chicago Child - Parent and Expansion Program, and the National Head Start / Public School Early Childhood Transition Demonstration Project.

John Pugh, of the Liberal Democrats, said: «This lays bare the desperate lengths the Conservative party are willing to go to deliver grammar schools through the cloak of expansion.

Charter schools in SDUSD are finding great success in growing their schools through expansion of their current program by adding grades to their current petition.

While some states such as Minnesota, Wisconsin and California began embracing the expansion of choice through the passage of charter school laws as well as the launch of voucher programs, it was the move by the Clinton administration during the 1990s to make charters a key part of federal education policy that helped spur states to expand choice in their own states.

The U.S. Department of Education announced today new grants totaling more than $ 157 million through its Charter Schools Program (CSP), which funds the creation and expansion of public charter schools across the Schools Program (CSP), which funds the creation and expansion of public charter schools across the schools across the nation.

«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 government will need to ensure that there are sufficient places available for pupils across the country — whether that be through the establishment of new free schools, or the expansion of existing schools — to cater for an increase in secondary pupil numbers over the next 5 years.

The Race to the Top initiative, initially financed through the 2009 federal economic - stimulus legislation, gave Democrats the political cover to push for priorities such as expansion of charter schools, alternative teacher training, and teacher performance evaluations tied in part to students» academic gains — issues that previously had been associated most closely with Republicans.

In other words, this strategy of district - wide school improvement will only work if there are better options available for families, either through expansion of pre-existing high - performing public schools, either charter or traditional, or through the establishment of new high - performing schools.

The expansion of the RSC's office is another move away from the original Govian model, as are a range of other DfE programmes designed to remedy the weaknesses of the original design, such as the regional partnerships the department has set up to tackle low social mobility and school underperformance, through initiatives like the 12 opportunity areas.

Charter schools that opened after 1998 or have experienced a significant increase in their special education enrollment are eligible to submit data to the Department through the Charter School Expansion Act (CSEA) grant.

Made clear in emails obtained by N.C. Policy Watch through a public records request, school voucher supporter Rep. Paul «Skip» Stam (R - Wake) is taking the helm on the voucher expansion, seeking to double the size of the pilot program.

At the forum, held at PS 89 in New York City's Tribeca, Ravitch — author of the best - selling «The Death and Life of the Great American School System» — warned in her keynote speech about the harm done by excessive reliance on standardized tests, privatization through charter school expansion, and the growing influence of wealthy private foundations on education polSchool System» — warned in her keynote speech about the harm done by excessive reliance on standardized tests, privatization through charter school expansion, and the growing influence of wealthy private foundations on education polschool expansion, and the growing influence of wealthy private foundations on education policies.

Supports states» creation, replication, and expansion of high - quality charter schools through competitive grants.

• Empowerment Through School Choice — The centerpiece of delivery system reform must be comprehensive, child - centered school choice in all of its manifestations, including vouchers, charters, online, home schooling, etc., beginning with aggressive expansion of open enrollment charter authority and voucherizing special education and students in failing scSchool Choice — The centerpiece of delivery system reform must be comprehensive, child - centered school choice in all of its manifestations, including vouchers, charters, online, home schooling, etc., beginning with aggressive expansion of open enrollment charter authority and voucherizing special education and students in failing scschool choice in all of its manifestations, including vouchers, charters, online, home schooling, etc., beginning with aggressive expansion of open enrollment charter authority and voucherizing special education and students in failing schools.

He also supported school choice through both vouchers and the expansion of charter schools.

Congress opposes the expansion of selection in England's schools by whatever means either through the establishment of new grammar schools, or by allowing free schools to select some of their intake.

Through this candid and comprehensive snapshot of performance, CCSA is looking to raise the performance bar and to support the expansion of those charter schools that are having a high impact on their students» futures.

Through this work Liana is able to support and promote the expansion of both Tribes and Restorative Practice in schools across the system.

A school finance bill that the Legislature approved Monday includes an expansion of a program that funds private school tuition through tax credits.