Sentences with phrase «school funding decisions»

Angry over recent school funding decisions by the state supreme court (an ongoing theme), a state senator had proposed reducing the 9 member court down to 5 by drawing straws in 2013 and down to 7 by attrition in 2014.

Cuomo said former Gov. Eliot Spitzer put an «outrageously high number on the table» to settle the CFE school funding decision.

I agree with what Diane Ravitch has to say about the wrong - headedness of organizing the public school experience around testing, as well as the inappropriateness of basing school funding decisions and teacher firings on test results.

Even though students are often the ones most directly affected by the school funding decisions made by state and district leaders, their voices are rarely a part of those conversations.

Lawmakers also turned aside an effort to pass a constitutional amendment that would have stripped the court of its authority over school finance and left all school funding decisions to the Legislature and governor.

«School funding decisions are one of the sleeper civil rights issues of our time,» said Wade Henderson, president of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and Leadership Conference Education Fund.

The notion of equal educational opportunity was explained clearly by Kansas Judge Terry Bullock in a 2003 school funding decision: «If a child lives a great way from school, the transportation cost for that child will be greater than for another child nearer to school — just to provide him or her the same educational opportunity.