Sentences with phrase «schools comes from the federal government»

After all, only about 10 percent of funding for public schools comes from the federal government.

They don't know whether the dollars in their school came from the federal government, state income taxes, or local property taxes.

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I get it that JO has brought more attention to the school food issue, but it is so often the wrong kind of attention, the kind that seeks to blame those lowest on the food chain — the cafeteria ladies, the local schools, the local nutrition director — for problems which are coming from the top — the criminally low Federal funding that forces schools to rely on cheap processed food; the thicket of government regulation which must be followed no matter how senseless, and hoops which must be jumped through to get the pitifully low reimbursement; the lack of ongoing Federal funds to pay for equipment repair or kitchen renovation, forcing schools to rely on preprocessed food instead of scratch cooking, unless they can pass the hat locally to pay for a central kitchen to cook fresh meals.

It would take an entire book to explain how flawed the NSLP has become, how, starting in the 1970s and 80s, the program morphed from an anti-hunger initiative into one in which school districts were so starved of cash by the federal government (thank you, Ronald Reagan) that school children came to be seen as «customers» whose palates must be pleased at all costs, with heavier reliance on junk food a la carte sales and «carnival food» menus.

The recommendation to develop the MOU came from a 2009 Government Accountability Office (GAO) report, School Meal Programs: Changes to Federal Agencies» Procedures Could Reduce the Risk of School Children Consuming Recalled Food.

Overall, the report points to the third of New York's all - funds budgeting coming from the federal government as well as the billions sent to local governments, schools and for transportation spending.

The Ekiti State chapter of the Nigeria Union of Teachers has hinted that it would not honour the September 22, 2014 school resumption date as directed by the Federal Government until a contrary directive came from its national body.

In the past, school improvement grant money had come with little to no strong direction from the federal government, and never with so much funding attached.

It took another authorization and a clear signal from the Bush administration that the federal government was serious about accountability in order for the states to come up with plans to hold their own schools and districts accountable.

The federal government has a critical role to play in ensuring that parents and citizens have good information about their schools» performance, and good information requires the data that come from annual testing.

We asked half of our respondents, randomly selected, to estimate «what percentage of funding for schools currently comes from each level of government» — federal, state, and local.

New Jersey schools are in the throes of some pretty big changes in the classroom, some forced on them by the federal government, others by the state, and some coming from the districts themselves.

Although the federal government contributes less than 10 percent of the funding for K - 12 schools — the rest comes from a mix of state and local funding — the federal role in our nation's schools has grown over time.

The data comes from the 2009 Census of Government Finances and covers public school spending during the 2008 - 2009 school year and revenue from federal, state and local sources in districts with enrollments of 10,000 or more.

The two sub-groups of students who showed the most improvement in reading were students for which federal government intervention is the least justifiable: students who did not come from SINI schools and students who were in the top two - thirds of the test - score distribution when they entered the Program.

Luke Messer, a Republican Congressman from Indiana who is a friend of Mike Pence and who founded the Congressional School Choice Caucus already suggested that some or all of the money for Trump's school choice program could come from the $ 15 billion the federal government spends on Title I. Grabbing money intended to help public schools that serve the nation's most needy children and turning it into an uncontrolled experiment in vouchers and unregulated charter schools is exactly the kind of project Betsy DeVos would rSchool Choice Caucus already suggested that some or all of the money for Trump's school choice program could come from the $ 15 billion the federal government spends on Title I. Grabbing money intended to help public schools that serve the nation's most needy children and turning it into an uncontrolled experiment in vouchers and unregulated charter schools is exactly the kind of project Betsy DeVos would rschool choice program could come from the $ 15 billion the federal government spends on Title I. Grabbing money intended to help public schools that serve the nation's most needy children and turning it into an uncontrolled experiment in vouchers and unregulated charter schools is exactly the kind of project Betsy DeVos would relish.

Outside Scholarship A scholarship that comes from sources other than the school and the federal or state government.

Generally, in those cases, a legislative body has to authorize the appropriation «voluntarily» from whatever source of funds it choses to impose, and usually, when push comes to shove, state and local governments do pay the judgments they owe (there are limited federal bankruptcy options for municipalities and states), although there are instances of state governments stubbornly refusing to take the actions necessary to comply with court orders directing that public schools be funded for many, many years.

Grants and scholarships can come from the federal government, your state government, your college or career school, or a private or nonprofit organization.