Sentences with phrase «schools financed largely»

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Its School Construction Authority is the rare local entity that has soup - to - nuts responsibility for financing, building, and overseeing public schools, largely because it is now controlled directly by the mayor.

Yet in public K — 12 education, there is a curious twist on this pattern: school districts have largely lost their monopoly on education programming, but are still the only game in town when it comes to financing, developing, and deploying public school buildings.

State constitutional provisions guaranteeing an adequate education are not a novel basis for litigation, but other cases have largely focused on deficiencies in school financing.

In Texas, for example, the most recent school - funding overhaul was financed largely by forcing wealthy districts to raise their property - tax rates and then distributing the proceeds among their poorer neighbors.

Eric Hanushek, joined by nationally recognized school finance lawyer Alfred Lindseth: Since about 1970, the achievement levels of U.S. students on the reading and math tests of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) have remained largely flat despite massive financial and other efforts to improve them.

In 2004, voters repealed a charter school law after a hard - fought campaign financed largely by the statewide teacher's union, which argued that charters would siphon money from other public schools.

Consequently, Texas's school finance system remains largely inequitable for its low - wealth school districts and, across Texas, inadequate for its special populations, including English learner (EL) students and students from economically disadvantaged families (ED), or low - income students.

This includes offering a new vision of structuring public education, based largely on the portfolio model Hill and his successor at CRPE, Robin Lake, have advanced for the past decade, as well as crafting a new approach for financing education that expands high - quality school options for children and their families.

Charter schools are publicly financed, but operate largely independently of local school board oversight and state regulations.

This study focuses on an aspect of school finance which remains largely unaddressed by the public policy literature, namely the relationship between school district credit constraints, crucial investments in public schools, and underserved student populations.

That's because school officials largely skirted a state law ordering them to ignore the possibility of dramatic midyear budget cuts when planning their finances earlier this year.

But largely outside of the public eye, a number of states have made dramatic changes to their finance systems to redirect funding to low - income school districts.

Public schools are financed largely through property taxes, which has created an inequitable distribution of resources within school districts and states, despite additional resources from states and the federal government.