Sentences with phrase «schools get extra money»

Lower - decile schools get extra money.

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Streamlined sales pitches, voter confidence in the economy and the possibility of getting extra state money for voter - approved school construction projects all played a part, said Joe Kaczanowski, deputy superintendent in the Suburban Cook County Regional Office of Education.

But «if they owe money or they don't have money in their lunch account, they're not allowed to get any extra items,» said Keeney, whose meal program was honored last year by the Agriculture Department's Healthier U.S. Schools program.

«Despite all the money that has been spent by Labour, schools taking disadvantaged children aren't getting the money they need to break this link by cutting class sizes and providing them with extra support,» he said.

He goes on and on about the pupil premium, when schools always did get extra money for children on free school meals.

Only the state's «persistently struggling» schools — the lowest performers — are getting extra money this year.

The state gives extra money to schools that get an A or improve their grade, and children at schools that get two F grades in four years are allowed to transfer to better schools.

The federal government has had a long interest in ensuring that its funds go to providing extra services for schools serving poor kids; the problem is that state and local budgeting practices have long meant that poor schools in many places get less money to begin with.

Florida education officials are growing the pool of school districts that could soon get extra money to recruit and collaborate with «high - impact» charter schools.

School districts are getting extra Title I money this year as part of the federal stimulus package, so that will help eligible schools meet the new requirements.

The Equity Project Charter School opened in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan five years ago, with a fairly simple concept: get rid of extra administrative positions and pay teachers a lot of money — a base salary of $ 125,000 plus benefits and potential bonuses after two years of teaching.

Last summer North Carolina charter school officials put the small suburban school, which got about $ 1.6 million in public money last year, under extra supervision because of state concerns about finances and parent complaints about building safety and school leadership.

Underfunded schools will get much - needed extra money more quickly — over six years rather than ten.

Brilliant, # 18 million for 100 children and we can't get any money to site our school on one side of a road, 230 3 - 11 year olds cross every day but we get no extra funding for running two of everything and because we try to take care of our old building it isn't falling apart enough.

«If it is true that virtually all costs are fixed then when public schools add students they shouldn't get extra money because their costs are fixed,» said author Benjamin Scafidi, who is director of the Economics of Education Policy Center at Georgia College & State University.

Individual schools get to determine how to use the extra money, allowing them to set priorities, such as literacy in early grades or closing achievement gaps.

In the midst of such privation, School 4 is in its second year of getting an extra $ 2 million in federal School Improvement Grant money on top of a roughly $ 4 million budget.

Much as the schools needed this extra money, and some students need even more, Brown can't be remembered as the Education Governor while shorting the state's four - year colleges and universities (we'll get to that in a few weeks), which also are educating large numbers of disadvantaged students.

So by chartering a cyber school, the district could make a little extra money: charter authorizers get a percentage of their charter schools» state funding.

The new online homepage will be a place where parents can search for all kinds of information about their schools, such as how often kids and teachers come to school, how fast schools are getting their English learners ready to learn at grade level, how test scores are improving, how long students with special needs are receiving extra help, how much money is sent to underperforming schools, and where early education is available.

Find a way to make extra money by freelancing, getting a part - time job, increasing your hours at work or picking up odd jobs such as petsitting, babysitting, working as a consultant, or coaching or tutoring high school students.

I knew that there were many people out there, taking advantage of current loan programs, who only went to school for the refund generated to them each term as a means of earning an extra income, and some academic institutions were behind them encouraging enrollment based on the amount of refund money from student loans they were going to get.

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Pretty soon I took on a second job lecturing at a local university, and to bring in some extra spending money, my wife got a part - time job supervising the lunch room at our kids» school.

All schoolchildren adopted from care are to benefit from # 20m of additional Pupil Premium money to get the support they need to thrive at school — helping around an extra 10,000 pupils.