Sentences with phrase «schools get more funding»

Not exact matches

If one child decides not to go to school, goes to a cheaper school than expected, gets a full scholarship (more on that in a minute), or for some other reason doesn't use all of the money, you can simply change the beneficiary on the account and give those funds to another child... or even to yourself, if you'd like to go back to school.

This will allow you to get some funding for your home schooling expenses, and the school board you register with will get funding so they can provide more assistance to you.

On my more optimistic days, I feel like we can get there — but only when so many young people are dropping like flies from obesity - related diseases that even the most fiscally conservative Congressperson will cough up more funding (and I'm not talking about a paltry 6 cents) to improve school food.

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.

The idea that it is okay because at least it gets people angry and ready to act is more than a little scary, as it conjures up images of the townsfolk storming the local school with their pitchforks and flaming torches; meanwhile, the villain is in Washington DC taking 6 cents from food stamps to fund 64 cents worth of new requirements for the schools.

But to the extent some districts (because of labor costs, size of the free / reduced population, lack of facilities, etc.) can't match those exemplary meals, I'd love to get parents more up in arms over school meal funding as well.

Security and theft are big issues, and the dining room is just a big, scary place... If I could hope for one change it would be for smaller schools... it is just one solution for a system that needs a lot of solutions and a lot of change... longer lunch periods, teachers willing to eat with the students, nutrition education, getting rid of the soda and snack vending machines that fund the sports programs, and more money and support for school food service programs...

To get serious about school food and its consequences, policy makers need to focus less on tinkering with funding formulas, surplus agricultural commodities, and % of calories from fat while focusing more on stopping kids from devouring plate after plate of hamburgers and cheesy noodles.

Remind your target that when the food gets better, more kids eat the school meals and that brings in more income for the meal program, which in turn funds the purchase of better food.

The real goal seems to be to take more and more children from the public schools and put them into private schools and shrink the funds that would be available to the public schools that give all of America's children the chance to get ahead.

It is amazing to me, in this great State of New York, with all the financial resources we have, that the Senate and Assembly can not get together, as well as the Governor, to see what needs to be done to provide balance of education and the needed funds to allow students, parents and families more of an opportunity to attend parochial schools.

Without the $ 440 million from tobacco, his proposed deep cuts to school aid and higher education funding would only get more painful.

The two agree that the state has to do more to ensure that school districts in Dutchess County are getting «their fair share» of state aid, although they differ on how best to reduce the reliance on property taxes to fund education.

De Blasio's key challenges now include renewing mayoral control of the public schools and getting the state to live up to more of its court - ordered funding obligation.

«The $ 75 million was identified for approximately 20 schools and in this whole group we have many more schools that were not identified to receive funds and we really believe it's important for them to have those additional resources to get themselves moving in this direction.»

And while he and Rumore agreed that the city's high poverty rate creates particular challenges for schools and that increased funding is necessary for a turnaround, Quinn said the district needs to «get its act together» before asking for any more money.

Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio have joined forced to try to get more funding for urban school districts.

The freeze on charters» per - pupil funding won't officially end for another year, but these innovative public schools will get direct state grants to reduce the gap this year — and also get markedly more facilities funding.

City schools will get a total funding cut of $ 510 million next year under the most austere state budget in more than a decade.

The Syracuse City School District will get more than $ 1.4 million to fund after school proSchool District will get more than $ 1.4 million to fund after school proschool programs.

More than 600 schools get a funding boost in Mayor Bill de Blasio's preliminary 2017 city budget.

She estimated Buffalo schools would be owed more than $ 100 million in aid from the state, had Albany followed the decision that came out of a landmark school funding lawsuit won by the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, a group Nixon got involved with when her oldest teenager began as a kindergarten student in a New York City public school.

«Proven entities — experienced researchers — were much more likely to get research funding than somebody who was fresh out of school.

Other, more minor, storylines include Julian's (Perrineau, Snitch) difficulty getting funding for his private school when one of his donor's shows him evidence of his former - stripper wife Candy's (Hall, Superhero Movie) youthful dabbling in prostitution, reality TV star Shelby's (De Sousa, Laurel Canyon) sexual prowess, Jordan's (Long, Are We Done Yet?)

Russell Hobby says: «It's getting more expensive to run schools and the government needs to recognise this, including meeting the shortfalls in funding for sixth forms, early years and for services previously provided by local authorities.

The government has announced more than # 300 million to continue to fund a network of 121 music education hubs which work with schools, local authorities and community organisations to get more young people taking part in music and arts.

Charters say it's unfair that DCPS gets to control all of the school facilities and gets more per - pupil funding.

This is good news for parents who want to ensure that their children get more tailored and appropriate services, and it could also empower schools that may have wanted to do more to change how the IDEA funds they receive are used.

[9] These weights mean two states with the same number of poor and non-poor students would get more Title I funds if those students are economically segregated across school districts.

So, with ever - increasing scrutiny of financial regularity, how do you avoid this kind of wasted investment being the case in your school or academy and, with further cuts to education funding on the cards, how can you get «more bang for your buck» when it comes to ICT procurement?

Sadly, the more name calling you do («privateer,» «hoax, destroy, privatize,» or this doozy: «corporate interests, hedge fund managers and billionaires starve public schools and services of resources and suck up as much profit as they can»), the more press you get.

States and localities should also do more to ensure that charter schools get an equal share of education funding.

In 1999, California passed a statewide bill that provided $ 40 million in state funds over five years for school districts to set up home visiting programs and get parents more involved in education programs.

For the comparison among charter, public, and private school teachers, I assumed that charter and private schools face more competition than public schools, since a greater share of charter and private schools get funding only if they attract students.

We're offering schools and colleges funding and support to get involved with CREST for the first time, or to embed CREST more widely in their schools.

Learn more about funding after - school programs at «Grant Information: Resources to Get You Started» and The Finance Project.

With the direct link between Pupil Premium funding for your school and registration for free school meals, this course is invaluable if you want to secure additional funding for your pupils who most need it, but more fundamentally, to make sure they also get the benefits of good school food.

Looking at funds pouring into troubled schools, one Trenton councilman sums it up: «The worse we do, the more money we get.»

It's true that New York charters get several thousand dollars less in operating funds per student than the city's district schools do — and, even more important, they do not get separate capital funding for facilities in Gotham's extremely pricey real - estate market.

With 1,570 students, Anderson got no more funding for such positions than did much smaller schools.

But charters, which get significantly less funding than traditional district schools, are able to direct more funding into classrooms.

• The RSD, conceived originally as a modest pilot program that had awarded turnaround charters for just four schools prior to Hurricane Katrina, was dramatically enlarged by Louisiana policymakers as a way to get public schools open after the ensuing floods, and was propelled by more than $ 20 million in federal charter school funding.

This week in #nced: NC Lawmaker Says Committee Won't Target Breakup of Wake County, Charlotte School Systems; Charter Schools Could Get More Money If NC Lawmakers Overhaul K - 12 Funding System

Obama said the federal government should fully fund the federal No Child Left Behind law, investing more money in early childhood education, teacher training, and charter schools, which get public money but operate free from many state rules.

Early Years funding is even more distorted that schools funding with areas like Camden getting 3x as much money per pupil as rural counties like Worcestershire or Solihull.

Responsibility For School Spending Belongs At Local Level November 7, 2016 by Brett Kittredge A recurring theme that has been emphasized by legislative leaders during the education funding formula revamp process is a desire to get more money into the classroom.

«What we want to see is a much more balanced programme of capital funding so that existing poor school buildings get the funding and investment they need and those new schools are built, as well as whatever the government chooses to do on the free schools programme.

Unfortunately, when we looked at the data from California's 20 largest districts, it wasn't clear that poor schools were getting more funding than wealthier schools.

Many school systems have gotten the message that they need to be more data driven, and they are now awash in data - not just yearly student test scores, but figures on how different groups of students are doing in particular subjects or grade levels, how successful a school is at attracting and retaining teachers or closing the achievement gap among disadvantaged students, or how equitable funding is from school to school.

Meanwhile, schools are basically funded by bands of enrollment; a school with, say, 401 students will get more than a school for 399, but the school with 401 will get the same amount as one with 499 (though schools can get more per student for different reasons).