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(WBNG)-- Residents across the Southern Tier took to the polls Tuesday to cast their vote for several school district budget proposals.

Residents across the Southern Tiers took to the polls Tuesday to cast their vote for several school district budget proposals.

Not exact matches

«The state budget enacted last year gave school district leaders hope after several difficult years that financial prospects for their schools might at last be turning around,» said Deputy Director Bob Lowry.

BY MICHAEL CAHILL No public comments on budget at this week's NRCSD Meeting The North Rockland Central School district met on Tuesday evening at North Rockland High School to honor several students who had won essay contests, and hold a public hearing on the 2012 — 2013 budget.

In recent years, the city's school district has made several decisions to help close budget gaps, including cutting about 200 staff positions.

Several advocacy groups argued in a letter to King that the reimbursement process laid out in the state budget is vague, allowing for the education department's interpretation of when school districts should get money to support new pre-K programs.

The Los Angeles superintendent of schools has taken the unprecedented step of disciplining several top fiscal managers for errors that contributed to the district's $ 130 - million mid-year budget shortfall.

The new report recommends «innovative budgeting» and suggests several general strategies to help states and school districts pay for new technologies.

As you will see in the summary report (by Fordham's Dara Zeehandelaar and Amber Winkler) and several technical papers to follow, economist and pension expert Robert Costrell and education - finance expert Larry Maloney parsed the budgets of the Milwaukee, Cleveland, and Philadelphia school districts to estimate just how big an impact their pension and retiree - health - care obligations will have on their bottom line in coming years.

This approach has several advantages over vouchers funded out of the federal budget: no existing federal money expected by school districts would be affected; no state money would be involved, thus avoiding legal conflicts with constitutional provisions that bar the use of state and local money for religious schools in 37 states; and, as a pure federal initiative, state laws and tax codes would remain unaffected.

Each city in the consortium is unique: Oakland is BAM's largest city, is the only city located west of the Mississippi River, and has faced several external challenges during early phases of the initiative, including a transition in school district leadership and a public school budget crisis.

Ann Flynn, NSBA's director of education innovation, notes that as education budgets have tightened, educational service agencies in several states have added technology services to the slate of operational and instructional services they offer their districts and schools.

Walker's budget includes several proposals introduced by the Legislature in recent months, including an extension of the open enrollment period from three weeks in February to three months, making it easier for parents to move their children between school districts.

Kent Larsen, superintendent in the South Sanpete School District, says he agrees with the statement by several senators after the 2017 - 18 state budget was finalized.

Utah school budgets cut class sizes, popular outdoor center Education» Several districts to give raises to teachers, cut programs.

Perhaps the most striking thing about charters is how, with smaller budgets than public districts — they get no capital funds — several have created schools with 15 or 16 in a class.

Under the new budget several programs will see a surge in funding, including magnet schools, dual language programs, transitional kindergarten and arts education; and the district will pay for caps and gowns for all graduating students.

A lack of oversight and confusion among several departments with little experience in understanding how affiliated charter school should operate, including school operations, school management services and budget services, lead the district to purchase textbooks, classroom furniture and other supplies for years on behalf of the autonomous schools.

While this gives it one of the highest general fund budgets of any school system in the state, several districts that are from far less affluent communities are not far from that funding level.

Opponents continuously argued state budget cuts over several years forced local districts to furlough teachers and trim school days from the calendar.

DC public schools receive funding from several sources: the District's local operating budget, special supplementary operating funds from the DC City Council, capital funding for building improvements and construction, and the federal government.

The staff of the State Board of Education will decide in the next several weeks whether to tinker further with regulations governing the Local Control and Accountability Plans — the accountability and budget plans that school districts completed for the first time in June.

(Calif.) It's not yet official, but school districts could be the beneficiaries of several billion more than what was proposed in Gov. Jerry Brown's revised 2014 - 15 budget, released last month.