Sentences with phrase «shore up school»

Stupid idiot Danny Boy went after corporate money to shore up school funding.

While the state looks to shore up school budgets, their union is standing in the way, trying to protect bad teachers in the process.

Some localities could divert funds from other services to shore up school budgets, but this could impair other critical services, like police and fire protection.

The money is meant to shore up school district finances in the middle of the year.

The aid package, approved Tuesday by the board of Empire State Development, the state's economic development agency, follows last week's approval of a $ 25 million loan by the State University of New York to shore up the school's ailing finances.

Soon senators George McGovern, a Democrat, and Bob Dole, a Republican, joined with incoming president Richard Nixon to champion legislation that expanded food stamps, shored up school lunch programs and, by the end of the 1970s, largely solved the problem.

Stimulus funds could be used to shore up schools on the brink, provide assistance to their teachers and administrators, or expand and replicate promising local strategies.

Not exact matches

Angry and sad, I washed up on the shore of a place I hated — a place of failure and where people who get kicked out of grad school go to live.

If you were to transport yourself to the El Paso of 1949 and take up a position as far south as possible — by the north shore of the Rio Grande, in a netherland not wholly of the U.S. but not of Mexico either — you'd be a cutoff throw from Bowie High School, the only public secondary school in the U.S. then dedicated to educating Mexican - AmerSchool, the only public secondary school in the U.S. then dedicated to educating Mexican - Amerschool in the U.S. then dedicated to educating Mexican - Americans.

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Mayor de Blasio announced an additional $ 125 million in school funding Wednesday — while accusing Gov. Cuomo of failing to adequately help shore up...

While Kaloyeros has denied any wrongdoing as he seeks to clear his name at trial next year, school officials have sought a substantial bailout from the state worth tens of millions of dollars to shore up various academic, research and construction programs there.

The endorsement comes as Cuomo sought to shore up his relations with the business community following his primary challenge from Zephyr Teachout, a Fordham Law School professor.

Eight years into the tumultuous revolution, with about three years left on his watch, Bloomberg today took a bold step toward shoring up his education legacy by replacing schools chancellor Joel Klein with publishing executive Cathie Black.

In addition to shoring up that campus and expanding education opportunities in the hard - pressed Mohawk Valley, the merger creates a kind of critical mass that could help propel the school forward, officials have said.

That was created in 2010 to take a slice of school aid increases to help shore up diminished tax revenue for state operations during the Great Recession.

In 1995, GHI returned to Quito, publishing a report with the names, addresses, and photos of the city's most vulnerable schools — along with a list of simple repairs needed to shore up the buildings.

We were traveling for our final weekend down the shore and school started yesterday, which added up to a shortage on time.

For No Child Left Behind to have the kind of impact on American schools that Bush and Spellings have envisioned, Spellings must constantly shore up her support from various education factions.

If one is looking for a symbol of the rise and fall — and resurrection — of the American high school, one need but take the # 1 IRT subway to 225th Street in the Bronx, then walk a few blocks up Marble Hill along the north shore of the Harlem River.

They differentiate themselves from those «progressive academics... who see the Obama reforms as destroying American schools» or those who see them «as shoring up a defunct system.»

The Local Government Association, which represents more than 370 councils in England and Wales, has raised concerns that money due to be raised from the soft drinks levy is being used to shore up a shortfall in school budgets.

An Education Week analysis of more than 450 bills related to school safety filed in the days, weeks, and months after the deadliest K - 12 school shooting in U.S. history found that legislators have proposed solutions that include arming teachers, adding guards or police officers, and shoring up the security of school buildings.

Public school districts are facing twin challenges: maintaining a labor supply of qualified teachers while shoring up the deteriorating system that compensates them.

A diocesan leader in Pittsburgh attributed the state's tax - credit program with shoring up a dozen of the city's Catholic high schools.

With neither Gov. Bruce Rauner nor state lawmakers acting to bail out the nation's third - largest school system, teachers are taking to the streets for a day to pressure a deadlocked Springfield to help shore up Chicago Public Schools» precarious finances.

The Madison School Board met behind closed doors last month to discuss one way to shore up a nearly $ 15 million budget gap, leading some open meetings experts to question the legality of those discussions.

When adults make choices about schools and then use student surveys, speeches, ideals, and actions to shore up their choices, they are decorating with students.

Results from the School Improvement Grants have shored up previous research showing that pouring money into dysfunctional schools and systems does not work, Smarick said: «I can imagine Betsy DeVos and Donald Trump saying this is exactly why kids need school choice.&School Improvement Grants have shored up previous research showing that pouring money into dysfunctional schools and systems does not work, Smarick said: «I can imagine Betsy DeVos and Donald Trump saying this is exactly why kids need school choice.&school choice.»

What we do know is that many school leaders here are increasingly looking beyond these shores to make up the teacher shortfall.

(Calif.) The flurry of legislative proposals that often follows a school shooting most often take aim at gun restrictions or shoring up mental health services.But there are other steps that can be taken to improve campus security — among them, building strategically - designed school facilities or adding safety upgrades to the existing ones.

Schools remain a powerful tool for shoring up individual opportunity and attaining a thriving, multiracial democratic society.

First was the Prop 30 threat to cut education budgets if it did not pass, then was the huge increase in School District payments (up to 19.1 %) to shore up the teacher pension fund on the backs of our kids, now he is looking to veto AB2233!

The teachers unions oppose reforms like Vergara, they oppose free speech lawsuits like Friedrichs vs. the CTA, they oppose charter schools, they fight any attempts to invoke the Parent Trigger Law, and they are continually agitating for more taxes «for the children,» when in reality virtually all new tax revenue for education is poured into the insatiable maw of Wall Street to shore up public sector pension funds.

The city benefitted from federal School Improvement Grants to shore up parent resources and community support.

Teachers across the state plan to protest cuts to public schools on the first day of the legislature's special session to shore up the budget.

School boards must now look for extra money to shore up federally mandated programs such as special education, which can not be cut despite a loss in funding.

Together, as a direct result of our membership's support we have been able to make significant strides to increase the funding available to charter schools and shore up the educational environment through which charter schools operate.

Rather than funneling tax money to private interests or to charter school operators that are not accountable to the public, our state must shore up neighborhood public schools where all students graduate from high school prepared for college or the world of work, no matter what the color of their skin, the language they speak, or where they happen to be born.

«Gov. Larry Hogan has decided to take $ 68 million that lawmakers set aside for schools and use it to shore up the state's pension system instead — disappointing school officials in Baltimore and other large districts around the state.»

Use the resources in this toolkit to tailor a plan for reducing chronic absence that suits your school's strengths and shores up its weaknesses.

On the job for 18 days, Orleans school Superintendent Henderson Lewis Jr. said he would lay off central office staff, shore up employee ethics and improve McDonogh # 35.

One big new component for schools under the LCAP is that school and district managers will need to show how they have engaged parents in the planning process — something the board also asked staff to provide more and better examples of to shore up a draft planning template.

Beyond that, the Board seeks $ 960,000 in new ongoing funding to hold itself and the Utah State Office of Education more fiscally accountable and shore up data security in the state's public school system.

Even as vouchers have shored up many parochial schools, public schools have been squeezed: State education spending has not kept up with inflation, and still is not as high, in real dollars, as it was in 2011, according to Lawrence DeBoer, an economist at Purdue University.

There are many schools that sit just outside the priority school window that have been harmed in the pursuit of shoring up their staff.

The governor proposes using most of the anticipated revenue — which the administration estimates at $ 2.4 billion — to pay off school deferrals, shore up the teacher retirement system and set aside a rainy day fund.

So it was really nice to wake up to the sun the morning our high school's Key Club went to help shore up the riverbank with sandbags.