Sentences with phrase «spent by school systems»

For the 1996 - 97 school year, more is being spent by school systems on transportation.

Republican mayoral candidate Nicole Malliotakis demanded that the NYC Department of Investigation look into tens of millions in spending by the school system on leadership training.

Republican mayoral candidate Nicole Malliotakis on Tuesday demanded that the Department of Investigation look into tens of millions in spending by the school system on leadership training.

Not exact matches

NBC 6 went through the files, school by school, and found the school system is spending a majority of the bond money on renovating school buildings.

By law all children have the right to benefit from certain federal programs, but the voucher system — through which funds can be spent to benefit the school, not just the student — is both unconstitutional and poor public policy.

In his letter, Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan (R - Suffolk County) accused the school system of failing to comply with state education law by not submitting the required forms showing a building - by - building breakdown of how it spends local, state and federal funds.

A controversial proposal to change how local governments and school districts are compensated for state - owned lands in the Adirondacks and Catskills by utilizing a payment - in - lieu - of - taxes system was not included in the final spending plan, a decision roundly praised by local stakeholders.

The city DOE and United Federation of Teachers had spent weeks in closed door meetings trying to hammer out the details of a «meaningful teacher evaluation system» in order to qualify for up to $ 65 million in federal funding in School Improvement Grants over the next two years, which is distributed by the state.

Besides his ethics promise Cuomo insists he will only increase state education spending by $ 327 million if the Legislature does not accept his sweeping education reforms, which include a new teacher evaluation system and an increase of the charter school cap.

By comparison, the school systems in Houston, Texas, and Edmonton, in the Canadian province of Alberta, spend 49 percent and 56 percent, respectively, of their budgets on teachers.

Massachusetts's progressive school - finance system, the product of reforms made in 1993, begins by establishing a minimum per - pupil spending figure - the foundation budget - that accords low - income children a premium of about 42 percent over that allotted other children.

By allowing parents to pay for meals online through the sQuid system, pupils were coming to school with less money in their pockets, meaning it was spent more responsibly.

Researchers looking at data from the study, which is now more than 20 years old, say that for every dollar spent on children who attended the Chicago Child Parent Centers, almost $ 10 is returned by age 25 in either benefits to society — such as savings on remediation in school and on the criminal - justice system — or to the participant, in the form of higher earnings.

With systems of accountability for student achievement now widely in place, state policymakers and others are applying the principle on another front by trying to hold schools more responsible for how they spend their money.

But everyone who spends time in and around schools and school systems understands how much time, energy, and initiative is soaked up by the paper chase.

Kentucky must equalize spending among school districts, revise its tax system, and significantly boost its share of school revenues if it is to fulfill its obligation to children under the state constitution, an advisory committee appointed by a state trial judge has concluded.

The Connecticut Civil Liberties Union (CCLU) has complained to two federal agencies that the Hartford school system is violating the rights of minority students by spending less money educating minorities than it spends on white students.

Funders may need to be more deliberate by creating a robust entity that has the sole job of coordinating across the entire geographic cluster to make sure that system leaders, principals and other school leaders, blended learning directors, teachers, and education technology companies have frequent opportunities to network and spend time with each other learning and building in a deliberate way on each other's successes and setbacks.

I found the school and system to be populated by well - meaning people who spent an extraordinary amount of energy trying not to get in trouble.

Montana lawmakers have revamped the state's school - finance system in an effort to comply with a ruling by the state supreme court, but lawyers for property - poor districts contend that the measure does not go far enough to equalize spending among schools.

For example, if a teacher is spending a disproportionate amount of class time drilling children for the state assessments, a school system can protect itself by adding a question on test - preparation activities to the student survey.

But over the range of spending commonly observed among school systems in the United States, the effect on student achievement is often swamped by how wisely the money is spent, by bureaucratic and contract rigidities, and by a host of important policies and decisions that have nothing at all to do with money.

Many systems now available to schools will automatically generate emails to remind parents of when payments are due, meaning less time is spent by school staff chasing parents for overdue payments.

«Dr. Richard DuFour's In Praise of American Educators takes a surprisingly fresh approach to the traditional education blame game by spending the first four to five chapters talking about what schools and namely schoolteachers are doing right in America's public education system.

If traditional public - school systems work by spending someone else's money on someone else's children, taxpayer - funded vouchers allow parents to spend taxpayer money on their own children.

By the time my daughter was nearing kindergarten age, I had already spent nearly 50 years in schools: 20 as a student; 8 as a teacher; and 20 as an education policymaker and adviser to schools and school systems, especially in the area of standards and curriculum.

Because of falling ticket sales and cost overruns, Mr. Davis charged, the lottery system last year spent 17 percent on administration, thus cutting into prize money and underpaying the schools by $ 10 million.

The U.S. public school system is characterized by large funding differences across districts, but what about differences in school spending within districts?

The impact of this idea is being fiercely felt today with state legislatures spending billions of tax dollars to fund separate, unfair and unequal systems of publicly funded education choices, including private school vouchers championed by Betsy DeVos and Jeb Bush.

She has spent her career seeking solutions to close the achievement gap, in part by supporting the improvement of instructional practice at both the school and system levels.

Jon Andrews, EPI's director for school system and performance, said: «We are seeing an increasing number of schools spending more money than they have coming in and our analysis shows that increasing costs on staff are going to add to that pressure, even with the additional funding being delivered by the National Funding Formula.»

By working with Provost Systems and tracking student data, I was able to better understand where students spent their time in an online world, which led me to build a system for virtual schools.

The critics of modern school reform that I know are people who see enormous trouble in the public education system, but don't think it will be fixed by spending billions of dollars on questionable teacher assessment systems linked to standardized test scores, or expanding charter schools that are hardly the panacea their early supporters claimed they would be, or handing out federal education dollars based on promises to change schools according to the likes and dislikes of Education Secretary Arne Duncan, whose record as superintendent of Chicago public schools was hardly distinguished.

As stated by Educators 4 Excellence, teachers» careers advance through an outdated system that rewards time spent in classrooms and graduate school classes that «have shown no correlation with teacher effectiveness.»

Indeed, as per a statement made by Ron Adler, president of the Ohio Coalition for Quality Education, not only is it «disappointing that ODE spends so much time denying that poverty and mobility of students impedes their ability to generate academic performance... they [continue to] remain absolutely silent about the state's broken report card and continually defend their value - added model that offers no transparency and creates wild swings for schools across Ohio» (i.e., the EVAAS system, although in all fairness all VAMs and the SGP yield the «wild swings» noted).

This study — through surveys and interviews of state and school district officials, as well as collection and analysis of school - level spending data — explores the feasibility of improving the collection of school - level expenditure data by examining the nature and quality of school - level fiscal data collection in five states and four school districts that had developed their own systems for collecting and reporting school - level expenditures: Florida, Hawaii, Ohio, Rhode Island, Texas, Baltimore City, Hillsborough County, Houston, and Los Angeles.

The New York - based AUSSIE, which was recently acquired by an Australian company, Editure, took in more than $ 15 million of that amount last year, making it the system's top provider of professional development, according to an analysis by The Hechinger Report of a decade's worth of school spending data obtained from the city education department.

We have produced a larger and more costly prison system than any country in the world — we have 5 % of the world's population and 25 % of its inmates — populated primarily by high school dropouts on whom we would not spend $ 10,000 a year when they were in school, but we will spend more than $ 40,000 a year when they are in prison — a prison system that is now directly devouring the money we should be spending on education.

Through the fellowship, she will spend up to two years creating this system and will begin by working with the Indianapolis Public Schools (IPS) and many of the city's charter schools to build partnerships for the Schools (IPS) and many of the city's charter schools to build partnerships for the schools to build partnerships for the effort.

Then in 2010, a year after Schwarzenegger and the Democrat - controlled state legislature took advantage of the leverage given to them by the federal Race to the Top initiative and passed a series reforms (including the nation's first Parent Trigger law and requiring the state's teacher database to be tied to its student data system in order to allow for the use of student data in evaluating teachers), the NEA and AFT spent big to back once - and - future governor Jerry Brown's return to the top office, and successfully back traditionalist Tom Torlakson as state schools superintendent (while defeating longstanding Gloria Romero, the former state senate honcho who worked with Schwarzenegger to pass the reforms).

Imagine, the reformers feel entitled to issue a press release claiming the «reform movement» deserves credit for increasing test scores by an insignificant amount, after spending hundreds of millions of dollars implementing the very program they said would «turnaround» the entire New Orleans School System.

A case in point is the 19 days that Nevada's school principals now report spending each year on pointless clerical work demanded by the state's new teacher - evaluation system.

This, by the way, in a school system where per pupil spending averages $ 13,000 annually, above the national average (and well above what any socialist or communist country has ever spent per pupil on education.)

Just last year, however, our progress was threatened by a deficit in excess of $ 1.1 billion that peaked as a result of both soaring pension costs and a simultaneous reduction in funding, and we were forced to spend much of the year considering cuts that would have unquestionably devastated our school system.

The effort — announced by the new School Finance Research Collaborative — will build on a report released last summer that concluded Michigan's system of funding schools is becoming increasingly unequal and the state needs to spend more to educate students who are low - income or speak little or no English.

The system also had compiled spreadsheets separating city schools CEO Andres Alonso's expenditures from everyone else's (of note: the schools chief has most of his travel expenses reimbursed by event organizers, down to his extra leg room in flights), and his office had also gone the extra mile to outline all of the transactions by office, and memos used colorful graphs showing which office spent the most.

According to March report by the New York State School Boards Association and based on an analysis of data from 80 school districts, the districts outside the state's five largest cities expect to spend an average of $ 155,355 on the state's new evaluation system thisSchool Boards Association and based on an analysis of data from 80 school districts, the districts outside the state's five largest cities expect to spend an average of $ 155,355 on the state's new evaluation system thisschool districts, the districts outside the state's five largest cities expect to spend an average of $ 155,355 on the state's new evaluation system this year.

While the State of Connecticut spends hundreds of millions of dollars every year to reduce racial isolation in our urban school districts, as required by Connecticut's Constitution and Courts, Governor Dannel Malloy is pumping more than $ 100 million a year into Connecticut Charter Schools despite the fact that they have become a primary vehicle for the segregation of our public school system.

For a district qualifying under this paragraph whose charter school tuition payments exceed 9 per cent of the school district's net school spending, the board shall only approve an application for the establishment of a commonwealth charter school if an applicant, or a provider with which an applicant proposes to contract, has a record of operating at least 1 school or similar program that demonstrates academic success and organizational viability and serves student populations similar to those the proposed school seeks to serve, from the following categories of students, those: (i) eligible for free lunch; (ii) eligible for reduced price lunch; (iii) that require special education; (iv) limited English - proficient of similar language proficiency level as measured by the Massachusetts English Proficiency Assessment examination; (v) sub-proficient, which shall mean students who have scored in the «needs improvement», «warning» or «failing» categories on the mathematics or English language arts exams of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System for 2 of the past 3 years or as defined by the department using a similar measurement; (vi) who are designated as at risk of dropping out of school based on predictors determined by the department; (vii) who have dropped out of school; or (viii) other at - risk students who should be targeted to eliminate achievement gaps among different groups of students.

The $ 58.9 million increase in spending from Wake County taxpayer dollars over the current budget is driven largely by costs increases that the school system has no control over.