Sentences with phrase «spent on community schools»

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The Alliance for Quality Education has launched a video contest dubbed «Dear Governor Cuomo» in which students, teachers, parents and other «concerned community members» are being asked to go on camera to explain how the governor's proposed spending cuts directly impact them and their school districts.

The state would spend $ 18 million less, or 2.4 percent, on two - year schools such as Nassau Community College and Suffolk County Community College.

Senate President Pro Tem Martin Looney, D - New Haven, cited state spending on manufacturing education in vocational schools and community colleges as reasons to back the Sikorsky deal.

The City of Buffalo says testing of water sources in common use areas of the City's 27 community centers, prioritized by where young children attend daycare and spend time after school and on weekends, is nearing completion, while the analysis for lead and copper at more than 150 city - owned buildings by the end of the year is on track.

Education advocacy groups are giving Gov. Andrew Cuomo bad grades when it comes to spending on education in his proposed 2014 budget, as Syracuse parents and community members believe the state needs to come through with substantially more money for schools in the spending plan.

Syracuse, NY - Gov. David Paterson delivered 6,700 line - item vetoes to the state legislature on Wednesday, denying pork barrel spending to hundreds of community groups, libraries, little leagues and schools across the state.

«While Gov. Walker spends millions of taxpayer dollars making it harder for working families to put food on the table, Wisconsin communities continue to struggle with crumbling roads, school funding cuts and economic uncertainty,» Democratic Senate Minority Leader Jennifer Shilling tweeted on Tuesday.

Speaking at the Inauguration of a one of the Community Day Senior High Schools at Kwaobaah Nyanoa in the Eastern Region, Mahama argued that his first four years in office was spent on improving the social infrastructure of the country which has been in dire need of a face - lift for some time now.

Underrepresented high school and community college students spent the summer at the Gladstone Institutes conducting hands - on research and learning about what it means to be a scientist.

I spent this first week of school on a myriad of community building exercises in my Constitutional Law / Government class ~ Journalism ~ and World...

Despite spending more per capita on preschool programs than any other state, Massachusetts has 40 percent fewer preschools for children in poor neighborhoods compared to wealthier communities, according to a study released today by researchers at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

The Liberty High School senior, who has spent hours coaching sports and volunteering for Meals on Wheels and the Girl Scouts, is protesting her school district's requirement that students complete 60 hours of community service before they receive their dipSchool senior, who has spent hours coaching sports and volunteering for Meals on Wheels and the Girl Scouts, is protesting her school district's requirement that students complete 60 hours of community service before they receive their dipschool district's requirement that students complete 60 hours of community service before they receive their diplomas.

Growing up within a family, and a community, with an unshakeable belief in the transformational power of education, she ended up spending a large part of her childhood at a prestigious New Hampshire boarding school on a scholarship.

If the skeptics are right, Wood writes, Common Core «will damage the quality of K — 12 education for many students; strip parents and local communities of meaningful influence over school curricula; centralize a great deal of power in the hands of federal bureaucrats and private interests; push for the aggregation and use of large amounts of personal data on students without the consent of parents; usher in an era of even more abundant and more intrusive standardized testing; and absorb enormous sums of public funding that could be spent to better effect on other aspects of education.»

Zurawka spends one week each year with her students at Old Quasset School, located on the Woodstock campus in their rural dairy - farming community of 7,750.

Joining a professional organisation such as the Schools Music Association can provide practical ideas and a network of colleagues for a teacher who is delivering a full academic programme, managing an instrumental tuition programme, purchasing and maintaining a range of equipment, and spending hours of out of school time rehearsing groups, practising with individuals for school events, taking groups out into the community, and so on.

When I talked to teachers, there was also a lot of time being spent on bullying issues in other learning communities in the school, and [I learned] that it affected students» learning — it was taking away from learning, standards, and...

De Blasio's own political career began with a slot on the Community School Board for District 15, then a seat on the New York City Council, where he spent eight years representing Brooklyn (2001 to 2009).

And we know that you are going to present to your board suggestions for spending more money on, according to the Times, five «broad priorities: early childhood education, teaching quality / principal leadership, school options, community engagement and out - of - school youth.»

Billions in federal economic - stimulus dollars are slated to be spent to help improve public education, but Americans relying on traditional news outlets are likely to find out little, if anything, about what that effort might mean for the schools in their communities, a new report suggests.

She has spent years developing, presenting and monitoring professional development tools and training activities that encourage educators, school communities and other organisations to re ect on and plan how they support learning.

He explains this agreement means the school operates on a system where students spend four - days in the classroom, then one - day outside learning with the community.

With respect to education, the strong economic recovery and the passage of Proposition 30 has allowed us to increase spending on public schools and community colleges from a...

«CPS says they have to close schools and disrupt communities to save money, yet they are spending untold millions of dollars on standardized testing instead of small class sizes and other important improvements that might actually help struggling schools.»

Schools raise extra funds through government grants and community donations, which allows them to spend on average an additional $ 1,100 to $ 1,500 per pupil above and beyond usual school costs for longer school days, weeks and years and for annual field trips and costly facilities.

Then make that accounting fully transparent and public so everyone in the community can see what their school is actually spending — and what the school on the other side of town is spending, too.

The Board will vote on a Measure G1 spending plan that includes funds for three additional middle schools: Lodestar: Lighthouse Community Charter Public School, Amethods Oakland Charter Academy, and Alliance Academy.

If a school district gets $ 8,500 per student, its leaders should be able to tell every school community exactly how much they're getting, as well as what's being spent at the district level and on what.

For parents, community activists, teachers and school board members involved in determining goals and spending priorities for a district's annual Local Control and Accountability Plan, or LCAP, the dashboard offers detailed information on whether performance on each indicator is progressing — or not.

Granted, a recent nationwide study (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, 2014) revealed that school district leaders want to spend more time on «personalized formats» (like coaching and professional learning communities), but teachers are dissatisfied with how these methods are implemented.

Considerable effort and time is spent on building and sustaining positive, trusting relationships among ALL members of the school community.

Previously, she spent years as a community organizer working on housing justice, school reform, and electoral, state, and presidential campaigns including the Obama Campaign in 2008.

I spent some time speaking with MSA's 2016 National Principal of the Year to get the inside scoop on what a school turnaround takes and how Mays successfully utilized community partnerships to elevate their program.

Eliminates federal funding for before - and after - school programs: Sen. Alexander's bill removes the funding stream for 21st Century Community Learning Centers, the primary source of federal spending on before - and after - school programming.

Santa Ana Unified School District is hosting a series of parent and community input sessions to gather feedback on its goals for extra spending under LCFF funds.

Community groups pressure Fresno Unified School District on new spending plan The Fresno Bee, January 2014

The administration promised $ 1 billion in new spending on preschool; spurred states to adopt controversial K - 12 reforms such as performance - based teacher evaluations and the adoption of the Common Core State Standards through its Race to the Top grant program and waivers to the No Child Left Behind law; significantly expanded the federal School Improvement Grant program to turn around low - performing schools; targeted for - profit colleges and attempted to increase accountability in the higher education sector; and pushed a proposal by the president to make community college free.

Stronger charter school laws can help meet rural students» needs by allowing communities to innovate in ways that traditional districts can not because of regulatory constraints on hiring, spending, allocation of time, and class offerings.

Democrats Propose Using Proposition 39 for Schools Democratic lawmakers are proposing to spend about $ 500 million a year in newly approved tax revenue on energy efficiency projects at schools in California's poorest commuSchools Democratic lawmakers are proposing to spend about $ 500 million a year in newly approved tax revenue on energy efficiency projects at schools in California's poorest commuschools in California's poorest communities.

With education administrators and community leaders deep in the trenches of implementation of the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF), much of the discussion was spent on highlighting examples of «what's working» in the field as school districts transition to the new funding formula.

Dana currently spends her free time doing research on the implementation of professional development within the international school community and empowering teacher leaders.

Parents, teachers and community members were overjoyed; headlines ecstatically proclaimed new guidelines under ESSA meant less time spent on standardized testing in schools.

From this perspective, some of the funds designated for «failing» schools — focusing on hiring consultants, developing new strategic plans, and implementing new programs — are likely to be better spent on thoughtful improvements to libraries, playgrounds, or other aspects of the physical environment that can serve both the neighborhood and the school community.

Teacher Fellow Ed Crandall, the Science, Making and Robotics Teacher from Lighthouse Community Charter School, spent his time in the fellowship focused on the Agency by Design thinking routines by consistently incorporating them into his classes.

Earlier this fall, I had a chance to spend the day with the PEP group in the Mississippi Delta, and I found an engaged group of people with two spirited leaders who plan to work on long - term school and community improvement projects.

They also reported working longer hours and spending more time than comparison principals on the instructional activities that have been linked to stronger school performance, including building a professional learning community among staff, evaluating and providing feedback to teachers, and using data to monitor school progress.

Fort Wayne Community Schools has addressed school funding challenges with a three - tiered approach 1) adopting district structures and processes that focus spending on activities that support student achievement, 2) participating in lobbying and other activities at the state level to improve funding and strengthen academic programs and 3) obtaining federal grants to help fill resource gaps.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Board of Education of the San Diego Unified School District supports a ESEA reauthorization bill that provides school districts the flexibility and resources needed to respond to the educational challenges in local communities, and provides greater local flexibility in the use of ESEA funding for Titles I, II and III as states and school districts are in the best position to make spending decisions to facilitate local innovation and student achievement, without placing undue burdens on districts that would adversely impact effective governancSchool District supports a ESEA reauthorization bill that provides school districts the flexibility and resources needed to respond to the educational challenges in local communities, and provides greater local flexibility in the use of ESEA funding for Titles I, II and III as states and school districts are in the best position to make spending decisions to facilitate local innovation and student achievement, without placing undue burdens on districts that would adversely impact effective governancschool districts the flexibility and resources needed to respond to the educational challenges in local communities, and provides greater local flexibility in the use of ESEA funding for Titles I, II and III as states and school districts are in the best position to make spending decisions to facilitate local innovation and student achievement, without placing undue burdens on districts that would adversely impact effective governancschool districts are in the best position to make spending decisions to facilitate local innovation and student achievement, without placing undue burdens on districts that would adversely impact effective governance; and

Ongoing public debate about whether the United States, specific states, and local communities spend too much or too little on education and whether those dollars are spent correctly can be traced through the case law history associated with various school finance law suits.

With record - high spending for K - 12 schools and community colleges under Proposition 98, and higher reimbursement rates for child care providers, this year's state budget makes progress on developing a more inclusive approach to education that is at all levels more efficient, better connected, and more quality - centered.