Sentences with phrase «standard of adequate funding»

But the Shawnee County District Court panel stopped short of saying exactly what would meet the standard of adequate funding.

Not exact matches

In December 2013, another KSHF survey found that most school meal programs (88 percent) needed one or more pieces of equipment to help them meet nutrition standards, but only 42 percent of respondents reported that they had funding for capital purchases, and less than half of those had a budget that was adequate to meet their equipment needs.

The changes, which Education Commissioner John King said are already under way, include increasing public understanding of the standards, training more teachers and principals, ensuring adequate funding, reducing testing time and providing high school students the option to take some traditional Regents exams while Common Core - aligned tests are phased in.

Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) proficiency standards were set by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 and are used to locate public schools in need of improvement measures or increased federal funding.

Comprehensive induction, writes Headden, includes high - quality mentoring by trained mentors, common planning time, ongoing professional development, external networks of teachers, standards - based evaluation, dedicated resources and an adequate and stable source of funding.

In 2014, the State Supreme Court of South Carolina ruled that the state was failing to provide the poorest districts — known as the state's «corridor of shame» — with enough funding to meet the constitutional standard of a «minimally adequate education.»

While the state has put considerable effort into Common Core implementation, we have not provided adequate funding to meet the estimated cost of implementing the new standards effectively, let alone equitably.

In September of 2016, Superior Court Judge Thomas Moukawsher's ruling gave Connecticut six months to revise its school funding formula and clearly define its standard of an adequate education.

But accountability simply means that states are responsible not only for adequate inputs like sufficient funding, ambitious course content standard, and high - quality instruction, but also for outputs like accurate measures of student learning and teacher effectiveness.

The Secretary may waive the application of standards established under subsection (a) to a State that has adopted a law or policy that provides for the safe and adequate accommodation as certified by the State (or other grantee), in all phases of project planning and development, of users of the transportation network on federally funded surface transportation projects, as determined by the Secretary.

Its tasks are to develop a comprehensive urban forest plan; educate the public; develop tree - care standards; identify funding needs, staffing needs, and opportunities for urban forest programs; secure adequate resources for urban forest programs; facilitate coordination of tree - management responsibilities among agencies; and report on the state of the urban forest.

Delivering access to justice demands change and action on a very broad range of initiatives — pro bono work by the private bar, fair and adequate funding of legal aid, collaboration among all system participants (clients, lawyers, courts, agencies, NGO's), legal education (and its financing), e-filing and case data standards, court forms, court interfaces to self - represented litigants, unbundled legal services, virtual law practice, multistate practice, law practice ownership and investment, limited practice licenses, unauthorized practice of law rules, lawyer advertising rules, and lawyer discipline.

A new DNA must reflect a policy of «quality early childhood learning and care» supported by adequate public funding as opposed to a policy of minimum standards operating within a market approach to child care services.

Pennsylvania should help strengthen parents in their role as the first and most important teachers of their children and provide standards - driven professional development to other caregivers in order to help them meet the comprehensive needs of at - risk infants and toddlers, by providing adequate funding to support voluntary, evidence - based home visiting.