Sentences with phrase «state education budget»

I recognize this is a difficult time with school resources being so substantially impacted by state education budget cuts.

As the clock ticks down on state education budgets, teachers and administrators are often encouraged to spend down funds before they disappear.

With state education budgets perpetually strapped, many states haven't provided money to pay the college tuition.

But CAVA has made their money,» said Golovich of the virtual school that is backed by K12, Inc., a Wall Street company that is in the business of making profits off of state education budgets by running online virtual charter schools across the nation — and soon, in North Carolina.

«All about covering their backsides from angry parents and teachers after passing a terrible state education budget bill in the dark of the night that doubled down on Common Core standardized testing.»

A look at the company's operations, based on interviews and a review of school finances and performance records, raises serious questions about whether K12 schools — and full - time online schools in general — benefit children or taxpayers, particularly as state education budgets are being slashed.

Schools want to sell junk food to raise money because (a) it's a sure - fire seller and (b) slashed state education budgets all too often fail to cover students» needs.

My concern is that in this era of draconian state education budget cuts (here in Texas, we rank second to last in per - student spending), state agencies, under pressure from cash - strapped districts, might be far too liberal in allowing these exempt — but often quite lucrative — fundraisers.

At noon, Democratic candidate for Governor Cynthia Nixon will join the Alliance for Quality Education for a press conference on the 2018 New York State education budget.

All the sponsors of Nolan's bill, save for one, voted for the widely criticized state education budget bill.

As teachers have staged walkouts and strikes in West Virginia, Oklahoma, Kentucky, and perhaps Arizona, most of the news coverage has focused on big - picture questions about state education budgets or average teacher salaries.

As the assistant superintendent for support services of the Loudoun County, Va., school district, Platenberg worked to find transportation and energy efficiencies to protect the district's instructional support during a time of tight state education budgets and a rapidly expanding student population.

It would create a maximum of 45 charter schools statewide over six years, and its cost would be minimal — some $ 14 million, or about 0.3 percent of the current state education budget.

This week President Obama signed a $ 26 billion jobs bill designed to supplement struggling state education budgets, touting that the extra funding will save the jobs of teachers that would otherwise be laid off.

In fact, measured by percentage growth, funding for charter schools has been the fastest growth area in the entire state education budget, and that was before Governor Malloy went all in on charter schools.

Many school districts, already squeezed by shrinking state education budgets, say that to fill the hole they anticipate would be left by the Republican push to restructure Medicaid, they would either have to cut those services or downsize general education programs that serve all students.

Voters passed the Florida Lottery to supplement the existing state education budget.

The increase in state funding would not take money away from other public school students, he said, because it would not come out of the $ 9 billion state education budget dictated by the school funding formula.

View PBPC analyses of the final enacted state education budgets of the last five years, an analysis of education funding in the proposed 2013 - 14 budget, and details on the December 2007 Costing Out study on education funding in Pennsylvania.

The following are summaries of final action by legislatures on state education budgets and other education - related matters.

And the federal government antes up approximately 8 percent of state education budgets (National Center for Education Statistics, 2010).

«This sum is equivalent to 39 percent of the combined federal and state education budgets in 2016,» the report stated.

The study, which looks at the feasibility of implementing it across the state, projects that it would take about $ 4 billion added to the existing $ 51 billion state education budget to fully fund pre-K in New York.

The state education budget proposal, a $ 1.1 billion increase, includes raising tenure to five years and increase in the state's role in teacher's evaluations.

The Community Education Council for District 28 hosted a legislative networking event last Friday where principals, parents, school superintendents, and elected leaders met in Jamaica to present resources and address the state education budget.

No one knows what employment conditions will be like 10 years from now, but state education budgets and university endowments are shrinking.

Here's more: In our great but bedraggled state of California, where our editorial offices are based, we have an action - hero governor who has proposed cutting $ 4.5 billion from the state education budget (and this after declaring 2008 «The Year of Education.»)

«What I don't think any of us foresaw over the last years as we worked on this project is what would happen with the economy... the recession is very concerning for a lot of reasons but in particular what it can do for child poverty and state education budgets.»

At a time when poorer school districts in Alabama are asking parents for $ 90 donations in order to purchase copier paper, Gov. Guy Hunt this month released $ 450,000 from the state education budget for the financially strapped Alabama Symphony Orchestra.

A report prepared by the Democratic staffs of the House and Senate education committees estimates that, nationwide, state education budgets are facing cuts of about $ 11.3 billion this fiscal year.

The pet projects of Alabama legislators often pop up as line items in the state education budget.

In a state education budget of more than $ 6 billion, a $ 2 million program that serves just 2 percent of Georgia's elementary students might not seem too important.

Professor Marty West mentions that largely lost in the debate about teacher pay, meanwhile, is that state education budgets are increasingly being allocated to the rising costs of health care and pensions, putting downward pressure on salaries.

North Carolina introduces another variable that will still make it hard to compare student performance across state lines if all of these states don't leave the program en masse the state education budget has seen significant cuts in an effort to reduce spending, as have budgets in other states.

«This likely is the result of austerity cuts following the Great Recession and the loss of federal stimulus funds which were used to prop up state education budgets.»

The proposed $ 1.4 billion cut in the state education budget could mean 8,500 teachers would be laid off and taken out of their classrooms in New York City, punishing 1.1 million students.

In the June issue, I noted that the outcome for Texas public education in the recently completed regular and special legislative sessions could have been much worse, and this includes the state education budget, but there is much more to be done and said on this issue, and I suspect that all we did in -LSB-...]

Huge sums in federal and state education budgets are siphoned off for the disadvantaged (emotionally handicapped, disabled, non-English speaker or slow learner).

The bill calls for $ 200,000 of the state education budget to be set aside for CPR and lifesaving training, and mandates that such training be a component of the state's health education curriculum.

Maine gives laptops to every middle school student in the state, at a cost of less than one percent of the state education budget, according to Jeff Mao, learning technology policy director for the state.

Those six states have allocated over $ 4 billion to help finance privately owned sports stadiums while at the same time cutting their state education budgets.

Districts» pension costs are set to double by 2021 — just as growth in the state education budget is projected to slow down and as pressure mounts for schools to boost standardized test scores.

In a time of continued cuts to the state education budget, Dorn said in a press releases that the common core standards will benefit the states financially because they will be able to pool their resources for textbooks and assessments.

Even if you spent all of that money on schools, it'd only amount to about 3.7 percent of the state education budget, and that wouldn't be enough to end the budget problems of every district in the state.

Yet over $ 5 billion has been slashed from the state education budget this past year.