Sentences with phrase «state school aide»

With Republicans in charge of Albany things like the MTA payroll tax were kept at bay and resources like state school aide disproportionately stayed in wealthy districts, including many on Long Island.

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An aide to State Representative Shawn Harrison of Florida was fired after claiming falsely that two students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School were «actors that travel to various crisis when they happen» — a common far - right conspiracy theory after mass shootings.

More than a decade after the state's highest court ordered New York lawmakers to spend billions of dollars more a year on schools, Governor Cuomo and his top aides are moving further away from ever fulfilling the order, say critics.

Cuomo relayed his readiness for such a high - stakes confrontation in conversations with key aides and state lawmakers during the past two weeks as he outlined general plans to cut the state payroll and impose billions of dollars in reductions on school districts and the Medicaid program in the fiscal year beginning April 1.

On Friday, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced $ 10.9 million in new grants for 68 Advantage After School Programs (AASPs) across New York State, including grants to the following Bronx organizations: Bronx House, Children's Aid Society, Riverdale Community Center and SCAN - NY Volunteer Parent Aides Association.

Elia and her aides noted that federal law requires state tests to be administered to students annually, regardless of whether assessments are also used in rating job performance of school employees.

As voters get ready to consider more than 70 school district referendums as part of the statewide elections in a week, a state lawmaker's aide is saying his boss plans to reintroduce legislation that would limit when such votes can take place.

A number of city and state elected officials told The Post they left a meeting at City Hall Friday angry after mayoral aides said the reason it was too late to honor the holiday next year was because the school calendar had already been published.

More than a decade after the state's highest court ordered New York lawmakers to spend billions more a year on schools, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his top aides are moving further away from ever fulfilling the order, critics say.

Karen He, an aide to State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, presented a letter her office has sent to the State Liquor Authority asking the agency to determine whether the license would violate the «200 foot rule,» a section of the law prohibiting bars near churches and schools.

A spokesman for the governor, Rich Azzopardi, says 80 % of the major portion of the state's school aide, known as foundation aide, is already directed to the state's neediest schools.

The superintendents say schools would be limited in their ability to raise taxes to make up for any state cuts in school aide.

Gov. Jane Dee Hull of Arizona picked Jaime A. Molera, one of her top aides, to replace Lisa Graham Keegan as the state's schools chief last week.

Sandy White, an aide to a state lawmaker from Vancouver, Wash., maintains that area high school students should not have been allowed to attend a talk last week by the exiled Tibetan religious and political leader.

The education agendas of state legislatures will focus this year on school - finance formulas and help for at - risk youths, according to a survey of lawmakers and their aides.

The law is meant to ensure states are free to make decisions about accountability, school improvement, standards, and assessments without federal interference... If the secretary chooses to ignore the law, then Congress and state and local leaders can use the tools they have to hold the secretary accountable, [a GOP aide] said.

But at a late - night meeting in mid-April, one congressional aide announced that 80 to 90 percent of the schools in states like Texas and North Carolina, both of which had seen rising achievement scores through the 1990s, would be deemed «failing» under the bill's definition.

In North Carolina, the push for charters is coming as the state grapples separately with a $ 1.9 to $ 2.4 billion budget shortfall that will result in drastic cuts to the state's public schools, with proposals like eliminating most teachers» aides positions in classrooms or cutting early education programs being considered.

In North Carolina, the push for charters is coming as the state grapples separately with a $ 2.4 billion budget shortfall that will likely result in drastic cuts to the state's public schools, with proposals like eliminating teacher's aides positions in classrooms or cutting out Smart Start and More At Four early education programs already on the table.

In another exchange, Carlton Huffman, a legislative aide for GOP state Rep. Jonathan Jordan, forwarded a student's email to the legislative aides for Republican House members with the comment, «More great grammar results from the public school system.»

On the other hand, the public schools won't have to bear the cost of educating those students, but will still be able to include them in enrollment counts used to determine how much state aide they get and how much in property taxes they can levy, according to the LFB.

With lawmakers duking it out over whether or not to eliminate a large number of teacher aides in elementary classrooms, it's hard to imagine that the state and local school districts will be able to keep school turnaround efforts going into the future.

In 2000, Matthew Kim was a probationary special education teacher at Grant High School in Valley Glen when an aide complained that he had made inappropriate comments and touched her breast during class, state documents show.

Smarick said the next U.S. president will likely appoint a governor or former governor given the new policymaking authority granted to states and school districts by ESSA on everything from testing, teacher evaluations, and opting - out of federal aide to Common Core State Standards, local accountability plans and goals.

Ineligible for unemployment relief during the summer, bus drivers, classroom aides, school clerks would pay into a state - matched furlough fund.

In addition to the millions of dollars that Commissioner Pryor wasted on out - of - state consultants and his successful effort to divert hundreds of millions in scarce taxpayer funds to Connecticut's charter school industry, another one of Pryor's controversial actions was to hire his close personal friend and former Newark aide, Adam Goldfarb, to serve as his chief of staff.

That's large enough that using the recommended rule of thumb for how many librarians she should have in the district (one full - time state - certified library media specialist plus one aide, clerk, or library technician for every 750 students), she should be supervising a minimum of 32 or 33 school librarians full time — the equivalent of an entire classroom of librarians.

Benjamin Kelly, an aide to state Rep. Shawn Harrison, R - Tampa, reportedly sent an email to the Tampa Bay Times» Washington Bureau Chief Alex Leary about the appearance of two Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students, Emma Gonzalez and David Hogg, on CNN.

• Write an original targeted cover letter for the kindergarten teacher aide position • State why you are writing to the school in the first sentence • Make it obvious that your career goals align with the job and the school • Proofread for any typos — if possible, have another set of eyes review your letter • End your letter with a positive note, saying that you will contact the hiring personnel for a follow up soon