Sentences with phrase «state school funding statute»

The bill also proposes two student count dates, but includes other changes to state school funding statute.

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In 1968, however, that State amended its educational finance statute to permit counties to collect additional funds locally and spend those amounts on its schools.

As a reminder, plaintiffs included nine public school students (backed by some serious corporate reformer funds as per Students Matter) who challenged five California state statutes that supported the state's «ironclad [teacher] tenure system.»

Alabama also enacted tuition grant state laws permitting students to use vouchers at private schools in the mid-1950s, while also enacting nullification statutes against court desegregation mandates and altering its teacher tenure laws to allow the firing of teachers who supported desegregation.50 Alabama's tuition grant laws would also come before the court, with the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama declaring in Lee v. Macon County Board of Education vouchers to be «nothing more than a sham established for the purpose of financing with state funds a white school system.»

The state has used equalized wealth levels for maintenance and operations funding (not facilities funding) for various tiers of funding; however, as noted further below, there are several statutes that contribute to the lingering inequities of the Texas school finance system.)

The Kentucky Court of Appeals, which was then the state's highest court, held that a statute authorizing public aid to private schools for exceptional children did not violate, among other Constitutional Provisions on Education, Kentucky's Blaine Amendment because the funds were for children's «welfare» rather than «education.»

The school funding law is based on what the Legislature has put into state statutes before significant budget cuts that were made during the recent record drop in state revenue.

Contrary to the plain language of the statute, the new rules restricted how states could measure «school quality,» gauge «student success,» or steer improvement funds to schools.

Under state statute, charter school students are defined as students of the «state» not the local school district, yet we must redirect our limited resources to fund charter school costs.

Specifically, we ask that you hold firm to fully fund: the charter per - pupil increases currently set in statute: 10 new state charter schools; all 25 of the legally allowed commissioner's Network Schools; and the full statewide rollout of the educator evaluation programschools; all 25 of the legally allowed commissioner's Network Schools; and the full statewide rollout of the educator evaluation programSchools; and the full statewide rollout of the educator evaluation program»

While there are budgetary priorities that need to be advocated for in Washington DC, there are many states that lack complementary definitions in state statute about school libraries and librarians, as well as many states and Local Education Agencies (LEA) that have not been in the habit of funding programs or positions because there was no compelling reason in the law to do so.

By statute, states can not cut funding to charter schools, and even if they could, they don't save any money by doing so — the kids will still be in the public school system.