Sentences with phrase «struggling school district»

It would also leave struggling school districts with no increase if voters rejected an increase twice within a given year.

Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts wants to require parents in struggling school districts to take a parental - preparation class before they can use full - day kindergarten programs for their children.

But instead of trying to bridge that gap by fighting for funding and other support for struggling school districts, the SNA, which claims in its mission statement to be «committed to advancing the quality of school meal programs,» chose to take the easy way out.

In doing so, these individuals publicly broke rank with their own organization, which is currently urging Congress to include in the 2015 appropriations bill language which would allow struggling school districts to opt out of healthier meal standards.

The veto came amid public and legislative debate on the bill, which opponents claimed would have unconstitutionally provided public funds for religious institutions and overburdened already struggling school districts by forcing them to pay for private special education.

He says it raises taxes, defunds pensions and takes state money away from struggling school districts.

In under - resourced and struggling school districts across the country, too many students continue to fall below national benchmarks on reading and math and on school attendance, high school graduation and college admission rates.

How does it impact other struggling school districts in Michigan?

For financially struggling school districts, the Broad Foundation's offer of trained personnel or services for a free or reduced cost is extremely appealing, and creates a «pipeline» of individuals with the same ideology who can be installed in central office positions.

But some upstate lawmakers are hopefully eyeing a fund proposed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo aimed at supporting struggling school districts.

It's clear she respects the current SNA leadership but is at odds with their decision on how to help struggling school districts (give them a way to opt out rather than the help they need).

However, instead of offering struggling school districts more resources like needed equipment, training and technical assistance, Congressional Republicans, prodded by the SNA and their cronies in the food and drink industry, decided to offer them a waiver.

«The impact on our district has been devastating and has forced an already struggling school district into crisis.»

The American Enterprise Institute turns its lens on Mooresville, N.C., where a once - struggling school district righted itself and closed an enormous achievement gap in just a few years.

The Department of Education should reconsider its near - prohibition on letting academically struggling school districts serve as tutors under the No Child Left Behind Act, the office of the department's inspector general has suggested.

New Funding Pressures Next month the state Supreme Judicial Court will review the findings of a Superior Court judge who ruled in May that state funding for education is inadequate in poor districts despite the billions of dollar spent since 1993 on bringing struggling school districts up to a reasonable foundation budget.

LITTLE ROCK All eyes were on Little Rock this week, where a coalition of community members, parents, teachers and school administrators beat back an effort by House Education Committee Member Bruce Cozart to privatize struggling school districts in the state.

Malloy claims that his «initiative» is providing Connecticut's 30 most struggling school districts with another $ 132 million in state aid, but the truth is that this year's increase is only about $ 45 million and that in order to get those funds, school districts were required to accept a series of new mandates and programs aimed at further implementing Malloy's corporate education reform agenda and diverting scarce public dollars to private companies.

Pelto Media Statement in Response to Governor Malloy's Press Release: GOV. MALLOY: MILLIONS IN ADDITIONAL FUNDING WILL ASSIST STRUGGLING SCHOOL DISTRICTS

The high salaries and bonuses DCPS teachers earn would likewise be difficult for many struggling school districts to adopt.

Cincinnati's test scores went from being on a par with those of other struggling school districts early in the last decade to breaking away from the pack.

Lessenberry and Tribou also look at the state's plan to warn struggling school districts they might be closed at the end of this school year and a former Michigan governor who was ousted by his own party.

Brown's plan to give struggling school districts like LAUSD, which have higher numbers of low - income and English language learner students, higher funding than more successful districts, has divided Democrats in...

Yesterday, the School Nutrition Association (SNA) held a conference call to defend its support of a legislative amendment which would allow struggling school districts to opt out of healthier school meal standards.

Malloy has said he'll veto the Republican budget that passed the state General Assembly because it raises taxes, de-funds pensions and takes money away from struggling school districts.

The state legislature created OSPP in 2015, as a way to turn around struggling school districts across the state.

«My campaign has always been about achieving tax relief for overburdened Long Island families, fair funding for struggling school districts, and real ethics reforms to restore public faith in government.»

Kingsland, blogging this year on the Education Week website, sparked controversy by challenging superintendents of struggling school districts to relinquish their systems instead of trying endless reforms: «Rid yourself of the notion that your current opinions on curriculum, teacher evaluation, technology, or anything else will be the foundation for dramatic gains in student achievement.

The voucher program subsidizes private education for students in struggling school districts.

Squinting into a bright noon sun, the former LaFayette School Superintendent reiterated the main talking points that have defined her candidacy up to now: more police on the streets to fight crime, mayoral control over a struggling school district, and ethics reform.

The Governor and Commissioner Stefan Pryor appeared unified at an event announcing funding for struggling school districts.

When Superintendent Kriner Cash took the helm of the Buffalo schools about two years ago, he promised a massive overhaul of the struggling school district.

Moreover, it has launched a robust conversation around the state about how to turn around struggling school districts.

The transfer program has allowed 2,000 - plus students to have the opportunity for a better education and has launched a robust conversation about how to turn around struggling school districts.

It would allow the mayor of Milwaukee to take over control of that city's struggling school district.

Mr. Finegold, the bill's sponsor and the son of public - school teachers, said his motivation sprung from conversations with parents in Lawrence, part of his district northwest of Boston, where the struggling school district was taken over by the state in 2011.

They allege that these laws unjustly require Newark, a struggling school district, to retain ineffective teachers, while cutting millions of dollars each year from other areas of education spending or laying off more effective teachers when faced with funding deficits.

Bilal Tawwab, the superintendent of schools in Flint, Mich., refuses to use the city's lead - water crisis as an excuse from keeping his team of educators focused on improving student achievement in a long - struggling school district.

USDA proposal to provide technical assistance to struggling school districts is insufficient to address the difficulties in complying with the child nutrition law.

Conservatives insist the program gives children in struggling school districts an alternative, but opponents see it as vote of no confidence in public education and complain it pulls precious state dollars away from public schools.

«With the help of public and private partnerships, New Leaders for New Schools is bringing in talented leaders to drive up the academic performance and curb the high drop out rate of our nation's struggling school districts.

Whitmore Lake - a struggling school district trying to pull together enough resources for its own students — will make some extra money.

This Week in Michigan Politics, Jack Lessenberry talks about the end of Flint water hearings in Lansing and whether Detroit's struggling school district will get the cash infusion it needs from the state.

As a high school mathematics teacher in a struggling school district, it became clear to me that the reality of providing high quality education to all children depends heavily on the development of efficient systems and robust structures that effectively support students, teachers, and schools.

Improvements could be made by increasing funding and flexibility for struggling school districts.

List and his colleagues found a struggling school district: Only 64 percent of students met minimum state requirements on achievement tests.