Sentences with phrase «ties new school funding»

The Republican - authored plan eliminates a provision in Walker's proposal that ties new school funding to whether a district's staff pays at least 12 percent of their health care costs.

Not exact matches

Still, lawmakers did not approve any deadline extensions for school districts adopting new teacher evaluations, which is tied to a boost in state funding.

In a recent school finance decision forced by plaintiff claims that public schools were inadequately and inequitably funded, a state of Washington judge, John Ehrlick, cut a Gordian knot that had for years tied up state legislatures from New York to Ohio and back to New Jersey.

The bill does not address that funding issue directly, but it ties the increase in the charter school cap to approximately $ 1.4 billion in new state spending for K - 12 education overall, phased in over seven years.

In August, Rauner floated proposals involving a new school funding formula and more than $ 400 million in financial relief for CPS, but those were tied to union - weakening measures that were unacceptable to top Democrats.

Malloy also proposed massive amounts of new Common Core standardized testing for all public school students and tied his modest funding increases for poor schools to inappropriate privatization strategies.

What's the bottom line on the De Blasio Administration's efforts to ameliorate inequality (inextricably tied to race) in the New York City school system?According to the report (funded by the Rockefeller Foundation), the answer is «meh.»

According to The New York Times, the ten highest paid hedge fund operators with close ties to charter schools also includes David Tepper (number 1 at $ 3.5 billion in 2013), founder of founder of Appaloosa Management and New Jersey based «Better Education for Kids»; Steven A. Cohen (number 2 at $ 2.4 billion) of SAC Capital Advisors, which was forced to pay a $ 1.2 billion dollar penalty for insider trading, who has given over $ 10 million to the Achievement First charter school network; and Paul Tudor Jones II (tied for tenth at $ 600 million), founder of the Tudor Investment Corporation who has supported charter schools through his Robin Hood Foundation.

One of them, Shavar Jeffries, president of the Democrats for Education Reform, an influential political action committee supported heavily by hedge fund managers favoring charter schools, merit - pay tied to test scores and related reforms, issued a statement that went so far as to say that the original draft on education was «progressive and balanced» but that the new language «threatens to roll back» President Obama's education legacy.

In a passage starting on p. 160, Ravitch presents the involvement of New York hedge - fund managers in charter schools at the beginning of a messy discussion of colocation of charter schools in New York City, the ties between charter schools and tax credits, similar ties with investment - based visas, real - estate operations with charter - school education as a loss leader, and the ideology of profit - motivated charter - school model laws pushed by the American Legislative Exchange Council.

They also proposed new federal regulations, to be considered in the reauthorization of No Child Left Behind: that federal charter - school funding be tied to advancing equal opportunity, and that states are required to collect data on recruitment, retention and discipline in charter schools.

State Superintendent Tony Evers said Thursday he is concerned a proposal from Gov. Scott Walker to tie more than half a billion dollars in new school funding to how much school districts» staff are paying toward their health care costs could be misapplied to districts that have cut costs.