Sentences with phrase «tight school district»

Tough economic times mean tight school district budgets, possibly for years to come.

Not exact matches

They are working with impossibly tight funding; they may face high turnover of labor; they may be at the bottom of the food chain within their school district, viewed as little more than an annoying adjunct department vaguely linked with mystery meat, ladies in hairnets, and the persistent complaint that «school food sucks.»

Local school districts are preparing for another tight budget season this year, with minimal state aid increases projected in Gov. Andrew Cuomo's tentative spending plan and a cap of less than 2 percent on tax levy growth.

Mount Vernon — Mount Vernon City School District Superintendent Kenneth Hamilton implemented tight security measures at Mount Vernon City schools, for Tuesday, May 1st via district wide email as a result of a disgruntled employee who has made inappropriate comments on sociaDistrict Superintendent Kenneth Hamilton implemented tight security measures at Mount Vernon City schools, for Tuesday, May 1st via district wide email as a result of a disgruntled employee who has made inappropriate comments on sociadistrict wide email as a result of a disgruntled employee who has made inappropriate comments on social media.

As local governments and school districts here in New York now deal with a tight 2 percent cap on property tax levies, it will be interesting to see how municipalities turn to revenue raisers to fund complex projects.

Long Island school districts stand to recover more than $ 117 million in lost state financial aid during the coming year, according to the region's education leaders who say the money will help compensate for tighter state property tax limits.

«At a time when our budget is so tight, this recovery aid is both needed and appreciated,» said Dr. Joel M. Klein, Superintendent of Schools, East Ramapo Central School District.

As public budgets have grown tighter over the past decade, states and school districts have sought ways to control the growth of spending.

The reality is, school districts close schools for many reasons: tight budgets, low performance, underenrollment.

«Given the inward focus of the program, I was uncertain if there would be an audience for this kind of leadership development, particularly during these tight economic times when school districts, colleges, and universities are all looking very carefully at every dime they spend,» Zolner says.

Instead, they faced the same tough environmental conditions plaguing failing schools and districts: tight budgets, deep - seated status quo routines, and tough opposition from organized employees.

Rural Students Produce High - Tech Projects In the rural Mendocino (California) Unified School District, a locally developed computer network eliminates one of the greatest challenges facing many small, rural, budget - tight districts.

Even as school officials across the country continue to weigh cutbacks because of the still - bleak economy, Greg Murry, the superintendent of this 9,000 - student district, faces an enviable challenge: how to spend, within a tight time frame, an economic - stimulus windfall of up to $ 7 million.

Our reasoning, then and now, is to move toward a «tight - loose» approach to education governance: «tight» as to the results we want our schools to achieve but «loose» as to how schools, districts, and states get there.

On the contrary, we found that exam schools also get pinched as states and districts allocate tight budgets.

Yes, four long years ago, Checker Finn and I were still wedded to the «tight - loose» formula of federalism in education: Uncle Sam should be tighter on the outcomes expected from our schools but much looser on how states and districts achieve those ends.

As a result, budgets may be tight again, creating a new round of management challenges for school districts.

In the 2013 - 2015 state budget, money for districts will be tight again, creating a new round of challenges, which D'Andrea says will probably include merit pay, a teacher effectiveness program, the expansion of school choice, and maybe the creation of a statewide charter authorizer.

The tight connection between the different flavors of school choice is highlighted in those districts that deploy a common application for public schools of all types — charter, magnet, and traditional.

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 is difficult, but of paramount importance, that the school board maintain a consistent and tight focus on the number one priority of a school district.

There are plenty of you working in districts where a significant portion of the population is economically disadvantaged, and most school districts have tight budgets, so this can be a very real issue.

With school budgets tight, many school districts have cut summer school remediation and enrichment programs completely from the educational landscape.

Affirming his longstanding belief in local control, Gov. Jerry Brown said Thursday that advocates for tighter state controls over the Local Control Funding Formula would better spend their time in school districts, pressuring local boards to spend money on low - income children, than making their case in Sacramento,

Providing a rigorous pre-college curriculum has long been a struggle in many of the more than 7,100 U.S. rural school districts, where a lack of teachers, dwindling enrollment numbers and tight budgets make it difficult to offer electives, foreign languages and even basic classes that are a given in many suburban and urban schools.

There are lots of districts where a significant portion of the population is economically disadvantaged, and most school districts have tight budgets, and this can be a real challenge.

A strain on tight budgets In general, city school districts suffer disproportionately from a rapidly eroding tax base and an overreliance on local property taxes to finance education, which virtually guarantees poor and urban areas will lag behind non-urban districts.

School districts across Wisconsin are getting $ 5.2 million in federal grants to improve education technology, a budget item that sometimes gets cut in tight economic times.

We are leading the way in customizing content to state and national standards, and we are committed to maintaining a tight alignment to K - 12 state standards and meeting the ever - changing needs of schools and districts to improve student outcomes.

Although district leaders are «tight» on these essential elements of an effective PLC, they are «loose» in allowing each school the autonomy to create its own strategies for creating these conditions.

«I think the district and the school is doing a great job, this is a really tight - knit community and tight - knit neighborhood here,» said parent Ben Draper.

The steps described in this report - such as creating data systems, providing high - quality mentoring to new principals, and assigning district staff members to work closely with school leaders - involve costs and, just as often, tough choices for districts, especially when budgets are tight.

After the district schools were named low achievers in March, Baker said they worked to develop plans for the elementary schools under a tight timeline and constantly changing criteria.

The number of children in Northwest Indiana from low - income families and eligible for free or reduced - price lunch has climbed in the region and across the state, as school districts face tighter budgets and reduced state funding.

PBS NewsHour reported in May that the shift could put a strain on districts with tight budgets because elementary schools will have the replace the textbooks known as «basal readers» they use to teach young students to read.

But throughout the day, he held tight to his position, that the laws under challenge result in substantially higher costs for a school district and ineffective teachers still in the classroom.

Today, the four - day plan has spread to a number of states across the country, and the idea continues to gain ground as school districts battle tight budgets.

Knowing how tight district budgets are, and how much schools could use these savings for classroom programming, the Center for Green Schools at USGBC has published a white paper comparing state legislation that incentivizes energy effischools could use these savings for classroom programming, the Center for Green Schools at USGBC has published a white paper comparing state legislation that incentivizes energy effiSchools at USGBC has published a white paper comparing state legislation that incentivizes energy efficiency.

In today's age of tight budgets schools look very closely at whether a student is in fact enrolled in the district and school which they are attending.

That's okay for adult consumers who can afford to spend more money make purchasing decisions as individuals, but for school districts with tight budgets and poor students, that lack of flexibility is a real deterrent.

(Some would say this is also a common issue when human appraisers have little or no experience with the area, or in cases where home values are based on school districts that vary widely in quality within a tight geographic radius.)