Sentences with phrase «tight school district budgets»

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

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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.

«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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.