Sentences with phrase «to equalize funding»

While I agree with congressional Republicans that the provision does not mandate equalizing funding between rich and poor schools, Secretary John King is acting like it does.

His intent is to equalize the funding across districts and give additional funds to support services for English learners, poor students and foster youth.

The whole fight... in Abbott v. Burke, and the fight for equalized funding in education in New Jersey, was a fight that was anchored in Newark... The fight for wraparound services, the fight for attendance counseling... Fighting for all of the things that we need to address a whole child — before Cami Anderson came.

Among the line - item vetoes imposed on the final state budget by Gov. Jerry Brown is one that will eliminate what was hoped to be a first step in equalizing funding among special education programs statewide.

Arguments to equalize funding ignore the reality that in many places, schools with concentrations of poor or academically struggling students already receive at least as much funding per pupil as other schools.

If equalized funding is not the answer, should states instead be forced to equalize student outcomes?

Finally, in selecting states with SFJs, the authors apparently made no attempt to distinguish between «equity» cases, which focus on equalizing funding, and «adequacy» cases, which have as their goal increased funding.

The Department thinks forcing nearly equalized funding is a good strategy for helping disadvantaged students, in keeping with the spirit of Title I, and that auditors need a highly specific rule to make it happen.

Others argued that NASDC had misplaced priorities and ignored such pressing issues as equalizing funding for poor districts and addressing the needs of minorities.

Under the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF), the state equalized funding for charter schools and school districts.

We need to tip the balance not by equalizing funding but by providing more resources and additional supports to students in poor neighborhoods.

Despite some state effort to equalize funding levels, the wealthiest school districts tend to have much stronger Penny Power than the poorest districts.

In the meantime, they are resisting legal efforts to equalize funding of public schools in Connecticut.

Courts have generally determined that location in a relatively wealthy or poor area should not dictate school funding, and remedies have included reducing dependence on local revenues for school funding, introducing formula structures to equalize revenues for lower - wealth districts through compensatory funding, and creating systems to redistribute disparate local revenues to equalize funding access.

While the 1973 school funding case San Antonio v. Rodriguez ultimately failed in the Supreme Court by a single vote, it provided a template for successful lawsuits in dozens of states that forced legislators to start equalizing funding among schools.

Gov. George V. Voinovich of Ohio has called on state lawmakers to find new revenues for schools and to equalize funding between districts.

Likewise, efforts to equalize funding across school districts place more financial responsibility at the state level while removing financial discretion from localities.

Relying heavily on out - of - school resources and buying into a great school districts leads to the vast inequality in our education system, and Ripley uses Korean hagwons to emphasize the need to equalize funding in the U.S..

Charter advocates in Colorado worked for years to persuade the state legislature to equalize funding for charter schools by requiring districts to proportionately share local tax - override revenue.

«If there were a Democratic majority, they might be more sympathetic to equalizing funding,» she continued.

Throughout his tenure, Cuomo's biggest push has been to equalize funding between rich and poor districts.

Forgione had to contend with the ever more intrusive state and national requirements (under No Child Left Behind) for testing and progress, the loss of confidence in school management, new budgetary problems under Texas's efforts to equalize funding between prosperous districts (such as Austin) and impoverished ones, and the permanent problem of low - achieving minority schools at a time when efforts at integration had been abandoned (see «Is Desegregation Dead?»

• Leverage federal, state, and private dollars into systems to equalize funding, pay for school start - ups and human capital training, and develop new information and enrollment systems to help families navigate their choices and become savvy school choice consumers.

With time, as more and more states moved to equalize funding, the «equity» suits morphed into «adequacy» suits, which changed the goal to increased funding.

The Los Angeles Board of Education voted last week to enter a consent decree that would require the district to equalize funding for its schools, as demanded by black and Hispanic groups.

The effort to equalize funding was framed around a student - centered message to both legislators and the public: not sharing local tax revenue with all public school students, charter or otherwise, constituted discrimination.

HB17 - 1375 equalized funding for district - authorized charter schools, and also established a fund for state - authorized charters to receive an equivalent amount.

A few weeks ago we summarized historic legislation passed in Illinois that fixed regressive funding formulas statewide and equalized funding for charter schools within the state's fiscal formulas.

If school financing matters, then reforms that equalize funding will also tend to equalize student achievement across districts.

States should equalize funding across all schools within a district to minimize this relationship.

Since the early 1970s, ballot initiatives and court rulings have sought to equalize funding across California schools.

But more capacity for choice is needed, and we should expand and improve the charter school system, with more co-location of charters with traditional schools, equalized funding, and a more robust «parent trigger» to authorize parents to change the management of unacceptable schools, and we should provide a state funded scholarship for students in chronically failing schools to transfer to any school of their choice.

«I wouldn't say that every state is jumping on the bandwagon, but in general a lot of states are starting to have a conversation about school funding reform and equalizing funding.»