Sentences with phrase «use federal funding for schooling»

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When asked how schools paid for the ovens, Carithers noted that in addition to using the funds from the sale of the fryers, the grants appeared to be an effective catalyst to motivate many schools to find creative funding methods from local, state, and federal sources.

In May 2012 a federal judge ruled that a case against Harvard Medical School and its teaching hospitals regarding fraudulent research using public funds for Alzheimer's disease was to proceed.

Between the relatively robust federal Charter School Program, the new ability to use Title I set - aside funds for critical course access, and fast - moving innovations in personalized learning, both states and districts have powerful tools for school improvSchool Program, the new ability to use Title I set - aside funds for critical course access, and fast - moving innovations in personalized learning, both states and districts have powerful tools for school improvschool improvement.

In return, the parent receives a state - funded account that can be put toward multiple but limited uses: private - school tuition, tutoring from certified tutors, individual public - school courses, online programs, community college and university tuition, standardized testing fees, curriculum costs, and saving for future higher - education expenses in a tax - advantaged federal Coverdell Account.

In 2008, Louisiana used its massive post-Katrina settlement from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) as core funding for a $ 1.8 billion renovation program for public school facilities in New Orleans — and did so in a revolutionary way.

The Federal Government is calling for public submissions to an independent review into how socio - economic status (SES) scores are calculated and used to ensure funding for Australian schools is based on need.

For both the between - schools and between - districts analyses, the dollars analyzed include total operating funds from federal, state, and local governments, and use real - dollar teacher salaries.

The county school board has spent $ 300,000 to purchase 162 microcomputers for use in 38 of the system's 255 elementary, junior high, and high schools, financing the project with federal money from the Title 4 - B program, which funds the purchase of educational equipment.

Requiring «highly qualified early educators,» dedicating existing federal funds for an early - education matching - grant program, and giving districts more flexibility to use Title I money for pre-K-3 programs are some of the major recommendations in a report on revamping the federal No Child Left Behind Act to improve schooling for younger children.

Joe Taylor, assistant superintendent in charge of purchasing for the Pike County School District, said officials from the department's office of the inspector general have subpoenaed all files relating to use of federal flood - relief funds in the district since l977.

But Wednesday morning, the U.S. Department of Education took an executive action that I support strongly, issuing new guidance for the Public Charter Schools Program that will allow charters to use «weighted lotteries» without forfeiting their chance to receive federal start - up funds.

If the skeptics are right, Wood writes, Common Core «will damage the quality of K — 12 education for many students; strip parents and local communities of meaningful influence over school curricula; centralize a great deal of power in the hands of federal bureaucrats and private interests; push for the aggregation and use of large amounts of personal data on students without the consent of parents; usher in an era of even more abundant and more intrusive standardized testing; and absorb enormous sums of public funding that could be spent to better effect on other aspects of education.»

In my opinion, NCLB's greatest value is creating accountability for the allocation and use of federal funds with at least some connection to school performance and student outcomes.

Because of this converging scientific consensus, the No Child Left Behind Act requires school districts to demonstrate that they are using reading programs that have been tested for their efficacy through scientific studies in order to qualify for federal reading funds.

AEU Federal President Correna Haythorpe welcomed Education Minister Christopher Pyne's confirmation this week that the long - awaited National Consistent Collection of Data on School Students with Disability (NCCD) would be completed this year and used to inform funding for students with disability from 2016.

The federal government has a critical investment role to play in 1) supporting the replication and scale - up of the best providers through its grant programs; 2) improving access to low - cost public facilities for charter schools through its own funds and by leveraging existing public - school space; 3) pushing states and local districts toward more equitable funding systems for all public school students, including those in charter schools; and 4) supporting efforts to create early - stage, innovative, and scalable models that incorporate greater uses of learning technology.

The federal government should have either randomized which SIG - eligible schools received funding for the SIG treatment, or the authors should have used a quasi-experimental student - based methodology that allowed for a larger sample (similar to the methodology CREDO uses).

The Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) passed in 1999, requires schools qualifying for federal E-rate funding to use filtering technology to block access to materials that are «obscene, child pornography, or harmful to minors.»

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit upholds the constitutionality of the «off the top» funding method used to allocate Chapter 1 aid to pupils in church - affiliated schools; it is the first appellate court to rule on the question, on which federal district courts have been divided.

In 1999, Congress passed the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA), requiring schools qualifying for federal E-rate funding to use filtering technology to block access to materials that are «obscene, child pornography, or harmful to minors.»

Governor Romney has made the expansion of school choice for disadvantaged students central to his campaign, calling for the expansion of the Washington, D.C., voucher program and for allowing low - income and special education students to use federal funds to enroll in private schools.

The U.S. Department of Education issued new guidance for the Public Charter Schools Program that will allow charters to use «weighted lotteries» without forfeiting their chance to receive federal start - up funds.

By tapping philanthropist and school - choice advocate Betsy DeVos for education secretary, Trump has signaled that he intends to make good on his pledge to use $ 20 billion in federal funds to give students from poor families more options.

Initially funded at $ 650 million, i3 allowed school districts, charter schools, and non-profit organizations working in partnership with one of those entities to apply for grants to support innovative programs aligned with one of four broadly defined federal priorities (e.g., supporting effective teachers and principals or improving the use of data).

Soon, it will be easier for schools to use federal funds to cover the costs of new construction on fiber - optic networks.

This approach has several advantages over vouchers funded out of the federal budget: no existing federal money expected by school districts would be affected; no state money would be involved, thus avoiding legal conflicts with constitutional provisions that bar the use of state and local money for religious schools in 37 states; and, as a pure federal initiative, state laws and tax codes would remain unaffected.

RAND recently released a report that determined that Playworks meets the highest standards for evidence under the Every Student Succeeds Act, so some schools and districts are using those federal funds.

The bill would give states the option of using the funds now distributed through a host of federal programs — amounting to about $ 24 billion a year on the whole — as a single block grant to states for public and private school vouchers.

Rural schools have high costs — transportation, for example — and often struggle with city - oriented state and federal administrative requirements and limitations on the use of funds.

The bill also eliminates goals and performance targets for academic achievement, removes parameters regarding the use of federal funds to help improve struggling schools, does not address key disparities in opportunity such as access to high - quality college preparatory curricula, restricts the federal government from protecting disadvantaged students, does not address poor quality tests, and fails to advance the current movement toward college - and career - ready standards.

As in Washington, D.C., where the federal government agreed to send $ 2 in aid to the public schools for every $ 1 it spent on the voucher program, Spence found it politically necessary to continue sending 15 to 25 percent of the per - pupil funding to the school districts for each student who chose to use a voucher.

Programs serving the nation's economically disadvantaged students and those with disabilities are receiving massive funding boosts through the federal stimulus package — $ 13 billion for Title I aid and $ 11.3 billion for special education — but how school districts choose to use the money may set them up for problems when it dries up.

In addition, under Sections 2102 and 2103 of the Act (Title II, Part A), states may use federal funds provided through formula grants for supporting effective instruction to carry out in - service training for school staff to help them understand when and how to refer students affected by ACEs for appropriate treatment and intervention services.

In early 2014, Alexander introduced a bill in the Senate that would redirect $ 24 billion of federal education funding and incentivize states to use the money to fund 11 million school vouchers for students in poverty.

At the same time, by encouraging states to use 40 % of their school improvement allocation for middle level and high schools, ARRA highlights an issue that for far too long has challenged federal education funding.

The statement concludes: «There is no reasonable rationale for using taxpayer funds to build more charter schools until and unless the federal government provides resources to build and renovate our traditional public schools, especially in underfunded and overcrowded urban districts, proportional to the number of students currently enrolled in them.»

Under the proposal, funds that would have been sent to a district school on the child's behalf through the federal Impact Aid program would be directed to families to use for education - related expenses.

New Jersey's 250 priority and focus schools can have up to 30 percent of their federal Title I funds re-directed by the New Jersey Department of Education (NJDOE) for specific «interventions,» but even these funds are supposed to be used for school improvement, not taken away.

ISSUE 2: Funding for Exams Until 2017 Arizona school districts had been able to use dedicated federal funds to subsidize exam fees for low - income students.

Funding for college work - study programs would be cut in half, public - service loan forgiveness would end and hundreds of millions of dollars that public schools could use for mental health, advanced coursework and other services would vanish under a Trump administration plan to cut $ 10.6 billion from federal education initiatives, according to budget documents obtained by The Washington Post.

Two unique opportunities exist within ESSA for states to utilize funding that would have gone to districts under past federal formulas, but can now be used for specific programs or purposes like personalized learning, credit recovery, or programs that support school leaders or principals.

National Summer Learning Association's Rachel Gwaltney writes that ESSA presents numerous opportunities for schools to use both federal and state funding «to help drive student success with targeted summer activities,» including funding opportunities for «out - of - school learning activities.»

Unlike schools using the traditional targeted assistance program (TAP) approach, SWP schools are allowed to consolidate Title I funds with those from other federal, state, and local sources and are not required to ensure that the funds are spent only for specific students identified as low - achieving.

Federal Funding for Educational Technology and How It Is Used in the Classroom: A Summary of Findings from the Integrated Studies of Educational Technology (2003) summarizes the three final reports produced by the Integrated Studies of Educational Technology (ISET), a nested set of state, district, school, and teacher surveys that provided nationally representative information on federal funding for, and uses of, educational techFederal Funding for Educational Technology and How It Is Used in the Classroom: A Summary of Findings from the Integrated Studies of Educational Technology (2003) summarizes the three final reports produced by the Integrated Studies of Educational Technology (ISET), a nested set of state, district, school, and teacher surveys that provided nationally representative information on federal funding for, and uses of, educational techFunding for Educational Technology and How It Is Used in the Classroom: A Summary of Findings from the Integrated Studies of Educational Technology (2003) summarizes the three final reports produced by the Integrated Studies of Educational Technology (ISET), a nested set of state, district, school, and teacher surveys that provided nationally representative information on federal funding for, and uses of, educational techfederal funding for, and uses of, educational techfunding for, and uses of, educational technology.

«My current school does not accept a penny of federal funding, or any federal grants, even though we are on a shoestring each year and are able to operate only based on our tuition (which covers about 70 % of our costs), our ability to attract groups to use our facilities during vacations and summers for revenue, and our (my) ability to fundraise,» said Jorgenson.

Collectively, level funding through the appropriations process and the cuts of sequestration have exacerbated the need for school districts to raise taxes or use local budget dollars to cover an ever - growing share of the federal contribution to special education.

States can invest in high - quality principals by using federal funds available under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) for teacher and school leader development in addition to state funds.

NSBA opposes private school vouchers and urges Congress to reject using any federal funds for a national voucher program, including any special education vouchers for military children and / or specific subgroups of students.

So for any New Yorkers up in arms over the possibility of their tax dollars being used to fund religious schools under the new Federal administration, be advised: locally, they already are.

Posted on April 11, 2018 · Texas is to be commended for being one of only a few states using a competition to distribute federal school improvement funds