Sentences with phrase «wide school funding»

Turning their backs on the need for a state - wide school funding adequacy study, Senate Majority Leader Bob Duff (D - Norwalk) and State Representative Jason Rojas (D - East Hartford) have proposed an extraordinary school funding system that would promote a Trump / DeVos like «school choice» program in Connecticut.

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Utilize the funds for a wide range of college expenses at accredited schools nationwide, in addition to tuition expenses for K - 12.

For more than 30 years, the School Nutrition Foundation has been raising funds to provide SNA members with the opportunity to achieve their higher education goals through a wide variety of scholarships.

Schools certainly feel the immediate costs of failing to prioritize wellness — poor test scores for students, lower standardized test scores school - wide, reduced funding resulting from absenteeism, which is why it is so important to share this report with school administrators and boards of education.

For over 20 years, the School Nutrition Foundation has been raising funds to provide SNA members the opportunity to achieve their higher education goals through a wide variety of scholarships.

Every school district that accepts federally subsidized funds needs to have a «Local School Wellness Policy,» which is a district - wide docschool district that accepts federally subsidized funds needs to have a «Local School Wellness Policy,» which is a district - wide docSchool Wellness Policy,» which is a district - wide document.

As the Orfalea Foundation's School Food Initiative (SFI) worked with food service operations to implement scratch - cooking and fresh salad bars, SFI funded a county - wide school garden program at elementary schools in order to help students accept the changing food on the School Food Initiative (SFI) worked with food service operations to implement scratch - cooking and fresh salad bars, SFI funded a county - wide school garden program at elementary schools in order to help students accept the changing food on the school garden program at elementary schools in order to help students accept the changing food on the plate.

She said about education funding, «That gap now between our richest schools and our poorest schools is wider under Governor Cuomo than it has ever been before, and that's got to stop.»

The first year of the three - year growth plan was unanimously approved by the Board of Governors as a system - wide priority last year, and school officials said Monday they are hopeful the second year of funding will be a system - wide priority this year.

We are also a founding member of the Accord Coalition — a wide coalition of organisations working for reform of state funded schools to make them more inclusive in matters of religion or belief.

The BHA, which intervened in the High Court case against the school in 2008 and in the Court of Appeal, says the case illuminates the wide discrimination in admissions that state - funded «faith schools» believe they are permitted to employ.

We are particularly concerned that the additional freedoms that Academies and Free Schools enjoy around admissions, employment and the curriculum allow them to religiously discriminate more than has previously been possible in state - funded schools, and that a wider diversity of state «faith» schools are opening than ever Schools enjoy around admissions, employment and the curriculum allow them to religiously discriminate more than has previously been possible in state - funded schools, and that a wider diversity of state «faith» schools are opening than ever schools, and that a wider diversity of state «faith» schools are opening than ever schools are opening than ever before.

In September 2008 we became one of the founder members of the Accord Coalition — a wide coalition of organisations working for reform of state funded schools to make them more inclusive in matters of religion or belief.

The rally comes as a study released by the teacher union affiliated Alliance for Quality Education finds that under Governor Cuomo, funding inequality between rich and poor schools has grown wider.

And for secondary schools we're going to fund longer school days for those that want to offer their pupils a wider range of activities, including extra sport.

The rally comes as a study released by the teacher union - affiliated Alliance for Quality Education finds that under Cuomo, funding inequality between rich and poor schools has grown wider.

The proposed work will be the second phase of state - funded city - wide school renovations project in Syracuse.

The inspector would also be required to evaluate and make recommendations on a wide range of issues, including how funds are distributed, disciplinary actions against students and teachers, and the co-location of charter schools.

In the waning months of the Bloomberg administration, however, the iZone initiative, and schools like Global Tech — which have benefited from extra funding and support offered through the program — are being buffeted by a series of changes, from budget cuts to city - wide implementation of the Common Core state standards.

Both main parties persist in favouring faith schools despite their wide unpopularity — a poll a year ago showed that 80 % of the public wanted to keep the cap (including 67 % of Catholics) and an earlier poll for the Westminster Faith Debates found 45 % against and only 32 % in favour of any government funding of faith schools.

To combine his interest in research with a wider interest in science, Peter Cotgreave took on the directorship of Save British Science, a campaigning organisation that presses the governments in London, Edinburgh, Cardiff, and Belfast for better funding for science, stronger science education in schools, and policies that allow the general public to have greater access to the benefits of scientific and technological research.

The new fund will offer researchers university - wide resources for both embryonic and tissue - specific stem cell research in the university's Medical School and Center for Stem Cell Biology.

This funding allowed the district to develop a formal HWP and implement it district - wide during the 2012 - 2013 school year.

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We provide funds for organising conferences, meetings, training schools, short scientific exchanges or other networking activities in a wide range of scientific topics.

Key recommendations for government in the report that won API support were: for play to be embedded within a Whole Child Strategy under the aegis of a Cabinet Minister for Children responsible for cross ‑ departmental roll out and co-ordination; for government to require local authorities to prepare children and young people's plans including strategies to address overweight and obesity with its physical, mental and emotional consequences; for funding for play to be ring - fenced within local authority budgets; to address barriers to outdoor play for children of all ages and abilities; to extend the Sport England Primary Spaces and Sport Premium programmes to all schools with a broader scope to incorporate a wide variety of physical literacy activities including play; to communicate through public information campaigns to parents and families the value of active outdoor play, including risk or benefit assessment; and to improve public sector procurement practice for public play provision.

The research also showed wide support for the aims of the fund, with schools reporting greater collaboration and a focus on improving teaching skills and practice.

Applications for a share of funding are now open, which is aimed at schools that offer «a wide range of activities to help broaden children's learning experiences and boost character».

Awards from these funds are determined through a University - wide competition with incoming and current students from other Harvard schools.

Half our sample was instead asked a question about vouchers that did not mention wider choice for families but referred to the use of «government funds» for private - school tuition.

More than a billion pounds has been pledged to boost core school funding, the education secretary has announced, but education leaders remain concerned over wider implications.

You might have heard of or considered some of these ideas, but others might be just the ticket to raising funds to reach grade - level or school - wide goals.

In other countries, she notes, the state «either operates a wide array of secular, religious and pedagogical schools, or it funds all schools but operates only a portion of them.»

Use the proceeds to fund the painting of a playground map or to achieve another school - wide goal.

Mega-gifts such as the Gates Foundation's high school funding initiative capture headlines around the world, while each year more modest contributions from local and national philanthropies capture the imaginations and bolster the resources of administrators and educators charged with meeting today's wide - ranging educational challenges.

They will use # 42,000 funding from DfE matched by the Rasberri Pi foundation, to extend the current offer to a wider geographical base of schools than they are supporting.

A legal action fund to promote sector - wide interests in the Bay Area and to engage in lawsuits around Prop 39 and other barriers to growth could benefit all charter schools, especially the small schools that don't have the resources to engage in protracted legal battles.

Over the last eight years, the district has spent $ 32 million on the hardware systems necessary to track student demographic and performance data districtwide, and another $ 2 million on additional computers that allow teachers to access the system; much of this funding has come from the federal E-Rate program, which has allocated more than $ 10 billion toward Internet infrastructure in K — 12 schools and libraries since 1996 (see «World Wide Wonder?»

sponsorship through federal and state funds and universities of integrated metropolitan - wide magnet schools;

The Office of Special Education Programs of the U.S. Department of Education created and funds a PBIS technical center to disseminate information about effective school - wide disciplinary practices and provide support to schools and districts to implement them.

Tom Payzant, the veteran superintendent who heads up Boston Public Schools, says large school districts get funding from a variety of philanthropic organizations, but he has had to work hard to persuade these funders to align their efforts to support a system - wide vision of how to improve education and avoid contributing to what he calls «project-itis,» which is just a series of ad hoc donations that make givers feel good but have little impact on students.

EdNext also traced opinions over a longer period of time, but with a question that emphasized «government funds» instead of «wider choice» (see sidebar on school vouchers).

They have been built for many different purposes and with funding from a wide range of sources — state and local government; the federally - funded Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program; and grants from businesses such as Bunnings Warehouse and the Teachers Mutual Bank — as well as funding coming from school sources

The news from the Education Next poll had become so bad we were accused of asking an unfriendly voucher question (it referenced the «use» of «government funds to pay the tuition»), so we agreed to split our respondents into two equivalent groups and ask the second group a «friendly» voucher question instead: «A proposal has been made that would give low - income families with children in public schools a wider choice, by allowing them to enroll their children in private schools instead, with government helping to pay the tuition.»

Under our new strategy, we will also make # 10 million of National Lottery funding available to help this process of opening up school sport facilities for wider public use and help them maximise the use of all their pools, pitches and sports halls.

Under existing ESAs, the state deposits funds into private, restricted - use bank accounts that parents of eligible students can use for a wide variety of educational purposes, including private school tuition, tutoring, textbooks, online courses, educational therapies, and more.

The groups represented at the expo included Alumni Relations, the Annual Fund, Career Services, the Field Experience Program, Gutman Library Research Services, Human Resources, the Achievement Gap Initiative, the Change Leadership Group, the Executive Leadership Program for Educators, Harvard Education Publishing Group, Harvard Family Research Project, the Office of School Partnerships, Programs in Professional Education, Project Zero, the Usable Knowledge website, and WIDE World.

District - wide, the percentage of funds controlled at the school level increased to 67 percent in 2008 09, up from 60 percent a year earlier.

«The recent Budget announcement to direct money raised by the tax on sugary drinks towards funding sport and after - school activities suggests policymakers are recognising the wide - ranging benefits of these activities.

In most democracies «public education» simply means that government funds and regulates, but does not necessarily operate, a wide variety of schools.