School Districts
What is the role of the Principal?
Person given ultimate administrative responsibility for a schools operation.
Hires and fires teachers, Establishes workplace climate, selects and evaluates teachers, school wide leader.
The three sources (levels) of funding for public schools.
What is local, state, and federal?
Where does the largest part of the states education go to?
School funding for kinder through 12th grade.
Are school districts funded equally?
No.
Involves corporations using schools as avenues for advertising and other business ventures.
What is Commercialization?
Who decides on the curriculum of the school?
The school district
The primary source of funding for LOCAL districts (where local sources get their money from).
What is property taxes?
What are the six sections of school funding?
Instruction, Food Services, Transportation, Physical Plant, Administration, Instructional Support
How many school districts are in Texas?
There are 1,031.
Outsourcing educational services to corporations.
What is Privatization?
What is at least one role of the School District
Hiring and firing teachers
Instruction in schools
Choose Curriculum
Determine textbooks
The primary source of funding for STATE monies that go toward public schools.
What is state income tax and/or sales taxes?
Which of the six sections does the highest percentage of funding go to?
Instruction at 61%
the districts funded in three ways, what are they?
What are property taxes, local government and federal governments?
Dual missions: improving test scores and making a profit
What is an argument against school privatization?
What is a struggle that a superintendent will typically face?
disputes with the school board
politics
budget shortfalls
Federal grants (to school districts) targeted for *specific* groups and *designated* purposes
What is categorical grants?
Which of the six sections is the most problematic for school funding?
Transportation
In the 2017-2018 school year, about how much money did Texas spend per student?
$10,456.
Critics link these problems to certain ads, and use them as arguments against commercialization of schools.
What is childhood obesity and premature sextuality in youth?
The $787-billion act designed to provide economic stimulus to the US economy, with $115-billion designated specifically for public education.
What is the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act?
Texas has $9,128 per student.
Where does Texas rank in the 50 states of education?
37th.
1 in every 10 schools are projected to be run by them by 2020
What is Edison Schools Inc.?