Sentences with phrase «despite less funding»

«Every study that has looked at student achievement in California has shown that despite less funding, charter schools are keeping pace with — and in many cases outperforming — the broader school system,» said Gary Larson, a spokesman for the California Charter Schools Association, a membership organization for the state's 460 charter schools.

Not exact matches

But despite a steady increase in their share of entrepreneurial activity, founders from Latino communities along with those from other minority groups — which made up 40 percent of the U.S. population in 2015 — still receive less funding and fail at faster rates than their white counterparts.

Despite offering such tasty rewards, peerbackers.com co-founder Sally Outlaw says most businesses are funded through the site by existing contacts, with cumulative totals of $ 25,000 or less.

Despite these facts, women receive less venture funding and hold fewer C - level positions and fewer partner seats at VCs than men.

Despite this, a recent budget bill that was passed by the Senate fully funds the commercial crew program, making budget constraints less of an issue.

Neither fund has gained much traction; BITE only accumulated roughly $ 2.5 million in assets before closing while MENU currently has less than $ 2 million despite performing in - line with the broader market in 2017.

Despite the huge funds, star players and more or less an injury free squad, we still have the exact problems that have dogged us for years.

Despite efforts by Trump to block federal funding for Gateway, a new train link under the Hudson River, the project could receive as much as $ 540 million from a spending bill Congress hammered out — much less than the $ 900 million that previously had been intended, but not the shutout the president had been pushing.

Despite this, Labour Ministers have chosen to cut funding to apprenticeship schemes in recent budgets, instead favouring less effective work experience schemes like Jobs Growth Wales.

The tone was celebratory and despite arguments over funding levels less tribal than some exchanges in the main Commons chamber.

Despite this trend, U.S. ecological journals, meetings and funding sources still devote less than two percent of their pages, talks and dollars to studies on these chemicals, creating a disconnect between real - world needs and scientific focus.

The reductions in Ph.D. s funded, which will also hit the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council in lesser numbers, come despite a protective «ring - fence» put around the United Kingdom's # 4.6 billion science budget last year.

Despite furious resistance from scientists, Spain's parliament approved a long - delayed draft bill in June that lowers this year's national funding for science to $ 6.39 billion, about 26 % less than the 2011 budget, according to the COSCE report.

Despite skepticism in the neuroscience community, Markram won over the people who really mattered: funders at the European Commission, who seem to have looked less closely at the proposal's scientific feasibility than at its potential economic and political payoff.

Despite being less funded than many other cancer types, exciting diagnostic and treatment advances are beginning to emerge; however, more rapid progress is needed.

Despite the marked decline in funding per student, it isn't completely accurate to say that states are spending less on higher education; in fact, total state and local spending increased by 13.5 percent (in inflation - adjusted terms) from 1987 to 2015 nationwide.

There have been less fines for poor school attendance than last year, despite the absence rate in state - funded schools increasing from 1.1 per cent to 1.3 per cent.

Dr. Roza's analysis demonstrates that, despite district bookkeeping practices that make funding across schools within the same district appear relatively comparable, substantially less money is spent in high - poverty and high - minority schools.

Despite the Federal Government's teacher education reforms and the push for evidence - based teaching, less than 2 % of ARC research funding is directed to educational research.

By Matthew Tungate [email protected] Despite increased per - pupil and education - reform funding, Kentucky's new budget likely leaves teachers with fewer healthcare options, no new textbooks and possibly less...

«The truth is, charters offer school choice and innovation to families who wouldn't otherwise be able to afford it, despite being funded $ 4,000 less per student than the average district.

Despite Congress's promised funding of IDEA at 40 percent of the average per - pupil cost, special education funding has declined in recent years down to less than 16 percent in FY 2013.

So why do charter schools do so well at educating children, despite getting significantly less funding than district schools?

And rather than Warrington schools being rewarded for doing well, despite already receiving less than average funding, they are being penalised even more.

«Despite their designated unreliability; despite, even, their surely ungrateful lack of loyalty for stoically sticking around and «taking» the abuses created by an ever - shifting, funding - lucrative reform — huge numbers of these oft - labeled undependable Teach - For - A-Minute girls (and oh, yes, a lesser number of surely just as undependable Teach - For - A-Minute boys) were now being ever more massively produced.Despite their designated unreliability; despite, even, their surely ungrateful lack of loyalty for stoically sticking around and «taking» the abuses created by an ever - shifting, funding - lucrative reform — huge numbers of these oft - labeled undependable Teach - For - A-Minute girls (and oh, yes, a lesser number of surely just as undependable Teach - For - A-Minute boys) were now being ever more massively produced.despite, even, their surely ungrateful lack of loyalty for stoically sticking around and «taking» the abuses created by an ever - shifting, funding - lucrative reform — huge numbers of these oft - labeled undependable Teach - For - A-Minute girls (and oh, yes, a lesser number of surely just as undependable Teach - For - A-Minute boys) were now being ever more massively produced.»

The city's charter students and their dedicated teachers are achieving great results, despite receiving 40 percent less funding than the district schools.

So despite being funded 30 % less than district public schools, you continue to spin a yarn that charters are getting more than other schools.

Despite the fact that our scholars receive less public funding than district school students, Great Hearts provides a world - class education, with robust athletics and extra-curricular programs.

In fact, when dollars are not attached to the students and schools are given staffing positions with average salaries instead of dollars, low - income students often receive less funding than non-disadvantaged students despite the government intent to support at - risk students with extra resources.»

Despite the modest turnover, in three out of five past calendar years the fund distributed both long - and short - term capital gains, which made it less suitable for taxable accounts.

Despite a low turnover, in the late 2016 and early 2017 the fund had significant capital gain distributions, which made it less suitable for taxable accounts.

Despite a relatively low turnover, in each of the past four years the fund had significant long - term capital gain distributions, which made it much less tax - efficient than these two ETFs.

Despite this year's losses, the $ 600 million fund is up 338 % since its late 2004 launch, an annualized return of around 30 %, compared to less than 1 % for the S&P 500 index.

Finally, despite its low turnover the fund had substantial distributions in each of the past three years, which made it less attractive for taxable accounts.

You'll notice that for a $ 25,000 account, the total cost of maintaining the portfolio is less with the TD e-Series funds, despite the lower management fees of the ETFs.

Despite this, Prime Minister Dean Barrow and the government of Belize have decided to move forward with a plan that, according to the World Wildlife Fund, «involves using airguns to blast shock waves through the water that are powerful enough to penetrate the seafloor» less than one mile from the UNESCO Heritage site of the Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System.

Despite sharing robust billing guidelines with their law firms, some departments still have little influence and even less transparency when it comes to how their funds are spent — or the value of the services received.

But because under the reforms success fees will no longer be recoverable, but capped to 25 % of the claimant's damages, lawyers could become less able to offer a CFA in a case which is complicated, despite it having merit, as their pool of funds will be diminished.