Sentences with phrase «scholarship organizations require»

Scholarship organizations require some level of allowance for administrative costs, especially when starting up.

Not exact matches

The class action, filed on behalf of 14 needy Philadelphia students and 12 public - interest organizations, claims the university has not abided by an 1977 city ordinance that the plaintiffs believe requires Penn to provide 125 so - called «Mayor's scholarships» for each entering class.

A more likely scenario could be an effort to reform the tax code to offer tax credits for donations to organizations that provide scholarships to low - income students — an approach that could serve much the same purpose as school vouchers but would not require the creation of a new direct - spending program.

Every STC program requires that scholarship organizations spend no more than 10 % on administrative costs, the exceptions being Florida's 3 % maximum and Pennsylvania's unnecessarily high 20 % maximum.

In addition to requiring schools to administer a nationally norm - referenced test to all students and report learning gains, it required scholarship - granting organizations to present detailed statistical and financial reports to the state and barred them from directing scholarships to specific schools or religious denominations.

At least 10 Arizona organizations that receive tax - credit donations for private school scholarships have failed so far to spend at least 90 percent of their revenues on the scholarships as required by law, according to an analysis by the Arizona Republic.

In the first two years of the program, scholarship organizations were required to award 70 percent of scholarship funds to students who previously attended a public school («switchers») or to switchers who already received a scholarship.

In particular, the study found severe accountability problems with both programs, most notably: they do not serve students in rural areas where there were virtually no private schools or scholarship organizations (SOs) present; they fund primarily religious schools, which are not required to be accredited or adhere to the same standards for curricula as public schools; they do not require the same testing requirements as public schools, making it impossible to gauge student achievement; and they do not require reporting by schools or SOs.

Even targeted taxcredit initiatives still require the involvement of taxpayers, businesses, and scholarship organizations, which provide crucial organizational and political support for the programs.

Georgia House Bill 1133, which introduced the Qualified Education Expense Tax Credit, is the only SSO legislation in the country that was formulated without requiring organizations to take family income into account when choosing who will receive a scholarship, nor does it keep track of who gets them.

While you can receive scholarships from your school, receiving awards from other organizations requires more effort.

My guess was that he probably felt that since he was asked by a politician to put this together, and that it required no independent expert review, he could take large liberties with the scholarship, twisting words in key places to sell it better, similar to what anything from a denialist organization like CEI.