Sentences with phrase «when school dollars»

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As profits continued to grow, in 1908 Walker opened a factory and a beauty school in Pittsburgh, and by 1910, when Walker transferred her business operations to Indianapolis, the Madam C.J. Walker Manufacturing Company had become wildly successful, with profits that were the modern - day equivalent of several million dollars.

Nancy Koehn, a professor and historian at Harvard Business School, noted that Howard Schultz is «one of the few globally recognized CEOs who turned around a multibillion - dollar enterprise when growth stalled.

Once, about two years ago, Guerra and a friend stopped at the Dollar Tree on their way to a movie theater and Cruz said something particularly troubling when he asked them about the high school.

Sad when people want lies like a «young earth» and that «evolution is a myth» or that «some god caused» the big bang taught to their children in their schools, paid for by their tax dollars.

The «applied micro» school of economics developed by the late Gary Becker and currently associated with Steve Levitt might be somewhat puzzled by the unique lack of dollar valuation for sex when lobbyists are expected to value all other goods and services.

Why can't we all just mind our own business when it comes to peoples bedrooms and wedding albums, neither side get's to preach in schools, though I understand how you would think of it as the atheist getting his way by just not having you preach your God to his children in a publicly funded school, but he's not sending an atheist spokesman to influence your children, he just doesn't feel it's right to allow the religious spokesman into the schools to influence any children on his tax dollar.

When I was in High School, our school did this thing where we could purchase a Valentine Gram for a dollar, and then during one of the periods a bubbly student from student council would deliver you a personalized card to your School, our school did this thing where we could purchase a Valentine Gram for a dollar, and then during one of the periods a bubbly student from student council would deliver you a personalized card to your school did this thing where we could purchase a Valentine Gram for a dollar, and then during one of the periods a bubbly student from student council would deliver you a personalized card to your class.

Rosenbaum also hides the ball from readers when he compares the cost of funding healthier school food (an additional $ 1.22 billion over pre-HHFKA reimbursements, according to the USDA) to the skyrocketing costs of obesity ($ 200 billion dollars per year).

That kind of investigative journalistic experience comes in very handy when taking on the explosive topic he addresses today: are big food service management companies (FSMC's) like Chartwells, Aramark and Sodexo passing on to school districts — as required by law — the millions of dollars in rebates and «volume discounts» they receive from food manufacturers like Kellogg's, Pepperidge Farm and others?

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Buffalo Public Schools, always strapped for cash, missed out on hundreds of thousands of dollars when it underbilled for providing special education services to students from other school districts, a new state audit found.

One wonders why they are silent now when a company whose leader stands under indictment for alleged actions of fraud against BOCES is in a multi-million dollar agreement with the school board?

Critics questioned the need to make the payments at a time when the state has taken drastic money - saving steps, such as delaying billions of dollars in aid payments to local school districts, to try to close a $ 9 billion deficit.

These guys are the biggest hypocrites when it comes to spending tax payer dollars in their big budget school district.

He says the panel does have to consider the money, at a time when the state has not fulfilled a court order that said the state needed to spend billions of more dollars school funding, and at a time when a new property tax cap might lead to lay offs of teachers and school program cut backs.

The budget increases spending to schools and health care by 4 % over last year, when there were $ 10 billion dollars in cuts.

«I'm appalled that one or maybe two people can bring something to this level and waste taxpayer dollars at the school board when there is overwhelming support for her,» stated Dore.

The New York state legislature is due to adjourn later this week, but there's still no agreement by Assembly Democrats on an education tax credit sought by Gov. Andrew Cuomo that would allow donors a tax credit when they give up to a million dollars for private school scholarships and some public school programs.

Topics in the Q&A included the source of money for the City's planned pre-K advertising campaign, the City's target number of pre-K applicants, whether Speaker Silver thinks the proposed income tax surcharge should be pursued next year, how the pre-K selection process will work, how the City will cover the approximately $ 40 million annual gap between the estimated cost of pre-K and the amount provided in the state budget, when parents will learn whether their pre-K application has been accepted, how the City will collect data and measure success of the pre-K program, whether the existing pre-K application process will be changed, how the City will use money from the anticipated school bond issue, the mayor's reaction to a 2nd Circuit ruling that City may bar religious groups from renting after - hours space in public schools, the status on a proposed restaurant in Union Square, a tax break included in the state budget that provides millions of dollars to a Bronx condominium project, the «shop & frisk» meeting today between the Rev. Al Sharpton and Police Commissioner Bratton and a pending HPD case against a Brooklyn landlord.

Sen. Joseph Griffo, R - Rome: No «I am opposed to taxpayer dollars being used to fund political campaigns, especially when this can be better spent on helping schools and repairing roads.

Fiona hopes her moral compass isn't leading her astray when she reconnects with her married high school crush, but when she finds an abandoned purse with over five hundred dollars inside, she assumes her luck is finally changing; Frank is willing to do just about anything to stay in Dottie's good graces, even marry her; after Harry's passing, Debbie becomes obsessed with death; Kevin thinks about buying the Alibi; Lip meets with a colonel to glean information for Ian about West Point; Jody asks Frank for Karen's hand in marriage.

But only when data is tied to action do we see increases in student achievement and high school graduation rates, as well as more dollars and resources directed to low - performing schools.

And yet, when you look at the learning strategies the school embraces and you ask the faculty and students what has made the most positive difference for them, what you see and hear are not freighted with dollar signs.

When federal Race to the Top dollars became available, Pawlenty launched a statewide charter school initiative and moved to hone math and science instruction in schools.

Even when a recent graduate has trouble landing a good job right after collecting his degrees, he can expect to earn as much as a million dollars more over the course of his career than someone whose education ended with a high school diploma.

Weighted student funding (WSF) As with most major reforms of school finance, doing WSF right entails complex formulas, oft - changing allocations of money (when a kid shifts schools, for example, or moves to the next grade, or her needs change), sophisticated building - level budgeting, and the integration of dollars from multiple sources that carry different requirements.

At a time when many school administrators are looking to stretch dollars and teaching time, some rural school districts are compressing the school week into four longer class days.

In 2013, when we were looking at eight million dollars we'd saved by closing 13 schools, we wondered what do we do with it.

It may seem unnecessary, even insensitive, to speak to you of sacrifice when many of you are staring at graduate school loans in the tens of thousands of dollars and an earning potential that's a fraction of your law or business school peers.

When you look at the incompetence of the public schools and the state tests, where are spending billions of dollars and we get absolutely nothing.

Even when we estimated the probability that an incumbent won a majority of the votes in each precinct, or accounted for test - score changes and levels as a function of dollars spent on students, or measured the relationship between an incumbent's vote share in one election and the previous election, the overwhelming weight of the evidence indicated that school board members were not being judged on improvement or weakening in school test scores.

«I can tell you this — if you gave the American people a choice today between using federal dollars to renovate and build new public schools or using public tax dollars to pay for private school vouchers, there would be no question how the American people would vote,» asserted U.S. Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley in a speech made when the report was released.

The monumental satisfaction you will feel at the end of creating a formal training program, when intangible knowledge suddenly manifests into a tangible product or financial outcome — holding that workbook, learner manual or course folder; or watching the dollars roll in from your online school is such a good feeling.

When first explaining that a «school voucher system allows parents the option of sending their child to the school of their choice, whether that school is public or private, including both religious and non-religious schools» using «tax dollars currently allocated to a school district,» support increased to 63 percent and opposition increased to 33 percent.

When almost 90 percent of all of our children are attending public schools, it doesn't make a lot of sense to me to use public tax dollars to pay for private school education.

Consider what has happened since 2001, when the Clark County School District increased class sizes in grades 4 through 12 in order to save tens of millions of dollars.

However, when asked where a school district should put any extra dollars, Carrigg and MacInnes have different answers.

New York City became a poster child of the initiative when New York school chancellor, Joel Klein, accepted Gates dollars and began, in 2002, to create 123 «small high schools of choice.»

When they do so, schools are more responsive to their demands and they also operate more efficiently — delivering higher student performance per dollar spent.

So when the Ed School started looking for funding for the new Doctor of Education Leadership Program, former Harvard Overseer Paul Buttenwieser and his wife, Katie, a social worker at Children's Hospital in Boston, did just that — they stepped up and donated one million dollars to endow a fellowship that will support one student throughout the three years of the program.

But they do not call for an end to the multiple conflicts of interest that pervade the program: Currently, school districts have little (even negative) incentive to promote the tutoring, as they pocket the dollars when few students participate.

When your school's equipment comes up for replacement, think about how you can use those dollars to expand your capabilities, and to keep current with modern tech tools.

So when the FCC signaled that it might support «self - provisioning» and allow school districts to use E-rate dollars to build or lease their own fiber networks, a light bulb went off.

When combined with a federal tax loophole that allows taxpayers to receive a federal deduction on a dollar - for - dollar state tax credit, 10 of these states» credits are so lucrative that they allow some upper - income taxpayers to turn a profit (at federal taxpayer expense) on contributions they make to fund private school vouchers.

When it comes to school choice and vouchers at AASA, we are deeply committed to supporting and strengthening the nation's public schools and have an absolute belief that public dollars are for public schools and equally strong opposition to vouchers.

The opportunity for choice to further strengthen schools only comes when all schools receiving public dollars — including charter and magnet schools — face the same reporting and accountability requirements as traditional schools.

And because education is not just a «private good» — all of our welfare depends on an educated populace — isn't it appropriate for the public to demand that schools meet certain standards, especially when taxpayer dollars are involved?

Two days after this year's votes were counted, Virginia's 1997 race for governor seemed to begin in earnest, when James S. Gilmore III, the state attorney general and the early Republican favorite for the top job, proposed a plan to provide millions of dollars in college scholarships to high school students.

While unemployment remains high, the marginal advantage of investing thirty or fifty thousand dollars a year in private schooling is diminishing, particularly when those dollars are invested in low - selectivity, lower - status private institutions.