Sentences with phrase «by tuition dollars»

Institutional Aid is funded by tuition dollars that all students pay; it's not tax or state funded.

Not exact matches

Prior to Impromptu Guru, Jill worked as the Communication Manager for a national franchise, was a faculty member at Arizona State University, and established a nationally - recognized presence in the online education community, by starting up two major online education offices at the largest university in the country, serving 60,000 + students and increasing online tuition revenue by nearly a million dollars in her first eight months.

If I could extend that graph out to 2013 (which I can't), you'd probably see a small drop in government funding offset by an increase in (mostly international) tuition dollars.

Parochial schools are supported by church funds in addition to tuition, not tax dollars, providing in many areas a reasonable alternative for working class and middle class parishioners and removing these millions of students from the public education system paid for by taxpayers.

That tour saved us thousands of dollars, by not paying that pricey private school tuition at Duke and then transferring.

«The new scholarship may contribute to a modest increase in overall enrollment, but we believe it is more likely these funds will supplant tuition dollars already paid by students from middle - income families,» said Moody's Associate Managing Director Susan Fitzgerald.

McCall says he understands concerns about tuition, but he says state lawmakers had been cutting SUNY's budget, by $ 1.4 billion dollars over the past four years.

She blasted the Legislature for essentially cutting SUNY's budget by 30 percent in the last three years while hijacking student's tuition dollars.

If they fail to reach agreement by Monday, Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo has vowed to introduce legislation that would extend the current budget, a backup plan that would leave out popular proposals to increase college tuition aid or invest billions of dollars in the state's aging water infrastructure.

«While they are giving free tuition for the middle class and poor, they have given SUNY & CUNY permission to raise tuition by 200 dollars a year for the next few years.

Cuomo didn't offer more details about the plan, which would rely on existing federal and state financial aid programs, while adding $ 163 million in state tax dollars for Excelsior Scholarships that pay for tuition costs not covered by the traditional aid programs.

The policies can save education dollars along the way — less instructional dollars spent by states and tuition savings for families.

The amount of the scholarship that a student receives can vary from a capped dollar amount put in place by the state to the full cost of tuition.

In addition, the challengers say using tax dollars to pay tuition at religious schools is barred by the Constitution's prohibition against compelling a person to «support any place of worship... against his consent,» and its ban on using state funds «for the benefit of any religious or theological institution.»

And it's not much when compared to the Kalamazoo Promise, unveiled in 2005, which was funded by anonymous donors and, as a «first - dollar» scholarship, pays for 100 percent of tuition and fees at public colleges and universities in Michigan and can be added on top of Pell Grants.

The AFT website moves into Bizarro territory when it concludes its mini anti-choice rant by informing us that public money used to subsidize private school tuition means «less accountability for taxpayers» dollars, a false hope for a handful of kids, and fewer resources for school reforms that actually work.»

Let's be absolutely clear: a donation of a million dollars will be subsidized by tax payers to the tune of $ 750,000 for scholarships that might go to people earning $ 300,000 annually while genuinely needy families will get a $ 500 coupon for tuition (which is about 1/24 the average cost of tuition at a Catholic school in the United States) and teachers will get slightly less than the cost of 10 packs of multi-colored Sharpies.

The voucher dollars received by the Catholic elementary school of fewer than 600 students jumped from $ 660,000 the year before Runyon's speech, to over $ 937,000 the year that the restructured tuition went into place.

The study found that Georgia's tuition tax credit program was funneling taxpayer dollars into private schools that were «condemn [ing] homosexuality on religious grounds; [p] unish [ing] gay students by excluding them from admission and scholarships or expelling and disciplining them because they are gay; [u] s [ing] textbooks and curricula that are harshly anti-gay — some even comparing gays to rapists and murderers; and [e] xpel [ling] or disciplin [ing] students in some cases for simply tolerating homosexuality.»

And in 2015, in the 4 - 3 Hart v. State decision written by Chief Justice Mark Martin, the majority upheld a school voucher program that allows taxpayer dollars to fund tuition for private schools that have virtually no legal obligation to provide students with even a basic education.

The school is tuition free, offering a free and reduced breakfast and lunch program, open to everyone by applying to a blind lottery, welcoming of all students, hiring only certified teachers, accountable to the State, assessed by SAT, receiving Federal Funds, funded by state and local dollars, and responsible to the students, families and taxpayers.

But respondents were opposed to vouchers, or using tax dollars to pay for private school tuition, a policy increasingly promoted by Republican politicians.

Admittedly, public libraries are usually tax - dollar supported, but academic libraries are funded by grants, endowments, and the users» own direct tuition dollars.

Students respond by assuming a consumer stance to their own education, swapping tuition dollars not for the chance to interact with other minds but to acquire a postgraduate market advantage.

If, by some chance, you are not familiar with the World of Warcraft, suffice it to say that it is an internet gaming phenomena that has wasted countless hours and more than a few thousand dollars of tuition.

And while tuition has risen sharply in most of Canada (Quebec mostly excluded) over the past 20 years, it's as nothing compared to the American experience, as detailed by this now - infamous New York Times article in January that profiled law graduates with a quarter of a million dollars in debt and no immediate prospect of work.

The American tradition, enshrined in the constitutions of 36 states including Florida for 140 years, is that tax dollars are to be used for public education, while churches and other houses of worship, provide religious education funded by tuition from parents and the generous donations of parishioners.

After all, those inventions were paid for in large part by the public in the form of federal and state funding, students» tuition dollars, and private donations.