Sentences with phrase «capital on education funding»

Newly minted Trib colmunist Robert Gehrke urges the Governor to spend some political capital on education funding.

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Thiel, who is also a founder of a hedge fund and a venture capital firm and has been on outspoken voice on issues including education, is no stranger to Gawker.

On Wednesday, Hawkins announced the release of an education - focused app through his new startup called If You Can, as well as a $ 6.5 million funding round from Greylock Partners and Almaz Capital.

With offices in Northbrook, Illinois, Santa Monica, California and Ann Arbor, Michigan, MK Capital invests in companies at all stages of the funding lifecycle, with a strong sector focus on digital media, data center automation, software, and education technology.

New spending on schools includes $ 107 million in capital and operating funds to provide all schools with gyms or other physical education facilities and more than $ 10 million to offer more students free lunches.

As Capital has reported, there was money left on the table in earlier competitive funding processes for education programs, which could also be part of a new funding stream for pre-K.

Government funding agencies will have examples of documentation they require, many venture capital companies have guidelines on business plans, and there are any number of Web sites devoted to business education that will help you out with such arcane documents as cash - flow summaries, Gantt charts, and the like.

The teachers then walked out anyway, on behalf of an agenda that included, depending on who was talking, more funds for textbooks, non-teaching staff, and salaries; changes in Oklahoma's capital gains tax rate; other changes in the tax code; new hires at the State Department of Education, and more.

In anticipation of the conference, I spent some time pondering my best arguments for why education advocates should invest their time and political capital in pensions, as opposed to everything else they might want to work on (like Common Core, teacher prep, charter schools, school funding, etc).

Building on the limited choice options currently available in the nation's capital, policymakers should establish an equitably funded education savings account for all DC children.

He was chair of the National Competitiveness Committee for the National Venture Capital Association, was selected by Obama to represent the United States at the United Nations General Assembly in 2012 focusing on global education issues, and has funded several education initiatives.

I argue that the civil rights revolution was critical in opening labor and capital markets, unlocking federal education and training funding, and allowing the South to catch up on what some scholars have framed as «the human capital century.»

A new investigative series by Capital & Main digs into the impact that charter schools — which are publicly funded but privately operated — are having on the state's public education system.

on Capital Prep's Steve Perry: A Connecticut taxpayer funded voice for the education reform industry

As long as you use the money for certain education - related expenses, you will not be charged capital gains tax on the funds you remove.

While some progress has been made, Maine's early childhood family support, health, education and community systems remain fragmented, silo - funded, and a drain on our social and state capital.