Sentences with phrase «college students in their families»

Investments in education, college readiness, and technology for schools College Track is the education nonprofit Powell Jobs co-founded in 1997 to support teens who hope to be the first college students in their families.

[3](The federal government also provides approximately $ 18 billion in tax benefits to college students in their families, subsidies which are ineffective and poorly targeted but outside the purview of the HEA.

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But don't let that scare you away — many of these college students have grown up and stayed in the area to raise their families.

All too often on college campuses, students will think that it is funny to log in to a friend's Facebook account and make inappropriate or awkward status updates, or comments to that person's friends and families.

Families with kids in kindergarten through 12th grade will spend an average $ 634.78, versus $ 688.62 in 2012, while families of college students will spend $ 836.83, down from $ 907.22 laFamilies with kids in kindergarten through 12th grade will spend an average $ 634.78, versus $ 688.62 in 2012, while families of college students will spend $ 836.83, down from $ 907.22 lafamilies of college students will spend $ 836.83, down from $ 907.22 last year.

Some college students might live off - campus in a house or apartment owned by their parents, guardians or a family member.

With the price of a college education rapidly rising over the last decade, and in the current difficult economic times, students and families...

Her voice cracking with emotion, the mother of college student Otto Warmbier who died soon after being sent home from North Korea, says her family will keep speaking out about the country's human rights violations to «rub their noses» in what they did.

He founded FOCUS after his own experience: brought up in a Catholic family, he lost his faith in his teenage years — and rediscovered it through Evangelical students at college, who helped him to encounter Christ in the Scriptures.

«My prayers, and those of every Catholic parish and school in England and Wales, will be with her family and friends, the staff and students of Corpus Christi Catholic College in Leeds, and all who have been affected in any way by this senseless tragedy.

Nearly all of the students in a typical undergraduate class at a church - related college consider themselves Christians and most come from families more or less active in a church.

Straus and Bacon, for example, in their study of over 15,000 college students, found that the incidence of abstention from alcohol on the part of the parents decreased in each category as they moved from lower to higher family income.

Kenyon's life story is fascinating and wrenching, the stuff of both highbrow and middlebrow drama, She was a college student who married her much older professor, retreated with him from university life to a family farmhouse in New Hampshire, rediscovered her faith (without turning into a wild - eyed zealot), bravely battled depression, came into her own as a poet and loyally nursed her husband through two difficult bouts with cancer.

About three thousand students are already benefiting from the latest wrinkle in five states, «education savings accounts,» which provide even more flexibility to families by allowing those who withdraw their children from public schools to receive a deposit of public funds into government - authorized savings accounts that can be used to pay for private school tuition, online learning programs, private tutoring, educational therapies, or college costs.

We dined with friends and family and at our favorite spots we've missed since our college years in those mountains (I say that as if was so long ago and we aren't still students, technically.

IS 318 was in South Williamsburg, near the border of Bedford - Stuyvesant — its most famous graduate was the rapper Jay - Z, who grew up in the nearby Marcy housing project — and the team reflected the student body; the students» families were mostly from the struggling working class, and the majority of their parents were employed but not college educated.

We spend a lot of time with high school students, and there is one thing we know for sure: they don't want the college application to take over their lives and result in non-stop strife in their families, but they just don't know how to avoid it, and, frequently, neither do their parents.

She has worked with incarcerated individuals, families, adolescents, and college students in a variety of settings, including county and city jails, community mental health centers, university counseling centers, and hospitals.

An Arizona community college wants to tackle poverty by helping its students and faculty members celebrate being the first in their families to attend college.

New York's first - in - the - nation free college tuition plan was enacted just weeks before the May 1 deadline for most students to decide where they will matriculate, a choice that for many families involves weighing one school's financial aid package against another's.

«I would find it extremely difficult to tell a hard - working student, or a working class family, that they will not realize their dream of attending college because we lost federal aid when the state decided to make a needless political statement,» Ortt said in a statement.

ALBANY — More than 200,000 New York State college students would get free tuition if they attend a public university or community college in the state and have a family or individual annual income below $ 125,000, according to a budget proposal from Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Efforts are underway within sectors of the academy at Oxford, including the push to install baby changing tables in some departments and to make the Middle Common Rooms (MCRs)-- spaces reserved for the comfort, sanity and fraternisation of postgraduate students in their respective colleges — more family friendly.

A Siena College poll released this morning found there was broad support for most of Cuomo's major agenda in the new year, including an extension of the state's surcharge on millions, reduced tuition costs for SUNY students whose families earn $ 125,000 a year and less and a $ 2 billion clean water infrastructure fund.

Seward also mentioned the governor's initiative to provide free public college tuition to students in families that earn less than $ 125,000 per year.

It keeps the status quo when it comes to taxes, adds $ 1 billion in new public education spending and includes expanded child care tax credits and a new $ 163 million initiative making state college tuition free for students from families earning $ 125,000 or less annually.

«As the first in my family to go to college, I understand the message that initiatives like SAT School Day and College Awareness Day send to our students — we believe they have the potential to go to college, and we're going to give them the support and resources to get there,» Fariñcollege, I understand the message that initiatives like SAT School Day and College Awareness Day send to our students — we believe they have the potential to go to college, and we're going to give them the support and resources to get there,» FariñCollege Awareness Day send to our students — we believe they have the potential to go to college, and we're going to give them the support and resources to get there,» Fariñcollege, and we're going to give them the support and resources to get there,» Fariña said.

Cuomo's plan would have the state pay the tuition at public colleges and universities for students who have a combined family income of up to $ 125,000 a year when the plan is fully phased in in two years.

The proposal would keep the status quo when it comes to taxes, add $ 1 billion in new public education spending and include expanded child care tax credits and a new initiative making state college tuition free for students from families earning $ 125,000 or less annually.

A cause of death hasn't been determined for a 22 - year - old college student who was detained for nearly a year and a half in North Korea before being sent home in a coma, an Ohio coroner's office said, in part because the family has refused an autopsy.

In the Hudson Valley, that's apparently 63 percent of families with college - age students.

There are many reasons why applying to college seem overwhelming to some city high school students; reasons like not speaking English well, or being homelessness, or being the first in their families to consider college.

«Entice families to stay engaged in the educational system, by promising free college tuition, but most important, we used our resources to put various types of support in schools for students and their families to enhance opportunities for academic achievement,» she said of the program.

First, it was argued that college students and their families wanted «predictability» in tuition costs, so that annual increases could assure them that hikes would never exceed a predictable, annual amount.

Maria Comella was first brought into the administration to help craft the 2017 State of the State agenda, which included a mix of proposals such as raising the age of criminal responsibility in New York to 18 and a free college tuition program for students whose families earn less than $ 125,000.

Nearly a year after the federal Justice Department declined to bring civil rights charges against a white police officer who fatally shot a black college student in Pleasantville, Westchester County in 2010, the victim's family has agreed to a $ 6 million settlement, a lawyer for the family announced.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo stopped at Buffalo State to promote his plan to provide free tuition at public colleges and universities in New York for resident students in families that earn $ 125,000 or less per year.

Ithaca College in Tompkins County recently introduced a New York State Tuition Award for New York students from families with incomes of $ 125,000 or less.

CUNY supports hundreds of thousands of students, many of whom are new to our state or our country, or are the first in their family to attend college.

During negotiations in the conference committee, Katko said he will push GOP leaders to reinstate some popular tax breaks that are on the chopping block, including several that benefit college students and their families.

In this year's race for the White House, candidates have addressed college affordability and student debt — two issues that are vitally important to New York families.

Cuomo's claim comes as he pushes for free public college tuition to students from families in New York state earning less than $ 125,000 a year.

With Cuomo's signature, New York will become the first state in the country to fund free tuition for students at community colleges or four - year public institutions, as long as their families make less than $ 125,000 a year.

The marquee point in what Cuomo calls the «Middle Class Recovery Act» is an expansion of college tuition subsidies that the governor says will make it «free» for students from families making less than $ 125,000 a year.

Under the governor's plan, any college student who has been accepted to a state or city university in New York — including two - year community colleges — will be eligible provided they or their family earn $ 125,000 or less annually.»

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie (D - Bronx) said the Assembly plan would «ensure that an affordable college education is within reach of every student and family in our state.»

Hillary Clinton's campaign announced plans to eliminate college tuition at in - state public colleges and universities for families with annual incomes under $ 125,000 — a significant nod to a core position of Sen. Bernie Sanders, who had pledged to make tuition at public institutions free for all students.

«We've been changing every single route; so we see reductions in family visas, we see reductions in student visas, we've been rooting out abuse - there are 750 colleges now that can't bring overseas students in - but it is, of course, unlikely that we're going to reach the tens of thousands by the end of the Parliament.

The college tuition plan would be phased in over three years and, when complete, make tuition free at state colleges and universities for students from families making $ 125,000 or less.

The state's main college aid program, the Tuition Assistance Program (TAP), has no residency rules.The new initiative will not require any tuition payments if the student's family income is below $ 100,000 in the coming school year, rising to $ 125,000 three years ahead.