Sentences with phrase «cost to schools»

Through the generosity of individuals, businesses and foundations, we are able to provide our program at NO cost to schools!

They not only reduce the cost per head for delivering training but will reduce any incremental costs to the school such as travel.

Over the last two years the average cost to a school has been # 1500.

One of his money - saving ideas is to cut $ 2 billion in state spending by shifting teacher pension costs to school districts.

Last year, MDRC released results of a randomized evaluation of a volunteer - based tutoring program, Reading Partners, that increased reading achievement by 0.1 of a standard deviation for an out - of - pocket cost to the schools of only $ 320 per student.

And when athletic programs give out scholarships, programs can get charged the full price for an out - of - state student even though the marginal cost to the school for bringing on an extra student is minimal.

Gibb maintains that school bookshelves should contain novels that «inspire a lifelong love of reading» and has challenged book publishers to make 100 classic books available at lower costs to schools.

As schools continue to publicly drop the program, citing inadequate portions, increased costs to their schools, and food that — as one group of students in Kentucky charmingly put it --» tastes like vomit,» it seems time for the First Lady to address the opposition.

Eliminating the requirements for reevaluation every 2 years, assuming that reevaluations are requested for 20 % of gifted students, can reduce costs to school districts by approximately $ 16.8 million over 3 years.

Whether it's class size and composition issues, downloaded costs to school boards without the extra funding to cover them, or public sector workers who previously accepted «net zero» or cooperative gains settlements, a balanced budget might be hard to achieve while keeping educators, parents, and students happy.

Collins, a Republican and launcher of an aborted campaign for governor last year, also said in a Talk 1300 AM radio interview that the budget agreed to by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state lawmakers was largely «status quo» that shifts costs to school districts.

These are always welcomed by the students, however there is a significant and ever growing cost to a school and parents; costs for cover of teachers attending the excursion, expensive transport costs, early departures and returns require parent transport outside school hours, especially for regional and rural schools.

In fact, in Boston charter enrollment does not even present a net cost to the school district.

School staff stated what they thought the biggest challenges would be in going fully cashless: 43 per cent said they believed parents prefer to pay with cash; 43 per cent believed parents hadn't got access to the internet; nine per cent said cost to school; and five per cent stated online security.

Notably, new evidence from Nick Mader and colleagues in Chicago finds that there may be few (if any) costs to school climate associated with reducing the length of out - of - school suspensions for more serious student misconduct.

Regional Queensland presents issues of bandwidth and power, both of which come at a substantial cost to the school given the availability of vendors and infrastructure required to support it locally.

In 2015, the Foundation Budget Review Commission, a group of legislators and researchers, found that a $ 2.1 billion gap exists between the projected costs to school districts and the actual funding that they currently receive.

Following a legal process set out in the state Constitution, five school districts and CSBA's Education Legal Alliance are seeking a ruling from the Commission on State Mandates to recover the full cost to schools for administrating assessments based on the Common Core State Standards that began last spring.

While the enrollment numbers are impressive, they can't disguise middling academic gains, enormous costs to school districts, and highly concentrated segregation.

Mr Gibb said he wants all pupils to have access to literary classics that «inspire a lifelong love of reading» and has challenged book publishers to make 100 classic books available at low costs to schools.

Yes, there are places in my town that would LOVE to have it, who have begged to be allowed to come pick it up (so there would be NO cost to the school district).

A 3.4 % rise in employer National Insurance contributions, which means an average # 70,000 increase in costs to schools;

He admits that this comes with a sacrifice: «It might be a cost to where you live, it might be a cost to the school you send your children to, it might be a cost to who your friends are... but I think it was a cost for God to send his Son.»

The law requires that Insurance Companies provide the coverage to the insured (at no cost to the school).

GET STARTED today and see how easy it is for your school, pre-school or camp to start receiving hot lunch deliveries in weeks at NO COST to your school or camp!

Later, she sponsored the Mandate Relief Law to lower costs to schools and pass on the savings to property taxpayers.

The NUT's own survey * into the SLT tests showed that there was increasing evidence they were resulting in teaching to the test twice a year and generating a great deal of unwelcome bureaucracy and cost to the school.

«The tax cap may be helping to keep taxes down, but it comes at a cost to our schools, which now need the state to make up for the funding they can not raise locally.»

In June, during the waning days of the legislative session, school districts through the state School Boards Association had quietly circulated a memo among lawmakers that raised concerns about the cost to schools already strapped by the state's 2 - percent tax cap unless residents vote to suspend the cap.

O'Mara said that the testing would be fully covered by the state under reimbursable BOCES building aid and that any remediation would also be reimbursed through the building aid — though he conceded that reimbursable building aid doesn't always fully cover school projects, so there may be some cost to schools.

Giving our schools free access to eCadets for a year will give them access to the experts who can help them and the opportunity to evaluate eCadets» contribution to their overall safeguarding activities without any cost to the school.»

The government is not taking account of pensions, national insurance, cost of living, increments, living wages and — crucially — the cost to schools of picking up on cuts to other public services.

Our mission is to provide children, no matter who they are or where they come from, the opportunity to learn coding skills for free, and at little or no cost to the school.

«Mimi's, a local restaurant, provides award certificates for our students, and whenever we ask, they offer up to three dozen of their awesome muffins for parent or staff meetings — at no cost to the school.

By keeping things simple and operating each branch just a few hours a week, just eight full - time financial - education employees are needed to lead nearly four dozen programs in central Michigan elementary schools, middle schools, and high schools at no cost to the schools involved.

«Mimi's, a local restaurant, provides award certificates for students,» Jenkins told Education World, «and, whenever we ask, it offers up to three dozen of its awesome muffins for parent or staff meetings — at no cost to the school.

Officials of the University of Northern Colorado have offered to retrain this year's graduates from its college of education who fail to perform satisfactorily on the job, at no cost to the schools or the employees in question.

Effectively, the scheme would make existing play spaces more accessible to communities that are already closely involved with the school as parents or governors, to release existing social capital at little or no cost either to the school or the community it is built to serve.

In an analysis of six different school - based SEL programs, all were found to have measurable benefits, such as reduced aggression and improved impulse control, from 3 - 13 times their costs to schools.

The Cooney Center suggests that schools allow students to use their own mobile devices as a way to bridge the technology gap and reduce the cost to schools.

Presentations are sponsored by the Army National Guard and are offered at no cost to schools.