Sentences with phrase «dollar school»

The billions of dollars schools spend each year on computers, software, and other technologies have brought few benefits to classroom instruction because little effort has been made to help teachers use such tools effectively, according to a federal report released last week.

The Rochester City School District is about to start a multi-million dollar school modernization project, creating hundreds of construction jobs.

She encouraged more action to privatize by stating that «no one ever lost a seat because of choice,» a refrain I heard repeatedly (perhaps because of the millions of dollars the school privatization industry gives to candidates).

Last week, just hours before the Obama administration folded up shop, the Institute of Education Sciences reported that the $ 7 billion dollar School Improvement Grant program (SIG) was a complete flop.

The $ 56 million dollar school bond suffered a decisive defeat in Tuesday's election.

The Rochester City School District is about to start a multi-million dollar school modernization project, creating hundreds of construction jobs.

Marnie is best known for her entrepreneurial achievement in building Student Express from a start - up in 1990 to a multi-million dollar school bus company with a fleet of 250 buses which she later sold.

Education advocates, including Billy Easton of the Alliance for Quality Education, says the $ 807 million dollar school aid increase Cuomo is seeking is less than half of what's needed just to maintain the current level of teachers and programs.

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.

It's a way to optimize whatever dollars a school is spending on math instruction — to squeeze more juice from the orange — and doesn't entail new outlays.

The figure is a maximum estimate — a representation of the most dollars school districts would have to share if all of their area charter schools were eligible for capital aid, said Rep. Manny Diaz Jr., a Hialeah Republican who is the House pre-K-12 education budget chairman.

It is beautiful to see a multimillion - dollar school in the middle of the housing projects in New York City, a school that becomes a community center and can be accessed by the entire community.

Tens of millions of dollars the schools want are at stake.

We computed real - dollar school budgets, based on actual staff salaries, and found huge within - district variations in per pupil spending.

San Diego Unified School District Passage of Proposition Z - Local School Facilities Bond In November of 2012, the San Diego Unified School District in partnership with CCSA and the charter community passed a $ 2.8 billion dollar school facilities bond.

Successful driving schools — whether one - person operations or multi-million dollar schools with multiple branches — all become successful because their instructors provide excellent driver education and driving training and their owners were effective entrepreneurs.

Voters in the Greece Central School District have approved a 34 and a half million dollar school improvement plan.

Early voting is now underway and there's one proposition on the ballot, Proposition 1, and it's a yes or no vote for the $ 56 million dollar school bond.

Unfortunately, unless you happen to be running a multi-million dollar school, the iPad Pro's $ 649 starting price makes supporting the Pencil a bit pricey.

«We run million - dollar schools, with hundreds of staff and thousands of students, parents, and community members.»

(In NYC's defense, Obama's seven billion dollar School Improvement Grants Program posted not much better results.)

If 97 cents of every dollar schools spend is encumbered, you're just toying with people, and it won't work.

While not every dollar a school spends directly improves academic outcomes, a new report from Rutgers school - finance expert Bruce Baker finds certain kinds of money very much do matter: extra funding for higher teacher salaries and more equitable distribution of resources between rich and poor districts, for example, are correlated with higher student achievement, especially for the neediest kids.

«The billion dollar school improvement project to the Buffalo Public Schools, these facilities are state - of - the - art.

For every dollar schools spend on six common social - emotional learning programs, those interventions return an average $ 11 worth of benefits.

a cost - benefit analysis released last month concluded that for every dollar schools spend on SEL, there is an average of $ 11 worth of benefits to society, including costs associated with healthcare and educational attainment.