Sentences with phrase «dollars at better schools»

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George Peabody College was a normal school in Nashville that would very likely come into a million dollars with the dissolution of the Peabody Trust, and Kirkland was working energetically to persuade its trustees to move their college across Nashville next to Vanderbilt, thereby making a well - funded school of education available to the university at no cost to itself.

Not only will The Wellness Impact help you make your case for the positive impact school breakfast has on student cognition and behavior, it can help you make your «dollars and cents» case as well; BIC often has a dramatic impact on participation numbers at breakfast, which means leaving fewer federal reimbursement dollars on the table.

Recent studies by Sood and colleagues at USC Schaeffer Center, the USC Price School of Public Policy and the USC School of Pharmacy have found that most consumers on high - deductible plans are not comparing prices to find the best deals on services or on prescription drugs, even though the research indicates that some patients could potentially save hundreds or thousands of dollars per year.

And they must learn how to best communicate these tradeoffs to the community, making clear that schools can't do everything with the dollars at hand.

Since the SRA appears to require that both traditional and charter school students be funded at the same dollar amount, we suspect the city will need better arguments if it wants to win in court.

The monumental satisfaction you will feel at the end of creating a formal training program, when intangible knowledge suddenly manifests into a tangible product or financial outcome — holding that workbook, learner manual or course folder; or watching the dollars roll in from your online school is such a good feeling.

At the school level, 65 percent of funding was characterized as «unlocked,» which allowed principals to redirect dollars attached to particular positions to programs or staff they felt would best serve their school.

They should avoid prescription and both reward and produce rigorous evidence, thus increasing the share of education dollars spent on evidence - based programs while at the same time fulfilling the federal government's unique responsibility for producing and disseminating high - quality evidence on the best ways to improve American schools.

At the same time, the mayor said he got the best deal he could for the city because he secured additional dollars for public schools.

Over at the National Journal blog, Mike Antonucci is absolutely right to point out the big new dollars in the D.C. deal but, as Mike knows better than anyone, those kinds of big raises are hardly unusual in K - 12 schooling.

By serving as a sort of mega-district for a large number of schools, and thus putting scale to good use, a for - profit firm could free up more education dollars for use at the school and classroom level.

«Public education is the use of public dollars to educate our children at the schools that are best equipped to do so — public schools, magnet schools, charter schools, Baptist schools, Jewish schools, or other innovations in education.

The movement toward neo-vouchers — mechanisms of school privatization efforts, such as tuition tax credits and opportunity tax scholarships, that transfer public education dollars to private schools — have had mixed results, at best, and have been empirically shown to harm targeted students, at worst.

The Bronx Charter School for Better Learning 2 was awarded a $ 4000 Dollar General Literacy Foundation Grant aimed at supporting schools to improve literacy instruction.

At A + Denver, we believe that Denver Public Schools stands a good chance at being awarded some of these dollars and many other Colorado districts should consider applying as well, given the favorable policy environment in ColoradAt A + Denver, we believe that Denver Public Schools stands a good chance at being awarded some of these dollars and many other Colorado districts should consider applying as well, given the favorable policy environment in Coloradat being awarded some of these dollars and many other Colorado districts should consider applying as well, given the favorable policy environment in Colorado.

Education choice allows tax dollars to follow students to the schools or services that best meet their needs, and parents have the ability to choose an education that they determine is right for their child, whether at a traditional public school, charter school, or private school.

When lawmakers enacted the Opportunity Scholarships program back in 2013 to allow children from low - income families the chance to use public dollars at private schools, they included accountability provisions in the law that fail to let the public know if these privately - operated schools are better — or worse — options than public schools.

Despite its effectiveness, each school costs over a million dollars to operate each year, and at best, 65 % of funding can come from state and federal grants.

Putting an end to traditional enrollment counts — and only providing districts with dollars based on whether the student is actually attending school — will force districts to look at the underlying reasons why chronic truancy is a problem in the first place, as well as address the issues by providing children with high - quality teaching and strong, college - preparatory curricula.

According to The New York Times, the ten highest paid hedge fund operators with close ties to charter schools also includes David Tepper (number 1 at $ 3.5 billion in 2013), founder of founder of Appaloosa Management and New Jersey based «Better Education for Kids»; Steven A. Cohen (number 2 at $ 2.4 billion) of SAC Capital Advisors, which was forced to pay a $ 1.2 billion dollar penalty for insider trading, who has given over $ 10 million to the Achievement First charter school network; and Paul Tudor Jones II (tied for tenth at $ 600 million), founder of the Tudor Investment Corporation who has supported charter schools through his Robin Hood Foundation.

It is unfair not to assess voucher schools when our tax dollars are used at those schools in the belief that they are doing something better.

The school district owns a 10 - gigabyte fiber connection, and while it has a good internal wireless network, IT leaders plan to expand the network with federal E-rate dollars so students can access the Internet at home and on school buses, said William Sperin, technology director for White County Schools.

The TFA teachers are hired by school principals (whose job it is to know what is best for the particular students at their school) to teach in their school and pay several thousand more dollars per teacher than a non-TFA teacher.

«We at DFER applaud Mayor Muriel Bowser and Deputy Mayor Niles for prioritizing public education in the proposed FY2017 budget, which invests an additional $ 220 million dollars for full modernization of DCPS schools over the next two years, ends the «phases» approach, and increases the Universal Per Pupil Funding Formula to allow for schools to better meet the needs of every child.

Taxpayers in this town have no say over how our exorbitantly high dollars are being used to fund the incestuous relationship between Achievement First and NHPS.And since there seems to be no oversight or public input int the decisions made by our so called public school system we're forced to watch this corporation privatize what should at its core be a public good.

With billions of dollars and student well - being at stake, Connecticut's children and taxpayers deserve better than officials who sit idly by while charter schools call all the shots.

Two new grants created in the 2011 budget exemplify the ways we can direct funding to encourage innovation and support successful programs and educators: the Excellence in Performance Grant for Teachers provides 15 million dollars over two years for districts to reward their best teachers, and the Innovation Fund Grant — which gave ten Indiana schools, districts, and organizations each a portion of 5 million dollars to support ground breaking new programs, like the one at Herron High School, a charter school here in Indianapolis led by Janet McNeal, who joins us toSchool, a charter school here in Indianapolis led by Janet McNeal, who joins us toschool here in Indianapolis led by Janet McNeal, who joins us tonight.

The ESEA pours billions of federal dollars each year into schools that serve low - income kids, Johnson's best effort at leveling the playing field for poor students.

The best advice for these individuals is, if you're a genius at your craft, go off and start your own thing in your spare time and just go for it, forget about dumping $ 10,000's of dollars into schooling.

I wish the ITT Academic Staff could do a MUCH BETTER job in warning first - time students the dangers of going to the school, instead of looking at each of us as dollar, profit signs for their pockets, and rush, rush, rush us into school.

Just by learning German through the intelligent use of these hand - picked online resources instead of paying for courses at a college or language school, you'll save yourself literally thousands of dollars and also create the system that works best for you.

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