Sentences with phrase «dollars over the student»

Every dropout costs society hundreds of thousands of dollars over the student's lifetime in lost income, and removing a large number of students from school undermines a community's future.

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Over the life of a mortgage, home equity loan, car loan, or student loan, for example, this can cost you tens of thousands of dollars in interest fees.

Over the life of your loan, even a slightly lower student loan interest rate can save you thousands of dollars.

In addition, they partner with the Department of Education and schools to service over $ 51 billion dollars in student loans under the Federal Family Education Loan Program.

He started the company, without any hardware experience, out of a garage as an undergraduate student and lead it to a multi-million dollar business with product sold in over 40 countries and at retailers such as Apple and Best Buy.

Yet those who end up refinancing their student loans can walk away with thousands of dollars saved over the life of their loan.

Over the years, college and university foodservice providers have had to fend off stereotypes about their food and service while competing with chains that set up shop across the street hoping to gobble up valuable dollars from students and faculty alike.

Since 1996 the Chaîne Foundation has donated over 3 million dollars to students attending schools including The Culinary Institute of America, The Court of Master Sommeliers, and the American Academy of Chefs.

A college student on a budget knows that almonds in the bulk section only cost $ 4.95 / lb, meaning he / she can have a pound of super food, easily digestible homemade almond flour, which is healthier and savings of over a couple of dollars from regular online almond flour.

The Productivity Commission is correct that dollars spent per student increased by 14 % in real terms over the last decade.

The vetoes include over $ 51.2 million dollars for the recently completed student life center at SUNY Cortland.

Specifically, the authors conclude that students taught by a more effective teacher will collectively earn hundreds of thousands of dollars more over their lifetimes, and that good teachers similarly influence college going and teenage pregnancy.

Indiana has one of the largest voucher programs in the country with over 34,000 students receiving tax dollars to pay for private schools.

Over the last six years schools and districts have spent millions of dollars equipping their students and faculty with iPads and Chromebooks, often in an attempt to create one - to - one classrooms.

Florida school districts are placing their self - interest over what's best for students while using our tax dollars to create a lucrative payday for lawyers.

It maximizes every dollar with over 80 % going directly into its schools and students.

At stake in the fiercely contested campaign is control over a complex, underperforming school district whose ability to improve schools for nearly 665,000 students is compromised by declining enrollment, a $ 1.46 billion projected deficit, and billions of dollars in unfunded liabilities for retirees.

For the United States, the research suggests, modest gains in student achievement as measured by one international assessment could cumulatively boost the country's gross domestic product by tens of trillions of dollars over the coming decades.

Given that Michigan spends over $ 10,000 per pupil each year, if even two - third of those students were retained, it would cost hundreds of millions of dollars.

New York City plans to spend over half a billion dollars on technology in schools, primarily so that students can take the electronically delivered national tests.

We are seeing districts who already receive significant Title 1 funding over the base funding level now receiving thousands of dollars more per student with LCFF.

But when Jumoke charter calls a low student - teacher ratio a part of its «model,» these reformers celebrate it and fork over more than a million extra dollars.

In 2014, parents of students at Horace Mann Elementary School in Northwest Washington, D.C., spent over $ 470,000 of their own money to support the school's programs.1 With just under 290 students enrolled for the 2013 - 14 school year, this means that, in addition to public funding, Horace Mann spent about an extra $ 1,600 for each student.2 Those dollars — equivalent to 9 percent of the District of Columbia's average per - pupil spending3 — paid for new art and music teachers and classroom aides to allow for small group instruction.4 During the same school year, the parent - teacher association, or PTA, raised another $ 100,000 in parent donations and collected over $ 200,000 in membership dues, which it used for similar initiatives in future years.5 Not surprisingly, Horace Mann is one of the most affluent schools in the city, with only 6 percent of students coming from low - income families.6

Add in the tens of million spent by local school districts on computers and internet expansion so that students can take the on - line tests, along with the substitute teachers who were brought in so that full - time teachers could be pulled out to «learn about the Common Core,» and well over $ 150 — $ 200 million dollars (or more) in public funds have been diverted from instruction to the Common Core and Common Core testing disaster.

Yesterday a state auditor's report found that a Kinston charter school's CEO mismanaged hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars over several years, ultimately leaving that school's students without an academic home just a few days into the 2013 - 14 school year.

At that time, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan threatened to withhold millions of dollars in federal funding during a dispute over which tests to give students and which measurements to use.

Two bond measures, totaling just over $ 400 million dollars would improve student health and safety and modernize facilities that support core academic programs.

At Winburn Middle, we spend over a thousand dollars less per student funding that the district average.

Zeman said the flexibility given districts in 2009 over their budgets helped free up some funding for textbooks, but the district also has directed every dollar of federal education funding that it can to professional development, instructional materials and technology to bring common core to its students.

Over the past two decades, the non-teaching staff at public schools in Mississippi has grown rapidly while the number of students actually decreased, costing taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars each year.

In Hartford, this translates into an evaluation system in which the district not only wastes over a million dollars each year to participate, but, 22.5 % of the evaluation is based on student standardized test performance and another 22.5 % is based upon parental involvement.

The talk around the water cooler has changed over the years, but school administrators keep returning to the same issues - how do we comply with the ADA; how do we address increasing enrollment and decreasing dollars; should we contract services out or keep them in - house; how can we keep our students, faculty and facilities safe and secure; where does technology fit into our educational goals.

Keep in mind that Step Up for Students has been paid at least 3 % of the gross or $ 81 million dollars over the years as a «fee.»

Conversely, transparency and accountability is something we don't have for our our nascent school voucher program, which is scheduled to shift up to $ 1 billion in taxpayer dollars over the next ten years to private schools that are not required to adhere to any curricular standards or assess students in a way that is comparable to public schools.

If the Takeover co-authors Kooyenga and Sen. Alberta Darling really cared about Milwaukee children and families, would they be presiding over budgets that provide students in their own wealthier districts with thousands of dollars more than students in MPS?

The two proposals come forward as lawmakers consider legislation sponsored by the California PTA that would strengthen requirements that schools engage parents in spending decisions over the use of billions of dollars in state aid to targeted students — English learners, low - income students and foster youth.

Every student who leaves high school without a diploma costs the U.S. hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost income over the student's lifetime.

Somewhat overshadowed by the growing controversy over Mayor - elect Rahm's schools pick, this Tribune story shows the intention of the privatizers not to listen to the research about charters or to the reasonable concerns of interim CPS CEO Terry Mazany, who said about his decision to postpone consideration of new charter contracts at his first board meeting last January: «We simply do not have any budget flexibility to allocate dollars that will not lead directly to improved educational outcomes for all of our students.»

The charter school company with its 2,600 students will get a bigger per - student and total dollar boost in funds than Hartford, New Haven or Bridgeport, not to mention the opportunity to take over some of the «Commissioner's Network» schools.

But as long as the six home districts of those enrolled at Hatikvah must hand over several thousand dollars per student, she understands that any partnership beyond a professional working relationship may be too much to ask for.

The pilot will give up to 50 districts flexibility over certain federal dollars (Those distributed through «Title» programs like Title I), so that districts can incorporate them into a «student - centered funding» model.

Dr. Brownell has secured multiple grants (totaling over 42 million dollars) from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Special Education Programs and Institute of Education Sciences to support research and technical assistance aimed at improving teaching quality for students with disabilities.

The ESEA provided federal funds (over 1 billion dollars annually) to low schools with large low income student populations.

Public school families are fighting over scarce resources, and the reality is that school districts like Freehold Borough have seen significant student population increases without corresponding dollars and schools like University Heights Charter School in Newark have had to cut back on needed mental health services and arts programming because they lack funding.

Gates is the leader of education philanthropy in the United States, spending a few billion dollars over more than a decade to promote school reforms that he championed, including the Common Core, a small - schools initiative in New York City that he abandoned after deciding it wasn't working, and efforts to create new teacher evaluation systems that in part use a controversial method of assessment that uses student standardized test scores to determine the «effectiveness» of educators.

Brown's Local Control Funding Formula flipped authority over spending billions of dollars in state education money — most of it targeting disadvantaged students — from Sacramento to local school boards.

BATON ROUGE — Louisiana's education chief has refused to provide records from the deliberations over how schools were chosen to participate in Gov. Bobby Jindal's new statewide voucher program, which is using tax dollars to send students to private and parochial schools.

The voucher dollars received by the Catholic elementary school of fewer than 600 students jumped from $ 660,000 the year before Runyon's speech, to over $ 937,000 the year that the restructured tuition went into place.

It is an admission that he actively helped to misdirect some 4 TRILLION educational dollars over the last seven years, and that he harmed tens of millions of students during that time by imposing the mediocre and intrusive Common Core upon the nation.

We pay tens of thousands of dollars on a masters of education degrees where we do student teaching and get feedback from our teachers and peers just to have to do it all over again for the edTPA.