Sentences with phrase «dollars schools spend»

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.

Not exact matches

And while requiring people to spend months working for free does put a substantial barrier in the way of someone who can't get financial assistance from his parents, requiring someone to spend a year or two paying many thousands of dollars to a school creates a much larger barrier.

I would disagree with the sentiment that «Few people would not run a cost / benefit analysis of college or graduate school before spending years of their lives and tens of thousands of dollars.»

«School starts next week, so many parents have already spent hundreds of dollars getting their kids ready for the classroom.

Because they (attempt to) care for widows, orphans, the homeless, the addicted and spend millions of dollars and travel thousands of miles to find people who do not any type of access to the gospel and translate the Bible into their native language, or build schools and hospitals as well as churches their witness and their faith is nullified because they (wrongfully) dismiss porn stars and the people trying to reach them?

What if your church or youth group or school worked on matching every dollar you spent on your one - week trip to send down to the place you served over the course of the year?

6 months after we were in the relationship he got a job in a supermarket as security guard, but here in my country that does nt really makes a lot, its like almost $ 300 dollars per month, i make 600 up to 800 per month, by taking calls in a call center, he never went to college he only graduated highschool, im in law school right now... from the very beginning since i knew he did nt have a job or was making money he could spend, if i had money i would invite him out to dinner, or to the movies or whatever and it was me paying for it which i did nt mind, he is not the kind of men who buys flower, or invite u to the movies, or out, he rather visit me at home and watch a movie in netflix and thats it, we have made plans to go out, but none of them works out, something always happen, and the day it may happen, i say no, just because i think i will have to pay for the date..

I actually have such a huge cash surplus at the end of this school year that I have to spend millions of dollars to not be in violation of the three - month - expenses rule.

Chartwells has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars over the past few years on donations to local school food watchdog Healthy Schools Campaign, and it gives $ 20,000 annually to the late Maggie Daley's After School Matters charity, which counts Bloomer as a board mschool food watchdog Healthy Schools Campaign, and it gives $ 20,000 annually to the late Maggie Daley's After School Matters charity, which counts Bloomer as a board mSchool Matters charity, which counts Bloomer as a board member.

The good news is that walking the natural parenting path means not spending thousands of dollars on devices of disconnection spanning everything from a crib to a private school.

But the dairy industry has spent millions of dollars promoting sugary flavored milk in schools based on the idea that children are threatened with a «calcium crisis.»

As innovative as the schools can be to make extra dollars, they should spend their creative time educating the children!

At that level, school administrators typically have less than a dollar a day to spend on ingredients for each lunch they serve.

Right now, the federal reimbursements for school meals are so woefully inadequate that food service directors have less than a dollar to spend on creating a healthy lunch.

We are told over and over that there's not enough money to fix school lunch, yet we live in a country where we consistently spend 2, 3, 4 or even 5 times more for our daily coffee than we do on food for our children's school lunch, which in most school districts amounts to less than a dollar.

(As explained in my School Lunch FAQ's, schools do in fact get $ 2.68 for each child served a free lunch, but the majority of that money is spent on operating costs, leaving only a dollar or so for the food.)

Back in 2003, for example, the Assembly and Senate overrode the governor's budget vetoes for the first time in two decades, increasing state taxes over Pataki's opposition to restore billions of dollars in spending on schools, hospitals, nursing homes and localities.

«We're not surprised that the Senate Democrats, who nearly bankrupted this state, would want to force New Yorkers to spend $ 200 million in taxpayer money to fund political campaigns rather than investing those dollars in our schools or providing incentives to help businesses create jobs,» said the spokesman, Scott Reif.

After millions of dollars of spending on his behalf, much of it by the charter school crowd, Carl Marcellino was finally declared the winner of his race by about 1500 votes against a woefully underfunded opponent.

More than a decade after the state's highest court ordered New York lawmakers to spend billions of dollars more a year on schools, Governor Cuomo and his top aides are moving further away from ever fulfilling the order, say critics.

NYSUT and its labor allies are going nuclear over the Senate Democrats» push to pass a charter school bill today, accusing the majority of abandoning its principles to inoculate members against the millions of dollars pro-charter advocates have threatened to spend in the fall elections.

Meanwhile, a budget watchdog group said the state could still spend more money on the poorest schools and save hundreds of millions of dollars if only it reconfigured the formula for distributing school aid.

The spokesman, Scott Reif, noted that resolution provided hundreds of millions of dollars in additional school aid, more than what Cuomo proposed in pre-K spending and an expansion of the EPIC prescription drug program for seniors.

New York should not spend hundreds of millions of dollars on a process that could leave New York with less environmental protections, less funding for our schools, etc..

New Yorkers making up to half a million dollars a year would get a credit on their income taxes if their local governments and schools hold spending to below two percent a year.

The $ 137.2 billion dollar spending plan includes more money for schools, including a phase in of funding for universal pre-kindergarten programs.

This disappoints the Buffalo Parent - Teacher Organization, whose leaders urged the mayor to increase school spending by one million dollars.

The November ballot includes a proposal for the state to borrow $ 2 billion dollars to spend on technology for school children, like computer tables.

He says even the State Board of Regents, which nearly always recommends at least a billion dollars more per year be spent on schools, only asked for $ 1 million dollars in additional money for technology for schools.

Governor Cuomo released his State of the State message and $ 143 billion dollar budget spending plan, including $ 1 billion more dollars for schools next year, and ethics reforms.

``... His opponent, who has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars of his own money and gotten nowhere, is seeking to join the same New York City - dominated conference that enacted the job - killing MTA payroll tax, took the STAR rebate checks away from seniors and homeowners, and shifted school aid to New York City at Long Island's expense.»

Outside groups are pouring millions of dollars into the fight for the state Senate, and it's estimated so far they have spent $ 14 million as lawmakers next week will consider a range of contentious issues from expiring rent regulations to mayoral control of New York City schools.

These guys are the biggest hypocrites when it comes to spending tax payer dollars in their big budget school district.

The Panel for Educational Policy, a 13 - person body that votes on billions of dollars in school spending, is under - trained in financial oversight and pressured to do whatever de Blasio asks, members say.

«It's forced school districts and others to discipline how they're spending taxpayer dollars.»

Reverend Barber cites New York's high court order that said billions more dollars need to be spent each year in order to guarantee each schools child's constitutional right to an adequate education.

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.

«Most teachers do not teach tested subjects and the state must now spend many millions of dollars to test teachers of the arts, early elementary grades, physical education, and high school subjects,» she said.

The budget increases spending to schools and health care by 4 % over last year, when there were $ 10 billion dollars in cuts.

The Republican leader sent a letter to de Blasio on Monday, claiming the city has failed to meet a state requirement by filling out a form that shows, building by building, how schools spend local, state and federal tax dollars.

While Buffalo schools are looking for millions of dollars more from Albany in the annual school aid budget fight, the district is diving into the intricacies of its spending and hoping to knock millions off its costs.

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo on Wednesday proposed using his first substantial budget surplus to fund a $ 154 billion spending plan that includes a $ 2.1 billion increase in school funding over two years and billions of dollars in legacy - building construction projects.

The Fund for Great Public Schools, a teachers union backed SuperPAC, spent tens of thousands of dollars backing Senator Rivera.

StudentsFirstNY, a charter schools group, and REBNY, a deep - pocketed trade association, plan to spend millions of dollars during the next month in hopes of keeping the Republicans in control of the state Senate.

Up to 1,000 people, including the president of New York's NAACP, Hazel Dukes, will hold a rally at the Capitol today to try to convince state lawmakers to fulfill a 2006 court order to spend billions more dollars on New York's schools each year.

Barber cites New York's high court order that said billions more dollars need to be spent each year in order to guarantee each schools child's constitutional right to an adequate education.

With the proposed Buffalo school budget slated to pull millions of dollars out of thinning reserves to balance the spending plan, board members spent several hours Wednesday night looking for savings.

Charter schools statewide receive on average 75 cents for every dollar spent on students in traditional public schools, according to charter advocates.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo released his State of the State message and $ 143 billion dollar budget spending plan, including $ 1 billion more dollars for schools next year, and ethics reforms.

That means that 70 percent of all dollars spent in New York schools is spent on teachers, their aides and other staff who directly interact with students in a classroom.