Sentences with phrase «education dollars for»

By placing school choice power directly in the hands of parents who know their children far better than any bureaucrat, real freedom comes when parents are able to shop education dollars for the very best academic program.

In California, the new funding structure is intended to leverage education dollars for high - need students, who lag behind on performance measures such as graduation rates, standardized test scores, attendance, preparation for four - year colleges and participation in Advanced Placement classes.

It will be a big investment for a school that took in a total of $ 2.7 million in federal, state and local education dollars for the 2011 - 12 school year, according to DPI funding estimates.

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.

Not exact matches

7) USAA: The company's «excellent benefits» include an eight percent dollar for dollar matching for its 401k program, and $ 5,000 towards approved education costs.

For example, buying a million - dollar property you intend to flip without the proper research can make for a bad investment, but spending $ 82,000 in real estate education — as one acquaintance did — can also deplete the reserves you need to invest in the first plaFor example, buying a million - dollar property you intend to flip without the proper research can make for a bad investment, but spending $ 82,000 in real estate education — as one acquaintance did — can also deplete the reserves you need to invest in the first plafor a bad investment, but spending $ 82,000 in real estate education — as one acquaintance did — can also deplete the reserves you need to invest in the first place.

The artist is an anti-violence campaigner in his hometown of Chicago, and he was recently praised by former First Lady Michelle Obama for his million - dollar donation to Chicago's education system.

They said they were at risk of losing billions of dollars in federal funding for education if they did not comply.

Apple, Microsoft, and Magic Leap, the mysterious multibillion - dollar startup, are all currently building special glasses that combine the real and virtual worlds — for things like games, but also for education and productivity purposes.

Once you open an RESP account, you can take advantage of the Canadian Education Savings Grant, which gives you a 20 % top - up from the government for every dollar you contribute, up to $ 2,500 a year per child.

The concern some people have is that children will end up living for years in a local community, where they'll be entitled to education and other government services paid for with tax dollars.

The percentage of women coached by women has declined to an all - time low, even while Title IX, which prohibits sex - based discrimination in any education program or activity that receives federal dollars, has dramatically increased participation numbers for female athletes.

Your top 16 % person probably went to a top rated school where they paid top dollar for their education (even after grants etc).

Today, Matthew has been responsible for five multimillion - dollar business success stories, in industries as vastly different as construction, telecommunications, and nationally accredited education.

Prior to Impromptu Guru, Jill worked as the Communication Manager for a national franchise, was a faculty member at Arizona State University, and established a nationally - recognized presence in the online education community, by starting up two major online education offices at the largest university in the country, serving 60,000 + students and increasing online tuition revenue by nearly a million dollars in her first eight months.

The loudest rallying cries from Colorado teachers protesting for more education dollars were about dwindling paychecks that are steadily losing ground to the state's rising cost of living.

They reduced Airtanker contracts by 5.1 million dollars and cut funding for FireSmart grants that funded projects focused on fire preparedness planning, public education and fire mitigation projects such as creating buffers between buildings and forests.»

If people fill their cars at a dollar a gallon, the OPEC countries will run out of cash reserves and their people are used to free education and free hospital care and free everything else and they will not tolerate working for a living and paying for everything.

Parochial schools are supported by church funds in addition to tuition, not tax dollars, providing in many areas a reasonable alternative for working class and middle class parishioners and removing these millions of students from the public education system paid for by taxpayers.

There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity I am bought and sold; for them I will go to prison, if need be; but your miscellaneous popular charities; the education at college of fools; the building of meeting - houses to the vain end to which many now stand; alms to sots; and the thousandfold Relief Societies; — though I confess with shame I sometimes succumb and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar which by and by I shall have the manhood to withhold,» is what Emerson would say, Brigitte.

To be sure, for each «use» subcategory, such as education or health, AAFRC's Giving USA report provides both a current dollar and an inflation - adjusted figure.

That's two million dollars more than the amount that we need to provide a basic education for everyone in the world.

Robert Mondavi Winery, Franciscan Estate and Mount Veeder Winery raise over half a million dollars for local health and education initiatives.

We are looking to develop and create educational protocols for an industry that has turned from a minor restaurant career a decade ago to a billion dollar education industry today.

Seventy five percent (75 %) of the net dollars raised through local events, including the annual Race for the Cure ®, stay in Broward, Miami - Dade and Monroe Counties to fund breast cancer screening, education and treatment initiatives.

However, Prop 42 will go into effect at a time when federal financial aid for education is drying up; there will be fewer dollars for deserving, underprivileged youngsters who have excelled in the classroom, much less for academically marginal athletes.

This comes after the team has invested millions of dollars into the academy system, including launching an ambitious high school education program for U-16s and U-18s in 2015.

Every dollar of your purchase goes toward education, support and outreach for parents in need.

According to one estimate, only 6 percent of public early - childhood education and child - care dollars in the United States go to programs for children who have not yet reached their third birthday.

My biggest concern about war is that billions of dollars are going to bombs while budgets are being cut for education, health care, social services and Medicaid.

Every dollar of your sign up fee goes toward education, support and outreach for parents in need.

Every dollar of your registration fee goes toward education, support and outreach for parents in need.

Once you have estimated the annual amount in today's dollars that you will need for your student's education, visit the College Board's College Savings Calculator to see how much you will need to save each month to be ready when your child hits his or her freshman year in college.

Since 2007, The Sean Delaney Golf Memorial Classic has raised over $ 4.4 million dollars to support research for a cure for peanut allergies and education that will save lives.

Your sponsorship dollars go to establish and maintain scholarships for undergraduate and postgraduate athletic training students, Insure research grants for future scientific developments in athletic training, Supports educational meetings for the continuing education of currently certified & licensed athletic trainers in Indiana.

A healthy baby saves state tax dollars: for every $ 1 spent on preventing an unhealthy birth, $ 6 is saved in neonatal intensive care costs, recurrent hospital and medical expenses paid by Medicaid, exceptional and remedial education, child abuse and neglect investigations, and disability and dependency costs.

He also referenced the fact that New York is now one of three states placed on a watch list for losing hundreds of millions of Race to the Top dollars by US Education Secretary Arne Duncan because it has «hit a roadblock» on significant policy provisions of qualifying for the aid, including establishment of the peformance evaluation system and creation of a database to track student records across school districts.

Look at the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit, and the court settlement there and the fact that to this day we still are owed billions and billions of dollars in education funding.

Just days after NYSUT launched a multi-million dollar TV ad campaign in opposition to the governor's proposed budget cuts, the Alliance for Quality Education is out with a web video featuring a famous New Yorker.

Last year, Cuomo announced a plan that would have used state funds to pay for college for prison inmates, arguing that the investment would save taxpayer dollars in the long run because incarceration is more expensive than education.

He played an instrumental role in ensuring New York State qualified for, and won, $ 700 million in Federal Race to the Top dollars, a US Department of Education sponsored effort to spur innovation and reform in state and local district K - 12 eEducation sponsored effort to spur innovation and reform in state and local district K - 12 educationeducation.

The pro-school funding group Alliance for Quality Education, in a statement, accused Cuomo of «perpetuating educational racism and economic inequality» for not including billions of additional dollars to comply with a decade - and - a-half-old court order to fully fund schools in poorer school districts.

He is known as a committed advocate for public education, and co-founded the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, which won billions of dollars for city schools from the state, though most of that money has never materialized.

«A study conducted in California showed that for every dollar invested in Head Start, we create $ 9 in return through increased earnings, employment, family stability and decreased governmental assistance, crime, and special education costs,» Higgins said.

The ads are part of a multi-million dollar push for health care spending in the budget, typically one of the costliest areas in the spending plan aside from education aid.

David Ross, the director of contracts and purchasing for the city Department of Education since 2004 who oversaw millions of dollars in wasteful and fraudulent school contracts, is headed for the MTA.

Buffalo Public Schools, always strapped for cash, missed out on hundreds of thousands of dollars when it underbilled for providing special education services to students from other school districts, a new state audit found.

The proposal was also blasted for earmarking thousands of dollars for new furniture for state education officials.

Unable to withstand the popularity of his opponents because of the latter's achievements, he started promising heaven including the 350 new secondary schools, free galamsey operation, free secondary education, one constituency one million dollar, free chocolate drink for all pupils and students, restoration of trainees» allowance etc..

«WFP candidates swept our priority races tonight, fending off a million - dollar expenditure from billionaires seeking to privatize education and winning key open seat races that will shape the state Assembly for years to come.