Sentences with phrase «education dollars from»

More funding for charter schools has been a contentious issue because both traditional public schools and charter schools compete for the same limited pot of education dollars from the state.

Obama, in contrast, has sent education dollars from the federal government to the states via grants and direct aid, under the economic stimulus program, to save programs and jobs.

The Obama Administration has said it will withhold discretionary federal education dollars from states that block the creation and growth of charter schools.

We will say to states and communities: If you want education dollars from Uncle Sam, you need to open up your books so everybody can see where the money is going.

The architects of NCLB sought to transform the federal education dollar from a school entitlement into an incentive to prod schools towards better performance.

Not exact matches

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.

«Verizon concealed from the (Department of Education) and law enforcement that they got millions of dollars in contracts through Lanham only after agreeing to hire CCS as a subcontractor.»

As California slashes billions from its higher education budget, the state's premier public business schools have quietly focused its efforts on raising private dollars.

From thousands of dollars spent on education to sourcing their products, running a business can put a huge dent in your bank account.

With growing interest and support from public markets (including through the incorporation of DanoneWave as the largest public benefit corporation in the U.S. and their public commitment to become a Certified B Corp by 2020 as well as Laureate Education's IPO in early 2017), multi-billion dollar companies are following suit and choosing to operate their businesses with purpose and accountability.

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.

Many also offer ancillary services, such as investment education, assistance with annual tax return preparation, Social Security and retirement income planning, as well as one - off custom requests from clients — all of which could cost thousands of dollars if purchased à la carte.

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.

And, as someone who switched from a very lucrative 6 - figure IS / IT career and invested a half - million dollars in my education (tuition and lost wages), you'd better bet I've investigated and studied this all quite seriously.

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.

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.

Cuomo is also trying to shake up education policy, by threatening to withhold hundreds of millions of dollars in increases in school aid from schools that don't agree on teacher evaluation plans with teachers.

In her State of the County address, County Executive Joanie Mahoney announced that $ 20 million dollars from the region's Upstate Revitalization Initiative will go towards Syracuse's Say Yes to Education endowment.

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.

This economy is shrinking badly, and Walker, his Republican buddies, and removing nearly a billion dollars from circulation by cutting education budgets are to blame.

The NYC Department of Education is playing fast and loose with billions of dollars in school contracts, according to a new report from city Comptroller Scott Stringer.

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.

«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.

Cuomo administration officials said the governor's plan does not take dollars away from low - income students and will allow even more low - income families to take advantage of state and federal financial aid that's available for higher education.

The Department of Education is playing fast and loose with billions of dollars in school contracts, according to a new report from city Comptroller Scott Stringer.

From the President who has refused to act on investigative reports submitted to him on grievous allegations of diverting over a billion naira meant for resettlement of Internal Displaced Persons (IDPs) by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal under the Presidential Initiative for the North East (PINE) and the miraculous discovery of 13billion naira in an apartment at Ikoyi, Lagos under the supervision of the Director of the Nigerian Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ayodele Oke, to the Head of Service of the Federation, Oyo - Ita Winifred Ekanem, who connived with others to reinstate into active duty and promote Abdulrasheed Maina, the former Chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team, who allegedly stole over 6billion naira pension fund; the Chief of Staff to President Buhari now renamed the «Thief of Staff», Abba Kyari, who allegedly received a bribe of 500million naira to negotiate a fine reduction for MTN Nigeria, and has continuously been in the heart of every sharp practices in the Presidency; the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu who allegedly received a kickback of 3.8 billion naira in exchange for marginal oilfield using his brother, Dumebi Kachikwu as front; the Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, who was the brain behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Chief of Army Staff, General Tukur Buratai who during his time as the Director of Procurement at the Army Headquarters allegedly diverted funds meant to equip the Military into buying choice properties worth millions of dollar in Dubai; the Minister for Solid Minerals, Dr. Kayode Fayemi who allegedly embezled State Universal Education Board (SUBEB) funds as the Governor of Ekiti State; the Minister for Interior, Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau who was indicted by a Presidential investigative committee probing Arm procurement for awarding ghost contracts worth $ 930,500,690 with others while as the Chief of Army Staff between 2008 - 2010 and one of the brains behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi alleged to have stolent 142billion naira as the Governor of Rivers State.

The funds will come from the Higher Education Capital Matching Grant Program, under which grantees must match every dollar awarded with three dollars of their own, according to a press release.

The $ 213,000 ad campaign, which will run through the end of May, takes a bit of a satirical approach, staging a school «bake sale» at which participants are trying to sell 1.3 billion cupcakes (presumably at $ 1 a piece) «because that's how many dollars Albany's cut from education this year alone.»

The appointment of Betty Rosa as the new Regents chancellor in New York signals a big victory for the statewide teachers union, NYSUT, in the battle over the direction of education in New York — a battle waged with millions of dollars in campaign spending and brute political tactics from both sides over much of the past decade.

The AQE's Billy Easton says a 2005 order from the state's highest court that said several billion more dollars need to be spent to ensure that education is truly equitable, has never been fulfilled.

He said 100 districts in the country were benefiting from the training programme sponsored by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in partnership with the Ghana Education Service (GES) and Ministry of Education with an amount of 170 million US Dollars.

Privatizing our education system and profiting from public dollars is not.»

He says education tax credit donors would get $ 750,000 back from a million dollar donation.

Along the way they'll also budget tens of billions of dollars of state spending on education, health care and roads and bridges, and decide the fate of hundreds of other bills, including proposals to ban the declawing of cats, end the practice of prosecuting and imprisoning 16 - and 17 - year - old offenders as adults and authorize people with terminal illnesses to request life - ending drugs from a physician.

Carrying posters and air horns and chanting «Education Yes, Cuts No,» the protestors were furious that the New York State Education Department rejected an application from the Northern Manhattan Improvement Corporation for $ 1 million dollars in funding to continue the adult programs.

The proposed reductions would hit a wide swath of departments and programs and include cuts of millions of dollars in everything from schools to prisons, transportation to tourism and mental health to higher education.

Though Stavisky is not free from her own controversy, as the Observer found the incumbent and ranking member of the Committee on Higher Education to have taken tens of thousands of dollars in contributions from for - profit colleges, including one that's been involved in a bribery scandal that implicated an Assembly member from Queens in 2009.

But we have no idea what students actually learn from it,» says Elizabeth VanderPutten, an education program manager at the National Science Foundation (NSF), which funds millions of dollars» worth of undergraduate research projects every year.

Local school board elections increasingly are becoming a national political battleground, as millions of dollars in campaign cash pours in from out - of - state donors in the name of education reform, indicates new research led by a Michigan State University scholar.

Over time, the government has come to rely on data from the census and its longer annual offshoot, the American Community Survey (ACS), to allocate half - a-trillion dollars through health, welfare, housing, infrastructure, education, and other federal programs.

In 2013, over 5 billion dollars were awarded by the National Science Foundation to support research and education [3]; the National Institutes of Health dispenses even more money for health - related research and clinical studies Since everyone benefits from progress in science, the US federal government should be praised for financially supporting so many university researchers and research projects.

If you attend a weekend continuing education course, you're going to pay anywhere from $ 199 to $ 299 dollars just for the seminar itself.

We need to shift our dollars from expensive procedures to education.

Unequal risks for breast cancer associated with different hormone replacement therapies: results from the E3N cohort study by Agnès Fournier, 1 Franco Berrino, 2 and Françoise Clavel - Chapelon1 * (9) http://bostonreview.net/BR35.3/angell.php Boston Review MAY / JUNE 2010 Big Pharma, Bad Medicine - How corporate dollars corrupt research and education by Marcia Angell

Democratic senator Mary Landrieu, a cosponsor of the «Three R's» bill, worked tirelessly, and against considerable opposition from members of both political parties, to increase the targeting of federal education dollars to low - income communities and schools in an effort to better support their school reform efforts.

Any state willing to forego its share of federal education dollars is free to do so — and to exempt itself from all the rules and constraints that accompany those dollars.

This push came as Lebanon received nearly $ 85 million dollars this year from the international community to provide education to Syrian refugees.

Some have criticized Gov. Chris Gregoire's education reform proposal for lacking boldness, but she said the bill moving through the Legislature has everything necessary to prepare the state to apply for millions of new dollars from the federal government.

Klein's support pushed allies into key posts, and his persuasiveness brought hundreds of millions of dollars from philanthropy to support education reform, not only in New York City but also across the country.

From its humble beginnings a few decades ago, to its estimated 110 billion dollar revenue in 2015, eLearning not only has taken the enterprise training world by storm, but the LMSs have also changed how we approach education in general.