Sentences with phrase «education dollars go»

More than half of Illinois state education dollars go to districts regardless of their wealth, shortchanging poor districts that have students with greater needs.

Founders of the First Class Education movement want all states to mandate that 65 percent of education dollars go to «in - classroom» expenses.

Not exact matches

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

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.

Congress expanded Medicare by adding a prescription - drug entitlement that will cost hundreds of billions of dollars, and federal education spending has gone up as well.

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.

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.

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.

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.

But Kolb says he knows talks are going on about the top two remaining issues, renewing New York City's rent laws and an education tax credit for donors who give up to a million dollars to fund scholarships for poor children in private schools and fund afterschool activities at public schools.

And Assembly Democrats want to keep high rates on millionaires, and increase taxes on those making more than $ 5 million — generating billions of dollars in new revenues lawmakers want to see go toward education.

The pro-Cuomo Committee to Save NY is backing up a recent TV spot supporting the governor's proposed education aid cuts with a mailer that accuses school superintendents of going behind closed doors and «taking money out of classrooms — but putting hundreds of thousands of dollars in their own pockets.»

By law, every new dollar of state revenue must go to education aid, property tax relief, and assistance to local governments.

«There has been a «dumbing down» in education for years and we need Gov. Cuomo to help to reverse it in upstate NY by including the $ 1.9 Billion dollars in the budget to go towards improving the education of our children,» Faust said.

«My office is going to make sure that taxpayer dollars are being used appropriately and that proper controls are in place to ensure that all young New Yorkers are getting the quality education they deserve.»

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

With millions of grant dollars on the line, representatives of the 16 state finalists for federal Race to the Top prize money will go to Washington next week to make final, in - person pitches to the U.S. Department of Education for investment in their brand of school reform.

Barring more big federal bailouts — which this year's election would seem to make ever less likely — school budgets are going to be strapped for years to come and cost - cutting, together with eking greater value out of the remaining dollars, is going to occupy the education - policy center ring.

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.

In an Education Week commentary essay about school boards in 2009, I wrote, «[M] y sense of things, after two stints on my local school board... is that school boards have been overtaken by the «educatocracy,» by powerful trade unions, certified specialists, certification agencies, state and federal rule - makers and legislators, grants with strings, billion - dollar - contractor lobbyists, textbook mega-companies, professional associations, and lawyers — the list could go on.»

Were these dollars spent across traditional education categories, we'd likely see most dollars go to computer labs and recruiting and training more computer science teachers (which we currently sorely lack).

Although Davies says his «analysis is predicated on the assumption that compensatory programs... have fallen short of the buoyant expectations of the mid-1960s,» and notes that even at the time there was a «lack of convincing evidence that federal dollars were improving the quality of American education,» he does not explain why those expectations existed, or why dissenting voices went unheeded.

After three generations of steady growth in per pupil spending, education is going to have to face its day of reckoning and schools are going to have to start spending dollars smarter.

Trump has promised to «go big» on school choice, and it's hard to imagine Congress finding more than a few hundred million dollars for any new education program, especially one run out of the U.S. Department of Eeducation program, especially one run out of the U.S. Department of EducationEducation.

The surest way to have students receive the education services to which they are entitled is to have every dollar of funding provided for them go wherever they go to school.

And it is very hard to negotiate and to sit down with the education coalition and to say, «Here is what we want you to do; here are the 20 things we want you to do, but we're going to take 3.5, 4 billion dollars away from you.»

The Commission will examine factors that impact spending in education, including: school funding and distribution of State Aid; efficiency and utilization of education spending at the district level; the percentage of per - pupil funding that goes to the classroom as compared to administrative overhead and benefits; approaches to improving special education programs and outcomes while also reducing costs; identifying ways to reduce transportation costs; identifying strategies to create significant savings and long - term efficiencies; and analysis of district - by - district returns on educational investment and educational productivity to identify districts that have higher student outcomes per dollar spent, and those that do not.

She's someone who has used her inherited wealth and the wealth that she's married into to try to distort and reshape our laws to advance her personal views, which are that we should basically redefine public education to mean our tax dollars should be going to fund private schools, religious schools, that advance her worldview.

Though the government spends billions of dollars every year on education, relatively little of the money has gone to figuring out which teachers are effective and why.

(Andrew Kelly, writing at Rick Hess Straight Up, is right that education spending went up under a Republican Congress in the 1990s, but those increases were in the magnitude of a billion or two of new dollars a year, nothing like the $ 100 billion we saw in last year's stimulus bill or even the $ 10 billion in this year's edujobs payout.)

Nevada went even further, passing legislation that would convert every single public education dollar into a voucher dollar.

«We're going to lose millions of dollars that otherwise would have gone to help kids, and we're going to lose time,» said Jim Spady, head of the Education Excellence Coalition.

«The dollars we do have need to go into the classrooms of schools we're operating,» said Paul Hubbert, executive director of the Alabama Education Association.

Mr. Pelto has not offered a road, more then to point out the road many districts and some of our politicians are on is only going to lead us to more loss of education, and tax dollars.

After all, if education dollars follow the student, rather than going directly into the public school, then a portion of the money available to educate a departing student will indeed leave the public school.

Demissie went on to say that «ensuring transparency standards for all schools that receive taxpayer dollars and basic oversight for privately operated charter schools should be policies the entire education community and all Californians can get behind — not a reason to launch political attacks.»

«I don't know anyone who goes into education for the dollars and cents,» said Carr.

There's clearly always a long, long way to go, but when you look at a billion dollars for early childhood education, when you look at 40 - plus states adopting higher standards, when you look at yesterday's high school graduation rates at record highs, the fact that we were able to put $ 40 billion behind Pell grants, 1.1 million additional students of color going to college than in 2008.

Public schools claim that millions of dollars are being unconstitutionally funneled away from children's education, going toward tax - credit scholarships.

«There's some core principles that all the leaders here believe in — making sure that we continue to provide resources to the poorest school districts and not creating a situation where we can suddenly shift dollars from... poorer districts to wealthy districts, or alternatively, that education aid suddenly can start going to sport stadiums or tax cuts at the state level,» Obama said in remarks to the media after the meeting.

Don't forget the Charter Graduate School of Education — on whose Board of Trustees, Dacia Toll sits — there will doubtless be plenty of Alliance district money and Commissioner's Network dollars going to put principals through this charter - graduate school of «leadership».

(Calif.) Hundreds of millions of dollars would be reserved for building or remodeling charter schools and career - technical education facilities under terms of a school construction bond measure set to go before voters next year.

A piecemeal approach isn't going to work, and it will result in unintended conflicts and increase competition for dollars in stagnant education budgets.

* Finally, the Martingale Award for Outstanding Achievement in Campaign Finance goes to John Wilson, former executive director of the National Education Association, for his innovative solution to the millions of dollars NEA and its affiliates lost in the recall election — «The course correction I suggest is not to be intimidated, but to be emboldened.

Much of the money has been going to support public education and it is largely responsible for the flush budgets of the last few years that have provided billions in extra dollars for education.

After three generations of steady growth in per - pupil spending, education was going to have to face its day of reckoning, and schools were going to have to start spending dollars smarter.