Sentences with phrase «education dollars through»

Furthermore, as additional eligible students are identified through Medicaid Direct Certification, schools can leverage increased education dollars through the Local Control Funding Formula.

Such a system will ensure more effective use of education dollars through better decision making, will eliminate perverse incentives that reward mediocrity or failure, and most important, energize and will motivate those involved in the education of our young people.

North Carolina provides more than a quarter of state education dollars through the third allotment — categorical aid.

Not exact matches

«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.»

Through the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Zuckerberg and his wife have donated hundreds of millions of dollars toward health and education initiatives.

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.

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.

Every dollar you donate strengthens our capacity to reach out to schools and families through education, research, scholarships and service.

Through education and community engagement, we inspire people to eat real food and vote with every food dollar.

«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 $ 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 ranks of the anti-Cuomo protestors were stronger, with more than 1,000 teachers and public education advocates marching through the Empire State Plaza concourse, clogging security checkpoints into the Capitol and rallying on the Million Dollar Staircase in a boisterous protest of the governor's plan.

The money gets pumped back into the state's economy through tuition dollars to public schools — and there's a direct connection between education and workforce development, he said.

ALBANY — More than 1,000 teachers and public education advocates marched through the Empire State Plaza concourse on Monday, clogging security checkpoints into the Capitol and rallying on the Million Dollar Staircase in a boisterous protest of Governor Andrew Cuomo's education reform proposals.

His 16 years experience, education and leadership through snow storms and natural disasters make for a successful department with a $ 15 million dollar annual budget.

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.

Nearly One - Half Million Dollar Grant Supports Math and Sciences Today, the Harvard Graduate School of Education announces that the Massachusetts Department of Education has awarded the school a 3 - year, $ 459,000 grant through the Massachusetts Math and Science Partnership Program.

The answer is through the next iteration of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA); by attaching the mind - set of RttT and i3 to the billions of dollars of annual education aid to states, we can use incentives to encourage the right behaviors quickly and inexpEducation Act (ESEA); by attaching the mind - set of RttT and i3 to the billions of dollars of annual education aid to states, we can use incentives to encourage the right behaviors quickly and inexpeducation aid to states, we can use incentives to encourage the right behaviors quickly and inexpensively.

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.

The totals for K - 12 education include money for state education administration, but not federal, flow - through dollars.

Totals for K - 12 education include money for state education administration, but not federal, flow - through dollars.

«If you think Common Core snuck up on families with the less than 1 percent of education dollars the Obama administration dangled in front of states, just wait until more public and private schools are directly accepting federal control through federal vouchers and the next Democratic administration decides they want to tell these schools what to teach kids.»

Budget totals for K - 12 education include money for state education administration, but do not include federal flow - through dollars.

The lion's share of these ARRA education dollars was appropriated through the new $ 50 billion State Fiscal Stabilization Fund (SFSF), a population - based program created to expeditiously replenish education budgets decimated by declining tax revenue.

My paper was published in Rick Hess» book With the Best of Intentions, and it concluded that trying to reshape public education through the sheer financial force of philanthropic dollars was futile — like pouring buckets of water into the sea.

Since gaining prominence through the support of economist Milton Friedman decades ago, school vouchers, which subsidize student tuition at private and parochial schools with public dollars, are one of the most controversial ideas in education policy.

And finally, the Colorado Education Association (CEA) charged that district schools shouldn't have to share local tax dollars, since charters didn't share the unique funding they received through grants, donations, and charter - specific federal funds.

Any alternative that calls for significant increases in expenditures for education, whether financed through increases in property taxation or through other sources of tax dollars, such as income and sales taxes, is certain to encounter political barriers.

It is only through the allowance for districts to expend IDEA 2004 dollars on early intervening services (EIS) that an opportunity exists to assist general education with the implementation of RTI strategies.

Putting her in charge of the Department of Education really is an insult to all of the many teachers and educators and principals and so many Americans who have come through our public schools, who have had a chance in this economy to make it in their lives in part due to this commitment of America to public schools, which we need to invest in more versus the sort of alternatives that Betsy DeVos has pushed, including charter schools that have sucked billions out of our public education system and that have resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars Education really is an insult to all of the many teachers and educators and principals and so many Americans who have come through our public schools, who have had a chance in this economy to make it in their lives in part due to this commitment of America to public schools, which we need to invest in more versus the sort of alternatives that Betsy DeVos has pushed, including charter schools that have sucked billions out of our public education system and that have resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars education system and that have resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars of fraud.

Instead of continuing to funnel the bulk of ESEA funding through the labyrinthine Title I program, federal policymakers should give states the option to make Title I dollars portable, following children to any school or education option of choice.

And the present decade opened with the Race to the Top, the brainchild of U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, based on the bold hypothesis that sizable grants of federal dollars, disbursed via a competitive process, can induce states to jump through reform policy hoops that they likely would not otherwise have attempted.

The total for K - 12 education includes money for state education administration, but does not include federal, flow - through dollars.

Amid fanfare around the billions of dollars being delivered to schools through the federal economic - stimulus package, members of the National Conference of State Legislatures are warning that the education agenda being pushed by the Obama administration is shaping up to be just as prescriptive and intrusive as the 8 - year - old No Child Left Behind Act.

The figures for the state budget and for precollegiate education spending include money for state education administration, but not federal, flow - through dollars.

That is not surprising considering that the Department of Education reports that the program costs taxpayers 21 cents for every dollar in PLUS loans borrowers repay through it.

«As you may know, school choice allows parents to use their child's K through twelve education tax dollars to send their child to the public, charter, or private school that best serves their needs.

In the months leading up to and through his re-election campaign, corporate education reform proponents and the charter school industry poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into Malloy's various campaign entities and organizations.

In addition, the Knox County Delegation has asked for permission to expand the scope of their investigation to include all Offices of Diversity for public higher education schools, which are funded through taxpayer dollars, in the State of Tennessee.

Dollars raised through the Annual Fund benefit every K - 12 Compass Charter Schools scholar and provide critical operating funds to help bridge the gap between what the state provides and what it really costs to deliver the outstanding education we want for our children.

Collectively, level funding through the appropriations process and the cuts of sequestration have exacerbated the need for school districts to raise taxes or use local budget dollars to cover an ever - growing share of the federal contribution to special education.

The National Coalition for Public Education — which includes 50 organizations, including the Children's Defense Fund and the National Urban League — has also written that portability would expand the amount of students served through Title I and result in the poorest districts getting less of overall Title I dollars.

This is a fact that the U.S. Supreme Court made clear more than a century ago in Hunter v. Pittsburgh and has since been affirmed by the federal government through No Child, which holds states accountable for the quality of education provided with the use of federal dollars.

If you expand the choices available to parents, either through a consumer - based model of education or others, they can walk with their feet (and with the dollars provided by a public financing of education).

Yet after two visits by the education department and an investigation by the attorney general's office, the troubled Indianapolis private school still received thousands of dollars in public funds through Indiana's school voucher program and remained eligible to receive state voucher money until it collapsed under the weight of its unpaid debts.

According to The New York Times, the ten highest paid hedge fund operators with close ties to charter schools also includes David Tepper (number 1 at $ 3.5 billion in 2013), founder of founder of Appaloosa Management and New Jersey based «Better Education for Kids»; Steven A. Cohen (number 2 at $ 2.4 billion) of SAC Capital Advisors, which was forced to pay a $ 1.2 billion dollar penalty for insider trading, who has given over $ 10 million to the Achievement First charter school network; and Paul Tudor Jones II (tied for tenth at $ 600 million), founder of the Tudor Investment Corporation who has supported charter schools through his Robin Hood Foundation.

Several states have resisted the wave of changes prompted partly by the Obama administration, which offered states and districts millions of dollars in federal aid in exchange for overhauling their education policies through its Race to the Top program.

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In a recent piece by Valerie Strauss, «Gates Foundation Puts Millions of Dollars into New Education Focus: Teacher Preparation,» she sketches how Gates is awarding $ 35 million to a three - year project called Teacher Preparation Transformation Centers funneled through five different projects, one of which is the Texas Tech based University - School Partnerships for the Renewal of Educator Preparation (U.S. Prep) National Center.

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».