Sentences with phrase «education dollars work»

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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.

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.

George Peabody College was a normal school in Nashville that would very likely come into a million dollars with the dissolution of the Peabody Trust, and Kirkland was working energetically to persuade its trustees to move their college across Nashville next to Vanderbilt, thereby making a well - funded school of education available to the university at no cost to itself.

We gave up the thousands of dollars and the years of bard work we had invested in our careers and «Ivy League» education.

Hundreds of thousands of dollars in work still needs to be done to convert the barn into a nature education center, a goal of the Park District.

Back in 2012, I worked with volunteer firefighters and the Firefighters Association of the State of New York, known as FASNY, to get Erie County included in the HELP (Higher Education Learning Plan) grant, which was paid for with federal dollars.

NYC Public Advocate Tish James is demanding that the Department of Education withdraw a potential billion - dollar contract with a computer firm that was implicated in a kickback scandal doing similar work for the city.

«The charitable deduction could work on the local level but again, it's not dollar for dollar and it's not a perfect situation, but a local government could set up a charity for education, could set up a charity for health care, you make a contribution to the charity you get a federal tax deduction and you get a state credit for the amount you contributed.»

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.

The vast majority of EP alumni work for other education organizations, including high - performing charter school networks and education nonprofits, state and federal agencies that allocate billions of dollars across the sector and impact millions of children, education policy and advocacy organizations, and ed tech companies.

So if early - childhood education works, and saves taxpayer dollars, why doesn't the United States invest in it?

For this change to work well, however, all the local, state, and federal dollars that apply to a given child's education need to be in the backpack — and that's a goal no jurisdiction has yet reached.

Even though education receives paltry R&D dollars compared to other sectors, like defense and energy, there's been a relatively steady stream of research over the past decades trying to look under the hood of «what works» in education.

Peterson: Since John Dewey, school reformers have tried to customize education to the needs of each child, but each step towards customization has required a big step toward centralization (bigger schools, larger school districts, state certification for teachers, federal dollars and regulations, etc.) School systems are no longer embedded in the small politics of local communities and this has dramatically changed the way accountability works.

The report by the nonprofit Grantmakers for Education, issued last week, also notes a growing interest in collaboration among funders, as well as increased attention to fueling educational innovations and providing dollars to support advocacy and public - policy work.

During this reauthorization process, NSBA has worked closely with lawmakers on both sides of the aisle to advocate for a modernized education law that affirms the importance of local governance, protects federal investments in Title I grants for disadvantaged students, and prevents the diversion of public tax dollars for private use.

Economists also have shown the benefits of early education investments, which generate approximately $ 7 for every dollar invested.Sneha Elango, et al., Early Childhood Education (working paper # 21766, National Bureau of Economic Research, 2015); Timothy Bartik, From Preschool to Prosperity: The Economic Payoff to Early Childhood Educatieducation investments, which generate approximately $ 7 for every dollar invested.Sneha Elango, et al., Early Childhood Education (working paper # 21766, National Bureau of Economic Research, 2015); Timothy Bartik, From Preschool to Prosperity: The Economic Payoff to Early Childhood EducatiEducation (working paper # 21766, National Bureau of Economic Research, 2015); Timothy Bartik, From Preschool to Prosperity: The Economic Payoff to Early Childhood EducationEducation, 2014.

«Bear in mind that scholarship dollars travel out of the district whereas endowments tend to work for the benefit of the community more directly advancing education at home and in the school.

According to the last set of federal and state campaign finance reports, Governor Malloy, the champion of the corporate education reform industry and the only Democratic governor in the nation to propose doing away with teacher tenure and repealing collective bargaining for teachers working in the poorest schools has received well over a quarter of a million dollars from leaders and political action committees associated with the national education reform and privatization effort.

Funding for college work - study programs would be cut in half, public - service loan forgiveness would end and hundreds of millions of dollars that public schools could use for mental health, advanced coursework and other services would vanish under a Trump administration plan to cut $ 10.6 billion from federal education initiatives, according to budget documents obtained by The Washington Post.

Additionally, Advance Illinois» Ostro emphasized that the distribution of these dollars for education is also inequitable, because the current funding formula is complex and different funding streams work at cross-purposes.

Recently, he wrote the following: «In addition, I will continue to work for the passage of the Education Investment Tax Credit that would provide a dollar - for - dollar state tax credit for any person or business that makes a donation to public schools or private scholarships for students attending non-public schools.

Rather than sending those education dollars and their child to the local public school, moms and dads of kids with disabilities would have been able to use their scholarships to create a custom - made education plan for their son or daughter, paying for the specific services and programs that work for their unique child.

During this historic reauthorization process, NSBA, the leading advocate for public education, will continue to work with lawmakers to achieve a modernized ESEA that opposes diverting federal dollars to non-public schools.

«These education dollars will help Texas keep teachers in the classroom working with our students this year.»

Our mission is to ensure that educators are valued for the critical role they play in kids» lives, families have high - quality school choices and a real say in their child's education, and our tax dollars are spent wisely on what works for kids.

While awaiting conference proceedings to begin, NSBA will continue to work with potential conferees to ensure that Congress passes an education bill that reaffirms local governance, invests in Title I programs, and excludes vouchers, tuition tax credits, or other means of authorizing the use of public dollars for private education.

«These education dollars will help Wyoming keep teachers in the classroom working with our students this school year.»

«These education dollars will help Alaska keep thousands of teachers in the classroom working with our students this school year.»

«These education dollars will help these states keep thousands of teachers in the classroom working with our students this school year.»

Yes, after parents and educators worked to elect anti-voucher, pro-public education school board members this past fall, the Douglas County school board voted in December to end a private - school voucher program that would have allowed the school board to send tax dollars to private schools.

ALEC is working to ensure that public education dollars get diverted to private profits.

Millions of public educators are working tirelessly and the United States is spending billions of dollars annually to solve one of the country's most vexing social problems: our education achievement gap and its horrific life consequences for millions of our children, particularly children of color.

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

If every educator in the United States gave ten to twenty dollars a month to the NEA Fund for Children and Public Education, we could build a war chest to match those who are working against public educatioEducation, we could build a war chest to match those who are working against public educationeducation.»

Gates is the leader of education philanthropy in the United States, spending a few billion dollars over more than a decade to promote school reforms that he championed, including the Common Core, a small - schools initiative in New York City that he abandoned after deciding it wasn't working, and efforts to create new teacher evaluation systems that in part use a controversial method of assessment that uses student standardized test scores to determine the «effectiveness» of educators.

«This show of voter support to put more dollars to work for student growth gives our 40,000 members and all those who care about education in the state something to build on for the future.»

Chicago International Charter School is addressing the problems of urban public education by making sure that every dollar is used both effectively and efficiently, and running CICS schools with the freedom and flexibly to develop curricula that works.

I'll work to reform lottery spending and maximize our education dollars by putting a stop to legislators raiding lottery proceeds.

Cut variable staffing costs and refocus dollars on quality education, while you keep top - performing IT people working for your school.

Pryor has dedicated himself to hiring his personal friends, giving out millions of dollars in contracts to out - of - state, politically - connected companies, putting his «Turnaround Office» in the hands of Morgan Barth, a person who illegally taught and worked for Pryor's charter school management company (Achievement First, Inc.) for six years and relentlessly and consistently doing the wrong thing for Connecticut's system of public education.

Our commitment to equity and equal opportunity runs like a ribbon through all of our initiatives at the U.S. Department of Education — from ensuring that low - income minority students aren't stuck in chronically under - performing schools, to working with districts to get great teachers in the schools and subjects where they are needed most, to targeting billions of dollars to students and schools in need of support.

For example, one ISD, using dollars awarded by the Michigan Department of Education for priority schools, worked with all the priority schools in its largest urban setting to improve student outcomes.

In their 2005 study Learning Transfer: A Review of the Research in Adult Education and Training, authors Sharan B. Merriam and Brendan Leahy state that, while organizations spend millions of dollars every year on continuing education and training, «less than 10 % of this expenditure pays off in improved performance at worEducation and Training, authors Sharan B. Merriam and Brendan Leahy state that, while organizations spend millions of dollars every year on continuing education and training, «less than 10 % of this expenditure pays off in improved performance at woreducation and training, «less than 10 % of this expenditure pays off in improved performance at work.»

Those who have boldly named themselves the «reformers» are all too often working on behalf of turning public dollars over to private interests and to strip teachers of any due process, any collective - bargaining rights, any salary increment linked to their experience or their education.

You have spent years and thousands upon thousands of dollars on your education; your Ph.D. coursework is almost finished; you will now spend the next semester or more producing the most important academic work of your life — the dissertation.

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Right off the bat, Rep. Bill Flores (R) asserts that he is «working hard to ensure that every taxpayer dollar for education is invested wisely.»

What helped create LendUp — our mission, our values, and our success saving working class Americans millions of dollars, improving credit scores, and delivering over a million financial education courses — came from the hard work of LendUp's 200 + employees — whether their families have lived in the US for years, they come from a line of immigrants, are first generation Americans or they're here on visas and work permits.