Sentences with phrase «education than defense»
The US spends more on education than defense, although most of that spending is private rather than government spending.
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For some context, that's more than the total 2016 outlays for the Department of Defense and Education... combined.
Thus the G.I. Bill, the Public Facilities Act, the National Defense Education Act, and the various forms of student aid initiated in the 1960s — BEOGs, SEOGs, Work - Study, Pell grants, etc. — have subsidized the survival of many colleges and universities, but inexorably they have served as well to make the grantee institutions more anxious to observe the laws and regulations of the State than the strictures of the Church whose sponsorship is, by comparison, so intangible.
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, which sent lawyers to more than 50 polling places, reported seven broken voting machines in Queens and Manhattan.
During his tenure, White expanded the number of NAACP branches, increased the membership to more than 500,000, and helped found the Legal Defense and Education Funds, which fought for social integration in the 1950s and 1960s.
Industry: Defense & Space Company size: 1,001 - 5,000 Level: Senior Focus: Education Experience using the software: More than 1 year as User, Administrator, Member of the deployment / customization team, Member of the procurement team
Industry: Defense & Space Company size: 1,001 - 5,000 Level: Director Focus: Education Experience using the software: More than 1 year as Administrator
The administration achieves this reduction by slashing or eliminating funding for scores of K - 12, higher education, and adult literacy programs by even more than $ 9.2 billion in order to finance massive increases in defense spending coupled with, in the education context, a more than $ 1 billion allocation for Title I portability programs and private school vouchers.25
With 1 out of 4 living in poverty — far more than any other industrialized country (nearly double what it was 30 years ago); a more tattered safety net — more who are homeless, without health care, and without food security; a more segregated and inequitable system of public education, in which the top schools spend 10 times more than the lowest spending; we nonetheless have a defense budget larger than that of the next 20 countries combined and greater disparities in wealth than any other leading country.
Senator Tom Harkin (D - IA), chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor and Health and Human Services, released a new report (PDF) in conjunction with the hearing that underscores how sequestration could unravel federal efforts to protect the middle class and have more destructive consequences for domestic programs like education than for defense.
The Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) campuses are typically smaller than traditional public schools, with a more experienced teaching staff.
It was more than a hundred years before federal student loans would first be offered under the National Defense Education Act (NDEA) in 1958.
Joint comments submitted by more than 50 organizations in response to the Department of Education's plan to conduct negotiated rulemaking on the gainful employment regulations finalized in October 2014 and the borrower defense to repayment and college accountability regulations finalized in November 2016.
Mackinac's director of labor policy is Vincent Vernuccio, who chairs a committee of the labor task force of the Bradley - supported American Legislative Exchange Council and previously has worked at the Bradley - supported Capital Research Center and Bradley - supported Competitive Enterprise Institute... MCLF spent much of last year helping to defend the new right - to - work law, in policy and legal arguments, as well as in the larger public discourse in the state and nationally... MCLF is working with the Bradley - supported National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation on this and several other legal matters surrounding implementation of right to work in Michigan... On education, among other things, Mackinac is analyzing mroe [sic] than 200 collective - bargaining agreements (CBAs) in the state, covering some 75 % of the state's public - school students, to see if and if so, how, they are adhering to the teacher - tenure and - evaluation policy changes.
The Global Cyber Alliance now comprises more than 50 international partners across 15 economic sectors, including security, defense, retail, healthcare, insurance, energy, aviation, education, law enforcement, government, and finance institutions.