Sentences with phrase «educational dollars over»

It is an admission that he actively helped to misdirect some 4 TRILLION educational dollars over the last seven years, and that he harmed tens of millions of students during that time by imposing the mediocre and intrusive Common Core upon the nation.

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He donated over half a billion dollars to educational, religious, and scientific causes, including the establishment of the University of Chicago.

If you train a different lens upon all this, however, you realize that you're looking at a badly messed - up system, one that privileges some kids over others, that extends rights to some citizens that others don't have, that invites finagling by both seekers and suppliers of educational services (and countless intermediaries), and that ends up being costlier than it needs to be, not to mention sitting substantially beyond the reach of policymakers seeking to apportion scarce education dollars across multiple legitimate causes, needs, and priorities.

In pre-recessionary times, Kentucky was a leader in educational development, creating new plans for an increase in adolescent literacy and passing the 1990 Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA), which redistributed over a billion dollars towards low - income school districts.

The $ 90.3 million that had previously been directed to the two grant programs was swallowed up by the LCFF, which in its first year gave local educational agencies a total of $ 4.5 billion in additional funding as well greater authority over how the dollars are spent.

The talk around the water cooler has changed over the years, but school administrators keep returning to the same issues - how do we comply with the ADA; how do we address increasing enrollment and decreasing dollars; should we contract services out or keep them in - house; how can we keep our students, faculty and facilities safe and secure; where does technology fit into our educational goals.

Somewhat overshadowed by the growing controversy over Mayor - elect Rahm's schools pick, this Tribune story shows the intention of the privatizers not to listen to the research about charters or to the reasonable concerns of interim CPS CEO Terry Mazany, who said about his decision to postpone consideration of new charter contracts at his first board meeting last January: «We simply do not have any budget flexibility to allocate dollars that will not lead directly to improved educational outcomes for all of our students.»

Hohman said the proposal now being debated in Lansing would protect the retirements of current teachers, give tomorrow's school employees more control over their own financial futures and eventually return billions of dollars to other educational uses.

Think of all the millions of dollars that have poured into San Francisco over the years from various foundations, governmental agencies, media outlets, philanthropic citizens, and educational and cultural institutions to document the city's art scene.