Sentences with phrase «expensive than a state school»

«Many times, students might be under the impression that private schools are always more expensive than state schools because they look at the sticker price,» McGill said.

Not exact matches

«It means the school district gets to use the cheapest option of just writing a check to the state rather than having a more expensive option for both HISD and HISD taxpayers,» Hochberg said.

Top schools often offer scholarships that not only include free tuition, but also free room and board for top students from poor families — meaning it can be less expensive for these students to attend Harvard than a state school or a community college, says Caroline Hoxby, an economist at Stanford who tracks these students.

Now, in a mailing that looks surprisingly similar to the glossy campaign pieces Luke Bronin has been sending out to Hartford voters comes a expensive lobbyist - funded brochure telling state legislators that they did a great job when they decided to fund privately owned charter schools... rather than doing what they should have done and provided Hartford and Connecticut's other cities and towns with the money needed to adequately fund local schools.

The tragedy is that school districts with fewer local sources of revenue are more dependent on state aid than are districts with larger tax bases in the form of more commercial real estate or more expensive homes.

What that means is that if you decide to go to a school that costs more and you don't have much money, you'll actually be more likely to get better loans than someone who chooses to go to a less expensive state school.