Sentences with phrase «experiment in public spending»

«The subject was, ostensibly, another - the experiment in public spending that the Labour Government has conducted since the turn of the century.

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Roland Fryer, a celebrated young professor of economics at Harvard University, has spent the past decade testing out a variety of incentive schemes in experiments with public school students in Houston, New York, Chicago, and other American cities that have school systems with high poverty rates.

Melissa Zaikos began experimenting with online learning in the Chicago Public Schools, where she spent nine years as a Broad Fellow, most notably, running a group of high - performing schools on the southwest side of the city.

Luke Messer, a Republican Congressman from Indiana who is a friend of Mike Pence and who founded the Congressional School Choice Caucus already suggested that some or all of the money for Trump's school choice program could come from the $ 15 billion the federal government spends on Title I. Grabbing money intended to help public schools that serve the nation's most needy children and turning it into an uncontrolled experiment in vouchers and unregulated charter schools is exactly the kind of project Betsy DeVos would relish.

I was fortunate one year ago to take the ferry from downtown Manhattan to Governor's Island and spend a few hours at the New York Harbor School, one of the most innovative and effective experiments in public education that I've ever seen.