Sentences with phrase «for educational finances»

So, if school choice isn't good for educational finances at either the state or local levels, and doesn't help kids learn more or better, aren't there other benefits to parents and students having options when it comes to selecting the schools they attend?

The cost of higher education is a major expense for many students and their parents so a lot of them turn to Sallie Mae and its student loan services for educational financing.

There are several aspects of Stafford which make them appealing choices for your educational financing.

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This was mainly because it was easier for most journalists of the early 1990s to envision and get personally excited about the potential of educational software, or of managing their personal finances, or organizing their recipes in the «digital» kitchen, or imagining how amateur architects could design funky homes right on their home computers.

Accion is a great choice for veterans with startups or new businesses, as the lender offers special startup financing and educational resources for veterans.

How, he wonders, will he pay off educational debts, finance his child's college education, save for retirement and buy a home at the end of a ministerial career?

Babic praised «the most influential educational experience in [his] life so far» for allowing him to learn not only science but the «three other cornerstones of biotech,» finance, social realities, and ethics.

«We need more physician referrals, public financing for vaccine programs and educational interventions to improve HPV vaccine uptake if we want to lower rates of HPV - related diseases,» said Berenson.

The Declaration on Education 2030 agreed at the Forum will mobilize all countries and partners to implement the new agenda, and propose ways for its coordination, financing and monitoring — globally, regionally and nationally — to ensure equal educational opportunities for all.

Currently, the model funding agreement and articles of association for academy chains focus almost exclusively on governance and financial propriety, but the results of Reform's survey suggest that a chain's finances and educational performance are «intrinsically linked».

It aims to mobilize all stakeholders around the new global education goal and targets, and proposes ways of implementing, coordinating, financing and reviewing the 2030 education agenda — globally, regionally and nationally — to guarantee equal educational opportunity for all.

The county school board has spent $ 300,000 to purchase 162 microcomputers for use in 38 of the system's 255 elementary, junior high, and high schools, financing the project with federal money from the Title 4 - B program, which funds the purchase of educational equipment.

A task force studying educational improvement in Nebraska has called for a long list of reforms, including a new school - finance formula, far more state aid for schools, higher pay and longer contracts for teachers, a master - teacher program, and the establishment of statewide high - school graduation requirements.

Tired of living in the only Southern state without a publicly financed program of early - childhood education, business leaders across Mississippi have launched a three - year pilot effort to improve the educational quality of child - care centers and better prepare children for school.

A defining moment came in the 1970s, when the California Supreme Court in Serrano v. Priest decided that in order to ensure equal educational opportunity for all children, all school districts in California must spend equal amounts per pupil, instigating a wave of school - finance court cases across the country.

Independent sector In the independent sector, the Award for Outstanding Progress, sponsored by Espresso Education and Channel 4 Learning, will be presented to the UK Independent school that has made outstanding progress in the management of its facilities, finances and human resources and can demonstrate an increase in the educational performance of the school.

Published each year by the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics, the report provides up - to - date statistics on a wide range of educational issues, from preschool to school finance.

Those so - called structural deficits, if unaddressed, could threaten educational services, said Hal Hovey, a former budget director in Illinois and Ohio, who prepared the NEA report entitled «The Outlook for State and Local Finances: The...

In the latter years of the 20th century, the federal government not only became far more involved in civil rights, surveillance of behavior and misbehavior on educational sites, and financing of education for the less wealthy; in conjunction with the governors of many states, the federal government also played a significant role in testing of students, evaluation of progress toward national educational goals, and even support for the creation and evaluation of curricula and pedagogical approaches, both live and online.

This year's winner recently became a Centre of Excellence for an educational charity dealing with Personal Finance Education.

With academies and free schools having control over their own finances, Helen Hargreaves of the Chartered Institute of Payroll Professionals examines the different payroll options for these types of educational establishments

Later, as associate superintendent for the Ohio Department of Education's Center for School Options and Finance, he supervised the distribution of more than $ 7 billion annually to Ohio K - 12 school districts and developed policies and legislative recommendations on school finance and educational choices for faFinance, he supervised the distribution of more than $ 7 billion annually to Ohio K - 12 school districts and developed policies and legislative recommendations on school finance and educational choices for fafinance and educational choices for families.

She is directly responsible for the development and advocacy of NJPSA's legislative agenda which covers a broad spectrum of educational issues including the preparation, support and development of school leaders, school finance, collective bargaining / employment issues and school reform issues.

CSDC's $ 1.85 million in credit enhancements leveraged $ 15 million in private capital financing and lease commitments for 150,000 square feet of safe and affordable educational facilities.

Over its decade - plus history, CSDC has provided or procured roughly $ 590 million in capital financing and facilities for over 225 charter schools in 24 states and the District of Columbia, improving the educational opportunities for over 30,000 children.

Category 1: Group and individual responsibility and accountability for school finance and educational success.

CSDC has used $ 44 million in financing to leverage over $ 315 million in total private capital and lease commitments for almost four million square feet of safe, modern and efficient educational facilities.

CSDC is committed to creating school choice and more educational opportunities for children by developing and financing optimal yet affordable educational facilities for charter school organizations demonstrating good governance and strong accountability for academic and educational results.

While charter schools are known for educational experimentation, their finances are often a different story.

Since its inception in 1998, CSDC has provided or procured roughly $ 680 million in capital financing and facilities for over 235 charter schools in 24 states and the District of Columbia, improving the educational opportunities for over 33,800 children.

CSDC Direct offers a variety of loan products that provide charter schools — especially new schools with little or no operating or credit history, and those serving low - income communities — with affordable financing options for the acquisition, construction, renovation and expansion of educational facilities.

«Dr. José A. Cárdenas dedicated his life to improving educational opportunities for all children, leading decades - long efforts to achieve school finance equity,» said Dr. María «Cuca» Robledo Montecel, IDRA president.

She teaches educational leadership classes in Finance, Curriculum and Supervision, and is a consultant to the Consortia for Educational Change.

Dr. Oscar Jimenez - Castellanos, IDRA's inaugural José A. Cárdenas School Finance Fellow, presented his research findings on securing educational equity & excellence for English language learners in Texas secondary schools at a symposium in San Antonio.

The coalition came together to push for school finance reform and improved educational opportunities and outcomes for Nevada public school children, especially those students who are at - risk, English language learners, gifted and talented, and students with disabilities or other special needs.

The 2016 edition by the Education Law Center and Rutgers report that evaluates whether state finance system across the nation provide for equality of educational opportunity, giving Nevada an «F» score in both funding distribution and effort.

A key strategy to improving educational outcomes and closing achievement gaps for children from low - income families is improving state finance systems to ensure equitable funding and increased access to resources, according to a new study from Educational Testing Service (ETS).

«As a rule of thumb, for a state finance system to provide equal educational opportunity, that system must ensure sufficiently higher resources in higher need settings than in lower need settings,» says Sciarra.

Improving educational opportunity for these students will require postsecondary leaders to commit to making college more affordable and to reconsider the current finance system.

The Florida Education Finance Program (FEFP) was enacted in 1973 by the Florida Legislature as its method for funding public education in a manner that would «guarantee to each student in the Florida public education system the availability of programs and services appropriate to his or her educational needs.»

Earlier this year, the Texas Public Policy Foundation and the Texas Conservative Coalition Research Foundation published a list of principles for school finance which includes the fundamental point that the basis of the equity argument for increased education funding should be challenged, because educational equity is not the same as school funding equity.

School finance reform has been pivotal to IDRA's work to improve educational opportunities for all students.

Following the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court reversal of the Rodríguez decision that found the Texas system of school finance unconstitutional, he resigned from the Edgewood ISD to establish IDRA to advocate school finance reform and improved educational opportunities for all children.

After reviewing the body of research on school finance, Denver Judge Sheila Rappaport ruled in December that Colorado's school funding system violates the state's constitutional promise of «uniform» educational opportunity for all children.

«Putting in place common, statewide school finance measures so that the resources available to schools would be allocated according to the educational needs of the students - rather than the comparative wealth of the parents - would improve educational opportunities for all students.

To date, LISC has financed 68,000 public charter school seats for low - income students, as well as enhanced educational programs in traditional public schools.

To me, it's completely unrelated to the agenda from Brown, which was about getting equal access to educational opportunities for students — you know, initially through desegregation, but the heritage of Brown is also a large number of school finance reform lawsuits that have been trying to advocate for equitable resource distribution between districts and schools.

They will talk about local control and will tweak accountability formulas, but the educational system will likely still be controlled in a top - down fashion instead of a bottom - up approach like California recently introduced for school finance.

Complicating matters for public school finance directors and special education providers is a new voucher program enacted by lawmakers last year that, beginning this fall, will funnel money out of public coffers into private educational settings.

In testimony before the Texas School Finance Commission, IDRA called on the commission to ensure equity and meaningful educational opportunity for all students in all communities of the state.