Sentences with phrase «for wealthier schools»

For instance, the administration's equity plans and the campaign against private fundraising for wealthier schools could move great teachers and programming from non-poor to poor schools.

The 5 - to - 2 decision last month marked a victory for wealthy school districts that were alarmed by a 1991 decision by a district court that disparities between wealthy and poor districts should be erased.

Not exact matches

According to some of Canada's top luxury real estate agents, the wealthy are looking for value in their new home — properties that are in good locations, in close proximity to work and local schools.

Trump announced two picks on Wednesday for his Cabinet — South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, and wealthy Republican donor and school choice advocate Betsy DeVos to lead the Education Department.

«It has always saddened me that Canada is probably one of the only school systems in the world (or at least the world wealthy enough for full, functioning educational systems) that does not require at least an attempt to learn a second language.»

But what kind of man has the power to undress another man's well - cared - for daughter, to unleash the hidden sexual eagerness of all the beautiful, spurning girls who walk the high - school corridors of this country, emerging into respectable professions before being snapped up by wealthy doctors and lawyers and becoming the soccer moms of tomorrow?

This is one of the wealthiest and most exclusive areas in the country and it's known for its large, historical homes, rich architectural history and top - notch school system.

Or maybe you can expand your list of target schools for your child now that you're a little wealthier.

It baffles me that they would worry about political backlash for reducing or removing this private school funding from wealthy parents groups that I'm positive have never voted NDP nor would they in the future.

There's also a historical precedent for Christian involvement in education, whether you look at the monastic schools of the middle ages or the wealthy benefactors providing education for the 19thcentury poor.

We might as well expect public schools for the indigent to weaken the standard of private education among the wealthy; or asylums for the deaf and blind, to make Possessors of perfect eyes and ears careless of their safety and indifferent to their preservation; or humanity towards the aged and the suffering to promote idleness and improvidence among the young and healthy... as to imagine that asylums for inebriates will promote and increase drunkenness.

The endowments of the wealthiest universities should be taxed to fund a common purse for education that can be spent on tuition tax credits to help all Americans afford some form of post-high school education, which is what we need today as the old student loan model becomes burdensome for young people.

The property was held by cereal heiress, Lois Kellogg Maury, and was home to a finishing school for wealthy Eastern debutantes.

My reporting for this book took me all over the country, from a pediatric clinic in a low - income San Francisco neighborhood to a chess tournament in central Ohio to a wealthy private school in New York City.

Congress is considering a proposed $ 13 million study which would analyze the benefits of a free school breakfast for all students — in low - income and wealthy neighborhoods alike.

Tough, a former editor at The New York Times Magazine and the author of Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America (2008), believes that students from schools like KIPP may have «character advantages» over their wealthier counterparts because of the hard work it takes for them to succeed.

Fixing school food in every community — the relatively wealthy Boulder and Berkeley, as well as the outright destitute parts of the country devastated by the housing debacle and unemployment — requires all of us to work together as one to get the fedreal government to fund school meal programs in a way that provides fresh nutritious food for all students, not just those lucky enough to live where people can afford to take matters into their own hands and make a local fix.

And I actually suspect that the money available to schools for food may be much higher, given this post by Karen Le Billon which indicates that parents are assessed a price on a sliding scale, with the wealthiest parents paying a whopping $ 7 per meal.

«From taxing the wealthy to fund universal pre-K and after - school programs to ending unnecessary subsidies to big corporations and investing in our CUNY system, Bill will be an ally for working families in City Hall.

On the other side: De Blasio and his allies, who had already planned to be in Albany Tuesday to rally for his ever - more - out - of - reach plan to let the city tax wealthy residents to expand pre-K and after school programs in the five boroughs.

Funding for the school and the health centre came from a wealthy monk and other benefactors in Yangon.

But Klein has doubled down on his support for de Blasio's plan to tax wealthy New York City residents to fund universal pre-K and after school programs.

It's about forcing the city to comply with the Campaign for Fiscal Equity which sued over inequitable distribution of funding among wealthier and poorer school districts back in 1993.

For Cuomo, a united Democratic Senate majority is a nightmare scenario: a centrist at heart, he belittled raising the minimum wage before it came back into vogue, ridiculed the idea of hiking taxes on wealthy people, and still won't comply with a ten - year - old court ruling to fork over state cash to underfunded city public schools.

He has accepted significant contributions from Ravenel Boykin Curry, a wealthy supporter of education reform and trustee of Girls Prep charter school, which made the news in 2010 when Joel Klein used emergency powers to displace the public school program for autistic children with which Girls Prep was co-located.

Hawkins, the Green party candidate for Governor, has pointed out that Wall Street hedge funds have been mobilizing to support Cuomo, partially due to his support for charter schools, which provide a hefty tax subsidy to wealthy investors.

A study by the New York State Association of School Business Officials found that spending in wealthier districts for special needs students was almost double the spending in more impoverished districts.

«I look very much forward to fighting for New York City, putting my Albany experience to use and passing the tax on the wealthiest New Yorkers to transform our schools.»

She spoke at a press conference Monday organized by the Alliance for Quality Education, an activist group that pushes for more state funding for schools and has said that the current funding distribution favors wealthy, white districts over poor areas with people of color.

Liberal advocates remain restless over Cuomo's support for tax policies they believe leans too heavily toward the wealthy and corporate interests and are taken aback by his vocal support for charter schools.

Shettima, who also said he can not but praise Tinubu for finding time to come over to Maiduguri on a two - day visit during which he inaugurated 432 houses, 13 primary and junior secondary schools and a fully furnished estate with 26 apartments of five sets of three - storey buildings for medical doctors, recalled that he succeeded in taking control of the Borno APC in 2015 largely because Tinubu refused to support the game plan of a wealthy tyrant.

Cuomo said education advocates have argued for years that local property taxes shouldn't be used to fund schools, because wealthy communities have an obvious advantage.

The poll cited seven different possible rationales for rejecting Cuomo: the Moreland Commission scandal, cuts in school aid, tax cuts, his alliance with a «shadowy» group called the Committee to Save New York, his donations from Republicans including the Koch Brothers and Ken Langone, his support for charter schools, and his «values,» which show he «caters to the wealthy and corporations.»

«Talking before wealthy donors at ritzy schools, those are good times for the governor, rather than doing the people's work in Albany,» Kaehny said.

De Blasio gained ground on his opponents in recent weeks with a liberal platform that included a promise to radically reform stop - and - frisk and hike taxes on the wealthy to pay for free pre-K and after - school programs for city students.

The schools in the Syracuse City School District have about $ 11,000 less funding for each student than wealthier schools in the state, according to a WSKG news article.

«When Poor and Working Class New Yorkers are struggling to attend SUNY schools because of rising tuition, I find it insulting that Governor Cuomo would propose a plan that gives tax breaks to wealthy corporations simply for their proximity to a SUNY campus.

The union is seeking to level the playing field for districts they believe will never be able to keep up with wealthier schools.

One of my highlights of my time in coalition was... that the attainment gap, namely how well poor kids do in school as opposed to their wealthier classmates, was closing for the first time in a very long period of time and the reason why that appears to be the case, was because of the effect of policies like the pupil premium.

A network of wealthy charter school backers is financing ads for Antonio Villaraigosa into a general election with fellow Democrat Gavin Newsom.

And I will never accept the idea that it's ok for children from poorer backgrounds to do worse at school than their wealthier classmates.

«The Governor says people who support quality public schools are playing politics, meanwhile he is robo calling voters homes and there is a committee of millionaires doing direct mail to force through school cuts and finance tax cuts for the wealthiest New Yorkers.»

Where Mr. de Blasio has opposed charter schools, Mr. Jeffries has firmly defended them; in April, he addressed a fund - raising gala for the Success Academy organization, a fast - growing charter network heavily backed by wealthy critics of the mayor.

«That means that we can now focus our efforts in the coming years on getting New York City schools the Campaign for Fiscal Equity money they are still owed and building equity into the state aid formula so that poor school districts get more state aid than wealthier ones,» Mulgrew said.

He recalled advice given to him by his mother and father, who never went to high school and weren't wealthy: «They said, «All you can ask for out of this life, son, is to do what you think is right.

Nevertheless, with just several days until Tuesday's primary, Mr. Cuomo stands at the center of perhaps the most heated topic on the campaign trail: frontrunner Bill de Blasio's plan to raise taxes on the wealthy to pay for prekindergarten and after - school programs, a measure that would require the approval of Mr. Cuomo and the Legislature.

The wealthiest New Yorkers have an array of options — paying for private school, moving to a neighborhood with better schools or even moving outside New York City.

But Rick Timbs, executive director of the East Syracuse - based Statewide School Finance Consortium, argues that the adjustments are minor, and the basic inequities that have plagued less wealthy Upstate districts for years are still in force.

The fear is that it could be the tipping point for relatively mobile wealthier people to move their primary residence elsewhere, leaving the state with less revenue to fund schools.

On taxes, de Blasio has called for an increase on the wealthy in the city to help pay for universal pre-kindergarten and expanded after school programs.