Sentences with phrase «funded public option»

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This wouldn't just be effective from a public health standpoint — every dollar invested in funding more depression and anxiety treatment options leads to a four dollar return in better work productivity, according to the WHO.

On Tuesday night, at least 200 people came out to a high school to listen to Dr. Tipirneni, who spoke of her support for a public health insurance option, «common - sense» gun control, and robust funding for Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

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This is why it is a great option for a stand - alone school, such as a direct - funded California charter school, or a private school, but not necessarily for an individual public school.

Public health minister Anne Milton had been exploring options to replace the free milk funding with more money for the Healthy Start voucher.

We need to recognise that the public is saying «yes, we want our public services properly funded» and I think all the political parties would do themselves, and certainly the public, a big favour if they said «OK, we hear you, these are the options» and take a bit from everybody's manifesto if necessary.

The recent budget proposal by U.S. Representative Paul Ryan, for example, which claims to stimulate economic growth by removing funds from the recently passed public health option, suggests that conflicting values are evidence of incompatible ideologies.

A recent research project by Kayte Lawton and myself for the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), funded by the Nuffield Foundation, attempts to inform debate by providing a critical assessment of the options for reforming wealth taxes in the UK.

Governor Cuomo Introduces Campaign Finance Reform Legislation with a Public Financing Option Governor Andrew Cuomo has introduced legislation that seeks to enact a system of small donor matching funds for state elections, along with a number of other provisions designed to reduce corruption and special interest influence.

· Allowing counties an option to modify how they fund state mandated pension contributions · Providing counties more audit authority in the special education preschool program · Improving government efficiency and streamlining state and local legislative operations by removing the need for counties to pursue home rule legislative requests every two years with the state legislature in order to extend current local sales tax authority · Reducing administrative and reporting requirements for counties under Article 6 public health programs · Reforming the Workers Compensation system · Renewing Binding Arbitration, which is scheduled to sunset in June 2013, with a new definition of «ability to pay» for municipalities under fiscal distress, making it subject to the property tax cap (does not apply to NYC) where «ability to pay» will be defined as no more than 2 percent growth in the contract.

Senate Democratic leaders met Thursday night with White House officials to consider including a government - funded public health insurance option in a health care overhaul bill.

He says funding options include some public - private partnerships.

The changes, which Education Commissioner John King said are already under way, include increasing public understanding of the standards, training more teachers and principals, ensuring adequate funding, reducing testing time and providing high school students the option to take some traditional Regents exams while Common Core - aligned tests are phased in.

Public Advocate Letitia James, a graduate of CUNY's Lehman College, noted that CUNY — which is largely state - controlled and funded — is an affordable educational option for students who come from low - income families.

Lawmakers want a portion of that money to be dedicated to local public transit agencies to help them deal with expected ridership declines to the new services and to help fund programs to expand transportation options for disabled people.

The first of these other options is the «Kelly option» named after the chairman of the committee on standards in public life, which looked at party funding in 2011.

«With the UCSF team, thanks to funding by public and private organizations, we're able to harness the team science model for collaborations like this that yield findings with the potential to change things for patients who've had very few options for far too long.»

The agency plans to set up a committee to explore options, which Padilla says might include public — private partnerships, a telecommunications surcharge, redirected high - speed rail funding or federal grants.

The Working Group generates estimates of R&D investment that can be compared year to year across options and strategies and funding sources, helping assess the impact of public policies aimed at accelerating scientific progress and to provide facts for advocacy.

Specifically, it would move American higher education from a voucher - funded market to a system with a free public option much like traditional K 12 public schools.

But any state choosing this option would experience changes in how Title I funds get divided among and within its school districts — even if all poor students were to attend public schools.

The second PDK item became the following: «Would you vote for or against a system giving parents the option of using government - funded school vouchers to pay for tuition at the public, private, or religious school of their choice?»

When the public was asked whether government funding for public schools in their district should increase, decrease, or stay the same, 59 percent selected the first option, only slightly less than the 63 percent that gave that opinion in 2010, and dramatically more than in 2009 (46 percent).

If funds are equitably shared with public options and schools are held accountable, he argues, this can also be a system that is politically feasible.

Publicly funded school choice has increased considerably in recent years, helped by a variety of initiatives, including public charter schools, transfer options for students under the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), inter-district enrollment programs, and a variety of policies to subsidize private - school tuition.

These policies are 1) raising education spending (with several possible routes for allocating those funds); 2) accountability for teachers and schools; 3) enhanced choice among public school options, especially charter schools; and 4) early childhood education.

We also collect data on public school - transfer options generated by NCLB, which required schools that received Title I funds and failed to meet minimum requirements on standardized tests for two consecutive years to offer students the option of transferring to a local school that did meet the benchmark.

The bill would give states the option of using the funds now distributed through a host of federal programs — amounting to about $ 24 billion a year on the whole — as a single block grant to states for public and private school vouchers.

With such demand, it is up to our elected officials to remove the facilities and funding barriers that exist to ensure that every child has the option to attend a high - quality public charter school.

In the past 15 months Mississippi, Tennessee, Florida and now Nevada have all adopted new programs that dramatically expand public school funding for private school options, Peshek said.

The Minnesota Federation of Teachers has filed suit in federal district court in St. Paul to block the state's 1985 Postsecondary Enrollment Options Act on the grounds that the law violates both the state and federal constitutions by permitting the «direct diversion» of public funds from public schools to church - related colleges and universities.

Education savings accounts are enabling families to use public funds to choose not just schools but also courses and programs — an increasingly appealing option as schooling becomes disaggregated.

Lawmakers got a glimpse of reports on education lottery proceeds, the local education funding dispute resolution process, the $ 79 million cost to meet current standards for school nurses, and a public school construction needs survey and recommendations for construction funding options for certain school districts.

Education policies to improve the quality of New York's public schools, with a focus on improving teacher quality, expanding school options for families and improving the way our school systems are governed and funds are spent.

Fast forward to 2017: President Donald Trump and U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos have championed a plan to provide federal funding for private school voucher systems nationwide, which would funnel millions of taxpayer dollars out of public schools and into unaccountable private schools — a school reform policy that they say would provide better options for low - income students trapped in failing schools.

Vouchers are an attempt to redress that situation by channeling public funds into scholarships or vouchers so that children have the option of attending private school.

Together, they started the Great Lakes Education Project (GLEP) which has worked to provide funding and private training to state legislators to advocate for the redirection of public funds from traditional public schools to other options, including charter schools, private schools, parochial schools (private schools with a religious affiliation) and online schools.

This legislation (HB 394) would create a pilot program providing parents of students with special needs the option of withdrawing their child from a public school and receiving an Education Scholarship Account (ESA) with funds to help pay for educational expenses outside the traditional public school.

In fact, what little funding Governor Malloy has provided for Connecticut public schools over the past three years has come with such extensive strings that it failed to provide local towns with real or meaningful options.

The bill, first introduced last week by Rep. Jim Banks (R., Ind.), would set up education savings accounts for parents in the armed forces who could divert a portion of funds that would have been sent to a public school on their child's behalf under the federal Impact Aid program to different schooling options.

The education reform bill, passed last year by the state legislature with overwhelming support and signed by Governor Dannel P. Malloy, grows high - performing public school options, provides fairer funding for public charter school students, and creates a Commissioner's Network to turnaround our state's chronically failing schools.

First conceived by Milton Friedman in 1955, school choice options, such as vouchers and education savings accounts, give parents the freedom to choose the best learning environment for their children with the funding that would have been spent on their children in public school.

The advocacy also purports to offer a closer look at «public school options» available to students nationwide, including in its count 310,000 students in full - time virtual schools and 190,000 receiving «tuition assistance from tax - credit funded scholarship programs.»

Importantly, the Court carved out only a narrow exception — public funding for the religious training of clergy — to the general rule requiring equal treatment of religious and non-religious options.

This fund provides private, discretionary options enabling scientists to respond quickly to areas of greatest need without having to wait for public funding for urgent projects.

The money would be contingent on an impending state Supreme Court ruling that will decide if the program that allows students the option of taking public funds to attend private schools passes constitutional muster.

Take D.C., which has one of the country's most robust set of educational options for parents — public schools, charter schools and federally funded vouchers for private schools.

As a reminder, the State of California has two options for parents in terms of public education: the traditional neighborhood public school or a charter school which is also a public school and is publicly funded.

In order to meet this parental demand for choice and the public's desire for more high quality public educational options for families, three key things must be addressed in California: the funding inequity which results in charter school students being funded at lower levels than their traditional public school counterparts, the lack of equitable facilities for charter school students, and restrictive and hostile authorizing environments such as LAUSD Board Member Steve Zimmer's recent resolution limiting parent choice.

Amid concern over the ability of Illinois taxpayers to fund public education, charter schools continue to emerge as a more affordable option.