Sentences with phrase «funding sent to schools»

Overall spending was up, but funding sent to schools went down 3.5 percent (roughly $ 68 million).

And it says it has doubled the amount of professional - development funds sent to schools for the 2013 - 14 school year to $ 100 million, which they can spend on extra training.

Total Disbursed Amount: The total amount of loan funds sent to the school or borrower.

Not exact matches

When the Kula Project first engaged with them in May of this year, they asked what their number one need is and the unanimous response was to have the funds to send their children to school.

Most people in Ireland send their children to Catholic or other denominational schools (which do receive State funding in Ireland).

Why can't we all just mind our own business when it comes to peoples bedrooms and wedding albums, neither side get's to preach in schools, though I understand how you would think of it as the atheist getting his way by just not having you preach your God to his children in a publicly funded school, but he's not sending an atheist spokesman to influence your children, he just doesn't feel it's right to allow the religious spokesman into the schools to influence any children on his tax dollar.

The booklet I was sent to review consists of 31 baking recipes which would work well for coffee mornings, school fetes and other fund raisers.

What does it say about our society if we would rather send children to such mutilating procedures but yet lack the political will to properly fund school nutrition and ban junk food advertising to children?

The Secretary of State for Education, Michael Gove, and Minister of State for Schools, David Laws, have today sent a joint letter to all state - funded primary school headteachers, about universal free school meals for infants..

CRF provides funding for the Backpack Buddies program - in partnership with Inter-Faith Food Shuttle and St. Michael's Episcopal Church - so that during the school year, weekly backpacks filled with balanced meals are sent home to students and their families who are at risk of hunger every Friday

Checks made out to the Waldorf School of Baltimore Annual Fund can be sent to:

Because of my volunteer work with Houston ISD, several readers around the country have written to ask how they can specifically help Houston school kids, perhaps by donating school supplies or by raising funds in their own school to send to our... [Continue reading]

Local authorities will remain responsible for all the funding that independent schools receive for children and young people with SEN.. More information about how local authorities should discharge their responsibilities for children and young people with SEN in independent schools is set out in the SEND code of practice, in particular paragraphs 9.131 to 9.136.

Each year, the School Nutrition Foundation selects a National Policy Fellow and provides funds to send an SNA member to attend the Legislative Action Conference (LAC) in Washington, D.C. for the first time.

The Chicago - based Thomas More Society, on behalf of former Arlington Heights resident Jim Finnegan, sent a letter to Park District officials and village leaders this week asking that a privately funded Nativity scene be allowed in the public North School Park.

EdVoice network members have sent over 100,000 letters to help protect school funding and push for important reforms to boost student achievement.

Tentative deals have been reached on parts of a new state budget, including about $ 1 billion in additional funding for public schools, a work - around for some higher - income New Yorkers to reduce the impact of new federal tax deduction limits, and a freeze on what Albany sends to local governments around the state.

«Sending out strong advance signals to prospective families that if their child obtains a place at the school they will be expected to make significant financial contributions to school funds, requirements to purchase uniforms from expensive sole suppliers and charging for educational activities are all strategies of covert selection.

Passage of Proposal # 1 would also send more than $ 35 million in new tax revenue to the Capital Region, money that would be used to improve schools, help local governments fund critical services, and lower property taxes.

Overall, the report points to the third of New York's all - funds budgeting coming from the federal government as well as the billions sent to local governments, schools and for transportation spending.

We should not be leaving the fate of millions of families in rent regulated apartments in limbo over a tax break for hedge fund billionaires to send their kids to lavish prep schools.»

Staff at Edward R. Murrow HS in Midwood, owed $ 10 million in Campaign for Fiscal Equity funds from the state, put together a multilanguage video telling the governor what the school needs and have sent photos with the same message to the governor and sent postcards to legislators urging them to stand against Cuomo's policies.

The STAR program provides a state - funded offset for property - based school taxes through payments the state sends to school districts each year that are then subtracted from a homeowner's bill.

The final measures passed Sunday by the Senate provide for the flow of funds to state agencies, money to be sent to school districts, public college tuition to be cut or raised for students depending on their family incomes, and non-fiscal matters, including the legalization of ride - hailing upstate.

Under the provisions of the education tax credit proposed by Cuomo, people and businesses can donate up to $ 1 million to a scholarship fund to send underprivileged children to private schools, or the publicly funded, but privately run, charter schools.

«These folks also try to say the state can't send funds to religious schools.

In response, Governor Andrew Cuomo and other New York lawmakers say they believe they have found a way where residents can still deduct more, by having local schools, counties and municipalities set up a charitable fund where a portion of the money contributed will go to whichever entity sent yo a bill, and a small percentage willl be donated to charity.

According to the Albany Times Union, earlier this week the chairman of the state Association of School Business Officials sent a letter to Senate Republican Majority Leader John Flanagan, explaining that flat funding due to low inflation could lead to layoffs and program cuts.

Looking ahead to next month's potential cash - flow crisis, Megna said Paterson will send up a separate bill asking for the statutory authority to push some of the payments due to school districts by June 1 to later in the month, allowing the state to draw more heavily on its pool of short - term emergency funds.

Why, as in... Why do Republican state senators upstate and on Long Island support sending tens of millions of dollars in new funding to New York City charters... instead of reserving that money for their own schools in places like Troy, Poughkeepsie and Plattsburgh?

Most Council members had two unstated reasons for supporting Greenfield in using tax money to fund religious schools: they either have constituents who would like their choice to send their children to these schools to be further subsidized or they want to buy themselves good will with the increasingly powerful and cohesive blocs of Orthodox, fundamentalist, and Catholic voters should they decide to seek higher office.

Under the provisions of the education tax credit proposed by Governor Cuomo, people and businesses can donate up to $ 1 million to a scholarship fund to send underprivileged children to private schools, or support enhanced programs at public schools.

Senate Republicans were pushing proposals to eliminate the charter school cap and send hundreds of millions of dollars in funding to charter coffers at the expense of New York City public schools.

For example, if a child has a difference in his or her family background which the child is unable to overcome and consequently can't attend a public school, public funds may be used to send the child to a private school.

She plans to use the prize money to run a climate change workshop and fund a local museum to sponsor schools to send students for science - themed workshops.

In 1968, the Research Councils founded the Graduate Schools Programme, which sends second - and third - year graduate students funded by the councils to a conference center in another part of the country for a solid week of intensive game - playing.

Disgraced Korean stem cell scientist Woo Suk Hwang, who is awaiting a court judgment due next month that could send him to jail for embezzling research funds, got some good news last Friday when a separate court ruled a dog cloning technique he developed since being dismissed by Seoul National University is different from the procedure patented by the school.

In what is believed to be the first study of the prevalence of Ebola infection in international responders the research team, led by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and funded by the Wellcome Trust, enrolled 300 UK and Ireland healthcare and other frontline workers ¹ for the study and sent them oral fluid collection devices.

The Academy and Free School agenda, national funding reform, national curriculum and assessment changes including the introduction of the phonics check, distribution of Pupil Premium, significant changes to the Early Years Foundation Stage and the introduction of two Ofsted frameworks in one year all need to be considered alongside these SEND legislative changes.

Alongside these radical changes proposed for SEND, we are also awaiting radical reform on the way school funding is allocated and distributed to schools.

The U.S. Education Department has delayed sending special - education funds to Puerto Rico this year until the territory steps up plans to improve school services to disabled children.

When the state sends state funds directly to a private school, that clearly qualifies as «direct» support.

Nasen is delighted that they have been given the opportunity through DfE funding to provide whole - school raising awareness training on SEND.

This summer, Wang has been writing for The Atlantic, developing her website, and trying to raise money to fund a two - week pilot program that would send two teams of Harvard College juniors from The Crimson and the Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School to schools in Mississippi during the January break.

That's why we are introducing new measures to transform failing and coasting schools, funding the best academy chains to share excellence in struggling regions in the North and creating a National Teaching Service - sending some of our best teachers to the areas that need them most.»

Schools in England are to receive a share of # 215 million government funding to help improve facilities for SEND children

Many of the individuals who are driving education policy in this country... sent their own children to abundantly financed private schools where class sizes were 16 or less, and yet continue to insist that resources, equitable funding, and class size don't matter — when all the evidence points to the contrary (Haimson, 2009).

The group say that if funds are not allocated, schools may find it difficult to accept or keep pupils with SEND because they «can not afford to subsidise the provision from their own budgets».

Choice programs come in several flavors, including charter schools, which are publicly funded but independently operated; private school vouchers, which cover all or part of private school tuition; and open enrollment plans (sometimes called public school vouchers) that allow parents to send their child to any public school in the district.

Using a complicated formula approved by the court, the state funds magnet schools that accept students from several different districts (at a minimum there must be two) at a per - pupil rate that increases as the number of districts sending students increases — an attempt to bring central - city minority students and white suburban students together in the same school.