Sentences with phrase «funding this school year»

The state's School Budget Review Committee voted last month to give the 11,000 - student district authority to spend an additional $ 7.5 million in state education funds this school year — the state's largest school bailout ever.

Boasberg said the district has used the SIG dollars allocated for Montbello and for nearby Noel Middle School to launch several smaller school programs, growing them one grade at a time, and to fund a school year that's longer by three weeks and a school day that's extended by an hour in the FNE schools.

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.

He touted the company's volunteerist culture and $ 25 million in funding for Boston public schools over five years announced earlier in the day.

Last year, Douglas Cummings, a professor of finance at York University's Schulich School of Business, published a report commissioned by the CSA on how fee structures affect fund sales.

At least 13 states, including Alaska, Illinois and Kentucky, have indicated they will be awarding funds on a first - come, first - served basis for the 2018 - 19 school year.

Every year the funding database sifts through its vast trove of data to product a report detailing which schools produce the most VC - backed founders, but this year's iteration draws on more data than ever before.

In comparison, First Round's fund, called the Dorm Room Fund, invests just $ 2 million over four years, spread across startups at a dozen schofund, called the Dorm Room Fund, invests just $ 2 million over four years, spread across startups at a dozen schoFund, invests just $ 2 million over four years, spread across startups at a dozen schools.

Given Osiris's strong five - year record of growth and profitability, Bowers was able to help make Miller's wishes come true: he structured a deal that raised $ 13 million from a large local pension fund — the Pennsylvania Public School Employees Retirement System (see «What Pension Funds Want,» [Article link]-RRB--- by selling a package of subordinated debt and convertible preferred stock, which included a fixed interest rate and dividend yield.

Thiel made headlines last year when he announced he would fund a group of college start - ups, provided the students left school for two years.

The new budget relies primarily on higher property taxes to increase school funding, raising more than $ 7 billion over four years and, the legislature hopes, finally complying with the Supreme Court order.

HealthIM won $ 25,000 in funding last fall from the University of Waterloo's Velocity accelerator hub and a further $ 60,000 from the school's AC JumpStart program earlier this year.

In its early years, a number of her students in the program were teenagers who had come to the country, unauthorized, at a young age and finished high school, but then could not obtain citizenship or receive any state or federal funds for college.

Passionate about the University of Calgary, Schmidt and Laricina Energy Ltd. both played pivotal roles in the Engineering Leaders Campaign at the Schulich School of Engineering, funding a five - year scholarship program, a chemical and petroleum engineering graduate student space, a boardroom in the new engineering building expansion, and a portion of the Canada Research Chair in Energy and Imaging.

After dropping out of an elite Manhattan high school, he worked as an intern for Jim Cramer's hedge fund as a 17 - year - old and quickly impressed with his ability to call stocks.

«The New Orleans Startup Fund's team helped us secure financing at the beginning of the school year, which allowed us to buy more buses.

Almost this exact time last year, the City ended it's decade - long red light camera program which funded things like the crossing guards, flashing lights for school zones and some police equipment.

While the government charges a hefty tax penalty to withdraw funds early (10 % to 30 % immediately but possibly adjusted when you file your taxes), they do make exceptions if you're using it to buy a house or go back to school, as long as you put the money back within 10 years for education loans and 15 years for home purchases.

An old school complaint pertaining to exchange traded funds, specifically the equity - based variety, is that ETFs are unlikely to outperform the best - performing stock in their respective lineups over a year or longer holding periods.

The provincial government has boosted school maintenance funding by more than $ 20 million over last year, and has increased the AFG for the first time since 2004/05.

On the question of whether public funding for elite private schools that charge more than $ 10,000 per year per student in tuition should be eliminated, 75 per cent of respondents agreed and more than half, 53 per cent, agreed strongly.

Ultimately, Morgan Stanley raised about $ 160,000 for Escola Vidigal this year from employee donations and a firm match, funds that Muniz plans to use to grow the school and expand its programming.

The new funding package provides schools with a partial restoration of nearly $ 400 million in recession - era cuts, with a promise to restore the rest in five years.

This record - breaking donation, along with many others, has enabled us to make a 2 - year commitment to building schools in the US Virgin Islands, Florida, Puerto Rico and Caribbean Islands, alongside our partner, the Happy Hearts Fund.

Indeed, over the years, Georgetown has been perhaps the clearest example of what many such schools practice: the whipsaw of «Catholic tradition,» in which the strongest declarations of Catholic identity come from the fund - raisers, the alumni association, and the public - relations office ¯ all the people trying to sell the university in a tight economic situation that requires a good bit of niche marketing.

Widely affirmed proposals call for the restructure of low - performing schools, more emphasis on the basics, safer classrooms, more rigorous graduation standards, periodic measurement of progress through some kind of standardized tests, longer days and year - round schooling, decentralization into smaller learning communities and greater freedom for those smaller units, smaller classes, better - qualified teachers and improved salaries, more parental input and more equitable funding.

Their agenda is the next five tasks, whether fund raising, planning a dinner, or assuring that there are enough Sunday school teachers for the year ahead.

After all, it was through political and legal struggles over many years, and as a result of compromises, that other Western democracies recognized the pluralistic nature of a free society and adopted policies protecting the rights of parents and of educators to maintain and receive public funding for faith - based schools.

With the cost to run these programs the Catholic church in my area is closing down schools themselves due to lack of funds and in the process many teachers who have given years of service will be out on the street.

Run by radicals for approximately twenty years, Berkeley has experienced the virtual ruin of its public school system, a vastly increased municipal bureaucracy, a greatly diminished housing stock (thanks to stringent rent controls and other restrictions on property rights), increased crime and drug abuse, widespread corruption, and wholesale waste of public funds.

Through the years, zealous legislators have, among other things, forced Catholics to fund Protestant public schools, Jews to conform to sectarian Sunday laws, non-Christians to recognize the national holiday of Christmas, and Mormons and Indians to observe laws of the state rather than the requirements of their faith.

We were able to help fund a mobile library down there that helps about 30 kids stay in school for an entire year.

The improvement for the Government comes after Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced a $ 14.5 billion increase in education funding over six years in response to the Gonski Review into school funding.

For example, in the past 10 years we've funded polio vaccines, school equipment, road repairs and medical clinics in global growing regions.

Our partners at United Fresh Produce Association and Whole Kids Foundation work year round searching for and securing funds for Lets Move Salad Bars to Schools, this year alone raising an impressive $ 1.4 million!

«The new pre-primary school facilities that Accolade helped fund enable township children of between five and six years of age to start their education prior to entering the official school system at seven.

Thanks to initial funding from Trust for London, we ran a project with City Gateway (a women's and youth charity in the London borough of Tower Hamlets) and other local partners, including schools, careers advisors and early years providers, aimed at recruiting young men to new, male - friendly childcare courses.

While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

Maternity services, early years provision, schools... you name it, pretty much every element of tax - funded family service provision (not to mention the family courts) assumes fathers are incidental.

And, having now worked closely with Houston ISD's Food Services department for the last four years, I feel only sympathy for school districts trying to balance their budgets while meeting the HHFKA's healthier school food mandates, all in the face of insufficient funding and negative student reactions to the food.

As we approach the Child Nutrition Reauthorization in Congress — the every - five - year funding of child nutrition programs — lawmakers will have the opportunity to weaken some of 2010's biggest school meal improvements with respect to sodium, whole grains and fruits and vegetables.

Unfortunately we are not able to offer our School Food Support Initiative Grant to all school districts, as there is only funding for about 5 - 7 districts perSchool Food Support Initiative Grant to all school districts, as there is only funding for about 5 - 7 districts perschool districts, as there is only funding for about 5 - 7 districts per year.

Rosenbaum also hides the ball from readers when he compares the cost of funding healthier school food (an additional $ 1.22 billion over pre-HHFKA reimbursements, according to the USDA) to the skyrocketing costs of obesity ($ 200 billion dollars per year).

Today the Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, announced that the Government will fund schools in England to provide every child in reception, year 1 and year 2 with a hot, healthy meal at lunchtime.

La Leche staff members hope the pilot program, which the organization will fund at about $ 7,500 a year, catches on at Amundsen and expands to include boys» classes before moving to other high schools.

• increase public funding for after - school programs • serve suppers instead of (or in addition to) snacks • recruit more school districts to provide after - school suppers and snacks • support and expand year - round participation by integrating the Afterschool Supper Program with the Summer Food Service Program • streamline and simplify the Afterschool Supper Program • serve meals during weekends, holidays and unanticipated school closures; and • improve meal quality

None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to implement an interim final or final rule regarding nutrition programs under the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1751 et seq.) and the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1771 et seq.) that --(1) requires crediting of tomato paste and puree based on volume; (2) implements a sodium reduction target beyond Target I, the 2 - year target, specified in Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, «Nutrition Standards in the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs» (FNS — 2007 — 0038, RIN 0584 — AD59) until the Secretary certifies that the Department has reviewed and evaluated relevant scientific studies and data relevant to the relationship of sodium reductions to human health; and (3) establishes any whole grain requirement without defining «whole grain.»

DTN Political Correspondent Jerry Hagstrom reported yesterday (link requires subscription) that, «Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Blanche Lincoln on Wednesday unveiled a bill to reauthorize the child nutrition programs that would increase funding for school lunch and other programs by $ 4.5 billion over 10 years, with some of the money coming from the budget for the Environmental Quality Incentives Program.

If U.S. federal violence containment spending was reduced by 5 % each year for 5 years, the $ 326 billion saved funds would be sufficient to entirely update the energy grid, rebuild all levies, and renew the nation's school infrastructure.

For more than 30 years, the School Nutrition Foundation has been raising funds to provide SNA members with the opportunity to achieve their higher education goals through a wide variety of scholarships.