Sentences with phrase «giving wealthy school»

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«According to a study from researchers at Harvard Business School, the University of Mannheim, and Yale University, wealthy individuals report that having three to four times as much money would give them a perfect» 10» score on happiness — regardless of how much wealth they already have,» reports the release.

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.

But some of New York's wealthiest schools were still given state grants to resurface running tracks and buy Smart boards, bleachers and a scoreboard, records show.

«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.

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.

The Cuomo - backed legislation failed to pass last session, with those opposed citing a complexity of reasons including the idea that giving resources to privately run schools undermines public schools and the legislation would unfairly favor the wealthy.

Almost as stupid as STAR where New York intentionally overtaxes to build up money to write rebate checks for people like Rump... and to give more aid to wealthy school districts than poor ones.

NYC Mayor - elect Bill de Blasio has released the second video in as many days in his official campaign to convince Albany to give him the power to tax wealthy city residents and use the revenue to fund universal pre-kindergarten and after - school programs.

He says a larger solution may mean wealthier districts have to give up some of their aid to poorer schools.

A property tax «freeze» that will cost the state $ 1.8 billion over three years would give the largest level of relief to wealthy homeowners while diverting valuable resources from struggling schools and local governments.

to Gov. Cuomo's plan to give billions of dollars in tax cut giveaways to banks and the wealthiest New Yorkers while schools and communities suffer under austerity budgets and continuing layoffs.

Opponents have said the idea of giving resources to privately - run schools undermines public schools, and the legislation would unfairly favor the wealthy.

Why: The Buffalo Teachers Federation endorsed Howie Hawkins because he defends the right to education, calls for full funding for public schools and opposes the plans to turn Lafayette, Bennett, East and MLK into private charter schools, including giving these wealthy charters the public school buildings!

He said his platform was dominated by his belief that the school was giving scholarships to wealthy students with influential parents rather than to poorer students like himself.

Less than two years ago, when the retired publisher Walter H. Annenberg announced his plans to give $ 500 million to America's public schools, one of his hopes was that other foundations, corporations, and wealthy individuals would join his philanthropic crusade for education.

Nearly two decades ago, a landmark study found that by age 3, the children of wealthier professionals have heard words millions more times than those of less educated parents, giving them a distinct advantage in school and suggesting the need for increased investment in prekindergarten programs.

Many parents will pay for private tutors in an attempt to help their children pass entrance exams for selective schools, but does this give pupils from wealthy families an unfair advantage?

They have already voted no to across the board teacher salary increases and continued the freeze on teachers» salaries that has been in place for 5 years (at the same time passed a tax break for the wealthy, and now, with reduced revenue can not give raises), increased class size, taken away additional pay for Masters degrees, eliminated most of the state's teacher assistants, gone after tenure and offered the top 25 % of the teachers in a district $ 500 to give up their tenure immediately, increased the number of charter schools (many funded by Republicans in the private school business) and finally, the most recent scheme pondered is to let kids go to any school in the state regardless of their home county.

Giving low - income, black people charter schools without making them wealthy will never give them the same educational options as the affluent class.

Beebe added that he would oppose anything that could be perceived as giving the wealthy «tax breaks under the guise of school choice.»

This off formula funding tends to distort the equalizing aspects of the school aid formula and give more money to property wealthy districts and their taxpayers.

Not only does school choice give low - income children the same choices and opportunities that children from wealthy families have always had, it also improves the public schools, making them stronger and more effective,» Cruz said in the press release announcing the legislation.

The state's chief of schools is proposing to «level the playing field» among school districts by giving extra money to schools in rural areas who have trouble matching salaries offered by wealthier districts.

Vouchers would give a new government subsidy to private schools and wealthy parents with children already in private schools.

It follows concerns about wealthier families paying for coaching, giving their children a perceived better chance of getting into grammar school.

This plan would give more assistance to poor districts in an effort to lessen the inequality between what is spent on education in wealthy and poor school districts.

If they don't live in a wealthy area, they aren't given the sufficient resources they need to succeed at their schools.

Instead of funding schools, our current leaders give billions in tax breaks to billionaires and wealthy multinational corporations - at the same time that they tell us there is not enough money to hire teachers or build schools.

This year, California will give out similar awards — but the schools that are eligible are significantly wealthier than the average school.

The final budget bill cut state K - 12 spending by nearly $ 800 million, over7 percent — the largest amount in Wisconsin's history — and limited local governments» abilities to make up for these cuts through property taxes.14 That same year, Gov. Walker passed major tax cuts primarily targeted toward corporations and the wealthy that totaled $ 2.33 billion over 10 years.15 Gov. Walker and Act 10 proponents argued that the bill's reforms would allow schools to offset these cuts by reducing teachers» benefits and hiring lower - paid teachers, preventing budget cuts from affecting students.16 Gov. Walker also argued that eliminating requirements to bargain over salary structures, hiring, and working conditions would give schools additional flexibility needed to attract and retain higher - quality teachers.17

Lawmakers should give homeless students access to flexible educational options and private school scholarships so that children in these families can have the same quality options as children from middle class and wealthier families.

Voucher programs for private and religious do not expand school choice because those schools retain the right to screen out students, and voucher plans have yet to be devised that truly offset tuition costs — giving a family a coupon and an application is not the choice granted to wealthy students who have every resource at their disposal from birth.

Though there may be some small number of low - income families that have been given some financial support to escape a failing neighborhood public school, these voucher programs have disproportionately benefited wealthy families.

CTU called the voucher program a «poison pill that gives tax breaks to the wealthy... and is built on the backs of Chicago public school students and their families.»

The California Department of Education gives out educational awards, but mostly wealthy schools qualify.

In Angie Thomas» The Hate U Give, 16 - year - old Starr also attends prep school in a whiter, wealthier area, and she has to learn to speak up in an even - harder environment: she's the only witness to a policeman's unprovoked shooting of her unarmed friend, placing her and her family between the police, the media, and a local gang.

So more than a decade later, when she met boisterous, charismatic Charlie Blackwell, she hardly gave him a second look: She was serious and thoughtful, and he would rather crack a joke than offer a real insight; he was the wealthy son of a bastion family of the Republican party, and she was a school librarian and registered Democrat.

The article notes a recent Supreme Court case, Board of Education v. Tom F. that let stand a decision permitting a wealthy parent to obtain reimbursement for private school education under federal law, even where the parent did not give the public school an opportunity to address the child's needs and immediately places the child in private school.

In the intervening years, he had been taken from his family, fostered to a wealthy city family, placed in a leading private school and given the benefit of social opportunity.