Sentences with phrase «greater education spending»

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Many respondents also noted that while spending on mind - expanding travel or education is great if you can swing it, you also need to at least start to get a handle on your finances.

Such a result is puzzling, given the country spends a greater proportion of its GDP on education than the OECD average.

Over half of this is due to girls having had access to higher levels of education and achieving greater equality in the number of years spent in education between men and women.

They probably matter a great deal to those who spend money on insurance, treatment, grants, research, prevention, correction, TV ads, education, and religious programs.

As you can imagine, I spend a great deal of time reviewing education articles and research.

Now, Kenneth Raske of the Greater New York Hospital Association is pulling hard the other way: «New York's financially struggling hospitals were living austerely within the state's Medicaid spending cap well before the recent avalanche of federal health care cuts,» Raske told the Daily News» Kenneth Lovett, «while other sectors, such as education, have not been held to theirs.»

The two greatest sources of spending in 2017 were education spending, which made up 40 percent of the annual budget, and public safety, which comprised nearly 20 percent of the budget.

The reduction of defence expenditure and its parliamentary scrutiny were identified as additional means for ensuring greater national spending on developmental sectors, such as education and health.

The greatest falls were seen in public non-housing such as education and health and with the public sector spending cuts already taking effect this will only exacerbate the situation.

Though Mayor Michael Bloomberg had warned of great chaos if the law was not renewed, his allies on the Board of Education kept his policies in place and the law was eventually renewed, with tweaks like giving the Independent Budget Office more oversight over spending.

Following the Great Recession in 2008, many states decreased the amount of appropriations set aside for higher education, with many states» budget cuts tending to focus largely on education spending, according to a Center on Budget and Policy Priorities report.

But, rather than support it outright, he ties it to the misguided and controversial Education Investment Tax Credit, which provides the greatest economic benefits to the wealthiest New Yorkers and allows private interests to dictate education Education Investment Tax Credit, which provides the greatest economic benefits to the wealthiest New Yorkers and allows private interests to dictate education education spending.

The Health Commissioner and Mental Health Commissioner have spent a great deal of time putting together options for the county to focus on prevention, education and treatment.

How refreshing to see a leader, President Obama, recognize the great importance of education to the future of this country, as opposed to say, the governor and republican leaders in Texas who are slashing education spending to the bone.

«New York's financially struggling hospitals were living austerely within the State's Medicaid spending cap well before the recent avalanche of Federal health care cuts, while other sectors, such as education, have not been held to theirs,» said Kenneth Raske, president of the Greater New York Hospital Association.

Sure, some are great — but most aren't and overall, the city Department of Education doesn't begin to produce results commensurate with the $ 22,000 it spent per pupil last year.

The United States cut back on education spending after the Great Recession, whereas the government of the United Kingdom poured more money into its schools.

Because that leads people to ask, «You're spending all this money, why don't we have great STEM education?»

As the top Democrat on a spending panel that oversees several federal research agencies, Fattah has pushed successfully for greater federal investment in basic research and science education, with a special focus on neuroscience.

Those better yields resulted in greater profits for the mostly poor farmers and more disposable income to spend on basics like food and education.

He was the first president since John F. Kennedy to do that, and if you read that speech, which is still on the web I believe — both at the Academy web site and my friend Ralph Cicerone, president of the National Academy of Sciences, is in the front row — and it's also on the White House web site — what you will find is although the president was clear about the practical applications of science and technology to our great challenges as I've mentioned, he probably spent two thirds of that talk talking about the importance of basic science; the importance of fundamental research in science and technology to our national well - being; and the importance of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education.

The team at the Department of Ophthalmology at the Mainz University Medical Center led by Professor Norbert Pfeiffer and PD Dr. Alireza Mirshahi found strong evidence that attaining a higher level of education and spending more years in school are two factors associated with a greater prevalence and severity of nearsightedness, or myopia.

Speaking before the Commons Education Committee, Mark Parrett, audit manager at the NAO, said that while there was evidence that bursaries attract graduates into teacher training, there needed to be greater monitoring on whether the large spend was worth it.

I can't help but wonder what would happen if we spent a greater proportion of our education - related efforts on incorporating the insights of cognitive science into our education decisions.

We're spending more on education and getting not - so - great results, but instead of looking at design and fit the way the Air Force did, we blame bad teachers.

If the skeptics are right, Wood writes, Common Core «will damage the quality of K — 12 education for many students; strip parents and local communities of meaningful influence over school curricula; centralize a great deal of power in the hands of federal bureaucrats and private interests; push for the aggregation and use of large amounts of personal data on students without the consent of parents; usher in an era of even more abundant and more intrusive standardized testing; and absorb enormous sums of public funding that could be spent to better effect on other aspects of education.»

As Jennifer Wagner told Education World, «I spend a lot of my summer visiting places I don't have time to visit during the school year — such as The George Lucas Foundation site, which is filled with great information.

«US companies spend the greatest total amount on CSR and education CSR, followed by the UK, Australia and France,» a report on the findings notes.

In the U.S. higher education system, higher spending by institutions is often associated with greater quality, and research also shows that higher spending leads to more degree attainment, particularly at less selective institutions.

The Obama administration dangled $ 4 billion in federal funds at the height of the Great Recession and linked them to states demonstrating that they'd «prioritize» education spending.

In fact, a recent report by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities finds that most states are spending less on K - 12 education than before the Great Recession.

Greater spending must lead to at least some education gains as long as the funds are well spent.

Parents have the ability to maximize the value their children get from their education services, and, because they control how and when the money is spent, they have a greater incentive to control costs, too.

Now is a Great Time to Compute the Per - Unit Cost of Everything in Education This paper by Marguerite Roza examines how calculating the per unit costs of what schools or districts can deliver can provide the best insight into the implications of all that spending.

There are no efficiencies, economies, or new qualities to be found in «design breakthroughs»; greater spending is the only way to improve education (disregard more or less flat education results after two decades of real - dollar annual spending increases).

«In the field of education, we gather lots of data and spend a great deal of time assessing.

Time for Americans to understand that value added analysis is not a reform of public education but a revolution that will allow us to significantly lessen the costs of public education while obtaining the greatest cost benefits from the dollars spent on education.

Connecticut is already spending a great deal on public education.

Republican State Senator Kate Brophy McGee celebrated the pay raise package as «the largest increase in K - 12 education spending since the Great Recession.»

Keyes argued for less government spending on the current system in favor of alternatives such as home - schooling, while Obama said spending money on schools was important but parents also need to play a greater role in their children's education.

Their proposal will also provide computer companies, software companies, testing companies and educational consulting companies with an even greater share of the taxpayer funds being spent on public education.

Education spending has still yet to recover from the Great Recession in many states.11 Because of state constitution balanced - budget provisions, when faced with significant federal funding cuts, states are forced to either further cut education programs or raise taxes.12 The idea of further raising taxes to backfill Trump's education funding cuts simply is not practical in states such as Maryland, 13 Illinois, 14 and New Jersey, 15 which are struggling to fund their current responsiEducation spending has still yet to recover from the Great Recession in many states.11 Because of state constitution balanced - budget provisions, when faced with significant federal funding cuts, states are forced to either further cut education programs or raise taxes.12 The idea of further raising taxes to backfill Trump's education funding cuts simply is not practical in states such as Maryland, 13 Illinois, 14 and New Jersey, 15 which are struggling to fund their current responsieducation programs or raise taxes.12 The idea of further raising taxes to backfill Trump's education funding cuts simply is not practical in states such as Maryland, 13 Illinois, 14 and New Jersey, 15 which are struggling to fund their current responsieducation funding cuts simply is not practical in states such as Maryland, 13 Illinois, 14 and New Jersey, 15 which are struggling to fund their current responsibilities.

Day Three: Motivating Black Males to Achieve in School and in Life — Renowned education expert and veteran principal Baruti Kafele will spend Day Three helping educators better understand how to motivate and inspire black male students to take a greater interest in school and learning.

Darling - Hamond (1998) makes a strong argument for quality professional development by stating that each dollar spent on improving teachers» qualifications nets greater gains in student learning than any other use of an education dollar.

According to the account, the Republicans believe «the [Dept. of Education] is trying to reassert federal control by exceeding its authority with a rule that would require state and local spending in low - income schools receiving Title I funds to be equal or greater than non-Title I schools... and force schools to include teacher salaries when measuring spending between Title I and non-Title I schools...» At the same time, the story notes that «King is facing pressure from civil rights groups who want to ensure the new education law does not deprive low - income students of equal fundinEducation] is trying to reassert federal control by exceeding its authority with a rule that would require state and local spending in low - income schools receiving Title I funds to be equal or greater than non-Title I schools... and force schools to include teacher salaries when measuring spending between Title I and non-Title I schools...» At the same time, the story notes that «King is facing pressure from civil rights groups who want to ensure the new education law does not deprive low - income students of equal fundineducation law does not deprive low - income students of equal funding.»

This resulted in great disparities across the state: some wealthier areas were spending four times the amount on education than other areas.

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities looks at state spending on education since the great recession.

What I am saying is that American public education spends $ 593 billion ineffectively, with so much money tied up in antiquated concepts (tenure, for example) that have no benefit to students or even to high - quality teachers and principals who are doing great work.

With 1 out of 4 living in poverty — far more than any other industrialized country (nearly double what it was 30 years ago); a more tattered safety net — more who are homeless, without health care, and without food security; a more segregated and inequitable system of public education, in which the top schools spend 10 times more than the lowest spending; we nonetheless have a defense budget larger than that of the next 20 countries combined and greater disparities in wealth than any other leading country.

Supporters of public education rally on the Great Western Staircase at the Capitol on Thursday, March 26, 2015, in Albany, N.Y. Lawmakers and Gov. Andrew Cuomo were at odds over school spending, with Cuomo saying a big increase in school spending should be tied to revised teacher evaluations.