Not exact matches
These include billion -
dollar efforts by non-profits like the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Bloomberg Philanthropies to spur innovative solutions
in education,
public health, and poverty reduction.
With growing interest and support from
public markets (including through the incorporation of DanoneWave as the largest
public benefit corporation
in the U.S. and their
public commitment to become a Certified B Corp by 2020 as well as Laureate
Education's IPO
in early 2017), multi-billion
dollar companies are following suit and choosing to operate their businesses with purpose and accountability.
Parochial schools are supported by church funds
in addition to tuition, not tax
dollars, providing
in many areas a reasonable alternative for working class and middle class parishioners and removing these millions of students from the
public education system paid for by taxpayers.
According to one estimate, only 6 percent of
public early - childhood
education and child - care
dollars in the United States go to programs for children who have not yet reached their third birthday.
To me, one of the most significant planks
in Obama's
education platform isn't
in his
education platform at all - it's
in his poverty platform: his pledge to replicate Geoffrey Canada's Harlem Children's Zone
in 20 cities across the United States, as
public / private partnerships, with the federal government's share of the bill coming to as much as a few billion
dollars.
But Kolb says he knows talks are going on about the top two remaining issues, renewing New York City's rent laws and an
education tax credit for donors who give up to a million
dollars to fund scholarships for poor children
in private schools and fund afterschool activities at
public schools.
What started out as a small, off - budget, temporary surcharge on insurance to help pay for charity care, hospital debt and graduate medical
education as New York hospitals deregulated
in the late 1990s, has ballooned over 19 years into a multibillion -
dollar all - purpose revenue fund that supports dozens of
public health programs, and plugs billion -
dollar holes
in the state's general budget.
Joined by New York State Senator Timothy Kennedy Wednesday at the Tifft Nature Preserve
in Buffalo, leaders of several science and nature
education centers warned that their ability to fully serve the
public - and remain important contributors to the local economy - may be
in jeopardy if they lose state funding as a part of Albany's multi-billion
dollar budget crisis.
And it's something Gov. Andrew Cuomo believes would be a disaster for the state, assuming billions of
dollars in county Medicaid costs just as the state has pulled out of the recession and is trying to spend money on more
education aid, free tuition at
public colleges and upgrade aging water systems.
The ranks of the anti-Cuomo protestors were stronger, with more than 1,000 teachers and
public education advocates marching through the Empire State Plaza concourse, clogging security checkpoints into the Capitol and rallying on the Million
Dollar Staircase
in a boisterous protest of the governor's plan.
The Success Academy charter school network has filed an appeal to a state
Education Department ruling that the network must sign a mandated contract
in order to receive
public dollars for its pre-K programs.
NYC
Public Advocate Tish James is demanding that the Department of
Education withdraw a potential billion -
dollar contract with a computer firm that was implicated
in a kickback scandal doing similar work for the city.
In his «100 - day action plan to Make America Great Again,» Trump announced the School Choice and
Education Opportunity Act, which, among other proposals, would redirect education dollars to give parents the right to send their child to the public, private, charter, magnet, religious or home school of thei
Education Opportunity Act, which, among other proposals, would redirect
education dollars to give parents the right to send their child to the public, private, charter, magnet, religious or home school of thei
education dollars to give parents the right to send their child to the
public, private, charter, magnet, religious or home school of their choice.
One of the most polarizing issues
in Governor Cuomo's budget is an
education tax credit that would allow donors of up to one million
dollars to
public and private schools to receive a tax benefit.
ALBANY — More than 1,000 teachers and
public education advocates marched through the Empire State Plaza concourse on Monday, clogging security checkpoints into the Capitol and rallying on the Million
Dollar Staircase
in a boisterous protest of Governor Andrew Cuomo's
education reform proposals.
The State
Education Department dealt Success Academy a blow on Friday afternoon, ruling that the charter network would have to sign a city - mandated contract
in order to receive
public dollars for its pre-Kindergarten program.
State
education department commissioner MaryEllen Elia ruled
in February that Success needed to sign the contract granting the city oversight over its pre-K program
in order to receive
public dollars.
The Success Academy charter school network is challenging a recent blow to its pre-Kindergarten program - and its political standing - by filing an appeal to a State
Education Department ruling that the network must sign a mandated contract
in order to receive
public dollars for its pre-K programs.
Moskowitz's lawyers have informed city officials they will not sign a mandatory contract allowing the
Education Department to oversee the charter's pre-K program, officials said — even though her privately run Success Academy network seeks thousands of
dollars in public funds for each student.
Obama also gave a shout out to Subra Suresh, marking his first day as director of the National Science Foundation; plugged the Administration's spending on STEM
education; and highlighted a private - sector initiative, called Changing the Equation,
in which hundreds of companies and organizations are adding their
dollars to
public investments
in science
education.
As online learning gains share and transforms our
education system, for some time I have argued that foundations and philanthropists would be wise to spend their
dollars in moving
public policy, creating proof points, and the like to create smarter demand and not invest on the supply side
in the technology products and solutions themselves.
«If you think Common Core snuck up on families with the less than 1 percent of
education dollars the Obama administration dangled
in front of states, just wait until more
public and private schools are directly accepting federal control through federal vouchers and the next Democratic administration decides they want to tell these schools what to teach kids.»
Most of the crucial decisions about how U.S. schools run and who teaches what to whom
in which classrooms are still made
in 14,000 semi-autonomous school districts, nearly all of them run by locally elected school boards, often with campaign
dollars supplied by those with whom they negotiate collectively, and managed by professional superintendents, trained
in colleges of
education and socialized over the years into the prevailing culture of
public education.
«I can tell you this — if you gave the American people a choice today between using federal
dollars to renovate and build new
public schools or using
public tax
dollars to pay for private school vouchers, there would be no question how the American people would vote,» asserted U.S. Secretary of
Education Richard W. Riley
in a speech made when the report was released.
TIMSS does not include data on spending, so current national
public spending per student
in secondary
education in international
dollars was calculated on the basis of UNESCO and World Bank data.
My paper was published
in Rick Hess» book With the Best of Intentions, and it concluded that trying to reshape
public education through the sheer financial force of philanthropic
dollars was futile — like pouring buckets of water into the sea.
Since gaining prominence through the support of economist Milton Friedman decades ago, school vouchers, which subsidize student tuition at private and parochial schools with
public dollars, are one of the most controversial ideas
in education policy.
Billions
in federal economic - stimulus
dollars are slated to be spent to help improve
public education, but Americans relying on traditional news outlets are likely to find out little, if anything, about what that effort might mean for the schools
in their communities, a new report suggests.
Findings about the nature and quality of children's experiences
in early
education settings should spark an interest
in raising the quality of classroom supports broadly available to young children, particularly
in settings funded with
public dollars.
Almost 20 years ago, I wrote a long
public letter to Bill Gates that drew lessons from earlier philanthropic efforts
in K - 12
education — including many billions of
dollars wasted by the likes of Ford, Rockefeller, and Annenberg.
Twenty years and billions of
dollars since the first personal computers were plugged into the nation's schools, policymakers and the
public are finally starting to demand evidence that their investments
in education technology have been worthwhile.
According to the National Center for
Education Statistics, the average salary of a
public school teacher was up about 6 percent
in real
dollars since it began tracking the data during the 1969 — 1970 school year.
Putting her
in charge of the Department of
Education really is an insult to all of the many teachers and educators and principals and so many Americans who have come through our public schools, who have had a chance in this economy to make it in their lives in part due to this commitment of America to public schools, which we need to invest in more versus the sort of alternatives that Betsy DeVos has pushed, including charter schools that have sucked billions out of our public education system and that have resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars
Education really is an insult to all of the many teachers and educators and principals and so many Americans who have come through our
public schools, who have had a chance
in this economy to make it
in their lives
in part due to this commitment of America to
public schools, which we need to invest
in more versus the sort of alternatives that Betsy DeVos has pushed, including charter schools that have sucked billions out of our
public education system and that have resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars
education system and that have resulted
in hundreds of millions of
dollars of fraud.
And even though its official address is a post office box, everyone involved
in education reform knows that this particular mail slot means a half - billion
dollars a year to help fix our
public schools.
«
Public education is the use of public dollars to educate our children at the schools that are best equipped to do so — public schools, magnet schools, charter schools, Baptist schools, Jewish schools, or other innovations in educ
Public education is the use of
public dollars to educate our children at the schools that are best equipped to do so — public schools, magnet schools, charter schools, Baptist schools, Jewish schools, or other innovations in educ
public dollars to educate our children at the schools that are best equipped to do so —
public schools, magnet schools, charter schools, Baptist schools, Jewish schools, or other innovations in educ
public schools, magnet schools, charter schools, Baptist schools, Jewish schools, or other innovations
in education.
Just this year, the Office of Chinese Language Council International — or Hanban, an affiliate of China's Ministry of
Education — committed millions of
dollars to help launch several ventures with U.S. schools, including a program
in North Carolina to offer Mandarin Chinese classes
in 45
public schools...
The report by the nonprofit Grantmakers for
Education, issued last week, also notes a growing interest
in collaboration among funders, as well as increased attention to fueling educational innovations and providing
dollars to support advocacy and
public - policy work.
Todd Ziebarth, vice president for policy for the National Alliance for
Public Charter Schools, said he thinks states such as Washington are «
in for a rude awakening,» when the federal
education dollars don't flow into state coffers.
During this reauthorization process, NSBA has worked closely with lawmakers on both sides of the aisle to advocate for a modernized
education law that affirms the importance of local governance, protects federal investments
in Title I grants for disadvantaged students, and prevents the diversion of
public tax
dollars for private use.
GCI recommends changes to the financial oversight of charter schools that it believes will safeguard the
public's investment
in education while providing transparency regarding how tax
dollars are being 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.
During the reauthorization process, there was a collective effort by NSBA and local school board members to advocate before Members of Congress for a modernized
education law that underscores the importance of local governance, protects federal investments
in Title I grants for disadvantaged students, and prevents the diversion of
public tax
dollars for private use.
Steve Barr founded Green Dot
Public Schools in 1999 with the vision of transforming secondary education in California by creating a number of high - performing charter high schools using available public do
Public Schools
in 1999 with the vision of transforming secondary
education in California by creating a number of high - performing charter high schools using available
public do
public dollars.
Education activists
in Chicago are fighting for an ordinance that would direct hundreds of millions of
dollars in to Chicago
Public Schools.
Worse, parents who have little say
in how tax
dollars flowing to
public education are spent become discouraged from being actively involved
in their children's academic development.
In total, states spend around $ 800 billion tax
dollars per year funding
public education.
In 2015, Mississippi became just the 3rd state to approve some form of
education scholarship accounts, where parents withdraw their child from a
public school and receive a deposit of their child's state
education dollars into a government authorized savings account.
The right wing Walton Family Foundation gave over $ 4 million
dollars to fund the destruction of
public education in Milwaukee
in 2014.
Throughout Washington, D.C., and around the country, parents are raising hundreds of thousands — even millions — of
dollars to provide additional programs, services, and staff to some of their districts» least needy schools.7 They are investing more money than ever before: A recent study showed that, nationally, PTAs» revenues have almost tripled since the mid-1990s, reaching over $ 425 million
in 2010.8 PTAs provide a small but growing slice of the funding for the nation's
public education system.
Moreover, advocates should keep
in mind that school districts
in participating states access Medicaid
dollars directly to pay for medically necessary services for students with disabilities.70 The Individuals with Disabilities
Education Act requires that districts provide all necessary services and resources to afford every child a «free appropriate public education,» and some medically related supports qualify for Medicaid reimbursement.71 With less Medicaid funding statewide to meet that guarantee, states and districts would have to siphon money from other education funding streams to afford necessary medical services that support the learning of students with disa
Education Act requires that districts provide all necessary services and resources to afford every child a «free appropriate
public education,» and some medically related supports qualify for Medicaid reimbursement.71 With less Medicaid funding statewide to meet that guarantee, states and districts would have to siphon money from other education funding streams to afford necessary medical services that support the learning of students with disa
education,» and some medically related supports qualify for Medicaid reimbursement.71 With less Medicaid funding statewide to meet that guarantee, states and districts would have to siphon money from other
education funding streams to afford necessary medical services that support the learning of students with disa
education funding streams to afford necessary medical services that support the learning of students with disabilities.