Sentences with phrase «incarceration than education»

Traditional classroom settings & structure can feel more like incarceration than education.

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The annual cost of incarceration for a single juvenile is over $ 100,000 — more than twice as high as tuition at the most expensive college in the country, according to the American Correctional Association and the Chronicle of Higher Education.

Last year, Cuomo announced a plan that would have used state funds to pay for college for prison inmates, arguing that the investment would save taxpayer dollars in the long run because incarceration is more expensive than education.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo argued today that Mayor Bill de Blasio's resistance to closing the city's famous — and infamous — island incarceration complex is little more than political obstinacy and inertia, and took a shot at his rival Democrat «s education policies while he was at it.

A study conducted by the University of California at Los Angeles found that «[a] $ 1 million investment in incarceration will prevent about 350 crimes, while that same investment in education will prevent more than 600 crimes.

Let's dedicate $ 100 million to transform every failing school in New York into a comprehensive, holistic, full - service community school and change the basic education system in this state and stop the cycle of incarceration in this state and paying for problems, rather than stopping the problems at an early age.

Additionally, Duncan repeatedly called attention to the nation's disinterest in funding education initiatives as opposed to financially supporting incarceration, which he noted was higher than any other country in the world.

Fewer than half of the male Black and Hispanic students graduate, which, given the correlation between education and incarceration rates, means that where the road to life - chances divides, these young men are more likely to be propelled along the route that leads through prison rather than that leading through college.

Our girls should not be looking at a future where the likelihood of incarceration is greater than a university education, and nor should our boys.