Sentences with phrase «including scholarship schools»

At events in Lafayette, Baton Rouge, Metairie and New Orleans parents and educators shared the positive impact of Louisiana's many educational choice options — including scholarship schools, -LSB-...]

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Combined (including Dalhousie law and the soon - to - be-settled school of education), they comprise 15,000 students and more than 2,500 faculty, have annual spending of $ 270 million, occupy 1.6 million square feet and give out 6,000 scholarships.

As the scholarship race has intensified, several of the most prominent business schools, including Wharton, the University of Chicago's Booth School, and Duke's Fuqua School of Business, no longer disclose their average scholarship grants, and even fewer want to discuss the topic.

This includes a $ 37 million pledge to the University of Washington School of Social work, $ 11 million for scholarships to Washington residents in STEM fields, a $ 50 million pledge to the University of Oregon for scholarships and obesity prevention, and about $ 60 million to Harvard's computer science facility.

Other schools such as Robert Morris University and University of Pikeville are expanding the concept of collegiate sports to include video games by creating eSports teams, offering scholarships to gamers, and building eSports facilities.

When a school accepts you, the financial aid office will send you a letter with your financial aid options, which might include scholarships and loans.

In the Poway and Rancho Bernardo areas, at least 400 families reportedly lost their homes, including Poway High tight end Ryan Deehan, who has received scholarship offers from more than 20 schools including Arizona State, Colorado and Oregon.

Ashley received a $ 10,000 scholarship from AXA Equitable Financial Services for her leadership and community involvement, including her role in initiating the Fuel Up to Play 60 club at her school.

Scholarships include funds for completion of high school and college programs, graduate study, and support for first - time attendees at various meetings and conferences.

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In settling the D.C. lawsuit, Chartwells agreed to make $ 14 million in credits and payments to the school system and committed to provide $ 5 million in philanthropic support for the schools, including $ 4 million to the D.C. Public Education Fund for «innovative programs» and $ 1 million to several nonprofit organizations that promote literacy and provide mentors, college scholarships and academic enrichment.

Business, state, and civil actors from various parts of the world — including high profile investors like George Soros — have spent lavishly on events, scholarships, summer schools, training programmes, and media while campaigning to secure specific political outcomes.

Cuomo and Senate Republicans have been aligned on a number of key issues, including keeping a cap on local property tax increases permanent, as well as a tax credit for donations to public schools and private school scholarship programs.

Other forms of support he said he gave to the constituency in the educational sector include the provision of 1,100 teachers» note 3 lesson notes books for schools, 10 packets of roofing sheets for schools, disbursement of Gh cents 10,000 as scholarship packages for students, construction of 4 classroom blocks in four communities (Bugri, Bugpiigu, Gagbiri Natinga and Kugur), roofing of a classroom block at Bulpielise and rehabilitation of a kindergarten block at Bugri Natinga.

The Executive Budget includes an Education Tax Credit (ETC) that would provide individuals and businesses with a substantial credit against income taxes owed for donations to private and public schools, or scholarship organizations.

$ 8 million is included in the budget for STEM - related scholarships to SUNY and CUNY schools, but not private universities.

Cuomo's previous proposal, which he included in the state budget before it was rejected by lawmakers, offered $ 50 million each for donors to scholarship funds and public schools, up to $ 100 million total.

The featured speaker for Saturday's luncheon was Sergio Fernández de Córdova, an internationally recognized entrepreneur and philanthropist, and it also included an awards presentation of Unidad Latina scholarships to 20 college - bound high school seniors of $ 2,000 each.

These programs include need - based scholarships, after - school programs for under - served youth, in - school arts education programs, arts enrichment for Port Chester Head Start, a dance program for people with Parkinson's Disease, and more.

Proceeds from the Night of MAGIC will benefit many YMCA programs including: Teen Programs, Youth and Government, Early Childhood Centers, After School Programs, Summer Day Camp and will provide youth scholarships.

The bill includes tax credits for donors who give money for scholarships for children at private and parochial schools.

The education tax credit, a proposal lobbied for by Cardinal Timothy Dolan, would allow for private donations to public schools and create scholarship programs for needy students to receive access to private education, including parochial schools.

Also included in Cuomo's address was a proposal to provide full scholarships to SUNY or CUNY students who are in the top 10 percent of their high school class and choose to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering or math — if they agree to work in - state for five years after graduation.

In addition to the scholarship fund, Say Yes created programming and services in city schools, including afterschool programs, legal services and family counseling.

Republicans said nothing during the debate over the «big ugly,» which also included about $ 25.8 billion in funding for public schools, revived the 421 - a housing subsidy program, creates a new scholarship program for public colleges, included billions for water infrastructure, spurs municipal service consolidation and extended the state's expiring millionaires tax for two years.

The Michael Frey Foundation provides educational scholarships for students in Eastchester, Tuckahoe and Bronxville, including a special scholarship for students who follow in Michael's footsteps by attending Immaculate Conception School and then Archbishop Stepinac High School in White Plains.

• Providing these students with financial - planning advice early on, including information on private need - and merit - based scholarships, private loans, and school loans, as well as creating paid opportunities like paid research and internships.

These uncertainty - reduction strategies included seeking social support from friends, family, or academic counselors; socializing with friends to take a break from sports and school pressures; negotiating with coaches in an attempt to raise their scholarship; and sometimes concealing their athlete status from peers to minimize people befriending them for the wrong reasons, or prevent negative stereotypes.

Then in high school I played three sports including volleyball, basketball and soccer which ultimately earned me a scholarship to Virginia Commonwealth University.

At 17, I got accepted into my dream school — dream scholarship included.

According to the Panthers Charities website, programs include scholarships for high school and collegiate student - athletes, grants for.

January 9, 2013 • Top schools often offer scholarships that not only include free tuition, but also free room and board for top students from poor families.

Nonprofits, including the Children's Scholarship Fund, founded in 1998, have provided vouchers to help low - income families afford private schools, and some are using the money to home school.

AmeriCorps awards scholarships to individuals who perform at least 1,700 hours of secular public service in programs sponsored by a wide range of organizations, including more than 1,600 schools, both public and religious.

Many programs, including TBB, offer need - based scholarships, but accessing those funds requires both information and guidance, a tall order in urban schools where a single college counselor can have 700 students on his or her caseload.

I focus here on scholarship usage because that specific measure of program impact is easily understood, is relevant to policymakers, and preserves the control group as the natural representation of what would have happened to the treatment group absent the program, including the fact that some of them would have attended private school on their own.

Trump's conception, now reinforced by the DeVos appointment, promotes choice, broadly construed, to authorize charter schools, vouchers and opportunity scholarships including public, private, for profit, and maybe even religious schools.

Included in the two - year state budget is a provision that more than quadruples the size of the EdChoice Scholarship Program over the next two years, ultimately resulting in up to 60,000 students having access to private school choice by the 2012 - 2013 school year.

This philanthropy has invested in public education in the Big Apple schools in countless ways, including recently in green - career training and scholarships for students protecting the environment.

In addition to drop - in tutoring, 826's program includes field trips, in - school visits, and college scholarships — plus professional publishing: Tutors help classes devise a theme for a book, but the students do all the creative work, and learn firsthand about the publishing process.

The statement includes a list of these developments: the US Supreme Court ruled scholarships constitutional; numerous studies showed these programs benefit needy kids; families empowered with this choice express great satisfaction; urban districts continue to struggle despite great effort; chartering hasn't created enough high - quality seats; and smart accountability systems can ensure only high - quality private schools participate in these programs.

The bill, which House members also approved last Tuesday, includes provisions for the establishment of a Center for Educational Excellence at Indiana University; a $ 96 - million fund to encourage top students to become teachers; a $ 24 - million program of federal merit scholarships; and a $ 100 - million fund to train school administrators.

I've always found the president's blind spot on private - school choice troubling given his own schooling, which included St. Francis of Assisi and the prestigious Punahou School in Honolulu, which he attended from grades five to twelve — on a scholaschool choice troubling given his own schooling, which included St. Francis of Assisi and the prestigious Punahou School in Honolulu, which he attended from grades five to twelve — on a scholaSchool in Honolulu, which he attended from grades five to twelve — on a scholarship.

They include Jim Barksdale, the former chief operating officer of Netscape, who gave $ 100 million to establish an institute to improve reading instruction in Mississippi; Eli Broad, the home builder and retirement investment titan, whose foundation works on a range of management, governance, and leadership issues; Michael Dell, the founder of Dell Computers, whose family foundation is valued at $ 1.2 billion and is a major supporter of a program that boosts college going among students of potential but middling accomplishment; financier and buyout specialist Theodore J. Forstmann, who gave $ 50 million of his own money to help poor kids attend private schools; David Packard, a former classics professor who also is a scion of one of the founders of Hewlett - Packard and has given $ 75 million to help California school districts improve reading instruction; and the Walton Family Foundation, which benefits from the fortune of the founder of Wal - Mart, and which is the nation's largest supporter of charter schools and private school scholarships (see «A Tribute to John Walton,»).

I am a fierce supporter of school choice — and that includes vouchers, tax credits, opportunity scholarships and all the other devices that make private schools part of the choice equation — and I am broadly on team two, believing we have a moral obligation to empower parents with more choices and greater freedom in how they choose to educate their child.

As a young girl from Queens, Natasha Daniella Rivera participation in programs run by Prep for Prep — a leadership development organization for gifted students of color in New York City public schools — opened doors to many opportunities including a scholarship to an elite private school and paid internships.

In a Show - Me Institute poll released in May 2007, 67 percent of Missouri voters and 77 percent of African Americans said they favored a law that would «give individuals and businesses a credit on either their property or state income taxes for contributions they make to education scholarships that help parents send their children to a school of their choice, including public, private, and religious schools.»

Many people had expected the administration's tax plan to include a tax credit for donations to private school scholarship foundations.

While the CTBA report never mentions the reduction in state allocations to district schools resulting from vouchers or scholarships in its discussion of the impact on state spending, it does include a section lamenting the loss of revenue to the district schools.

The Islamic Academy of Florida received about $ 300,000 last year through a state program that facilitates privately financed scholarships to allow needy K - 12 students to attend private schools, including religious schools.