Sentences with phrase «less overall education»

Already 35 states provided less overall education funding per pupil in the 2014 - 15 school year than they did in 2008 - 09.

Not exact matches

We know that Secular Nations tend to fair better overall... less crime; education stats are more positive.

While the demise of organized religion, specifically Catholicism, is most dramatic among young Latinos, the overall shifts are broad - based, according to Pew, affecting men and women; foreign - born and U.S. natives; college graduates and those with less formal education.

There is racial inequity: less of the overall resources are ending up in predominantly black neighborhoods, which leads to compounding issues in many areas, be it health, law, education... you get the idea.

So basically if I understand well, the major difference is that people are overall less healthy, poorer, and the public education is weaker, so that's the major cause for a slightly lower democracy index, despite fully democratic institutions and guaranteed civil liberties?

The Senate Republicans» budget restores $ 280 million worth of education cuts proposed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, eliminates $ 296 million in unfunded mandates for local governments and spend slightly less overall than the governor ($ 132.5 billion, to $ 132.9 billion)-- all without any new revenue generators (AKA taxes).

Overall, spending would be $ 1.2 million less than last year, with fewer dollars for early childhood intervention and special education programs, and more for contractual services and interest costs.

«Obviously we're disappointed that the number is flat,» says David Moore of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) in Washington, D.C.. It's not a surprise, however, because the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education had less overall money to work with than its Senate counterpart, he says.

«The irony is that quitting smoking is one of the main reasons both adults and kids use e-cigarettes, but the overall effect is less, not more, quitting,» said co-author Stanton A. Glantz, PhD, UCSF professor of medicine and director of the UCSF Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education.

These two measures can affect the overall Education Week rankings in specific cases, but they are distinctly less correlated with the composite than is the McLoone.

Applicants mothers have more years of education, more likely to be from two parent household, more parent involvement, but more likely to be minority race, lower income levels, parents are less satisfied with the public school's academics, safety, location, discipline, values, and overall.

However, overall growth in the demand for skilled workers is not enough to explain the trends in education; there must have been less growth in the demand for skilled teachers as well.

After all, education research includes a lot of disparate fields, and how scholars rank overall may sometimes be less interesting than where they rank within their field.

To fix our worst schools, $ 7 billion is really just a drop in the bucket — less than one quarter of one percent of overall education spending during that time period.

Though there has been a decline in state higher - education funding per student, states are not spending less on higher education overall; in fact, total state and local spending increased by 13.5 percent (in inflation - adjusted terms) from 1987 to 2015 nationwide.

The Bush administration released a fiscal year 2008 budget request today that includes new money to help struggling schools and a renewed push to retool high schools, but would provide less money overall for the U.S. Department of Education than a fiscal year 2007 spending bill approved by the House last week.

In its original form, the program never topped $ 500 million in federal funding — less than one - half of 1 percent of current federal education spending overall.

Its proposal would invest $ 47.1 million less than the governor in education reform measures overall, in part, by cutting the number of new charter schools from nine to four.

Using data from the same EQAO tests reporting an overall increase in reading skills, People for Education investigates why these same students report that they like reading less.

In surveys of both students and parents, respondents described middle school campuses as less safe, peer behavior as more immature and antisocial, and the overall quality of education as lower than in K - 8 schools.18

While we know that we can not simply transplant aspects of successful education nations into less successful ones, we should set not accept anything less than both high performance and high equity as our overall aim for education in England.

The National Coalition for Public Education — which includes 50 organizations, including the Children's Defense Fund and the National Urban League — has also written that portability would expand the amount of students served through Title I and result in the poorest districts getting less of overall Title I dollars.

What's more, in the remaining 41 states and Washington, D.C. — which did not increase their selectivity standards during the time period analyzed — five states — Arkansas, Washington, D.C., Massachusetts, Mississippi, and Tennessee — saw an overall decrease in the percentage of students of color among education majors, and 24 states saw less of an increase in the percentage of students of color among education majors than in their student bodies overall.

That overall finding is critically important now as Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos seems intent on the Department doing less rather than more to protect children from discrimination in suspensions and expulsions and other areas and reversing what progress has been made.

The spokesperson claimed that Tory plans to freeze spending for five to 16 - year - olds at its current level, leading to a cut in real terms and the threat of further slices from unprotected education budgets, would mean overall spending of # 5bn less than the Lib Dems by 2020.

(1) The Vergara Decision: This case pits nine Oakland public school students against the State of California, arguing that (a) granting tenure after less than two years, (b) retaining teachers during layoffs based on seniority instead of merit, and (c) the near impossibility of dismissing incompetent teachers, is harming California's overall system of public education, and is disproportionately harming public education in low income communities.

Some members of the State School Board contend federal funding accounts for less than 7 percent of the state's overall funding for education so the state should not be boot - strapped to federal laws that conflict with state law, rules or priorities.

Public school enrollment overall has decreased by less than 1 percent, but total enrollment has increased 2.81 percent with the addition of voucher students supported by the state, according to figures from the Indiana Department of Education.

In its most recent report on spending on education, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities finds, «Thirty - five states provided less overall state funding per student in the 2014 school year (the most recent year available) than in the 2008 school year.»

Not only would the LCFF allocate dollars in a more equitable way (with no district receiving less than it received in the 2012 - 13 school year) and allow districts the flexibility to address local needs, but Carranza argues that the LCFF is an important step toward raising the overall level of funding that California directs toward education.

These 1 % ers (they provide less than 1 % of overall education spending across the US) have used their money and political clout to force ineffective and harmful changes in our public schools.

Overall, 31 Connecticut communities would see an increase in aid while 138 towns would get less state funds, with many towns getting significantly less state education funding.

This means an overall improvement in the performance of students who do enter high school but may well mean less education for those who drop out.

No less than 58 percent (in New York City) and as much as 74 percent (in Atlanta, Boston, Los Angeles and New Orleans) believed that overall, charter schools improve education.

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Recent Pew Research Center survey findings echo the link between student debt and individual economic well - being.1 Among young adult college graduates, those who took out loans to finance their education are less satisfied overall with their personal financial situation than are those who did not borrow money for college.

Young adults who took out loans to finance their educations are less satisfied overall with their personal financial situation than are those who did not borrow money for college.

But what you may be surprised at is how their system for paying for college is much more efficient, resulting in lower overall education expenses and less burden for student loan borrowers after graduation.

The overall education for veterinary assistants typically takes less than six months to complete.

Without the overall context that a legal education provides, knowing what issues you should be looking for is difficult or impossible, and this is particular true in Anglo - American common law systems, where the law is embedded in an opaque network of appellate cases rather than laid out more or less completely in a carefully organized statute.

«We know that, overall, young drivers have a higher tendency to drive less safely but it is not necessarily regulation and new laws that is needed to change this, rather education and more rigorous, regular training.

Overall the report found that despite evidence showing high returns from investment, Ireland spends significantly less than other developed countries on early childhood education.

With an eye toward these long - term benefits, district leaders should integrate SECD funding into overall education budgets rather than channeling it into discrete (and less stable) line items.