Sentences with phrase «many public colleges»

He attended a local Catholic high school and a big public college, the University of Massachusetts.

Brinkema also ruled that the order was «disruptive to the operation of [Virginia's] public colleges and universities,» resulting in reduced revenue, causing «anxiety, confusion, and distress» among university personnel, and «inflaming «anti-American sentiment»» abroad.

«Public colleges are often touted as a cost - effective college choice,» says Elyssa Kirkham, lead researcher on the study, «but they aren't the only affordable option.

Public colleges are more difficult to get into, and SAT and ACT scores are critical.

Tuition and fees at for - profit colleges averaged over $ 15,000 for the 2013 - 2014 school year versus about $ 8,900 for in - state tuition at a four - year public college, according to the College Board.

Attending one of these top public colleges can leave you with debt below the national average and a large return on your investment.

His remarks were instead a mashup of his campaign stump speech greatest hits, talking about criminal justice reform, a «broken economy,» free tuition at public colleges, the minimum wage and campaign finance reform.

Georgia ranks No. 1 in workforce development and has one of the largest university systems in the U.S., housing more than 50,000 annual graduates from 31 public colleges and universities.

In New York, Governor Andrew Cuomo has proposed free tuition to public colleges for residents whose families earn less than $ 125,000.

A Dangerous Intersection: States are shifting tax dollars away from public colleges just as younger generations are becoming more diverse.

That's the estimate for how much a 4 year public college will cost in 13 years.

The signature Sanders policy proposal was a plan to make public college free for all.

This much is apparently reference to the budget's promise to clarify «that commercial paid parking is subject to GST / HST when supplied by a municipality, hospital, university, public college, school or any entity established by one of these bodies.»

A surprising number of evangelicals disagree, at least for campus ministries at public colleges.

They would likely be banned from government - funded public colleges as well for their «extremist» views.

However, in 2010, the United States Supreme Court ruled in Christian Legal Society v. Martinez that a public college may enforce an «all comers» policy on a religious group without violating the First Amendment if it applied the policy universally to all groups.

While the 5 - 4 decision in Christian Legal Society v. Martinez was primarily aimed at public colleges and universities, some conservatives say the decision has upended university religious life, with both public and private schools reconsidering nondiscrimination rules.

• Lawmakers in Ohio and Arizona passed bills to ensure that public colleges and universities didn't go down the same road as Hastings.

Michael Pellegrino, of Wenonah, N.J., made public his college decision this week after a lengthy recruiting process that drew interest from many of the top teams in college soccer.

When DeVos used the expression at CPAC, she was referring to an exchange that took place with Senator Bernie Sanders during her confirmation hearing, in which Sanders asked if she supported his proposal for tuition - free public college education and she replied: «I think we also have to consider the fact that there's nothing in life that is truly free — somebody is going to pay for it.»

HB 786 passed in 2015 and effective Sept. 1, 2015 requires all public employers in Texas, including school districts, public colleges, local governments and state agencies, to provide basic accommodations to employees who pump breastmilk at work.

«By signing the MOE bill into law, you can ensure that our public colleges and universities — and our public teaching hospitals — will have the funding they need,» Adams wrote in the letter.

At the same time, the measure requires public schools, government agencies and public colleges to have multiple - occupancy bathrooms, along with locker rooms, be designated to be used only by people of their «biological sex» — or what was stated on their birth certificate.

The governor himself has argued, though, that he wants the money to fund education, including a proposed plan that would provide free tuition at public colleges for families that earn less than $ 125,000.

In just three years, two poets from the CUNY system of public colleges and universities have won the Pulitzer.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Sunday in Albany during a reception at the executive mansion pledged to push for a long - stalled effort to increase the age of criminal responsibility in New York as well as his own proposal to provide free tuition at public colleges and universities.

There is a campaign underway, backed by the SUNY Student Assembly, to designate sanctuary status on public college campuses.

In a letter to SUNY presidents and campus chief business officers, Sens. Joe Griffo and Ken LaValle pointed to Liberty Tabletop, a flatware maker, as an example of a firm that could benefit from public college contracts.

Mr. Sanders seems to be echoing President Obama, who pointed out this summer that the $ 80 billion the country spends on incarcerating people could pay for universal pre-kindergarten education, a doubling of salaries for high school teachers or the elimination of public college tuition.

Cuomo also pushed his plan to provide free tuition — beyond state and federal grants already received — for some public college students; he said 85 percent of families from the Buffalo area would be eligible to participate if his plan is adopted by the Legislature.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the recently enacted state budget included the majority of the priorities that he named in his January State of the State message, including raising the age for adult criminal responsibility from 16 to 18, providing free public college tuition for some middle - class families and allowing ride - hailing services to operate upstate.

Sanders endorsed Cuomo's plan to offer free tuition for some New York families who send their children to public colleges.

This year, Cuomo's top announcements so far included free tuition at public colleges for applicants whose household incomes are less than $ 125,000 a year.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is proposing to offer free tuition at New York public colleges to eligible New Yorkers.

ALBANY — State lawmakers spent hours Tuesday seeking — and not getting — many of the answers that they have sought over an increasingly controversial plan by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo to provide free tuition to some public college students.

After a week of criticism from the left and the right of the political spectrum, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's budget director is among those defending the state's new free public college tuition program for some middle - class students.

And according to a SUNY spokeswoman, 83 percent of public college graduates already remain in the state after they receive their degree, so the potential number of students affected by the residency requirement would be relatively small.

The Cuomo plan affects only students who attend public colleges.

Zimpher, speaking to reporters after her testimony, also punted on a question about private colleges» concerns that their enrollments will decline if the state gives free tuition to some public college students.

Lawmakers also approved legislation allowing undocumented students to tap into financial aid funds at the state's public colleges and universities.

Thanks to legislation approved by then - Governor George Pataki, children of undocumented immigrants can attend public colleges and pay the same tuition as other in - state students.

A residency requirement for college students seeking free tuition at New York's public colleges is drawing criticism.

«Public colleges should be open to the public, and ideally they should be free.»

Assemblywoman Deborah Glick, a Manhattan Democrat who chairs the Assembly's higher education committee, said she and her Democratic colleagues support free tuition at New York's public colleges.

Conservatives say Cuomo was just trying to win a headline for a potential 2020 presidential campaign by convincing the state Legislature to enact a plan to offer free tuition to middle - class students attending public colleges and universities.

Since then, Cuomo has increasingly emphasized liberal policy concerns, pushing successfully for a $ 15 minimum wage phased in downstate, as well as a plan that provides free tuition to public colleges.

Advocates for the City University of New York this week sent a letter to Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the top legislative leaders in the Senate and Assembly urging a contract for CUNY workers as well as the passage of a maintenance of effort bill to fix infrastructure problems at public college system's campuses.

The Green Party leader is a proponent of raising the minimum wage, tuition - free public college and a ban on fracking — ideals that Hawkins said Cuomo has supported, to an extent, because Green Party candidates keep running for office.

Seward also mentioned the governor's initiative to provide free public college tuition to students in families that earn less than $ 125,000 per year.

The governor also laid out some of the details of a plan to offer free tuition at public colleges to families making $ 125,000 a year or less.