Sentences with phrase «million from public schools»

Today's discussion coincided with the release of the House budget proposal, which includes provisions for a school voucher program that would siphon $ 50 million from public schools over the next two years.

Gov. Walker has proposed cutting $ 127 million from public schools next year.

Under Governor Scott Walker's education budget, vouchers would siphon $ 101.5 million from public schools.

Charter school experts at the University of Washington say claims that charters would drain $ 100 million from public schools is bunk.

Senator Elizabeth Warren has announced her opposition to a Massachusetts ballot measure that would expand the number of charter schools in the state, draining hundreds of millions from public schools every year.

Not exact matches

, an educational gaming platform used by 50 million monthly users in grades K - 12, includes in its new report responses from 580 US teachers, primarily from public schools, who answered questions about technology in their classrooms.

These are obvious questions to ask, but according to a massive new analysis of more than 45 million public school students nationwide from Stanford's Sean Reardon (hat tip to Business Insider for the pointer), they can actually be misleading cues to focus on.

Given Osiris's strong five - year record of growth and profitability, Bowers was able to help make Miller's wishes come true: he structured a deal that raised $ 13 million from a large local pension fund — the Pennsylvania Public School Employees Retirement System (see «What Pension Funds Want,» [Article link]-RRB--- by selling a package of subordinated debt and convertible preferred stock, which included a fixed interest rate and dividend yield.

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.

These resources include private sector dollars, the community partners that support LA's Promise schools, and the millions of public sector dollars that flow from the state and federal governments.»

Thanks to a $ 5 million grant from the Walmart Foundation, Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom has raised the profile for BIC in public schools.

Chicago Public Schools won an extra $ 11 million from the state to expand preschool programs for disadvantaged children next school year, but the district doesn't plan to create new programs with the money.

CCSD's School Nutrition program, which serves more than 5 million meals each year in school cafeterias, has won the Golden Radish Award at the Gold Level from the Georgia's Departments of Agriculture, Public Health, Education and Georgia OrgSchool Nutrition program, which serves more than 5 million meals each year in school cafeterias, has won the Golden Radish Award at the Gold Level from the Georgia's Departments of Agriculture, Public Health, Education and Georgia Orgschool cafeterias, has won the Golden Radish Award at the Gold Level from the Georgia's Departments of Agriculture, Public Health, Education and Georgia Organics.

Every day hundreds, thousands, millions of people are having public conversations debating everything from Justin Bieber's haircut to what «healthy school food» really means.

Earlier this month it was announced that almost 700 California public schools would be awarded more than $ 16 million, from three different grants, to help school cafeterias.

Our one - of - a-kind energy is what has been attracting innovators, freedom riders, and immigrants from every other place on Earth, what has more than 2.6 million people waking up here every day, what has young scholars selecting our schools, and what has the public and private sectors investing billions of dollars here.

America could lose more than a million jobs if the Senate votes to repeal the Affordable Care Act, according to a report from George Washington University's Milken Institute School of Public Health and the Commonwealth Fund.

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While the budget allocated $ 146 million to early childhood education and after - school programming, Public Advocate Bill de Blasio said city officials had missed a chance to restore cuts from previous years.

For eight years, she's been the lightning rod of the charter movement, raising millions from hedge funders and foundations as she aggressively worked her close connections to the Bloomberg administration to take over space in public schools.

The former Buffalo Public School 63 was dilapidated and converted to a 44 - unit affordable housing complex thanks to a $ 16 million investment from New York State.

While waiting for district - by - district allotment information, sources said Buffalo Public Schools are in line for a 3.36 percent school aid hike from the current year, up $ 6.8 million over Cuomo's plan in January.

And between 2008 and 2013, New York City public schools lost 202 certified, school - based arts teachers; school spending on arts and cultural organizations, which provided arts programming for students, declined 47 percent, from $ 25.7 million to $ 13.6 million.

New York City's new public schools chief wants to shift $ 210 million away from charter schools to pay for Mayor Bill de Blasio's planned expansion of prekindergarten programs.

During his testimony last week, De Blasio also complained that Cuomo's budget plan shifts $ 198.3 million from the city Department of Education to charter schools Cuomo noted that students who attend charters are public school students, too.

Long Island's public schools, after more than $ 80 million spent on cleanup, repairs and renovations from damage caused by Superstorm Sandy, still lack adequate safeguards against flooding and power losses that caused massive disruptions of classes five years ago, educators said.

«What I didn't get from the City Council, I got from the agencies, because I'm a great leader,» Mr. Barron said, noting he also obtained $ 80 million for schools in his district from the Bloomberg administration and oversaw the refurbishment of three public parks.

In a preliminary injunction made public yesterday, a court ordered that the State can not withhold $ 260 million in aid from NYC schools in response to the City and teachers» union failing to reach an agreement on a new teacher evaluation system.

More than 1,000 Boston public school students staged a walkout on March 7 to protest the city's plan to cut up to $ 12 million from the Boston Public Schools bpublic school students staged a walkout on March 7 to protest the city's plan to cut up to $ 12 million from the Boston Public Schools bPublic Schools budget.

«I don't know how raising an extra $ 50 million for traditional public school and school improvement organizations is taking money away from public education,» Bradford said.

Urban Assembly — a profession - focused public school with an urban farming program — received $ 2 million from Growing Brooklyn's Future and an additional $ 1.05 million from City Councilwoman Laurie Cumbo's office.

Corbett, a Republican, proposes chopping $ 34.1 million from the Pittsburgh public schools, slashing funding for state universities, giving a free hand to districts in laying off teachers and imposing a one - year freeze on the wages of public school employees.

The unions say the changes could cost city public schools over $ 183 million from increased charter tuition and payments for charter personnel and over $ 88 million for the increase in rental assistance.

Leaders from state, education, and the healthcare industry announced the addition of $ 1.3 million to funding for the Buffalo Public Schools» health related programs, Thursday morning.

Topics in the Q&A included the source of money for the City's planned pre-K advertising campaign, the City's target number of pre-K applicants, whether Speaker Silver thinks the proposed income tax surcharge should be pursued next year, how the pre-K selection process will work, how the City will cover the approximately $ 40 million annual gap between the estimated cost of pre-K and the amount provided in the state budget, when parents will learn whether their pre-K application has been accepted, how the City will collect data and measure success of the pre-K program, whether the existing pre-K application process will be changed, how the City will use money from the anticipated school bond issue, the mayor's reaction to a 2nd Circuit ruling that City may bar religious groups from renting after - hours space in public schools, the status on a proposed restaurant in Union Square, a tax break included in the state budget that provides millions of dollars to a Bronx condominium project, the «shop & frisk» meeting today between the Rev. Al Sharpton and Police Commissioner Bratton and a pending HPD case against a Brooklyn landlord.

After nearly 20 years of trying to redevelop the former public school he bought from the city at an auction for $ 3.15 million in 1999, Singer on Wednesday filed a lawsuit in federal court claiming local elected officials and neighborhood groups have conspired to block the project.

She estimated Buffalo schools would be owed more than $ 100 million in aid from the state, had Albany followed the decision that came out of a landmark school funding lawsuit won by the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, a group Nixon got involved with when her oldest teenager began as a kindergarten student in a New York City public school.

Combining data from four different databases to look at injury occurrence and reporting in the Philadelphia Fire Department, researchers from the Firefighter Injury Research & Safety Trends (FIRST) program of Drexel's Dornsife School of Public Health discovered that, once injuries were more accurately coded, the difference in workers» compensation costs was as much as $ 1 million for some injuries.

In the current study, the researchers analyzed data from 1.7 million K - 12 students in Ohio who attended a traditional public school, charter school, or an online charter school between the 2009 - 10 and 2012 - 13 school years.

When the White House thought advanced technology meant little more than Stealth bombers and smart missiles, Al Gore was a senator from Tennessee seeking $ 500 million to study how the Internet could be extended for use by schools, hospitals and other public organisations.

Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have genetically modified mosquitoes to resist infection from dengue virus, a virus that sickens an estimated 96 million people globally each year and kills more than 20,000, mostly children.

In a 2015 report published in PLOS ONE, a team from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found that Lyme disease costs the U.S. healthcare system between $ 712 million and $ 1.3 billion a year in return doctor visits and testing.

A single foodborne outbreak could cost a restaurant millions of dollars in lost revenue, fines, lawsuits, legal fees, insurance premium increases, inspection costs and staff retraining, a new study from researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health suggests.

Analyzing millions of internet searches tied to major societal events offers a new way to understand public reaction to those events, according to new research from the Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health at Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapublic reaction to those events, according to new research from the Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health at Indiana University - Purdue University IndianaPublic Health at Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis.

In a 2015 report published in PLOS ONE, a team from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found that Lyme disease costs the U.S. health - care system between $ 712 million and $ 1.3 billion a year in return doctor visits and testing.

AUGUSTA, Ga. — A $ 1 million gift from the Medical College of Georgia Foundation will help establish a new scholarship and further diversify the state's public medical school.

November 2, 2017 Chicago students to get hands - on cancer research experience through $ 1.9 million grant to UChicago Medicine The Chicago EYES on Cancer program will recruit students from underrepresented backgrounds and teachers from Chicago Public Schools for a two - year summer research apprenticeship.

During this same period, the number of public school teachers rose from 2.2 million to more than 3.1 million, several times the rate of increase of the students they serve, whose numbers edged up only slightly, from 44.8 million to 48.4 million.

The issues stem from health and safety concerns over serious structural problems at 10 primaries, five secondaries and two additional support schools which were built and managed under the same # 130 million public - private partnership (PPP) programme.

A coalition of nonprofit organizations and financial institutions announced that they had cobbled together a $ 36 million fund from a mix of public and private sources to pay for buildings to house five to seven charter schools in disadvantaged communities.