Sentences with phrase «millions go to charter schools»

«Talk is cheap, and you can postulate all you want, but the reality is that those of us who have seen millions go to charter schools and program cuts in our Buffalo schools know the reality,» said Philip Rumore, president of the Buffalo Teachers Federation.

Of that amount $ 2.3 million went to charter schools that failed (about 10 percent of funds).

Not exact matches

NYSUT and its labor allies are going nuclear over the Senate Democrats» push to pass a charter school bill today, accusing the majority of abandoning its principles to inoculate members against the millions of dollars pro-charter advocates have threatened to spend in the fall elections.

The legislative leaders and the governor made some progress yesterday, reportedly reaching a deal on education that adds $ 300 million in additional spending to the $ 807 million boost Cuomo proposed, spends $ 340 million on pre-K — most of which is going to NYC — and also hikes per - pupil state aid for charter schools, though they would have to agree to be audited by the state comptroller.

The Senate bill has further changes, such as including donations made to charter schools and expanding the pool of available credits, capping it at $ 150 million for calendar year 2017, $ 225 million for 2018 and $ 300 million for 2019 going forward.

One of the 2003 allocations went to Self - Help Ventures Fund in Durham, North Carolina, which will use its $ 75 million allotment to originate loans for commercial and community facilities, including charter schools.

For example, in 2011, charter schools in Washington, D.C., paid $ 3.2 million in rent to the D.C. archdiocese, which distributed it to support local parishes in 2011 — a substantial portion ($ 900,000 a year) went toward tuition assistance for students in remaining Catholic schools.

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,»).

Of the $ 200 million committed, nearly $ 90 million went towards teacher back - pay, staff incentives and buyouts, $ 58 million towards the expansion of charter schools and $ 21 million to consultants from what one teacher called the «school failure industry» — some charging $ 1000 a day for so - called «systems change.»

In addition, $ 250 million would go to create vouchers for private schools, and $ 167 million for charter schools.

A huge chunk of money — $ 727 million — goes to charter schools, which compete with traditional public schools for resources in Philadelphia.

Millions of dollars of local funding will now go to privately owned charter schools.

According to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), public charter school enrollments have gone up by 1.7 million in the past decade.

As a result of their «education reform» initiatives, well over $ 100 million in taxpayer funds will go to charter schools rather than the state's local public school system.

(Calif.) Hundreds of millions of dollars would be reserved for building or remodeling charter schools and career - technical education facilities under terms of a school construction bond measure set to go before voters next year.

Here are a few examples: the for - profit company will install their own handpicked boards that in turn hire the company for «management,» and these fees routinely cost up to 15 % of the school's FTE; the for - profit company will demand that parents purchase supplies directly from the school itself, which is often another LLC that charges exorbitant rates for the basics; in many cases, the biggest part of the scam is one LLC (e.g. Red Apple Development, the construction arm of Charter Schools USA) will purchase land to build the school on and then turn around and charge the school (read: taxpayers) rent that is substantially higher than the going rate / property value, sometimes as high as a million dollars a year.

If a district's per - pupil expenditure is $ 15,000, when a 100 - student charter school opens, that district will lose $ 15 million that will now go to the new charter school.

: You know, Nickie, that reminds me of another question I had about this budget, which goes to strategy... The budget says there will be $ 68 million for charter schools.

We also have about $ 21 million of our Title One budget that goes to our choice schools and our charter schools.

16) New York: New York City's tab for charter school rent is going up 63 % this year, to $ 44 million, from $ 27 million last year.

Most of the $ 27 million in federal grants that four California - based charter school organizations received this month to expand their operations will go toward growing schools in out - of state markets.

And thanks to Presidents George W. Bush and Barak Obama, federal law provides that failing schools can be handed over to charter school management companies... and with it hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer funds going to private charter school corporations to run public schools.

Again, even though the local board of education voted against the proposal and testified against the project before the State Board of Education and the Connecticut General Assembly, less Connecticut taxpayer funds will be going to public schools and instead, a Bronx charter school company will be getting millions so that it can open a charter school in the Governor's hometown.

Out of a total budget of $ 118 million for 15,000 students, the Lynn KIPP charter school takes $ 8 million a year for 800 students, a difference of over $ 2,000 per pupil going to charter schools compared with district schools.

The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools said in a recent report that nearly 2.9 million, or more than 6 percent of students, now go to charter sCharter Schools said in a recent report that nearly 2.9 million, or more than 6 percent of students, now go to charter sSchools said in a recent report that nearly 2.9 million, or more than 6 percent of students, now go to charter scharter schoolsschools.

Another $ 500 million — a major increase from last year — would go to expand charter schools and $ 98 million to magnet schools.

This means that the extra $ 1 million dollars goes to NHA instead of the individual charter schools.