Sentences with phrase «most dollars school»

The figure is a maximum estimate — a representation of the most dollars school districts would have to share if all of their area charter schools were eligible for capital aid, said Rep. Manny Diaz Jr., a Hialeah Republican who is the House pre-K-12 education budget chairman.

Not exact matches

In a Pitchbook survey of the schools with the most billion - dollar companies, Berkeley beat out legends like MIT and Michigan and placed third behind Harvard and Stanford.

Unlike the United States, most democracies think this means that tax dollars should accompany every student whether they attend government - operated or privately operated schools.

We are told over and over that there's not enough money to fix school lunch, yet we live in a country where we consistently spend 2, 3, 4 or even 5 times more for our daily coffee than we do on food for our children's school lunch, which in most school districts amounts to less than a dollar.

Talk with your children about money management and getting the most for their dollar, an important lesson to teach even before the school bell rings for the upcoming school year.

He is known as a committed advocate for public education, and co-founded the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, which won billions of dollars for city schools from the state, though most of that money has never materialized.

«Henderson later described consulting as «the most improbable business on earth»: «Can you think of anything less improbable [sic] than taking the world's most successful firms, leaders in their businesses, and hiring people just fresh out of school and telling them how to run their businesses and they are willing to pay millions of dollars for this advice?»

The same day the state United Teachers union launched a multi-million dollar ad campaign touting school achievement, Comptroller Tom DiNapoli's office finds most districts are meeting the new requirements under the recently enacted property tax cap, with «high needs» districts showing higher rates of taxation.

@Iron Mike — I don't want to leave the impression that I think Medicaid patients (many of whom are ineligible), prisoners, (most of whom belong there) and welfare recipients all share an equal right to my tax dollars along with school children.

«Most teachers do not teach tested subjects and the state must now spend many millions of dollars to test teachers of the arts, early elementary grades, physical education, and high school subjects,» she said.

Ultimately, after final budget negotiations last year, Ossining received an additional $ 2.2 Million dollars in Foundation Aid, yet remained one of the most underfunded Foundation Aid school districts in the state.

One of the most polarizing issues in Governor Cuomo's budget is an education tax credit that would allow donors of up to one million dollars to public and private schools to receive a tax benefit.

Recent studies by Sood and colleagues at USC Schaeffer Center, the USC Price School of Public Policy and the USC School of Pharmacy have found that most consumers on high - deductible plans are not comparing prices to find the best deals on services or on prescription drugs, even though the research indicates that some patients could potentially save hundreds or thousands of dollars per year.

The solar setup, the most expensive project in the retrofit, has saved the school thousands of dollars in electricity costs since its installation in October 2008, Latham says.

They hired Educational Resource Strategies (ERS) to study the distribution of dollars across students in the district and discovered that «it was the most inequitably distributed set of dollars across schools they had ever seen, by far,» said Anagnostopoulos, who also found that 25 percent of the district's costs were in building and maintenance.

And yet, when you look at the learning strategies the school embraces and you ask the faculty and students what has made the most positive difference for them, what you see and hear are not freighted with dollar signs.

So Mr. Hite is placing a controversial bet: Although scores of schools opened here this month without regular guidance counselors, nurses, or basic supplies, the superintendent is pouring millions of dollars into expanding what he considers to be three of the city's most innovative schools.

Most of the school dollar goes toward instructional staff and the people who manage them.

Million - dollar learning spaces are often not a reality for most schools.

By contrast, in the less urban area of western Contra Costa County, there are more available facilities and a growing population of students that match most charter schools» target populations — but fewer opportunities to access philanthropic dollars to start up new schools.

Rules like the so - called comparability loophole — which allows districts to use average instead of actual teacher salaries for budget calculations — mean federal dollars are not getting to the schools and students who need them the most.

Further hampering growth, the charter leaders we interviewed said that start - up dollars are the hardest to come by in the communities they consider most viable for charter school expansion.

Most public school teachers participate in defined benefit (DB) pension plans, which because of different accounting rules contribute significantly less today for each dollar of future retirement benefits than private - sector DB pensions or defined contribution (DC) pension plans.

To date, philanthropic dollars have footed the bill for most start - up costs in many personalized learning schools.

It's a useful question for policymakers who must decide how to allocate dollars for highways, health care, and schooling, but for those of us working in the K - 12 arena, the more relevant question is: How do we most wisely spend the dollars we have?

Weighted student funding (WSF) As with most major reforms of school finance, doing WSF right entails complex formulas, oft - changing allocations of money (when a kid shifts schools, for example, or moves to the next grade, or her needs change), sophisticated building - level budgeting, and the integration of dollars from multiple sources that carry different requirements.

Most people are familiar with voucher programs, where state dollars go to pay for tuition at private schools.

States have some oversight, but individual municipalities, are, in most cases, the legal entities responsible for running schools and for providing the large majority of funding through local tax dollars.

Headsets and gloves can cost hundreds of dollars, making it challenging for most school systems to provide universal access.

To tell you how life can be for someone who's poor and black or poor and Latino — everyone wants to hear that — but to tell a story about how all of a sudden that person went to one of the oldest, most prestigious boarding schools in the country with a multimillion dollar endowment, then went to Harvard Law after Harvard undergraduate?

Most of the crucial decisions about how U.S. schools run and who teaches what to whom in which classrooms are still made in 14,000 semi-autonomous school districts, nearly all of them run by locally elected school boards, often with campaign dollars supplied by those with whom they negotiate collectively, and managed by professional superintendents, trained in colleges of education and socialized over the years into the prevailing culture of public education.

Philanthropy has also contributed to this narrowing as it directed most of its K — 12 dollars toward strategies and schools that promised to boost achievement for the neediest kids.

Most districts already have some methodology, typically in the form of allocating personnel and actual goods, rather than dollar amounts, to schools.

It could move federal funds away from high - poverty schools (which get most Title I dollars today) to low - poverty ones;

• The most persistently low - performing schools in America got several million dollars, on average, and yet a third of them got worse.

The solution is to have dollars follow students and free up individual schools to spend dollars in the way that they decide makes the most sense and to hold them accountable for student outcomes, but this requires significant changes in policy and regulation.

While Iowa lawmakers raised per - pupil funding for schools, widespread declines in enrollment mean that most of the Hawkeye State's school districts will receive few of those new dollars.

«Many people go there to see what they'd like in their own green schoolyard,» she says about this «Mercedes model,» but the Tule Elk outdoor redo cost a half - million dollars more than it did a decade ago, far beyond the means of most public schools today.

Since gaining prominence through the support of economist Milton Friedman decades ago, school vouchers, which subsidize student tuition at private and parochial schools with public dollars, are one of the most controversial ideas in education policy.

Doing so would have a number of positive benefits, including 1) making sure that the taxpayer dollars devoted to this purpose are being spent on those most able to benefit, 2) encouraging students to work harder during high school to prepare themselves for college, and 3) increasing what students actually learn as opposed to the amount of seat time they acquire.

Critics have long complained that charters don't enroll the most difficult to educate students, and that they drain money from districts because public school dollars move with students to whatever school they attend.

Under the current fiscal policy, districts can spend less of their own state and local dollars on the schools with the highest needs, and most do spend millions of dollars less in these schools.

And although the factory model has never benefited more than half the students, particularly those from low - income backgrounds, government still invests most of its scarce R&D dollars (for high schools) in trying to make it better.

The department controls less than 10 percent of the nation's public school dollars, and most school closures are locally decided, he said.

The statute allows parents to apply nearly every dollar the state typically spends per pupil, almost $ 6,000 in most areas, to virtual charter schools, as long as they are authorized by the state.

With the governor squarely in charge of education, states would wield most of the authority and provide most of the money, but those dollars would follow kids to the schools of their choice, which would largely run themselves, selecting their staffs, managing their budgets, etc..

Most controversially, school choice also includes vouchers and tuition tax - credits, which allow families to use public dollars in order to send their children to private schools or provide tax credits to individuals or corporations that make donations to organizations that grant scholarships to students.

According to the most recent data from the National Center for Education Statistics, the average total cost per pupil was $ 13,692 in the 2009 - 10 school year, adjusted to 2012 dollars.

The proposal redirects hundreds of millions of dollars from public schools — often, school districts that rely most heavily on federal aid, forcing them to cut vital services or raise local property taxes.»

Objective measures of student learning help lawmakers send taxpayer dollars to the schools and districts in most need of additional support and resources.