Sentences with phrase «new school money»

There is, however, money for grammar schools: # 50 million has already been set aside for them and some of the new school money will also go into them.

Although $ 530 million of new school money was announced on House and Senate negotiators» decision documents late Saturday, that was premature — and inaccurate, the chief House budget writer, Rep. John Zerwas, said Wednesday.

The unmistakable picture in each of these states is that during a decade or more of court funding mandates, student performance, as measured by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (commonly referred to as the «Nation's report card»), has not measurably improved relative to other states that did not have anywhere near the same influx of new school money.

Not exact matches

Four years after Mark Zuckerberg made his $ 100 million donation to help the Newark, New Jersey, school system, most of the money is gone and critics say the city has not turned into the «symbol of educational excellence» he had hoped for.

The startup, called MBA Bee, comes out of Harvard's newly revised MBA curriculum in which student teams are given seed money by the school and then required to create a new product or service development project.

With this new money, Regeneron and the Society hope to expand the reach of their competition so that it doesn't only focus on prestigious schools.

Meanwhile, Celenza, who continues to scout for new marketing «properties» to replace BioSteel Camp, figured the firm could sponsor a Canadian high school all - star basketball game, modelled on a similar event McDonald's sponsors in the U.S. Celenza met with organizers at Canada Basketball and offered product instead of money.

It was before Federal Reserve chairwoman Janet Yellen broke the customary sphinxlike silence of her office to observe that valuations in some tech categories have become «substantially stretched,» before the tech sector eclipsed financial services as the leading destination for elite business school graduates, and before tech money made over large swaths of New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Austin, and, of course, the entire San Francisco Bay Area, where one in five working adults is employed by a tech firm.

With interest rates at sustained record lows, there has never been a better period for governments to borrow money to pay for new transit, schools and hospitals — an opportunity the U.S. government has mostly missed.

Many of the vet students I went to school with chose the most expensive apartments, ate out all the time, and some even bought new Dodge or Ford pick - up trucks with their student loan money!

NEW YORK (TheStreet)-- The stock market is throwing a huge back - to - school sale, Jim Cramer told his Mad Money viewers Thursday, and it's now claimed even the last remaining bull markets.

Desperate for money after years of neglect by the state Legislature, Palm Beach County schools may ask voters in November to approve a new tax to boost teacher salaries and supplement school security and mental health care.

There are three upcoming events I will be presenting at: Sept 11: Modern Money & Public Purpose, Jerome Greene Hall, Room 104, Columbia Law School, 435 West 116th St, New York The event will be streamed live and questions can be asked via twitter.

The Community Foundation of Greater New Britain (CFGNB) and New Britain Bees professional baseball club will join forces on Saturday, May 19, to raise money for victims of Hurricane Maria and to treat hundreds of New Britain school students and their...

First, the method is agnostic as to what the money is spent on, so money spent cleaning up an oil spill looks remarkably similar to money spent building a new hospital or school in terms of economic impact.

Its top recipient is the Charter School Growth Fund, a group that provides start up money for new charter school natioSchool Growth Fund, a group that provides start up money for new charter school natioschool nationwide.

NBC 6 found money for security at Broward schools, in most cases, is being spent on a new main entrance.

VANCOUVER — New Democrat leader Adrian Dix is calling on the Liberals to immediately fix the Pacific Carbon Trust and end the Liberal practice of taking money from schools and hospitals and using it to subsidize big polluters like Encana.

(CNN)- A New Jersey church - already a bit different in that its three congregations gather weekly at two hotels and a middle school - put a new spin on the collection plate Sunday by having congregants take cash - filled envelopes from the plate in hopes that the money will be put to charitable uNew Jersey church - already a bit different in that its three congregations gather weekly at two hotels and a middle school - put a new spin on the collection plate Sunday by having congregants take cash - filled envelopes from the plate in hopes that the money will be put to charitable unew spin on the collection plate Sunday by having congregants take cash - filled envelopes from the plate in hopes that the money will be put to charitable use.

This is doing huge damage in terms of taking money that could be invested in companies, in new businesses, but also, it was money that could be taxed by governments in Africa to build roads, provide schools, hospitals, and so on, so this is doing real damage.»

In 1974 Freire began raising the money for a new school, the Colegio O'Neil (which includes secondary as well as elementary grade levels) «I found this spot and started to build on it.

How are you about using tax money to put a big fat elephant - headed Ganesh on top of your kid's public school, or to buy new Qurans for every single student to study?

We're talking about discipline (or the lack of it), church today, new friend debriefings, the book I'm writing, the school he's trying to finish (still) and how frustrating it is to work and work and still feel like you're just barely making ends meet because I do a lot of things really well but unfortunately, none of them make us much money.

The money goes to pay for the buiding, the utilities, the maintenance, salaries for the staff (2 people including the pastor who makes less than the average member), supplies and office equipment, donations that our church sends to other churches around the world, money we send to a native American school in New Mexico, and about a dozen other groupls that we help to support.

This money has helped cultivate vital needs for those communities like electricity, healthcare, schools, clean water supplies and new farming equipment.

«My father's original plan was to come to New York, go to school, work for a few years and move home, but after he started working in a restaurant as a waiter, he saw he could make money here,» President Tommy Pipatjarasgit says.

A recent new tradition at my school is a Chili Cook Off to raise money for our band department.

When working with Guildford Public Schools, he helped rally the school community in raising enough money to receive four new salad bars from Let's Move Salad Bars to Schools.

Great majors, a new No. 1, LPGA dominance, an old school fight for the money title and the rediscovery of a vintage track too tough to die made 2011 a terrific year in golf

Sitting on the sofa, I show him a few items: newspaper and magazine pieces about the Liston fights; Ali's conversion to Islam; the arrest for refusing military induction; the epic first battle with Frazier; the Supreme Court overturning the draft conviction; Foreman being voodooed by Ali; the Thrilla in Manila; the boxing lesson he gave Spinks in their second contest; a recent article about Ali buying buses for Chicago - area public schools (immediately after seeing a TV news story about how Dade County had no money for new buses, Ali sat down, wrote a check and mailed it, not using the gift as a tax deduction); and one about helping a young man wearing a hooded dark sweatshirt and jeans who crawled out on a high window ledge of a Wilshire Boulevard skyscraper in Los Angeles to kill himself.

The money brought in by college football programs is often siphoned away to subsidize other athletic programs, so schools usually turn to donors to pay the tab for new facilities.

After shelling out all that money for new school supplies, a 12 - pack of Miller is right in my price range.

As school districts roll out these changes, they should expect lower contributions from parent organizations and put scaffolding in place for both: Teacher who rely on that outside money, and those parents who want to fundraise but need to come up with new funding methods.

Right now we have a national obesity problem, so why aren't we asking for money to raise healthier students, to support coordinated school health, for more nutrition education, more collaboration with partners, parents and the community to encourage children to try new foods, to develop recipes, to provide technical assistance and set professional standards?

But in those districts in which the company does operate under the NSLP, Justin explains how the new school food regulations can tie the hands of schools wanting to offer students the sort of appealing variety likely to attract fully paying customers (thus bringing more money into the program), and not just those students who are economically dependent on the school meal.

Along the lines of better food for less money, a new study that was covered in Medical News Today (via Slow Food USA) showed that farm to school programs can improve school meals while not raising costs.

When working with Guildford Public Schools, he helped rally the school community in raising enough money to receive four new salad bars from Let's Move Salad Bars to Schools.

But having more money in the pool also improves the food that can be served, and while I believe some parents at these schools complain, I've also heard anecdotally that when every child and teacher is sitting down to the same meal, it can have benefits like a more cohesive environment, opportunities for informal nutrition education, and a greater likelihood that kids will try new foods.

About Color Me Cured: Founded by Phoebe Steinfeld, a high school sophomore in New Jersey, Color Me Cured is a non-profit organization with the sole purpose of raising money in support of cancer research.

Interest groups expect the agreement to be somewhere between relaxing whole grain and future sodium requirements, as proposed by Sen. John Hoeven (R - N.D.), and a one - year waiver from all new standards for schools losing money, as proposed by Rep. Robert Aderholt (R - Ala.).

A new local ordinance passed at the Tuesday night meeting allows the village to take money contributed to local coffers by developers and distribute it to schools and parks as village trustees see fit.

The parent - teacher organization at the school has been raising money to pay for a new wooden floor in the gym and has already raised $ 100,000, said Kim Anderson, co-president of the PTO.

NEW LENOX — Park officials want to know if they have a chance of saving Cherry Hill School from the wrecking ball before they shell out money to study renovation costs, New Lenox Park Board President Tom Lewis said recentNEW LENOX — Park officials want to know if they have a chance of saving Cherry Hill School from the wrecking ball before they shell out money to study renovation costs, New Lenox Park Board President Tom Lewis said recentNew Lenox Park Board President Tom Lewis said recently.

That would be my reaction, too, but a new report out today from Friends of the Earth makes a compelling case that climate - friendly school food menus can actually save districts money while at the same time improving the nutritional profile of school meals.

Her new book «Lunch Money: Serving Healthy School Food in a Sick Economy» (cookforamerica.com/lunch-money) shows how schools can buy new equipment and better - quality food by creating strong breakfast programs and cooking meals from scratch.

When Wilmette voters cast ballots in the November election, they may be weighing in on providing money to two revered local institutions — New Trier High School and the village's lakefront.

But in the case of relieving overcrowding in three Rogers Park elementary schools, money is not an issue; over $ 8 million for a new school was approved in 1993.

The next few years were difficult financially and, although enrollment grew steadily and a new class was added each year, the school was heavily in debt and the faculty and Board constantly juggled cash flow crisis with parents lending the school additional monies.

In a town where voters routinely approve money for new schools and additions, a $ 16 million referendum question to build an indoor recreation center and a new trail system in Naperville seemed like a walk in the park.

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.