Sentences with phrase «of each education dollar compared»

In some of New Jersey's most troubled and disadvantaged communities, charter public schools are succeeding in closing the educational achievement gap with our state's more wealthy communities, despite receiving an average 70 percent of each education dollar compared to their traditional public school counterparts.

Not exact matches

According to a Harvard Business Review study, women in emerging markets reinvest 90 % of every dollar earned into «human resources» — their families» education, health and nutrition — compared to only 30 to 40 % of every dollar earned by men.2 In other words, Kiva's loans have helped countless families and communities in over 80 countries escape a vicious cycle of poverty.

Approved by the district's board of education last week, the plan is expected to put millions more dollars into rewards for teachers whose students show better - than - average improvement compared with similar groups of students.

Even if the $ 1.5 billion that philanthropists spend on K — 12 education is paltry compared with the $ 450 billion annual price tag for the system as a whole, all of these are examples of the huge impact that well - placed philanthropy dollars can have (see Figure 1).

Even though education receives paltry R&D dollars compared to other sectors, like defense and energy, there's been a relatively steady stream of research over the past decades trying to look under the hood of «what works» in education.

The Commission will examine factors that impact spending in education, including: school funding and distribution of State Aid; efficiency and utilization of education spending at the district level; the percentage of per - pupil funding that goes to the classroom as compared to administrative overhead and benefits; approaches to improving special education programs and outcomes while also reducing costs; identifying ways to reduce transportation costs; identifying strategies to create significant savings and long - term efficiencies; and analysis of district - by - district returns on educational investment and educational productivity to identify districts that have higher student outcomes per dollar spent, and those that do not.