Sentences with phrase «of education dollars»

Returning control of education dollars to parents and local communities gives parents (and ultimately the student) the power to shape their own family's future.

More funding for charter schools has been a contentious issue because both traditional public schools and charter schools compete for the same limited pot of education dollars from the state.

The study also found that OSPI's annual Report Card greatly overstated the amount Washington School Districts spend on teaching: «NCES data shows that Washington spent 60.2 percent of its education dollars on classroom instruction in 2009.

Such a system will ensure more effective use of education dollars through better decision making, will eliminate perverse incentives that reward mediocrity or failure, and most important, energize and will motivate those involved in the education of our young people.

To wage yet another court battle will cost at least another $ 1 million — 80 percent of which will come from state aid, since that's where Newark gets most of its education dollars.

Twenty - one cents of every education dollar is spent on something other than teaching our kids.»

Even so, Education Week obliviously opines, «New Jersey has room to improve when it comes to the equitable distribution of education dollars.»

Founders of the First Class Education movement want all states to mandate that 65 percent of education dollars go to «in - classroom» expenses.

They should avoid prescription and both reward and produce rigorous evidence, thus increasing the share of education dollars spent on evidence - based programs while at the same time fulfilling the federal government's unique responsibility for producing and disseminating high - quality evidence on the best ways to improve American schools.

Grover J. Whitehurst, a Romney adviser, said that remaking the programs into individual payments that follow the student — he used the metaphor of a student's backpack — could attract other streams of education dollars.

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.

According to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Utah ranks No. 1 in the nation for getting the most out of education dollars.

Having dozens of extra GED prep centers was wasting millions of education dollars every year.

And if Utah turns down these federal dollars, they must be replaced, and the source of education dollars in the local district is property tax.

But in reality, Utah's school districts spend less than 10 percent of their budgets on administration, with the majority of education dollars directed toward classroom costs like teacher salaries, student services and supplies.

Darling - Hamond (1998) makes a strong argument for quality professional development by stating that each dollar spent on improving teachers» qualifications nets greater gains in student learning than any other use of an education dollar.

Failure to hit these targets, as well as underfunding generally, has resulted in pension costs consuming a progressively larger share of the education dollar.

Did you know that of every education dollar, only 7 cents of it comes from the federal government?

To promote curriculum reform — and make better use of education dollars — this report provides new insight on how curricula are selected in every state across the country and examines the costs of those curricula.

The authors quickly rushed past these less popular findings to boldly propose specific policy interventions: «To raise achievement scores, the most efficient and effective use of education dollars is to target states with higher proportions of minority and disadvantaged students with funding for lower pupil - teacher ratios, more widespread prekindergarten efforts, and more adequate teaching resources.»

So, in addition to federal policy enabling families to leverage their share of education dollars, it's also a matter of state - level policy of states taking the opportunity and really providing these families with school choice options.