Sentences with phrase «of education dollars go»

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

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There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity I am bought and sold; for them I will go to prison, if need be; but your miscellaneous popular charities; the education at college of fools; the building of meeting - houses to the vain end to which many now stand; alms to sots; and the thousandfold Relief Societies; — though I confess with shame I sometimes succumb and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar which by and by I shall have the manhood to withhold,» is what Emerson would say, Brigitte.

Congress expanded Medicare by adding a prescription - drug entitlement that will cost hundreds of billions of dollars, and federal education spending has gone up as well.

Every dollar of your purchase goes toward education, support and outreach for parents in need.

According to one estimate, only 6 percent of public early - childhood education and child - care dollars in the United States go to programs for children who have not yet reached their third birthday.

My biggest concern about war is that billions of dollars are going to bombs while budgets are being cut for education, health care, social services and Medicaid.

Every dollar of your sign up fee goes toward education, support and outreach for parents in need.

Every dollar of your registration fee goes toward education, support and outreach for parents in need.

Your sponsorship dollars go to establish and maintain scholarships for undergraduate and postgraduate athletic training students, Insure research grants for future scientific developments in athletic training, Supports educational meetings for the continuing education of currently certified & licensed athletic trainers in Indiana.

In her State of the County address, County Executive Joanie Mahoney announced that $ 20 million dollars from the region's Upstate Revitalization Initiative will go towards Syracuse's Say Yes to Education endowment.

And Assembly Democrats want to keep high rates on millionaires, and increase taxes on those making more than $ 5 million — generating billions of dollars in new revenues lawmakers want to see go toward education.

The pro-Cuomo Committee to Save NY is backing up a recent TV spot supporting the governor's proposed education aid cuts with a mailer that accuses school superintendents of going behind closed doors and «taking money out of classrooms — but putting hundreds of thousands of dollars in their own pockets.»

By law, every new dollar of state revenue must go to education aid, property tax relief, and assistance to local governments.

«There has been a «dumbing down» in education for years and we need Gov. Cuomo to help to reverse it in upstate NY by including the $ 1.9 Billion dollars in the budget to go towards improving the education of our children,» Faust said.

With millions of grant dollars on the line, representatives of the 16 state finalists for federal Race to the Top prize money will go to Washington next week to make final, in - person pitches to the U.S. Department of Education for investment in their brand of school reform.

Barring more big federal bailouts — which this year's election would seem to make ever less likely — school budgets are going to be strapped for years to come and cost - cutting, together with eking greater value out of the remaining dollars, is going to occupy the education - policy center ring.

In an Education Week commentary essay about school boards in 2009, I wrote, «[M] y sense of things, after two stints on my local school board... is that school boards have been overtaken by the «educatocracy,» by powerful trade unions, certified specialists, certification agencies, state and federal rule - makers and legislators, grants with strings, billion - dollar - contractor lobbyists, textbook mega-companies, professional associations, and lawyers — the list could go on.»

Although Davies says his «analysis is predicated on the assumption that compensatory programs... have fallen short of the buoyant expectations of the mid-1960s,» and notes that even at the time there was a «lack of convincing evidence that federal dollars were improving the quality of American education,» he does not explain why those expectations existed, or why dissenting voices went unheeded.

After three generations of steady growth in per pupil spending, education is going to have to face its day of reckoning and schools are going to have to start spending dollars smarter.

Trump has promised to «go big» on school choice, and it's hard to imagine Congress finding more than a few hundred million dollars for any new education program, especially one run out of the U.S. Department of Eeducation program, especially one run out of the U.S. Department of EducationEducation.

The surest way to have students receive the education services to which they are entitled is to have every dollar of funding provided for them go wherever they go to school.

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.

Though the government spends billions of dollars every year on education, relatively little of the money has gone to figuring out which teachers are effective and why.

(Andrew Kelly, writing at Rick Hess Straight Up, is right that education spending went up under a Republican Congress in the 1990s, but those increases were in the magnitude of a billion or two of new dollars a year, nothing like the $ 100 billion we saw in last year's stimulus bill or even the $ 10 billion in this year's edujobs payout.)

«We're going to lose millions of dollars that otherwise would have gone to help kids, and we're going to lose time,» said Jim Spady, head of the Education Excellence Coalition.

«The dollars we do have need to go into the classrooms of schools we're operating,» said Paul Hubbert, executive director of the Alabama Education Association.

Mr. Pelto has not offered a road, more then to point out the road many districts and some of our politicians are on is only going to lead us to more loss of education, and tax dollars.

After all, if education dollars follow the student, rather than going directly into the public school, then a portion of the money available to educate a departing student will indeed leave the public school.

More than half of Illinois state education dollars go to districts regardless of their wealth, shortchanging poor districts that have students with greater needs.

There's clearly always a long, long way to go, but when you look at a billion dollars for early childhood education, when you look at 40 - plus states adopting higher standards, when you look at yesterday's high school graduation rates at record highs, the fact that we were able to put $ 40 billion behind Pell grants, 1.1 million additional students of color going to college than in 2008.

Public schools claim that millions of dollars are being unconstitutionally funneled away from children's education, going toward tax - credit scholarships.

Don't forget the Charter Graduate School of Education — on whose Board of Trustees, Dacia Toll sits — there will doubtless be plenty of Alliance district money and Commissioner's Network dollars going to put principals through this charter - graduate school of «leadership».

(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.

* Finally, the Martingale Award for Outstanding Achievement in Campaign Finance goes to John Wilson, former executive director of the National Education Association, for his innovative solution to the millions of dollars NEA and its affiliates lost in the recall election — «The course correction I suggest is not to be intimidated, but to be emboldened.

Much of the money has been going to support public education and it is largely responsible for the flush budgets of the last few years that have provided billions in extra dollars for education.

After three generations of steady growth in per - pupil spending, education was going to have to face its day of reckoning, and schools were going to have to start spending dollars smarter.

«Only 3 percent of the $ 14 billion dollars allocated to school districts to serve low - income children under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act [No Child Left Behind] goes to preschool.

Let parents take their education dollars to any school they wish, with no government thumbs on the scale, in contrast, and soon all schools will either have to get better, or go out of business.

That's what dominates foundation giving in education, in terms of where most dollars go.

In the months to come, Connecticut's Education Commissioner will be directing the overall reform effort and the decisions he makes could result in millions of dollars, even tens of millions of dollars going to the very organization that he helped create, expand and manage until he recently and quietly resigned from Achievement First's Board of Directors.

The practical impact is that if someone went to the website of the Connecticut Office of Ethics and typed in StudentsFirst they would be under the false impression the Michelle Rhee and StudentsFirst were not spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to prop up Governor Malloy's «Education Reform» proposals.

The Times can say that using standardized test scores to evaluate teachers is a sensible policy and Obama can say it and Education Secretary Arne Duncan can say it and Emanuel can say it and so can Bill Gates (who has spent hundreds of millions of dollars to develop it) and governors and mayor from both parties, and heck, anybody can go ahead and shout it out as loud as they can.

And for those who object to this State of Affairs, in which America's children are simply seen as little Dollar $ igns, who will grow up into big Dollar $ igns, the system has invented that tried and truly effective method of ridding the Education world of quite a large percentage of those troublesome, pesky individuals who refuse to «go along to get along» or go forth meekly, like sheep to the slaughter.

Thurmond passed legislation to provide millions of dollars to school districts to keep kids in school and out of the criminal justice system, fought for money to make sure that all California youth in foster care can go to college, and increased funding for early education programs.

The remaining philanthropic dollars for education go toward a range of peripheral functions related to both public and higher education, including direct support of organizations, assessment development, adult and community education, and other functions.1

Although $ 20 million dollars of this money will be counted in the Bridgeport Public School's state Education Cost Sharing grant, not a dime will go to the academic or socio - emotional needs of a single Bridgeport Public Schools student.

I know people who are over a hundred thousand dollars in debt to the government for their education, and the «discretionary» portion of their six - figure salary isn't going much of anywhere else but the government for the next ten years.

If you go this route, you will not have to pay for room and board and could save tens of thousands of dollars on your education.

Seventy - nine cents of every dollar goes to animal care, education and outreach in the metro Denver area.

Our gratitude goes out to those alumni of Cooper Union, friends, family, and acquaintances who continue to show their dedication to free education by contributing some of their own wealth (the dollars and cents kind) to our campaign.