Sentences with phrase «of education dollars spent»

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.

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From thousands of dollars spent on education to sourcing their products, running a business can put a huge dent in your bank account.

Imagine if all the billions of dollars in time, effort and hard cash that we spend worldwide each year worshipping and appeasing make - believe deities of one kind or another were instead funneled into something tangible and worthwhile, like reducing poverty, improving education or protecting the environment.

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.

And all this while the government spent, on average, only twenty cents of every disposable dollar on human resources — education, employment, job training, social services, health, and fiscal assistance — but spent fifty - five to sixty - four cents of every tax dollar that congress has the authority to distribute, meaning minus entitlements, on the military.

«We spend a lot of our marketing dollars on safety and operational education, such as training chain restaurant groups on best practices when using eggs, and we show how using a pasteurized shell egg helps to improve efficiencies while ensuring they avoid violations of food codes,» he explains.

The ads are part of a multi-million dollar push for health care spending in the budget, typically one of the costliest areas in the spending plan aside from education aid.

«We are proud of every dollar we spend on services to our members and defending public education,» said UFT spokesman Dick Riley.

It says the state needs to spend billions of more dollars a year on public education.

And it's something Gov. Andrew Cuomo believes would be a disaster for the state, assuming billions of dollars in county Medicaid costs just as the state has pulled out of the recession and is trying to spend money on more education aid, free tuition at public colleges and upgrade aging water systems.

The appointment of Betty Rosa as the new Regents chancellor in New York signals a big victory for the statewide teachers union, NYSUT, in the battle over the direction of education in New York — a battle waged with millions of dollars in campaign spending and brute political tactics from both sides over much of the past decade.

«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.

At a time when thousands of teachers in New York have foregone raises simply to keep their jobs, and while the state is poised to cut an additional $ 1 billion or more in education funding, NYSUT is sitting on tens of millions of dollars in cash and investments and spending lavishly on six - figure employee salaries and conferences at high - end resorts.

Mulgrew testified with three other city labor leaders, representing classroom aides, firefighters and health workers, who took the Bloomberg administration to task for spending billions of dollars on the corruption - plagued payroll system City Time and the problem - plagued Special Education Student Information System (SESIS) while failing to give needed raises to city workers.

Along the way they'll also budget tens of billions of dollars of state spending on education, health care and roads and bridges, and decide the fate of hundreds of other bills, including proposals to ban the declawing of cats, end the practice of prosecuting and imprisoning 16 - and 17 - year - old offenders as adults and authorize people with terminal illnesses to request life - ending drugs from a physician.

He added, «Freedom of education, by means of vouchers for parents so they can choose how and where education dollars should be spent, is a prime example of a powerful conservative solution to both fiscal and social ills directly related to outdated liberal social experiments that are more socialist than American.»

Obama also gave a shout out to Subra Suresh, marking his first day as director of the National Science Foundation; plugged the Administration's spending on STEM education; and highlighted a private - sector initiative, called Changing the Equation, in which hundreds of companies and organizations are adding their dollars to public investments in science education.

Murray said the pending legislation, dubbed the Foundations for Evidence - Based Policymaking Act, is focused on the report's three core ideas: expanding access to the data, ensuring privacy, and strengthening the government's capacity to evaluate how spending trillions of dollars every year on programs affects the health, education, and economic wellbeing of millions of Americans.

The national and state departments of education, in particular, oversee countless education programs, distribute billions of dollars, and have substantial discretion in deciding what the details of education policy will be and how the money will be spent.

This year legislators in more than a dozen state capitals will decide how to spend hundreds of millions of new education dollars slated for preschool.

Over the past 20 years, many school systems around the globe have undergone some form of education reform and yet the trillions of dollars being spent in school systems, ongoing debates over the value of teacher pay incentives, and standardized test movements have yielded little effect in many countries.

All told, Clinton increased education spending by 6 percent ($ 2.7 billion using constant 2007 dollars) over his Republican predecessor, which earned him the praise and political support of the education establishment.

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).

No questions were asked about why the Department of Education didn't rely on mathematicians in the review of proposals for these programs, nor was anyone in the department ever questioned about the NCTM's education philosophy and the millions of tax dollars spent on texts that were the subject of fierce objections from 200 prominent mathematicians and Education didn't rely on mathematicians in the review of proposals for these programs, nor was anyone in the department ever questioned about the NCTM's education philosophy and the millions of tax dollars spent on texts that were the subject of fierce objections from 200 prominent mathematicians and education philosophy and the millions of tax dollars spent on texts that were the subject of fierce objections from 200 prominent mathematicians and scholars.

Lortie - Forgues, Tian and Siegler (2015) repeated the question with students of the same age in 2014 — 27 per cent got it right, leading the researchers to comment: «Thus, after more than three decades, numerous rounds of education reforms, hundreds if not thousands of research studies on mathematics teaching and learning, and billions of dollars spent to effect educational change, little improvement was evident in students» understanding of fraction arithmetic.»

Citing a new report from the Government Accountability Office, Sens. Tom Harkin, D - Iowa, and Arlen Specter, R - Pa., say they will be watching closely to make sure the Department of Education is monitoring how states spend the school improvement dollars available under the No Child Left Behind Act.

At the same time, U.S. presidents, governors, school boards, and businesses have spent billions of dollars on public education and out - of - school - time programs to bring down the high - school dropout rate.

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.

We've witnessed an education - spending bubble over the past two decades, as first a booming economy and then soaring housing values poured tons of dollars into public - school budgets.

While we can not account for every dollar of tuition increases, we can track state spending to see which programs are getting state and local tax dollars, and how that has contributed to declines in higher - education support.

Pensions are eating further and further into state and local education budgets, eating up dollars that could be spent on lots of other things, especially higher education.

How many total dollars these suits have contributed to the rapid increase in education spending is unknown, but we do know that, since 1989, adequacy lawsuits have been launched in more than 30 states, and a vast majority of them have resulted in a court award to plaintiffs mandating more money for schools.

TIMSS does not include data on spending, so current national public spending per student in secondary education in international dollars was calculated on the basis of UNESCO and World Bank data.

Like the insatiable Pac - Man, pensions are eating further and further into state and local education budgets, eating up dollars that could be spent on lots of other things.

Between 1960 and 1975, the amount (in inflation - adjusted dollars) spent nationwide on K — 12 education per pupil nearly doubled, rising from $ 3,300 to just short of $ 6,100.

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.

Despite billions of federal and local dollars being spent to build longitudinal data systems, Professor Thomas Kane, faculty director of CEPR, knew that underutilized data held key answers to education questions.

Even as the debate over the effectiveness of education technology rages, policymakers and educators are spending billions of dollars on hardware, software, and connectivity.

Any dollar spent to subsidize or incentivize private school education is a dollar lost on the public education system that educates 90 percent of Americans and must accept and educate any and all school - aged children.

He once spoke movingly about the virtues of NCLB, calling it «an effort to end decades of failed federal education policy that allowed billions of taxpayer dollars to be spent without insisting on results for students» But that was before Boehner had to corral a caucus full of Tea Party - backed freshmen.

Enforcing civil rights laws and ensuring that dollars intended for low - income students and students with disabilities are spent accordingly have been parts of the Education Department's mandate since its creation in 1979.

Nationwide, school - turnaround consulting companies sprouted as it became clear the U.S. Department of Education was about to spend billions of dollars to fix the nation's bottom 5 percent of schools in academic performance.

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.

The inability of the school system to develop an adequate management system or to spend special - education dollars effectively deepened the perception that the district was a dysfunctional bureaucracy.

There are no efficiencies, economies, or new qualities to be found in «design breakthroughs»; greater spending is the only way to improve education (disregard more or less flat education results after two decades of real - dollar annual spending increases).

(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.)

Time for Americans to understand that value added analysis is not a reform of public education but a revolution that will allow us to significantly lessen the costs of public education while obtaining the greatest cost benefits from the dollars spent on education.

GCI recommends changes to the financial oversight of charter schools that it believes will safeguard the public's investment in education while providing transparency regarding how tax dollars are being spent.

However, because SIPRI's analysis of military expenditure using constant USD relied on 2011 dollars, I had to adjust for inflation for countries with education spending data from 2011 or 2012.

Sixty - three percent of the federal dollars now being spent on K - 12 education programs would be converted into private school vouchers under this bill.