Sentences with phrase «of scholarship dollars»

It should be noted that, while scholarships are a great source of college financing, the amount of scholarship dollars you receive will reduce the amount of financial aid money you can obtain.

Twenty - five colleges and universities discriminate against women by failing to award female athletes equitable amounts of scholarship dollars, a legal - advocacy group charged last week.

The Washington - based group said that female athletes receive only one - third of the scholarship dollars available nationwide.

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There are millions of dollars in unclaimed scholarships each year in Canada, often because students don't know where to find them or aren't aware that they exist.

AAC Gives Back The AAC gives thousands of dollars in scholarships to deserving culinary students and professional chefs each year.

«Not to count the millions of dollars we save our kids» families through scholarships.»

Today the P.O.W.T program has helped over 30,000 families access millions of dollars of endowment scholarships for college tuition.

Since its founding in 1964, SNF has raised millions of dollars to provide a wide variety of scholarships, grants, research, training opportunities and technical assistance to school nutrition professionals at every level.

Over the years, this program has raised thousands of dollars for the school that have gone to projects like improving our gardens, providing field trip scholarships, and more.

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.

«Last year the support of our members provided dollars that are being awarded in scholarships this year — $ 25,000 in fact,» said Janet.

We have more than doubled the number of donations this year, as states compete to achieve the highest percentage of participation and secure scholarship dollars for their state.

A clash of factions has cost hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees — money that could have gone toward showcasing the world - famous march, grant scholarships and spreading Irish - American goodwill.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said the tuition - free program — a «last - dollar» scholarship that picks up whatever tuition TAP and PELL don't cover — is one of the proudest accomplishments of his tenure.

The program is a «last dollar» approach, meaning that it will cover the remaining tuition balance after all other scholarships and grants have been applied, and does not contribute anything towards non-tuition costs like books and housing, which often form the majority of student costs given that CUNY and SUNY already have relatively low tuition.

It was gathered that hospital was locked by the anti-graft agency over alleged diversion of 533,000 dollars scholarship grant in Egypt.

Cuomo's bill would allow donors to private school scholarship funds and public after school programs to give up to one million dollars, and in exchange receive a credit of $ 750,000 on their taxes.

The fine print of the program indicates students who will receive those scholarship dollars must remain in New York State after graduating for the same number of years they received the tuition.

Under his leadership, the Foundation raised millions of dollars for scholarships, student support, campus improvements and faculty development.

And a new «Excelsior Scholarship» will provide «last dollar» support for students who attend SUNY and CUNY, meaning the program will make up the difference between the cost of tuition and existing federal and state aid programs.

In a Nov. 15 letter to Speaker Paul Ryan, R - Wis., and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D - Calif., a broad array of scientific and engineering societies called on House leaders to drop provisions in the tax bill (H.R. 1) that would eliminate tax credits, known as the Lifetime Learning Credit and the Hope Scholarship Credit, that alleviate the financial strain of higher education by providing a dollar - for - dollar reduction in the income tax liability of eligible students.

In 2010, the Florida legislature's nonpartisan Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability estimated that Sunshine State taxpayers saved $ 32.6 million, which is approximately $ 1.44 in state education funding for every dollar lost in corporate income tax revenue due to credits for scholarship contributions.

And Tuesday's interminable «expose» of state - level tax - credit scholarship programs certainly deepens one's impression that the writer (and, presumably, her editors) is in love with anything that smacks of «public dollars» or «public schools» and at war with anything that might be seen as diverting even a penny from state coffers into the hands of parents to educate their kids at schools of their choice.

The Japan ICU Foundation will provide a dollar per dollar match up to $ 50,000 for donations made for the Study Abroad Scholarship over the next two fiscal years, in the hopes of attracting further investment from alumni and friends for this new initiative.

The typical recipient uses several thousand dollars of this scholarship each year to cover costs of college attendance.

Students accumulate a college scholarship fund based on 10 percent of their DREAM balance, redeemable at graduation, and cash in dollars for trips like the one to Harvard.

The Trump administration is considering a first - of - its - kind federal tax credit scholarship program that would channel billions of dollars to families from working - class households to enable their children to attend private schools, including religious schools.

The District of Columbia Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP) produced $ 2.62 in benefits for every dollar spent on it.

The Arizona Supreme Court had previously upheld a scholarship tax - credit law, which granted dollar - for - dollar tax credits to taxpayers in return for contributions to non-profit scholarship organizations that help families send their children to the schools of their choice.

Two days after this year's votes were counted, Virginia's 1997 race for governor seemed to begin in earnest, when James S. Gilmore III, the state attorney general and the early Republican favorite for the top job, proposed a plan to provide millions of dollars in college scholarships to high school students.

The amount of the scholarship that a student receives can vary from a capped dollar amount put in place by the state to the full cost of tuition.

Education Scholarship Accounts: ESAs allow parents to withdraw their child from a public school and receive a deposit of their child's state education dollars into a government authorized savings account for education - related expenses.

A voucher (sometimes called a «scholarship») is a handout of taxpayer dollars for private school tuition: The government writes a check for tuition at a private school.

Education Scholarship Accounts allow parents to withdraw their child from a public school and receive a deposit of their child's state education dollars into a government authorized savings account for education related expenses.

The movement toward neo-vouchers — mechanisms of school privatization efforts, such as tuition tax credits and opportunity tax scholarships, that transfer public education dollars to private schools — have had mixed results, at best, and have been empirically shown to harm targeted students, at worst.

Florida Office of Program Policy Analysis & Gov» t Accountability (Dec. 2008), The Corporate Income Tax Credit Scholarship Program Saves State Dollars, Report No. 08 - 68.

«Bear in mind that scholarship dollars travel out of the district whereas endowments tend to work for the benefit of the community more directly advancing education at home and in the school.

The Opportunity Scholarships program, an even larger voucher program that will enable taxpayer dollars to be funneled directly to private schools — $ 10 million in 2014 - 15 and $ 40 million in 2015 - 16, with the hope of expanding the program even further in the future.

In 2015, Mississippi became just the 3rd state to approve some form of education scholarship accounts, where parents withdraw their child from a public school and receive a deposit of their child's state education dollars into a government authorized savings account.

The school is the biggest recipient of all those participating in the state's new Opportunity Scholarship Program, having already received 43 school vouchers totaling more than $ 90,000 dollars in public funds.

Total number and dollar amount of scholarships awarded and the percentage of students eligible for free and reduced - price lunch for each of the student eligibility categories

The study also examined household incomes for private school families and public school families and found that Florida has one of the biggest income gaps in the nation, despite several state programs such as the Florida Tax Credit Scholarships and the McKay Scholarships that direct tax dollars, directly or indirectly, to private schools.

And it's not much when compared to the Kalamazoo Promise, unveiled in 2005, which was funded by anonymous donors and, as a «first - dollar» scholarship, pays for 100 percent of tuition and fees at public colleges and universities in Michigan and can be added on top of Pell Grants.

The stated intent of last year's trip was to educate North Carolina lawmakers about Florida's tax credit scholarship program, which encourages companies to donate scholarship money for low - income children to attend private schools by providing matching state tax dollars.

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It doesn't matter how their proponents try to disguise them — education savings accounts, tuition tax credits, opportunity scholarships — vouchers are destructive and misguided schemes that use taxpayer dollars to «experiment with our children's education without any evidence of real, lasting positive results,» says NEA President Eskelsen García.

72 % of AAE members support Arizona's Empowerment Scholarship Accounts (ESAs), which enable students to leave their assigned public schools, taking 90 % of the state dollars with them.

Recently, he wrote the following: «In addition, I will continue to work for the passage of the Education Investment Tax Credit that would provide a dollar - for - dollar state tax credit for any person or business that makes a donation to public schools or private scholarships for students attending non-public schools.

Formally known as the Opportunity Scholarship Program, school vouchers hit a bump in the road this past spring when Superior Court Judge Robert H. Hobgood temporarily halted the program pending a final ruling, calling into question the constitutionality of funneling public dollars into the coffers of private institutions.