Sentences with phrase «of school expenditures»

At $ 4 billion, the money amounted to less than two - tenths of one percent of school expenditures in the United States.

Eighty percent of school expenditures are salaries — so most of the cuts we are seeing now are teachers.

It is important to keep in mind, however, that the differences observed between all of these groups are dwarfed by the overall gap between the public's understanding of school expenditures and teacher salaries, and the truth.

But in another random group, in which people were first told their district's current level of school expenditure, only 45 % favored an increment (see Figure 10b).

Not exact matches

«If present public expenditures on schooling were made available to parents [through a voucher] regardless of where they send their children, a wide variety of schools would spring up to meet the demand,» writes Milton Friedman in Capitalism and Freedom.

Yale only trumps other schools because its expenditures per student are greater than other schools, Brian Leiter, a law professor at The University of Chicago, argued to National Jurist magazine in 2013.

Also called «munis» for short, municipal bonds are debt obligations issued by a state, municipality, or a county to finance its capital expenditures, such as construction of highways, schools, hospitals, and...

The level of expenditure probably increases as your gross income increases as you are likely to want a nicer car, eat out more, take more holidays or send your kids to private school.

Urbanization necessitates an increase of public expenditures on streets, sewers, schools, police, law courts, and jails.

In the same period Roman Catholic theological schools reported average revenues of $ 9,137 and average expenditures of $ 8,613 per student; nondenominational and interdenominational schools reported average revenues of $ 5,664 and expenditures of $ 5,673 per student.

In 1987, the last year for which these figures are available, the continuum ranged from revenues of $ 15,727 and expenditures of $ 14,501 per student in schools affiliated with the Protestant Episcopal Church to revenues of $ 3,950 and expenditures of $ 3,536 per student in schools affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention.

School districts must limit net cash resources to an amount that does not exceed three months of average expenditures or that is set by the state child nutrition agency.

The lunch served at schools covers about one - third of the daily energy expenditure.

The independent expenditure spending over the last month has been largely dominated by the usual players: Committees funded by real estate or wealthy supporters of charter school expansion.

This represents a reduction of only 2.9 percent of the total operating expenditures projected to be made by school districts statewide during the 2010 - 11 school year, and 7.3 percent in State support.

Loeb's financial support of the Senate Republicans has been widely reported, as has his contribution to the IDC and his donations to a pro-charter school independent expenditure that spent heavily on behalf of members of both conferences in the last election cycle and helped keep them in power.

The independent expenditure effort was heavily supported by charter school supporters like Paul Singer, a wealthy hedge - fund manager and investor who supports charter school expansion, as well Daniel Loeb, a director at Success Academy and Dan Senor, a former Bush administration official who is married to former CNN anchor Campbell Brown, a critic of teacher tenure.

With non-departmental expenditure rising more than expected because of the economy's poor performance, and large chunks of Whitehall spending on foreign aid, schools and the NHS ringfenced, the chancellor has little choice but to confront politically sensitive areas like defence and the police to achieve the savings.

In Albany, the added cost is $ 7 million; New York City faces added charter school expenditures of $ 42 million.

Cuomo has enjoyed the backing of charter school and real estate groups that frequently use independent expenditure campaigns to boost their candidates.

He gave $ 264,441 to the Senate GOP and wrote a pair of million - dollar checks to New Yorkers for a Balanced Albany, an independent expenditure committee created by charter school supporters that helps the conference.

A former Director - General of the Ghana Education Service, Charles Aheto - Tsegah says the government's decision to roll out the free Senior High School education policy this year is feasible but there must be some changes in the national budgetary expenditure.

Independent expenditure campaigns have been funded by a variety of interest groups seeking to influence the outcome of a legislative race, including the teachers unions, charter school groups and real - estate organizations.

NYSUT's spending on behalf of mainly Democratic Senate candidates in swing districts comes as supporters of charter schools have spent heavily in independent expenditure efforts of their own.

Despite word that there was a «framework» deal that included a one - year extension of mayoral control of the NYC school system, pension forfeiture and regulation / oversight of independent expenditures in the political system, it's apparently not quite soup.

After Cuomo, the second - largest recipient of hedge fund - contributions was New Yorkers for a Balanced Albany — an independent expenditure committee created by the pro-charter school group StudentsFirstNY — that spent $ 4.2 million to

Speaking at Fordham University Law School, Cuomo announced he propose legislation incorporating measures designed to limit independent expenditure campaign spending as well as require the groups to disclose the identity of their owners, directors and executives exerting control.

After Cuomo, the second - largest recipient of hedge fund - contributions was New Yorkers for a Balanced Albany — an independent expenditure committee created by the pro-charter school group StudentsFirstNY — that spent $ 4.2 million to help Republicans take control of the state Senate.

Growth in the tax levy for school districts allows them certain exemptions, including capital expenditures, payment in lieu of taxes and pension growth.

Two independent expenditure committees funded in part by wealthy supporters of charter schools are wrapping their spending sprees on Senate Republican candidates with large ad purhcases in two state Senate races upstate.

With Skelos and Cuomo on the same page, teachers unions will no doubt continue to point to the wealthy backers of charter schools who have contributed heavily to the governor's re-election campaign as well as independent expenditure campaigns backing Republican Senate candidates last year.

Noting that «personnel costs are the major component of school district expenditures, and have been increasing at a rate above inflation for a number of years,» the Commission recommended a series of reforms to curb these expenses, including a modification of the Triborough Amendment to exclude salary steps and lanes for teachers.

If the bill is passed, the city would also be required to report a slew of new information to the state annually, including statistics about teachers, principals, admissions, student demographics, school overcrowding, expenditures, and more.

Another independent expenditure (or IE) group, New Yorkers for Independent Action weighed in on behalf of CM Cabrera who is a staunch supporter of school choice, charter schools and education tax credits for individuals and corporations that donate to public, private and parochial schools.

Independent expenditure committees backed by wealthy donors who support education reforms and charter schools sought to be major players in a range of Democratic primary campaigns.

He was an unremittingly traditional leftwinger, a fierce critic of high defence expenditure, the hereditary membership of the House of Lords and the establishment of academy schools.

NYSUT spent $ 3.2 million on lobbying, $ 4.55 million helping Democratic state legislative candidates through an independent expenditure committee and $ 200,000 in support of a referendum for a $ 2 billion bond to boost technology in schools.

ALBANY — Some lawmakers and advocates are questioning whether Governor Andrew Cuomo's proposal of $ 1.5 billion over five years is enough to fund full - day pre-kindergarten statewide, or whether it's a wise expenditure when schools are struggling to educate students in mandatory grades.

The bill would also require the city to regularly provide state leaders a trove of information on student and teacher data and expenditures as well as develop a facilities capital plan that identifies the 10 most overcrowded and underutilized school buildings.

(New York, NY)-- A new audit released today of the South Bronx Charter School for International Cultures and the Arts by New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer found unauthorized expenditures that include travel, $ 16,000 spent on MetroCards that could not be accounted for and thousands in overpayments to the principal.

That ad, and more like it (along with fliers and other attention - grabbers in what will likely be a low - turnout primary) was the product of an independent expenditure effort backed by the California Charter Schools Association, which has been a big force in battles with teachers» unions over charter schools in Los Angeles and at the state level aSchools Association, which has been a big force in battles with teachers» unions over charter schools in Los Angeles and at the state level aschools in Los Angeles and at the state level as well.

No doubt Barron, his supporters in DC 37 and others will make hay over reports that StudentsFirstNY, a pro-charter school PAC tied to Mayor Bloomberg, had planned to make a six - figure independent expenditure in support of Jeffries.

«What's happened is people have said they have had quite enough of austerity politics, they have had quite enough of cuts in public expenditure, underfunding our health service, underfunding our schools and our education service and not giving our young people the chance they deserve in our society.»

«We need to strike a balance between our expenditures on instructional programs and our expenditures for hardening buildings against a disaster,» said Flatley, who serves as president of the Nassau County Council of School Superintendents.

The group says it has filed 2,500 public records requests with government agencies across the state, including tiny villages and school districts, asking for their «checkbooks» — records of all expenditures in a given year.

Continued investigation of this research may have strong implications for policy makers, public health professionals and school administrators to consider simple and sustainable environmental changes in classrooms that can effectively increase energy expenditure and physical activity as well as enhance cognitive development and education outcomes.

A new study by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the University of Illinois at Chicago finds that Medicare Part D prescription coverage significantly reduced hospital admissions and program expenditures totaling $ 1.5 billion annually.

Benjamin Lê Cook, Ph.D., M.P.H., of the Harvard Medical School / Cambridge Health Alliance, Cambridge, Mass., and colleagues used nationally representative surveys of U.S. residents to compare trends in smoking rates between adults with and without mental illness and across multiple disorders (2004 - 2011 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey [MEPS]-RRB- and compared rates of smoking cessation among adults with mental illness who did and did not receive mental health treatment (2009 - 2011 National Survey of Drug Use and Health [NSDUH]-RRB-.

Measuring the value of natural capital can allow governments and business to redefine conservation expenditures as «investments,» said Eli Fenichel, an assistant professor at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and lead author of the study.

On sugar daddy dating site, the majority of sugar babies are college students who are looking for financial aid for their tuition payments and school expenditures.