Sentences with phrase «of tuition dollars»

You spent all of those tuition dollars.

Our schools operate on a fiscally responsible, per - student budget that is currently met through a combination of tuition dollars, scholarships, corporate investment and philanthropy.

It requires students to make a serious commitment — usually three years, long study hours, and thousands of tuition dollars.

Not exact matches

They are in a high - cost period of life, with homes and cars and children and tuition and 100 different ways they need to stretch their dollars.

Which makes great advice on how to navigate your university education (and how to wring as much real - world value out of every precious tuition dollar as possible) incredibly valuable.

With an annual price tag of $ 72,228 for tuition, room and board, and fees, attending Mudd for four years will run students, and their families, more than a quarter of a million dollars.

Financial Aid: In 2017, for the first time ever, America's public universities received more revenue from tuition than they did from tax dollars — a funding model that places a higher burden on students and their families and risks widening economic inequality, even as the population of would - be students becomes more diverse.

In all of the countries of the European Union (except Greece and Italy) and in Australia, New Zealand, Scandinavia and Japan, parents can choose to send their children to nongovernment schools (usually including religious schools) and receive government tax dollars to pay for tuition.

Parochial schools are supported by church funds in addition to tuition, not tax dollars, providing in many areas a reasonable alternative for working class and middle class parishioners and removing these millions of students from the public education system paid for by taxpayers.

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

That tour saved us thousands of dollars, by not paying that pricey private school tuition at Duke and then transferring.

This is a fight to see which of them can be more out - of - touch with Hudson Valley families and work hand - in - hand with Mayor de Blasio and the New York City special interests who want to use our hard - earned taxpayer dollars on political campaigns and to give free college tuition to illegal immigrants.»

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.

And he's accused of failing to disclose on his city ethics forms gifts totaling tens of thousands of dollars from a campaign adviser, relatives, other individuals and their companies for credit - card expenses, reimbursement to the inaugural committee and tuition for his master's degree at New York University.»

«In the summer of 2014, we had a large number of special ed [ucation] students move into our district that were not budgeted for, which caused us to expend more than half - a-million dollars in additional funds to cover the cost of these students» tuitions and additional transportation for those students,» says Burnell.

«They tend to be relatively cost - effective for sponsoring governments because each of the programs use a «last - dollar» model whereby the state subsidizes tuition costs after the student has exhausted all other available state and federal financial aid.»

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 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.

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.

Sanders» plan would have eliminated tuition at public universities and colleges, while Cuomo's «last - dollar» approach pays the tuition after awards from the state and federal sources of aid are applied.

If they fail to reach agreement by Monday, Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo has vowed to introduce legislation that would extend the current budget, a backup plan that would leave out popular proposals to increase college tuition aid or invest billions of dollars in the state's aging water infrastructure.

Senate Republicans, who have received millions of dollars in campaign donations from the charter industry, pushed for the elimination of the charter cap and for unfreezing charter school tuition, which would have resulted in an enormous windfall for charter schools.

Protesters at a march in Hicksville on Saturday challenged Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo to include millions of dollars in his budget for college tuition assistance to students who entered the country illegally as children.

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.

She is not paying taxes on that tuition credit, worth tens of thousands of dollars.

So while he's advocating for tax breaks for millionaires to gut the state's finances, he also wants tuition hikes for students who are already in thousands of dollars of debt.

D. programs pay full tuition and a stipend to accepted students, so dual - degree physician scientists aren't saddled with hundreds of thousands of dollars» worth of debt, like most M.D.s are.

Currently, graduate students are taxed on money they earn working in a laboratory or classroom, but not on tuition discounts they receive from a university, which can be worth tens of thousands of dollars.

I mean, you don't want to spend thousands of dollars on a party (have you seen the price of college tuition lately?

As shown in Figure 2 below, a one - thousand dollar increase in tuition level is associated with a 3.5 - percentage point decrease in the likelihood of participating in the LSP.

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.

Not only do these credits save parents and students tuition dollars, they decrease the time, and thereby the cost, of earning a college degree.

Yale University is putting millions of dollars a year into a new program that will help send top graduates of schools in New Haven, Conn., to public colleges and universities tuition - free.

That means six cents of every dollar in appropriations find their way into lower tuition.

That means just ten cents of every dollar increase in appropriations would find their way into lower tuition, an effect similar in magnitude to what Rizzo and Ehrenberg found for an earlier time period.

Again, the studies discussed above do not offer much explanation, but two theories come to mind: perhaps universities look to exploit their pricing power in the market leading them to raise tuition whether appropriations rise or fall; or maybe when faced with a reduction in state funding, universities cut spending instead of raising tuition dollar for dollar.

Since gaining prominence through the support of economist Milton Friedman decades ago, school vouchers, which subsidize student tuition at private and parochial schools with public dollars, are one of the most controversial ideas in education policy.

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.

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.

In the same post, Ravitch quotes a Pennsylvania Republican who warns that Alexander's package only includes $ 2,100 dollars per voucher, meaning that the «school district of record» must provide the rest of the tuition.

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.

This new law passed earlier this year allows parents of students with special needs to withdraw their children from a public school and receive a deposit of their child's state education dollars into a government authorized savings account for education expenses, such as tuition and fees.

Special Needs ESA: This program, created in 2015, allows parents of students with an Individualized Education Plan to use tax dollars on a variety of education expenses outside of public education, including private school tuition and fees, textbooks, therapy, etc..

While voucher usage is higher in big cities, the financial effect is felt in every school district because the voucher dollars come out of Tuition Support, in effect reducing the dollars supporting students in all public schools.

In addition, the challengers say using tax dollars to pay tuition at religious schools is barred by the Constitution's prohibition against compelling a person to «support any place of worship... against his consent,» and its ban on using state funds «for the benefit of any religious or theological institution.»

While Yoder wanted to allow siblings of current voucher recipients to receive private school tuition dollars without entering the public school system, Kenley said at the time this would break an agreement that was central to the original voucher bill: public schools get the first chance at educating students.

The statewide program is already distributing tens of millions of dollars for private school tuition.

A recent Politico story found that taxpayers in 14 states are spending almost a billion dollars this year in tuition at private academies and religious schools, many of which teach fundamentalist religious doctrines like creationism in place of science, telling students that the earth is less than 10,000 years old and that humans co-existed with dinosaurs.

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.

Public charter schools, funded with public dollars and tuition - free, are off - shoots of traditional public school systems and been glorified recently in critically - acclaimed documentaries like «The Lottery» and «Waiting for Superman,» which portray the schools as last hopes for parents raising children in urban areas with sub-standard schools.