Sentences with phrase «past tuition tax»

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Over the past week the governor has outlined plans for free tuition at state colleges, child care tax credits and voting reforms, among others and over the past two days regional plans for New York City, Buffalo, the Hudson Valley and Long Island.

The major education reforms of the past 35 years — education vouchers, charter schools, tuition tax credits, and education savings accounts — all seek to remove public schools from the control of elected bodies; to subject them to the «laws» of the «market»; and to put them at the service of the economic elite.

Citizens stuck in blue states like California now have no recourse to escape the failed test prep approach other than to get their children into private schools — and if they lack the resources to pay for tuition a second time (since they still must pay taxes for the second class teaching their local state schools are dispensing), their children will be doomed to fall behind the international competition, since that is a consequence of the second missed opportunity of the past decade, the Common Core standards that doom American children to fall 2 - 3 years behind their peers in Asia and northern Europe by the time they finish high school.

Consider the 529 college savings plan, an increasingly popular way to save for higher - education expenses, which have more than tripled over the past two decades — with annual costs (for tuition and fees, and room and board) of more than $ 45,000 per year for the average private four - year college.1 Named after the section of the tax code that authorized them, 529 plans (also known as qualified tuition plans) are now offered in almost every state.

So, as tuition shot up past $ 20,000 and now $ 30,000 a year at some schools, students racked up larger and larger tax credits.

They could have used a 529 college saving plan to put aside some WizardBucks tax - free for the past several years, which would have helped with Ron's tuition, and subsequently would have left the family with enough money to buy him a proper robe instead of an old curtain.