Sentences with phrase «paying for public schools»

Student achievement improved, taxpayers were more equally sharing the cost of paying for public schools, and businesses were seeing the results of better - prepared graduates.

Nearly a year after declaring Montana's system of paying for its public schools unconstitutional, the state Supreme Court early this month relinquished its jurisdiction over the school - finance case.

Yes, libertarians would be against tax subsidies (that pay for public schools), but that isn't the question at hand.

Education savings account (ESAs) provide parents with most or all of funds the state would have spent on a child's education, allowing parents to pay for public school alternatives, such as tutoring, online courses, private school tuition, or a combination of other educational services.

April 25, 2016 — Education savings account (ESAs) provide parents with most or all of funds the state would have spent on a child's education, allowing parents to pay for public school alternatives, such as tutoring, online courses, private school tuition, or a combination of other educational services.

Hillary Clinton delivered plenty of applause lines Tuesday in a speech to the nation's largest teachers union at a gathering in Washington, calling for less standardized testing, more support for vulnerable children and more respect and pay for public school educators.

School Money is a nationwide collaboration between NPR's Ed Team and 20 member station reporters exploring how states pay for their public schools and why many are failing to meet the needs of their most vulnerable students.

Posted on May 8, 2017 · Many teachers see a bright spot in the Texas Legislature, with an effort to reboot how Texas pays for public schools.

Many teachers see a bright spot in the Texas Legislature, with an effort to reboot how Texas pays for public schools.

The bill tries to reboot how Texas pays for public schools — a conundrum that has stumped lawmakers for decades.

But Alief ISD Superintendent HD Chambers told the panel that those aren't realistic expectations based on how Texas pays for public schools.

But while municipalities pay for public school facilities, Notre Dame Vezin is on its own for the upkeep of the school's buildings, parts of which are 100 years old.

With debate in the Legislature set to begin in earnest on plans for restructuring the way the state pays for public school services, a new report released by The Education Trust - West shows just how inequitable the current system has become.

Past court cases, such as the Horton case, argued that Connecticut's method of funding schools mainly through local property taxes was unfair to towns and cities with a limited ability to pay for public schools.

This complicated mess involving the legislature, courts, teachers unions, and even the state land trust (public land owned by the state that helps pay for public schools) might result in a clearer, more orderly way to pay for education in Arizona.

Americans are diverse — ethnically, religiously, ideologically — but all must pay for public schools.

This story is part of the NPR reporting project School Money, a nationwide collaboration between NPR's Ed Team and 20 member station reporters exploring how states pay for their public schools and why many are failing to meet the needs of their most vulnerable students.

Mayor Martin J. Walsh says Boston is not getting enough state aid to pay for public schools under a budget proposal unveiled last month by Governor Charlie Baker.

Under the spending plan proposed by Baker, the city would rely heavily on property tax revenue — not state aid — to pay for public schools, Walsh said.

On Monday, Georgia's Supreme Court decision deemed the Georgia Charter Schools Commission — a state commission that authorizes the creation of charter schools — unconstitutional, striking down a 2008 law that gave the state the power to create the commission in the first place and allowed the commission to fund charter schools with money that would have otherwise paid for public schools in local districts.

The law had created the Georgia Charter School Commission, a group that had the power to green - light and then fund charter schools with money that would have otherwise paid for public schools in local districts.

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The result: If I continue contributing steadily, I believe I will have enough money to pay for each of them to attend community college or an in - state public school.

His words have made me a more thoughtful person — always trying to pay for the bill, cleaning up after others long after a high school tennis match is over at a public park, and giving consulting clients more time without charging more.

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act approved expanded use of 529 plans to include tax - free distributions (after December 31, 2017) of up to $ 10,000 per year per student to pay for tuition at elementary or secondary public, private, or religious schools.

Before I had unrestricted access to MLS information, I had to go to Real Estate School, pass an examination, get a license, all for a fee, join a company, join the Toronto Real Estate Board for a fee, pay for Real Estate Council Of Ontario Insurance, and now, some Government Evangelist thought it was a good idea at the time, and wants to make private information available without restriction, unlimited, and free to the public?

Flanked by his team of public defenders and over a half dozen Broward Sheriff's Office deputies, suspected Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz appeared in a Broward County courtroom Wednesday afternoon for a status hearing into whether he can afford to pay for his own defense.

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Nikolas Cruz's public defender argued that the Florida school shooting suspect should be represented at the expense of taxpayers because he likely doesn't have the assets to pay a private lawyer for his death penalty case.

Teachers in Arizona and Colorado turned their state Capitols into a sea of red Thursday as they kicked off widespread walkouts that shut down public schools in a bid for better pay and education funding, building on educator revolt that emerged elsewhere in the U.S. but whose political prospects were not clear.

Taxes serve to pay for municipal services, such as public schools and road maintenance.

Using capital financing to pay for the construction and maintenance of public infrastructure like hospitals, schools, bridges and roads is nothing like using a credit card to buy a pizza.

This year, the oversight board proposed eliminating subsidies for public housing and nutritional assistance in schools in order to pay back Wall Street creditors.

The average Chicago property tax bill is going up about 10 percent this year following City Hall and Chicago Public Schools tax hikes to pay for police, fire and teacher pensions, according to calculations released Tuesday by the Cook County clerk's office.

Tell me, if the school charged the actual market value for the use of this space and the use of equipment, etc. and if that market value actually reflected the cost to the public, then the issue might become clearer to you because these religious people would scream at having to pay full price and the cost of any damages they may inflict upon the public property they are using illegally.

If they want cheap places where they can express their religion, let them seek it in the «free market» and quit trying to force the government to pay for their private activities through subsidies, tax exemptions, resources like schools, public property of all sorts, or anything funded by government monies.

The statement that seminary buildings are built on public school property or in any manner paid for by government funds is totally false.

It's not that I disagree with you about keeping religion out of schools (public schools, ones not set up specifically by a religious community for their community and paid for by that community), but dogma is what you also both adhere to and propagate, so you might want to rephrase.

Comparing national test scores, Catholic schools in general (as with most private schools) perform better in both reading and math than public schools although the advantage is stronger in reading than in Math though the difference in Math was still statistically significant; however, this could be due to the self selecting nature of the students in Catholic schools where the parents have made the decision to value education to the extent of paying for it.

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.

The public should not have to pay for your delusions in public schools.

Ought public money to go to a church to pay for the services of its nuns as public - school teachers?

My taxes pay for a lot of things that we take for granted, police officers, teachers, public schools, our highway systems and bridges, roads and light fixtures for our everyday usage and our countries defense by way of paying our men and women who are defending our lives right now both here and abroad.)

No faith based holidays in the public schools, if you want those privileges then go to a faith based school and pay for it.

In most African countries, virtually all public development — schools, health centers, roads, power — is paid for by donors.

Waqfs were established to furnish trousseaux for orphan girls, for paying the debts of imprisoned or bankrupt businessmen, for clothing for the aged, to help pay village and neighborhood taxes, to help the army and the navy, to found trade guilds, to give land for public markets, to build lighthouses, to help orphans and widows and the destitute, to care for the needs of poor school children and to give them picnics, to pay for the funerals of the poor, to provide holiday gifts for poor families, to build seaside cottages for holidays for the people, to distribute ice - cold water during the summer, to create public playing fields, to distribute rice to birds, and to give food and water to animals.

When saying Merry Christmas has become a bad thing, when we can no longer have the peoples vote counted and respected by judges and elected officials, when health care for aids and other associated dieses is covered, when kids in school have to be subjected to demonstrations of gay bedroom life when the mayor of NY will no longer without reason and against the law rent churches public buildings, when teen pregnancies up 45 percent will be paid for by us the people of the US with all the cost completely covered.

Some Protestants claimed that public schools were just as available as public beaches for all, and if any wished to use private beaches or private schools, they had to pay their own way.

This country certainly does not cater to religious beliefs, given that you can't even say the word «pray» in a public school anymore, and we have a president who is pushing for everyone to pay for contraceptives.

To make matters even worse, those who have experience working in Catholic schools are often at a disadvantage when compared to other applicants for well - paying public school positions.

About three thousand students are already benefiting from the latest wrinkle in five states, «education savings accounts,» which provide even more flexibility to families by allowing those who withdraw their children from public schools to receive a deposit of public funds into government - authorized savings accounts that can be used to pay for private school tuition, online learning programs, private tutoring, educational therapies, or college costs.