Sentences with phrase «provide equal funding»

With a funding bill in each chamber of the Texas Capitol, the momentum continues to grow to end the wait list as well as provide equal funding for public charter school students.

How do you think America can move away from a predominant focus on sports and provide equal funding for music and the arts?

Raymond Abbott's name appeared as lead plaintiff in a court case brought by Camden and several other poor school districts against the State of New Jersey, demanding that the state provide equal funding for all schools.

As a charter school founder, leader and parent I implore our lawmakers to show our children that they are not worth less by providing equal funding to public charter schools.

Not exact matches

Firms must be able to execute RRPs with securities margined at 100 % (i.e. the value of the securities provided by the New York Fed will equal the funds provided by the counterparty).

To understand the effect of this modest shortfall in stock selection performance over the past 8 months, recall that when the Fund is hedged against the impact of market fluctuations (and provided that our long - put / short - call index option combinations have identical strike prices and expirations), its returns are roughly equal to:

NOT TRUE — Chick - fil - A pay is equal to or better than fast food outlets and they provide funds for collage.

We are delighted to report that the Topolski Fund — a major new rowing endowment which provides equal support for both men and women rowing for the University — has now been formally established.

If the price charged for paid meals, combined with the federal per - meal subsidy, covered the costs of these meals (or equaled the federal per - meal reimbursement for free meals), more funds could be put toward providing more nutritious meals, providing better compensation and professional support to food service staff, or other improvements that would benefit children.

If the US government is not providing the same degree of federal funding to territories as states has any study been done comparing the degree of taxes payed in vs federal funds payed to the territories and if so generally is the US receiving more, about equal, or less in taxes as it's providing in services to these territories?

Humanists UK works for an end to irrelevant religious discrimination in publicly funded posts such as general pastoral support jobs in hospitals and elsewhere, which are often unfairly reserved only for religious people or people of certain religions, and for equal treatment of the non-religious according to need in the limited number of settings where belief - specific services are legitimately provided, including hospitals.

Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions, but subject to such requirements as the legislature shall impose by general or special law, indebtedness contracted by any county, city, town, village or school district and each portion thereof from time to time contracted for any object or purpose for which indebtedness may be contracted may also be financed by sinking fund bonds with a maximum maturity of fifty years, which shall be redeemed through annual contributions to sinking funds established by such county, city, town, village or school district, provided, however, that each such annual contribution shall be at least equal to the amount required, if any, to enable the sinking fund to redeem, on the date of the contribution, the same amount of such indebtedness as would have been paid and then be payable if such indebtedness had been financed entirely by the issuance of serial bonds, except, if an issue of sinking fund bonds is combined for sale with an issue of serial bonds, for the same object or purpose, then the amount of each annual sinking fund contribution shall be at least equal to the amount required, if any, to enable the sinking fund to redeem, on the date of each such annual contribution, (i) the amount which would be required to be paid annually if such indebtedness had been issued entirely as serial bonds, less (ii) the amount of indebtedness, if any, to be paid during such year on the portion of such indebtedness actually issued as serial bonds.

Full Public Campaign Financing A «Clean Money» system of full public campaign financing would provide every qualified candidate with an equal grant of campaign funding sufficient to reach the voters of their district with their message, provided they participate in a series of publicly sponsored debates.

The Postdoc Network reports that institutions are developing innovative methods to provide all postdocs with equal benefits, regardless of funding source.

Other strategies that could stimulate women to stay in science are a) various forms of flexibility with federal - grant funding designed to accommodate women with young children keeping these women in the game; b) increasing the value of teaching, service, and administrative experience in the tenure / promotion evaluation process; c) providing on - campus childcare centres; d) supporting requests from partners for shared tenure lines that enable couples to better balance work and personal / caretaking roles; e) stopping the tenure clock for one year per child due to childbearing demands; f) providing fully - paid leave for giving birth for tenure track women for one semester; g) providing equal opportunity for women and men to lead committees and research groups.

Therefore, even when states provide equal per - pupil funding for all students, low - income children and communities remain disadvantaged.

First, just as the states refused to make good on the «equal» part of «separate but equal» after Plessy, for more than 40 years states have failed to provide equal access to the funding needed to achieve excellent schools for all children, largely because of a lack of federal accountability for equitable school funding.

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Considering fair school funding to be a state finance system that ensures equal educational opportunity by providing a sufficient level of funding...

Unless granted a waiver, each grant recipient shall provide matching funds equal to at least 100 % of the amount of the grant.

Grantees shall provide matching funds equal to 50 % of the grant amount.

Unless granted a waiver, a grantee shall provide matching funds equal to 10 % of the grant amount.

«The ultimate issue is whether funding is provided to each school in the district so as to provide equal educational opportunity for all students.»

From the 1960's, the government was seen as a strong advocate for greater equity and equal opportunity providing funding to achieve those goals.

In addition to data on sports participation and program funding, schools could also provide information on how they provide equal access to various course offerings — particularly science, math, engineering and technology, or STEM — as well as how they prevent or respond to instances of sexual harassment or other forms of discrimination on the basis of sex, sexual orientation or gender in any program or activity.

For a school that does such amazing work for a unique population, equal funding would mean expanding the services Explorations provides to better serve their students.

We continue to have a school funding system that does not provide an equal educational opportunity for our children; does not meet the additional needs of the three student populations identified in our standard; and does not provide a fair and equitable school tax burden for property owners.

Grants would cover $ 125 per ninth grade pupil and would require schools to provide equal matching funds.

Texas must provide equitable access to funding for school facilities so that all districts have equal access to facilities revenue for equal tax effort.

Texas must ensure that, if local supplementation of a state - funded adequate system is allowed, the entire additional local tax effort provides equal yield for equal tax effort, regardless of the local property wealth of individual districts.

Support was expressed by northern districts for continued annual increases in per pupil aid as well as for annual per pupil adjustments (increases) to revenue limits that together would provide all districts with a predictable, annual funding increase at least equal to the increase in the consumer price index (CPI).

The maximum voucher amount is equal to the Mississippi Adequate Education Program base student cost, i.e., the funding amount provided by the state to public schools.

In the historic Edgewood vs. Kirby case (which came to be known as Edgewood I), the state's supreme court required Texas to modify its school funding plan in a way that provided every school district equal return for equal tax effort, instituting a process for equalizing school funding throughout the state (Cárdenas, 1997).

High quality schooling that provides equal educational opportunities for secondary English language learners (ELLs) must include seven key components: state leadership, oversight and compliance; governance; fair funding; parent and community engagement; student achievement and support; teaching and curriculum quality; and accountability.

The assertion is that funding isn't equal but it may still be reasonable and fair given the wider programs and services that traditional public schools provide.

And yet, here in New York, it took until the Campaign for Fiscal Equity's victory just nine years ago to provide equal education funding for New York City and minority students.

Specifically, Section 16 of SB 302 amended NRS 387.124 (1) to provide that the apportionment of funds from the DSA to the school districts, computed on a yearly basis, equals the difference between the basic support guarantee and the local funds available, minus «all the funds deposited in education savings accounts established on behalf of children who reside in the county pursuant to NRS 353B.700 to NRS 353B.930.»

In brief, SEAs and LEAs can use these funds towards hiring teachers and administrators, ensuring an equal distribution of quality educators (especially to lower income districts), professional development, family outreach, and providing training to better reach underserved populations such as ELLs and students with disabilities.

In 2011, Indiana passed a school choice bill which currently allows 9,300 kids from low and middle income families with household income below 150 percent of school lunch eligibility to receive vouchers equal to between 50 and 90 percent of state per - pupil education funding to use at any of 289 schools — some of which provide religious education — that participate in the Choice Scholarship Program.

And states should be held accountable for providing every child with an equal opportunity to learn; perhaps through requiring they meet federal opportunity to learn indexes or through tying federal funding to equitable funding in the states.

My take on this is that most people I know would trade local control of funding for a statewide funding system that supplied equal funding per student, provided there was in place a credible performance based cost system.

The Title I funds are used to provide supplemental core academic instruction, instructional support, and parental involvement and engagement to schools to ensure that all children have a fair, equal, and significant opportunity to obtain a high - quality education and reach, at a minimum, proficiency on challenging State academic achievement standards and state academic assessments.

-» (A) IN GENERAL. - Except as provided in subparagraph (B), to be eligible for assistance under this chapter, a project shall have eligible project costs that are reasonably anticipated to equal or exceed the lesser of -» (i)(I) $ 50,000,000; or» (ii) in the case of a rural infrastructure project, $ 25,000,000; and» (ii) 331⁄3 percent of the amount of Federal highway assistance funds apportioned for the most recently completed fiscal year to the State in which the project is located.»

As long as the community perceives a need to provide equal access to information, they will keep funding libraries.

Pave makes its statement as a company providing equal opportunity for funding to the public.

The Fund provides a rules - based, approximately equal - weighted approach to municipal investing with the objective of seeking current income exempt from regular federal income tax.

We stated that our fund manager would equal the return provided by the FTSE 250 over this period.

To the extent a Fund sells securities short, it will provide collateral to the broker - dealer and (except in the case of short sales «against the box») will maintain additional asset coverage in the form of cash, U.S. government securities or other liquid securities with its custodian in a segregated account in an amount at least equal to the difference between the current market value of the securities sold short and any amounts required to be deposited as collateral with the selling broker.

The fund may loan portfolio securities to qualified broker - dealers or other institutional investors provided: (1) the loan is secured continuously by collateral consisting of U.S. government securities, letters of credit, cash or cash equivalents or other appropriate instruments maintained on a daily marked - to - market basis in an amount at least equal to the current market value of the securities loaned; (2) the fund may at any time call the loan and obtain the return of the securities loaned; (3) the fund will receive any interest or dividends paid on the loaned securities; and (4) the aggregate market value of securities loaned will not at any time exceed one - third of the total assets of the fund, including collateral received from the loan (at market value computed at the time of the loan).

«Given its unique and wide ranging benefits including its baseload capability, relative low cost to other generation technologies and that it doesn't produce waste materials that need to be dealt with by future generations, it is vital that governments provide funding and support to develop their geothermal industries equal to, if not greater than, that provided to other technologies,» says Susan Jeanes, Chief Executive of the Australian Geothermal Energy Association.