Sentences with phrase «public tuition grants»

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Cuomo also pushed his plan to provide free tuition — beyond state and federal grants already received — for some public college students; he said 85 percent of families from the Buffalo area would be eligible to participate if his plan is adopted by the Legislature.

The administration did not immediately provide details about the number of SUNY and CUNY students whose tuition is now covered by public financial aid grants.

When it comes to passing the DREAM Act to grant college tuition assistance to undocumented immigrant students, and the Education Investment Tax Credit to incentivize private donations to parochial and public schools, Mr. Cuomo's office said he would prefer to pass them in the budget, but if they are not included they could be passed later.

More than half of the state's public college and university students are attending school tuition free, thanks to a combination of grants and scholarships.

Cuomo won his push for a free tuition for public college students from households with incomes of up to $ 125,000 — even as CUNY and SUNY were granted permission to raise their tuitions by $ 200.

Cuomo won his push for free tuition for public college students from households with annual incomes of up to $ 125,000 — even as CUNY and SUNY were granted permission to raise their tuitions by $ 200 a year.

The tuition grant coalition began with black and white co-leadership, with Republican Jane Cunningham taking a more public role.

The characterization of the tuition grant as a «voucher» posed a public relations challenge for the sponsors, immediately putting them on the defensive.

Senator Bernie Sanders's plan would have made all public colleges tuition - free, presumably through a federal matching grant to states.

Secretary Hillary Clinton's plan would have offered federal matching grants for states that made in - state tuition at public universities free for students from families earning less than $ 125,000 annually.

While a lottery to select voucher recipients chose first from among students in 15 D.C. public schools that failed for two years to meet goals under the federal No Child Left Behind Act, about one in six D.C. children who will receive tuition grants are students who already attend private school.

Most controversially, school choice also includes vouchers and tuition tax - credits, which allow families to use public dollars in order to send their children to private schools or provide tax credits to individuals or corporations that make donations to organizations that grant scholarships to students.

Public schools depend mainly on local, state, and federal funds, and private schools usually gain support mainly from tuition, with some funds coming from other nonpublic sources such as religious organizations, endowments, grants, and charitable donations.

The rise of private schools in the South and the diversion of public funds to those private schools through vouchers was a direct response of white communities to desegregation requirements.42 In Louisiana, the state established the Louisiana Financial Assistance Commission, which offered vouchers of $ 360 for students attending private school but only provided $ 257 per student to those attending public schools.43 Over the commission's lifespan, the state devoted more than $ 15 million in vouchers through its tuition grant program, with the initial $ 2.5 million coming from Louisiana's Public Welfarepublic funds to those private schools through vouchers was a direct response of white communities to desegregation requirements.42 In Louisiana, the state established the Louisiana Financial Assistance Commission, which offered vouchers of $ 360 for students attending private school but only provided $ 257 per student to those attending public schools.43 Over the commission's lifespan, the state devoted more than $ 15 million in vouchers through its tuition grant program, with the initial $ 2.5 million coming from Louisiana's Public Welfarepublic schools.43 Over the commission's lifespan, the state devoted more than $ 15 million in vouchers through its tuition grant program, with the initial $ 2.5 million coming from Louisiana's Public WelfarePublic Welfare Fund.

Even with the reopening of the County's public schools following the Griffin ruling, segregation supported by a voucher system and inequitable funding persisted.24 The County's board of supervisors devoted only $ 189,000 in funding for integrated public schools.25 At the same time, they allocated $ 375,000 that could effectively only be used by white students for «tuition grants to students attending either private nonsectarian schools in the County or public schools charging tuition outside the County.»

Alexandria, Va. (February 1, 2016)-- The National School Boards Association (NSBA) applauds the recent Nevada District Court decision granting a preliminary injunction in the case of Lopez v. Schwartz, halting the state's Education Savings Account Program (ESAP), that would divert general funds appropriated for public schools to fund private school tuition.

By 1969, more than 200 private segregation academies were set up in states across the South.38 Seven of those states — Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana — maintained tuition grant programs that offered vouchers to students in an effort to incentivize white students to leave desegregated public school districts.39 Between the 1969 - 70 and the 1970 - 71 school years, Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi saw tens of thousands of students flee to newly opened segregation academies.40 In a single school year, Mississippi led the trio with almost 41,000 students having left the state's public schools.

In 1965, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District in Virginia found in Griffin v. State Board of Education that vouchers from the state's tuition grant program could not lawfully be used to fund schools that discriminate based on race.27 While not citing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as a legal basis for its ruling, the court nonetheless relied on the law's definition of a public school — any institution that was «operated wholly or predominantly from or through the use of governmental funds or property.»

Currently, the Choice Scholarship grants are paid from the savings in tuition support since the students attended public schools the year before and would probably be built into the school tuition support projections for CY 2014 and CY 2015.

The Texas Attorney General concluded that providing public funds to parochial schools through tuition equalization grants under a religiously neutral program is not inherently unconstitutional under the Texas Constitution because although Texas» second Blaine Amendment (Article VII, Section 5) «prohibits aid to sects -LSB-,]» «not all denominational institutions are sectarian in the constitutional sense.»

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.

Senate Bill 193 would allow parents to use 90 percent of the per - pupil grant the state gives to local public schools and instead put it toward alternative educational expenses, including private school tuition or homeschooling.

(And it is not only Pell Grants that enable college students to pay tuition to whichever university they choose — public or private — using taxpayer dollars.

Advocates for private - school vouchers this week cheered the Supreme Court's decision that the state of Missouri may not deny a playground resurfacing grant to a church, calling the decision a first step toward an end to state bans on using public money to pay tuition at parochial schools.

On average, low - income students receive enough grant aid to cover all of their tuition at community colleges and most of it at public four - year colleges.

For example, the Washington Supreme Court has barred a blind student from using vocational rehabilitation funds to pursue seminary studies [xxxii]; forbidden a program that provided textbook and tuition assistance grants for needy students at public and private, including religious, schools [xxxiii]; and struck down a program that allowed students from private, including religious, schools to ride public school buses.

Local officials worked with the Virginia General Assembly to create a «tuition grant» program that allocated vouchers for white students to attend segregated private schools or other nearby public schools.

Local officials allocated $ 375,000 for tuition grants that were only available to white students, and just $ 189,000 to operate its entire integrated public - school system.

The Passaic County Community College (PCCC) is providing tuition free training in time management, public speaking, grant writing, and other courses for private and non-profit sector employees.

I don't really have a problem with vouchers; they're just another incarnation of government using taxpayer dollars to buy public goods or services from the private sector — from Pell grants to help pay tuition at private colleges, to county contracts with social services providers, to weapons and uniforms for the armed services.

Consider that in 2016, the maximum Pell grant is $ 5,815 while the typical public college cost of attendance, including tuition, fees, room, and board, is nearly $ 16,000.

Admittedly, public libraries are usually tax - dollar supported, but academic libraries are funded by grants, endowments, and the users» own direct tuition dollars.

But according to the College Board, average debt for new bachelor's degree recipients at public institutions has risen more rapidly than tuition, room and board, and fees after grants and scholarships.

Clinton would reduce the cost of college by providing states with grants to support two years of tuition - free community college and / or four years of tuition - free education at in - state public colleges and universities for students from families making less than $ 125,000 (phased in over 4 years starting at $ 85,000), building on her promise to ensure access to «debt - free» college.

Even for research that's not federally funded, the public has still invested in it in the form of grants, donations, state funding, and tuition fees.

Texas offers several options to help pay for your education including the Tuition Equalization Grant program, the Texas Public Educational Grant and the Leveraging Educational Assistance Partnership Program.