Sentences with phrase «scarce dollars from»

Lindsay Sobel, Massachusetts executive director of the teacher leadership group Teach Plus, said the teachers she works with are concerned that Massachusetts could «open itself up to redirecting scarce dollars from their classrooms to the creation of an unnecessary new test.»

From the perspective of Forward, financial support of Haredi families not only diverts scarce dollars from the more deserving Jewish poor who recognize the imperative of «egalitarianism,» but also encourages what economists term «moral hazard,» the subsidizing of economically and socially dysfunctional behavior.

Not exact matches

In light of the benefit growth under current law — which greatly outpaces the growth in available revenue — it is far from clear that further net increases are a wise use of scarce dollars, particularly since broad - based expansions can be quite costly.

And although the factory model has never benefited more than half the students, particularly those from low - income backgrounds, government still invests most of its scarce R&D dollars (for high schools) in trying to make it better.

Today, billions of taxpayer dollars are being diverted from the nation's public schools to charter schools and with those funds has come a growing crisis of so - called education entrepreneurs who are using some of those scarce public funds to line their own pockets.

But the idea of funneling scarce taxpayer dollars away from public schools to pay for private school tuition has a way of bridging political divides.

[Polis» proposal being that in the face of scarce public funds, more and more taxpayer dollars should get diverted away from the public schools, and instead be used to subsidize schools like the ones he is involved in].

Meanwhile, as Achievement First, Inc. continues to claim that they need the scarce funds from New Haven in order to help the City, the company stays mum on its multiple relationships with the billions of dollars associated with the corporate education reform industry.

Meanwhile, another Republican legislator, State Representative Rosa Rebimbas (R - 70th District) is pushing another ALEC concept, School Vouchers, which are designed to shift scarce public funds away from public schools and give the dollars to private and parochial schools.

Michelle Rhee is infamous for pouring tens of millions of dollars money into the local political process to try and force local officials to shift scarce public funds from their public schools to the privatized corporate education reform model.

The findings from this study suggest that those interested in implementing and supporting these models need to think hard about how to use scarce public and private dollars to their greatest effect so that personalized learning can achieve its promise.