Sentences with phrase «scholarship funds as»

In his initial budget proposal, Cuomo linked the Dream Act to the education tax credit, which would incentivize donations to private school scholarship funds as well as public schools.

Governor Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, inserted the Dream Act into his $ 141.6 billion executive budget, and linked it to a new tax credit for donations to private and parochial school scholarship funds as well as public schools.

Astorino has said he supports the growth of charter schools in New York and blames Cuomo for the failure of a tax credit proposal that would incentivize donations to private school scholarship funds as well as public schools.

Cuomo's proposal is more restrictive than the legislation, which is designed to incentivize donations to private school scholarship funds as well as public schools.

Not exact matches

Bankwest today launched its new charity, which will raise funds for community initiatives, as well as a scholarship program that aims to better the lives of Western Australians, and has pledged $ 1 million per year to the charity for five years.

«In an effort to continue his memory, this scholarship is being created to help other students experience the joys of music as well as fund increased security at schools.

Formed by Kagome Co., Ltd., Calbee, Inc., and ROHTO Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., as a response to the quake, the fund provides scholarships for students like Endo who lost one or both parents due to the quake.

Remember to explore your other options for funding too, such as getting a part - time job or applying to scholarships.

Hanging on to substantial wealth can be justified only if you can accomplish at least as much good by hanging on to it as by giving the whole lot to a relief agency that would use it to fight hunger or to a scholarship fund for the underprivileged or to similar good causes.

Phillips said the evangelical foundation is looking for scholarship funds to «enable as many people as possible to get onto the course» and added that there a few small bursaries already available «especially for those involved in ministry».

The good of university endowments extends far beyond their merely instrumental value in performing «public service,» such as funding scholarships and research.

In his seven years as president, President Houshmand has implemented many programs and initiatives to decrease the cost of higher education, including creating a $ 25,000, four - year bachelor's degree program, awarding more than $ 27 million annually in scholarship funds and waivers, and committing to capping tuition and fee increases at or lower than the rate of inflation for his tenure.

Since 2003, Ignite the Spirit, a 501c3 non-profit entity, has raised and donated funds to ease the hardship of Chicago Fire Department families in their time of need as well as giveback to their communities through scholarships and other charitable events.

Established in 1964, the Annual Fund provides SNA members with financial support for education and professional development, as well as to support research and offer scholarships.

We do this through fundraising for our Annual Fund, which allows the Foundation to support applied research in child nutrition to help create best practices, and to offer scholarships that allow our members to attend conferences as well as achieve their own educational goals.

Previously a historian at Oxford and currently the chairman of the China Oxford Scholarship Fund, Mr Beardson's experience as an entrepreneur and as a practitioner gives a different perspective on China's present and future prospects.

He wants to help the charitable groups reverse the slump in revenues that has eaten into their support of local activities, such as youth sports leagues, scholarship funds or veterans programs.

Cuomo has supported the idea of tuition - free college in the past, providing scholarship funding for teachers and students going into science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields, as well as introducing the idea of the state paying for college courses for inmates, though that proposal met with hostility.

Cuomo said his plans to extend public tuition assistance to undocumented immigrants — the Dream Act — and a plan proposed tax credit offsetting donations to private and parochial school scholarship funds (as well as public schools) were «highly likely» to fall out of talks because the State Senate and Assembly were «dug in» in their respective opposition.

«As long as they are able to provide like private schools with more funding for students and more scholarships and grants for them, then it's a great prograAs long as they are able to provide like private schools with more funding for students and more scholarships and grants for them, then it's a great prograas they are able to provide like private schools with more funding for students and more scholarships and grants for them, then it's a great program.

Cardinal Timothy Dolan and Assemblyman Robert Rodriguez today rallied with religious school parents, kids and administrators in East Harlem for the passage of the controversial education investment tax credit — which would incentivize private donations for scholarships at parochial schools and other private schools, as well as public school scholarship funds.

years; exempts vehicles owned by firefighter first responders used in the performance of duty from motor vehicle registration fees and vehicle use taxes; authorizes local volunteer fire companies and ambulance companies to offset the cost of health insurance for their volunteers through the use of funds collected from a 2 percent fire insurance premium tax from out - of - state insurers; allows fire companies to select up to three candidates to participate in the state's college tuition assistance program, known as Volunteer Recruitment Service Scholarships; and directs the state Higher Education Services Corp. to create a volunteer recruitment service college loan forgiveness program.

«Having advocated for children for over 20 years, as a founder of the Bison Scholarship Fund and a former school board member, I am sickened by the stories of child sexual abuse.

He has also proposed extending college tuition assistance to undocumented immigrants — a proposal known as the Dream Act — as well as creating a new tax credit to offset donations to private and parochial school scholarship funds and public schools.

The Minority in Parliament has described as illegal, government's decision to allow the Scholarship Secretariat to administer funds for the implementation of the free senior high school policy.

In short, as our lawmakers wrap up their 2014 session, a bill to offer tax credits to New Yorkers who donate to private - school scholarship funds or public - school programs looks dead.

Senate Co-Leader Dean Skelos (R - Long Island) and Sen. Martin Golden (R - Brooklyn) said they would not support expanding a proposed education investment tax credit to help fund scholarships for the college kids of illegal immigrants — a plan some saw as a compromise to the DREAM Act that was voted down in the Senate last week.

The fundraising efforts continue as the Hollers are selling engraved bricks at the site of the skate park to fund scholarships for local students.

As an undergraduate at Hampton University, I received a Student Enhancement in Mathematics and Science (SEMS) scholarship funded by the Office of Naval Research (ONR).

The Asian Scholarship Foundation (ASF), a not - for - profit organization funded by a grant from the Ford Foundation, funds research by young and middle - level scholars in the field of Asian studies — which includes some social sciences — as well as work involving travel to other Asian countries.

The research was supported by grants from the Oppenheimer Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the National Center for Research Resources and the Chinese Scholarship Council of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, as well as funding from the Center for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy at UCLA and the Broad Stem Cell Research Center.

THINK Fund at HCF also funds college scholarships as well as grants to nonprofits for STEM Learning.

At Lund University, doctoral studentships are used as the primary form of funding for doctoral education, but use of external funding and scholarships is also permitted — i.e. scholarships established by an organisation other than Lund University.

Its purpose is to raise funds for, and to administer, Australia's own postgraduate scholarships - the John Monash Scholarships - to foster leadership, expertise and international networks, as well as build Australia's capabilities forscholarships - the John Monash Scholarships - to foster leadership, expertise and international networks, as well as build Australia's capabilities forScholarships - to foster leadership, expertise and international networks, as well as build Australia's capabilities for the future.

Other organizations focus on the private school sector and issues such as using taxpayer - funded scholarships, or vouchers, or tuition tax credits to enable children to attend private schools.

The announcement of the second year of the National Scholarship for teachers and the introduction of a Scholarship for SEN support staff was welcomed as was the fourth year of funding for the National Award for SEN Co-ordination.

School vouchers provide funds to parents to enable them to enroll their children in private schools and, as a result, are one of the most controversial education reforms in the United States (to see an interview with Patrick Wolf about his evaluation of the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program and about its likely future please click here).

As mentioned earlier, many colleges will have their own scholarship funds.

The D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program, which allows low - income Washington D.C. children to use school vouchers to attend the private schools of their parents» choice, was scheduled to be terminated as its funding had run its course.

We're telling them they can work as hard as they can, pray and hope that they will be able to snatch up the handful of scholarships and grants available, and if they don't secure that funding, they will never reach any financial security.

Fortunately, as already noted, donations to private school scholarship organizations are not public funding, and so the court's newly invented constraint has no bearing on Florida's education tax credits.

Private initiatives such as the Children's Scholarship Fund and Children First America are likely to grow no matter what the outcome of the Ohio case.

As the inaugural recipient of the Laura Kavazanjian Memorial Scholarship Fund, named for a 2010 HGSE alumna, Gombas is now stepping into a legacy of activism for the education of women and girls.

However, unlike with ESAs, tax - credit scholarship recipients in New Hampshire can choose either to use the funds to cover private school tuition or for qualifying homeschooling expenses, such as curricula, textbooks, online courses, or tutoring.

If the scholarship program remains successful, the funding cap may rise by as much as 25 percent per year.

In order to determine the effect of scholarship - induced private school competition on public school performance, we examine whether students in schools that face a greater threat of losing students to private schools as a result of the introduction of tax - credit funded scholarships improve their test scores more than do students in schools that face a less - pronounced threat.

They could then provide more funds to Bryan's public schools, as is likely, or use the scholarship to help pay for enrichment programs or private school tuition.

During the eight years (2007 to 2014) that the Education Next (EdNext) poll has been administered to a representative sample of American adults (and, in most of these years, to a representative sample of public school teachers), we have seen only minimal changes from one year to the next on such important issues as charter schools, merit pay, teacher tenure, teachers unions, and tax credits that fund private - school scholarships.

As government funding is only $ 600, the Partnership needs to raise an additional $ 6,400 per student in scholarship, grants, and donations to meet our cost to educate.

LEAs may use for this purpose either the same source of data used to select and allocate funds among public schools (i.e., usually free or free and reduced - price school lunch data) or one of a specified range of alternatives, such as data from an income survey of private school families, private school scholarship applications, or estimates based on the assumption that the percentage of students attending a private school who are from low - income families is the same as that for public school students who reside in the same geographic area.