Sentences with phrase «school money toward»

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By the time he can leave school and go to work — at a job which does not interest him at all but pays him some money — he is likely to have a long start toward being a chronically frustrated individual.

One large step toward fairness is adopting the Olympic model for athlete compensation, which would free players to make money without requiring that it come from schools.

The classes are attractive to high schoolers and their parents because they have the potential to help a student skip prerequisites or other college courses — and for some, that might mean saving money on the path toward a college degree.

Leon County School Superintendent Rocky Hanna says that will leave the district with little flexibility to put money toward other priorities.

And how would state government decide which local governments and schools are taking «meaningful concrete steps» toward saving money by merging or consolidating?

Finch said he didn't like the way the referendum is presented on the ballot and he's concerned that money from past sanctioned gaming - like the lottery - hasn't gone toward school funding as promised.

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Language in the clean - up bill would have directed more money toward the beginning of the school year, two state officials said.

These Green Campaign Schools will focus on building skills at all levels, from assembling a campaign team, to creating effective campaign literature, raising money, handling and using voter data, financial reporting, media campaigns, the role of the candidate, and setting and working toward goals.

But the awards boom has some critics saying the recognition is meaningless and costs money that should go toward fixing the schools that need help.

States can use about 18 percent of the stabilization money for line items such as school repairs and modernization, but the DOE wants states to conduct any renovations with an eye toward environmentally friendly construction.

Another way to help teachers receive kid - made items — and see some money go toward schools at the same time — is to buy an Artwork for Education greeting card.

The cool response to the transfer option in cities as different as Chicago and Portland suggests that, whatever choices are offered, many parents would rather see money and effort directed toward improving their neighborhood school.

A large body of research confirms that family involvement in children's school experiences has a positive effect on children's attitudes toward school achievement, regardless of how much money parents have or how many years of school they completed.

Their most recent gift of $ 600,000 to the Ed School benefited from the University's relatively new cross-credit program that permits alumni of the business school, the law school, and Harvard College who wish to give $ 100,000 or more to apply the money to one of the public service schools while still counting the gift toward the annual drive of their graduating School benefited from the University's relatively new cross-credit program that permits alumni of the business school, the law school, and Harvard College who wish to give $ 100,000 or more to apply the money to one of the public service schools while still counting the gift toward the annual drive of their graduating school, the law school, and Harvard College who wish to give $ 100,000 or more to apply the money to one of the public service schools while still counting the gift toward the annual drive of their graduating school, and Harvard College who wish to give $ 100,000 or more to apply the money to one of the public service schools while still counting the gift toward the annual drive of their graduating class.

Aside from the fact that this is a false choice (competition can actually improve public school performance and school choice programs can save money), the wording is blatantly designed to push respondants toward Approach A.

Introduced at a time of widespread Protestant hostility toward the Catholic Church, the amendment's thinly veiled purpose was to bar public money from supporting Catholic schools.

See, e.g., Coleman, The Struggle for Control of Education, in Education and Social Policy: Local Control of Education 64, 77 - 79 (C. Bowers, I. Housego & D. Dyke eds.1970); J. Conant, The Child, The Parent, and The State 27 (1959)(«Unless a local community, through its school board, has some control over the purse, there can be little real feeling in the community that the schools are in fact, local schools...»); Howe, Anatomy of a Revolution, in Saturday Review 84, 88 (Nov. 20, 1971)(«It is an axiom of American politics that control and power follow money...»); R. Hutchinson, State - Administered Locally Shared Taxes 21 (1931)-LRB-» [S] tate administration of taxation is the first step toward state control of the functions supported by these taxes...»).

In its 8 - 3 vote, the board is asking that the renovation money — $ 60 million in two phases — be put toward a new Lansdowne High School,...

Unused money and continued donations will be put toward future needs for other grades at the school although, she stresses, «the deficit of technology in those grades can not be covered by the remaining funds.»

Vander Ark envisions a system in which public authorities oversee schools but do not run them, and Gates Foundation money is directed toward projects that fit that vision.

Instead of pouring money into bricks - and - mortar schools, we would direct the funding toward flesh - and - blood students.»

Aside from the fact that this is a false choice (competition can actually improve public school performance and school choice programs can save money), the wording is blatantly designed to push respondents toward Approach A.

They can spend their weekly paycheck at the school store, save it to purchase special prizes, or pool their money toward class prizes.

The district said it was cutting $ 85 million from school budgets but that the effect of the cuts totaled about $ 26 million to district - operated schools because of an infusion of state and federal money that is often directed toward schools with low - income students.

Remaining money would go toward enticing high - performing charters to open schools within five miles of persistently struggling district schools.

The move toward more high - quality charter schools began with the state's successful bid for Race to the Top money and accompanying legislative changes, plus the commitment to create a public - private fund to incubate new high - quality charter schools and scale up top CMOs.

Based on original research in four districts, we show that teacher cost averaging drives significant amounts of money (several hundred dollars per pupil in many cases) out of schools serving poorer students and toward better - off schools.

Trump, according to his campaign materials, plans to immediately put $ 20 billion in grant funding toward school choice, and to give states the option of allowing money to follow students to whatever kind of school they choose to attend.

The StartUp money will be earmarked for research into best practices around school turnarounds nationwide, and toward the hiring of a grant writer in the department to seek additional funds.

The program functions similar to a traditional private school voucher, but it is less vulnerable to legal challenges because its funding comes from money that is redirected from corporate taxes — before they are collected — toward the scholarships.

Much of the money from the Gates Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education, and groups such as the Carnegie Foundation is geared toward breaking down large high schools or starting new smaller schools.

Looming over everything else has been a constant effort to get more money into the state's public schools (either through new state spending and / or through a growing number of local levy requests) and there is movement toward revamping the state's dated system of school financing.

For the uninitiated, a voucher enables a parent to take education funding issued by the government and apply that money toward tuition at a private school.

Officials at one of the receiving districts, Amarillo Independent School District, said the new grant money will go toward the district's Path2Teaching program, which provides those who have or are close to completing a bachelor's degree with options to become certified teachers.

This time around, less money toward school operations means position cuts.

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.

The legislators took money earmarked for the program and put it toward expanding the presence of Teach for America (TFA), a national program designed to provide college graduates without degrees in education minimal training and place them in jobs in low - performing schools.

The LCFF first went into effect for the 2013 - 14 school year and is intended to drive extra money toward students who are English learners, eligible to receive a free or reduced - price meals or foster youth.

Much of that money would go toward the private sector, and DeVos has also been challenged repeatedly for supporting vouchers that allow parents to use government dollars to pay for private, for - profit and religious schools, a cornerstone of Trump's stated plan.

In No Small Change: Targeting Money Toward Student Performance, researchers analyze more than 100 variables before they grade states from A to F on four major categories: the rigor and clarity of the state's standards in core subjects; its efforts to improve teacher quality; its school climate as measured by absenteeism, school safety, parental involvement, character education, and other variables; and the extent to which it provides resources equitably.

The money raised will go toward the Philadelphia School District and is expected to raise $ 83 million.

Meetings and presentations from public school leaders to the Gates Foundation have brainstormed various ideas, including»... focus on teacher training, putting the best teachers in the most challenging classrooms, giving the best teachers new roles as mentors and coaches while keeping them in front of children, making tenure a meaningful milestone, getting rid of ineffective teachers, and using money to motivate people and schools to move toward these goals.»

Victoria Casas, a teacher at Beachy Avenue Elementary School and a parent of two children in the district, said the program was unsustainable and that the district should steer money toward training and reducing class sizes.

«Our school support staff has many needs and this money will go toward helping them in their work,» says Moss.

With backing from Republican education leaders, a key House committee Wednesday approved a bill that could be a first step toward trying to revise how money is distributed to school districts.

Public schools of all types regularly direct money toward private businesses — like software companies, food - service distributors and textbook publishers — for specific services.

Jobs that allow students to earn money toward their education while they are enrolled in school.

With school districts throughout the United States millions of dollars in debt, fights over teacher seniority are taking place alongside pushes to shift public money toward charter schools.

Most of the money raised by the gala event will go toward startup costs of new charter schools.