Sentences with phrase «schools by billions of dollars»

The formula was set up to address a decade - old court order known as the Campaign for Fiscal Equity that said the state was underfunding schools by billions of dollars.

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It's far too easy to believe, in our modern world, that you can graduate from a top 10 school, flawlessly establish yourself in the corporate world or with your own startup, build the perfect team, and either invest in perfect stocks or sell your own company for billions of dollars by the time you're 27.

The NCAA's governing body needs to regularly justify its billion dollar existence by punishing member schools for crimes * against the invisible standard of amateurism.

A cost analysis conducted by researchers from the Harvard Medical School calculated that if 90 percent of U.S. women would breastfeed exclusively for the first six months, up to 13 billion additional dollars a year could be saved.

He broke into politics by co-founding the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, which in 1993 sued Albany for billions of dollars it argued the state owed to city public schools — and eventually won, though Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration has since resisted delivering the funds.

Instead, the release cites McDonald's support last December of a «3 billion dollar tax increase even though his campaign pledge was not to support taxes,» and his backing of a recent attempt to «weaken the tax cap» by allowing school districts to bond out pension costs.

Billy Easton, with Alliance for Quality Education, explains report showing schools are underfunded by billions of dollars.

In an Education Week commentary essay about school boards in 2009, I wrote, «[M] y sense of things, after two stints on my local school board... is that school boards have been overtaken by the «educatocracy,» by powerful trade unions, certified specialists, certification agencies, state and federal rule - makers and legislators, grants with strings, billion - dollar - contractor lobbyists, textbook mega-companies, professional associations, and lawyers — the list could go on.»

Driven by news of shortages in certain subjects (such as math, science, and special education) and in rural and inner - city schools, state legislatures have earmarked billions of dollars for salary increases and teacher training.

, a new book by HGSE lecturer Katherine Boles (co-authored by Vivian Trn), contends that teaching in America has deteriorated for decades to reach a low point unmatched since the era of the one - room schoolhouse»» despite billions of dollars spent on school reform efforts and millions more spent to recruit bodies to teach in U.S. classsrooms.

A modern conservative columnist, Kate O'Beirne, writing in the National Review, has questioned the value of food stamps, school breakfasts and lunches, and the WIC programs (Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children): «With rates of excess weight and obesity highest among low - income households, budget officials should be asking themselves why tens of billions of dollars are being spent each year by federal nutrition programs aimed at boosting food consumption by the poor.»

Those schools are now subject to strong improvement efforts, backed by billions of dollars in federal support.

Until CMOs can benefit from the billions of dollars of school bonds raised by districts, they will need «equity - like» investments from philanthropy in order to expand and effectively serve more students.

As a country, we can choose to increase spending by billions of dollars for very modest results — or, for a small fraction of the cost, we can achieve much more by simply letting great educators open up schools.

By the 2014 — 15 school year, that amount fell by $ 7 billion — a staggering loss equivalent to the sum of federal student aid dollars that are received by all colleges in Texas annuallBy the 2014 — 15 school year, that amount fell by $ 7 billion — a staggering loss equivalent to the sum of federal student aid dollars that are received by all colleges in Texas annuallby $ 7 billion — a staggering loss equivalent to the sum of federal student aid dollars that are received by all colleges in Texas annuallby all colleges in Texas annually.

Dominated by hedge fund managers who control billions of dollars, DFER has contributed heavily to political candidates for local and state offices who pledge to promote charter schools.

Fair Student Funding: Fair Student Funding (FSF) dollars — approximately $ 6.1 billion in the 2017 - 18 school year — are used by schools to cover basic instructional needs and are allocated to each school based on the grade level and academic needs of students enrolled at that school.

At stake in the fiercely contested campaign is control over a complex, underperforming school district whose ability to improve schools for nearly 665,000 students is compromised by declining enrollment, a $ 1.46 billion projected deficit, and billions of dollars in unfunded liabilities for retirees.

Amid fanfare around the billions of dollars being delivered to schools through the federal economic - stimulus package, members of the National Conference of State Legislatures are warning that the education agenda being pushed by the Obama administration is shaping up to be just as prescriptive and intrusive as the 8 - year - old No Child Left Behind Act.

The plaintiffs in CCJEF v. Rell charge that the state is violating the constitutional right of Connecticut's children to an adequate education by depriving school districts of billions of dollars.

The impact of this idea is being fiercely felt today with state legislatures spending billions of tax dollars to fund separate, unfair and unequal systems of publicly funded education choices, including private school vouchers championed by Betsy DeVos and Jeb Bush.

Funding for college work - study programs would be cut in half, public - service loan forgiveness would end and hundreds of millions of dollars that public schools could use for mental health, advanced coursework and other services would vanish under a Trump administration plan to cut $ 10.6 billion from federal education initiatives, according to budget documents obtained by The Washington Post.

The critics of modern school reform that I know are people who see enormous trouble in the public education system, but don't think it will be fixed by spending billions of dollars on questionable teacher assessment systems linked to standardized test scores, or expanding charter schools that are hardly the panacea their early supporters claimed they would be, or handing out federal education dollars based on promises to change schools according to the likes and dislikes of Education Secretary Arne Duncan, whose record as superintendent of Chicago public schools was hardly distinguished.

Her position has alienated Moskowitz from local charter leaders and advocates, who have taken pains to draw a bright line between their support for school choice and the policies advocated by the Trump administration, which has proposed a widespread school voucher program along with billions of dollars in cuts to public education.

Pointing to LA Unified's soaring numbers of students living in poverty and learning English, Caputo - Pearl suggested, «If Broad and other billionaires want to ensure a great education for every child, they should invest half a billion dollars, and more, in an LAUSD foundation, run by the democratically elected school board, to fund sustainable neighborhood community schools that address the myriad educational and socio - economic needs of our students.»

No matter how you measure it, the Renewal Program isn't helping kids, despite de Blasio's promise of a «bold» plan with «profound impact» backed by a «major investment» — almost a billion dollars by 2019 — that will «shake the foundations» of NYC's school system and «turn every Renewal school into a successful school» within three years or he would shut it down.

«Today, we are very pleased to announce that we have completed the final agreement to obligate a total of more than $ 1.8 billion dollars in funding for the state of Louisiana's Recovery School District and Orleans Parish School Board to repair and replace public schools damaged by Hurricane Katrina,» Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano said.

WASHINGTON — U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan, and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator Craig Fugate announced today the final agreement for the obligation of $ 1.84 billion dollars in funding for the state of Louisiana's Recovery School District (RSD) and Orleans Parish School Board (OPSB) for the repair and replacement of public schools in Orleans Parish, including the City of New Orleans, damaged by Hurricane Katrina.

Trump's plan to add «an additional federal investment of $ 20 billion towards school choice» would be accomplished by «reprioritizing existing federal dollars,» he and his campaign said.

(Actually there was one recent study commissioned by the United Teachers of Los Angeles in which the union tries to prove that charter schools have cost the LA School district a half billion dollars.

Brown said the policies he had promoted were addressing those issues: Passage of Prop. 30, the initiative approved by voters two years ago that is generating billions of dollars of extra tax revenues for schools, and the Local Control Funding Formula that is targeting billions of state education funds to low - income students and English learners.

If the billions of dollars we spent creating Engage NY had been put into those failing schools, they might be much better by now.

The two proposals come forward as lawmakers consider legislation sponsored by the California PTA that would strengthen requirements that schools engage parents in spending decisions over the use of billions of dollars in state aid to targeted students — English learners, low - income students and foster youth.

To better ensure school districts spend billions of dollars in support of disadvantaged students - as proposed by the governor - lawmakers should adopt compliance requirements similar to the federal Title I program, the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst recommended late last week.

In DeVos» home state of Michigan, over a billion tax dollars have gone to private schools — 80 percent are run by for - profit organizations.

The No Child Left Behind Act and other legislation have gone as far as to mandate the use of practices supported by research and billions of dollars are spent on research in the social sciences — yet much of this high - quality research has not made it into the hands of practitioners working to improve our nation's schools.

At any rate, it could be argued that these threats of financial sanction for opt out are meaningless when our schools are already having money withheld: after more than a decade New York State still owes city schools nearly $ 2 billion dollars awarded by the courts in the Campaign for Fiscal Equity case.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to pour billions of dollars into a high - tech idea that has been billed as the future of learning, but which critics see as a half - baked notion that could jeopardize student privacy and spread ideas despised by public school advocates.

This is the proposal aggressively pushed by a governor who is billions of dollars behind the state's constitutional obligation to fund public schools equitably, who continues to use accounting tricks to cheat school districts out of millions of dollars owed under the already inadequate funding in the state budget, who has restricted districts from increasing revenue locally without a super-majority, and then has the nerve to blame strangled school districts for not raising test scores.

The state has invested billions of dollars to charters and school takeovers; however, the rapid growth has not been accompanied by investment in oversight.

The Obama Administration has identified more than 5,000 schools in need of such improvement, and allocated nearly $ 17 billion dollars to fund the efforts by states and districts.

# 2... Despite this fact, not a single member of the state legislature submitted a single bill to supply the billions of dollars per year needed to restore school funding to the national average — other than the bill I wrote, Senate Bill 6093 sponsored by Senators Chase and McAuliffe.

The ink is barely dry on a deal to increase school spending by more than half a billion dollars, but Kansas is already headed for a fresh round of legal arguments.

With billions of dollars and student well - being at stake, Connecticut's children and taxpayers deserve better than officials who sit idly by while charter schools call all the shots.

It concluded: «Despite over a billion dollars in public subsidies for private schools since the programs» inceptions, there is no central reckoning of administrative or programmatic expenditures by either SOs or the private schools that voucher students attend.»

The primary culprit was a long - accumulating budget deficit (totaling $ 1.35 billion), brought on by bureaucratic bloat, inefficiency, and declining school enrollment — which saw more than a quarter of school seats empty and left the district with badly underused buildings in need of millions of dollars in repairs.

The «Great Public Schools Now Initiative» says the expansion would cost nearly half a billion dollars by 2023, through 260 new charter schools to serve an additional 130,000 students «most in need — low - income students of color.Schools Now Initiative» says the expansion would cost nearly half a billion dollars by 2023, through 260 new charter schools to serve an additional 130,000 students «most in need — low - income students of color.schools to serve an additional 130,000 students «most in need — low - income students of color.»

Donald Trump's education transition leader has indicated that Trump's administration will focus on expanding school choice by redirecting billions of dollars in existing federal funding to charter and private schools.

The billions of dollars that the federal government is pouring into turning around some of the nation's lowest - performing schools appear to be showing preliminary promise, according to student - achievement data unveiled by U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan last week.

It was very specific in its goal, which was to enroll half of all LA Unified's students into charter schools within eight years by raising close to half a billion dollars.