Sentences with phrase «schools have less money»

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah schools have less money per student than any other state in the nation, including the District of Columbia.

Critics argued that by spending so much of the funding for struggling schools on test - preparation software, poor schools had less money left for the kind of improvements at the heart of real learning.

Not exact matches

According to a study by Michael Norton of Harvard Business School and two colleagues from the University of British Columbia, the amount of money people earn has less influence on their happiness than how they spend it, and those who spend at least some of their money on others are happier than those who do not.

The schools they attend are likely to be segregated by race and class and to have less money to spend on instruction than the schools well - off students attend, and their teachers are likely to be less experienced and less well - trained than teachers at other schools.

She will home school her children because there is not enough money to have them all go to school, and a girl child in class is one less pair of hands in the constant struggle to fetch water, gather fire wood, tend crops, prepare food so on and so forth.

A group of west - side Pasco County parents whose neighborhood might be reassigned to different middle and high schools has asked the School Board to consider different options they suggest would cost less money and angst.The parents, including...

There are many ways to save money, that are quite effective for teaching (like using lots of library books, using free resources on the Internet, etc. - see our «HS Money Saving Tips» page for more on this), but you will still have to spend some money directly on home schooling, and unless you were already planning to have one of you be a stay - at - home parent, it will mean doing with less mmoney, that are quite effective for teaching (like using lots of library books, using free resources on the Internet, etc. - see our «HS Money Saving Tips» page for more on this), but you will still have to spend some money directly on home schooling, and unless you were already planning to have one of you be a stay - at - home parent, it will mean doing with less mMoney Saving Tips» page for more on this), but you will still have to spend some money directly on home schooling, and unless you were already planning to have one of you be a stay - at - home parent, it will mean doing with less mmoney directly on home schooling, and unless you were already planning to have one of you be a stay - at - home parent, it will mean doing with less moneymoney.

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I could go on for days, but in my experience, any school less than 60 % ISP (not 60 % free / reduced %) would lose money — which could greatly impact the budget.

Chuck Dedrick, executive director of the Council of School Superintendents, said ending the state and local tax deduction on federal income tax forms could lead to less money for schools and have some unintended consequences.

Families moving into the town because of the award winning school district, district wide Universal Pre-Kindergarten, organic diversity, a mix of urban and suburban life, coupled with a big inventory of affordable homes has flooded the schools and left the district scrambling to make ends meet with less money.

There are unfunded mandates and lack of aid from the state, and while he has provided more money for education, it is less than the Campaign for Fiscal Equity settlement [the 2006 court ruling requiring the state to pay billions in backpay to shortchanged school districts]... When [Assembly Speaker Carl] Heastie proposed a slightly progressive income tax, he just rejected it.

Albert said if there's another recession, or if proposed federal health care changes are enacted, New York state could have far less money to spend on schools in the future.

He said without the cuts interest rates would go up, there would be less money to spend on schools and hospitals, and there would be fewer jobs.

The Council of School Superintendents executive director, Chuck Dedrick, says ending the state and local tax deduction on federal income tax forms could lead to less money for schools and have some unintended consequences.

Albert says if there's another recession, or if proposed federal health care changes are enacted, New York State could have far less money to spend on schools in the future.

For decades scholars and public health officials have known that people with greater income or formal education tend to live longer and enjoy better health than their counterparts who have less money or schooling.

With the rising tuition at most schools for undergraduate education, the increasing length of time spent in grad school, and the meager postdoc salaries people are getting for two, three, even four postdocs, it's a wonder anyone has money for a beer, much less for a retirement plan.

Sara, a student from London University, said:» The guys in school looks childish and less of romantic, they have no money and do not know how to love and take care of girls, but sugar daddies look soft and have enough money to make your life easier and comfortable, most girls feel that it is a fashion to date a sugar daddy».

One of the consequences of the extraordinary decline (nearly 90 percent) in federal support for education research over the past 25 years, as reported by Richard C. Atkinson and Gregg B. Jackson in their 1992 report for the National Academy of Sciences, has been the profound loss of rigorous inquiry into how schooling can be improved academically for all and how youth culture can become more attuned to the deferred gratification of academic achievement and less oriented to the immediate imperatives of money, clothes, and other amusements.

Though supportive of music in schools, the government has made less money available (and it will decrease year - on - year over the next two years).

The unions recognize that they have less control over private contractors than over the districts, and that the success of private contractors could well promote the flow of jobs, money, and control from public to private schools.

But the NEPC report's conclusion that virtual schools have a cost advantage because they spend less money, when they receive less money, is simply a tautology.

But this means that the school can have a need - blind admission policy — money is no object, brains are — and can keep tuition relatively low: $ 17,900, 30 to 50 percent less than most of its competitors, and some $ 11,000 below cost.

States have paid far less attention to what schools and districts do with that money and the results they produce.

The Connecticut Civil Liberties Union (CCLU) has complained to two federal agencies that the Hartford school system is violating the rights of minority students by spending less money educating minorities than it spends on white students.

But all other groups of teachers acted as if nothing had changed; after all that money, they were no more or less likely to leave St. Louis schools.

«By focusing only on schools, government may waste money trying to fix academic problems that it could have prevented in the first place at less expense.»

The big news out of the latest is official confirmation that school districts spent less money per student in 2010 - 11 than they had the year before, the first one - year decline in nearly four decades.

Saul fails to mention this inconvenient fact, writing only that: «For school choice advocates, the genius of the program was that the money would never go into public accounts, making it less susceptible to court challenges.»

That may not appear to be much these days, when a single failed firm may gobble up $ 85 billion in government money, but recall that this was a school district, in 1984, of 37,000 students (it had fallen from 51,000 at the beginning of the case), with a budget of less than $ 100 million.

However, Kevin Courtney, chair of the National Union of Teachers (NUT), said that all schools in England will have less money in real terms per pupil in 2020 than they do now.

Few jurisdictions have passed significant voucher and tax - credit legislation, and most have hedged charter laws with one or another of a multiplicity of provisos — that charters are limited in number, can only be authorized by school districts (their natural enemies), can not enroll more than a fixed number of students, get less money per pupil than district - run schools, and so on.

Three pivotal school board members, who were elected less than three months ago on a platform of keeping the Minneapolis - based company in Hartford, said last week that their support for the experiment had withered during more than two months of negotiations over how much money EAI should receive from the district.

The SNS provision in ESSA says that school districts need to show that their resource allocation methodologies prevent any Title I school from getting less state and local money than it would have if it didn't participate in Title I.

Despite having less money for salaries and benefits, private schools appear to be better able to recruit quality teachers and to dismiss poor ones.

Over recent years, the lure of the nearby fish and chip shops and supermarkets offering pre-packaged, on - the - go snacks have tempted teenagers off - site, and a vicious circle has been created where lack of customers has meant less money for schools and caterers, leading to less meal choice and drab dining areas in need of a spruce, leading to — yes, you guessed it — more children taking their money elsewhere.

The result is that as central office budgets and staffing have grown, schools control less and less of the overall district budget, and the district can't respond to new needs because all the money is committed to entrenched activities.

«As a direct consequence of the academies programme, local authorities have less money to fund and support other schools.»

Indeed, the chances that children will buy sweets and junk food on the way to and from school, which is a strong concern when children have lunch money in their pocket every day, are far less.

Because the salaries of senior teachers are much higher than those of newcomers (usually by more than $ 25,000 / teacher), districts have to spend a lot more money on the schools where senior teachers cluster — and they fund this by spending a lot less on the schools that senior teachers avoid.

Our previous building was past its best so the new school will mean that less money will have to be spent on repairs and can be spent on better equipment or more staff instead.»

In recent years we have seen a welcome increase in schools» budgets, but of course without ring - fenced funding and an increasing level of autonomy in schools, it is less clear how this money is actually being spent.

The U.S. Department of Education said in a statement that it «has not had to withhold money — yet — over this requirement because states have either complied or have appropriately addressed the issue with schools or districts that assessed less than 95 percent of students.

They take the mildest form of disabilities, like a learning disability, and the kids who have profound disabilities are left to the public schools, which now have less money to educate them.

Icahn's money would go exclusively to pay for buildings, and there would be less money spent on each student than at traditional public schools.

Less money coming into the church has led to even higher tuition, fewer students who can afford to attend the schools and the potential for even more closures.

«We have less money to do new initiatives and we will need to prioritize our investments to support the classroom and our school sites,» King said.

uk website has already shown that 99 % of schools in England will receive less money per pupil in real terms even after the implementation of the proposed NFF.

The federal government has had a long interest in ensuring that its funds go to providing extra services for schools serving poor kids; the problem is that state and local budgeting practices have long meant that poor schools in many places get less money to begin with.