Sentences with phrase «schools with public dollars»

Since gaining prominence through the support of economist Milton Friedman decades ago, school vouchers, which subsidize student tuition at private and parochial schools with public dollars, are one of the most controversial ideas in education policy.

Moskowitz called tax credits, which critics say is a means of funding parochial schools with public dollars, «a powerful form of parent choice.»

Not exact matches

The 23 - year - old Chance, whose real name is Chancelor Bennett, won three Grammys, struck a deal with Apple Music for $ 500,000, and pledged to donate a million dollars to Chicago Public Schools — all in the last month.

Since my kids are not yet in middle school, I have yet to fully experience the impact of «competitive» food in the public school setting — i.e., beverage vending machines stocked exclusively with Coca - Cola products (thanks to a multimillion dollar... [Continue reading]

Since my kids are not yet in middle school, I have yet to fully experience the impact of «competitive» food in the public school setting — i.e., beverage vending machines stocked exclusively with Coca - Cola products (thanks to a multimillion dollar deal Coke struck with our district a few years back — more on that to come), snack vending machines, branded products like Papa John's pizza in the lunch room, and more.

«Tioga Downs» expansion will foster hundreds of new jobs and spur much - needed economic development in the Southern Tier, plus generate millions of dollars for public schools and local governments — with all private money and zero taxpayer dollars,» Commission Executive Director Robert Williams said in a statement.

John Flanagan and his Albany cronies have sold out Long Island public schools and have cut a deal with high finance charter school operators to exchange millions in taxpayer dollars for campaign cash for Chris McGrath,» said Democratic Senate Campaign Committee spokesman Mike Murphy.

It took some trimming — a few million dollars here, a half - million dollars there — but the Buffalo Public Schools were able to close a projected $ 10.2 million deficit and come up with a balanced budget for next year.

New York state owes NYC public schools nearly $ 3 billion dollars but has yet to comply with the court order mandating that aid.

WBFO's senior reporter Eileen Buckley says the union claims charter schools are «flush» with cash and do not need more public dollars.

WBFO's senior reporter Eileen Buckley says NYSUT is claiming charter schools are «flush» with cash and do not need more public dollars.

The proposal, for the final budget of Mr. de Blasio's first term, provided a blueprint of sorts for a potential second term with big - ticket investments — including an additional $ 1.9 billion in capital spending to create more apartments for some of the poorest New Yorkers — and long - term plans, like tens of millions of dollars to start a preschool program for 3 - year - olds in city public schools, and new spending on homeless shelters.

Protestants, secularists, and public - school advocates proposed (and sometimes enacted) regulations that charged children with truancy if they attended Catholic schools; taxes on Catholic school property; bans on private schools that taught children in a language other than English; and constitutional amendments forbidding the use of public dollars to support even the secular instruction provided by a Catholic school.

Indeed, according to the analysis conducted by the authors of this report, the use of school vouchers — which provide families with public dollars to spend on private schools — is equivalent to missing out on more than one - third of a year of classroom learning.

With districts and schools under tremendous pressure to make every dollar count, California teachers can now download top - rated content from the site at no charge, said state Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O'Connell.

With the billions of dollars invested each year in public schools, both traditional and charter, and the millions of hours that we compel our children to attend these schools, it is critical that we have a basic understanding of the school environment that we are providing.

Although funded with taxpayer dollars, they operate free from many of the laws and regulations that govern traditional public schools.

Our center has taken the first systematic look at what implementing personalized learning schools costs, how school leaders are spending their funds, and what it might take to make personalized learning financially sustainable with public dollars.

And Tuesday's interminable «expose» of state - level tax - credit scholarship programs certainly deepens one's impression that the writer (and, presumably, her editors) is in love with anything that smacks of «public dollars» or «public schools» and at war with anything that might be seen as diverting even a penny from state coffers into the hands of parents to educate their kids at schools of their choice.

As charter schools across the country struggle to keep up with demand, a new federal tax incentive could hold the key to spurring billions of dollars in investment in low - income areas with limited access to quality public charter school options.

«If you think Common Core snuck up on families with the less than 1 percent of education dollars the Obama administration dangled in front of states, just wait until more public and private schools are directly accepting federal control through federal vouchers and the next Democratic administration decides they want to tell these schools what to teach kids.»

This is actually something parents of home - schooled children have done for years, but increasingly some seem to be saying that they would like some of the benefits of the local public school, for which they are paying with their tax dollars, as they do so.

On the other hand, parental choice of schools supported with public dollars would provide a more promising framework.

Much like charter schools, private schools wishing to receive public dollars would work with an organization that has been sanctioned by the state to develop a fair set of metrics that reflects both what the school and the state values.

Most of the crucial decisions about how U.S. schools run and who teaches what to whom in which classrooms are still made in 14,000 semi-autonomous school districts, nearly all of them run by locally elected school boards, often with campaign dollars supplied by those with whom they negotiate collectively, and managed by professional superintendents, trained in colleges of education and socialized over the years into the prevailing culture of public education.

Parker Baxter, scholar in residence at the University of Colorado Denver School of Public Affairs, is co-author, with Todd Ely and Paul Teske, of «A Bigger Slice of the Money Pie,» on how charter schools in Colorado and Florida have gained a larger share of local tax dollars.

Parents of these students have been empowered to vote with their educational dollars from the state and have opted out of public schools.

For example, in a public middle school with 600 students, if two - thirds of the children are eligible for the grant, that's $ 200,000 in new federal dollars each year following those children to that school.

Nonetheless, this study yields solid evidence that public schools will react positively to being forced to compete with private schools for students and the dollars they carry.

No reform short of unloading a dump - truck filled with hundred - dollar bills on the campus of each urban public school will solve today's education ills.

Florida has the third - largest charter sector in the nation — with more than 650 schools serving almost 300,000 students — but half of its charters are operated by for - profit companies, fostering negative public perceptions and greater reluctance to share tax dollars.

A new federal tax incentive could hold the key to spurring billions of dollars in investment in low - income areas with limited access to quality public charter school options.

Charters are funded with public dollars, and as a result, they are accountable to the same state and national standards as traditional public schools.

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In compiling this report, the authors conducted extensive research — including interviews with state and district officials, along with an examination of curricula price lists — which provides a detailed picture of how public schools could increase the return on investment, or ROI, of taxpayer dollars.

This year brought several changes to public schools in California, beginning with a robust economy that added billions of dollars to boost K - 12 per - pupil spending.

Critics have long complained that charters don't enroll the most difficult to educate students, and that they drain money from districts because public school dollars move with students to whatever school they attend.

So my compromise position would be to acknowledge parents» right to choose their children's schools (which, for low income parents, effectively means allowing them to take public dollars with them), while at the same time being vigorous in shutting off public dollars to schools (whether they be district, private or charter schools) that are failing to prepare students to succeed on measurable academic outcomes.

Just this year, the Office of Chinese Language Council International — or Hanban, an affiliate of China's Ministry of Education — committed millions of dollars to help launch several ventures with U.S. schools, including a program in North Carolina to offer Mandarin Chinese classes in 45 public schools...

With the opening of Washington's first charter school likely 15 months away, more dollars from Seattle's tech economy are flowing toward groups that want to change the way the state thinks about public schools...

Furthermore, by dismantling the Title I funding formula, not only would public schools and students in poverty be harmed, but portability would also allow the dollars to be more easily transferred to private schools to either create a voucher or to be combined with existing state voucher programs.

KIPP schools are public charter schools that are primarily funded by local and state dollars, along with some funding from the federal government.

In fact, during the recent House hearing on the ESEA bills, Representative Todd Russell Platts (R - PA) cited his deep concern with the set - aside, stating that limited public dollars should be used to support the public school system.

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.

By proposing to serve a targeted group of students, neo-vouchers open the door for public dollars to be transferred to private schools with no federal mandates to serve children with disabilities and no accountability for their success (Müller & Ahearn, 2007).

The Ohio Supreme Court, for instance, found that state law dictates that everything a private charter school company purchases with public dollars — from desks to computers — belongs to the private company, not the public.

Just recently news broke in Milwaukee that a charter school, Universal Academy, abruptly closed its doors on a third school in the city in six months, leaving Milwaukee Public Schools and Wisconsin taxpayers with a nearly $ 1 million dollar tab.

KIPP schools are primarily funded through public federal, state, and local dollars, along with supplemental funding through charitable donations from foundations and individuals

Without addressing these issues the state's charter sector will continue to face unexpected and avoidable school closings like we saw last week at Creemos Academy along with millions of dollars in wasted public funds.»

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