Sentences with phrase «similar use of public funds»

If LSUC was a government agency, a similar use of public funds for such a party would never be permitted.

Not exact matches

In 2014, parents of students at Horace Mann Elementary School in Northwest Washington, D.C., spent over $ 470,000 of their own money to support the school's programs.1 With just under 290 students enrolled for the 2013 - 14 school year, this means that, in addition to public funding, Horace Mann spent about an extra $ 1,600 for each student.2 Those dollars — equivalent to 9 percent of the District of Columbia's average per - pupil spending3 — paid for new art and music teachers and classroom aides to allow for small group instruction.4 During the same school year, the parent - teacher association, or PTA, raised another $ 100,000 in parent donations and collected over $ 200,000 in membership dues, which it used for similar initiatives in future years.5 Not surprisingly, Horace Mann is one of the most affluent schools in the city, with only 6 percent of students coming from low - income families.6

Olympia, WA: Washington Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction., similar to Massachusetts, will use set - aside funds and additional Title II, Part A dollars to develop, improve, or provide assistance to support the design and implementation of teacher and principal evaluation and support systems that are based on multiple measures of educator performance.

Ian McAuley, a lecturer in public sector finance at the University of Canberra, makes a similar point in this post, arguing that the more private insurance is used to fund healthcare, the more expensive the healthcare system becomes.