Sentences with phrase «spend education dollars»

Instead, we should spend education dollars on early childhood programs and family interventions that ensure that all students have the oral language skills, pre-literacy behaviors, and educational experiences to enable them to read fluently by the end of third grade.

Every state put in a longitudinal data system so that each state could track each student in order to make «better decisions» as to where and how to spend our education dollars — at the state level -LRB-?).

Spend our education dollars to support privatization of public schools, or invest in supporting and strengthening the institution of public education?

He proposed that taxpayers should give money to parents and allow them to choose where to spend education dollars in a marketplace of freely competing private providers.

«It is outrageous that President Obama and Washington bureaucrats are trying to dictate how Oklahoma schools spend education dollars,» Fallin said.

«It is outrageous that President [Barack] Obama and Washington bureaucrats are trying to dictate how Oklahoma schools spend education dollars,» Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin said in a statement.

Between Rudy and Arne, they new the value of WELL spent education dollars.

Richard Denniss at the Australia Institute did some calculations a year ago working out how parents whose aim is to maximize their children's employability can best spend their education dollar.

Not exact matches

For example, buying a million - dollar property you intend to flip without the proper research can make for a bad investment, but spending $ 82,000 in real estate education — as one acquaintance did — can also deplete the reserves you need to invest in the first place.

From thousands of dollars spent on education to sourcing their products, running a business can put a huge dent in your bank account.

Imagine if all the billions of dollars in time, effort and hard cash that we spend worldwide each year worshipping and appeasing make - believe deities of one kind or another were instead funneled into something tangible and worthwhile, like reducing poverty, improving education or protecting the environment.

Congress expanded Medicare by adding a prescription - drug entitlement that will cost hundreds of billions of dollars, and federal education spending has gone up as well.

And all this while the government spent, on average, only twenty cents of every disposable dollar on human resources — education, employment, job training, social services, health, and fiscal assistance — but spent fifty - five to sixty - four cents of every tax dollar that congress has the authority to distribute, meaning minus entitlements, on the military.

«We spend a lot of our marketing dollars on safety and operational education, such as training chain restaurant groups on best practices when using eggs, and we show how using a pasteurized shell egg helps to improve efficiencies while ensuring they avoid violations of food codes,» he explains.

A healthy baby saves state tax dollars: for every $ 1 spent on preventing an unhealthy birth, $ 6 is saved in neonatal intensive care costs, recurrent hospital and medical expenses paid by Medicaid, exceptional and remedial education, child abuse and neglect investigations, and disability and dependency costs.

The ads are part of a multi-million dollar push for health care spending in the budget, typically one of the costliest areas in the spending plan aside from education aid.

Tax dollars should be spent on education, economic development, etc...

«We are proud of every dollar we spend on services to our members and defending public education,» said UFT spokesman Dick Riley.

«If they don't agree to the millionaire's tax extension, then you can't do a billion dollars in education spending, you can't do a middle class tax cut, you can't do college affordability,» Cuomo said.

It says the state needs to spend billions of more dollars a year on public education.

And it's something Gov. Andrew Cuomo believes would be a disaster for the state, assuming billions of dollars in county Medicaid costs just as the state has pulled out of the recession and is trying to spend money on more education aid, free tuition at public colleges and upgrade aging water systems.

[Cuomo said the latest lawsuit challenging the way New York allocates education dollars is flawed because the state spends more money per pupil — on average — than any other state and doesn't get top results.]

The appointment of Betty Rosa as the new Regents chancellor in New York signals a big victory for the statewide teachers union, NYSUT, in the battle over the direction of education in New York — a battle waged with millions of dollars in campaign spending and brute political tactics from both sides over much of the past decade.

The AQE's Billy Easton says a 2005 order from the state's highest court that said several billion more dollars need to be spent to ensure that education is truly equitable, has never been fulfilled.

Reverend Barber cites New York's high court order that said billions more dollars need to be spent each year in order to guarantee each schools child's constitutional right to an adequate education.

«Most teachers do not teach tested subjects and the state must now spend many millions of dollars to test teachers of the arts, early elementary grades, physical education, and high school subjects,» she said.

Barber cites New York's high court order that said billions more dollars need to be spent each year in order to guarantee each schools child's constitutional right to an adequate education.

Overall, spending would be $ 1.2 million less than last year, with fewer dollars for early childhood intervention and special education programs, and more for contractual services and interest costs.

Today, we are putting New York State in a position to have those dollars spent here in our communities, which will benefit our local economies and tourism industries, as well as support education and property tax relief.»

At a time when thousands of teachers in New York have foregone raises simply to keep their jobs, and while the state is poised to cut an additional $ 1 billion or more in education funding, NYSUT is sitting on tens of millions of dollars in cash and investments and spending lavishly on six - figure employee salaries and conferences at high - end resorts.

If they don't do the millionaires» tax extension, you can't do a billion dollars in education spending, you can't do a middle class tax cut.

Mulgrew testified with three other city labor leaders, representing classroom aides, firefighters and health workers, who took the Bloomberg administration to task for spending billions of dollars on the corruption - plagued payroll system City Time and the problem - plagued Special Education Student Information System (SESIS) while failing to give needed raises to city workers.

«The Council also continues to emphasize that, with multi-year, multi-billion (dollar) budget deficits, New York needs to more fully examine its spending practices, especially in major programs such as Medicaid and education, and determine why are our costs are so much higher than other states without the results to match,» said Business Council President Heather Briccetti.

Charter school advocates and those seeking an education tax credit that would allow people to donate up to a million dollars tax free to send underprivileged children to private schools, among other things, together spent over $ 7.5 million.

Along the way they'll also budget tens of billions of dollars of state spending on education, health care and roads and bridges, and decide the fate of hundreds of other bills, including proposals to ban the declawing of cats, end the practice of prosecuting and imprisoning 16 - and 17 - year - old offenders as adults and authorize people with terminal illnesses to request life - ending drugs from a physician.

Cuomo has insisted that he will only increase education spending by a few million dollars if the Legislature does not agree to his reform package, which is lauded by those in the so - called education reform movement.

He added, «Freedom of education, by means of vouchers for parents so they can choose how and where education dollars should be spent, is a prime example of a powerful conservative solution to both fiscal and social ills directly related to outdated liberal social experiments that are more socialist than American.»

Obama also gave a shout out to Subra Suresh, marking his first day as director of the National Science Foundation; plugged the Administration's spending on STEM education; and highlighted a private - sector initiative, called Changing the Equation, in which hundreds of companies and organizations are adding their dollars to public investments in science education.

Citing the current budget crisis, Senator John Thune (R - SD) wanted to know if, based on Wieman's critique, «the dollars being spent by the federal government to improve STEM education are being wasted.»

Murray said the pending legislation, dubbed the Foundations for Evidence - Based Policymaking Act, is focused on the report's three core ideas: expanding access to the data, ensuring privacy, and strengthening the government's capacity to evaluate how spending trillions of dollars every year on programs affects the health, education, and economic wellbeing of millions of Americans.

The national and state departments of education, in particular, oversee countless education programs, distribute billions of dollars, and have substantial discretion in deciding what the details of education policy will be and how the money will be spent.

Specifically, does the marginal dollar spent on higher education have a bigger impact on enrollment and completion if it is used to reduce the sticker prices students face, or instead to increase institutional expenditures that affect the experience they receive once they enroll?

This year legislators in more than a dozen state capitals will decide how to spend hundreds of millions of new education dollars slated for preschool.

And that means giving them more control over the education dollars spent on their children — a threat to unions, bureaucracies and others vested in controlling options and funding.

Over the past 20 years, many school systems around the globe have undergone some form of education reform and yet the trillions of dollars being spent in school systems, ongoing debates over the value of teacher pay incentives, and standardized test movements have yielded little effect in many countries.

As online learning gains share and transforms our education system, for some time I have argued that foundations and philanthropists would be wise to spend their dollars in moving public policy, creating proof points, and the like to create smarter demand and not invest on the supply side in the technology products and solutions themselves.

According to the Harvard Business Review, US organizations spend over $ 160 billion dollars on employee training and education, with global figures estimated as high as $ 356 billion.

Were these dollars spent across traditional education categories, we'd likely see most dollars go to computer labs and recruiting and training more computer science teachers (which we currently sorely lack).

All told, Clinton increased education spending by 6 percent ($ 2.7 billion using constant 2007 dollars) over his Republican predecessor, which earned him the praise and political support of the education establishment.

The policies can save education dollars along the way — less instructional dollars spent by states and tuition savings for families.