Sentences with phrase «spend educational dollars»

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I think we're conditioned to believe that when we «grow up,» we must go thousands of dollars into debt and spend years to attend a worthy and recognized educational institution to become something.

And when those few precious educational dollars are spent, Doering adds, it's critical to keep looking forward.

Choice programs that do not contain accountability provisions offer us zero assurances that educational dollars are being well spent.

Lortie - Forgues, Tian and Siegler (2015) repeated the question with students of the same age in 2014 — 27 per cent got it right, leading the researchers to comment: «Thus, after more than three decades, numerous rounds of education reforms, hundreds if not thousands of research studies on mathematics teaching and learning, and billions of dollars spent to effect educational change, little improvement was evident in students» understanding of fraction arithmetic.»

The Commission will examine factors that impact spending in education, including: school funding and distribution of State Aid; efficiency and utilization of education spending at the district level; the percentage of per - pupil funding that goes to the classroom as compared to administrative overhead and benefits; approaches to improving special education programs and outcomes while also reducing costs; identifying ways to reduce transportation costs; identifying strategies to create significant savings and long - term efficiencies; and analysis of district - by - district returns on educational investment and educational productivity to identify districts that have higher student outcomes per dollar spent, and those that do not.

In addition to the non-fiscal benefits attached to educational choice, the program can relieve pressure for district budgets from rising pension costs (for each one million dollars spent on the program, I estimated that the state would save almost half of that amount, while school districts would save almost $ 700,000).

Policy makers need to make sure guidelines are in place that ensure taxpayer dollars are spent wisely and transparently, and that students inside and outside of such programs are receiving quality and equitable educational opportunities.

However, there are educational policies that improve student achievement and adult outcomes by far larger amounts per dollar spent than across - the - board spending increases.

Each year, billions of dollars are spent across the globe on educational technology.

The $ 90.3 million that had previously been directed to the two grant programs was swallowed up by the LCFF, which in its first year gave local educational agencies a total of $ 4.5 billion in additional funding as well greater authority over how the dollars are spent.

But other educational interventions also have been shown to increase student achievement by a large amount per dollar spent.

This is a worthy goal but from then until now the achievement gap has only widened, even after all the testing, school closures and billions of tax dollars spent on educational reform schemes.

And school choice also encompasses educational savings accounts, which give parents the dollars spent on their child's education, and allow them to pay for the option or options that will help their child best.

«Districts and states are spending millions of dollars buying educational apps [technology applications, tools and platforms], many of which have minimal evidence supporting their effectiveness,» Katrina Stevens, deputy director of the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Educational Technology, wrote last week.

And since then, the two have not disappointed choice supporters, proposing massive increases in spending for school «choice,» including a new program that would use hundreds of millions of public dollars to pay for tuition and other educational expenses at private and religious schools.

Spending on educational technology has continued to climb to record levels, equating to billions of dollars per year in...

ESAs require that taxpayer dollars be removed from school districts and given to parents, who will be allowed to spend this money on private / religious school tuition, college savings, tutors, supplies, and other educational expenses.

I don't speak for ConnCAN but I agree with them that our education system spends billions of taxpayer dollars without satisfactory educational returns.

Among a variety of issues that I felt needed to be addressed, such as more transparency and a renewed commitment to responsible spending of tax dollars, was the need to acknowledge the importance of educational choice.

Illinois also needs to embrace educational innovations that will spend classroom dollars more efficiently while fostering an environment that will encourage academic achievement by students.

SB 2 would create a new and costly government entitlement program that removes taxpayer dollars from public schools and gives this money to families to spend on private / religious school tuition, college savings, tutors, supplies, and other educational expenses.

(Remember the study two years ago that showed that the 2 billion dollars the US spent on educational software was spent in vein!

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.

Spacing pregnancies reduces the risk of having a low birth weight or premature birth.10 Preventing unintended pregnancies can help women manage health conditions such as diabetes, hypertension and heart disease as well as avoid increased risk for depression.11 — 13 Contraceptive use also enables women to achieve their own educational and career goals and support themselves and their families financially.14 On top of all of this, every dollar spent on publicly funded family planning services saves $ 7 in federal and state spending on medical care related to unintended pregnancies.15