Sentences with phrase «students pay a price»

Thomas J. Kane, «The cost of the charter school cap: Evidence shows low - income, urban students pay the price» CommonWealth Magazine, October 5, 2016.

At the same time, it should be made clear by both the district and the charter community that students pay the price of NOT closing schools.

Schools and students pay a price when new teachers leave the profession after only 2 or 3 years, just when they have acquired valuable teaching experience.

Not exact matches

Add in a slew of grants such as the Ontario Tuition Grant, which is available to all students with a family income under $ 160,000, and you quickly realize that almost no one is actually paying the sticker price.

«Subprime - style lending went to college and now students are paying the price,» U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan said in a statement Friday.

With the rapidly rising price of college tuition, many top students are realizing you don't need to pay an arm and a leg for a quality education, and that state schools are just as great.

It's especially daunting considering that many parents are still paying off their own student loans, while their children born today could end up paying up to four times the current price for tuition if inflation keeps up, according to finaid.org.

Student loan interest rates are the price you pay to borrow money.

It's been a remarkably successful strategy for him, despite considerable collateral damage to the long list of people he's screwed over — from unpaid contractors to defrauded Trump University students — and now that he's president, we all get to pay the price for his various cover - ups.

While it would help students, it would also reduce the burden put on taxpayers who are ultimately paying the price for any delinquent loans, according to the study.

Higher prices in the «real» economy may help maintain the circular financial flow, by giving borrowers more current income to pay their mortgages, student loans and other debts.

For BTN's 2016 Corporate Travel Index, the 32nd annual, BCD Travel's Advito provided the average hotel and car rental costs paid by BCD corporate clients, BTN collected hotel taxes and surcharges from hotels, and eight New York University School of Professional Studies Advanced Research Seminar students, led by academic chair and clinical assistant professor Lynn Minnaert, called restaurants in October and November to gather meal prices.

With credit card debt to pay off and student loans to repay, many buyers wonder if they'll ever save up enough down payment (typically, 3 - 20 % of the purchase price).

«Congress ought to spend its time addressing the student loan crisis, cracking down on serial lawbreakers like Wells Fargo, and ensuring companies like Equifax pay a meaningful price for massive data breeches — not deregulating the financial services industry,» said Lisa Donner, executive director, Americans for Financial Reform.

A Technomic study on college foodservice shows some of the unique challenges today's operators face: 49 percent of college and university students avoid some type of meat or animal products; more students are price - sensitive off - campus (58 percent) than on - campus (46 percent) and 54 percent of students say it's important to eat healthy and pay attention to nutrition.

For the 44,000 students who pay the reduced or full price for breakfast or lunch at school, parents will have to pay 20 cents to 50 cents more starting Jan. 31.

«We want to see them learning about important health issues, but I think they'll also figure out that when you get this little bundle of joy, there's a price to pay,» says Ray Carrell, president of Amundsen's local school council and the father of five daughters: three Amundsen alumnae and two current students.

Students who do not qualify for free or reduced price meals because their family income exceeds 185 percent of the poverty line may purchase «paid» meals, which receive a modest federal subsidy that supplements the price their parents pay for such meals (see Table 1).

In addition, school officials may be concerned that increasing paid meal prices will drive better - off students away from the program.

Last year, 76 percent of public school students in the city received free lunches and another 6 percent did not pay full price for their meals, according to CPS records.

The USDA knew all along that the Paid Meal Equity provision of the HHFKA would likely drive participation downward, and while the intent is well - meaning (to make sure that reimbursements for low income kids» meals are not unintentionally subsidizing lower prices for slightly more affluent paying students), no one benefits when fewer kids eat the school lunch.

My son's school has little problem with unpaid balances as less than 5 % of students would pay full price for meals (and why kids eating all three meals at school is not uncommon).

$ 1000 per student is a pretty steep price to pay, especially when you're kids aren't eating the lunch!

For many schools, the problem of unpaid school meal charges stems more from students who are not eligible for free or reduced price meals, but consistently fail to bring their lunch money (sometimes parents forget to pay, and sometimes — particularly in this economy — they struggle to pay).

Klopfenstein and Thomas (2010) offer three significant ways in which non-AP students at a school may pay the price for the AP program: they may receive lower instructional quality, as the best teachers are siphoned off to teach AP students; they are in larger classes, as AP classes are smaller than typical high school classes; and non-AP course offerings are reduced or limited in order to fund, staff, and expand AP course offerings.

But only a small percentage of students at the school qualify for free or reduced - price meals based on family income and apparently fewer still choose to pay for the federally supported food.

So while there's clearly room for improvement in Greene, it feels unfair to compare it to a county which places an unusually high value on exceptional school food, has a student population better conditioned to accept such food, and has affluent parents who can pay the higher price tag that comes with it.

Even students who pay «full» price for meals don't pay the real / actual cost, there is reimbursement to schools even for «full» price students (not as much as for free or reduced, of course), as well as support in the form of donated foods.

Based on Mathematica's prediction within this narrow price range, Food and Nutrition Services extrapolated its own formula in order to respond to the Senate committee's request for an estimate: For every cent the price of lunch increases, students who pay full price will drop out at a rate of.11 percent.

Instead, students either pay in advance into cafeteria accounts, or are identified by a computer as being entitled to free or reduced - price meals.

It then calculated that the Senate's proposed lunch price mandate would generate $ 2.6 billion more income over 10 years — and cause nearly 500,000 paying students to stop buying lunch.

And the additional income from the students paying full price who do stick around would indeed bring in an influx of cash into the program.

So students who want to eat from the salad bar, including kids who receive free and reduced - price meals (FARMS), have to pay for them.

Fortunately, most students attend public universities and pay a fraction of the price.

For example, what if districts with lower property values received more federal reimbursement dollars for school meals than districts with higher property values, with the affluent districts making up the difference via a higher lunch price for paying students?

Only it's not nearly enough money, so the food quality isn't there to attract full - paid students, let alone to justify a higher price point that the district can then use to put back into the food.

Several participate in NSLP, with Choicelunch offering a reduced price for eligible students and the difference between the NSLP reimbursement and our reduced price funded through the full paid meals.

The price for a paid lunch, for the 60 % of Berkeley students who don't qualify for free / reduced, is the highest I have ever seen — $ 3.25 for elementary lunch, $ 3.75 for middle school, and $ 4.25 for high school.

Students in the reduced - price category pay 30 cents for breakfast or 40 cents for lunch.

Prices for full - paying students also have increased in recent years.

High School students, who paid $ 2 to $ 2.75 per meal, will also pay the higher tier price of $ 2.75.

School board officials said The Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act of 2010 requires them to change pricing because the law states that schools must charge on average no less for paid student meals than the district receives in federal free meal reimbursement.

But one or two speakers offered more novel arguments, such as increased stigma for children on free and reduced price lunch (when paying students leave the program) and attempting to draw a connection between California's drought and wasted fruits and vegetables.

Students are paying the price for the pressure being put on them on multiple levels: Heavy backpacks are damaging their spines, sleep deprivation interferes with their learning process and expectation of perfection can lead to girls with eating disorders and demoralized boys with a desire to give up.

It's important to know these numbers, because a school or district with a substantial number of students on «paid» status may be generating a significant portion of their revenue from the paid price for meals, especially if they are charging a paid price around $ 4 or even higher.

A relatively well - to - do community, with perhaps only 35 % low income students, may be better able to support a paid meal price of $ 4 or more, to help cover the cost of scratch cooking and better quality food, than a district with 60 % -70 % low income students.

Compared to a district which charges just $ 1.50 for a paid lunch, the district with the higher paid price, and significant participation by those students, can generate far more revenue than the district with the lower paid price.

The bottom line facts you need to know: under the new school food law passed last year, school districts must bring the price for a paid lunch (that is, a lunch purchased by a student who does not qualify for free or reduced price meals) into line with what the meal actually costs, eventually charging an average of $ 2.46 per lunch.

Another important factor to consider when comparing your school or district with another one is how many students are qualified for free and reduced price lunch in each, and what percentage of the cafeteria volume is represented by paying students; note that the percentage of students in any category eating in the cafeteria is not the same thing as the number of students who are classified as being in that particular category.

We spoke to some of the students refusing to pay up about why rent prices are such a problem for both education and society.