Sentences with phrase «than fund schools»

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Flombaum and Enbar, who self - funded the operation up to this point and who say tuition alone can keep the school easily afloat, say they want to work first on perfecting the methods their more than a dozen instructors employ before expanding to other cities or to online courses.

Resource extraction companies are recognizing that helping people in local communities to become entrepreneurs is better than funding local schools or health centres.

As tuition rates continue to rise and colleges suffer painful funding cuts, football Bowl Subdivision schools spend more than $ 91,000 per athlete.

If one child decides not to go to school, goes to a cheaper school than expected, gets a full scholarship (more on that in a minute), or for some other reason doesn't use all of the money, you can simply change the beneficiary on the account and give those funds to another child... or even to yourself, if you'd like to go back to school.

This past summer, more students than ever spurned traditional summer internships to pursue their own startup dreams, sometimes with the funding and encouragement of their business schools.

Every year the funding database sifts through its vast trove of data to product a report detailing which schools produce the most VC - backed founders, but this year's iteration draws on more data than ever before.

The new budget relies primarily on higher property taxes to increase school funding, raising more than $ 7 billion over four years and, the legislature hopes, finally complying with the Supreme Court order.

The good news is that financial aid through federal and school grants is more widely available than ever, making it possible for many students in need of college funds to attend a postsecondary school.

If he were to refinance his student loan with SoFi, which recently raised a whopping $ 1 billion in funding from Softbank to help make student loans even cheaper, I'm sure he could get lower than 5 % because he went to William & Mary, Columbia for his Master's in Public Health, Yale for Medical School, and Cornell for his residency!

Your school might approve more loan funds than you actually need for tuition, fees, and other educational expenses (cost of attendance).

The provincial government has boosted school maintenance funding by more than $ 20 million over last year, and has increased the AFG for the first time since 2004/05.

I think probably the strongest argument for reducing funding for private schools is that Alberta is more generous than other provinces.

On the question of whether public funding for elite private schools that charge more than $ 10,000 per year per student in tuition should be eliminated, 75 per cent of respondents agreed and more than half, 53 per cent, agreed strongly.

«Mr. Speaker, today in First Nations communities across the country, the unemployment rate can reach 80 %, half of the housing units are in a pitiful state and schools and students receive 30 % less funding than others,» Thomas Mulcair reported.

He started the Education Freedom Fund, which awarded more than 4,000 scholarships to underprivileged children in Michigan, the West Michigan Aviation Academy, (a High School that aims to provide a rigorous educational program through an aviation focus), and has served on the State Board of Education.

1) seperation of church and state; state funded public schools can't teach anything that is directly influenced by religion other than just touching on that kind of topic.

Similarly, if teachers employed by the public are assigned to teach on parochial school premises, they tend to come under the administrative aegis of the parochial rather than the public school (not that they teach religion, but that they otherwise function to some degree as adjunct faculty, increasing with tax funds the staffing resources of the parochial school — a consideration apparently underlying two 1985 decisions but not well articulated by the Supreme Court)

There is no need to shrug and assume that current government - funded schemes of sex education or vague imitations of them are the only way forward: Catholic schools are popular and highly - regarded by the public in general in Britain and in a stand - off between them and officialdom the latter might find it had fewer allies than it imagines.

The Rolex is made by a company that operates more like a nonprofit than a business, and uses parts of its revenue to support charities, assist the blind, provide jobs for craftsmen and fund schools that teach the art of watchmaking.

By that reasoning, shouldn't the tiny Atheist minority fund THEIR own schools rather than being allowed to impose their will on the majority?

The obvious benefit of this approach will be increased funds available for nongovernmental schools, funds subsidized by a tax credit rather than dispersed in federal grants.

Through the years, zealous legislators have, among other things, forced Catholics to fund Protestant public schools, Jews to conform to sectarian Sunday laws, non-Christians to recognize the national holiday of Christmas, and Mormons and Indians to observe laws of the state rather than the requirements of their faith.

Proceeds will benefit the more than 29,000 students in Grades K - 12 in TVUSD schools by providing funding for curriculum support grants and programs.

Both schools pull in more athletic revenue than the majority of front - line Big 12 candidates, but they have way worse men's basketball programs, smaller fanbases, less academic funding, and lower university rankings than the league's averages.

More often than not, only programs that employ ATs, such as colleges, professional teams, and well - funded high schools, are able to collect this data.

«If DeVos follows through on her plans to privatize education and hold charter schools receiving federal funds to different standards than public schools, as she indicated she would in her confirmation hearing, this could mean that fewer and fewer schools are even required to follow Title IX guidelines at all,» Gibbs wrote.

But it's still notable that people clearly perceive school food as healthier than it was pre-HHFKA, that they support (in broad strokes) what the HHFKA stood for, and that they would approve of greater funding to support schools with equipment and training.

Rather than taking money from food stamps to fund the negligible six cent increase for school meals, let Congress keep the money, says Bruske.

Back in early April, right before episode one of the current season aired, I posted a comment on TLT which said: «My biggest gripe is about the way JO portrays the schools as being the stumbling block, rather than the lack of funding.

There are other components of the system — the funding method, the fact that mealtimes seem like more of an interruption and disruption of the school day than an important part of the day — that need attention as much as the food.

For more than 30 years, the School Nutrition Foundation has been raising funds to provide SNA members with the opportunity to achieve their higher education goals through a wide variety of scholarships.

Most schools DO NOT want to sell more a la carte than meals because that directly impacts our commodity entitlement funding for the next year.

Schools who apply can receive up to $ 2000 in funding through the Fuel Up Breakfast Program, which has awarded $ 325,000 to more than 100 schools nationwide since 2009, and has greatly improved student access to nutritious foods such as low - fat and fat - free dairy products, whole grain cereals, andSchools who apply can receive up to $ 2000 in funding through the Fuel Up Breakfast Program, which has awarded $ 325,000 to more than 100 schools nationwide since 2009, and has greatly improved student access to nutritious foods such as low - fat and fat - free dairy products, whole grain cereals, andschools nationwide since 2009, and has greatly improved student access to nutritious foods such as low - fat and fat - free dairy products, whole grain cereals, and fruit.

Schools may submit an application during more than one funding cycle per school year; total amount awarded may not exceed $ 4000.

Often, the cost of the snacks is less than the USDA reimbursement, and Dairy Dollars for Schools even provides funds to help you implement the program.

The idea that it is okay because at least it gets people angry and ready to act is more than a little scary, as it conjures up images of the townsfolk storming the local school with their pitchforks and flaming torches; meanwhile, the villain is in Washington DC taking 6 cents from food stamps to fund 64 cents worth of new requirements for the schools.

The last thing they want is too high a funding level that would enable schools to have working kitchens (rather than large ovens to heat up trays prepared in a central kitchen) and a skilled staff capable of serving healthy homemade meals.

Such regional goals for school food, hospitals, military bases, and other publicly funded food programs in each area would create more than enough aggregate dollars to make a notable difference in the food chain.

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.

While the funding in the current bill is less than the Obama administration asked for, Vilsack vows that his department will do everything it can to help schools do the best with what money they are given.

Some states offer more school meal funding than others, and some communities have more philanthropic help than others.

Private schools likely do not receive funds from the US government, and therefore are subject to a different standard than are public schools.

In the endless, exhausting chase to meet standardized testing pressures, graduation rate pressure, and attendance pressures (in which funding is tied to students being in school, not what, how or if they learn), there so much more that is sacrificed than just nutrition.

I realize it's not popular to «give» money to school nutrition programs which are in affluent systems, but those systems are struggling for funding more than systems with high free and reduced price.

In December 2013, another KSHF survey found that most school meal programs (88 percent) needed one or more pieces of equipment to help them meet nutrition standards, but only 42 percent of respondents reported that they had funding for capital purchases, and less than half of those had a budget that was adequate to meet their equipment needs.

They are working with impossibly tight funding; they may face high turnover of labor; they may be at the bottom of the food chain within their school district, viewed as little more than an annoying adjunct department vaguely linked with mystery meat, ladies in hairnets, and the persistent complaint that «school food sucks.»

Yes, school meals in France are indeed superior to ours, but that's reflective of a government so supportive of raising good food citizens that it actually provides state - sanctioned «taste training» to all preschoolers, puts warnings on junk food ads, and funds school meals at a far higher rate than our own government.

The Ed SPLOST renewal will fund the purchase of more than 150 school buses between 2018 - 22, as well as land acquisition in central Cherokee large enough for a high school campus in the area between Cherokee and Woodstock High Schools.

Rather than passing herself off as some sort of miracle worker, or trying to sell me on a simple five - step plan she'd come up with, she made it clear to me that improving school food can not happen without lots of hard work and, most importantly, without funding; in her case, San Francisco's board of education is willing to kick in significant money each year to cover the costs of the improved school food.

the woeful inadequacy of school food funding — ie., the fact that far more than a six cent increase is needed to «revolutionize» school food;