Sentences with phrase «than government schools»

Inner - city Catholic schools (the Church in America's most effective social welfare program) demonstrate that time and again: They spend less than the government schools, and their students learn much more — and not just in quantifiable, standardized - testing terms.

Not exact matches

With more than 35 years of experience, Clean Harbors performs a wide range of environmental and emergency services for State government clients, including state - run schools, colleges and universities, across the United States.

The provincial government matched the gift, and by the time of the official opening, more than 130 individuals and corporations had also contributed to the future of the School and the building.

For any single property, total school district taxes can not be more than $ 5 per $ 1,000 in market value and total general government taxes can not be more than $ 10 per $ 1,000 in market value.

During the March 26 airing of The Story with Martha MacCallum, Parkland school shooting survivor Kyle Kashuv said that we need government control rather than gun control.

Three commissioners may grant some of the nation's largest refineries a tax refund of more than $ 135 million — money Texas» cash - strapped schools and other local governments have been counting on to help pay teachers and provide other public services.

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.

The government recently stipulated that schools must now teach two, rather than one, religion for the GCSE RE course.

Paul Barber's speaking after the government announced in September it would be relaxing a cap on faith schools, which forced them to selectively choose no more than half of their pupils

Government figures reveal that 339,000 state school pupils were excluded in England in 2015/16 - twelve per cent more than the previous year.

The federal government has assisted the movement through a grant of the National Institute of Health for more than $ 20,000, to educate public school teachers in TM.

It's hard to find a policy with a more consistent track record of failure than government job - training programs, but throwing more money at government schools without any structural reform is one of them.

Mother Theresa managed to proved over 500 hospitals and schools for the poor without the government with nothing more than the clothes on her back when she left the convent.

If I were running the government, I would see to it that school districts that serve the poor would have a larger share of the tax revenue than school districts that serve the affluent, for in the poor districts there is far more ground to be made up to provide the open equality of opportunity, and equality of opportunity must be a part of every just society.

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.

If you care to believe the Hofstra University study on the matter there is more abuse percentage wise in our own public schools than there ever has been in the Catholic Church.Not justifying it but you must remember that our public schools have laws and unions that are protected by the laws of our very own government.

In the space of time available to him, of course, Mr. Clinton could offer little more than a hasty outline of this proposal, but he did manage to make clear that what he was referring to was some sort of system whereby American high school (and, as it was to turn out, also college) graduates would exchange some years of service, either as policemen, environmental workers, or offerers of some form of assistance to poor children, in exchange for the government's subsequently paying their college tuition» a kind of GI Bill for non-GIs.

Nick Gibb, the school standards minister was quoted by The Times as saying: «Thanks to the hard work of teachers and this government's continued focus on raising standards and increased emphasis on phonics, six years are reading better than ever before.»

Crucifixes are all over Italy in public places and it will be hard for that person not to notice a crucifix in any public place INCLUDING the public schools there... so I don't know why this person would suddenly sue the government for having a crucifix at a walking or sitting at a PUBLIC school which does not teach religion any more than a walking at a PUBLIC pedestrian where you would probably find more crucifixes as you walk by.

The government school spends $ 9,000 per year per student, the parochial school considerably less than half of that.

The Dengvaxia scandal exposed the inadequacy of government regulation on health, which has put the lives of more than 800,000 school - age Filipino children at risk.

The federal government spends more money on dairy products than any other food item in the school lunch program.

The act covers the government's reimbursements to school districts for school meals; food served at many day care facilities for children and adults; and the Women, Infants and Children program, which provided food to more than 8 million people in 2007.

He believed that schools should work with the developmental needs of children rather than the demands of the government or economic forces, so he developed schools that encourage creativity and free - thinking.

By the way, the reason there is more flavored milk and such is the federal government has stated that fat must be greatly reduced so the way our schools as a whole are doing this is by getting rid of the extra fat like butter for biscuits rather than baking, not frying, or by just not having chicken nuggets.

With more than 100 cafeterias across three states, we feed a wide variety of people — from elementary schools to high schools, and corporate cafeterias to government offices.

Our concern (and we believe the motivation of the USDA rule) is that when schools that charge less than the government reimbursement are under pricing themselves, increasing their dependence on a la carte foods, and risking having their food service to operate in the red.

Currently, many school districts charge less for the paid lunch than the government reimbursement.

Thus, the vast majority of schools will take longer than 10 years to reach the government's baseline.

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

So rather than getting into «Nanny State» debates about the proper role of government, my focus on this blog will always be purely pragmatic; if the school lunch program is here to stay, let's talk about how to make it better.

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.

To qualify for leave under the FMLA, an employee must have worked for over 12 months for the state or federal government, a public school or private employer with more than 50 employees.

D.C. Central Kitchen's bid for the pilot contract was «somewhat more» than the $ 2.70 - per - meal benchmark the schools had set in their request for proposals, representing approximately the amount the federal government provides for a fully - subsidized school lunch.

Another reason why «fixing school lunch» is going to require a heck of a lot more investment from our government than the paltry 6 cents proposed by Congress that we are all supposed to be so grateful for.

In 2013, for the first time, more than half of the USA's public school students fell below the federal government's poverty threshold.

«The government is seeing this as part of school improvement rather than a lifeboat for a few bright children,» said development director Tim Emmett.

No government has spent more to provide such critical infrastructure like roads, schools, hospitals, transportation, housing, water, and communications among others than the immediate past Mahama Administration.

In January, a report revealed that since 1997 the government's computing programs have cost # 26bn more than they were supposed to (over half the schools budget for a year).

Mr Cameron has said a Conservative government would continue Mr Blair's commitment to city academies rather than pushing for a return to grammar schools and the 11 plus.

Most Americans think government error is more to blame than a lack of gun control for the Valentine's Day massacre at a Florida high school, the latest Rasmussen poll finds.

The parent told the reporter aside the extortions by school heads, the items they are made to buy for their children cost more than what government has absorbed under the programme.

The Syracuse athletic department set a record for revenue in 2016 - 17 making more than $ 90 million for the first time in school history, according to data recently released by the federal government.

Samuel Awoyinfa, Abeokuta The Commissioner for Special Duties in Ogun State, Adeleke Adewolu, has said more than 270,000 pupils in 1,510 public primary schools in the state are currently benefitting from the Federal Government's HomeGrown School feeding programme.

At an annual cost of $ 410 million, the Family Tax Relief Rebate provides $ 350 to households with children under age 17 and annual income between $ 40,000 and $ 300,000; the Property Tax Freeze Rebate provides an amount equal to the annual increase in property taxes to homeowners earning less than $ 500,000 in tax cap - compliant local governments and school districts and costs $ 783 million annually.

Theresa May's government has fewer women than Gordon Brown's had a decade ago and the proportion of ministers who attended state schools has fallen to less than half.

City and county governments are more prone to overriding the cap more often than school districts.

Providing public goods through the community — for example, in the form of harambee schools that are set up by citizens rather than the government — requires everyone in a community to pull together to create a service that can be enjoyed by all.

Under the Labour government, schools had to spend more time on paperwork and wasteful bureaucracy than ever before, the national curriculum became too rigid and discipline deteriorated.

County leaders are feeling the squeeze this year, as are other local government and school district officials, given the allowable growth in the state's cap on property taxes is less than 1 percentage point.