Sentences with phrase «time raising money for schools»

Advocates worry that states, counties and cities will have a tougher time raising money for schools — which get nearly all of of their money from state and local tax revenues — because those taxes will no longer be fully deductible.

Not exact matches

This includes monthly donations, community fundraising events like the Winterlight Faire, MayFest and other ways to give, including SCRIP, Amazon Smile and Target Red Card — great ways to help you raise money for our school every time you shop.

But if Sweetgreen's goal was to raise awareness about school nutrition (and not just garner a lot of publicity for its restaurants, which it did in spades), I fail to see what it accomplished by holding American schools up to an unrealistic international standard — whether the standard is unrealistic because it's inaccurate (Greece) or because the country in question invests far more time, money and effort than the United States in feeding its children (France.)

As a teenager, he was serious and accomplished in school, but attacked his time off with as much gusto, spending his Friday afternoons raising beer money for the weekend party and jumping at any chance for travel - related adventures.

A proposed change in the Minnesota school - aid formula would raise the level of state support for local districts by about 15 percent, but at the same time would reduce state - subsidized property - tax credits, thereby leaving the amount of money schools receive essentially unchanged.

So they spent more time raising money for a private school and eventually worked out a deal with a local Greek church to rent space.

I have done my presentation more than 50 times in schools and churches and have raised awareness as well as money for the village of Unawatuna and for the people who helped me.

In addition to this, the Cystic Fibrosis Holiday Fund, a group which raises money for children with the life - limiting illness, has said that parents who take their sick children out of school during term time have also been prosecuted.

This may actually reflect an additional explanation for how well schools have done in the past: States are required to have balanced budgets, so they raise taxes when times are tight and then keep the new rates when the money flows again.

It is during this time I become particularly grateful for the efforts of all the volunteers who help raise money for the school through such events as the fair and the car boot sales, thereby enabling the school to purchase valuable new equipment.

In New York City, as in many other school districts, parent groups are allowed to raise money to help pay for part - time teachers and for some school supplies.

Artsonia: Online Gallery Raises Funds, Art Awareness, and Self - Esteem At a time when money for the arts is limited, one online resource seeks to support local schools in one broad stroke.

She created the first Cultural Arts Committee in a Wake County school, at Root Elementary, which for the first time specifically raised money for arts programs.

They complain about the time and money schools must devote to preparing for, administering and scoring the exams and the limited information they get from them, as well as raising broader philosophical objections to testing.

All teachers will still be awarded raises from the same pool of money for traditional public schools, and Pike, the union leader, worries that pool will shrink over time, particularly as the state spends more on private school vouchers and charter schools.

The programming consists of incentives for stores, schools and libraries to raise money for children in need, special CBW story times, activity hours and author / illustrator events.

Local businesses and schools sell these paws and hang them up for a certain period of time to raise money for the animals.

It is hoped that there will be sufficient money raised to employ a full time English language teacher as well as provide teaching materials and assorted necessities to ensure that the school is able to provide a better foundation for children from Gili Trawangan.

But roads, transit systems, schools and teachers cost money — and that may mean raising taxes significantly for the first time in years, a test of the political system with an uncertain outcome.