Sentences with phrase «toward equal funding»

To help successful charters, lawmakers should work toward equal funding, including facilities aid, and also level the playing field on access to special - ed services and authority to offer pre-school.

Not exact matches

The VentureStart program works on an «equal contribution» basis, where entrepreneurs contribute toward the total cost of the education phase of the program (matched by FedDev through VentureStart) and 50 per cent of the seed financing for the product development phase, up to a maximum of $ 30,000 in matching funds.

If the price charged for paid meals, combined with the federal per - meal subsidy, covered the costs of these meals (or equaled the federal per - meal reimbursement for free meals), more funds could be put toward providing more nutritious meals, providing better compensation and professional support to food service staff, or other improvements that would benefit children.

Contributions to this fund would be deductible from State, local, and federal income taxes and taxpayers would receive a credit toward their subsequent year State income taxes equal to 85 percent of their contribution.

Through the ALEC Task Force, K12 has actually had an equal vote with state legislators on so - called «model» bills to divert taxpayer funds away from traditional public schools toward the objectives of ALEC's private sector funders, to help their bottom - lines and / or legislative agenda.