Sentences with phrase «use of an education dollar»

To promote curriculum reform — and make better use of education dollars — this report provides new insight on how curricula are selected in every state across the country and examines the costs of those curricula.

Such a system will ensure more effective use of education dollars through better decision making, will eliminate perverse incentives that reward mediocrity or failure, and most important, energize and will motivate those involved in the education of our young people.

Darling - Hamond (1998) makes a strong argument for quality professional development by stating that each dollar spent on improving teachers» qualifications nets greater gains in student learning than any other use of an education dollar.

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«The Liberals need to immediately scrap their policy of funneling scarce healthcare and education dollars into private sector projects and start using the Pacific Carbon Trust to lower the carbon footprint of schools and hospitals,» said Dix.

If people fill their cars at a dollar a gallon, the OPEC countries will run out of cash reserves and their people are used to free education and free hospital care and free everything else and they will not tolerate working for a living and paying for everything.

«We spend a lot of our marketing dollars on safety and operational education, such as training chain restaurant groups on best practices when using eggs, and we show how using a pasteurized shell egg helps to improve efficiencies while ensuring they avoid violations of food codes,» he explains.

From the President who has refused to act on investigative reports submitted to him on grievous allegations of diverting over a billion naira meant for resettlement of Internal Displaced Persons (IDPs) by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal under the Presidential Initiative for the North East (PINE) and the miraculous discovery of 13billion naira in an apartment at Ikoyi, Lagos under the supervision of the Director of the Nigerian Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ayodele Oke, to the Head of Service of the Federation, Oyo - Ita Winifred Ekanem, who connived with others to reinstate into active duty and promote Abdulrasheed Maina, the former Chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team, who allegedly stole over 6billion naira pension fund; the Chief of Staff to President Buhari now renamed the «Thief of Staff», Abba Kyari, who allegedly received a bribe of 500million naira to negotiate a fine reduction for MTN Nigeria, and has continuously been in the heart of every sharp practices in the Presidency; the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu who allegedly received a kickback of 3.8 billion naira in exchange for marginal oilfield using his brother, Dumebi Kachikwu as front; the Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, who was the brain behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Chief of Army Staff, General Tukur Buratai who during his time as the Director of Procurement at the Army Headquarters allegedly diverted funds meant to equip the Military into buying choice properties worth millions of dollar in Dubai; the Minister for Solid Minerals, Dr. Kayode Fayemi who allegedly embezled State Universal Education Board (SUBEB) funds as the Governor of Ekiti State; the Minister for Interior, Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau who was indicted by a Presidential investigative committee probing Arm procurement for awarding ghost contracts worth $ 930,500,690 with others while as the Chief of Army Staff between 2008 - 2010 and one of the brains behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi alleged to have stolent 142billion naira as the Governor of Rivers State.

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«The more flexibility you can afford the department in making those decisions, the better we'll be able to use the taxpayers» dollars,» he told the Senate Education, Arts, and Humanities Subcommittee at its first hearing on the reauthorization of the oeri.

All told, Clinton increased education spending by 6 percent ($ 2.7 billion using constant 2007 dollars) over his Republican predecessor, which earned him the praise and political support of the education establishment.

In this article we'll have a look at eFrontPro's comprehensive and easy to use set of eCommerce related features, and how they can help you sell courses and be a part of the ever growing online education market (estimated to 50 billion dollars as of last year).

«I can tell you this — if you gave the American people a choice today between using federal dollars to renovate and build new public schools or using public tax dollars to pay for private school vouchers, there would be no question how the American people would vote,» asserted U.S. Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley in a speech made when the report was released.

When almost 90 percent of all of our children are attending public schools, it doesn't make a lot of sense to me to use public tax dollars to pay for private school education.

They have consistently used federal dollars to create programs that benefit a limited group of individuals and institutions of higher education with no evidence that this approach benefits society, or even the targeted individuals.

«In place of rewards in the classroom, we have suggested that the teachers visit the local dollar store or use a vendor like Oriental Trading to purchase inexpensive items like pencils, erasers, and toys,» Heinemeyer told Education World.

Equitable Services = Specific, Effective & Allowable The intent of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act is that districts use their federal grant dollars to design programs and services that meet the individual needs of teachers and students in non-public schools.

«The result is the waste of hundreds of millions, perhaps billions, of education - reform dollars that could be put to much better use,» he said.

Indeed, as early as February 2009 (registration required to read this and the next article) U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan stated that he was contemplating using «stimulus» dollars to drive adoption of national standards, and the CCSSI didn't even formally launch until April of that year.

In education, the medical research model — using federal dollars to build a knowledge base within a community of experts — has manifestly failed.

Providers would compete for families» dollars, and families would be able to use their accounts to pay for the widest variety of education - related services, products, and providers, and to roll over unused funds from year to year.

According to the Washington Post, an Education Department spokesperson said the program was nixed because «it was not a wise use of tax dollars, in part because the money was to be used for planning, not implementation.»

We strive to help education leaders see the implications of current and alternative ways of applying resources, and to help leaders use every dollar to maximize benefits to the students served.

By serving as a sort of mega-district for a large number of schools, and thus putting scale to good use, a for - profit firm could free up more education dollars for use at the school and classroom level.

«Public education is the use of public dollars to educate our children at the schools that are best equipped to do so — public schools, magnet schools, charter schools, Baptist schools, Jewish schools, or other innovations in education.

During this reauthorization process, NSBA has worked closely with lawmakers on both sides of the aisle to advocate for a modernized education law that affirms the importance of local governance, protects federal investments in Title I grants for disadvantaged students, and prevents the diversion of public tax dollars for private use.

Today, billions of taxpayer dollars are being diverted from the nation's public schools to charter schools and with those funds has come a growing crisis of so - called education entrepreneurs who are using some of those scarce public funds to line their own pockets.

However, because SIPRI's analysis of military expenditure using constant USD relied on 2011 dollars, I had to adjust for inflation for countries with education spending data from 2011 or 2012.

During the reauthorization process, there was a collective effort by NSBA and local school board members to advocate before Members of Congress for a modernized education law that underscores the importance of local governance, protects federal investments in Title I grants for disadvantaged students, and prevents the diversion of public tax dollars for private use.

If things don't improve, the U.S. Department of Education could revoke Title I dollars used to help disadvantaged students.

Steve Barr founded Green Dot Public Schools in 1999 with the vision of transforming secondary education in California by creating a number of high - performing charter high schools using available public dollars.

Funding for college work - study programs would be cut in half, public - service loan forgiveness would end and hundreds of millions of dollars that public schools could use for mental health, advanced coursework and other services would vanish under a Trump administration plan to cut $ 10.6 billion from federal education initiatives, according to budget documents obtained by The Washington Post.

Grover J. Whitehurst, a Romney adviser, said that remaking the programs into individual payments that follow the student — he used the metaphor of a student's backpack — could attract other streams of education dollars.

At that time, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan threatened to withhold millions of dollars in federal funding during a dispute over which tests to give students and which measurements to use.

Sixty - eight percent of voters support giving parents the ability to use the tax dollars associated with their child's education to send their child to the school they choose.

According to recent polling, 78 percent of Mississippians support giving parents the right to use the tax dollars associated with their child's education to send their child to the public or private school which best serves their needs.

(Calif.) Programs aimed at keeping kids in school and out of the so - called «prison pipeline» would receive a big boost under a bill being carried by the chair of the Senate Education Committee that lays groundwork for the use of millions of dollars in prisoner - release savings.

Special Needs ESA: This program, created in 2015, allows parents of students with an Individualized Education Plan to use tax dollars on a variety of education expenses outside of public education, including private school tuition and fees, textbooks, theraEducation Plan to use tax dollars on a variety of education expenses outside of public education, including private school tuition and fees, textbooks, theraeducation expenses outside of public education, including private school tuition and fees, textbooks, theraeducation, including private school tuition and fees, textbooks, therapy, etc..

«For every dollar invested in high - quality, comprehensive programs supporting children... there is a $ 7 - $ 10 return to society in decreased need for special education services, higher graduation and employment rates, less crime, less use of the public welfare system, and better health.»

In fact, 76 percent of city's African - American community supports the use of public dollars to fund their private education.

Finch, who as mayor of Bridgeport undermined Bridgeport's public schools, supported and defended education reformer extraordinaire Paul Vallas, handed tens of millions of dollars in public funds to the charter school industry and used his power for personal gain, has landed nicely on his feet, after getting thrown out of office by Bridgeport voters.

It's not like it is difficult to find startling hypocrisy in what passes for public policy debates these days, but the battle over public education seems especially rife with maddening examples, most of them around the notion of accountability, that teachers and schools should be held to high standards and measurable results for the public dollars they use.

Collectively, level funding through the appropriations process and the cuts of sequestration have exacerbated the need for school districts to raise taxes or use local budget dollars to cover an ever - growing share of the federal contribution to special education.

It doesn't matter how their proponents try to disguise them — education savings accounts, tuition tax credits, opportunity scholarships — vouchers are destructive and misguided schemes that use taxpayer dollars to «experiment with our children's education without any evidence of real, lasting positive results,» says NEA President Eskelsen García.

Rather than sending those education dollars and their child to the local public school, moms and dads of kids with disabilities would have been able to use their scholarships to create a custom - made education plan for their son or daughter, paying for the specific services and programs that work for their unique child.

Credit: Alison Yin / EdSource (2017) The U.S. Department of Education has cited substantive flaws in California's plan detailing how it will improve low - performing schools and use billions of dollars of federal... Read More

According to the poll, 77 percent of voters support giving parents the right to use the tax dollars associated with their child's education to send their child to the public or private school which best serves their needs.

This is a fact that the U.S. Supreme Court made clear more than a century ago in Hunter v. Pittsburgh and has since been affirmed by the federal government through No Child, which holds states accountable for the quality of education provided with the use of federal dollars.

In a new survey, which was commissioned by American Federation for Children and conducted by Beck Research, 63 percent support «giving parents the right to use tax dollars designated for their child's education to send their child to the public of private school which best serves their needs.»

The practice of charter schools using public education dollars to privately buy real estate has been highly controversial.)

New polling from OnMessage Inc., a highly respected national polling firm, conducted after the November elections, shows 78 percent of Mississippians support giving «parents the right to use the tax dollars associated with their child's education to send their child to the public or private school that best serves their needs.»