Sentences with phrase «when costs of public education»

• Over the last 10 years, when costs of public education skyrocketed, especially salaries and benefits, the schools were nonetheless generously supported by taxpayers, who believed that funds were critically needed to improve outcomes «for our children.

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However, this may be the cost of faithful witness when one's religiosity doesn't jibe with public education or modern democratic principles.

Higher education policy moved back into the news last week when the State University of New York's Chancellor announced an effort to keep increasing the cost of public college tuition.

The public may only learn about the true cost of education when a popular political figure stakes a political career on telling them.

The main structures of U.S. public education date to the 19th Century, when individual towns paid essentially all the costs of operating whatever schools they had, and to the progressive era, when it was deemed important to «keep education out of politics» so as to avoid the taint of patronage and partisanship.

When parents and students make the decision to seek a better education at a public charter school — which comes at no cost to them — they do so because they are dissatisfied with the status quo of traditional education.

«The decision in Boone County Board of Education v. N.W., as it stands, would force cash - strapped school districts to bear the high costs of private placements during litigation, even when a court ultimately rules that the district has made FAPE available in a public school setting,» said NSBA General Counsel Francisco M. Negrón Jr. «The lower court's decision sets a terrible precedent that prolongs due process and court proceedings and discourages informal resolution of special education disputes through mediated seEducation v. N.W., as it stands, would force cash - strapped school districts to bear the high costs of private placements during litigation, even when a court ultimately rules that the district has made FAPE available in a public school setting,» said NSBA General Counsel Francisco M. Negrón Jr. «The lower court's decision sets a terrible precedent that prolongs due process and court proceedings and discourages informal resolution of special education disputes through mediated seeducation disputes through mediated settlement.

When Congress passed IDEA in 1975, it committed the federal government to helping to ensure that students with disabilities receive a free and appropriate public education by funding 40 percent of the additional cost to educate IDEA - eligible students.

«If it is true that virtually all costs are fixed then when public schools add students they shouldn't get extra money because their costs are fixed,» said author Benjamin Scafidi, who is director of the Economics of Education Policy Center at Georgia College & State University.

In his willful distortion of the facts, Mr. Grace states that when a child leaves the public schools to enroll in a charter school, the district gets to keep that child's state Education Cost Sharing allocation and «distribute most of that surplus among their other schools.»

But time — along with the fact that half of all fourth - graders on free - and reduced - cost lunch in suburban schools are functionally illiterate — has proven that integration on its own doesn't deal with the systemic problems of low - quality teaching, shoddy curricula, lackluster leadership, and cultures of low expectations (especially for poor and minority kids) that plagues American public education even when those kids are put into suburban middle - class schools.

«I don't know how or why anyone would want to be taking on the cost and responsibility of the creation of a public law school when we're trying our hardest to make ends meet with the higher education systems and institutions that we currently have,» Richard Doherty, president and chief executive of the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities in Massachusetts, told The Boston Globe.