Sentences with phrase «which education dollars»

The only other candidate to even utter the phrase «income inequality» was Gov. John Kasich, who talked about changing the ways in which education dollars are allocated.

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«The billion - dollar difference between Mathnasium and everyone else is the education program, which I truly believe is the best math education system available in the world.

Which makes great advice on how to navigate your university education (and how to wring as much real - world value out of every precious tuition dollar as possible) incredibly valuable.

Once you open an RESP account, you can take advantage of the Canadian Education Savings Grant, which gives you a 20 % top - up from the government for every dollar you contribute, up to $ 2,500 a year per child.

The percentage of women coached by women has declined to an all - time low, even while Title IX, which prohibits sex - based discrimination in any education program or activity that receives federal dollars, has dramatically increased participation numbers for female athletes.

Politico: «The House GOP's tax plan — which would hit higher education hard — could also land a blow to some major college sports programs by targeting season ticket holders, top - dollar coaches and stadiums.

Many also offer ancillary services, such as investment education, assistance with annual tax return preparation, Social Security and retirement income planning, as well as one - off custom requests from clients — all of which could cost thousands of dollars if purchased à la carte.

There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity I am bought and sold; for them I will go to prison, if need be; but your miscellaneous popular charities; the education at college of fools; the building of meeting - houses to the vain end to which many now stand; alms to sots; and the thousandfold Relief Societies; — though I confess with shame I sometimes succumb and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar which by and by I shall have the manhood to withhold,» is what Emerson would say, Brigitte.

AZA represents more than 200 institutions which meet the highest standards in animal care, provide a fun and educational family experience, and dedicate millions of dollars to scientific research, conservation, and education programs.

He is known as a committed advocate for public education, and co-founded the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, which won billions of dollars for city schools from the state, though most of that money has never materialized.

Medenica's plan has been to start slow with Internet lottery products, offering just the big multi-state jackpot games such as Mega Millions, which would add perhaps tens of millions of dollars annually for public education.

Sources told the Daily News that the hardest - hit items will be education and health care, which will be reduced by billions of dollars.

«Now with President Mahama's community based schools and with the Secondary education programme, which the World Bank supported with 156 million dollars, a very solid foundation has been laid for a take - off.

The funds will come from the Higher Education Capital Matching Grant Program, under which grantees must match every dollar awarded with three dollars of their own, according to a press release.

Back in 2012, I worked with volunteer firefighters and the Firefighters Association of the State of New York, known as FASNY, to get Erie County included in the HELP (Higher Education Learning Plan) grant, which was paid for with federal dollars.

The $ 213,000 ad campaign, which will run through the end of May, takes a bit of a satirical approach, staging a school «bake sale» at which participants are trying to sell 1.3 billion cupcakes (presumably at $ 1 a piece) «because that's how many dollars Albany's cut from education this year alone.»

«It's not surprising that New York state refuses to sit idly by while New Jersey's casino referendum... threatens thousands of jobs and hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue for the state's education fund — a majority of which is currently generated by Resorts World in New York City,» the company added.

The State Board of Regents, which is appointed by the legislature to be in charge of education, recommends $ 2 billion additional dollars.

Nixon's criticism mirrored an op - ed she published last month that slammed Cuomo for his support of charter schools and for proposing to eliminate the so - called Foundation Aid formula for funding public schools, which critics argued would deprive districts of billions of dollars that they are still owed under 2006 court decision that found the state had underfunded public education.

Today, we are putting New York State in a position to have those dollars spent here in our communities, which will benefit our local economies and tourism industries, as well as support education and property tax relief.»

In his «100 - day action plan to Make America Great Again,» Trump announced the School Choice and Education Opportunity Act, which, among other proposals, would redirect education dollars to give parents the right to send their child to the public, private, charter, magnet, religious or home school of theiEducation Opportunity Act, which, among other proposals, would redirect education dollars to give parents the right to send their child to the public, private, charter, magnet, religious or home school of theieducation dollars to give parents the right to send their child to the public, private, charter, magnet, religious or home school of their choice.

But the city will take severe hits to education and social services, including a multimillion - dollar cut in state rental assistance to low - income families, which could jeopardize housing for thousands of families.

«A decade ago, New York's highest court ruled that our state must hand over billions of dollars to improve public education — but that money has not materialized,» said Zakiyah Ansari, the advocacy director of the Alliance for Quality Education, which organized the Jan. 10 press conference on the City Hall steps to kick off the lobbyeducation — but that money has not materialized,» said Zakiyah Ansari, the advocacy director of the Alliance for Quality Education, which organized the Jan. 10 press conference on the City Hall steps to kick off the lobbyEducation, which organized the Jan. 10 press conference on the City Hall steps to kick off the lobbying push.

Cuomo has insisted that he will only increase education spending by a few million dollars if the Legislature does not agree to his reform package, which is lauded by those in the so - called education reform movement.

But we have no idea what students actually learn from it,» says Elizabeth VanderPutten, an education program manager at the National Science Foundation (NSF), which funds millions of dollars» worth of undergraduate research projects every year.

Obama also gave a shout out to Subra Suresh, marking his first day as director of the National Science Foundation; plugged the Administration's spending on STEM education; and highlighted a private - sector initiative, called Changing the Equation, in which hundreds of companies and organizations are adding their dollars to public investments in science education.

Murphy also led the School's record - breaking capital campaign, which tripled the number of endowed professorships, and raised $ 111 million dollars, the largest sum ever raised by a school of education.

Barring more big federal bailouts — which this year's election would seem to make ever less likely — school budgets are going to be strapped for years to come and cost - cutting, together with eking greater value out of the remaining dollars, is going to occupy the education - policy center ring.

In 2010, the Florida legislature's nonpartisan Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability estimated that Sunshine State taxpayers saved $ 32.6 million, which is approximately $ 1.44 in state education funding for every dollar lost in corporate income tax revenue due to credits for scholarship contributions.

Were these dollars spent across traditional education categories, we'd likely see most dollars go to computer labs and recruiting and training more computer science teachers (which we currently sorely lack).

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 particular, K - 12 education relies heavily on local revenues, which on average contribute approximately 44 percent to the education budget (Johnson et al., 2011), with these dollars drawn mostly from local property taxes.

Most of the crucial decisions about how U.S. schools run and who teaches what to whom in which classrooms are still made in 14,000 semi-autonomous school districts, nearly all of them run by locally elected school boards, often with campaign dollars supplied by those with whom they negotiate collectively, and managed by professional superintendents, trained in colleges of education and socialized over the years into the prevailing culture of public education.

While we can not account for every dollar of tuition increases, we can track state spending to see which programs are getting state and local tax dollars, and how that has contributed to declines in higher - education support.

«One of the Obama administration's signature efforts in education, which pumped billions of federal dollars into overhauling the nation's worst schools, failed to produce meaningful results, according to a federal analysis.»

The surest way to have students receive the education services to which they are entitled is to have every dollar of funding provided for them go wherever they go to school.

Since gaining prominence through the support of economist Milton Friedman decades ago, school vouchers, which subsidize student tuition at private and parochial schools with public dollars, are one of the most controversial ideas in education policy.

So, K - 12 public education costs more than parents are paying for daycare and preschool, which is reasonable given that K - 12 education is a more resource - intensive activity, teachers typically make more, and the K - 12 dollar figure includes spending on services for students with disabilities.

The most vivid example has been the Obama Education Department's Investing in Innovation Fund, which requires grant recipients to come up with matching dollars from the private sector (that is, private philanthropy).

She's someone who has used her inherited wealth and the wealth that she's married into to try to distort and reshape our laws to advance her personal views, which are that we should basically redefine public education to mean our tax dollars should be going to fund private schools, religious schools, that advance her worldview.

Putting her in charge of the Department of Education really is an insult to all of the many teachers and educators and principals and so many Americans who have come through our public schools, who have had a chance in this economy to make it in their lives in part due to this commitment of America to public schools, which we need to invest in more versus the sort of alternatives that Betsy DeVos has pushed, including charter schools that have sucked billions out of our public education system and that have resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars Education really is an insult to all of the many teachers and educators and principals and so many Americans who have come through our public schools, who have had a chance in this economy to make it in their lives in part due to this commitment of America to public schools, which we need to invest in more versus the sort of alternatives that Betsy DeVos has pushed, including charter schools that have sucked billions out of our public education system and that have resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars education system and that have resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars of fraud.

Though the government spends billions of dollars every year on education, relatively little of the money has gone to figuring out which teachers are effective and why.

Breaking Down School Budgets: Following the Dollars into the Classroom This analysis by Marguerite Roza published by Education Next in summer 2009 examines ways in which per - pupil spending in high schools varies by subject and course level, and demonstrates how isolating spending on discrete services can 1) identify the relationships...

With the governor squarely in charge of education, states would wield most of the authority and provide most of the money, but those dollars would follow kids to the schools of their choice, which would largely run themselves, selecting their staffs, managing their budgets, etc..

Economists also have shown the benefits of early education investments, which generate approximately $ 7 for every dollar invested.Sneha Elango, et al., Early Childhood Education (working paper # 21766, National Bureau of Economic Research, 2015); Timothy Bartik, From Preschool to Prosperity: The Economic Payoff to Early Childhood Educatieducation investments, which generate approximately $ 7 for every dollar invested.Sneha Elango, et al., Early Childhood Education (working paper # 21766, National Bureau of Economic Research, 2015); Timothy Bartik, From Preschool to Prosperity: The Economic Payoff to Early Childhood EducatiEducation (working paper # 21766, National Bureau of Economic Research, 2015); Timothy Bartik, From Preschool to Prosperity: The Economic Payoff to Early Childhood EducationEducation, 2014.

Fast forward to 2017: President Donald Trump and U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos have championed a plan to provide federal funding for private school voucher systems nationwide, which would funnel millions of taxpayer dollars out of public schools and into unaccountable private schools — a school reform policy that they say would provide better options for low - income students trapped in failing schools.

Parents receive taxpayer dollars that would have been used towards their child's public school education, which then can be used at their discretion towards private or religious school tuition and fees, online courses, tutoring and other services.

CSDC was the lead catalyst, architect and advocate for the establishment of a $ 25 million Congressional demonstration program in 2001, the forerunner to the Credit Enhancement for Charter School Facilities Program administered by the U.S. Department of Education, which has provided several hundred million dollars in grants nationally for credit enhancement and revolving loan programs operated by nonprofit organizations and state agencies.

Ensuring that every child has an excellent education is good for this country, which is why we should use public dollars to pay for education.

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.