Sentences with phrase «with education dollars»

We should be funding school food as if it's a priority, not as if it need to be in competition with education dollars.

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The concern some people have is that children will end up living for years in a local community, where they'll be entitled to education and other government services paid for with tax dollars.

With growing interest and support from public markets (including through the incorporation of DanoneWave as the largest public benefit corporation in the U.S. and their public commitment to become a Certified B Corp by 2020 as well as Laureate Education's IPO in early 2017), multi-billion dollar companies are following suit and choosing to operate their businesses with purpose and accountabilWith growing interest and support from public markets (including through the incorporation of DanoneWave as the largest public benefit corporation in the U.S. and their public commitment to become a Certified B Corp by 2020 as well as Laureate Education's IPO in early 2017), multi-billion dollar companies are following suit and choosing to operate their businesses with purpose and accountabilwith purpose and accountability.

In addition, they partner with the Department of Education and schools to service over $ 51 billion dollars in student loans under the Federal Family Education Loan Program.

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.

I'm not sure that with the already abysmal state of education in this country, why I should be expected to be tolerant while my children are taught falsehood and belief as fact, especially while my tax dollars are funding this education.

George Peabody College was a normal school in Nashville that would very likely come into a million dollars with the dissolution of the Peabody Trust, and Kirkland was working energetically to persuade its trustees to move their college across Nashville next to Vanderbilt, thereby making a well - funded school of education available to the university at no cost to itself.

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.

To me, one of the most significant planks in Obama's education platform isn't in his education platform at all - it's in his poverty platform: his pledge to replicate Geoffrey Canada's Harlem Children's Zone in 20 cities across the United States, as public / private partnerships, with the federal government's share of the bill coming to as much as a few billion dollars.

Through education and community engagement, we inspire people to eat real food and vote with every food dollar.

Just days after NYSUT launched a multi-million dollar TV ad campaign in opposition to the governor's proposed budget cuts, the Alliance for Quality Education is out with a web video featuring a famous New Yorker.

The pro-school funding group Alliance for Quality Education, in a statement, accused Cuomo of «perpetuating educational racism and economic inequality» for not including billions of additional dollars to comply with a decade - and - a-half-old court order to fully fund schools in poorer school districts.

Cuomo is also trying to shake up education policy, by threatening to withhold hundreds of millions of dollars in increases in school aid from schools that don't agree on teacher evaluation plans with teachers.

In late December, the state's education commissioner froze some of the state's $ 700 million dollars in Race to the Top grants, saying some schools, including in New York City and several upstate cities, had not complied with the teacher evaluation requirements.

The NYC Department of Education is playing fast and loose with billions of dollars in school contracts, according to a new report from city Comptroller Scott Stringer.

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.

The Department of Education is playing fast and loose with billions of dollars in school contracts, according to a new report from city Comptroller Scott Stringer.

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.

«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 ranks of the anti-Cuomo protestors were stronger, with more than 1,000 teachers and public education advocates marching through the Empire State Plaza concourse, clogging security checkpoints into the Capitol and rallying on the Million Dollar Staircase in a boisterous protest of the governor's plan.

The pro-Cuomo Committee to Save NY is backing up a recent TV spot supporting the governor's proposed education aid cuts with a mailer that accuses school superintendents of going behind closed doors and «taking money out of classrooms — but putting hundreds of thousands of dollars in their own pockets.»

The teachers union has launched a multimillion - dollar TV campaign in opposition to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's education cuts with an ad that pits cut schoolchildren against wealthy Wall Street executives.

Also at 12:30 p.m., Assembly Education Chair Cathy Nolan and Sen. Kevin Parker will release letters signed by more than 70 legislators in both houses calling for $ 2.4 billion in new school aid with an emphasis on Foundation Aid, Million Dollar Staircase, 3rd Floor, state Capitol, Albany.

NYC Public Advocate Tish James is demanding that the Department of Education withdraw a potential billion - dollar contract with a computer firm that was implicated in a kickback scandal doing similar work for the city.

FBI agents and Rockland district attorney's office investigators fanned out across Ramapo today with search warrants demanding that vendors provide records and account for equipment allegedly bought by religious schools with millions in federal education technology dollars.

The appointment of Betty Rosa as the new Regents chancellor in New York signals a big victory for the statewide teachers union, NYSUT, in the battle over the direction of education in New York — a battle waged with millions of dollars in campaign spending and brute political tactics from both sides over much of the past decade.

Billy Easton, with Alliance for Quality Education, explains report showing schools are underfunded by billions of dollars.

The pro school funding group Alliance for Quality Education, in a statement, accused Cuomo of «perpetuating educational racism and economic inequality» for not including billions of additional dollars to comply with a decade - and - a-half-old court order to fully fund schools in poorer school districts.

He said 100 districts in the country were benefiting from the training programme sponsored by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in partnership with the Ghana Education Service (GES) and Ministry of Education with an amount of 170 million US Dollars.

Billy Easton, with the Alliance for Quality Education, says last year, Cuomo presided over a budget that cut $ 1.3 billion dollars in aid to schools.

At private universities, this kind of education comes with a price tag of several hundred thousand dollars.

«[A billion and a half dollars] is what's needed just to prevent cuts alone,» said Jasmine Gripper with the Alliance for Quality Education, «and if we want to maintain current services, $ 1.5 billion is the minimum.

Overall, spending would be $ 1.2 million less than last year, with fewer dollars for early childhood intervention and special education programs, and more for contractual services and interest costs.

He also provided specifics for a few things he's been talking about for a while, like education — he wants to increase school aid by about a billion dollars — but especially homelessness, an issue he's been sparring about with Mayor Bill de Blasio.

Mulgrew testified with three other city labor leaders, representing classroom aides, firefighters and health workers, who took the Bloomberg administration to task for spending billions of dollars on the corruption - plagued payroll system City Time and the problem - plagued Special Education Student Information System (SESIS) while failing to give needed raises to city workers.

«The Council also continues to emphasize that, with multi-year, multi-billion (dollar) budget deficits, New York needs to more fully examine its spending practices, especially in major programs such as Medicaid and education, and determine why are our costs are so much higher than other states without the results to match,» said Business Council President Heather Briccetti.

Along the way they'll also budget tens of billions of dollars of state spending on education, health care and roads and bridges, and decide the fate of hundreds of other bills, including proposals to ban the declawing of cats, end the practice of prosecuting and imprisoning 16 - and 17 - year - old offenders as adults and authorize people with terminal illnesses to request life - ending drugs from a physician.

His 16 years experience, education and leadership through snow storms and natural disasters make for a successful department with a $ 15 million dollar annual budget.

An additional $ 10 billion dollars is being devoted to K - 12 education, with emphasis on math and science.

Combined with the fact that 67.7 million India youths are living on less than one dollar a day, the barriers to accessing education are highly complex.

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While investment management is the core of our business our expertise includes divorce, estate, education, tax, and retirement planning for those with one million dollars or more in investable assets.

OLS members win several millions of dollars in cash and Coursera provides universal access to the world's best education, partnering with top universities and organizations to offer courses online.

With millions of grant dollars on the line, representatives of the 16 state finalists for federal Race to the Top prize money will go to Washington next week to make final, in - person pitches to the U.S. Department of Education for investment in their brand of school reform.

In some cases, the targeted allocation distributes a fixed - dollar amount for each eligible student (say, each bilingual education student) and then includes a minimum allocation for districts with very low numbers of the targeted population.

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.

With the largest single pool of federal education dollars in history flowing to states and school districts, education - related companies have been looking to gain a share of the cash, marketing themselves as uniquely equipped to help with improvement effoWith the largest single pool of federal education dollars in history flowing to states and school districts, education - related companies have been looking to gain a share of the cash, marketing themselves as uniquely equipped to help with improvement effowith improvement efforts.

In an Education Week commentary essay about school boards in 2009, I wrote, «[M] y sense of things, after two stints on my local school board... is that school boards have been overtaken by the «educatocracy,» by powerful trade unions, certified specialists, certification agencies, state and federal rule - makers and legislators, grants with strings, billion - dollar - contractor lobbyists, textbook mega-companies, professional associations, and lawyers — the list could go on.»