Work-study is essentially payment in exchange for completion of a job. Most work-study is funded through the federal government and administered through the schools. According to the National Center for Educational Statistics, during the 2007-2008 school year, students received on average about $2...
In Louisiana, the logistics for the new law are still unclear. Unless a court halts the legislation, schools have just over five months until they will be required to have a poster-sized display of the Ten Commandments in all public school K-12 and state-funded university classrooms. But it...
“At its core, school choice is really about parents and guardians having the ability to choose, regardless of how those options are funded,” says Amy Smith, interim dean of the school of education at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota. Currently 32 states plus Washington, D.C., ...
On the issue of religion in public schools, ADF has petitioned the Supreme Court to hear a case out of Oklahoma, which involves the statewide virtual charter school board approving its first publicly funded Catholic school. The Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled in June that taxpayer funding for the...
Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee) on their credit experiences and future plans. While the survey is not a stratified random sample and so should not be viewed as a statistical representation of small business firms in the Sixth District, we believe the results are informative...
How Much Is the St. Johns River Worth to Florida? JU and UNF Will Be Conducting a State-Funded Study to Assign an Economic ValueByline: Matt Dixon TALLAHASSEE | The St. Johns River is an indelible part of the Northeast...Dixon, Matt...
Kate and Andy are from Memphis. Andy landed a first job for the State of Florida in St. Petersburg and transferred to Tallahassee in the 1980’s, “If you’re a state employee, the gold is in Tallahassee.” Andy is now Bureau Chief at the Office of Financial Regulation; Kate is an ...
Private Schools Whereas public schools are funded and run by local governments, private schools are funded, owned and operated by private organizations—for example, religious institutions. Students at private schools pay tuition, which gives them certain advantages over public school students. Class ...
Efforts are being made throughout the world in terms of sanitation and wastewater treatment with the aim of saving water and protecting the environment. These efforts lead to the production of increasing quantities of secondary residues called “sludge” [1]. Globally, sewage sludge production is ...
The project was undertaken as part of a Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)-funded policy co-design project. Land managers were involved in a process that explored their real-world behaviours and reactions to different policy options designed to support and incentivise their ...