Word: amounts
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Bush's more controversial plan involves "Title I," which sends $8 billion yearly to schools with poor kids. These grants can amount to $150,000 for a typical 500-child school; they've usually been used for teacher's aides or special remedial classes, without great results. Reformers in both parties say the idea of holding schools accountable for progress is overdue. The prospect of being penalized by having the federal money rerouted directly to parents "gets the attention of educators and the bureaucracy," says Ray Cortines, a Democrat and former schools chief in New York City and San Francisco...
...example, Caltech's jump from number four to number one can largely be attributed to change in the way school spending per student was evaluated. Rather than using a numerical ranking for a school's per capita expenditure, the survey now considers the actual dollar amount spent by the school on each student...
...find that appreciating that [skepticism] helps a tremendous amount when I speak," he says. "It makes religion accessible for people...
...requires a significant amount of time and travel, Sanberg said, but is still...
Term bills sent out two weeks ago billed all students for the entire cost of their tuition--$16,802 a person this semester--without deducting the amount of students' expected financial aid packages...