The district would receive an additional year of state financing for students who finish after what would normally have been the 11th grade.
Douglas A. McNea, president of the Silicon Valley Taxpayers Association, said his group opposed the measure in part because it would force local taxpayers to finance education for students from elsewhere.
Since 1974, the store had sold donated books to finance scholarships for students at Bryn Mawr, the women's college outside Philadelphia.
As a graduate of Exmouth Community College, one of the largest state secondary schools in Devon, Ms. Swain is exactly the kind of student the American venture capitalist Michael Moritz and his wife, Harriet Heyman, hoped to encourage when they donated £75 million to Oxford in July to finance scholarships for students from low-income backgrounds.
I'm pleased that Champlain College requires personal finance education for students.
"Australia is unusual in separating financing for student living expenses and income support from financing for tuition fees," he wrote in an e-mail.
(A 15percentt service charge, in lieu of a gratuity, is built into the tab in all the restaurants and returned to the students in the form of scholarships, graduation jackets and financing for student activities. The service charge is not mandatory, and diners can adjust it upward or downward).
Students may enter the school's business plan competition, which provides up to $1 million in seed financing for student startups.
Plans to revolutionise higher education and halve the cost of student fees are to be proposed by former Labour cabinet minister John Denham, as he warns that "the whole system of university finance for English students is sliding slowly but surely off a cliff".
To this end, Verizon has given the college $50,000 for a peer mentoring program and financed internships for students interested in early childhood education.
