Sentence examples for school portion from inspiring English sources

The school portion amounts to about $8 a year for each student, below the average of about $25 a student that companies typically pay, the industry consultants contend.

The New York State School Tax Relief Program, called the STAR program, provides a partial exemption from the school portion of property taxes for owner-occupied primary residences.

The charter school portion of Gingrich's "21st Century Learning System" is very close to the president's views, including their mutual enthusiasm for removing all caps on charter growth.

The statement also rejected an assertion in Mr. Thompson's letter that the school portion of the Snapple deal needed the approval of the city's Franchise and Concession Review Committee.

Mr. Schundler, speaking at retirement communities in Ocean County, said that if elected, he would cut the school portion of elderly homeowners' property tax bills in half over three years.

Mr. Flanagan said union members had asked the government to delay applying the secondary school portion of the curriculum to give teachers and students more time to prepare for the new Highers, scheduled to be introduced next year.

On Wednesday, Mr. Thompson announced that he planned to audit the schools' portion of the deal.

But, according to some industry insiders, the schools portion of the agreement may be slightly below the going rate.

The Department of Education issued a statement saying that Snapple had won the schools portion of the contract through a bidding process and that Octagon had been hired as a brokering agent through a similar competitive process.

The Snapple deal has been questioned both by beverage industry experts, who suggested that New York City was being paid less than the going rate for the schools portion of the contract, and by nutritional experts, who said that Snapple's juice products offered few health benefits over carbonated sodas.

Late summer last year was the weakest for retail in years, with retail sales excluding gasoline, restaurants and autos dropping 0.3% in August and 0.7% in September, seasonally adjusted, according to National Retail Federation numbers (declines in the back-to-school portion of those months were even higher, Beemer estimates).