Will there be benefits for children & grants for education like there is now for certain groups?
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Other typically refers to people living in your home but who are not considered part of your household or are not your immediate family, such as an in-law or a cousin.
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Yes, grants are only issued to students who are need based, so if your family's income exceeds a certain amount, you may not be eligible for a grant. Loans and scholarships are still an option for you though! Hope that helps!
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u should get tax credits,single parent allowance and ur council tax paid for you and u get a rent rebate.Milk tokens free school meals for the little one and free healthcare,free dental treatment for you too. Hope this helps.xxx Oh,and that is only for the UK,im not sure about other countries.
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Saw something of interest on TV yeasterday that could work with a school if adapted. Parents could be asked to give each of their children £5 or so. They take the £5 and look to make as much money as possible with it over a two week period (as long as it is not illegal or anything and possibly to be approved by a teacher) - eg - buy a bucket and sponge and offer to wash the cars down their street for a small fee etc etc. Kids could club their £5s together if they wish. At the end of it they can give the £5 back to their parents or put it into the final pot of money to go to the school. Possibly offer a prize for the children who make the most money. Could really engage the children and the parents in the cause?\nHope this might be of help.
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1. Yes.\n2. Regardless of a child's family background, finding and building that child's full potential will create more fully productive adults, and will find more of those "diamonds in the rough." Equal funding creates better chances for those from poverty areas to access the instruction and materials they need to gain the skills to become part of the productive work force.\n3. Absolutely it affects education. Lowered funding means increased class sizes and less materials to work with. The top two in-classroom variables for student success are student to teacher ratios (lower being better), and an intelligent and well-trained teacher. (The top overall variable being student economic class background).\n4. Statewide tests are a joke. They are in place for two reasons... the first being that they are a money-making industry with strong lobbyists, and the second being that the Bush administration wants to scapegoat teachers rather than being straightforward about wanting to cut Education out of the Federal budget (it isn't a Constitutionally defined federal area, anyway). \n\nTrue accountability can be easily implemented through the following steps:\n1. students pass at 80% (B-average), not 60% (D-average), and passing to the next grade must be documented and justified, rather than having to justify retention (students being retained more than once in their school careers should be placed with additional supports, such as remedial classes with even smaller teacher-student ratios, and/or special education supports)\n2. student achievement documented through portfolios demonstrating pre- and post-instruction work and tests, addressing the state standards and benchmarks. The tests can be the unit tests the teachers are using anyway already.\n3. Accountability for attendance (excepting severe health issues...requiring special education and homebound instruction) and behavior (excepting Emotional disorders requiring special education and possible alternative placements) should be held entirely by the parents, not the schools. Right now, schools are held entirely accountable for both, and can lose AYP for these issues.\n4. All the funding and staffing by states currently used for state testing, should be placed into independent auditors of student portfolios on a random sampling basis.\n5. If the Bush administration wants to end Federal funding for Education, bite the bullet and have the courage to say so, with a plan to ease Federal control back to total state control over a 5 year period, with a direct transfer of federal income taxation to state income taxation percentages to cover the change. Federal taxation can be graually increased again, anyway.\n\nSorry, that's to logical and simple.
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The Government has created a portal to help individuals who need benefits because of life events. Visit http://www.govbenefits.gov\n\nUse the drop down button\nDO YOU NEED BENEFITS BECAUSE OF A LIFE EVENT?\nChoose the life situation best applicable to you and then see if you qualify for the available government assistance.\n\nForget grant money - there's hardly any money for individuals. Nonetheless, you can go to the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) http://www.cfda.gov and Grants.gov http://www.grants.gov - these are two sites created by the federal government to provide transparency and information on grants. Browse through the listings and see if you can find any grant that would support your personal reasons.\n\nEven if you buy books on "how to get grants" or list that supposedly has information on grants -- all of them are mere rehash of what CFDA has, albeit packaged differently. \n\nMost of the federal grants are given to specific target groups with specific requirements (e.g. minority business owners involved in transportation related contracts emanating from DOT - Grant#20.905 Disadvantaged Business Enterprises Short Term Lending Program \n\nGrants are also often given to non profit groups or organizations involved in training or other similar activities (grant 59.043 Women's Business Ownership Assistance that are given to those who will create women's business center that will train women entrepreneurs \n\nFor private grants, you may want to check the Foundation Center's Foundation Grants for Individuals Online. It's a subscription based website ($9.95 per month) but their opening blurb only says that the database is ideal for "students, artists, academic researchers, libraries and financial aid offices."
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The Government has created a portal to help individuals who need benefits because of life events. Visit http://www.govbenefits.gov\n\nUse the drop down button\nDO YOU NEED BENEFITS BECAUSE OF A LIFE EVENT?\nChoose the life situation best applicable to you and then see if you qualify for the available government assistance.\n\nForget grant money - there's hardly any money for individuals. Go to the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) and Grants.gov - these are two sites created by the federal government to provide transparency and information on grants. But you'd be hard pressed to find any grant that would support individuals.\n\nMost of the federal grants are given to specific target groups with specific requirements (e.g. minority business owners involved in transportation related contracts emanating from DOT - Grant#20.905 Disadvantaged Business Enterprises Short Term Lending Program \n\nGrants are also often given to non profit groups or organizations involved in training or other similar activities (grant 59.043 Women's Business Ownership Assistance that are given to those who will create women's business center that will train women entrepreneurs \n\nEven SBA does NOT give out grants. From the SBA website http://www.sba.gov/expanding/grants.html... \n\n"The U.S. Small Business Administration does not offer grants to start or expand small businesses, although it does offer a wide variety of loan programs. (See http://www.sba.gov/financing for more information) While SBA does offer some grant programs, these are generally designed to expand and enhance organizations that provide small business management, technical, or financial assistance. These grants generally support non-profit organizations, intermediary lending institutions, and state and local governments."\n\nFor private grants, you may want to check the Foundation Center's Foundation Grants for Individuals Online. It's a subscription based website ($9.95 per month) but their opening blurb only says that the database is ideal for "students, artists, academic researchers, libraries and financial aid offices." Entrepreneurs are apparently not one of them, so I take it they also don't have listings of private foundations who give grants to would-be entrepreneurs.
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The federal government gives each state BLOCK grants and CATEGORICAL grants. Block grants are the kind that are generally for whatever the state needs; states can creatively spend them to suit their individual needs. Categorical grants are given to states for specific programs that meet federal guidelines and usually require states to provide equal amounts of thier own state-generated funds for the projects. \n\nA great way to research most things is to look it up on www.wikipedia.org\n\nI am glad you asked this question because not many people who support federal tax cuts know about these. The reason people have seen state tax increases since the Bush administration's federal tax cuts is because states previously relied on federal funding for vital programs. Unless states increase taxes, they must cut out or trim down school funding, social services, environmental protection law enforcement, police departments, fire departments, etc... There is nothing wrong with that, unless you expect the government to provide these things (and to what extent).\n\nThe recent federal tax cuts have not reduced taxes in real terms as much as people assume. States have increased property taxes to make up for lost revenues. If you own a car or a house, you are paying more (or the same as pre-federal tax cutting overall). \n\nThis just leaves social standards and infrastructure management more up to states to decide. I am unsure if this is an improvement. We will find out in 20 years or so of the same policies perhaps! If you live in a state that badly manages their funds, at least this way you can choose to relocate to a state that manages their funds and provides a higher standard of living.\n\nGood luck!\n\n--Liz\nBA English with minor in Political Science\nMA Secondary Teaching\nNorthern Kentucky University
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I did not read your original question.But good for you that you wrote back and stood up for yourself very diplomatically. I apologize for my fellow American peers, some are not educated as I read you are trying to do so and with the hardship of your children. I really do not know what benefits you can receive but i noticed someone offered a site. i hope that works for  you, dont give up and may God Bless You and your children.
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Definitely. Less of a chance for children to "forget" what they learn. They will still have the same amount of days off, just spread throughout the year.
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People of society can help those who are in situations where the person has ended up with more children than they can afford (for whatever reason).  Churches and private organizations have been doing this for years in an effort to help the children grow to become responsible members of society. \n\nIt is unfair that one can turn to the government and the government forces its citizens to help support people who have ended up in these situations. It's a matter of choices of how to help and where you can do the most good. Government seems to want your money without consideration of time or talent. Where as private organizations ask for money but are more than willing to also accept your time and talents to help out.\n\nWe short change ourselves in this area all the time. I really wish people would see the benefits of real charity and not in thinking that throwing money at it through taxes is going to be good enough. It just isn't good enough.
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If you don't have a high paying job you can probably get grants and go to school for free or very little out of pocket costs. If you are a minority it will be even easier to get scholarships and grants. College is for everyone as long as they want to be there. You have to have a high school education or equivilent first though. If you don't have a high school degree you will need to get a GED.
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Well, the only thing I know about it you can get certain grants and scholarships to school that other people can't get.  But you have to provide proof of your heritage (there is some sort of certificate you have to get).
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I'm not sure if there are specific plans for people of Cuban Heritage but Free Health Care is available for children from families who meet financial guidelines.
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Honestly? I don't know, but here's a stab in the dark. The Government spends billions on education each year, including subsidising universities, and these billions come direct from tax-payers, so effectively, tax-payers have already contributed to their (or their child/relative's) university in advance. Likewise, you could conjecture that overseas visitors who live here for three years will have also paid tax, whereas those who have been here less time may not have made any, or as great a contribution. The universities, therefore, could be taking the opportunity to make up the difference all in one go.\n\nThis is all just conjecture, however, on a boring, rainy, Wednesday evening, when I should be doing my assignment.
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Check with your Department of Education. They verify these sorts of things.
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depends on the state you live in. i don't know too much myself, but am learning as i go... i just registered for spring quarter today, and i know my financial aid for the 06-07 school year is going to cover everything only because i live at home, am raising a four month old lil boy, and quit both jobs so i could focus totally on school. my 05-06 financial aid has yet to be filed....had to order transcripts from the irs. check out my profile and email me and i will keep in touch with you, seeing how i am going to be doing a lot of research. like i said though, try looking up grants offered through the state you live in as starters.