Sentences with phrase «12ers receiving public funding»

One bill would have permitted churches to receive public funds so long as they promised not to offer religious instruction as part of child - care programs.

The 1996 charitable choice legislation specified that religious groups are allowed to display religious symbols and discriminate in hiring while receiving public funds, but can not evangelize or prosletyze.

After all, it was through political and legal struggles over many years, and as a result of compromises, that other Western democracies recognized the pluralistic nature of a free society and adopted policies protecting the rights of parents and of educators to maintain and receive public funding for faith - based schools.

Should Catholic hospitals that receive public funding be legally required to sterilize patients who request it?

As expected, former Queens Sen. Shirley Huntley has pleaded guilty to a mail fraud charge stemming from her embezzlement over a three - year period of $ 87,700 from Parents Information Network, Inc. — a nonprofit that received public funds to (ostensibly) help educate parents about the New York City public school system.

Assemblywoman Deborah Glick announced today she's introducing a bill that would limit total compensation of hospital executives whose facilities receive public funds to $ 250,000 a year.

It is important to note that under Speaker Sheldon Silver's bill, (1) receiving public funds depends on the candidate's ability to raise money from numerous small donors, so only donations up to $ 250 are matched with taxpayer dollars and that (2) candidates are limited to a maximum amount of public funds ($ 400,000 for Senate candidates and $ 200,000 for Assembly candidates in the general election race).

The Flatbush Shomrim receives public funding, in substantial amounts.

[8] The requirements to receive public funding in Vermont were strict and Corren was the only candidate to qualify since 2004.

DHCR said factors such as unpaid property taxes and labor violations do play a role in the agency's decisions on which projects receive public funds.

Senate Bill 284 forces the Kansas Department for Children and Families to include foster and adoption agencies, including those that receive public funds, in its programs even if they refuse to place children in LGBT homes.

Question: why bullfighting receives public funding despite being removed from cultural heritage list?

Also, several times he introduced a bill requiring presidential candidates who receive public funding to participate in inclusive general election debates, should they become a nominee in the general election.

Republican Bruce Wilson Jr., a Madison resident running against Kennedy, also received public funding.

One such change in 2013 doubled the amounts that contributors could give to state political parties, and permitted the parties to spend as much as they want on candidates receiving public funding for their campaigns.

When that happens, it can no longer call itself a library and is no longer eligible to receive public funds of any kind.

The bill would allow faith - based adoption agencies, including those that receive public funds, to turn away would - be parents on the basis of their marital status or religion and religious beliefs.

Today, the Salamanca campaign received a public funds payment of $ 36,732, which is larger than the $ 34,741 disbursement the CFB made to Rev. J. Loren Russell last week.

This means that even in a contested primary election she would still be ineligible to receive public funds for now.

The balanced mix of financial, legal and arts advocacy experience will serve the board well as we evaluate organizations on their worthiness to receive public funding.»

The IDA does not receive any public funding and operates solely from the fees it generates.

The Republican raised about $ 140,000 toward the $ 200,000 he would have needed in order to receive public funds.

Only one candidate — Onondaga County comptroller Bob Antoncci — attempted to participate in the program, and he failed to raise enough money to receive any public funds.

Charter schools are often a subject of considerable public debate, since they receive public funding but may be privately operated and staffed by nonunion teachers, in contrast to traditional public schools.

The strategy will give public research organizations more autonomy but also places them under closer scrutiny: in order to receive public funding, organizations must produce results that clearly make a positive impact on science or the economy.

Eight of these were government organisations, one was an educational charity, and one received public funding.

«One of the responsibilities that we have as scientists, particularly those of us who receive public funding for our research, is to be engaged with the public about our understanding of the way that the world works and also about the limits of our understanding,» said the Stanford University researcher, who holds dual appointments with the School of Environmental Earth System Science and the Woods Institute for the Environment.

Schools in these «reformed» districts would continue to receive public funding, but they would have to meet only the state's requirements for private schools, which are less stringent than those for public schools.

In the McKay program, parents dissatisfied with the offerings of particular public schools are entitled to move their children to other public schools or to receive public funds for use in private schools.

A private Montessori school in rural Minnesota last week cleared a key hurdle on its way to becoming the nation's first «charter» school, able under state law to receive public funds while remaining free from most outside control.

The majority of private schools are religious, and few are likely to forsake their religious mission to surmount constitutional barriers to receiving public funds.

Those that fail to show progress over time should be disqualified from continuing to receive public funds.

Initiated in 1991 by a Minnesota law allowing private non-profit entities to receive public funding to operate schools if authorized by a state agency, the idea has spread to more than 40 states, and some 1.5 million students today attend charter schools.

The plan involves private schools enrolling the waitlisted students with the possibility of receiving public funding in the spring.

Before they began receiving public funds, both schools» preschool programs operated with private funding alone.

Schools that consistently fail to equip many of their students with basic skills should not receive public funding.

Advocates for students with disabilities are concerned with whether students with disabilities are guaranteed a free appropriate public education in any private school receiving public funds.

While these schools receive public funds, they operate unfettered by most state and local district regulations governing other public schools.

These are just some of the accountability questions lawmakers and taxpayers ask of any school choice program that receives public funding.

Programs also receive public funds dedicated to youth serving activities through the Parks and Recreation department and local libraries, as well as grants through the federally funded 21st Century Community Learning Centers program.

In a 6 - 3 ruling, the high court said charter schools don't qualify as «common» schools under Washington's Constitution and can't receive public funding intended for those traditional public schools.

Despite the fact that the publicly - funded school's coach and high school journalism teacher is now a convicted felon, that hasn't stopped him from continuing to work at the school in between stints in jail — or stopped the school from receiving public funds.

Operated by private groups or individuals, charter schools receive public funding based on enrollment.

The schools receive public funds and are sometimes seen as taking money away from traditional schools.

Charter schools receive public funding but, unlike public schools, employ mostly nonunion teachers and have autonomy in school districts, which allows them to set their own conditions, such as longer school days.

Charter schools are privately run schools that receive public funding.

She said that states should be able to decide whether schools receiving public funds must follow the requirements of the law; challenged by Hassan to clarify her views, DeVos said she «may have confused» the fact that IDEA is a federal civil rights law.

Referendum 55 gives voters a chance to either endorse or overturn a decision by the Legislature last spring to approve charter schools, which receive public funding but operate with a looser regulatory leash...

Tennessee PTA Board of Managers believes that all schools receiving public funds should be held accountable to the same standards and requirements.

A charter school is a public school that receives public funds.