Sentences with phrase «most public dollars»

Most public dollars spent to benefit children go toward traditional education (such as public school).

David Bloomfield, a professor of education at CUNY's Graduate Center and Brooklyn College, also said Success» likely expansion could create more of a wedge between Success and the city's other charters, since the network will serve by far the most students and require the most public dollars, a sentiment echoed by some independent charter leaders.

Not exact matches

Apple (aapl) just announced record earnings for fiscal 2015, posting nearly one - quarter of a trillion dollars in revenue, and it remains the most valuable public company by far.

The Ballmers have yet to roll out a foundation or a public strategy for their giving, but they've been making some big gifts, most recently kicking in $ 50 million for a new funders collaborative that will channel at least a billion dollars to high - performing nonprofits that serve low - income youth.

With bitcoin having certain non-tech advantages over ETH, mainly it's time on the market and the public's familiarity, teams adamantly expressed their belief to place some, if not most of the speculative one million dollars into BTC, over the next five years.

Breyer was the managing partner at Accel Partners, which invested $ 12.7 million in Facebook in 2005 when the company was priced around $ 100 million; that bet proved to be among the most lucrative in the history of the venture business, returning many billions of dollars to Accel's investors after the company went public in 2012.

In a 2003 book, Private Stadium, Public Dollars, Rick Eckstein and Kevin Delaney spoke with some of the most influential people involved in bids to build new stadiums in various cities.

Perhaps the most interesting trend is that 55 % of public bettors are taking the over, yet 92 % of total dollars wagered are on the under.

As you can see, the Marlins have been one of the sharpest plays today while the Cubs have been one of the most public sides in terms of moneyline tickets and dollars.

As you can see, the Marlins have been one of the sharpest plays today while the Nationals have been one of the most public sides in terms of moneyline tickets and dollars.

While public betting at our offshore sportsbooks has been fairly even, William Hill has taken most of their action on the Jets with 71 % of tickets and 75 % of total dollars wagered taking New York.

Identified with our bet and dollar percentage data, here are the three plays that have attracted the most public action on Monday.

To me, one of the most significant planks in Obama's education platform isn't in his education platform at all - it's in his poverty platform: his pledge to replicate Geoffrey Canada's Harlem Children's Zone in 20 cities across the United States, as public / private partnerships, with the federal government's share of the bill coming to as much as a few billion dollars.

Most governments weigh the issue of building a convention center with public money as a «loss leader» for the net economic gain of additional tourism dollars, etc..

He is known as a committed advocate for public education, and co-founded the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, which won billions of dollars for city schools from the state, though most of that money has never materialized.

Russell, a minister and community leader with a wide range of business experience, has raised the most public matching funds, almost $ 43,000, thanks to a broad base of small - dollar donors.

That pact guaranteed hundreds of thousands of dollars in staff to now - indicted coup leader Sen. Pedro Espada Jr. (D - Bronx) and allowed lame - duck Senate leader Malcolm Smith (D - Queens) to keep most of his top aides on the public payroll.

«Unlike most state agencies, every single dollar spent by the Senate - including legislative mail - is specifically lined out in expenditure reports made available to the public and the media every six months,» said Reif in a statement.

New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was arrested Thursday on public corruption charges and accused of using his position as one of the most powerful men in Albany to obtain millions of dollars in bribes and kickbacks masked as legitimate income.

At a time when two Democratic lawmakers stand accused of bribery and public corruption, California's most powerful labor unions have kicked back more than a million dollars to the California Democratic Party.

This is a particularly interesting line of reasoning from Dadey, since most Republicans are not fans of the public financing idea to begin with, arguing that it's inappropriate to use taxpayer dollars to support political campaigns.

In one of Brooklyn's most rapidly changing districts, where brownstones sell for millions of dollars around the corner from deteriorating public housing complexes, Council Member Laurie Cumbo believes that arts and culture can be a unifying factor.

And while this story burned longer and hotter than most, it's now also not that hard to imagine Weiner — who has million of dollars in a New York City political account, finding his way back into public office.

The amount appears to be more than double the previous record for spending by any lobbying client during these months, a time of year when most political activity is directed toward elections and lobbying campaigns rarely top a few hundred thousand dollars, according to information maintained by the Joint Commission on Public Ethics.

The public wants to know what's going on with their tax dollars, even though most pay little attention.

One of the most polarizing issues in Governor Cuomo's budget is an education tax credit that would allow donors of up to one million dollars to public and private schools to receive a tax benefit.

«We've changed the way we work to ensure that we achieve more affordable housing for every public dollar spent, and that our housing reaches the New Yorkers who need it most,» Been said.

Recent studies by Sood and colleagues at USC Schaeffer Center, the USC Price School of Public Policy and the USC School of Pharmacy have found that most consumers on high - deductible plans are not comparing prices to find the best deals on services or on prescription drugs, even though the research indicates that some patients could potentially save hundreds or thousands of dollars per year.

But most research dollars — both public and private — don't go to studies focused on abstract concepts like anti-aging.

That's the million - dollar question, why would this family dealing with something so private choose to do so on one of the most public and important nights of Stan's political career.

Some people say the beach restoration work, which will largely be paid for with federal tax dollars, will mostly help to protect expensive homes for the wealthy — people who have free access to the beach — while most communities would still be charging fees for public access.

Most public school teachers participate in defined benefit (DB) pension plans, which because of different accounting rules contribute significantly less today for each dollar of future retirement benefits than private - sector DB pensions or defined contribution (DC) pension plans.

The American public education system, by most accounts, is broken, despite taxpayers throwing billions of dollars at it.

Most of the crucial decisions about how U.S. schools run and who teaches what to whom in which classrooms are still made in 14,000 semi-autonomous school districts, nearly all of them run by locally elected school boards, often with campaign dollars supplied by those with whom they negotiate collectively, and managed by professional superintendents, trained in colleges of education and socialized over the years into the prevailing culture of public education.

In fact, most of the time it's paid for with public dollars.

«Many people go there to see what they'd like in their own green schoolyard,» she says about this «Mercedes model,» but the Tule Elk outdoor redo cost a half - million dollars more than it did a decade ago, far beyond the means of most public schools today.

Since gaining prominence through the support of economist Milton Friedman decades ago, school vouchers, which subsidize student tuition at private and parochial schools with public dollars, are one of the most controversial ideas in education policy.

Critics have long complained that charters don't enroll the most difficult to educate students, and that they drain money from districts because public school dollars move with students to whatever school they attend.

The department controls less than 10 percent of the nation's public school dollars, and most school closures are locally decided, he said.

Most controversially, school choice also includes vouchers and tuition tax - credits, which allow families to use public dollars in order to send their children to private schools or provide tax credits to individuals or corporations that make donations to organizations that grant scholarships to students.

Most importantly, I would prefer to see states expend precious public dollars on answering these questions of performance measurement rather than on an elaborate licensing apparatus that typically measures only course content and internship hours.

The proposal redirects hundreds of millions of dollars from public schools — often, school districts that rely most heavily on federal aid, forcing them to cut vital services or raise local property taxes.»

In 2014, parents of students at Horace Mann Elementary School in Northwest Washington, D.C., spent over $ 470,000 of their own money to support the school's programs.1 With just under 290 students enrolled for the 2013 - 14 school year, this means that, in addition to public funding, Horace Mann spent about an extra $ 1,600 for each student.2 Those dollars — equivalent to 9 percent of the District of Columbia's average per - pupil spending3 — paid for new art and music teachers and classroom aides to allow for small group instruction.4 During the same school year, the parent - teacher association, or PTA, raised another $ 100,000 in parent donations and collected over $ 200,000 in membership dues, which it used for similar initiatives in future years.5 Not surprisingly, Horace Mann is one of the most affluent schools in the city, with only 6 percent of students coming from low - income families.6

For the most part, they do not have to share their budgets or financial practices with the public, in spite of receiving public dollars.

Long among the most powerful forces in American politics, the unions are contending with falling revenue and declining membership, damaging court cases, the defection of once - loyal Democratic allies — and a multimillion - dollar public relations campaign portraying them as greedy and selfish.

It's not like it is difficult to find startling hypocrisy in what passes for public policy debates these days, but the battle over public education seems especially rife with maddening examples, most of them around the notion of accountability, that teachers and schools should be held to high standards and measurable results for the public dollars they use.

In some of New Jersey's most troubled and disadvantaged communities, charter public schools are succeeding in closing the educational achievement gap with our state's more wealthy communities, despite receiving an average 70 percent of each education dollar compared to their traditional public school counterparts.

Most of NCLB is a scam designed to siphon public tax dollars and place them in the hands of testing companies and for - profit school operators.

Most parents with children in public schools do not support recent changes in education policy, from closing low - performing schools to shifting public dollars to charter schools to private school vouchers, according to a new poll to be released Monday by the American Federation of Teachers.

Further, why would Gates, one of the most generous contributors to public schools (his dollars have even reached Clark County) want to cripple the public education system that he is trying to help sustain with a «yes» vote, if charters did present a threat?