Sentences with phrase «after public dollars»

But the lion's share of the gap left over after public dollars are exhausted is closed by private philanthropic funding or from an alternative revenue source.

Not exact matches

Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin reflected on the way he and his wife became viral sensations after recently posing with photos of new dollar bills, acknowledging that he did not know the photographs would go public.

The world's squillion dollar public relations juggernaut is resting easier this week after squashing the ill - placed notion: «We don't need public relations when we've got marketing».

Historically, the number of IPOs, M&A deals and investor dollars typically saw an uptick two years after major tech companies, such as Yahoo, Google and Facebook, went public.

After raising dozens of millions of dollars in venture capital from the likes of Benchmark Capital, Greylock Partners, Globespan Capital Partners, Meritech Capital Partners and Pinnacle Ventures, the company went public in April 2011 and was valued at over $ 1 billion at its debut.

Another early Facebook investor and board member Peter Thiel sold his shares valued at more than a billion dollars when the company went public and after the mandatory lock - up after the IPO in May 2012.

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.

After loosing his senate position Rick Santorum earned millions of dollars including payments from a lobbying firm, an energy company engaged in controversial practice which pollutes ground water and endangers the public and a hospital conglomerate that was sued for allegedly defrauding the federal government.

So the fans went after the politicians who agreed about spending public tax dollars for stadium, and BOOM results.

But if my public accounting firm offered me a job after my freshman year for like a routine salary i wouldve though about it and potentially left... let alone millions of dollars

The region has been through this before: after the 9/11 attacks, with public sentiment and President George W. Bush on his side, Gov. George Pataki asked for $ 54 billion in recovery dollars.

Such measures include: broad expansions of executive authority to redirect or reduce funding after the enactment of the Budget and the shifting of billions of dollars in spending outside the Budget; the appropriation of significant amounts with little detail as to specific purposes or recipients; and reduction of the independent oversight of public resources.»

The town's Democratic committee is looking for a successor to Gerard Terry, who resigned last week as party chairman after Newsday reported he had collected $ 1.4 million in federal and state tax debts while receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars in public work.

«After we spend billions of public dollars bailing them out and allowing them to go back to business as usual with exorbitant bonuses, we now begin to turn the public employees into public enemies,» DiGerolamo said.

Earlier, speaker of the House of Representatives, Bronwyn Bishop, was forced to resign in 2015 after it was revealed that she had used 5,200 dollars in public funds to charter a helicopter to fly to a political fundraiser.

Longtime Democratic operative Gerard Terry has stepped down as the attorney for the Roosevelt Public Library Board after Newsday reported that he collected nearly $ 1.4 million in federal and state tax debts while making hundreds of thousands of dollars in government jobs.

For the three citywide positions of Mayor, Public Advocate, and Comptroller, New York City's charter instead provides for a runoff to be held two weeks after a primary, burdening local election administrators and costing millions of dollars.

Cuomo's bill would allow donors to private school scholarship funds and public after school programs to give up to one million dollars, and in exchange receive a credit of $ 750,000 on their taxes.

Sanders» plan would have eliminated tuition at public universities and colleges, while Cuomo's «last - dollar» approach pays the tuition after awards from the state and federal sources of aid are applied.

The Hawkins - Jones ticket was nominated in Troy NY the day after former local State Senator and Majority Leader Joe Bruno won his federal retrial on public corruption charges despite clear evidence that he receive tens of thousands of dollars monthly for no - show jobs.

Candidates for the General Assembly will get their hands on nearly 12 million taxpayer dollars to reach voters in 2016, as planned, after public financing advocates fought back a threat at the state Capitol.

The state's program for the comptroller race is modeled after New York City's public program under which each dollar from a city resident gives up to $ 175 can be matched by $ 6 in public funds.

After holding it for four months, the state Senate has just sent Governor Andrew Cuomo a bill that would add hundreds of millions of dollars * to state and local pension costs by allowing public employees to claim pension service credit for time spent in peacetime military duty.

The practice of using taxpayer dollars to settle sexual harassment claims lodged against public officials was upheld in 2008 after a taxpayer filed suit in State Supreme Court to challenge a $ 500,000 settlement paid to woman who accused Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's then - counsel, Michael Boxley, of rape.

«Every dollar Dean Skelos receives each year after violating the public's trust is a dollar out of some hardworking New Yorker's pocket,» said Brandon Muir, of the activist group Reclaim New York.

More than 700,000 students in more than 1,200 New York City schools — including large high schools in all five boroughs — would face higher class sizes, have fewer teachers and lose after - school academic and enrichment programs if President - elect Trump makes good on a campaign promise to pull billions of federal dollars away from public schools to pay for private vouchers, a UFT analysis has found.

Cuomo not only avoided the multimillion - dollar waves of TV ads by public employee unions and hospitals that sunk the last three governors, but he had special interests running ads praising him, after he promised concessions including a «living wage» guarantee for health care union workers and a cap on medical malpractice awards.

Topics in the Q&A included the source of money for the City's planned pre-K advertising campaign, the City's target number of pre-K applicants, whether Speaker Silver thinks the proposed income tax surcharge should be pursued next year, how the pre-K selection process will work, how the City will cover the approximately $ 40 million annual gap between the estimated cost of pre-K and the amount provided in the state budget, when parents will learn whether their pre-K application has been accepted, how the City will collect data and measure success of the pre-K program, whether the existing pre-K application process will be changed, how the City will use money from the anticipated school bond issue, the mayor's reaction to a 2nd Circuit ruling that City may bar religious groups from renting after - hours space in public schools, the status on a proposed restaurant in Union Square, a tax break included in the state budget that provides millions of dollars to a Bronx condominium project, the «shop & frisk» meeting today between the Rev. Al Sharpton and Police Commissioner Bratton and a pending HPD case against a Brooklyn landlord.

The proposed dollar amounts were made public Tuesday after the meeting's scheduled start time.

Not after billions of dollars in public and private investments dried up.

But after two decades, millions of dollars of public and private funding, and the best efforts of cancer researchers, himself included, Duesberg says that no combination of genes has ever produced cancer in tissue cultures.

After Tim Burton's «Alice In Wonderland» made more than a billion at the worldwide box - office in 2010, all the movie studios — as they are wont to do for lack of a better idea — decided «hey, a billion dollars is cool, all these fairy tales are in public domain, so we need one of those stat!»

After all, a common test does make life easier for parents «shopping» for schools across the public, private, and charter sectors and for taxpayers seeking evidence of return on investment from their education dollars.

After all, public schools spend public dollars and hire public employees to serve the public's children.

After hearing that institutions like Notre Dame University and Chicago Public Schools have adopted Google Apps I think they are starting to catch on, especially considering the latter is estimated to save 6 million dollars by moving to Google Apps.

How can it be that we pile dollars upon dollars and launch reform after reform yet have so little impact on student learning in our public schools?

After this defeat, she shifted her focus to diverting taxpayer dollars from neighborhood public schools to for - profit charter schools.

After all, if education dollars follow the student, rather than going directly into the public school, then a portion of the money available to educate a departing student will indeed leave the public school.

Some of this revenue comes from fee - for - service after - school programs.34 * Meanwhile, in the district's highest - poverty schools — mostly located in Southeast Washington — schools had to pay for some of these same programs with public dollars, leaving less funding for other resources, staffing, or education or enrichment activities.

Even after 2006, charter schools in California continue to operate year in and year out without regulator - level audits that are designed specifically to determine whether the public dollars funding these privately managed schools are being spent properly.

Every dollar that you give helps strengthen Wake County Public Schools by supporting and empowering teachers, giving them the resources they need to set students up for success after graduation.

Finch, who as mayor of Bridgeport undermined Bridgeport's public schools, supported and defended education reformer extraordinaire Paul Vallas, handed tens of millions of dollars in public funds to the charter school industry and used his power for personal gain, has landed nicely on his feet, after getting thrown out of office by Bridgeport voters.

New polling from OnMessage Inc., a highly respected national polling firm, conducted after the November elections, shows 78 percent of Mississippians support giving «parents the right to use the tax dollars associated with their child's education to send their child to the public or private school that best serves their needs.»

Yet after two visits by the education department and an investigation by the attorney general's office, the troubled Indianapolis private school still received thousands of dollars in public funds through Indiana's school voucher program and remained eligible to receive state voucher money until it collapsed under the weight of its unpaid debts.

«But when teachers consistently perform at the top or the bottom, year after year, that is surely important... these are public schools and public tax dollars.»

Former D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson violated the city's ethics rules when she solicited a donation from a major food service contractor shortly after a whistleblower lawsuit accused the company of swindling millions of dollars from the school system, according to a ruling from the D.C.'s Board of Ethics and Government Accountability.

Seattle Public Schools superintendent José Banda announced this week district leaders «intend to fully restore» dollars they had planned to cut from school budgets after an infusion of new state cash.

Meanwhile, despite the fact that many «reformers»» policies have spectacularly failed, prompted massive scandals and / or offered no actual proof of success, an elite media that typically amplifies — rather than challenges — power and money loyally casts «reformers»» systematic pillaging of public education as laudable courage (the most recent example of this is Time magazine's cover cheering on wildly unpopular Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel after he cited budget austerity to justify the largest mass school closing in American history — all while he is also proposing to spend $ 100 million of taxpayer dollars on a new private sports stadium).

After noting the total contributions from those interests, she framed the piece this way: «Some observers say the big dollars foreshadow the next chapter of a fierce fight in Tallahassee: the privatization of public education.»

I hate to say «I told you so,» but after the Chicago Teachers Union strike against Chicago Public Schools last fall I wrote: A district that expects to drain its reserve funds and is looking at a billion - dollar budget hole the year after this can not afford...