Sentences with phrase «allow public tax dollars»

HB 382 / HJR 34 — SB 1030 / SJR 42 will allow public tax dollars to be used as the Legislature intended — for the public education of the students of Texas.
Pelahatchie mother Martha Beard is convinced the state law allowing public tax dollars to pay for private - school instruction may be saving her daughter Lana.

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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.
Common sense reforms to ensure a competitive bidding process, allow the Comptroller to review contracts, and create a database of deals will ensure that the public's tax dollars are being spent appropriately.
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.
The New York state legislature is due to adjourn later this week, but there's still no agreement by Assembly Democrats on an education tax credit sought by Gov. Andrew Cuomo that would allow donors a tax credit when they give up to a million dollars for private school scholarships and some public school programs.
When first explaining that a «school voucher system allows parents the option of sending their child to the school of their choice, whether that school is public or private, including both religious and non-religious schools» using «tax dollars currently allocated to a school district,» support increased to 63 percent and opposition increased to 33 percent.
The logic ran that a tax - funded voucher should allow parents to remove their children from public schools and put their tax dollars toward a private education.
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.
«As you may know, school choice allows parents to use their child's K through twelve education tax dollars to send their child to the public, charter, or private school that best serves their needs.
In another example of how the wealthy use the tax code to their benefit while public schools suffer, some states are funneling public dollars to private schools and allowing businesses and upper - income taxpayers to turn a profit in the process, according to a report released by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP).
Special Needs ESA: This program, created in 2015, allows parents of students with an Individualized Education Plan to use tax dollars on a variety of education expenses outside of public education, including private school tuition and fees, textbooks, therapy, etc..
Education choice allows tax dollars to follow students to the schools or services that best meet their needs, and parents have the ability to choose an education that they determine is right for their child, whether at a traditional public school, charter school, or private school.
Critics say this lopsided exposure fueled Ms. DeVos's staunch support of privately run, publicly funded charter schools and voucher programs that allow families to take tax dollars from the public education system to private schools.
Sunshine laws and public meetings allow citizens to have a say in how their children are educated and how their tax dollars are spent.
It's called the Opportunity Scholarship Tax Credit Program (OSTCP)-- a ridiculous bit of legislation that allows children in struggling public schools to use public tax dollars to pay for tuition at a private or parochial schoTax Credit Program (OSTCP)-- a ridiculous bit of legislation that allows children in struggling public schools to use public tax dollars to pay for tuition at a private or parochial schotax dollars to pay for tuition at a private or parochial school.
Its mission is to focus public tax dollars on the K - 12 education of public school students by opposing legislation in the Indiana General Assembly that would fund private school vouchers, expand private school tax credits, privatize charter schools by allowing private colleges and agencies to be authorizers, put for - profit managers in place to take a profit from operating public schools and privatize public schools through any other means.»
I also strongly object to the federal government's continued willingness to provide private businesses access to scarce tax - dollars to fund charter schools that are then allowed to flaunt the rules and regulations that traditional public schools are required to follow.
Generally speaking, town tuitioning allows students who live in towns that don't have district public schools to receive their per - pupil education tax dollars to pay tuition at a neighboring town's public school or a private school of their choice — sometimes even across state lines for families who live close to state borders.
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