Sentences with phrase «amounts of public funds»

They fail to mention that Connecticut's Attorney General George Jepsen, a former state representative and state senator from Stamford, is fully aware of the problems with Connecticut's school funding formula and yet is spending massive amounts of public funds and staff time in an immoral and unethical fight against the interests of Connecticut's children and property taxpayers.

Thanks to their record spending on lobbyists and lobbying, Connecticut's charter school industry is sitting pretty thanks to the decision by Malloy and the Democrats to give the privately owned, but publicly funded charter schools record amounts of public funds.

Lucy Anderson from the National Policy Forum said Labour must seek to re-establish a form of local authority control over schools and Heather Wakefield from UNISON said that local government has been the biggest victim of the coalition's austerity binge and that, with privatisation, huge amounts of public funds were wasted when local government contracted out public services.

The system that's been rigged in the Malloy years allows — some of the solicited would say requires — those interests to contribute while candidates continue to collect enormous amounts of public funds for their ads and consultants.

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 final bill also requires that, by June 30, 2016, the Empire State Development Corp. (ESDC) submit a report «detailing: (a) the total amount of public funds committed by this program annually; (b) total amount of private funds committed annually and, if applicable, the amount of such funds that has been invested by such parties; (c) the location of each area receiving investments under this program and the goals for each such area; (d) planned future investments by both public and private parties; and (e) such other information as the corporation deems necessary.»

For primary elections, the GOP analysis assumes that a quarter of senators would participate in a primary, with one candidate per race receiving the maximum amount of public funds.

The Senate Republicans» assumption, that two candidates in every general election would receive the maximum amount of public funds, does not jibe with the experience of New York City, where a multiple matching funds system is already in place.

Nigerians need to know the level of success that has been recorded against Boko Haram, and the security situation in the North - east, as well as the amount of public funds that have been invested to combat terrorism.»

The partial public finance system touted by Cuomo and other Democrats provides a limited amount of public funding alongside unlimited private financing.

With the same amount of public funding, students in high - performing schools are learning Mandarin, playing instruments, coding and computing, thinking critically and preparing to meet the challenges of the 21st century.

Throughout the state there is a wide variation in the amount of public funds invested to educate our children.

The report builds on existing research to show that, due to this lack of oversight, an untold amount of public funding is being lost each year.

The very same Achievement First Inc. that has received permission from Pryor's state agency to dramatically expand the number of students it accepts, thereby increasing the amount of public funds it gets.

In addition to fundamental discussions about the amount of public funding going toward public education, the mechanisms by which funds are allocated to schools within districts and to non-district charter schools, as well as the compatibility of funding models with innovations in instructional models, arise as current topics of finance - related debate.

Since the required amounts of investment are much more than the funds currently available from public sources, it is necessary to attract funding from other sources by creating innovative financing approaches that make it possible for a limited amount of public funds to attract significant amounts of funding from private sources.

It is not just the significant amount of public funding, but also the proportion of funding from the social housing pot, which has been attributable to shared ownership (30 % at its high point in 2003/04).

The case law seems to suggest that, rather than deciding public access policies based solely on considerations of the public or private nature of their universities, the amount of public funding received, or their library's depository status, librarians can consider the individual characteristics of their own universities — the university's mission, their patrons» needs, their financial circumstances, and the place they see for their academic library in the larger community.

From this review of jurisprudence, it appears the courts have not found a public access right to academic libraries based on the status of the university or the amount of public funding it receives.

But with reports highlighting continued financial pressures at FF, the revelation highlights potential flaws in the law, as a significant amount of public funding has been appropriated for the project, Schwartz's chief of staff, Grant Hewitt, said.

Not exact matches

Over the past decade, public stock markets have outperformed the average venture capital fund and for 15 years, VC funds have failed to return to investors the significant amounts of cash invested, despite high - profile successes, including Google, Groupon and LinkedIn.

Mutual funds have poured large amounts of capital into what they perceive as the next peer group of public companies and one insider described it to me as simply «buying their IPO allocations now since they will need to own the stock once it's public.»

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

The company, whose low - cost smartphones have won a loyal following not just in China but in other emerging markets like India as well, said it would raise an unspecified amount from the public in order to fund the development of new smartphones and other devices like household gadgets.

It also manages a public market fund that operates as a kind of hedge fund and quietly closed last year with an undisclosed amount in capital commitments.

«Closed - End Fund» — A traditional closed - end fund is a publicly traded investment company that raises a fixed amount of capital, only one time, through an initial public offering (IFund» — A traditional closed - end fund is a publicly traded investment company that raises a fixed amount of capital, only one time, through an initial public offering (Ifund is a publicly traded investment company that raises a fixed amount of capital, only one time, through an initial public offering (IPO).

He concluded that, based on the current stated amount of underfunding at every big pension fund, if the Dow / SPX declined 10 % or more over a sustained period of time — where «sustained period» is defined as 3 - 4 month — every public pension fund in the country would collapse.

The cost of token - holder relations and maintaining an active community, the cost of needing now to execute on their projects in the public eye, and the cost of needing to «mature» as a business quickly to responsibly handle the large amount of funds raised.

While this addition was completely donor funded, as provincial money can't be used for capital projects at private schools, it's a strong reminder of the luxuries that Albertans help subsidize — and the amount of money that could be directed towards public education.

Depending on the opportunities for returns in the public markets, the amount of capital that flows into venture capital funds varies.

Financial support faced strong public resistance and it took a considerable amount of time before public funds were actually injected into financial institutions.

These platforms, on which entrepreneurs are allowed to raise funds from the general public, have repeatedly witnessed campaigns raising insanely large amounts of money.

Equity Markets: This chart shows which public teachers» pension funds own meaningful amounts of firearms stocks.

Crowdfunding is an emerging funding opportunity for SMEs to raise small amounts of capital from the general public using the internet and social media

Gender activism moves fast, is well - funded, and directs a significant amount of resources at public schools.

Guess they should be having late - term abortions, or performing infanticide if the change in circumstances happens after the baby is born — after all, we can't have those babies living off public funds for any amount of time, can we?

Between 2001 and 2009, only 51 percent of candidates running in New York City elections received the maximum amount of public matching funds.

Governor Cuomo also, for the first time, is requesting a budget line for public financing of campaigns, though he has not yet filled in the details of a dollar amount or funding source.

Additional Funding for Enforcement; Review of JCOPE to Ensure Performance The Budget also provides an additional $ 1.2 million for enforcement activities at the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, amounting to a 27 percent increase in the Commission's operating budget.

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.»

Not to discount the value of that $ 350,000 union slush fund spiff, which Bharara will figure out anyway, de Blasio's wholly undemanding relationship with the UFT amounts to a profound betrayal of his responsibility to the city's 1.1 million public - school children.

«Nigerians will recall that the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, in June made public through a press statement an account of recovered looted funds between May 2015 and May 2016 amounting to N78.3 bn, $ 185.1 m, # 3.5 m and $ 11,250 m in cash, while others were under interim forfeiture.

That amount included $ 15,000 for the Public Policy and Education Fund, the not - for - profit research and public education affiliate of Citizen Action of New York, which endorsed Public Policy and Education Fund, the not - for - profit research and public education affiliate of Citizen Action of New York, which endorsed public education affiliate of Citizen Action of New York, which endorsed Nixon.

If there is a voluntary return of stolen or concealed public funds or assets on the account of the information provided, the whistleblower may be entitled to anywhere between 2.5 % (Minimum) and 5.0 % (Maximum) of thetotal amount recovered.

Even if, as a group, they represent a generation that failed in its responsibility to be good guardians of public funds, there is an enormous amount of expertise being lost.

Last November the committee on standards in public life put forward a proposal to cap individual donations at # 10,000 and increase the amount of funding of political parties paid for by the state.

Independent charters are particularly desperate for facilities funding, while large charters — mostly sited in co-located public school space — are focusing on increasing the amount of public money each charter school student receives.

Under the rules, a candidate must first collect small donations from at least 2000 donors, for a total of $ 200,000 in order to qualify for public funds that would total six times the amount of money that he raised.

Parents worry about funding and standards for their public school students and remain least concerned about the amount of testing in classrooms, a survey released by High Achievement New York and Achieve found.

I wonder if these Texan brothers ever had the amount of power over PUBLIC funds that Rangel had when he was Chairman of the House's Ways and Means committee.