Sentences with phrase «denied public funds»

What makes matters even more startling is the fact that charter school students in private space are the only public school children in the state whose schools are denied public funds for facilities.

Despite being denied public funds and derided by some politicians for seeking «little green men», SETI still carries out searches with private money.

The board also denied public funds to City Comptroller John Liu's mayoral campaign, citing «evidence of substantial non-compliance» with the law.

Furthermore, several others listed describe instances where candidates attempted to violate the rules of New York City's public financing system, but were caught by the city's enforcement agency and fined or denied public funds.

Clearly, taking care in any form about the homeless incur costs and I find the only reasonable argument for denying public funds.

Bridgeport Mayor Joe Ganim talks about when he'll decide to run for governor after being denied public funding.

The lobby group Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada hailed the decision in a press release, but demanded that New Brunswick also repeal «a second restrictive regulation that denies public funding to private clinics providing medically required services.

In recent months, social conservatives have doubled down on various long - standing proposals to deny public funding to Planned Parenthood and other providers focused on reproductive health.

Not exact matches

The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC), ACORN Canada (ACORN) and National Pensioners Federation (NPF) today reacted negatively to the Canadian Radio - television and Telecommunications Commission's (CRTC) rejection of their review of the CRTC's previous decision to deny creating a fund to ensure all Canadians, including lower - income Canadians, have equal access to broadband and other telecommunications services.

«I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute — where no Catholic prelate would tell the President (should he be Catholic) how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishoners for whom to vote — where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference — and where no man is denied public office merely because his religion differs from the President who might appoint him or the people who might elect him.

Denying religious groups public funding is discriminatory, denies the right to freedom of religion, undermines freedom of speech and belief, and is typical of an ideology of homogenization and socialism so strongly exposed by the current administration and Democratic party.

While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

I agree with Darling insofar as he is as saying that the Tories and the Lib Dems are undertaking an ideological war on the public sector (did anyone listen to Edwina Currie's orgasmic squeal at the thought of denying funding to a hospital on any questions?).

Some apply the same reasoning to deny that public funds should go towards the homeless.

[From The WSJ] John Liu, a former New York City comptroller who ran unsuccessfully for mayor last year, accused the city Campaign Finance Board in a federal lawsuit of unlawfully denying his campaign millions of dollars in public matching funds.

The government says women in this situation represent a small minority of those denied recourse to public funds but insists it is working to help women.

Further, governors and legislators kept raiding the Clean Election Fund to help balance the budget — but denying the fund of money needed to safely cover public financing grants in future electiFund to help balance the budget — but denying the fund of money needed to safely cover public financing grants in future electifund of money needed to safely cover public financing grants in future elections.

Mr. Stringer has been using his office and public funds to screen out those not in favor of same - sex marriage, denying them employment in his office, violating the law and discriminating against people of faith who reject marriage between same - sex people.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork / AP)-- The New York City Campaign Finance Board on Monday denied public matching funds for Comptroller John Liu, dealing a severe financial blow to the Democrat's campaign to become New York City's first Asian - American mayor.

The amicus brief argues that the DOJ denying sanctuary cities the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant, a prominent federal funding source for local enfacement agencies, is against federal law, seizes local control in public safety policy and «poses serious challenges for local governments.»

The New York City Campaign Finance Board staff has recommended that Democratic mayoral candidate John Liu be denied public matching funds, his campaign said Thursday, dealing a potentially crippling blow to his bid for City Hall.

Michael Mulgrew, president of the UFT, said: «The pension and retirement funds of New York State educators, public employees and unionists should avoid investing in private equity funds, such as New Mountain Capital or other private equity funds, that maximize profits by denying the most fundamental rights of workers.

And it's very clear that the Koch Brothers, the largest privately held fossil fuel interest and major funders of the public relations campaign to deny and attack the science of climate change — they have a level of influence now within the Trump Administration unlike anything we've ever seen before.»

The Trinity case was filed by a Missouri church that had been denied a state grant to help pay for playground resurfacing, because state policy prevented any public funds from being given to religious organizations.

Few would seek to deny American public school students access to the courts when inadequate school funding threatens their chances for achieving academic, and ultimately economic, success.

By using the threat of effectively denying the children of military personnel access to public education, the bill seeks to force the federal government either to increase its impact - aid payments to districts or to establish separate schools, with full federal funding, on the bases.

Some 11 years after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Texas's system of financing public schools, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund has launched a new challenge in state court, charging that the finance system denies students in poor districts equal educational opportunity and should be declared unconstitutional.

If the De Blasio administration takes away funding for construction along with access to vacant space in public school buildings, the cold hard reality is that tens of thousands of New York City students will be denied a chance for a better education.»

Leaders in both camps have been debating charter funding in North Carolina for years, particularly since a 2010 amendment by Democrats in the legislature denied charters access to certain funding sources, such as sales tax revenues, gifts and grants traditionally bound for public school coffers.

Baton Rouge, LA (Sept. 30, 2014)-- The Louisiana Federation for Children (LFC), the state's voice for educational choice, condemned a lawsuit filed by the Louisiana Association of Educators that seeks to block funding for certain public charter schools and has the potential of denying parents» their right to access needed educational options.

The NHEA serves as a means to fund revitalization of Hawaiian as a means to restore both the linguistic integrity and educational excellence that were lost to Native Hawaiians during the long territorial period when federal government policy denied the right of Native Hawaiians to a public education through the medium of Hawaiian.

Additionally, all schools outside of New York City are denied access to state facilities funding and are therefore forced to pay rent or mortgage, and spend scarce dollars on building maintenance — something other public schools do not have to do.

But the department denied a request from Trinity Lutheran Church, a licensed preschool and daycare, for these funds, citing a Missouri state constitutional provision that prohibits distributing public funds to religious organizations.

Like CAP, Weingarten drew parallels between the history of private school vouchers and efforts today by the President and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to deny public schools adequate funding while expanding access to vouchers.

The letter concluded that because the school choice program is publicly funded, it must meet standards under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, which states that «no qualified individual with a disability shall, by reason of such disability, be excluded from participation in or be denied the benefits of the services... of a public entity.»

The federal fiscal 2018 omnibus spending bill contains a new $ 350 million fund that will help borrowers who have been denied Public Service Loan Forgiveness get a second chance at having the balance of their federal student loans forgiven this year.

The TN Arts Commission reserves the right to deny or withhold, in whole or in part, public funds for projects, programs, or other activities deemed inappropriate by the Commission.

These scientists (and, for that matter, anyone with a public profile who has anything critical to say about global warming) are whores — «industry shills», «corporate toadies», or part of the «well funded denial machine» — who not only prostitute themselves, but also sell us all out to an apocalypse for dirty, dirty dollars... Those who «deny» climate change are in fact, denying a «holocaust ``.

The Friends of Science were at the time running a public campaigning against climate action while denying that their funding was coming from the oil and gas industry.

Some recent history: in 2011, the environmental advocacy groups Friends of the Earth and Public Citizen partnered with climate deniers at the Heartland Institute (which received funding from the Koch Brothers) under the watchful eye of the Taxpayers for Common Sense to produce the non-partisan Green Scissors report.

In addition to a Trump administration filled with climate deniers, and that wants to gut the EPA and cut NASA climate research funding, the schemes by many GOP lawmakers to transfer control of public lands — which includes national parks, national forests, wilderness areas and wildlife preserves — presents a unique, yet ultimately avoidable problem.

Powerful funders are supporting the campaign to deny scientific findings about global warming and raise public doubts about the roots and remedies of this massive global threat.

There is a denial industry funded by the fossil fuel companies that literally denies the science, and seeks to confuse the public.

Rinehart is a major funder of the Institute of Public Affairs, the primary conduit of denier talking points in Australia.

According to the advance notices, James Lawrence Powell's latest book is another blend of the rhetoric of politics and journalism (attacks in news media, duped public), the rhetoric of religion (skepticism (read: heresy), deniers, inquisition), and the rhetoric of Marxism (movement (read: conspiracy, group think), industry funding).

His «denier funding» reports in particular are tedious to look through, and despite all the work he puts into them, they only paint a foggy guilt - by - association picture of skeptic funding and never provide evidence than any amount, large or small, was accompanied by an industry directive to misinform the public and / or fabricate false science reports.

He is the person who got into bed with Mr. Littlemore's boss at a PR [public relations] company, a Mr. James Haugen (LOVELY IMAGERY HERE, VISCOUNT; JOHN AND JIM WENT TO HIGH SCHOOL TOGETHER), and they took up the DeSmog Blog, whose job of course is not to debate the science of climate, but to inaccurately misrepresent the alleged or supposed or imagined funding of anyone who dares to challenge the supposed consensus on the climate (INACCURATELY MISREPRESENT THE ALLEGED OR SUPPOSED OR IMAGINED FUNDING??? YET MONCKTON DOES N'T DENY HIS OWN CONNECTION TO A SPPINSTITUTE CREATED BY EXXONfunding of anyone who dares to challenge the supposed consensus on the climate (INACCURATELY MISREPRESENT THE ALLEGED OR SUPPOSED OR IMAGINED FUNDING??? YET MONCKTON DOES N'T DENY HIS OWN CONNECTION TO A SPPINSTITUTE CREATED BY EXXONFUNDING??? YET MONCKTON DOES N'T DENY HIS OWN CONNECTION TO A SPPINSTITUTE CREATED BY EXXON MOBIL.

pushed through an amendment denying federal funding to any Maryland OSW installations less than 24 nautical miles from shore, effectively killing one of two projects already approved by the Maryland Public Service Commission (Siegel 2017).

An organised and well - funded network of climate change deniers has distorted the public debate.

As it sought to make net metering more expensive for small - scale solar producers, APS lied to the public, denying its funding of anti-solar TV advertisements run by Koch brothers front groups.