Sentences with phrase «direct public funding»

We work with lawmakers and administrators to direct public funding toward early childhood programs that are proven to be effective.

These programs have been created in states where public and policymaker sentiment against direct public funding for vouchers has blocked their use.

Fourth, the combination of tuition caps and direct public funding could actually lead to rationing.

According to ACE Electoral Knowledge Network, out of a sample of over 180 nations, 25 % of nations provide no direct or indirect public funding; 58 % provide direct public funding, and 60 % of nations provide indirect public funding.

In e-mails to city officials, Christopher Hansen, 44, a Seattle native who made his fortune in finance, Hansen discussed how he was involved in plans to broker deals for an arena that didn't involve tax increases or «direct public funding.»

Others say parents should be able to direct some public funds to any school their child attends, whether public, private, or religious.

At the helm as chairperson of the American Federation for Children (AFC), the largest school privatization organization in the country, she led a successful push at the state level, including Wisconsin, to direct public funds to unaccountable, private schools.

Understandably so, since this is a clear sign that Mr. Trump intends a major national push to direct public funds to private and charter schools.

Alternatively, parents are given a School Voucher that they can then use to direct public funds to a selected private or parochial school.

Such tax - credit programs effectively direct public funds to private - school tuition, just like traditional vouchers.

Not exact matches

We are okay with public funds being used to help business, so long as the money is directed to the little guy.

The emergency declaration would also free up public health emergency funds at the Department of Health and Human Services, and grant individual states more flexibility in how they use federal dollars, and allow them to direct more funds toward addiction treatment and prevention.

There were angels investors, donor - advised funds, hyper - specialized venture capital funds, crowdfunding circles, community lenders, and community direct public offerers.

As the private deals get too big for VCs to underwrite on their own, some public money is making its way into them, through direct investments from mutual funds like Fidelity, Janus, and T. Rowe Price, and indirectly via pension - backed hedge funds and private equity.

Effective immediately, I am directing City Departments under my authority to bar any publicly - funded City employee travel to the State of Indiana that is not absolutely essential to public health and safety.

Or consider a Rule 506 of Regulation D private offering, a direct public offering or even a Regulation A funding path, depending on the company's stage of growth.

CCA directed me to a 2013 report — funded in part by the company and GEO — that claimed private prisons could save states as much as 59 percent over public prisons without sacrificing quality.

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.

Total federal government expenses consist of four major components: major transfers to persons (old age security, employment insurance benefits and children's benefits); major transfers to other levels of government (Canada Health Transfer, Canada Social Transfer, Fiscal arrangements, Alternative payments for standing programs, and Gas Tax Fund), direct program expenses (other transfers, Crown corporation expenses, and departmental and agency operating and capital expenses) and public debt charges.

Horgan committed to making things better for survivors of sexual violence and for those fleeing abusive homes by making sure crime prevention dollars go to deliver much - needed services that keep more women safe, improving public policy, directing more funding to provincial and community based programs that directly serve women and children, and increasing funding to violence prevention and intervention programs by $ 8 million a year.

State Farm, in comments by Phil Supple, its director of public relations, said that as of next April, State Farm will sell and / or service mutual funds, variable products and tax - qualified bank deposit products through a self - directed customer call center.

And there were widespread fears that Catholics would balance this out by voting for politicians, mostly Democrats, who would direct tax funds to public or private schools dominated by Catholics.

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

What if, for instance, the massive funding for cancer research in the post-World War II period had been directed toward public health and preventive medicine, including nutrition research, rather than toward «cures»?

A third example of public / private cooperation is one in which local government contributes block - grant funds or technical assistance to a project directed by church groups.

After 1996 scholars and policy analysts were quick to note that African - American congregations, many of which already were providing direct social services, would be most likely to benefit from these changes and most likely to apply for public funds.

One example of the threats to religious liberty that have arisen in Congress is the current bill proposing a «voucher» system directing education funds to either public or private (including religious) schools.

The simplest approach to funding - direct funding by your municipality, a government agency, or by the state (e.g., state department of public health, school department budget), or through a government grant - may be all that is needed, particularly if you are seeking to start a Community Access Defibrillation Program (CAD) serving your entire community, or a significant segment, such as the public schools.

The May 1, 2011 - April 30, 2015 agreements with police dispatchers, telecommunications operators, and public works and building maintenance employees and upper police management: • * increase required employee contributions to participate in conventional preferred provider organization health plans, • * provide financial incentives to employees to switch to consumer - directed plans or managed - care plans, • * provide village funding of 40 percent of the deductible for high deductible health plans with health savings accounts and • * require employee participation in annual wellness and health risk assessment screenings in order to qualify for best rates.

This is why it is a great option for a stand - alone school, such as a direct - funded California charter school, or a private school, but not necessarily for an individual public school.

While the size of an organization is not necessarily the prime measure for success on the Internet, a robust and strategic use of funds and other resources to sell a nonprofit's message to legislators, business leaders, potential donors and the general public, using all the online tools at one's disposal — even in conjunction with other communications media, like direct mail — is mandatory.

To ensure that taxpayers and the vulnerable populations served by these agencies receive the maximum value for the funds paid, Governor Cuomo is proposing the following reforms beginning in 2012 - 13: • At least 85 percent of every public dollar will be spent on direct services, not administration.

Since college only benefits the student, taxpayers should not be burdened with funding a service that has no direct benefit for the public.

UJA - Federation of New York lauds Governor Cuomo for directing state entities to divest all public funds supporting BDS.

«UJA - Federation of New York applauds Governor Cuomo for being the first governor in the nation to issue an executive order directing state entities to divest all public funds supporting the Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel,» said UJA Federation of New York CEO Eric S. Goldstein in a statement.

Adopt system of public financing of campaigns, with new lower limits on direct contributions to statewide and state legislative candidates; Establish the «New York State Campaign Finance Fund», with transfers from the Abandoned Property Fund and taxpayer designations of PIT liability; and limiting contributions to «housekeeping accounts» to $ 25,000.

An order directing the Government of Ghana to cancel all preparations for the celebration of the overthrow of the legally constituted Government of Ghana on 31st December, 1981 aforesaid and to refrain from carrying out any such celebration financed from public funds.

This is critical when it comes to schools education since, alongside the NHS, they are one of the key elements of a nationally funded system of public services, paid for by direct taxation.

In addition to the state - provided funds, the legislation would also direct the county Department of Public Works to apply for federal matching grant funding through the Job Access Reverse Commute program, with the goal of receiving more than $ 2 million to cover the cost of the expansion.

«For the sake of emphasis let me state clearly that both the Crude Term Contract and the Direct Sale and Direct Purchase agreements are not contracts for any procurement of goods, works or services, and therefore do not involve the use of public funds.

«Take both the Crude Term Contract and the Direct Sale, Direct Purchase (DSDP) agreements for instance, these are not procurement contracts involving the expenditure of public funds.

Wills was found guilty in July of directing thousands of dollars in public matching funds and grant money to a shell company that was meant to distribute campaign literature.

by Michael Meacher that argues for a capital gains tax on the super-rich and directing funds from quantitative easing (QE) into public - private partnerships.

Rather than using unfounded and untruthful scare tactics to lie to the public, they should support the Governor's fight to direct more funding to students instead of administrative costs.»

He said, «President Muhammadu Buhari has directed all relevant agencies to compile documents on names of all looters with a view to promptly enforcing the judgment of a Federal High Court in Lagos ordering the government to release to Nigerians information about the names of high ranking public officials from whom public funds were recovered.»

The freeze on charters» per - pupil funding won't officially end for another year, but these innovative public schools will get direct state grants to reduce the gap this year — and also get markedly more facilities funding.

The CWU - previously led by Alan Johnson, so hardly a hotbed of Hard Leftism - should stop wasting its money on New Labour and start funding individual candidates, regardless of party (if any), who do in fact support public services, strong unions, rural communities, national sovereignty (both as against the EU and as against the foreign acquisition of a key national asset), and the monarchy's direct link to every address in the count.

As part of a worldwide campaign, 350NYC wants the City of New York to immediately freeze any new investment in fossil fuel companies, and divest from direct ownership of any commingled funds that include fossil fuel public equities and corporate bonds within five years.

«Today, I direct all agencies, departments, boards and commissions to immediately review all requests for state - funded or state - sponsored travel to the State of Indiana and to bar any such publicly funded travel that is not essential to the enforcement of state law or public health and safety,» Cuomo said in a release.

They are more akin to benefits, and indeed there is a direct link between how public sector pensions and benefits are uprated with inflation, that people become entitled to by working in the public sector than the sort of claim someone has on a private sector pension fund.