Sentences with phrase «divert operating dollars»

While a majority of New York charter schools are currently co-located with district schools in public facilities, many charters have to divert operating dollars to pay for private facilities.

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While leaving Connecticut's real public schools without sufficient funds, Malloy and Democratic legislators approved a deal to divert more than $ 100 million dollars this year to the companies that operate Connecticut's charter schools.

At the same time that Governor Dannel Malloy is instituting the deepest cuts in Connecticut history to Connecticut's public schools he is diverting more than $ 110 million dollars a year in taxpayer funds to Connecticut's privately owned and operated charter schools.

With billions of dollars in taxpayer funds being diverted from public schools to privately owned and operated charter schools, a motley collection of the nation's super-wealthy, including sports and music stars, are looking to cash in on the existing bi-partisan political support for the privatization of public education in the United States.

Funneling money through a variety of different organizations and front groups, the charter school advocates have been able «transform» public education in Connecticut by promoting Malloy's plans to divert hundreds of millions of dollars in scarce public funds to privately owned and operated charter schools.

Both school districts have been under state control for years, while public education dollars have been diverted to privately operated charter school chains like KIPP, Uncommon, & Mastery.