Sentences with phrase «divert public money»

Currently, CAGW is a political meme that is being used to gain power and divert public money and tax privileges to political friends in the NGOs, universities, and the «green» energy and «sustainability» industries.

Voters don't want to divert public money to charter schools, while increasing high - stakes testing.

A recent article on Philly.com outlines a few of the ways charter schools use facilities funding to divert public money.

These advocates eschew fixes that divert public money to the private education sector, and oppose high - stakes testing in favor of multiple assessments to measure accountability and success.

We can not allow any voucher proposals that would divert public money to private interests.

But the Parent Trigger is not an attempt to improve struggling schools; it's an attempt to divert public money into private pockets.

Florida Gov. Rick Scott signed into law on June 15 a sweeping and controversial education bill that diverts public money to privately run charter schools.

Lawmakers responded by protecting the program despite the governor's opposition to the concept of diverting public money to private schools.

It was former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson who notoriously recounts returning from an ALEC convention with the idea of diverting public money to private schools in Milwaukee — the first state voucher scheme in the nation — which he misleadingly touts as his own.

Keeping the Public in Public Schools Diverting public money for private schools takes money away from our communities resulting in higher taxes for homeowners and businesses in the community.

There's the sketchy school voucher scheme that diverts public money to almost completely unaccountable private schools and religious academies that even some prominent Republicans say shouldn't receive taxpayer funds.

Diverting public money for private schools will take money away from our communities resulting in higher taxes for homeowners and businesses in the community.

Diverting public money for private schools will take money away from our communities resulting...

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The Public Protection and General Government Article 7 bill submitted with Cuomo's 2016 Executive Budget (as amended) identifies three exceptional situations in which the windfall money could be diverted from a newly created Infrastructure Investment Fund into the state's all - purpose general fund, most of which supports operating expenses.

He said he had intensified the war against corruption as those who diverted public funds had started returning the money, stressing that his war against corruption was not one - sided.

Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, a Democrat, said in a statement that charter operators are «diverting money, resources and space from our public schools.»

«The notion of diverting money away from public housing and toward a political slush fund is morally sickening,» Torres said.

But it rejected the «central allegation» against the MP, concluding that public money had not been «diverted» to his local party nor did Mr Hunt derive any financial benefit himself.

Cuomo for continuing to support charters, saying they divert money from the traditional public system; accused him of

But with NYCHA's buildings in disrepair, Stringer wants to divert the surplus money toward public housing to help repair leaky roofs, fix broken doors and clean up mold in NYCHA buildings.

George Osborne diverts money from Britain's poorest families to pay for public building projects and a fuel duty freeze

The Regents on Monday also heard a report from Dennis M. Walcott, the former New York City schools chancellor, whom the state appointed in August to lead monitors overseeing the East Ramapo school district in Rockland County, which has been accused of diverting money from its public schools to provide services for yeshiva students.

Australia does quite well given that it is the only country that has such a massive proportion of public monies diverted to elite private education.

Is the Milwaukee system, in Kahlenberg's terms, «a tool by the right wing to undercut public education,» one that diverts money to the wealthy?

«By diverting money away from public schools into private hands, it weakens our neighborhood public schools.»

Opponents hammered at the theme that vouchers would divert taxpayers» money from public schools, weaken public education, and leave tens of thousands of children behind.

«Vouchers in any form divert tax money to private schools or homeschoolers and take it from under - funded public schools, where the vast majority of school children will continue to be educated,» said Clay Robison, a spokesman for the Texas State Teachers Association.

The Florida Education Association and other plaintiffs, including the NAACP, allege the scholarships are unconstitutional because the program diverts money that would otherwise go to the state's accounts that fund public K - 12 education.

Public Advocates joined the American Civil Liberties Union in filing a complaint last year against the Los Angeles Unified School District, accusing the giant district of «undermining» the LCFF by diverting $ 450 million in money for disadvantaged students in 2014 to cover special - education costs for students with disabilities.

The plaintiffs» amended complaint contends the school choice programs, among other programs, unconstitutionally «divert» money from Florida's public schools.

In February 2009, the California Legislature adopted a plan that allows public schools to divert state money for gifted children to «any educational purpose.»

The state teachers union and others oppose them because they hire nonunion employees and divert money from traditional public schools.

Prince Edward County's actions following Brown in 1954 provided the blueprint for many Southern communities as they devised plans to divert and use public money to establish private schools that catered exclusively to white families.

«Why on Earth would we start new, experimental schools and divert money away from our existing public schools when we're not fully funding those?»

The refusal to fund public schools and simultaneous willingness to divert money to privately run charter schools has parallels to Connecticut.

Instead of diverting resources to private schools, the budget should ensure that public money goes to public schools.

Under EITC, millions of dollars have been raised for public (yes, it helps public schools, too) and private education without diverting money from the state's education coffers....

Now, the Washington Supreme Court ruled that charter schools not public schools at all and it is unconstitutional to divert any money intended for public schools to them.

Teachers unions across Washington opposed the initiative from day one, saying it diverts money from the traditional schools, the schools lack a consistently high success rate for students and the measure allows out - of - state operators to run schools within the public school system and without traditional oversight.

The group's issues range from the way the law would divert money from public schools to private nonprofit organizations, to a perceived violation of the requirement that the superintendent of public instruction should supervise everything related to public schools.

In spite of the fact that taxpayers continue to be in the dark about the effectiveness of a school voucher program that diverts money away from public schools, lawmakers have voted to expand it anyway over the next ten years.

Martin said the growth of publicly funded private charter schools and private school vouchers is also an important issue because those programs divert critical tax money away from public schools, thereby increasing the challenges public schools face in meeting the growing needs of their diverse student bodies.

Since major tax increases are out of the question in many towns, implementing the Common Core Smarter Balanced Testing scheme will come from diverting scarce public money from other instructional activities such as art, music, PE, social studies and academic subjects that are not part of the Common Core testing.

NSBA argues that by diverting tax money to private schools, the voucher program threatens the quality of public education programs, especially in North Carolina, where public schools have been underfunded for years.

Karin Cather, an Arizona parent, said diverting money from public schools winds up affecting students like her son, who receives special education services.

According to Hassan, «The voucher tax credit is bad public policy for public education in New Hampshire and our taxpayers, diverting millions of dollars in taxpayer money with no accountability or oversight to religious and private schools.»

Charters would divert money from public schools.

That growth has come despite critics who contend that vouchers divert money from public schools to private institutions that do not have the same student - testing or teacher - accountability rules and can freely mix education with religion.

No money is being diverted; charter schools are public schools.

They assert that ESAs drain public money and «divert essential resources from public school.»