Sentences with phrase «divert public tax»

As amicus curiae in many federal and state courts, NSBA continues to urge courts to refrain from joining a troubling wave of nationwide efforts to divert public tax dollars away from public schools to fund private entities.

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POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. >> Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro says Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposal for counties to put shared - services plans before voters is an attempt to divert the public's attention from state mandates being the root of local tax increases.

And Tuesday's interminable «expose» of state - level tax - credit scholarship programs certainly deepens one's impression that the writer (and, presumably, her editors) is in love with anything that smacks of «public dollars» or «public schools» and at war with anything that might be seen as diverting even a penny from state coffers into the hands of parents to educate their kids at schools of their choice.

«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.

Currently, 17 states have laws that generate private school vouchers through a tax - credit mechanism and that divert up to $ 1 billion annually from public coffers.

PRIORITY: NSBA opposes any legislation that diverts public funds from K - 12 education directly through voucher programs, or indirectly through tax credits or related schemes to fund private, religious or home school education.

«Those options do not divert federal dollars to non-public schools as vouchers and tuition tax credits do, and are effective in expanding opportunities for students and can help schools in their efforts to serve our nation's 50 million public school students.»

Voucher schools, which are primarily religious in nature, are yet another system of schools funded by public tax dollars diverted from public schools.

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.

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.»

Absent from the trip were teacher's groups and others in Florida who criticize the tax credit scholarship program for diverting needed funding from the public schools to send children to private, often religious, schools that don't have to meet state standards.

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The state teachers union, the Florida Education Association, is claiming that «the tax - credit scholarships divert state money away from a quality public education system the state is required, under the Florida Constitution, to provide.»

This voucher program diverts much needed tax dollars from our the state's constitutionally - guaranteed public schools and we feel that is a disservice to our more than one million students enrolled in our public schools.

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

«A recent bipartisan poll commissioned by TSTA showed that Texans overwhelmingly oppose diverting tax dollars to vouchers and instead favor tapping into the Rainy Day Fund to increase spending for under - funded neighborhood public schools.»

Expanding the program would divert even more tax dollars from public schools, continuing Wisconsin's recent and disturbing trend of underfunding public education.

Given his advocacy of efforts to divert tax dollars from traditional public schools to charters and virtual schools, some press in Utah have questioned whether Stephenson is a public servant or a lobbyist for outside interests.

Rep. Loranne Ausley, D - Tallahassee, said the bullying scholarship provision, which would divert more than $ 40 million in sales taxes, is another example of shifting public funding to charter and private schools.

The Florida public - school establishment is suing to repeal the Sunshine State's 13 - year - old school - choice tax credit and its new education savings accounts under the state's Blaine Amendment and its «uniformity clause,» which mandates that «Adequate provision shall be made by law for a uniform, efficient, safe, secure, and high quality system of free public schools...» The Florida Supreme Court previously struck down the state's voucher program under this provision in Bush v. Holmes (2006), on the grounds that the vouchers «divert [ed] public dollars» from «the sole means set out in the Constitution for the state to provide for the education of Florida's children.»

ESAs, tax credit scholarships, and other school vouchers divert scarce resources from public schools that serve all students to pay for private schools for a few.

These programs already divert $ 125 million business tax dollars out of the general fund and into private and religious schools, leaving less money to fund investments in public schools that educate 90 % of Pennsylvania's children.

School vouchers divert a portion of property taxes away from local public schools and send them to private schools and vendors in other parts of the state.

School vouchers are education tax dollars that are diverted from public schools to help subsidize the tuition of private and religious schools.

Proponents of vouchers, tuition tax credits, non-public charter schools and other methods propose to improve education by diverting public resources to support private ventures.

The former Wall Street analyst has promised to raise private money for public schools, divert more local tax money to education and lobby Trenton to provide more money for the city's charter schools by changing the funding equation.

NSBA opposes private school vouchers and tuition tax credits because they divert funding from public schools.

Instead, they divert our tax money into the UN's propaganda machine — money that could do a lot of good in many other places, rather than enriching a small clique of self - serving rent seekers at the public's expense.

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.