Sentences with phrase «dollar funded schools»
Preach your religious nonsense in church all you want, but keep it out of my tax dollar funded schools.
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Have a candidate that can say and deliver me something to where NON of my tax dollars will be used fund any schools private or public on the teachings of this god magic, and they got my vote!
Parochial schools are supported by church funds in addition to tuition, not tax dollars, providing in many areas a reasonable alternative for working class and middle class parishioners and removing these millions of students from the public education system paid for by taxpayers.
George Peabody College was a normal school in Nashville that would very likely come into a million dollars with the dissolution of the Peabody Trust, and Kirkland was working energetically to persuade its trustees to move their college across Nashville next to Vanderbilt, thereby making a well - funded school of education available to the university at no cost to itself.
Why can't we all just mind our own business when it comes to peoples bedrooms and wedding albums, neither side get's to preach in schools, though I understand how you would think of it as the atheist getting his way by just not having you preach your God to his children in a publicly funded school, but he's not sending an atheist spokesman to influence your children, he just doesn't feel it's right to allow the religious spokesman into the schools to influence any children on his tax dollar.
With the dollars which we waste for our egoism we could fund schools for poor children or hospitals for the poor or we could fund mission here and abroad.
We felt it was important enough for the kids» health and ability to focus that they not be hyped up on sugar and caffeine all day long, but it did come at a financial cost, and we did not have the cushion of community dollars to fall back on; some schools lost extra curricular funding because of it and have yet to fully recover.
Rosenbaum also hides the ball from readers when he compares the cost of funding healthier school food (an additional $ 1.22 billion over pre-HHFKA reimbursements, according to the USDA) to the skyrocketing costs of obesity ($ 200 billion dollars per year).
Local businesses create jobs and help fund your town's essential services such as public schools, police and fire departments through their tax dollars.
Often, the cost of the snacks is less than the USDA reimbursement, and Dairy Dollars for Schools even provides funds to help you implement the program.
Such regional goals for school food, hospitals, military bases, and other publicly funded food programs in each area would create more than enough aggregate dollars to make a notable difference in the food chain.
«Which of course is a problem, because every dollar that has to be supported by the general fund is a dollar out of the classroom,» said Ed Wilkins, the school nutrition director for the San Francisco Public Schools.
We should be funding school food as if it's a priority, not as if it need to be in competition with education dollars.
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Now, of course, the food stamp program may lose significant funding if Congress continues to look to SNAP dollars to fund the stalled child nutrition bill (the CNA), which covers school food, as well as WIC and other federal food programs.
Between August 1, 2013, and July 31, 2014, the dollars raised for the School Nutrition Foundation's Annual Fund tripled the sum raised in the prior twelve months; with over $ 22,000 raised, the School Nutrition Association has decided to extend the... Continue reading →
In the meantime, while the pending child nutrition legislation in Congress seeks to raise federal reimbursement for school meals by a mere six cents — rather than the one dollar advocated by reformers like Chef Ann — we need to exploit every opportunity to bring more funds to schools.
Between August 1, 2013, and July 31, 2014, the dollars raised for the School Nutrition Foundation's Annual Fund tripled the sum raised in the prior twelve months; with over $ 22,000 raised, the School Nutrition Association has decided to extend the 2014 Annual Fund drive through the end of this year — December 31, 2014.
«In the short term, I call on the State Department of Education, local school districts and the union leadership to expedite their negotiations on a teacher evaluation system to prevent the loss of hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding.
«I am voting for this resolution because of the more than half a billion dollars in new funding it asks our state to deliver to non-charter New York City publics schools,» Avella said at the time.
«We're not surprised that the Senate Democrats, who nearly bankrupted this state, would want to force New Yorkers to spend $ 200 million in taxpayer money to fund political campaigns rather than investing those dollars in our schools or providing incentives to help businesses create jobs,» said the spokesman, Scott Reif.
«SUNY schools are funded with New York tax dollars and are primarily attended by state residents,» Sen. Joe Griffo said.
The pro-school funding group Alliance for Quality Education, in a statement, accused Cuomo of «perpetuating educational racism and economic inequality» for not including billions of additional dollars to comply with a decade - and - a-half-old court order to fully fund schools in poorer school districts.
Governor Cuomo released a state budget plan that closes a $ 2 billion dollar gap, recommends a phased in state takeover of county health care costs, and offers an ultimatum to schools to accept a teacher evaluation program or lose access to increased school funding.
He said schools have an billion and a half dollars in reserve funds and leftover monies from the federal stimulus program, which ended last year, enough to cover the reductions.
Governor Cuomo released a state budget plan that closes a $ 2 billion dollar gap, recommends a phased in state takeover of county health care costs, and offers an ultimatum to schools to accept a teacher evaluation program or lose increased school funding.
But charter schools get a cut of taxpayer dollars, which threatens the money needed to fund the public schools and keep the Syracuse Teachers Association operating.
«In states across America, legislators have been pressured into a toxic game of cross-border business poaching that drives millions of dollars in tax breaks and subsidies to wealthy executives — draining funds we need to invest in infrastructure, schools, parks, and other public goods that is the bedrock of economic health.»
Forand also cited DiNapoli's audits of state and local governments and school districts that save taxpayers millions of dollars statewide while using the investment clout of the pension fund to influence corporate behavior such as in addressing climate change.
New York should not spend hundreds of millions of dollars on a process that could leave New York with less environmental protections, less funding for our schools, etc..
The $ 137.2 billion dollar spending plan includes more money for schools, including a phase in of funding for universal pre-kindergarten programs.
The law, which reduces the amount of state aid received by school districts, was first imposed in the 2010 to help close New York State's multi-billion dollar deficit by taking funding away from schools.
But Kolb says he knows talks are going on about the top two remaining issues, renewing New York City's rent laws and an education tax credit for donors who give up to a million dollars to fund scholarships for poor children in private schools and fund afterschool activities at public schools.
The New York State Sheriffs» Association this week called on the Legislature to include funding in the next state budget for at least one armed school resource officer at every grade school and high school, which could run into the hundreds of millions of dollars.
The evaluation plan will be a statewide mandate and millions of dollars in funding for Buffalo's lowest - performing schools are at risk.
The governor called for $ 2 billion more dollars in school funding spread out over two years, and $ 100 million dollars to turn struggling schools into community schools with expanded hours and services.
He broke into politics by co-founding the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, which in 1993 sued Albany for billions of dollars it argued the state owed to city public schools — and eventually won, though Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration has since resisted delivering the funds.
At 1:30 p.m., NYC Councilman Barry Grodenchik discusses his tour of all schools in his council district and the three - plus million dollars in capital funds allocated to district schools, Martin Van Buren High School, 230 - 17 Hillside Ave., Queens.
The UFT has issued a memo warning of a potential loss of millions of dollars in federal funds for more than 1,200 New York City public schools if Trump's administration adopts a voucher system for schools.
Cuomo's bill would allow donors to private school scholarship funds and public after school programs to give up to one million dollars, and in exchange receive a credit of $ 750,000 on their taxes.
New York is poised to receive millions of dollars in much - needed school funding, thanks to the passage of a critical $ 26 billion federal jobs bill in Congress on Aug. 10.
The pro school funding group Alliance for Quality Education, in a statement, accused Cuomo of «perpetuating educational racism and economic inequality» for not including billions of additional dollars to comply with a decade - and - a-half-old court order to fully fund schools in poorer school districts.
Nixon's criticism mirrored an op - ed she published last month that slammed Cuomo for his support of charter schools and for proposing to eliminate the so - called Foundation Aid formula for funding public schools, which critics argued would deprive districts of billions of dollars that they are still owed under 2006 court decision that found the state had underfunded public education.
He says the panel does have to consider the money, at a time when the state has not fulfilled a court order that said the state needed to spend billions of more dollars school funding, and at a time when a new property tax cap might lead to lay offs of teachers and school program cut backs.
The Senate leader says he does like Cuomo's proposal to increase funding for schools by an additional billion dollars.
And he opened the door to increasing school aid funding beyond the governor's $ 769 million dollar proposal.
For example, the state would cut $ 50 million in Medicaid funding from the city unless Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration comes up with a plan in the next five months to receive $ 100 million more in federal Medicaid dollars for preschool and school supportive health services.
ALBANY — Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo on Wednesday proposed using his first substantial budget surplus to fund a $ 154 billion spending plan that includes a $ 2.1 billion increase in school funding over two years and billions of dollars in legacy - building construction projects.
The Fund for Great Public Schools, a teachers union backed SuperPAC, spent tens of thousands of dollars backing Senator Rivera.
New York State is being sued for withholding millions of dollars in funding for nine of its lowest - performing schools, refusing to provide funding even after the schools were removed from the «receivership» list.