Sentences with phrase «dollar private effort»

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As California slashes billions from its higher education budget, the state's premier public business schools have quietly focused its efforts on raising private dollars.

Last week I told you about a new, multimillion dollar effort from the Partnership for a Healthier America (the private sector arm of the First Lady's Let's Move!

Indeed, in his efforts to raise a billion dollars of private money, Obama became the first presidential candidate in the general election in over 30 years to back out of public financing, an idea which is now more or less kaput.

But after two decades, millions of dollars of public and private funding, and the best efforts of cancer researchers, himself included, Duesberg says that no combination of genes has ever produced cancer in tissue cultures.

Obama plans to invest $ 150 billion dollars over the next decade to fund private efforts to develop alternative energies.

By giving parents «private accounts» to spend on digital learning, tutoring, and the like, it could weaken schools» larger improvement efforts, which are mostly funded by these federal dollars.

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.

The movement toward neo-vouchers — mechanisms of school privatization efforts, such as tuition tax credits and opportunity tax scholarships, that transfer public education dollars to private schools — have had mixed results, at best, and have been empirically shown to harm targeted students, at worst.

During the reauthorization process, there was a collective effort by NSBA and local school board members to advocate before Members of Congress for a modernized education law that underscores the importance of local governance, protects federal investments in Title I grants for disadvantaged students, and prevents the diversion of public tax dollars for private use.

Their reports are an effort to hold charter school operators (private companies that receive taxpayer dollars to manage a school) accountable to the same financial and transparency standards as public schools.

Glen has been the principal team leader for efforts that have raised over $ 1 billion dollars for the capital, program, and strategic planning needs of public and private agencies.

The group, in turn, successfully beat back efforts by reformers and school choice activists in the Sunshine State to expand choice (and abolish the religious bigotry - driven Blaine amendment banning the use of public school dollars for expanding access to high - quality private school options for poor and minority kids) through the passage of Amendment 8.

With even the largest private funding efforts amounting to a very small expenditure relative to public spending, achieving systemic impact requires changing the way public dollars are spent.

The idea has since gained momentum as a wide range of interests, including the private sector, development experts, policymakers, and environmentalists, have embraced REDD as a means to fund forest conservation and poverty alleviation efforts to the tune of billions of dollars per year while, at the same time, fighting climate change.

I think the whole thing is a desperate effort to raise a new tax (carbon tax) and thus get more tax dollars from a tapped - out private sector..

Already, billions of dollars of private capital are moving into this effort.

These efforts ultimately led to the creation of the Home Visiting Services Account (HVSA) in 2010 in legislation, a public - private partnership between the Washington State Department of Early Learning (DEL) and Thrive Washington (Thrive), a statewide nonprofit organization that matches public dollars with private funding to invest in a portfolio of evidence - based and promising practices for home visiting programs.