Sentences with phrase «dollars going to private schools»

«The end result is the same — federal tax dollars going to private schools,» said Sasha Pudelski, assistant director for policy and advocacy at AASA, The School Superintendents Association, who called the program «a backdoor voucher.»

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There are senior citizens (like me) who's tax dollars unfairly go to subsidize these private schools for the elites, and I for one say stop!

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 NY state teachers retirement fund has 108 billion — yea thats right BILLIION dollars in it — they have enslaved the taxpayer — and now they want to deprive the poorest children from having a chance of going to a functional private school — REALLY??? Unbelievable!

Lawmakers considering portability or other federal voucher programs must understand that the concept of federal dollars going into a «backpack of cash» that follows eligible students to the schools of their choice, whether public or private, is only part of the story.

Most people are familiar with voucher programs, where state dollars go to pay for tuition at private schools.

That means that more than 1 million private dollars have gone into each of the existing CMO schools so far (though some of that money is likely intended to fund central office systems to support future growth).

She's someone who has used her inherited wealth and the wealth that she's married into to try to distort and reshape our laws to advance her personal views, which are that we should basically redefine public education to mean our tax dollars should be going to fund private schools, religious schools, that advance her worldview.

In the afternoons, many children go from school to English lessons provided by private companies or tutors, for which their parents pay hundreds of dollars a month.

But the Trump agenda goes further by calling for federal dollars to follow low - income students into the school of their choice, whether private, public, or home school.

whether she could think of any circumstance in which the federal government should step in to stop federal dollars from going to private schools that discriminate against certain groups of students, DeVos did not directly answer.

As a result, millions of dollars of taxpayer money and hundreds of hours of instructional time all are allowed to go to waste as some private schools and those who head them run a scam.

They already face a lot of obstacles, and now we are going to disregard them and take dollars away that were intended to support them in the public system and try to send them to private schools that may exclude them.»

Will lawmakers address those issues in the short session, when they have the opportunity to go back to the drawing board and clean up the program so that it requires private schools that receive taxpayer dollars to adhere to nondiscrimination policies?

When companies choose the tax credit, these dollars bypass the state and go directly to vouchers — making it harder for opponents to argue that «public» money is going to private schools.

She says it's fundamentally wrong for public dollars to go to the private operator who would run a school.

Much of that money would go toward the private sector, and DeVos has also been challenged repeatedly for supporting vouchers that allow parents to use government dollars to pay for private, for - profit and religious schools, a cornerstone of Trump's stated plan.

Democrats largely support Evers, and see him as one of the only obstacles left to keep public dollars from going to private voucher schools.

In DeVos» home state of Michigan, over a billion tax dollars have gone to private schools — 80 percent are run by for - profit organizations.

And in order to get THAT, the public has to agree to tax credits that send $ 50 million in tax dollars to private and religious foundations and another $ 70 million that will go in $ 500 increments to private and parochial schools as «credits» that act as vouchers.

I do not believe public dollars should go to private schools.

And thanks to Presidents George W. Bush and Barak Obama, federal law provides that failing schools can be handed over to charter school management companies... and with it hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer funds going to private charter school corporations to run public schools.

For a number of charter schools, roughly 10 percent of all of public dollars meant for educating children in these schools go to pay fees for private companies called «charter management organizations.»

In addition, your tax dollars are going to private - school vouchers and to for - profit companies running charter schools and take - over schools.

In the 2016 fiscal year, the county paid nearly $ 40 million dollars for students with disabilities who could not be appropriately served in public schools to go to specialized private schools.

Tax dollars shouldn't be going to «unaccountable private schools» when public schools are struggling to make ends meet, and «voucher schools don't perform as well» as public schools, Wisconsin Education Association Council president Betsy Kippers said in a statement.

For decades, the life cycle of the young, middle - class D.C. resident has gone something like this: Move to the District, get a good job, meet a nice boy or girl, get married, have a kid and — faced with mediocre public schools or the prospect of tens of thousands of dollars in yearly private school tuition — move to the suburbs.

I went to school during separating from active duty in the Air Force and while being in the Air Force Guard to be a helicopter pilot on a 70k private student loan from a company in 2007 that gave me that loan while being a waiter making a little over 3 dollars an hour at the time.

«My daughter goes to a private school, and I've done several million - dollar sales for people whose children go there.