Sentences with phrase «dollars the schools want»

Tens of millions of dollars the schools want are at stake.

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Sad when people want lies like a «young earth» and that «evolution is a myth» or that «some god caused» the big bang taught to their children in their schools, paid for by their tax dollars.

Preach your religious nonsense in church all you want, but keep it out of my tax dollar funded schools.

If you want god in your children's classroom, send them to a school run by a religious organization... public tax dollars should not be covering the teaching of god in any form, unless the church wants to start paying taxes.

I was holding a 6354 dollar check to give him at his work gate Christmas day with the first vacation that any one knew of since his sophmore year of high school He had been violent the last eleven years the last Christmas in 2008 forcing two men out of the back of his fathers car at 45 mph on asphalt trying to get him into work and choking his father unconsious with another man hitting on the hood of the car from inside, He was just not being in the least cooperative with any thing he had not since 2001, Things were deadly by that point all because he wanted it his way.

House Speaker Michael Madigan blamed teacher unions on Friday for killing a proposal to send tax dollars to private schools, claiming the powerful lobby doesn't want competition for Illinois public schools.

Bettina, just wanted to let you know that, thanks ENTIRELY to you and your petition to take pink slime (YOUR WORDS) outta school lunches, I now dread going to work — thinking «this may be my last day of work at BPI», a company I've beem proud to work for for the past 10 years; a company that has taken recycling to the utmost heights (recycling lean beef trimmings to separate out the fat and reuse the remaining protein as a suppliment to other processed meats (such as hamburger, sausage, etc) and which customers, such as McDonald's, had WILLINGLY purchased in order to stretch their purchase dollars to give us consumers more value for our buck.

You will want to enroll all eligible students in the free / reduced price meal program to feed all the hungry children in your school, improve their nutrition and maximize your reimbursement dollars.

Plus, they don't even want their one «treat» day of (disgusting) school lunch a week (so far)-- so there's five dollars saved a week right there!

«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.

@Iron Mike — I don't want to leave the impression that I think Medicaid patients (many of whom are ineligible), prisoners, (most of whom belong there) and welfare recipients all share an equal right to my tax dollars along with school children.

The coalition also wants school districts with 51 - 100 or more employees to continue to participate in an experience - rated health care consortium or trust, a measure she said will save school districts and taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars.

The state is facing a $ 3.5 billion deficit, and Gov. Andrew Cuomo wants to add a billion dollars to the state's 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!

He also provided specifics for a few things he's been talking about for a while, like education — he wants to increase school aid by about a billion dollars — but especially homelessness, an issue he's been sparring about with Mayor Bill de Blasio.

The tax, which Mr. Cuomo wants to eliminate, could bring in billions of dollars in revenue in the next few years, cushioning cuts to schools and Medicaid.

The billionaire hedge fund managers who give million - dollar donations to elite private schools and privatized charter systems want new taxpayer - funded subsidies for their private donations — tax breaks even bigger than they get now.

«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 GOP spokesman Scott Reif.

Regulations and guidance can create a «safe place» for forward - leaning state and local leaders that want to align their federal funds with their own decisions — and dollars — by which to expand school choice.

If you add a cap, say the $ 20 billion figure that President Trump has said he wants to devote to school choice, then you have to figure out how to allocate the available dollars under that cap to different states, and you have to figure out a way to do it that is predictable from one year to the next, such that there aren't huge fluctuations that would cause the programs to ebb and flow dramatically.

Under the new public program, any private school that wants to participate — meaning, receive public dollars — submits an application to an authorizer.

The parents wanted the district to construct a new building — a multi-million dollar project, according to school officials — or buy new portables.

«If you think Common Core snuck up on families with the less than 1 percent of education dollars the Obama administration dangled in front of states, just wait until more public and private schools are directly accepting federal control through federal vouchers and the next Democratic administration decides they want to tell these schools what to teach kids.»

A billion dollars feels like a lot of money to you, me, and the folks at foundations, but to a public school system spending over $ 600 billion annually it is not nearly enough to get them to do things that they don't already want to do nor enough to purchase things that they can't already buy.

To tell you how life can be for someone who's poor and black or poor and Latino — everyone wants to hear that — but to tell a story about how all of a sudden that person went to one of the oldest, most prestigious boarding schools in the country with a multimillion dollar endowment, then went to Harvard Law after Harvard undergraduate?

Since the SRA appears to require that both traditional and charter school students be funded at the same dollar amount, we suspect the city will need better arguments if it wants to win in court.

If certain families don't want to attend these schools because they don't want their students taking these assessments, then they can find a private option that doesn't use public dollars.

And those systems don't want charter schools competing for students and dollars.

As Trump pushes school choice, Heritage wants to let 800K military kids use public dollars for private education washingtonpost.com/news/education...

Private schools can serve whomever they want, but if they take public dollars, equity regulations will kick in.

Daniel Loeb, Paul Singer and dozens of other hedge - fund managers have poured millions of dollars into promoting charter schools in New York City and into groups that want to revamp pension plans for government workers, including teachers.

The administration doesn't want to let reform - minded school districts miss out on Race to the Top funding just because their states are recalcitrant dinosaurs in the grip of teacher unions, etc.S o they're going to try something unusual: channeling dollars AROUND the states and directly to districts.

With the opening of Washington's first charter school likely 15 months away, more dollars from Seattle's tech economy are flowing toward groups that want to change the way the state thinks about public schools...

I want my tax dollars to stay in my community to support my public schools.

This not only save the school district thousands of dollars each year in processing those individuals who are only looking for a quick paycheck, but it prepares those who really want to teach but lack the training that would help them from day one.

Dollars raised through the Annual Fund benefit every K - 12 Compass Charter Schools scholar and provide critical operating funds to help bridge the gap between what the state provides and what it really costs to deliver the outstanding education we want for our children.

But if we want to really fix school funding inequities, we have to provide high - poverty schools with additional dollars based on student need.

INEQUALITY Washington Post: D.C. is misspending millions of dollars intended to help the city's poorest students Pacific Standard: How White Women Kept Jim Crow Alive Washington Post: D.C. Public Schools residency fraud often committed by teachers Mother Jones: Parents Didn't Want Fracking Near Their School

While Yoder wanted to allow siblings of current voucher recipients to receive private school tuition dollars without entering the public school system, Kenley said at the time this would break an agreement that was central to the original voucher bill: public schools get the first chance at educating students.

Senators want to provide Western Governors University with a «challenge grant» — if the private, non-profit online school can raise $ 5 million dollars, the state will match that with $ 2 million so they can set up shop in North Carolina.

From what I saw... the school there that I visited didn't seem to be a school that we would want to send taxpayer dollars to.»

«As much as I want to see every single child in America have school choice, it is just not appropriate for the federal government to be using new dollars and new programs to push states in that direction,» said Lindsey Burke, an education policy expert at the conservative Heritage Foundation.

On the heels of Tuesday's election, four Democratic legislators are planning a bill to give property taxpayers the final say on whether they want to be on the hook for tax dollars taken directly out of public schools to fund vouchers.

Pointing to LA Unified's soaring numbers of students living in poverty and learning English, Caputo - Pearl suggested, «If Broad and other billionaires want to ensure a great education for every child, they should invest half a billion dollars, and more, in an LAUSD foundation, run by the democratically elected school board, to fund sustainable neighborhood community schools that address the myriad educational and socio - economic needs of our students.»

Voucher School Referendum Bill Four Democratic legislators are advancing a bill to give property taxpayers the final say on whether they want to be on the hook for tax dollars taken directly out of public schools to fund vouchers.

President Trump wants to cut 13.5 % from the Department of Education's budget and slash investments in public schools, while diverting dollars to private school voucher schemes.

We want to prioritize the very limited and scarce state dollars to schools that are either achieving at a high level, rapidly improving or doing great work in communities of exceptional need.

After recently visiting a voucher - eligible school in his district that enrolled only 10 - 15 students, one longtime voucher supporter, Rep. Leo Daughtry of Johnston County, observed «the school there that I visited didn't seem to be a school that we would want to send taxpayer dollars to.»

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Further, why would Gates, one of the most generous contributors to public schools (his dollars have even reached Clark County) want to cripple the public education system that he is trying to help sustain with a «yes» vote, if charters did present a threat?