Sentences with phrase «draining public tax dollars»

Furthermore, multiple choice, high - stakes tests have reliably padded the profits of education corporations, draining public tax dollars but have been unreliable in measuring the diversity of students» capabilities and learning.

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«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.»

Opponents say charter schools aren't held to the same accountability standards, don't receive sufficient oversight and drain precious public tax dollars away from public schools.

Rachel Tabachnick, an anti- «Religious Right» blogger, wrote that voucher programs such as Jindal's «drain tax dollars from public into private schools, including into religious schools with fundamentalist curricula.»

Opponents say independent charter schools drain sorely needed tax dollars from traditional public schools.