Sentences with phrase «even more taxpayer money»

Families for Excellent Schools is the corporate funded, New York based, charter school industry lobbying group that bused in students and parents from as far away as New York City and Boston, last year, to attend a rally in support of Governor Dannel Malloy's effort to divert even more taxpayer money to Connecticut's privately owned and operated charter schools.

This past legislative session, these charter school and education reform entities spent in excess of $ 500,000 successfully persuading legislators to cut their own district's public school funding, at the same time they were sending even more taxpayer money to Connecticut's charter schools, despite the fact that these private institutions have traditionally refused to educate their fair share of students who need special education services, children who require help learning the English Language or those who have behavioral issues.

Albany, NY - New York state would give even more taxpayer money to movie and television studios that film in Upstate New York under the budget up for a vote in the Senate and Assembly.

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Whether he likes it or not, Bernanke just pledged what will likely amount to a trillion dollars of taxpayer money to Obama's reelection, thereby impacting not only the economy, but potentially immigration policy, the next Supreme Court nominee, education, and even more urgent determinations, like questions of war and peace.

But even more outrageous is the idea of taxpayers money being used to campaign against a political party and it evidently not occurring to the Audit Commission that this is not considered an appropriate way to behave in this country.

New York taxpayers are the most beleaguered in America; they don't need to start forking over even more money to fund political campaigns.

«The Convention held in 1967, which Chairman Michael R. Long participated in, was a colossal waste of taxpayers» money and if one was held now, it would cost taxpayers even more money and be controlled by the same special interests that already have a strong presence in the legislative process,» the party said in a statement.

Even when Silver is handing those private investors what will probably be more than a billion dollars in taxpayer money, in the form of subsidies and tax breaks?

«It worries me that whenever the Garden Bridge Trust runs into financial trouble, the Department for Transport releases more taxpayers» money before construction has even started,» said chair of the Committee of Public Accounts Meg Hillier MP.

There is simply no time for a Select Committee, even if a full set of members is nominated to serve on it, to conduct any meaningful inquiries... The reality is that this will be another talking shop that costs taxpayers more money at the time that they can least afford it.»

To those who say that we should continue in Labour's vein, simply patting ourselves on the back for getting money out of the door, I say this: Our commitment to reaching 0.7 % of national income on aid by 2013, and enshrining this in law, imposes an even greater duty on us, more than any other department in Whitehall to get value for money, to bear down on waste, and to ensure that aid secures 100 pence of value for every hard - earned British taxpayer's pound we spend.

In fact, the Senate Republicans attempted to foster a bipartisan compromise that would have moved all of the state's primaries to a single day in August this year, avoiding the busy last few months of the state legislative session and saving taxpayers even more of their hard - earned money.

It included sessions on how to make committees even more effective in how they oversee the spending of taxpayers» money.

If state and federal lawmakers didn't leech away that big a percentage of what teachers earn, that money could go to the teachers who earned it without having to take even more from the taxpayers who provide teacher salaries.

As a result of their ill - conceived policies billions of dollars in public taxpayer funds at the federal level and tens of millions of dollars here in Connecticut are being shifted away from classroom instruction so that corporate education reform companies can continue to make even more money.

But you have no interest in doing that because you are of the opinion that taxpayers should be forking over even more of their hard - earned money to continue paying for these extravagant plans.

While he proposed cutting money for public schools and shifting even more of the costs of public education onto the backs of middle income property taxpayers, Malloy wanted the legislature to give him even more money so that his corporate education reform industry associates could open up two more charter schools in Connecticut.

Second in a series on the attempt by Achievement First Inc. to collect even more money from Connecticut's taxpayers.

More recently, the group sent out glossy mailings to voters in a number of Connecticut legislative districts «thanking them» for their pro-charter school vote — a vote that will actually end up costing state and local property taxpayers even more moMore recently, the group sent out glossy mailings to voters in a number of Connecticut legislative districts «thanking them» for their pro-charter school vote — a vote that will actually end up costing state and local property taxpayers even more momore money.

Rather than giving Connecticut charter schools even more state money, state officials should be withholding funds until charter schools fulfill their legal duty to their students, parents and the taxpayers of Connecticut.

Their plan would divert even more taxpayer funds to Connecticut's charter schools, while taking money away from Connecticut's successful magnet schools.

While it remains unclear whether Governor Dannel Malloy's new education funding scheme includes a «money follows the child formula» that would force local districts to use local tax dollars to subsidize the privately owned and operated charter schools in their communities, the Governor's budget does shovel even more state taxpayer funds to the charter school industry.

The majority of the money flows through to Hartford's two largest charter school management organizations (Jumoke and Achievement First) and even the money going to the Board of Education is restricted in such a way as to force Hartford and Connecticut taxpayers to devote even more resources to the charter school industry.

All that and more plus guest host Murray Feldman from Fox 2 News, Detroit wonders when or if the American taxpayer will ever make money or break even on their investments in automakers.

the idea that your credit score will drop has little bearing on «how badly you will hurt» when your interest rates, as a good, and honest payer, are «jacked up» to the sky... and your rate goes from 8 % to 19.9 % or higher fulfilling the banks lust for more profits off your back and the backs of other good, long - time reliable customers... these immoral acts, taking our TARP money from the taxpayers are payback for «your loyalty»... your credit score will recover... paying «usuary rates» just to keep «their card» and now their fees just to have their card even though you carry no balance is blackmail... close their cards and never do business with them ever again... slime...

Some taxpayers who filed complaints with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) reported that, after signing up with some of these companies and paying thousands of dollars in upfront fees, the companies took even more of their money by making unauthorized charges to their credit cards or withdrawals from their bank accounts.

By holding back AIB's ability to return to profitability and rebuild its capital, this exposes taxpayers to the risk of having to inject even more money into the bank down the road.

I doubt if any Government, however foolish, however desirous of squandering the taxpayers» money, would perpetrate the absurdity of bringing cats from Siberia to a cat - infested country Even if each such cat caught daily three more rats than an ordinary cat, would the purchase be worthwhile?

If I am given a steady supply of money from taxpayers I am sure that I can tinker with my model so that in I can produce even more precise predictions for the next decade - in about 12 years» time.

If the Turnbull Coalition government was to use taxpayer's money to reopen this old power station it would have to be one of the most unethical acts ever by an Australian government (at least since Liberal PM John Howard got Australia involved in the Iraq War) and Australia would be even more an international climate - inaction pariah than it already is.

But because the unaffordable legal services problem now means that the majority of Canada's taxpayers must deal with their legal problems without lawyers to help them, it's now politically very ill - advised for any government to take more of their tax money to provide more free legal services to poor people, even though it's the law societies» decades - long inaction that has caused the problem.

State Senators Bob Onder (R - 2, St. Charles) and Andrew Koenig (R - 15, Manchester) have been wasting taxpayers» time and money by attacking Planned Parenthood and making it even more difficult for Missourians to access safe and legal abortion.

The net worth sweep, in place since January 2013, let the U.S. recoup even more than the $ 187 billion in taxpayer money it spent to stave off collapses of Fannie and Freddie.

Your letter of January 20th made no mention of this, even though the supporting documentation showed that principal reductions would save taxpayers more money than principal forbearance, if modifications are limited through the use of a net present value test.