Sentences with phrase «expanding taxpayer funded»

Part of the politics of advocates for expanding taxpayer funded center - based care is including as many families as possible as beneficiaries so as to increase public support.

Not exact matches

Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez pitched a plan last year that would kick in public money to expand them to every borough, but the company's latest proposal would do it without taxpayer funds.

The bill passed by the Senate includes anti-nepotism provisions, today: · Prohibits gifts from lobbyists and their clients of more than nominal value, including travel, lodging and other expenses, and broaden the types of lobbying activities that lobbyists must disclose; · Prohibits elected government officials and candidates for elected local, state or federal office from appearing in taxpayer - funded advertisements; · Closes the «revolving door» loophole by prohibiting former legislative employees from directly lobbying the Legislature for two years, and expands the revolving door restrictions for Executive Chamber employees to preclude appearances before any state agency; · Prohibits non-legislative employees from using their authority or influence to «compel or induce» any other employee to make political contributions; · Prohibits state employees from participating in any personnel decision or contracting matter concerning a relative.

During the campaign, Singas said if elected she would expand a review of the county's contracting system that her office conducted in April, to include towns and cities in an effort to «expose vulnerabilities to corruption» when it comes to municipalities awarding millions of dollars in taxpayer - funded contracts.

The fight over mandating free access to papers based on research funded by taxpayer dollars is again heating up in Washington, D.C. Yesterday, lawmakers discussed expanding the National Institutes of Health's (NIH's) «public access» policy to other science - funding agencies.

A petition urging the White House to expand federal policies requiring free access to taxpayer - funded research papers has gotten the 25,000 signatures needed to trigger a response.

The rationale underlying the Court's ruling highlights a unique advantage that tax credits have over other ways of funding education: they expand both freedom of choice for parents and freedom of conscience for taxpayers.

The Patriot - News reported that [Corbett] «aims to see Pennsylvania join the growing list of states that offer taxpayer - funded vouchers to parents to send their children to a school of their choice... The governor also wants to expand the state's tax credits program that provides for business - funded private school scholarships.»

In addition, the Knox County Delegation has asked for permission to expand the scope of their investigation to include all Offices of Diversity for public higher education schools, which are funded through taxpayer dollars, in the State of Tennessee.

While spending millions of taxpayer dollars trying to prevent children in underfunded school districts from having their day in court, the Malloy administration has aggressively expanded privately run charter schools and funded them at levels higher than schools in our poorest districts receive.

This year's focus on public schools, which includes $ 649 million in new per - pupil funding, comes after three budgets that cut or froze public school spending, and expanded the number of families who could enroll children in private schools through taxpayer - funded vouchers.

Up to $ 800 million could be spent over the next 10 years to expand the taxpayer - funded statewide school voucher program as proposed by GOP lawmakers, according to a new legislative memo.

The budget also significantly expands the number of taxpayer - funded private school vouchers in the state, and kept school funding mostly flat.

In a column published on Madision365.com, Congressman Mark Pocan writes that, «In recent years, Wisconsin's taxpayer - funded voucher program has wasted taxpayer dollars and harmed our public schools, but that's not stopping Republican legislators from expanding this failed program.»

In recent years, Wisconsin's taxpayer - funded voucher program has wasted taxpayer dollars and harmed our public schools, but that's not stopping Republican legislators from expanding this failed program.

Walker says he hopes to fast - track the state budget process, expand the taxpayer - funded school voucher program, require drug tests for those seeking food stamps and unemployment benefits, and continue income and property tax cuts.

As the Trump administration seeks to expand school choice nationwide, the academy was thrust into the national spotlight last month as part of a heated debate over whether schools that receive money from taxpayer - funded vouchers can discriminate against certain groups of students, such as LGBT children or students with disabilities.

In addition to serving as COO of a charter school management company, she would be voting on whether to expand existing charter schools, authorize new charter schools and move more taxpayer funds from public district schools to charter schools.

The state superintendent race pits two former school district superintendents and longtime educators against each other — a proponent of expanding school choices and an opponent of the state expansion of taxpayer - funded school vouchers.

The very reason Connecticut taxpayers are asked to devote extra funds to magnet schools is to provide these target populations with expanded educational opportunities.

Their sole focus: Expanding the taxpayer - funded private schools known as charters.

As governor of Indiana, Mike Pence accomplished what his new boss, President - elect Donald Trump, now wants to do nationwide: expand taxpayer - funded vouchers and charter schools to give more parents choices beyond traditional public schools.

Evers also has said lawmakers need to properly fund public school districts before expanding the state's taxpayer - funded school voucher programs to ensure districts like Green Bay, Kenosha, Madison, Milwaukee and Racine have enough money to provide needed tutoring, teachers and other programs to improve academic achievement among low - performing students.

Lured by Governor Malloy's education reform efforts and the prospect of easier access to taxpayer funds, the NEW YORK CHARTER SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION is expanding into Connecticut.

The bureaucrats sell their role as ensuring that taxpayers get value for money from the science they fund, when in fact their role is to expand their role and push their own agendas (preferably via innumerable conferences in nice locations).

WHY should American taxpayers continue to fund dysfunctional wind energy, when even USEPA air chief Janet McCabe admits that the EPA's analysis shows «wind power can expand throughout the Clean Power Plan compliance period, from 2022 to 2030, even if the tax credit is not renewed»?

However, to attempt to manufacture some kind of «right» to taxpayer - funded civil legal representation only leads us to an ever - expanding government that will curtail all our liberty and property rights, including those that actually are enshrined in the Constitution.

; (4) taxpayers would not have to pay for a justice system that provides lawyers a good place to earn a living but doesn't provide affordable legal services for those taxpayers; (5) the problem wouldn't be causing more damage in one day than all of the incompetent and unethical lawyers have caused in the whole of Canada's history (6) the legal profession would be expanding instead of contracting; because, (7) if legal services were affordable, lawyers would have more work than they could handle because people have never needed lawyers more; (8) law schools would be expanding their enrolments instead of being urged to contract them; (9) the problem would not be causing serious & increasing damage to the population, the courts, the legal profession, and to legal aid organizations because their funding varies inversely with the cost of legal services for taxpayers who finance legal aid's free legal services; (10) there would be a published LSUC text that declares the problem to be its problem and duty to solve it, and accurately defines the problem; (11) Canada would not have a seriously «legally crippled» population and constitution - the Canadian Charter of Rights an Freedoms is a «paper tiger» without the help of a lawyer; (12) Canada's justice system might again be «the envy of the world»; (13) the public statements of benchers would not show that they don't understand the cause of the problem and haven't tried to understand it; (14) LSUC's webpage, «Your Legal Bill - To High?»

A House panel on Tuesday voted to expand the range of permissible uses of public funds for lawmakers» security - making clear, among other things, that members can be reimbursed by taxpayers if they purchase bulletproof vests for themselves.