Sentences with phrase «fewer public dollars»

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At any point over the past few years, I could have decided to grow my company into a multimillion - dollar public - relations agency.

He claims that options also helped him persuade three executives to leave billion - dollar - plus corporations to join Spencer Reed, which has plans to go public in the next few years.

A few months earlier, Beijing had applied similar pressure on European nations, this time to join with it in an unprecedented public call to replace the dollar as the global reserve currency.

However, only a few of the companies went public at a price greater than $ 1 billion dollars.

To me, one of the most significant planks in Obama's education platform isn't in his education platform at all - it's in his poverty platform: his pledge to replicate Geoffrey Canada's Harlem Children's Zone in 20 cities across the United States, as public / private partnerships, with the federal government's share of the bill coming to as much as a few billion dollars.

Since my kids are not yet in middle school, I have yet to fully experience the impact of «competitive» food in the public school setting — i.e., beverage vending machines stocked exclusively with Coca - Cola products (thanks to a multimillion dollar deal Coke struck with our district a few years back — more on that to come), snack vending machines, branded products like Papa John's pizza in the lunch room, and more.

I'm also fully convinced that without the public goal we set, the campaign may have raised just a few hundred thousand dollars and been unable to raise the money we needed in the final days to win.

It took some trimming — a few million dollars here, a half - million dollars there — but the Buffalo Public Schools were able to close a projected $ 10.2 million deficit and come up with a balanced budget for next year.

The business lobby is serious about crushing «the little party that could» (a Newsday headline of a few years ago), spending millions of dollars on television and mail against WFP candidates, and even trying to hire well - known progressive public relations firms to wage a PR battle against them.

The amount appears to be more than double the previous record for spending by any lobbying client during these months, a time of year when most political activity is directed toward elections and lobbying campaigns rarely top a few hundred thousand dollars, according to information maintained by the Joint Commission on Public Ethics.

More than 700,000 students in more than 1,200 New York City schools — including large high schools in all five boroughs — would face higher class sizes, have fewer teachers and lose after - school academic and enrichment programs if President - elect Trump makes good on a campaign promise to pull billions of federal dollars away from public schools to pay for private vouchers, a UFT analysis has found.

Sources told Crain's that City Council Speaker Christine Quinn will «extract a few last extras from Rudin worth millions of dollars,» including a compromise of some sort regarding a public park on the site.

These tribal members do not receive the financial benefits that some have received from PFS, and have few resources when compared with the millions of dollars that PFS is spending on lawyers and public relations.

The Post was having money problems and had to go public on the American Stock Exchange to raise a few million dollars.

Some of these Brown trustees have even begun to take steps to eradicate the Court's Brown mandate, pushing instead for initiatives, like vouchers, which use public dollars to, at best, extend educational opportunities to a select few.

Midwestern gubernatorial races have been dominated by the dismal state of the region's economy — which has cost the region's public schools millions of dollars in state aid in the past few years.

«Rather than using taxpayer dollars to provide vouchers to a few, we must focus our resources and efforts on concrete reforms that make our public schools better for all of the District's schoolchildren.»

Next week the Senate is expected to release its own budget proposal — and it's likely to spend even fewer dollars on public education.

On the show with Rhee were Gates, whose foundation has spent a few billion dollars trying to reform schools, with little so far to show for it, and Davis Guggenheim, the man behind «Waiting for Superman,» a tendentious documentary that casts Rhee as an angel and public charter schools as wonderful.

«We already have a model that works and there is evidence to support it's working,» said Hall, referring to a school turnaround model funded by federal Race to the Top dollars that has shown to help some of the state's poorest - performing public schools improve academically over the past few years.

At Frederick Douglass Academy High School, where I am a veteran Chicago Public Schools mathematics teacher, we are constantly asked to do more for our students while fewer and fewer dollars are allocated to help us do so.

The president of Indiana's largest teachers union issued a statement saying the increase in voucher enrollment means fewer dollars for public schools, which has a direct impact on the depth of public school programs.

Critics of the program say that it's unconstitutional to send public dollars to private schools, which are held to very few standards and safeguards that would ensure students» academic success.

Charter schools are incentivized to spend the fewest amount of public dollars on educating children, so they can funnel the remaining funds into the pockets of their business investors.

The AFT website moves into Bizarro territory when it concludes its mini anti-choice rant by informing us that public money used to subsidize private school tuition means «less accountability for taxpayers» dollars, a false hope for a handful of kids, and fewer resources for school reforms that actually work.»

A few billion dollars in private foundation money, strategically invested every year for a decade, has sufficed to define the national debate on education; sustain a crusade for a set of mostly ill - conceived reforms; and determine public policy at the local, state, and national levels.

A 2012 study by the state's Legislative Analyst's Office and 2010 study by Ball State concluded that California charters got fewer dollars per pupil than traditional public schools.

Much of the money has been going to support public education and it is largely responsible for the flush budgets of the last few years that have provided billions in extra dollars for education.

While the Office has audited fewer than half of all charter schools, they have exposed some form of internal control deficiency or mismanagement in 95 percent of their audits.5 The majority of charter schools in New York are left to operate year in and year out without regulator - level audits, specifically audits that are designed to determine whether these publicly funded, privately managed schools are spending public dollars properly.

«But, instead those programs and schools are likely to be on the chopping block if «Schools of Hope» passes, and instead a few millionaires who are politically connected and run for - profit schools will get our tax dollars intended for our children and the public school teachers the resources they need to do their job.»

Progressive projects — with youth of color in the lead — are demanding living wage work, an end to handouts of public lands and public dollars that privilege the wealthy few, and a city that protects all of its residents from the perils of poverty, eviction, criminalization, deportation and violence.

Philadelphians will need to step up in the next few years and contribute more local dollars to fund their public schools in order to avoid another devastating round of cuts in programs and services for students.

The few thousand dollars saved is simply not worth the bitterness and the decline of morale that are engendered by lowballing some and handsomely rewarding others in our line of public sector work.

The union always claims that the Vergara Lawsuit, the film «Waiting for Superman», Students First, Michelle Rhee, Students Matter, are all part of a proposal / plot by billionaires to do the following: A. Privatize all public education to funnel billions of dollars in profits to the top 1 % and mostly to a few billionaires.

As the New York court observed, funneling public dollars into a charter school is inconsistent with the State's constitutional obligation, because «to divert public education funds away from the traditional public schools and toward charter schools would benefit a select few at the expense of» the majority of students in public schools.

Most charters, at least here in Pennsylvania, receive considerably fewer dollars per student than their traditional public school counterparts.

«The test scores in this school, with its limited means — far fewer dollars than the public schools have, much less money per child — are superior to what they're getting,» Daniels says.

Go Jen — of course — and I plan to operate on my neighbor tomorrow — it's only a little heart problem — should be able to do it — and if I fail well so what — then I can run a bank and make millions of dollars even if I fail — but teachers (gods chosen selfless few) care for all of our kids and are the real hero's in this world — I am so thankful that my two daughters attend public schools and have been nurtured by those who have chosen a profession of giving and not one of taking — if you can read this post — thank your teachers — I am grateful for mine everyday — Thanks Ms Weigh K - Ms Brown Gr1 - Ms Shea Gr2 - Ms.

It is a cynical policy that has sold out our children and public education in order to get a few dollars from the Feds through RTTT.

Inner city charter school operators like Eva Moskowitz and Geoffrey Canada and the KIPP schools do a far better job — with fewer tax dollars — than traditional public schools.

With 755 horsepower the 2019 Chevrolet Corvette zr1 is the most powerful Corvette ever it's also the most technologically advanced behind me are the rolling s's at Road Atlanta and we're here to see if we can reach to the supercar levels of performance afforded by this thing's massive power big tires and the tall wing on the back after that we'll take to the streets to see if a car this powerful can behave itself in public this is a monster of a car I've had some brief track opportunities moving this morning to get used to the pace of this machine which is phenomenal we're gonna warm up as we get out to the road Atlanta and sort of build up to the pace that this car can operate at now initially when you hop in this car you have this shrine to the engine right above you you see the line of the hood it kind of dominates the center of the view you can see over it it doesn't affect visibility but it's immediately obvious and that kind of speaks to what makes this car special it's a monster of an engine listen to that [Music] that is tremendous tremendous acceleration and incredible power but what I finding so far my brief time here at the Atlanta is that everything else in the car is rut has risen to match hurt me while I lay into it on the back straight look you know 150 mile - an - hour indicated we're going to ease up a little bit on it because I need to focus on talking rather than driving but like I was saying the attributes of the rest of the car the steering the braking capability the grip every system of this car is riding to the same level of the power and I think that's what makes it really impressive initially this is undoubtedly a mega mega fast car but it's one that doesn't terrify you with its performance potential there's a level of electronic sophistication that is unparalleled at this price point but it's hard not to get you know totally slipped away by the power of this engine so that's why I keep coming back to it this car has an electronically controlled limited slip differential it has shocks filled with magnetically responsive fluid that can react faster to inputs and everything this car has a super sophisticated stability control system that teaches you how to drive it quick but also makes you go faster we haven't even gotten into exploring it yet because the limits of this car are so high that frankly it takes a while to grow into it but [Music] I think what's impressive about this car is despite how fast it is it is approachable you can buy this car to track dates with it and grow with it as a driver and as an owner I think that's a really special [Music] because you will never be more talented than this car is fast ever unless you are a racing driver casually grazing under 50 miles an hour on this straight okay I'm just going to enjoy driving this now [Music][Applause][Music] this particular Corvette zr1 comes with the cars track performance package a lot of those changes happen underneath the sheet metal but one of the big differences that is immediately obvious is this giant carbon fiber wing now the way this thing is mounted is actually into the structure of the vehicle and it makes you know loading the rear hatch a bit more difficult but we're assuming that's okay if you're looking for the track performance this thing delivers also giving you that performance are these Michelin Pilot Sport cup tires which are basically track oriented tires that you can drive on the street but as we wake our way to the front of the thing what really matters is what's under the hood that's right there's actually a hole in the hood of this thing and that's because this engine is so tall it's tall because it has a larger supercharger and a bunch of added cooling on it to help it you know keep at the right temperature the supercharger is way larger than the one on the zo six and it has a more cooling capacity and the downside is it's taller so it pops literally through the hood the cool thing is from the top you can actually see this shake when you're looking at it from you know a camera from the top of the vehicle this all makes for 755 horsepower making this the most powerful Corvette ever now what's important about that is this not just the power but likewise everything in the car has to be built to accommodate and be able to drive to the level of speed this thing can develop that's why you had the massive cooling so I had the aerodynamics and that's why I had the electronic sophistication inside [Applause] we had a lot of time to take this car on the track yesterday and I've had the night to think about things Matt today two crews on the road and see how this extreme performance machine deals with the sort of more civil minded stuff of street driving the track impressions remain this thing is unquestionably one of the most capable cars you can get from a dealer these days a lot of that's besides the point now because we're on the street we have speed limits they have the ever - present threat of law enforcement around every corner so the question is what does this car feel like in public when you slow this car down it feels like a more powerful Corvette you don't get much tram lining from these big wheels though we as the front end doesn't want to follow grooves in the pavement it is louder it is a little firmer but it's certainly livable on a day to day basis that's surprising for a vehicle of this capability normally these track oriented cars are so hardcore that you wouldn't want to drive them to the racetrack but let's face it you spend more time driving to the track than you do on the track and the fact that this thing works well in both disciplines is really impressive I can also dial everything back and cruise and not feel like I'm getting punished for driving a hardcore track machine that's a that's a really nice accomplishment that's something that you won't find in cars that are this fast and costs maybe double this much the engine in this car dominates the entire experience you can't miss the engine and the whole friend this car is sort of a shrine to it the way it pops out of the hood the way it's covered with coolers around the sides it is the experience of this car and that does make driving this thing special and also the fact that it doesn't look half bad either in fact I think it has some of the coolest looking wheels currently available on a new car this car as we mentioned this car has the track package the track package on this car gives you what they call competition bucket seats which are a little wide for my tastes but I'm you know not the widest person in the world this automatic transmission works well I mean there's so much torque again out of this engine that it can be very smooth and almost imperceptible its clunky on occasion I think I'd might opt for the manual although Chevy tells me about 80 % of its customers will go for the automatic I don't think they're gonna be disappointed and that's gonna be the faster transmission drag strip on the street - and on the racetrack man it was a little bit more satisfying to my taste though we've talked about the exhaust I have it set in the track setting let's quiet it down a little bit so you can hear the difference now I've set that separately from everything else so let's put it stealth what happened to the engine sound that's pretty that's pretty amazing man stealth is really stealth and then go back to track Wow actually a really big difference that's that's pretty great the Corvette has always been a strong value proposition and nowhere is that more evident than this zr1 giving you a nearly unbeatable track performance per dollar now the nice thing is on the road this doesn't feel like a ragged edge track machine either you could genuinely drive it every day the compromises are few and that's what makes this car so special if you like what you see keep it tuned right here and be sure to visit Edmunds.com [Music]

You could call Nygaard's experience a tempest in a teapot, a matter of a few hundred dollars worth of goods that, after a little public outcry, were fixed without issue.

New authors can go directly to the public through these same channels, and often charge only a few dollars for their ebooks.

(and the gain is not tax free) The real cause of the increase in debt - to - income ratio is the following; 1) High taxation leaving fewer dollars in the hands of the public 2) Record low interest rates and relaxed lending criteria 3) The wealth affect of increasing Real Estate prices 4) ridiculous credit card interest rates 5) lack of real wage growth

Now that Realty's put back is public, let's see if management plunks a few of their own dollars on the line.

TNVR stabilizes the population (fewer to no births), results in lower animal control costs, taxpayer dollars, reduces nuisance complaints by residents, address neighbors» concerns, alleviates public health concerns, improves the cats» lives, saves and helps the entire community reach a solution that benefits everyone.

This suggests that the public has a pretty low tolerance — on the order of a few extra dollars a month — for higher costs related to climate policies.

Granted, it may only be a few dollar's worth of profit from you that the company loses, but when combined with the efforts of others, sometimes many others, and amplified by social media, it can impact both the company's finances and its public image.

In theory, anyone can become an investor by participating in a public ICO even if the buyer can afford just one Ethereum - based token worth a few hundred dollars.

In my industry (public accounting), a few missed commas means the difference between thousands and millions of dollars for our clients and THAT's NOT acceptable — so... NO, there isn't anything more important on a candidate's resume than their ability to spell - check, self - review, and oh yeah, meet all the other criteria that are required for consideration for a job.