Sentences with phrase «funnel public money»

Charters funnel public money into private hands, and that is «reform»?

As water will find its level, career politicians will always find a way to funnel public money where it will do the most good, for their constituents and for them.

In one, he was alleged to have funneled public money into the Mesothelioma Center at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, after the director of the center at the time had requested that the speaker's law firm Weitz & Luxenberg donate to the facility.

These efforts included funneling public money to all - white private schools.

Contrary to the belief of a few, funneling public money to private schools will not fuel improvement of public education, but instead drain already limited resources and dilute broad community support for what has long been considered a valid civic function.

Not exact matches

This all comes on the heels of what was evidently a dispiriting meeting with Illinois governor Bruce Rauner, which Chance initiated in hopes that he'd be able to get some weight behind a bill that would funnel money into public education.

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Through a constitutional convention, we can demand transparency to backroom dealings in Albany by mandating public oversight of budgetary decisions and requiring narrow, set purposes for all money funneled into the budget.

Maziarz is accused of funneling money from his campaign account to a public relations firm, which in turn paid a former staffer who left his office amid sexual harassment allegations.

In a preliminary report, the Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption expressed frustration with its inability to determine who funneled money into Common Sense Principles» attack efforts.

The Tory leader backed the move following allegations that David Wilshire, MP for Spelthorne, had funnelled # 100,000 of public money into a private company owned by himself and his partner.

The disgraced public official pleaded guilty in 2010 to felony charges for accepting nearly $ 1 million in gifts for funnelling $ 250 million of the state's public pension money to a particular private equity fund.

He has also funneled money to public universities and economic development initiatives with similar grants.

The complaint asserts that some of the public funds Percoco funneled to Kelly's company in exchange for pay included money from the federal government.

The new plan would funnel federal money directly to one type of public college, taking a first step away from the existing voucher model and toward one that looks more like America's K - 12 system.

He questioned the constitutionality of funneling taxpayer money to for - profit companies to pay for school buildings the public would not own.

«Given the massive amount of money funneled from the pro-school privatization lobby to Republican legislators, l am afraid that we will see yet another effort to decimate our local public schools and allow unaccountable private voucher schools to play by a substandard set of rules.»

Tuck said his campaign will focus on ensuring that Gov. Jerry Brown's new school funding formula — which provides additional money to districts with large numbers of poor children, English learners and foster youth — is really funneling money to the neediest students and that its accountability measures are more understandable for parents and the public.

The goal is to destroy public education, destroy the profession and funnel taxpayer money towards a never ending stream of eduschemes.

Will Flanders» March 26 column «Expand school choice» last Sunday expressed his opinion that public money should be funneled to unaccountable private schools and away from accountable public schools.

And since 1990, roughly $ 2 billion in public money has been funneled into private and religious schools in Wisconsin, and the payments keep escalating.

Public schools have been destroyed and the money is now funnelled to the plutocrats who worship and supply the oligarchs.

Kelley ruled in a lawsuit backed by teacher unions and school boards seeking to shut down the voucher program and other changes that would funnel more money away from traditional public schools.

The big money from billionaires was mostly funneled through Great Oakland Public Schools which is GO's independent expenditure committee registered under tax code 501 C4.

The N.C. Association of Educators and N.C. Justice Center are sponsoring the lawsuit, arguing that the vouchers are a broad assault on the state's public schools as it funnels taxpayer money to private schools.

During Senate debate earlier this week, Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky called the bill «a last - minute effort by Democrats in Washington to funnel more money to the public employee unions before an election.»

For education, technology and charter school companies and the Wall Streeters who back them, it lets them cite troubled public schools to argue that the current public education system is flawed, and to then argue that education can be improved if taxpayer money is funneled away from the public school system's priorities (hiring teachers, training teachers, reducing class size, etc.) and into the private sector (replacing teachers with computers, replacing public schools with privately run charter schools, etc.).

Complicating matters for public school finance directors and special education providers is a new voucher program enacted by lawmakers last year that, beginning this fall, will funnel money out of public coffers into private educational settings.

Rather than funneling tax money to private interests or to charter school operators that are not accountable to the public, our state must shore up neighborhood public schools where all students graduate from high school prepared for college or the world of work, no matter what the color of their skin, the language they speak, or where they happen to be born.

It is counter-intuitive to funnel money away from public schools, when D.C. public schools (DCPS) are making significant strides in student achievement.

Funneling money through a variety of different organizations and front groups, the charter school advocates have been able «transform» public education in Connecticut by promoting Malloy's plans to divert hundreds of millions of dollars in scarce public funds to privately owned and operated charter schools.

SACRAMENTO, California — Most Californians support dramatic changes set to take hold in public education, including funneling more money to schools with disadvantaged students and implementing rigorous national standards known as the common core curriculum, a new poll shows.

She has a desire to funnel money away from public schools... which in my opinion raises some First Amendment concerns,» Brown said.

ConnCAN has relentlessly pushed a funding scheme called «money follows the child,» which funnels public state and local dollars from public schools to privately run charter schools, which educate only 8 percent of the state's public school students.

«Instead of continuing to funnel money into a program that has failed to deliver on its promises, the state should instead invest that money in struggling public schools to allow educators and parents to determine how to improve public education for their students.

Studies have shown that nearly all of the public money given to charter schools under the umbrella of the NHA gets funneled back into the NHA itself, largely for «rent» and «management costs» (Meiksins, 2014).

Despite the significant amount of «dark money» being funneled into efforts that seek to obstruct action on climate change or misinform the public, Brulle concludes that sufficient evidence exists that «a number of major conservative foundations have clearly played a crucial role in the development and maintenance of the [climate change counter-movement].»

Conceived as a means of funneling private - sector money into conservation, REDD has evolved into an entire suite of activities and financing mechanisms that harness both private and public finance to slow deforestation.

For more on how the Interior Department's budget aims to expand fossil fuel and funnel billions in public money directly to fossil fuel producers, see our recent blog: «Trump's Interior budget: More drilling, more mining, more handouts.»

Reinforces my mantra that publishers can not continue to make money simply funnelling public content to us at a markup, but must find ways to add significant value.

Should the money currently spent on court appointments be funneled towards public defenders» offices?