Sentences with phrase «funneling public dollars»

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.

Formally known as the Opportunity Scholarship Program, school vouchers hit a bump in the road this past spring when Superior Court Judge Robert H. Hobgood temporarily halted the program pending a final ruling, calling into question the constitutionality of funneling public dollars into the coffers of private institutions.

In another example of how the wealthy use the tax code to their benefit while public schools suffer, some states are funneling public dollars to private schools and allowing businesses and upper - income taxpayers to turn a profit in the process, according to a report released by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP).

And our news pages have more than borne out our warnings, filled as they are with stories about elected officials sent to prison for funneling these public dollars to non-profit groups that they themselves control.

Not exact matches

County lawmakers on a committee charged with overseeing the Ulster County Resource Recovery Agency say that they remained unaware of a State Comptroller's Office audit of the agency, even as they discussed a deal expected to funnel millions of dollars in added revenue to the public benefit corporation.

Fast forward to 2017: President Donald Trump and U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos have championed a plan to provide federal funding for private school voucher systems nationwide, which would funnel millions of taxpayer dollars out of public schools and into unaccountable private schools — a school reform policy that they say would provide better options for low - income students trapped in failing schools.

Charter schools are free, public schools funded by taxpayer dollars funneled from a student's home district.

Voucher schemes — such as those backed by President Trump and Secretary DeVos — are fundamentally positioned to funnel taxpayers» dollars into private schools while draining much - needed resources from public schools and the vulnerable students who attend them.

Quite simply, the budget approved this month funnels public tax dollars to private schools, including those in wealthy suburbs.

That intervenor is the Institute for Justice, a self - described libertarian law firm located in our nation's capital that has a demonstrated interest in upholding laws that funnel taxpayer dollars from public school systems to largely unaccountable private schools.

Public schools claim that millions of dollars are being unconstitutionally funneled away from children's education, going toward tax - credit scholarships.

But the idea of funneling scarce taxpayer dollars away from public schools to pay for private school tuition has a way of bridging political divides.

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.

«Either they'll stand up for neighborhood public schools that provide opportunity for all children, or they'll reward campaign donors by funneling tax dollars to the private school industry.»

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.

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.

In a bid toward fairness, proponents of a bill that would funnel more tax and grant dollars to charter schools say that funds spent on each child's public schooling should stay with that child — wherever she attends school.

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.

Conning the public to funnel billions of taxpayer dollars into a human - loathing Cause to bring about the destruction of our societies and civilization SHOULD COST THEM SOMETHING.