Sentences with phrase «get public dollars»

Some educators say they are fueled partly by their war with Ducey over his latest expansion of a voucher - like program — a pioneering «education savings account» that allows virtually any family to get public dollars to pay for private school expenses.

Not exact matches

The unwanted public spotlight puts BB&T in a difficult position, despite the millions of dollars it will get from Graham's businesses.

It creates an unfair advantage for the lumber industry, says Ali, which leads to «loss of innovation, loss of competitiveness, and... [the public] is not getting the best possible product they should be getting for their taxpayer dollars.»

It costs billions of dollars to develop revolutionary treatments and cures at scale, and often the only place to get that much funding is in the public markets.

The world's squillion dollar public relations juggernaut is resting easier this week after squashing the ill - placed notion: «We don't need public relations when we've got marketing».

But if Jet does what its investors think it will, either going public or getting acquired for billions of dollars, Martin's three - week referral sprint could have generated life - changing, generational wealth for him and his family.

I am so happy to live in a country where the Public Enemy (PE) Mafia can get away with Legalized Bustouts (LBOs) to fund their lavish lifestyles, multi-million dollar yachts, private airplanes and SHTF bolt holes in New Zealand.

Have a candidate that can say and deliver me something to where NON of my tax dollars will be used fund any schools private or public on the teachings of this god magic, and they got my vote!

You expect me to believe that a bunch of guys that have been around football their entire lives, have access to troves of video, interviews, statistics, and expert opinions that are not available to the general public, and get paid millions of dollars to evaluate the talent of football players and sign them to contracts might know MORE about evaluating football players and signing them to contracts then the patrons of a Dallas Cowboys internet blog?

Getting 78 % of spread tickets and 85 % of spread dollars, Georgia has been attracting public bettors since it opened as a 2.5 - point favorite.

If they play it right, where the cuts in dollars equate to days of operation, the public, and the politicians will get the message.

But charter schools get a cut of taxpayer dollars, which threatens the money needed to fund the public schools and keep the Syracuse Teachers Association operating.

De Blasio argued that he needed millions of dollars in public money for his campaign because his Democratic opponents were getting significant media coverage.

Public schools in the city of Yonkers will get an additional $ 25 million dollars in aid, but Cuomo had to abandon a last minute proposal to give an additional $ 75 million dollars to struggling upstate schools.

The money gets pumped back into the state's economy through tuition dollars to public schools — and there's a direct connection between education and workforce development, he said.

Candidates for the General Assembly will get their hands on nearly 12 million taxpayer dollars to reach voters in 2016, as planned, after public financing advocates fought back a threat at the state Capitol.

When employment figures begin going up, and real affordable universal health care is soon to be available, and wasteful Bush fantasies like Star Wars are back to being experimental programs on the fringes of public awareness and costing only hundreds of millions of dollars a year, when all of our long term allies are back to being on speaking terms with us, those 25 % ers will get their 25 % s and Congress will be even more democratic Party than now.

«If anything, we should be fighting in the other direction — for more oversight given that these yeshivas are getting millions of dollars of public money,» Moster said.

There have been many cases reported from Missouri in which people have not made any donation to Obama and were charged fraudelently, one person being charged 176,000.00 The others were charged around 2300.00 Pretty sad, and with reports of as mucha s 63 million dollars coming from foreign sources of the 150 million dollars they just took in September, can anyone say «bogus fund raising» and this is the exact reason why Obama did nt take public financing, he knew he was going to get outside help and just goes to show how shady he is and has been his whole political career!

Why, I asked, did he need to spend thousands of dollars to reach the public when he could simply pick up the phone and get instant and near total media coverage for free?

«All they've done is spend taxpayers dollars in an effort to subvert us from getting things that are clearly within the public's right to know.»

«New Yorkers are literally getting cheated out of tens of millions of dollars in public space — and the city is willfully choosing to do nothing about it,» Stringer said.

Billions of dollars in public and private capital for energy investment are up for grabs as developed countries like the United States and emerging economies like India get down to brass tacks on how they will hit their greenhouse gas emissions pledges and move their energy systems away from fossil fuels.

On one hand, you've got the mega-powerful multi-billion dollar food companies that make huge profits off of cheap grain - based foods and they attempt to convince the public that breads, cereals, etc are «healthy».

A billion dollars feels like a lot of money to you, me, and the folks at foundations, but to a public school system spending over $ 600 billion annually it is not nearly enough to get them to do things that they don't already want to do nor enough to purchase things that they can't already buy.

When you look at the incompetence of the public schools and the state tests, where are spending billions of dollars and we get absolutely nothing.

As for the latter, states must to find ways to get charter schools to a decent level of per - pupil funding, plus facilities funding, if not in comparison to traditional public schools then at least in terms of real dollars.

At the same time, the mayor said he got the best deal he could for the city because he secured additional dollars for public schools.

So when she says she is for public schools it is important that she distinguish between real public schools and charters that are only public because they get tax dollars.

We need a moratorium on new charters until we get greater accountability on our tax dollars that pay for these alleged «public institutions!»

While Yoder wanted to allow siblings of current voucher recipients to receive private school tuition dollars without entering the public school system, Kenley said at the time this would break an agreement that was central to the original voucher bill: public schools get the first chance at educating students.

Finch, who as mayor of Bridgeport undermined Bridgeport's public schools, supported and defended education reformer extraordinaire Paul Vallas, handed tens of millions of dollars in public funds to the charter school industry and used his power for personal gain, has landed nicely on his feet, after getting thrown out of office by Bridgeport voters.

Supporters of charter schools, which are funded with the taxpayer dollars that a local school district would otherwise get to educate a student, say the schools allow for innovative ways to teach outside the confines of the red tape found in traditional public schools.

Unwilling to accept status quo, she battled to get her daughter and youngest son into Hunter College Elementary, the state - funded school for the gifted that even parents who swear they will only send their children to public schools are willing to make an exception for, as well as spend thousands of dollars on test prep.

The National Coalition for Public Education — which includes 50 organizations, including the Children's Defense Fund and the National Urban League — has also written that portability would expand the amount of students served through Title I and result in the poorest districts getting less of overall Title I dollars.

Add to that impulse dwindling public education dollars and the specter of a beloved child doing without, and you get someone like Kevin D. Green Sr., who pounded the pavement in Jackson, Mississippi, to collect donations for the annual PTA raffle.

They simply can't get wait to get their hands on the $ 800 billion dollars states spend annually on public schools.

Although they claim to be «public» educational institutions, and are in fact funded with taxpayer dollars, no genuine public school would ever try or get away with the dubious education policies and practices that Achievement First engages in.

Charter schools, though public, only get money from the state, meaning they do not receive local property tax dollars.

Malloy claims that his «initiative» is providing Connecticut's 30 most struggling school districts with another $ 132 million in state aid, but the truth is that this year's increase is only about $ 45 million and that in order to get those funds, school districts were required to accept a series of new mandates and programs aimed at further implementing Malloy's corporate education reform agenda and diverting scarce public dollars to private companies.

Let's get serious about our public schools, and stop throwing tax dollars at what doesn't work — private tuition subsidies.»

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.

ALEC is working to ensure that public education dollars get diverted to private profits.

The goal has more to do with changing school governance and giving opportunities for some of these organizations to get control of the public dollar,» Lubienski said.

Because the schools are private, they can teach that with impunity — and public dollars are paying for children to get such an education.

From an economic perspective: what return on we getting on our investment of public dollars?

«Public education is one of the largest items in the state budget, so Texans need to know where their dollars are getting the highest return in terms of student performance,» Combs said.

School choice is an increasingly popular issue in state legislatures nationwide as more and more states consider expanding educational options to help children get a better education, spur public school improvement, and save taxpayer dollars.

And in order to get THAT, the public has to agree to tax credits that send $ 50 million in tax dollars to private and religious foundations and another $ 70 million that will go in $ 500 increments to private and parochial schools as «credits» that act as vouchers.

Chicago Public Schools officials are set to authorize $ 200 million of new borrowing to manage a cash crunch through the end of June while also taking out a separate line of credit to borrow nearly a billion dollars to get through the coming fiscal year.