Sentences with phrase «in public funds corren»

Since the 1980s they have influenced governments to spend billions in public funds and subsidies to advance its corrupt science, along with subsidizing a massive building program of solar panels and wind turbines providing so little electricity it actually has endangered lives in Europe and threatens the integrity of the U.S. electrical grid.

This bill: defines terms; permits the Division of Finance to require background checks or credit history reports of a public employee in a public funds position; classifies the background check or credit history report as a private record; and makes technical and conforming amendments.

In addition to the TIFIA loan, the project is funded from the following sources: $ 606 million in proceeds from PABs, equity contribution of $ 672 million, $ 17 million in toll revenues and $ 490 million in public funds.

In addition to the TIFIA loan, the project is funded from the following sources: $ 675 million in proceeds from Private Activity Bonds, equity contribution of $ 272 million, $ 309 million in public funds, $ 368 million in toll revenues, and $ 43 million in TIFIA capitalized interest.

Now Perry and his private company have been granted two lucrative «charters,» both of them to be paid using tens of millions in public funds, even though Perry's school has consistently failed to educate its fair share of Latinos, those with English Language challenges and those with special education needs.

The voucher program, which offers low - income students up to $ 6,442 in public funds to attend participating private schools, expanded this year to 64 schools across the state, including Lighthouse Christian School in Madison.

As more and more facts come out about Michael Sharpe, the CEO of the Jumoke / FUSE Charter School Management company, parents, public school advocates and the taxpayers of Bridgeport and Connecticut are turning their attention to the decision by Paul Vallas and former Bridgeport Board of Education, Chairman Kenneth Moales, Jr. to hand over Bridgeport's Dunbar School, its students, staff, parents and millions of dollars in public funds to the disgraced charter school fraud.

In the past two and a half years, Connecticut taxpayers have we seen tens of millions of dollars in public funds diverted to feed the monster known as the emerging education reform industry.

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Thursday backed a proposal to allow military families to use $ 1.3 billion in public funds to send their children to private school or pay for other education services.

The Baltimore City school administrators who never raised a cent on their own and could never claim «I built that» even if it came to a teachers» lounge, recently wasted over $ 500,000 in public funds (that's taxpayer money) on expensive local hotel suites, lavish dinners and even wings at Hooters for students «because that was what they wanted,» and The Sun was so outraged by their indefensible waste of taxpayer money that it was called a «distraction» in an editorial.

And heading up the overall operation, which has spent more than $ 300 million in public funds, Commissioner Stefan Pryor recruited a school principal from Achievement First, Inc. the large charter school management company that Pryor co-founded.

But thanks to a gigantic loophole in the law, the Malloy political operation has been raising money for the Connecticut Democratic State Central Committee in order to augment the millions in public funds he will get to pay his campaign expenses.

Pryor began his tenure by using no - bid contacts to pass out millions of dollars in public funds to out - of - state companies for the purpose of developing Malloy's «education reform» initiative and transforming the State Department of Education into a gravy train for the corporate education reform industry.

So how on earth did we go from having one of the «best» campaign finance reform laws in the nation to a campaign in which Malloy gets $ 6.2 million in public funds, while accessing another $ 10 million or more in campaign donations including money from state contractors and others who personally benefit from the governor's policies.

Not only has Jumoke / FUSE taken more than $ 53 million in public funds for their charter school but they were given control and the associated public funding to take over public schools in Hartford and Bridgeport and approved for another charter school in New Haven before the Hartford Courant reported on the criminal background of the company's CEO and the FBI raised the company's offices.

Because state takeovers have been characterized by conversion of public schools into charter schools; schools unaccountable to elected boards, with little duty to report on its finances, yet they receive millions in public funds.

The group was also instrumental in supporting Steve Perry's effort to collect tens of millions of dollars in public funds so that he could open his own, privately operated, but publicly funded charter school in Bridgeport.

Illinois students, their families, and taxpayers can not afford to lose a dollar more in public funds as a result of fraud, misspending, or misdirection within the charter school system.

Horizon Christian, which is also struggling, collected $ 2.4 million in public funds in 2016.

K12 has spent untold millions in public funds on ads — a luxury budget item that traditional public schools are not permitted even when competing with K12 for students.

The program will be supported by an initial investment of $ 15 million in public funds from both agencies over three years.

And that doesn't even count the $ 626 million in public funds allocated to the «jobs package» that Governor Malloy signed into law last October.

The two were found guilty in April of misappropriating more than $ 200,000 in public funds, embezzlement and other charges when they operated the independent charter, Ivy Academia, in West Hills.

Even worse, because the move is «part of the Sheff desegregation settlement» it will make a mockery of the historic effort and the tens of million in public funds that have been spent to implement the Sheff settlement initiatives to date.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and Wendy Spencer, chief executive officer of the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), today announced a new competitive grant program that will provide $ 15 million in public funds over three years to reinforce and accelerate intervention efforts in the nation's lowest - performing schools.

In its 2013 fiscal year, the most recent for which fund - raising figures are publicly available, it received nearly $ 72 million in public funds and $ 22 million in donations.

While the City of Bridgeport's public education budget faced additional cuts this school year, Achievement First Inc.'s charter school in Bridgeport will be getting a free $ 850,000 in public funds to construct a new cafeteria, classrooms and gymnasium space.

Other failed charters, of course, have absorbed much more in public funds.

Some have reaped millions in public funds during their operations, despite reports of chronically poor academics and questionable finances.

The article may very well be the most powerful take - down yet of the Common Core and, in this case, the Malloy administration's plan to spend up to $ 1 million in public funds on an absolutely absurd waste of $ 1 million to advertise and promote he warped Common Core standards.

Yet after two visits by the education department and an investigation by the attorney general's office, the troubled Indianapolis private school still received thousands of dollars in public funds through Indiana's school voucher program and remained eligible to receive state voucher money until it collapsed under the weight of its unpaid debts.

The «corporations» generate millions in public funds yet provide minimal and low quality independent study programs without academic results, without transparency, but with exorbitant and difficult - to - track executive and contractor salaries.»

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.

The percentages would indicate a clear decline for the schools — which were taking in a combined $ 14.5 million in public funds this year — since Policy Watch reported in March that both schools had apparently surpassed the state - mandated, 25 percent - threshold, although the schools later contested the accuracy of those figures before the State Board of Education.

The founders of a San Fernando Valley charter school were sentenced Friday for the misappropriation of more than $ 200,000 in public funds in a case that could affect charter schools statewide.

The school is the biggest recipient of all those participating in the state's new Opportunity Scholarship Program, having already received 43 school vouchers totaling more than $ 90,000 dollars in public funds.

This month Governor Dannel «Dan» Malloy will be getting a check for $ 6.2 million in public funds through the Connecticut Public Financing Program to pay for part of his campaign for governor.

Add in the tens of million spent by local school districts on computers and internet expansion so that students can take the on - line tests, along with the substitute teachers who were brought in so that full - time teachers could be pulled out to «learn about the Common Core,» and well over $ 150 — $ 200 million dollars (or more) in public funds have been diverted from instruction to the Common Core and Common Core testing disaster.

As a result of Connecticut's campaign finance program, Governor Dannel «Dan» Malloy is on track to collect $ 6.2 million in public funds to pay for his 2014 gubernatorial campaign.

Combined, families with an eligible disabled child may receive up to $ 21,200 each year in public funds for use at private schools and related expenses.

PESAs, which were enacted by the legislature last year and become available beginning this fall, will allow families with eligible children with disabilities to use up to $ 9,000 in public funds loaded onto debit cards for tuition at private and home schools and other eligible education expenses.

Traditional district schools receive just over $ 19,076 in public funds for each student.

When asked about these costs, Powell noted that public charter schools receive $ 13,527 in public funds for each student.

But charter - school people across the land would forfeit their front teeth if their schools could be financed at almost $ 15,000 per pupil per year in public funds, plus the many millions in philanthropy that Moskowitz has mustered to finance start - up costs and important ancillary services.

We encountered a program that: • intends to be responsive to disabled children and their families but is often paralyzed by red tape; • attempts to address the needs of an amazingly diverse group of children yet often relies on standardized approaches and «box checking» oversight; • absorbs more than $ 50 billion a year in public funds yet provides no consistent tracking of its performance.

If you attend Incline High School in the upscale town of Incline Village, for instance, you in effect «receive» more than $ 13,248 in public funds — that is, the per - pupil expenditure in that community, which is far above the state average of $ 8,274 per pupil.

Moskowitz's lawyers have informed city officials they will not sign a mandatory contract allowing the Education Department to oversee the charter's pre-K program, officials said — even though her privately run Success Academy network seeks thousands of dollars in public funds for each student.

Moskowitz's lawyers have already informed city officials they would not submit to city oversight even though her privately run Success Academy network seeks about $ 10,000 in public funds for each of its 72 pre-K students.

For instance, in a City Council race, for those participating in the matching system, the 2017 spending limit is $ 182,000 each in the primary and general election, so a candidate could receive up to $ 100,100 in public funds by raising about $ 16,800.

Margaret Bailey was sentenced Monday to serve two to six years in state prison for stealing $ 117,000 in public funds.