Sentences with phrase «in taxpayer funds»

But studies have shown that the program has generated relatively few jobs despite the tens of millions of dollars in taxpayer funds spent on advertising the program around the nation.

Yet despite that record of failures, charter schools are collecting billions in taxpayer funds.

The state has already put up millions in taxpayer funds.

An out - of - state company of consultants that have already collected $ 1 million in taxpayer funds wants even more.

His office found the group diverted $ 800,000 in taxpayer funds for elderly services to pay off a mortgage on a vacant building and that its former director charged thousands of dollars of personal expenses to a company credit card.

Combined, the two virtual schools could receive up to $ 66 million a year in taxpayer funds by 2017, if enrollment reaches a combined 6,000 students by then, according to the Associated Press.

Combined, the two virtual schools in North Carolina could receive up to $ 66 million a year in taxpayer funds by 2017 if enrollment reaches a combined 6,000 students by then, according to the Associated Press.

With up to $ 100,000 in taxpayer funds from Bridgeport's mayor, Bill Finch, Vallas is trying to hold on to his position by appealing his decision.

Several of the young men who accused disgraced former Democratic Rep. Eric Massa of sexual harassment were secretly paid nearly $ 100,000 in taxpayer funds in exchange for their silence.

Restructuring their administration could save $ 163.8 million in taxpayer funds annually and improve benefits to which City employees have access.

A Beacon Journal review of state audits of charter schools back to 2000 showed the following: State auditors have discovered $ 27,326,928 in taxpayer funds misspent at 166 charter schools.

Jagadish Shukla, a George Mason University climate professor with a rare aptitude for snaffling millions of dollars in taxpayer funded grants but rather less of a skill — you suspect — when it comes to producing research of any damn use to anyone.

The City of Vancouver has moved to take over the Olympic Village — now a struggling luxury condo project — and place it in receivership in hopes of recouping some of the $ 740 million in taxpayer funds invested in the project.

Trillions in taxpayer funds were needed to shore up the institutions and billions more in economic stimulus, leaving the Nation crippled with debt.

Avella's own office was the subject of sexual harassment and discrimination claims with expense records that indicate the state Senate paid a Manhattan law firm $ 22,444 in taxpayer funds earlier this year to investigate allegations of harassment made by a female member of Avella's district office staff.

He says he's already filed papers in two of the cases he's prosecuting to require the politicians, if convicted, to forfeit the amount of money they would receive in the future in taxpayer funded retirement benefits.

In December, four people associated with the group were charged with stealing about $ 30,000 in taxpayer funds Huntley had earmarked for the non-profit, according to reports.

The IDC also took credit for $ 10 million in taxpayer funds allocated to helping undocumented immigrants fighting deportation.

«I am very proud that I will participate in the taxpayer funded program.»

«They are the people who idolise Hugo Chavez and toast the revolution in taxpayer funded vintage burgundy and I know them because we have fought and beaten them twice and the reason I first wanted to get into that fight eight years ago is that I am fundamentally opposed to that style of politics.»

In a speech to Conservative conference, the culture secretary said National Lottery funding had protected «most budgets» despite cuts in taxpayer funding.

In August, Huntley pleaded not guilty to a separate conspiracy charge, which accused her of covering up the embezzlement of about $ 30,000 in taxpayer funds earmarked for another nonprofit she founded in Nassau County.

The city heavily subsidized the effort to rehab the 358 apartments with $ 10 million in taxpayer funds as well as $ 33 million in tax exempt bond financing.

Democratic primary candidates will compete in the taxpayer funded primary election on June 11, while the Republican nominee will be voted on by delegates of the Virginia Republican Party at the party - funded statewide primary convention on May 18.

Characterized by instability and lack of accountability, Milwaukee's voucher program has resulted in numerous stories like one last year in a local paper about a minister and his wife who accepted $ 2.3 million in taxpayer funding only to close their Lifeskills Academy abruptly during the school year.

Since 2014, Trinity Christian has received more than $ 1.2 million in taxpayer funds through the Opportunity Scholarships Program, which provides low - income families money to attend private schools.

The DNPE's own director figured that with private schools taking in taxpayer funds, there would be some sort of demand for increased oversight and accountability.

But government employee unions in California are incredibly powerful, collecting and spending over two billion dollars in taxpayer funded dues per two - year election cycle.

Therefore, in addition to the $ 166,000 each city will receive from the grant in the coming year, the three local school systems will be expected to use a «money follows the child» approach and dedicate another $ 350,000 or so in taxpayer funds to run the special schools.

And thanks to Presidents George W. Bush and Barak Obama, federal law provides that failing schools can be handed over to charter school management companies... and with it hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer funds going to private charter school corporations to run public schools.

In other words, this is what Solyndra's loss of $ 500 million in taxpayer funds looks like compared to the money taxpayers have lost on failed military projects and experiments.

Investment in family planning is also cost effective: for every $ 1 the state invests in this program, $ 7.09 is saved in taxpayer funding.

City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito and her colleagues pushed through an «unprecedented» bill December 7 to have city government pick up yet another function of private and religious schools — security — allocating almost $ 20 million in taxpayer funds outside the normal budget process for «safety officers» in any school with more than 300 students that wants one.

The company was given $ 40 million in taxpayer funding by Labor in June 2012 to keep the smelter open for another two years but falling aluminium prices are thought to have made it uneconomic.

The program gives low - income families up to $ 4,200 in taxpayer funds annually to spend at private schools.

Most recently, Sallie Mae received $ 2.16 million in taxpayer funded grant money from the state of Delaware to add 285 new employees and to renovate a 57,000 square - foot office in the First State.

State auditors have discovered $ 27,326,928 in taxpayer funds misspent at 166 charter schools.

One of the country's smaller lenders, Commerzbank, received 18.2 billion euros, or $ 23.3 billion, in taxpayer funds in 2009.

Under the city's public - funding system, candidates may receive $ 6 in taxpayer funds for each of the first $ 175 donated by a city resident, for a maximum of $ 1,050 in public funds per contributor.

The letter notes that Congress allocated $ 9.5 million in taxpayer funds to the General Services Administration to ensure a smooth transition of power and continue «faithful execution of the laws» so Americans» safety and security are not placed at risk.

«While you have publicly offered to reimburse the $ 84,000 in taxpayer funds you wrongly used to settle a sexual harassment claim, there is no legal...

The organisation is «flush with cash», reports the Wall Street Journal, having topped one billion dollars in 2007 revenues, including $ 336 million in taxpayer funding.