Sentences with phrase «local public expenditure»

By writing Town Hall transparency into law we can make certain every citizen gets open and equal access to information about local public expenditure.

Not exact matches

More than thirty states have passed community mental health service acts or other legislation which makes funds available on a continuing basis to match local public or private nonprofit expenditures for mental health services.

Comment: This is another variant of the use of public expenditure to drive specific industrial outcomes, in this case by providing a shot in the arm to the local renewables energy industry.

«Public Safety Advocates is a political expenditure committee for public safety organizations to support candidates they have determined will keep our local communities safer,» BurkePublic Safety Advocates is a political expenditure committee for public safety organizations to support candidates they have determined will keep our local communities safer,» Burkepublic safety organizations to support candidates they have determined will keep our local communities safer,» Burke said.

Sixty - three percent of the general public says it prefers an increase in school expenditures in the local district, well up from levels in 2007 when only 51 percent of the public called for expenditure increases.

When the public is provided with specific information on the current level of expenditure in the local school district, it is less willing to spend more money on schools than when this information is not given.

At that time, the country did not realize it was about to enter a deep recession followed by a prolonged, uneven recovery, and 50 % of the public was ready to spend more on schools even after being told current levels of per - pupil expenditure in the local school district.

In that year, 61 % of the «uninformed» public (those not told current expenditure levels in their local district) endorsed more spending.

«However, each current voucher student who returns to a public school increases the local district's necessary education expenditures without increasing the local tax revenue for schools, obligating the state to provide increased funding to the district.»

«In the past 15 years, state funding formula expenses for public PreK — 12 education have risen by 51 percent; local expenditures on public PreK — 12 education have risen by 75 percent while total PreK — 12 education enrollments have fallen by 34,000 to about 178,000 students.

«That is $ 541 million over two years — more than half a billion dollars that the state would need to find in its budget for Connecticut's local public schools,» says Waxenberg, who questions why the state needs a new concept to compare expenditures between traditional schools and charter schools.

In particular, Cameron uses quasi-experimental methods of analysis to examine how American governments at the local, state, and federal levels invest in inputs to K - 12 public education, the largest public expenditure at the state and local levels.

Public districts governing boards are elected by the local community and must approve all aspects of school management — curriculum, expenditures, hiring and firing of personnel, etc..

A simpler and easier explanation is that disconnecting prioritizing school expenditures at a local level from local revenue generation when Prop 13 became a statewide property tax is the main reason for the decline in CA public education spending.

All system office and local library income and expenditures are audited annually by certified public accountants.