WikiLeaks revealed on 24th January that
the majority of its public funding now comes through bitcoin and litecoin.
New Orleans allocates the vast
majority of public funding directly to schools, and resources from philanthropy and competitive federal grants have complemented these core dollars.
Not exact matches
While donation - based crowdfunding has blossomed on the
public stage for getting arts and music projects
funded, the
majority of crowdfunding campaigns back social causes or startups.
Wide distribution over the internet • Low cost, efficient, transparent capital • The «great equalizer «• Media / PR, awareness • Increase customer engagement and • Evangelize backers into investors (customer acquisition) • Reduce risk by getting feedback on new launches (product or ventures) • Market research Access to Capital Marketing Platform Validation • Raising
funds via crowdfunding markets is a very
public and transparent • Protect your IP and speak to a lawyer • Crowdfunding takes a lot
of effort and commitment • The
majority of Ideas fail to reach their
funding goal • How will this affect your companies brand?
While the vast
majority of institutions have diversified into hedge
funds, private equity, and real estate, Tampa remains all in on
public markets.
Polling shows the
majority of Americans oppose
public funding for abortion, even those who identify as pro-choice.
The president
of Coca - Cola South Pacific, Roberto Mercade, said: «The vast
majority of the
funding in Australia goes to... support charities, the
public sector and not - for - profit organisations.
«I am running to build a real Democratic State Senate
majority that finally fully funds our public schools, protects tenants from being thrown out of their homes and strengthens our loophole ridden rent laws, passes badly needed ethics reforms, election reforms and real criminal justice reforms and makes Andrea Stewart - Cousins the first woman Senate Majority Leader, breaking up the so - called «three men in a room
majority that finally fully
funds our
public schools, protects tenants from being thrown out
of their homes and strengthens our loophole ridden rent laws, passes badly needed ethics reforms, election reforms and real criminal justice reforms and makes Andrea Stewart - Cousins the first woman Senate
Majority Leader, breaking up the so - called «three men in a room
Majority Leader, breaking up the so - called «three men in a room.»
Republican Senate
Majority Leader John Flanagan nudged New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio to provide more information on how the city spends $ 9 billion in state
funding for education as a precursor to considering an extension
of mayoral control
of public schools.
Tedisco's bill requires all member items, discretionary
funds, and so - called «lump sum payments», which are controlled by the Speaker
of the Assembly, Senate
Majority Leader and Governor and negotiated in many instances behind closed doors, be made
public and fully transparent within the state budget.
Cuomo told aides over the weekend that due to the high - profile criminal and civil investigations
of Senate
Majority Leader Pedro Espada (D - Bronx) that became
public last week, he was shelving tentative plans to announce later this week right before a Waldorf - Astoria
fund - raiser and a meeting
of the Democratic Rural Conference.
Mr. Cuomo's budget proposes forcing all projects receiving such
funding to get the approval
of the
Public Authorities Control Board — the three voting members
of which are himself, Mr. Heastie and State Senate
Majority Leader John Flanagan — before going forward.
I wonder if something like the CTF could be
funded by abolishing the monarchy and confiscating their assets for a purely
public use (such as a trust for youth turning age
of majority)?
We are still waiting for the final breakdown
of that
funding but I believe the
public benefitted greatly from the additional
funding,» said
Majority Leader Lorigo.
In her testimony, Katz said the controversy brought about by these reports illustrated the need for the Queens Library to become more open to the
public about how it decides to spend its money, the vast
majority of which is made up
of taxpayer
funds allocated to the Library by the City
of New York.
The district has been fighting for some time over
funding, with the Orthodox Jewish - controlled school board diverting
funds to Yeshivas — religious private schools that educate a minority
of students — and away from the
public schools attended by a
majority of students, many
of whom are black and Latino.
Under the Leadership
of Assembly Speaker Carl E. Heastie, the Assembly
Majority fought hard to secure much needed capital
funding for the
public housing developments owned and operated by New York City House Authority (NYCHA).
At noon, NYC Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, Council
Majority Leader Jimmy Van Bramer, Queens Library President Dennis Walcott, Brooklyn
Public Library President Linda Johnson, New York
Public Library President Tony Marx, and Councilmen Andy King and Costa Constantinides announce permanent baselining
of city
funding for 6 - day library service, Broadway Library, 40 - 20 Broadway, Queens.
The statements, which were made
public by the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, marked the first time in recent memory that the Legislature's top leaders earned little beyond their taxpayer - funded salaries and showed a stark departure from the tenures of ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D - Manhattan) and former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos (R - Nassau County), who frequently reported earning hundreds of thousands of dollars from outside legal
public by the Joint Commission on
Public Ethics, marked the first time in recent memory that the Legislature's top leaders earned little beyond their taxpayer - funded salaries and showed a stark departure from the tenures of ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D - Manhattan) and former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos (R - Nassau County), who frequently reported earning hundreds of thousands of dollars from outside legal
Public Ethics, marked the first time in recent memory that the Legislature's top leaders earned little beyond their taxpayer -
funded salaries and showed a stark departure from the tenures
of ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D - Manhattan) and former Senate
Majority Leader Dean Skelos (R - Nassau County), who frequently reported earning hundreds
of thousands
of dollars from outside legal work.
But that included things that the
majority Democrats didn't like, like eliminating the
public financing
of elections, and changing some grant
funding.
A
majority of the assembly told the
public that they believed it was important to restore the
funds.
Republican Senate
Majority Leader Dean Skelos, meanwhile, has said he's opposed to
public financing in part because taxpayers would
fund political campaigns
of people who they don't necessarily like.
As the September 12 primary elections approach and campaigns kick into high gear, a vast
majority of candidates for the city's elected offices will have their coffers bolstered by the Campaign Finance Board's (CFB)
public matching
funds program, which matches eligible donations at a 6 - to - 1 ratio.
Polls have consistently revealed that the vast
majority of the
public — as many as 73 % — oppose religious selection
of any kind in state -
funded schools, and research has found time and time again that religiously selective schools worsen religious, ethnic, and socio - economic segregation in their local areas.
According to internal Heartland plans leaked to the
public, this Anonymous Donor has been responsible for up to 60 %
of the organization's annual revenue, with the
majority of fund earmarked to «global warming programs.»
The
majority of private schools are religious, and few are likely to forsake their religious mission to surmount constitutional barriers to receiving
public funds.
The vast
majority of the
public consistently indicate on polls that publicly
funded private schools should be as transparent and accountable as
public schools.
This is what the
majority of public schools receive from government
funds.
With the exception
of African Americans, a plurality
of every subgroup, and sometimes a
majority, oppose
public funding for online education directed at home - schooled children.
In response to a separate question, a slim
majority of public school parents (54 %) say that if they had a choice to send their child to a private or religious school using
public funds, they would still send their child to a
public school.
School unions, for example, have been cautious in their support, often seeing charters as drawing
funds away from resource - starved
public school districts and diverting the discussion from how to fix
public schools, which continue to serve the vast
majority of American students.
«Vouchers in any form divert tax money to private schools or homeschoolers and take it from under -
funded public schools, where the vast
majority of school children will continue to be educated,» said Clay Robison, a spokesman for the Texas State Teachers Association.
A
majority of Americans support school choice, including the idea
of providing tax -
funded scholarships for poor parents to send their children to
public, private, or parochial schools, according to a poll released last week.
While popular with conservative groups like the Heritage Foundation that endorse school choice, Democrats argue the measure would sap
funding for a
majority of military families who attend
public school.
And they don't want to antagonize the GOP - led legislature that provides the
majority of public school
funding.
While North Carolina continues on a path
of disinvestment in
public education, equitable and adequate school
funding is perhaps more critical than ever now that children from low - income families make up the
majority in the United States»
public schools, according to a report released by the Southern Education Foundation earlier this year.
States across the country are draining
funds from
public schools that educate the vast
majority of our children and diverting it to a few students in private schools.
Yet states are the entities through which the vast
majority of public education
funds flow.
The
majority of the
funding is to be allocated this way: Classroom Site
Fund: $ 384.3 million;
public universities: $ 72.4 million: School Facilities Board debt service: $ 64.1 million;
In many states, local revenue makes up the lion share
of education
funding, but in Mississippi the state appropriates the
majority of the money spent to
fund Mississippi's
public schools.
For example, the
majority of charters typically must pay for facilities out
of general operating
funds, and have limited access to
public buildings — unlike school districts, which can access bonds for school construction and modernization.
Once they are done writing the exams, why isn't Pearson required to turn the entire kit and kaboodle over to the state and thus to the voters and tax payers who provide the vast
majority of decision making and
funding to
public education?
While the Office has audited fewer than half
of all charter schools, they have exposed some form
of internal control deficiency or mismanagement in 95 percent
of their audits.5 The
majority of charter schools in New York are left to operate year in and year out without regulator - level audits, specifically audits that are designed to determine whether these publicly
funded, privately managed schools are spending
public dollars properly.
Strong
majorities of adults (65 %) and
public school parents (71 %) favor providing more
funding.
Moreover, solid
majorities (61 %) back more
funding for
public schools — including 79 %
of Democrats, 57 %
of Independents, and even 45 %
of Republicans.
From the lawsuit: «It appears that if one is not Orthodox Jewish, like the
majority of the LBOE Board Members, and is not committed to diverting
public school
funds to benefit the local religious schools, that individual does not get to remain as an employee in the Lakewood School District.»
H. R. 2218 provides federal support to
fund construction and / or renovation costs for charter schools at a level not provided for traditional
public schools, despite the fact that many
of the traditional
public schools throughout the country are overcrowded, and these facilities are where the vast
majority of students are educated.
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.
Why don't we just admit that a billionaire and his foundation is doing back room deals with the Mayor and the Hartford Foundation for
Public Giving, deals which require taxpayer
funds to be expended, and schools to be shut down, and this is going to happen whether the taxpayers like it or not because Mayor Segarra gets to appoint a
majority of the BOE.
If there's one thing that people know about
public school
funding, it's that a
majority of the money comes from local property taxes.