Sentences with phrase «million in public funding»

The $ 457 million project to redevelop Chicago's historic Union Station received a boost Tuesday when the city's Community Development Commission approved $ 58.8 million in public funding for it in the form of tax increment financing.

Financing for the current phase, including an $ 8.3 million loan from a bank consortium of Eastern Bank and Boston Private Bank, as well as $ 2.25 million in public funding from the City of Boston and $ 1 million from MassHousing's Workforce Housing Opportunity Fund.

Under her leadership, PCY has brought more than $ 90 million in public funding to schools and their community partners, enabling thousands of low - income children to participate in these programs.

Resulting in the direction of about $ 146 million in public funding towards private schools last year, the Indiana Choice Scholarship Program has been in operation for about five years to date.

The Canada - based effort, called the International Regulome Consortium, hopes to raise $ 100 million in public funding for what organizers are calling «the third generation of genomics.»

The Plan is now being implemented thanks to the commitment of $ 153 million in public funding.

Mr Osborne also announced the Diamond Synchrotron facility in Oxfordshire will go ahead, receiving # 69 million in public funding.

He was instrumental in securing $ 240 million in public funding for the American Airlines Center, which opened in 2001.

The 340 - student school took over $ 10 million in public funding since 2010.

Since 2010, the Alberta government provided has $ 10 million in public funds to the school.

Especially the Raiders, who are using a record - setting $ 800 million in public funds to build their stadium off the Strip.

Governor Andrew Cuomo last week announced a new «Innovation Venture Capital Fund» to invest up to $ 50 million in public funds into start - up companies.

In the mayoral race, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn received $ 3.4 million in public funds, reflecting her large haul of small donations.

In addition to $ 6.5 million for the general campaign, Foley also received $ 1.35 million in public funds for the primary against Senate Minority Leader John McKinney of Fairfield.

Neither of them have come close to de Blasio, who has raised more than $ 5.25 million for his reelection and has received nearly $ 3 million in public funds.

On Thursday, the CFB approved a $ 1.52 million in public funds to be paid to Malliotakis» campaign, bolstering her campaign coffers which held only $ 162,950, giving her a much - needed boost ahead of the debate and the final six weeks of the general election.

New York's participatory budgeting process is now the largest in the country with $ 10 million in public funds being voted on.

MANHATTAN — The Bloomberg administration official responsible for overseeing the CityTime project to eliminate fraud resigned from his post Thursday following criminal allegations that consultants he hired stole $ 80 million in public funds.

Queens Borough President Melinda Katz, a longtime advocate for the restoration of the Pavilion who has successfully secured over $ 10 million in public funds to date toward important electrical and structural improvements on the «Astro - View» Towers, said, «This is an international open call for your best and boldest ideas to re-imagine the Pavilion for the 21st century.

For a time, Maimonides lobbied Hikind and other lawmakers for millions in public funds.

The mayor's $ 2 million legal tab adds to at least $ 11.6 million in public funds spent on lawyers who represented several underlings in the corruption probes, which ended in March with no charges filed — but harsh criticism of the mayor's fundraising practices.

The program will offer $ 500 million in public funds for internet service providers willing to match the state dollar - for - dollar.

As Rich Calder noted in Tuesday's Post, Mayor de Blasio took off for a Rhode Island family vacation just days after the Campaign Finance Board handed him an extra $ 1.6 million in public funds for the Democratic primary — cash he's supposedly entitled to because that race is so competitive.

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.

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.

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 «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.»

PA Cyber Charter was criticized by the Auditor General for inappropriately using millions in public funding for print, TV and radio advertising (Vidonic, 2012; Wagner 2012).

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

• Singularity University, a Moffett Field, Calif. - based public benefit corporation that provides educational programs, raised $ 32 million in Series B funding.

But as of 2016, Scott, who was a hospital executive before launching a bid for Governor, had a net worth of nearly $ 150 million, according to his public financial disclosure forms, and he used funds from his personal fortune on his gubernatorial elections in 2010 and 2014.

When I was looking for funding for my second startup, local VCs wouldn't return my phone calls, even though I'd previously helped build a public company with $ 120 million in annual revenue.

The fund created a permanent endowment of $ 25 million that would maintain the public rooms and collections in the White House.

He touted the company's volunteerist culture and $ 25 million in funding for Boston public schools over five years announced earlier in the day.