Sentences with phrase «millions in taxpayer dollars»

The schools plan on serving 3,000 students combined in the first year and stand to receive $ 66 million in taxpayer dollars annually by the conclusion of the four year pilot.

What's more, this year's proposed budget would funnel $ 500 million in taxpayer dollars into private school voucher programs.

The new models have saved millions in taxpayer dollars and have returned productive citizens to their families and communities.

And relentless questions have dogged the eastern North Carolina charter operator Baker Mitchell, who runs four charter schools and has reportedly profited in the tens of millions in taxpayer dollars through his for - profit companies that lease the land to the schools and run their operations.

The war of words between County Executive Steve Levy and Presiding Officer William Lindsay came to light the same day that Newsday reported that Levy's wife Colleen West owns two court reporting firms that do business with at least seven entities that have received millions in taxpayer dollars from the county.

But this TTL post was actually the first to consider the implications of the emerging scandal for the Smarter Lunchrooms movement, on which the USDA has spent millions in taxpayer dollars.

John Flanagan and his Albany cronies have sold out Long Island public schools and have cut a deal with high finance charter school operators to exchange millions in taxpayer dollars for campaign cash for Chris McGrath,» said Democratic Senate Campaign Committee spokesman Mike Murphy.

This year's state budget «continues to direct millions in taxpayer dollars in advertising to the failing Start - Up NY program»

«The 2018 - 2019 state budget... continues to direct millions in taxpayer dollars in advertising to the failing Start - Up NY program,» Kolb said in a statement.

WASHINGTON — Ignoring the outsized need for family planning resources and turning a blind eye to the looming and near - immediate threat of the Zika virus, a House subcommittee passed a bill that prohibits funding for the nation's only dedicated source of federal funding for family planning services, eliminates the evidence - based Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program, and proposes wasting millions in taxpayer dollars by funding ineffective abstinence - only education.

Propose wasting millions in taxpayer dollars by funding ineffective abstinence - only programs

«My concern is that when we're dealing with deficits, you'd have potentially $ 200 million in taxpayer dollars going to be spent on campaign financing,» Skelos said.

A firm that manages dozens of city homeless shelters — including the Bronx site where two toddlers were killed by a radiator steam leak in December — has kept years of tax problems hidden from the city even as it continued to collect millions in taxpayer dollars.

Also at 1 p.m., Reclaim's New York Transparency Project will host a press conference announcing the filing of litigation against a major state agency for multiple violations of the FOIL and for withholding public information on how millions in taxpayer dollars were spent, state Capitol, Senate staircase landing, third floor, Albany.

The launch also marked a small victory for the politicians of New Mexico who created Spaceport America in 2004 with more than $ 200 million in taxpayer dollars as part of an ambitious plan to capitalize on new technology and stimulate economic growth.

So the man running the property in which the refugees suffer is «recognized for his philanthropy» in giving to Catholic Charities, which receives millions in taxpayer dollars to house and settle refugees in St. Denis» disgusting complex.

Yet the model has come in for repeated criticism from government watchdogs, who say an economic policy that tries to create risky new industries virtually from scratch, and that spends millions in taxpayer dollars to create every new job, is folly.

«We know that it'll only cost $ 2 per New Yorker, and that's a small price compared to the hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars that are handed out every year in sweetheart deals for CEO campaign contributors.»

Traffic delays account for a portion of this time, and adds up to 17,747 hours for Milwaukee as a whole and more than $ 318 million in taxpayer dollars for resulting necessary repairs.

This kind of lifesaving program actually saves around $ 2 million in taxpayer dollars by keeping these cats out of county shelters

VICTORIA: New Democrat leader Carole James is asking the B.C. Liberals to address public concerns they used $ 6 million in taxpayer dollars to secure a guilty plea to sweep the B.C. Rail corruption trial under the rug.

Trump on Wednesday blasted the tens of millions in taxpayer dollars that New York state has spent on the governor's Start Up NY Jobs program.

Design - build is also projected to save at least $ 100 million in taxpayer dollars.

First, this bill doesn't send one nickel a religious school,» Bellafiore said «Second, New York State already sends hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars to religiously affiliated schools, via a very long - standing program that pays for services mandated by the state.»

Seabrook, who was convicted in July of funneling $ 1.5 million in taxpayer dollars to friends and family, showed many of the absences during the time he was facing the corruption charges.

They calculated that a revised Medicaid sterilization policy, including removal of the mandatory 30 - day waiting period, would result in 29,000 fewer unintended pregnancies each year and thus lead to a cost savings of $ 215 million in taxpayer dollars.

Lawmakers in New Jersey are calling for major reforms in compensation practices for public school administrators in the wake of a scathing report that concludes that millions in taxpayer dollars were spent on lucrative contracts, hidden perks, and pension padding for dozens of superintendents and their top deputies.

When the STEM Education for a Global Society Academy, a Columbus County school that focused on interactive, hands - on learning methods, shut its doors due to governance issues in April 2015 just months after state leaders approved their application, the school had already pulled in nearly $ 1 million in taxpayer dollars, according to state records.

In effect spend over a million in taxpayer dollars to keep children in a failing school.

Michele Rhee and those who are looking to make millions by allowing certain charter schools and other corporations to re-direct million in taxpayer dollars are here to make sure that a candidate who supports teachers and Connecticut's public schools doesn't get elected.

Since North Carolina launched the private school voucher program in 2014, more than $ 1.2 million in taxpayer dollars have gone to Trinity Christian to subsidize tuition for low - income students.

They took over $ 80 million in taxpayer dollars, went bankrupt, and have paid back only $ 2 million.

This is a problem; the IGES receives millions in taxpayer dollars each year for its research, and such an offensive measure as calling for a RICO investigation is very clearly partisan politics.