Sentences with phrase «of additional public funds»

The third relevant aspect is the belief that a large influx of additional public funds is not sufficient to make progress on access to justice, which is convenient because it is unlikely that there will be an influx of new spending into the access to justice envelope.

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As of July 2015, its valuation hit nearly $ 51 billion, equaling the record set by Facebook in 2012.394 It recently secured an additional $ 3.5 billion in investment, bringing its total funds to $ 13.5 billion — a figure «far greater than most companies raise even during an initial public offering,» which Uber has avoided.395

Our principal stockholders, funds affiliated with or related to Cyrus Capital Partners, L.P. (which we refer to in this prospectus collectively as «Cyrus Capital») and affiliates of Virgin Group Holdings Limited (which we refer to in this prospectus collectively as the «Virgin Group»), as selling stockholders, have granted the underwriters an option to purchase up to additional shares of common stock at the initial public offering price less the underwriting discount solely to cover overallotments.

In February of 2008, Fox Valley Park District residents approved a $ 44.8 million referendum to fund improvements for local parks, trails and public facilities, acquire new land for additional recreation space, preserve Fox River shoreline areas and create additional venues for athletic fields, and numerous other goals.

Additional funding has been provided by the Prevention Leadership Team of DuPage County Health Department, Kids Matter / Parents Matter Too, the Glen Ellyn Public Library, AMITA Alexian Brothers Behavioral Health Hospital, Linden Oaks Behavioral Health, Helping Girls Navigate Adolescence, Northwestern Medicine Behavioral Health at Central DuPage Hospital, B R Ryall YMCA, with in - kind donations from FORWARD, Sodexo and Maple Glen.

Tentative deals have been reached on parts of a new state budget, including about $ 1 billion in additional funding for public schools, a work - around for some higher - income New Yorkers to reduce the impact of new federal tax deduction limits, and a freeze on what Albany sends to local governments around the state.

He has visited New York City public housing repeatedly over the last month, and even declared a state of emergency last week, promising $ 250 million in additional funding in the state budget ($ 550 million has been allocated to the New York City Housing Authority since 2015).

As Kelly's proposals involve an additional # 23m of public funds, they are unlikely to be implemented in the current climate of spending cuts.

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.

Our delegation has led the fight to pass legislation and fund the rebuilding of Yonkers Public Schools (YPS), brought in $ 21 million in capital resources, including funding for a new football field, additional funding for arts and after school programming in Yonkers.

Additional Funding for Enforcement; Review of JCOPE to Ensure Performance The Budget also provides an additional $ 1.2 million for enforcement activities at the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, amounting to a 27 percent increase in the Commission's operatiAdditional Funding for Enforcement; Review of JCOPE to Ensure Performance The Budget also provides an additional $ 1.2 million for enforcement activities at the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, amounting to a 27 percent increase in the Commission's operatiadditional $ 1.2 million for enforcement activities at the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, amounting to a 27 percent increase in the Commission's operating budget.

«Despite the progress outlined in this tentative deal there is clearly a lot of work ahead of us, including stronger criminal justice reforms; full funding for our state's public education system; ensuring affordable college for all New Yorkers, including DREAMers; additional support for Planned Parenthood; and ethics and voting reforms,» said Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins.

But he insisted there was no alternative, claiming that the public had to face up to the reality that additional state funding is needed if large donations are to become a thing of the past.

«If it's too difficult to take big money out of politics because the public will never accept additional state funding even when the deficit is under proper control, of course we'll never get there,» Sir Christopher added.

In his proposed state budget, Cuomo also has proposed $ 11 million in funding to hire additional health care workers at cancer treatment facilities for outreach work, $ 15 million for public education campaigns targeting underserved communities, and $ 5 million to support commercialization of cancer - related technologies.

The two additional items that Thomas was charged with mentioned above does not include misuse of campaign funds, but two campaign expenses of $ 2,000 to pay for a Chanel purse for his wife and a family trip to Mexico, both paid for by the inaugural committee, are difficult for the public to forgive.

None of the additional funding requests were included in de Blasio's $ 82.2 executive budget, released April 27 — a decision Council Member and Public Safety Committee Chair Vanessa Gibson said on Monday she was «very disappointed to see.»

Hogan could not raise additional money in the campaign, while Brown was capable of raising additional funds by not committing to public financing.

Next year, as part of the Fiscal Year 2017 Capital Budget, Borough President Katz plans to use additional capital funds to provide tech funding to all of the Queens public elementary and intermediate schools that were not included in this year's round of funding.

«By maintaining a significant amount of cash in a checking account, not only did the SCA fail to comply with the investment requirements of the Public Authorities Law, but also lost the opportunity to generate additional investment income on these funds,» said a report by Comptroller Scott Stringer.

Though she is a participant in the public matching funds program, which matches certain eligible donations at a 6 - to - 1 ratio, Malliotakis has not hit the matching claims threshold of $ 250,000 of qualifying funds needed to unlock the additional money, and her lack of a primary opponent would render her ineligible to receive funds yet even if she did hit it, leading her campaign to stress it is not a concern at this time.

In an effort to attract additional private funding, the bill also adds two more members of the public to the Animal Care and Control board.

The viral nature of the campaign earned the national ALS Association, an organization which raises public awareness and funding for ALS, an additional US$ 115 million1.

To build adequate, equitable, and sustainable financing with effective incentives for quality additional resources will need to come from a combination of public and private resources, with the largest portion of funding coming from public investments, the report says.

The Census Bureau has estimated that the number of people over 65 will increase by 2050 to 88.5 million; thus, Alzheimer's disease presents an enormous future public health problem which was recently recognized by Congress with the allocation of 300 million in additional NIH research funding.

However, this is precisely the type of question that researchers are now seeking to answer with the additional funding and resource made available following the WHO statement yesterday declaring the potential link between Zika virus and microcephaly as a public health emergency of internal concern.»

Dr. Story Landis, chair of the NIH Stem Cell Task Force, said states like Maryland, which offer their own public funding to researchers, often help get projects off the ground — and scientists then use their early research to apply for additional federal funding.

Critics of the report pointed to the report's «new age, neo-naturalist» stance, noting that the nutrition scientists at the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (now the DHHS), who urged caution in the face of the limited science on nutrition and chronic disease, could not compete with this popular ideology either for public support or for government funds for additional research.21

«This is also a very important example of the benefits of the Gonski schools funding system — $ 224 million of additional Gonski funding is going to greatly benefit public schools right across the state and this is yet another example of the importance of all governments around Australia committing to fully funding the Gonski model.»

This would include funding for a pilot private - school voucher program, new money for charter schools, and additional money for Title I that would be directed to follow students to the public school of their choice.

The scarcity of information reflects the fact that private schools, unlike public schools, do not receive additional funding for students with disabilities, and consequently are not required by federal law to follow complex procedures for the identification of those students.

• School choice — a strong effort to provide additional federal funds to states that allow funding to follow students to their public or private school of choice.

But Wisconsin state senator Russ Decker, a leading opponent of vouchers, has argued that the program gives money to children who would attend private schools anyway and declared, «You've got a lot of additional money going into the choice program that we could better use funding public education statewide.»

The measure calls for a commission consisting of the governor, state superintendent, and legislative leaders to devise means of generating an additional $ 1 billion in state revenue to increase the state's share of public school funding from about 40 percent to roughly 65 percent.

It may well be the case that additional funds devoted to particular policies could improve certain facets of American public education.

Alex Hernandez of the Charter School Growth Fund celebrated: «[CREDO] reports that the 107,000 students whose schools receive support from the Charter School Growth Fund gain, on average, the equivalent of four additional months of learning in math and three additional months of learning in reading each year when compared to peers in other public schools.»

The administration has yet to release a proposal for how the federal government might foster more school choice in states and localities around the country, although its initial budget proposal included additional funding for charters and other forms of public school choice, as well as funding for a new private school choice program.

Later as the first African American and female superintendent of San Francisco Public Schools, she introduced a program to target additional resources and create a new equitable funding formula for schools.

The district also contends that because the mayor and board of education have provided additional funding for traditional public schools ever since the act was passed, those actions have created an authoritative legal precedent.

4) Members of the public are less inclined to favor using additional funds for class - size reduction if they know its cost relative to the cost of teacher pay and the purchase of new books and technologies.

Private schools can either accommodate the student themselves, using whatever resources they have, or negotiate with public school officials regarding the provision of special services to the student by the public school system with additional public funds (a process called «equitable services»).

While mandating that every publicly funded school should meet rigorous state content standards, every state should explore additional forms of school choice, pushing far beyond the boundaries of within - district public school choice.

Premiers spoke of the difficulty or impossibility of finding their one - third share of additional funding from already over-stretched state budgets, and their fears that even with these loadings, schools, particularly public schools, needed more funding.

This challenge is compounded by the fact that charter schools are chronically underfunded, operating, on average nationwide, with only three - quarters of the operational funding of traditional (district) public schools, and typically with no additional funding for facilities or capital infrastructure.

To comply with a new class size law this fall, Elizabeth City - Pasquotank Public Schools officials estimate they'll need an additional $ 1 million to fund the hiring of 20 additional teachers for the elementary - school grads.

Finally, in September 1959, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the County to «take immediate steps» toward integrating its schools, bringing the situation in the County to a breaking point.13 The county board of supervisors, with assistance from the Virginia General Assembly, took additional measures to undermine funding for integrated public schools.

In addition to suffering from the problems that all voucher bills have in common, this bill would also undermine the main purpose of Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), which is designed to target federal funds to public schools with high concentrations of poverty in order to provide additional educational services for these students.

Throughout Washington, D.C., and around the country, parents are raising hundreds of thousands — even millions — of dollars to provide additional programs, services, and staff to some of their districts» least needy schools.7 They are investing more money than ever before: A recent study showed that, nationally, PTAs» revenues have almost tripled since the mid-1990s, reaching over $ 425 million in 2010.8 PTAs provide a small but growing slice of the funding for the nation's public education system.

But in other cases, a local government could increase taxes all day and still not generate sufficient additional revenue to fund a truly free system of public schools.

The DCPS funding formula does differentiate public funding based on the number of students at each grade level and in different special needs categories, including special education, English language learners, and those «at risk» for academic failure.38 DCPS would not disclose how or if it factors in parental donations when determining school budgets or allocations.39 However, it did report not having a policy to equitably redistribute parent donations or to prohibit these additional dollars from being put toward staffing.40