Sentences with phrase «of public funds going»

«There's more support from Republicans of public funds going to private schools.»

If the share of public funds going to independent private schools rose by 1 percentage point, there was a 12 point increase in math achievement.

The Netherlands and Belgium are the countries with by far the largest share of public funds going to private institutions (75 percent and 63 percent, respectively).

Meanwhile, less than half a percent of public funding goes to private schools in Austria, Greece, Ireland, New Zealand, the Russian Federation, and the United States.

In addition to fundamental discussions about the amount of public funding going toward public education, the mechanisms by which funds are allocated to schools within districts and to non-district charter schools, as well as the compatibility of funding models with innovations in instructional models, arise as current topics of finance - related debate.

Not exact matches

''... Because we can't hold public stock as a fund, it's sort of a bummer for me when the company goes public, because then it moves on to someone else's plate and we don't hold the stake in it.»

«Oddly because we can't hold public stock as a fund, it's sort of a bummer for me when the company goes public, because then it moves on to someone else's plate and we don't hold the stake in it,» he added.

DBL Investors A spinoff of J.P. Morgan, DBL has become one of the nation's top impact investors, thanks to its $ 75 million Bay Area Equity Fund I. (Among DBL's portfolio firms is Tesla, the electric - car company that went public last June.)

When they go to raise another fund, some and probably even most of their track record is still going to be illiquid, in companies that haven't yet gone public or been acquired.

Rumors swirled throughout 2016 that Pinterest was on the brink of going public, but its most recent influx of funding means an IPO could be delayed even further.

The firm manages $ 25 billion in assets of venture capitalists, private equity fund managers, chief executives, and entrepreneurs who founded companies that went public or received private equity funding.

«You have to take so much funding from VCs,» she says, and then if you go public, many of the VCs have to exit the day their restriction period is up.

While the Securities and Exchange Commission is attempting to ease the process of going public, recently widening the use of private draft - stage listings for example, long - term secular changes in the capital markets suggest that private funds are likely to remain equally, if not more, appealing to growing firms than public financing.

According to Hackeman, if your business wants to go beyond just regular bank loans for funding to the likes of VCs, private investors, the public markets or anyone else looking for a piece of the company, then it may be time to bring in a full - time financial expert.

Elliott owned only 4 % of Hess's stock — not enough to necessitate an activist warning - shot 13D filing with the SEC — in January 2013 when the fund went public with a proxy campaign to replace five of the board's directors.

One interesting source of statistics is a new Web site, www.privateraise.com, that tracks all kinds of deals in the capital marketplace, including the PIPEs (private investments in public equities) that attract funds that otherwise might have gone to private companies like HealthHelp.

It went from being owned and run by a second - time entrepreneur to a limited partnership that brought U.S. retail experience to the table — private equity funds Advent International and Highland Capital Partners acquired a 48 % stake from Wilson in 2005 — and finally a public listing that has enabled the company to accelerate the pace of expansion.

Mutual funds that invest in private tech companies are surprisingly good at predicting what a tech company will be worth when it goes public, an analysis of recent IPOs shows.

In short — late - stage investors (growth funds, PE funds, hedge funds, mutual funds) set price in their private rounds on the expectation of making a return when a company goes public.

Microsoft, founded in 1975, became profitable so quickly that it didn't need much venture funding; when it went public, in 1986, Bill Gates, Paul Allen, and Steve Ballmer owned 85 % of the company, and its sole VC owned just 4.4 %.

Going against the Silicon Valley orthodoxy, the venture capitalist has urged technology start - ups to go public as soon as they are able, instead of continuing to take venture capital funding: Taking on too much venture funding, he has said, can fuel a lack of discipline.

As I wrote back in October, more and more companies are opting to raise funds through ICOs instead of going public to bypass many of the restrictive rules and costs associated with getting listed on an exchange.

We've identified 34 digital health companies on our Tech IPO pipeline list, alongside 6 digital health companies valued above a billion dollars (Zocdoc, Proteus Digital Health, 23andMe, NantHealth, Oscar, and GuaHao), many of which will need to go to public markets for further funding if late - stage investors continue to move further away from private markets as they did in Q4 ’15 (this may be a trend that's particularly pronounced in healthcare, where companies have much longer time horizons for returns).

Because the standard VC fund charges an annual fee of 2 % on committed capital over the life of the fund — usually 10 years — plus a percentage of the profits when firms successfully exit, usually by being acquired or going public.

But the NDP Government led by Premier Rachel Notley gives the impression it would be just as happy if the private school funding issue would go away, notwithstanding the strong public support for defunding elite private schools and a general lack of public enthusiasm for private schools.

And then, if you think about an ICO [initial coin offering] being the social equivalent to an IPO [initial public offering], a lot of smaller companies don't go to VCs [venture capitalists] to get funding.

While we typically invest 65 - 75 % of our funds of funds portfolios in early stage venture capital, we inevitably have exposure to the public markets through venture - backed companies that have gone public and late stage companies which are marked to public comparables by our underlying fund managers.

Saudi Arabia has looked for ways to expand its economy beyond oil, with the Public Investment Fund — which is expected to grow to $ 2 trillion under management after the country's state - owned oil company goes public — serving as a crucial part of that strPublic Investment Fund — which is expected to grow to $ 2 trillion under management after the country's state - owned oil company goes public — serving as a crucial part of that strpublic — serving as a crucial part of that strategy.

Horgan committed to making things better for survivors of sexual violence and for those fleeing abusive homes by making sure crime prevention dollars go to deliver much - needed services that keep more women safe, improving public policy, directing more funding to provincial and community based programs that directly serve women and children, and increasing funding to violence prevention and intervention programs by $ 8 million a year.

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Another example is that of citizens of states which pay for abortions with public funds who refuse, as a matter of conscience, to remit to state government a portion of their taxes corresponding to the percentage of the state budget that goes to abortion funding.

The position of Americans United is that public funds should go to public schools.

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.

An article on the environmental impact of the production and disposal of millions of plastic and cloth diapers reveals the length to which corporations will go to ensure profit margins: couching advertisements in «scientific studies»; funding studies based on controversial methodologies; using unscientific statistical studies to cook the books on cost - benefit analyses of environmental damage; and employing shrewd, manipulative and effective public - relations strategies.

«We are shocked at the totally partisan reaction of our colleagues from the minority party, PDP, to the on - going investigations and recovery of public funds meant for the prosecution of the war against insurgency.»

The way he framed it was as follows: he said something like, «I love Big Bird as much as anyone, but it's going to be the end of public funding for PBS if I get elected».

While the government in some limited cases can legitimately place restrictions on the public's right to access certain information, attempts of the Nigerian authorities to justify the total closure of information related to the names of public officials from whom funds were recovered on the basis of «ongoing criminal investigation» and «presumption of innocence goes far beyond the limitations allowed under international law, and would promote secret recoveries.»

He accused the Cuomo campaign of using «threats and intimidation» to prevent rabbis from meeting with Paladino — even going so far as to make veiled suggestions that public funding might be in jeopardy, although no proof of this claim was provided.

«We've got to go on reducing that and go on funding the things we do care most about including our vital public services like the NHS and investment in the infrastructure, the capital backbone of the country, that are going to create the jobs of the future.»

«However, despite the fact that 99 percent of this federal funding would go to traditional public schools, union leadership has tried to kill this education reform legislation because it increases the cap on public charter schools, which don't necessarily have to be unionized.»

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.

Even the entirely false statement that Gordon Brown had sold off the Britain's gold reserves at knock - down prices to fund public spending went unchallenged, sacrificed to the strategy of fighting the 2015 election, not the 2010 one all over again.

All but $ 10 of each registration fee goes to the Snowmobile Trail Development and Maintenance Fund, which supports 10,500 miles of public snowmobile trails across New York state.

His tweets read, «The roots of Herdsmen mass murder and kidnappings in other parts of Nigeria is in the policy of «Paying Fulani Herdsmen» by some Governors.They appeased a monster with public funds and now the monster is going door to door; Sahel, Savanna and mangrove forests.

... In our world, we just know that we need more public funding to go with private funding to kick start some of these economic development projects.»

I don't know what the Moreland Commission is going to recommend — there's 24 other people and very diverse opinions on there — but what we've learned is that although there would be a funding source from taxpayers to finance public elections in the state of New York for Assembly, Senate, Governor, Attorney General, etc, the savings ultimately would be astronomical in the long run.

Having completed his Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded doctoral studies that explored the discourse and theory of the phenomenon here at the University, he has since gone on to develop research that has had social, political and public appeal.

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«Public office is no longer going to be the platform for the brazen theft of public Public office is no longer going to be the platform for the brazen theft of public public funds.

«The extra funding to support the co-operative model of schooling, as outlined in the Report, goes to the heart of ensuring that schools operate within the vales and ethos of a public service.