Sentences with phrase «of public money available»

The state has currently $ 12 million of public money available for private schools with virtually no accountability measures in place to guarantee or even monitor the quality of education the children are receiving.

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For now, Facebook said its crowdfunding feature will only be available to raise money for six causes: education expenses, medical bills, medical procedures for pets, public crisis relief, personal emergencies like an accident or fire, and costs related to the death of a loved one.

And an archive will be available starting this summer where the public can view the ads and get more information on them, such as how much money was spent, the number of impressions they received and the demographics of the audience they reached, Leathern told reporters.

With stunning consistency, virtually every indicator of civic engagement currently available shows the same pattern of increase followed by stagnation and decline — newspaper reading; TV news watching; attending political meetings; petition signing; running for public office; attending public meetings; serving as an officer or committee member in any local clubs or organizations; writing letters to the editor; participating in local meetings of national organizations; attending religious services; socializing informally with friends, relatives or neighbors; attending club meetings; joining unions; entertaining friends at home; participating in picnics; eating the evening meal with the whole family; going out to bars, nightclubs, discos or taverns; playing cards; sending greeting cards; attending parties; playing sports; donating money as a percentage of income; working on community projects; giving blood.

With this in mind, we've fired up the portfolio of betting tools available at The Action Network to break down three games attracting heavy public money.

Access available resources such as Medicaid or public school non educational monies to assist in offsetting costs of diapers, equipment, respite care, etc..

Of # 60 million of public money made available to fund new sites, only # 43 million was taken up by councilOf # 60 million of public money made available to fund new sites, only # 43 million was taken up by councilof public money made available to fund new sites, only # 43 million was taken up by councils.

Saratoga Springs public safety commissioner: Available data suggests Republican Rick Wirth has been the beneficiary of more super PAC money over the past month than any candidate in the state outside Suffolk County.

How much public money has been made available to (a) the Royal Bank of Scotland, and (b) HBOS, in the past six months.

«The government must improve the efficiency of public services and focus the limited public money available on areas that do most to galvanise growth.»

Continuing to make these tests available would represent a poor use of public money.

«Now that an increasing number of PFI deals are in their operational stage, and change will inevitably be needed over time, the public sector has to raise its game to get a better outcome and use the guidance and resources available, particularly as changes made to operational projects have not always provided value for money.»

This investment policy applies to all moneys and other financial resources available for deposit and investment by the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library (B&ECPL) on its own behalf or on behalf of any other entity or individual.

Disclosure forms made available for the first time Wednesday by the state Joint Commission on Public Ethics detail the amount of money state lawmakers earn from their outside jobs.

It's a pity, really — if whales were amphibians, that much maligned and oft ignored group might benefit from some of the huge amounts of public sympathy (and money) available to cetacean conservation.

This requires honest performance - based assessment of schools and the creation of options - by finding spaces in effective schools, creating new schools, or even, as Rod Paige did on a small scale in Houston, finding money to pay tuition in available private schools for a few dozen children whose public schools just wouldn't turn around.

Moreover, broadly available special ed vouchers could save money for financially strapped public schools, given that special ed vouchers are typically limited to the lower of the amount the public school would have spent or the private school tuition.

But their impact on revenues could affect the amount of money that cash - strapped states have available for public education and other services.

As a result of voucher programs public schools «are given less money for programs, leading to a decline in available resources.»

Although school choice programs vary across different states, the local and federal funding generally remains in the public school and results in a greater quantity of money being available for the students who choose to stay there.

The assertion that charter public schools are opening in locations where there is money available and because of anti-union views is simply false.

After all, if education dollars follow the student, rather than going directly into the public school, then a portion of the money available to educate a departing student will indeed leave the public school.

Under a state law regarding the scholarship program, if there is money leftover from program (meaning not as many students used the available funds), that money is given back to the public and charter schools, but schools haven't received any of that excess money since the 2012 - 2013 school year.

The Colorado Supreme Court upheld the Colorado higher education grant program against a challenge brought under one of its Blaine Amendments (Article IX, Section 7) because the program benefits students, not their schools, because it is available to private as well as public school students, and because it eliminates any danger of indirectly supporting religious missions by attaching statutory conditions on the use of the money.

«So it's narrowing the pot of money that's available for public schools.

Sending growing amounts of money to privately run charter schools, thereby squeezing the amount available for magnet schools and other underfunded public schools.

The $ 95 million settlement will permit DOT to recover all of the $ 51 million in New Starts money provided to New Jersey for the ARC Project, so that those funds can be made available to other communities for public transit projects.

Following David Brown's unique 1969 four door prototype, MP230, it was to be another five years before the Lagonda was available for the public to buy (or anyone with # 14,000 to spend - and this was a lot of money in 1974).

Meanwhile, please donate money, give your used print books and sponsor the purchase of ebooks for your local public libraries so that ALL authors» work becomes available to more readers!

Would readers really pledge money in order to strip a book of its DRM and copyright in order to thrust it into the public domain and make it available anywhere for library lending?

In each of these cases, sophisticated investors and operators are coming to the realization that the public market is not affording retail stocks fair value and are «putting their money where their mouth is,» signifying that, for all the doom and gloom surrounding retail, there is still capital available to purchase quality assets.

Prohibited acts.A credit services organization, a salesperson, agent, or representative of a credit services organization, or an independent contractor who sells or attempts to sell the services of a credit services organization shall not: (1) Charge a buyer or receive from a buyer money or other valuable consideration before completing performance of all services, other than those described in subdivision (2) of this section, which the credit services organization has agreed to perform for the buyer unless the credit services organization has obtained a surety bond or established and maintained a surety account as provided in section 45 - 805; (2) Charge a buyer or receive from a buyer money or other valuable consideration for obtaining or attempting to obtain an extension of credit that the credit services organization has agreed to obtain for the buyer before the extension of credit is obtained; (3) Charge a buyer or receive from a buyer money or other valuable consideration solely for referral of the buyer to a retail seller who will or may extend credit to the buyer if the credit that is or will be extended to the buyer is substantially the same as that available to the general public; (4) Make or use a false or misleading representation in the offer or sale of the services of a credit services organization, including (a) guaranteeing to erase bad credit or words to that effect unless the representation clearly discloses that this can be done only if the credit history is inaccurate or obsolete and (b) guaranteeing an extension of credit regardless of the person's previous credit problem or credit history unless the representation clearly discloses the eligibility requirements for obtaining an extension of credit; (5) Engage, directly or indirectly, in a fraudulent or deceptive act, practice, or course of business in connection with the offer or sale of the services of a credit services organization; (6) Make or advise a buyer to make a statement with respect to a buyer's credit worthiness, credit standing, or credit capacity that is false or misleading or that should be known by the exercise of reasonable care to be false or misleading to a consumer reporting agency or to a person who has extended credit to a buyer or to whom a buyer is applying for an extension of credit; or (7) Advertise or cause to be advertised, in any manner whatsoever, the services of a credit services organization without filing a registration statement with the Secretary of State under section 45 - 806 unless otherwise provided by the Credit Services Organization Act.

Charge a buyer or receive from a buyer money or other valuable consideration solely for referral of the buyer to a retail seller who will or may extend credit to the buyer if the credit that is or will be extended to the buyer is substantially the same as that available to the general public.

(1) A credit services organization, its salespersons, agents, and representatives, and independent contractors who sell or attempt to sell the services of a credit services organization may not do any of the following: (a) conduct any business regulated by this chapter without first: (i) securing a certificate of registration from the division; and (ii) unless exempted under Section 13 -21-4, posting a bond, letter of credit, or certificate of deposit with the division in the amount of $ 100,000; (b) make a false statement, or fail to state a material fact, in connection with an application for registration with the division; (c) charge or receive any money or other valuable consideration prior to full and complete performance of the services the credit services organization has agreed to perform for the buyer; (d) dispute or challenge, or assist a person in disputing or challenging an entry in a credit report prepared by a consumer reporting agency without a factual basis for believing and obtaining a written statement for each entry from the person stating that that person believes that the entry contains a material error or omission, outdated information, inaccurate information, or unverifiable information; (e) charge or receive any money or other valuable consideration solely for referral of the buyer to a retail seller who will or may extend credit to the buyer, if the credit that is or will be extended to the buyer is upon substantially the same terms as those available to the general public; (f) make, or counsel or advise any buyer to make, any statement that is untrue or misleading and that is known, or that by the exercise of reasonable care should be known, to be untrue or misleading, to a credit reporting agency or to any person who has extended credit to a buyer or to whom a buyer is applying for an extension of credit, with respect to a buyer's creditworthiness, credit standing, or credit capacity; (g) make or use any untrue or misleading representations in the offer or sale of the services of a credit services organization or engage, directly or indirectly, in any act, practice, or course of business that operates or would operate as fraud or deception upon any person in connection with the offer or sale of the services of a credit services organization; and (h) transact any business as a credit services organization, as defined in Section 13 -21-2, without first having registered with the division by paying an annual fee set pursuant to Section 63J -1-504 and filing proof that it has obtained a bond or letter of credit as required by Subsection (2).

Charge or receive any money or other valuable consideration solely for referral of the consumer to a retail seller or to any other credit grantor who will or may extend to the consumer, if the credit that is or will be extended to the consumer is upon substantially the same terms as those available to the general public;

(2) Charge or receive any money or other valuable consideration solely for the referral of a buyer to a retail seller who will or may extend credit to the buyer if such extension of credit is in substantially the same terms as those available to the general public.

(2) Charge or receive any money or other valuable consideration solely for referral of the buyer to a retail seller or to any other credit grantor, who will or may extend credit to the buyer if the credit that is or will be extended to the buyer is upon substantially the same terms as those available to the general public;

[FN33] In addition, credit services organizations may not charge any money solely for the referral of the buyer to a retail credit services seller if the terms available to the buyer are «substantially the same» as the terms available to the general public.

A credit repair business and its salespersons, agents, and representatives, and independent contractors who sell or attempt to sell the services of a credit repair business, shall not do any of the following: (1) Charge or receive any money or other valuable consideration prior to full and complete performance of the services that the credit repair business has agreed to perform for or on behalf of the consumer; (2) Charge or receive any money or other valuable consideration solely for referral of the consumer to a retail seller or to any other credit grantor who will or may extend credit to the consumer, if the credit that is or will be extended to the consumer is upon substantially the same terms as those available to the general public; (3) Represent that it can directly or indirectly arrange for the removal of derogatory credit information from the consumer's credit report or otherwise improve the consumer's credit report or credit standing, provided, this shall not prevent truthful, unexaggerated statements about the consumer's rights under existing law regarding his credit history or regarding access to his credit file; (4) Make, or counsel or advise any consumer to make, any statement that is untrue or misleading and which is known or which by the exercise of reasonable care should be known, to be untrue or misleading, to a consumer reporting agency or to any person who has extended credit to a consumer or to whom a consumer is applying for an extension of credit, with respect to a consumer's creditworthiness, credit standing, or credit capacity; or (5) Make or use any untrue or misleading representations in the offer or sale of the services of a credit repair business or engage, directly or indirectly, in any act, practice, or course of business which operates or would operate as a fraud or deception upon any person in connection with the offer or sale of the services of a credit repair business.

(2) To charge or receive money or other valuable consideration to refer a buyer to a retail seller that will or may extend credit to the buyer if the extension of credit is made upon substantially the same terms as those available to the general public.

Magic Bullet Fund • For owners of dogs with cancer RedRover Relief Grants • Financial assistance grants so pet owners, Good Samaritans and rescuers can care for animals who need urgent veterinary care • An easy online application and quick approval process • Resources for pet owners struggling with economic hardship • Resources for victims of domestic violence Brown Dog Foundation A 501 (c) 3 public charity, not fully - funded or staffed full - time, the Brown Dog Foundation aims to provide funding to families with sick pets, that would most likely respond to treatment, but do not have enough money immediately available.

«I believe there is enough public money available for homeless people and for government assistance of people in need.

To raise money to build the hotel, shares of common stock were made available for public sale.

Tourist information is available in the terminal of the Port Authority (AP), and you'll also find local tour operators, bilingual guide - chauffeurs with cars, a car rental agency, souvenir shops, an internet cafe, public telephones and fax, restaurants, bars, music, artisan markets, a money - exchange house and taxis.

Since the late 1970s he performed absurd actions like making himself available to do «useful» things for anyone of the audience, selling his skills to collectors for an hourly wage, eating money and cooking for his public.

As well as the environmental benefits, recycling your food waste reduces the cost of waste disposal for your council which in turn means there is more money available for other public services.

The Estonian proposal to the European Council drops the proposed carbon intensity threshold of 550gCO2 per KWh of electricity for existing plants — known as the «550 proposal» — and would allow them to receive capacity payments (public money to remain available).

A revenue gap analysis conducted by the national laboratory for 79 of 99 operational reactors that are in a region where public wholesale electricity market prices are available suggests that 63 units would have lost money in 2016.

It occurs to me that a bottomless pit of public money is available to resist unwelcome efforts to obtain disclosures from public authorities — not only on climate issues, but especially for them.

Pretending that that government award makes her one of «the world's environmental prize winners,» she signs a public declaration aimed at increasing the money available to the very industry in which she herself is a mover - and - shaker.