Sentences with phrase «of taxpayer money into»

Today, Connecticut is dumping $ 100 million dollars of taxpayer money into charter schools every year with little to no oversight and the governor's proposed budget contains funding for an additional four.

Before President Trump and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos attempt to shift large amounts of taxpayer money into school choice, we should carefully consider what we are getting into.

BATTERY PARK CITY — The Battery Park City Authority poured more than $ 300,000 of taxpayer money into open - bar parties, pricey executive lunches and gifts for employees, an investigation by the state Inspector General's office revealed Friday.

Across the world, anti-CO2 fundamentalists and global warming alarmists have pushed governments to divert billions of taxpayer monies into useless «green» energy projects that are expensive and unreliable generators of power - plus being a honeypot of corruption.

Not exact matches

It's not up to us to take taxpayer money and put it into that kind of competition.

Rudd's $ 43bn fast web gamble The global recession has forced Kevin Rudd to scrap plans for a high - speed national broadband network funded by the private sector and wager at least $ 21.9 billion of taxpayers» money to fund his election pledge to bring internet speeds into the 21st century.

Amazon's faux competition will lure one otherwise enviable place into handing over a huge amount of its taxpayers» money to a fabulously wealthy corporation for something that place could have gotten for free.

I speak, of course, of the sponsorship scandal in which millions of dollars was stolen from Canadian taxpayers, and that money was then diverted into Liberal bank accounts.»

Even her political opponent, United Conservative Party leader Jason Kenney, agreed, arguing that a «market failure» justified the use of putting taxpayer money into the project.

The last time we put a president in the White House, and he supposedly heard God speak to him, we got attacked by terrorists, we got floods, we got into two trillion dollar wars, the bottom of our economy fell, jobs left our country in droves, and started handing out taxpayers money to banks and businesses like they were growing on trees.

This provided Gil with a platform to funnel taxpayer money into Atlético through a phony sponsorship deal with the city of Marbella.

There are growing calls for public inquiry by fans of other football clubs into the decision by Boris Johnson to let the Hammers rent the stadium built by taxpayers» money for the 2012 Olympics, an occasion of great British national celebration.

The Prospect Heights Park District and School District 23 entered into an intergovernmental cooperation agreement to save the taxpayers money by sharing the use of properties owned by District 23 and the Prospect Heights Park District in a manner that the facilities may be utilized to their fullest capacity.

One of my colleagues, the comedian that he is, got into work early the next day, took a screen grab from the internet and proceeded to print out the image 20 times and plaster our office — a good use of taxpayers» money, ahem.

«Millions of pounds of taxpayers» money is being poured into a handful of free schools.

Arroyo and her daughter, City Councilwoman Maria del Carmen Arroyo, have both been accused — but not charged — of funneling taxpayer money into family - run non-profits.

Two state lawmakers — Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Sen. Diane Savino — who gave campaign money to now - indicted Brooklyn Assemblywoman Pamela Harris, amid a grand jury probe into her alleged theft of taxpayer money, say they had no idea she was under investigation at the time.

Lawrence added: «Untold millions of pounds of taxpayers» money has gone into that and, save for a few pockets, you would have to say that it's manifestly failed.

Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has launched a probe into the state fair, to look into «patronage, cronyism, and waste of taxpayer money.»

But several aspects of the plan — including the use of $ 25 million in taxpayer money to turn public property into a stable for the private carriage industry, the move to curtail the pedicab industry, the loss of carriage driver jobs and the resulting shuttering the current stables on the West Side — have aroused considerable opposition from various corners, most recently from 68 owners of horse carriage medallions, who blasted their union for agreeing to the deal.

Billed as the salvation of depressed Western New York, the Buffalo Billion sent taxpayer money into the hands of Cuomo donors, with little - to - no benefit to the public.

Mangano, while pointing out that the merger of the Sixth Precinct into the Third Precinct in Williston Park has saved money for taxpayers and has not increased crime, said Thursday that he was open to discussions with the police unions about re-establishing the stationhouse.

«Cuomo likes to take control of a project, dump taxpayer money into it, and oddly enough, all the same people seem to be the beneficiaries of the contracts,» said GOP Assemblywoman Claudia Tenney.

Most of the money that flows into the MECC account is the result of a voluntary decision by individual taxpayers to make a gift to children, not to state bureaucrats.

«The idea that ministers are proposing to plough vast sums of taxpayers» money into a College with the intention of allowing it to operate entirely free from political interference is risible as it is insidious.

«It worries me that whenever the Garden Bridge Trust runs into financial trouble, the Department for Transport releases more taxpayers» money before construction has even started,» said chair of the Committee of Public Accounts Meg Hillier MP.

Arroyo and her daughter, City Councilwoman Maria del Carmen Arroyo, have both been accused of funneling taxpayer money into family - run non-profits.

The seat had been held by Republican Rep. Pat Meehan, who resigned amid an ethics investigation into his use of taxpayer money to settle sexual harassment allegations by a former aide.

Zimet talked about what a «disaster the town financial situation was in» when she got into office two years ago and how, with the help of her board, they were able to get the finances back in order, save taxpayers money and lower taxes by 4.4 percent.

«We wanted to intentionally put the money back into the hands of the taxpayers, where it belongs,» Mayor Brown said about the lack of reserves.

A politician starts a nonprofit and then pumps taxpayer money into it, with the cash often landing in the pockets of friends or family at the charity.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has sunk a lot of taxpayer money — $ 25 billion by his estimate — into recharging upstate's moribund economy.

Now critics are saying that the Democrats» pro-Malloy mailings will undo the original promise of the public financing system — because the special - interest money will flow into the state campaign through the party's «federal account» even as taxpayers continue to pay for campaigns that were supposed to be kept «clean» of contractors» money.

The answers may determine how much local taxpayer money gets funneled into programs that may do nothing more than give the appearance of attempting to tackle drug problems.

«In the current market conditions we do not believe the two proposals deliver sufficient value for money for the taxpayer, so the Government has decided to bring forward legislation to bring Northern Rock into a temporary period of public ownership.

Taxpayers have invested a great deal of money into our football team and deserve to be a part of these conversations.

«That represents a little less than $ 6 billion a year of taxpayer money that goes into feeding our fleet with fuel.»

There's the ongoing special - counsel investigation into whether the Trump campaign aided a Russian campaign to aid Trump's candidacy and defeat his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton; there's the associated inquiry into whether the president obstructed justice when he fired former FBI Director James Comey, whom he had asked not to investigate his former national - security adviser; there are the president's hush - money payments to women with whom he allegedly had extramarital affairs, made through his personal attorney, Michael Cohen, and facilitated by corporate cash paid to influence the White House; there is his ongoing effort to interfere with the Russia inquiry and politicize federal law enforcement; there are the foreign governments that seem to be utilizing the president's properties as vehicles for influencing administration policy; there's the emerging evidence that Trump campaign officials sought aid not only from Russia, but from other foreign countries, which may have affected Trump's foreign policy; there are the ongoing revelations of the president's Cabinet officials» misusing taxpayer funds; there is the accumulating evidence that administration decisions are made at the behest of private industry, in particular those in which Republican donors have significant interests.

Richard Watts, chair of the LGA's children and young people board, said: «We are told that academies and free schools are subject to more financial scrutiny than council - maintained schools, yet we keep hearing that millions of pounds of taxpayers» money, which has been earmarked to make sure our children get a good education, is disappearing into the back pockets of those in charge.

A veteran of Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch, he now leads an investment group that specializes in raising money for businesses looking to tap into more than $ 1 trillion in taxpayer money spent annually on primary education.

• The Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) Select Committee in the House of Commons should monitor and report on higher education funding and provision each year, assessing the impact of changes on disadvantaged students, as well as mature and part - timers; • Better co-ordination between higher education ministers from England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to rationalise student funding policies across the UK; • An investigation by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) into the impact of the latest changes to grants and loans, to ensure value for money for students and taxpayers; • Stronger evaluation of university spending of # 750m a year on outreach and access programmes to maximise their impact.

There are plenty of ways to make money by delving into taxpayer public education funds and delivering a sub-par experience to communities who have little power or say in the matter.

Voucher schools have drained over a billion dollars of taxpayers» money away from public schools and into private schools with little public accountability.

That all of this money has been squeezed out of us as taxpayers and the testing craze is a means for the oligarchs to funnel that money up to themselves rather than down into the classroom, where it rightfully should be going?

The AFT website moves into Bizarro territory when it concludes its mini anti-choice rant by informing us that public money used to subsidize private school tuition means «less accountability for taxpayers» dollars, a false hope for a handful of kids, and fewer resources for school reforms that actually work.»

As the Trump administration seeks to expand school choice nationwide, the academy was thrust into the national spotlight last month as part of a heated debate over whether schools that receive money from taxpayer - funded vouchers can discriminate against certain groups of students, such as LGBT children or students with disabilities.

In direct opposition to the needs of children and taxpayers, Finch's ship has transported a cadre of greedy, self - serving and unwelcome enemies, people and corporations that are more interested in seeking ways to turn our public schools into private money - making ventures.

«It ultimately is the privatization agenda of putting public taxpayer money into privately operated charter schools that operate without proper regulations.

Do they stand with Connecticut's students, teachers, parents, public school advocates and taxpayers or will they continue to turn our public schools into little more than testing factories and money pits for an industry that is gorging itself on scarce taxpayer funds while undermining the role of teachers, parents and the local control of public education.

«This is just herding a tiny minority of taxpayers into a small room and extracting money from them.»