Sentences with phrase «one's public dollars»

A majority of voters — 53 percent to 37 percent — oppose the use of public dollars for political campaigns.

He urged state lawmakers to create a voucher program that would allow kids to use public dollars for private school tuition.

And school district administrators frequently oppose charter schools because the charter schools use public dollars but operate independently and out of the direct control of the local school board.

That's right: this corporate program will be paid for with public dollars from a cash - strapped public university.

Suppose the more than $ 6.5 billion of public dollars spent on sports arenas had instead been invested in education.

This will involve investing public dollars in the «quality» of quality measures and their dissemination.

For the most part, they do not have to share their budgets or financial practices with the public, in spite of receiving public dollars.

The potential cost of allowing unlimited numbers of charter schools, which operate on public dollars but are run as non-profits, isn't known.

Under the city's campaign finance system, the first $ 175 of contributions is matched by public dollars at a rate of six to one.

Critics of the school voucher program challenged it in the courts, claiming that sending public dollars to private schools violated the state's constitution.

There's also some pushing back on the polling of public financing and the point Republican lawmakers make when saying taxpayers don't support public dollars going toward political activities.

That would include vouchers, in which public dollars pay to educate children in private, sometimes religious, schools.

If a school takes public dollars, the public wants some control and oversight of what goes on there.

As a factual matter, the program is funded with private, not public dollars.

Public school students whose families chose charter schools are entitled to the same public dollars as students who attend traditional public schools.

What began as a collaborative experiment supported by unions and reformers is now an existential threat to the status quo as public dollars follow children from traditional public schools to public charters.

The best available evidence suggests that funding political campaigns with public dollars does little to reduce special interest influence, encourage competitive races or boost political participation.

Such forms are required before a state contract can be awarded so public dollars go to honest companies.

Most public dollars spent to benefit children go toward traditional education (such as public school).

One went back to being private and the rest continued to get public dollars by turning themselves into what's known as alternative learning experiences.

So I think as a percentage it ended up that we didn't need as much public dollars, but increasingly we want to have that as our base.

They did so on a novel legal theory that centered on treating private schools like public schools for disability law purposes because private schools receive public dollars via a state - funded voucher.

But the lion's share of the gap left over after public dollars are exhausted is closed by private philanthropic funding or from an alternative revenue source.

I do not believe public dollars should go to private schools.

Further, the legislative assembly never once mentioned the possibility of affecting public dollars during the debates concerning the amendments.

The college paid for half of the study, but the other half was likely paid for with public dollars.

Investing public dollars in quality early childhood education for disadvantaged children will provide significant social and economic outcomes in the short - and long - term.

When all is said and done, we aren't talking about tens of millions of public dollars; we are literally looking at hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars at risk.

The bill would match six public dollars for every privately donated dollar and then capped, depending on the office.

Q: Are charter schools actually private schools funded by public dollars?

Do you agree that all schools receiving public dollars must be held to the same accountability and transparency standards?

I can think of circumstances where it would be justified to limit options, at least those for which public dollars could be used.

The rub is that trusts lean heavily on public dollars — a dwindling resource.

In fact, charter schools must offer better outcomes with fewer public dollars, not more.

Public dollars follow students to whatever school they attend, whether it's a charter or a district school.

In many states with vouchers, public dollars do not freely follow students who are exercising their educational choice.

They also assert that voucher programs violate the constitutional separation of church and state by funneling public dollars into religious schools, including those that teach creationism instead of the theory of evolution.

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But supporters of the proposals say public dollars spent on schools need to be scrutinized further, especially as Gov. Scott Walker is proposing a record increase in school funding and referendums are being passed at historic rates.

Formally known as the Opportunity Scholarship Program, school vouchers hit a bump in the road this past spring when Superior Court Judge Robert H. Hobgood temporarily halted the program pending a final ruling, calling into question the constitutionality of funneling public dollars into the coffers of private institutions.

She is a plaintiff in a lawsuit against Indiana's new private school voucher program, which she says siphons public dollars away from public schools.

We need to rapidly adopt new thinking about what constitutes «infrastructure» and implement new policies so that green infrastructure investment can complement traditional grey infrastructure to derive the maximum taxpayer benefits from the billions of public dollars invested each year.