Sentences with phrase «programs with taxpayer money»

His repeated failure to deliver honest, effective programs with taxpayer money is wholly inexcusable.

Not exact matches

Malliotakis has voiced opposition to the City's program, calling it an irresponsible use of taxpayer money, and voted against a bill that would have established a state matching program with a similar 6 - 1 match.

While Mark has acted as the taxpayers» watchdog and called out wasteful spending and irresponsible actions, he has also lead the charge to make a more efficient county government by pushing for the creation of Erie County's prescription drug discount program and the adoption of electronic payments for vendors saving the County and those that do business with the County time and money.

Under the state's Citizens» Election Program, gubernatorial candidates need to raise a quarter of a million dollars in donations of $ 100 or less with 90 percent of the money coming from Connecticut residents to receive millions in taxpayer - financed election grants.

We must send people with fresh ideas and fresh perspectives to state government to objectively address the rampant corruption, stop wasting taxpayer money, and prioritize the programs that our citizens desperately need, like prevention, treatment and recovery funding to address the growing heroin and opioid epidemic.»

And then on Friday, Uber announced it would partner with 43North, a startup competition Cuomo has funded with taxpayer money out of the Buffalo Billion program.

Shifting to a model of education funding that allows taxpayers to choose what forms of education they will financially support with their own money would likely reduce social conflict over these programs.

With better policy design, it may be possible for such a program to save taxpayers money as well.

In this analysis, I show that under most plausible scenarios the program has saved taxpayers money annually since 2000, with estimated savings reaching $ 31.9 million in 2008.

Despite the frequency with which public programs rely on beneficiaries to hold the quality of services accountable, Sara Mead asserts in an Education Sector report that, «accountability to parents alone is insufficient to protect the public interest or ensure taxpayer money is used well.»

Given that Florida public schools spend close to $ 17,000 per disabled student and that the McKay program contains a roughly representative distribution of disability types, taxpayers are actually saving quite a bit of money with special education vouchers, and public school districts are certainly not being «financially punished.»

For the third time, a Florida court has struck down the state's best - known voucher program, calling it unconstitutional because it allows students to attend religious schools with taxpayer money — a violation, the court said, of the state constitution.

But he agreed that schools that can't successfully use taxpayer money to educate their students «should be kicked out of the program» and should not have been allowed in to begin with.

Superior Court Judge Robert H. Hobgood agreed with the complainants, declaring the program unconstitutional in 2014 and saying from the bench that «the General Assembly fails the children of North Carolina when they are sent with public taxpayer money to private schools that have no legal obligation to teach them anything.»

Assembly Republicans are considering a program that would allow Wisconsin parents to pay for K - 12 school expenses — including private school tuition, textbooks and tutoring — with a taxpayer - funded stream of money known in other states as Education Savings Accounts.

In that blog we stated, «Voucher supporters, along with money from outside interests, will stop at nothing to expand voucher programs in Tennessee, effectively creating a privatized black hole for taxpayer dollars.

Assembly Education Committee chairman Rep. Jeremy Thiesfeldt, R - Fond du Lac, said in theory, the accounts provide parents with more flexibility because the money doesn't just have to be spent on private school tuition like in the state's taxpayer - funded school voucher program.

The announcement on the part of the Department of Education fulfills one of President Trump's campaign promises to pull the government out of student loans and streamline programs with an eye toward saving the government and taxpayers money.

TARP [Troubled Asset Relief Program] has become a program in which taxpayers are not being told what most of the TARP recipients are doing with their money, have still not been told how much their substantial investments are worth, and will not be told the full details of how their money is being invested, BarofskProgram] has become a program in which taxpayers are not being told what most of the TARP recipients are doing with their money, have still not been told how much their substantial investments are worth, and will not be told the full details of how their money is being invested, Barofskprogram in which taxpayers are not being told what most of the TARP recipients are doing with their money, have still not been told how much their substantial investments are worth, and will not be told the full details of how their money is being invested, Barofsky said.