Sentences with phrase «public dollars away»

The start of the Tennessee legislative session sometimes feels like the movie Groundhog Day, with voucher proponents bringing legislation every year to shift public dollars away from public school budgets and toward private schools.

What is clear is that FUSE Inc is the charter school management company that Jumoke Academy set up to divert tens of millions of public dollars away from Connecticut's public schools and into its coffers.

The new secretary of education, Betsy DeVos, supports steering public dollars away from traditional public schools, saying tax - funded religious schools are a way «to advance God's kingdom.»

Background on Vouchers: In 2016, the Nevada Supreme Court struck down Nevada's voucher program as unconstitutional because it siphoned public dollars away from funds meant for public education.

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A Dangerous Intersection: States are shifting tax dollars away from public colleges just as younger generations are becoming more diverse.

I am so happy to live in a country where the Public Enemy (PE) Mafia can get away with Legalized Bustouts (LBOs) to fund their lavish lifestyles, multi-million dollar yachts, private airplanes and SHTF bolt holes in New Zealand.

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).

While the public was eying the Preakness, some 3,000 miles away a million - dollar newcomer named Forli set a record in his U.S. debut

Venditto voted against public schools every change he could, selling his soul to the charter school crowd and giving away taxpayer dollars.

Hours later, Attorney General Jeff Sessions hit back at Chicago, saying the Trump administration «will not simply give away grant dollars to city governments that proudly violate the rule of law and protect criminal aliens at the expense of public safety.»

Under Republican leadership, this Legislature has continuously underfunded our public schools, focused on creating low wage jobs that leave working families in a cycle of poverty, and given away millions of taxpayer dollars to insurance companies while health insurance costs for working families skyrocket.»

Buffalo Public Schools are chipping away at the vast costs of health insurance for current employees and retirees, saving millions of dollars.

More than 700,000 students in more than 1,200 New York City schools — including large high schools in all five boroughs — would face higher class sizes, have fewer teachers and lose after - school academic and enrichment programs if President - elect Trump makes good on a campaign promise to pull billions of federal dollars away from public schools to pay for private vouchers, a UFT analysis has found.

Billions of dollars in public and private capital for energy investment are up for grabs as developed countries like the United States and emerging economies like India get down to brass tacks on how they will hit their greenhouse gas emissions pledges and move their energy systems away from fossil fuels.

With the opening of Washington's first charter school likely 15 months away, more dollars from Seattle's tech economy are flowing toward groups that want to change the way the state thinks about public schools...

As amicus curiae in many federal and state courts, NSBA continues to urge courts to refrain from joining a troubling wave of nationwide efforts to divert public tax dollars away from public schools to fund private entities.

Whether a district becomes an authorizer or not, charter schools may open in their service area as early as fall 2014 and become the public school for children who used to attend district schools, taking dollars away from those districts.

Every additional dollar spent on charter schools is money that takes books, technology, counselors, nurses, librarians, world languages, music, art and extracurricular activities away from children in traditional public schools.

As a result of their ill - conceived policies billions of dollars in public taxpayer funds at the federal level and tens of millions of dollars here in Connecticut are being shifted away from classroom instruction so that corporate education reform companies can continue to make even more money.

They already face a lot of obstacles, and now we are going to disregard them and take dollars away that were intended to support them in the public system and try to send them to private schools that may exclude them.»

And administrators for the statewide CESA and CESA 2, which cover the Madison district, pointed out that authorizing charter schools would have them directing public dollars toward charters and away from the local public schools that belong to and fund CESAs.

Public schools claim that millions of dollars are being unconstitutionally funneled away from children's education, going toward tax - credit scholarships.

Opponents say charter schools aren't held to the same accountability standards, don't receive sufficient oversight and drain precious public tax dollars away from public schools.

But the idea of funneling scarce taxpayer dollars away from public schools to pay for private school tuition has a way of bridging political divides.

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

The prospect of a swiftly growing school voucher program taking more dollars away from public schools leaves him wondering about the kids whose parents don't exercise their option to choose private education, Hughes said.

Conservatives insist the program gives children in struggling school districts an alternative, but opponents see it as vote of no confidence in public education and complain it pulls precious state dollars away from public schools.

Although they claim to be «public» educational institutions, and are in fact funded with taxpayer dollars, no genuine public school would ever try or get away with the dubious education policies and practices that Achievement First engages in.

My question to you is, do you support companies and individuals profiting from public education dollars that is essentially taking money away from students to pay salaries for CEOs in return for investors?

So far, we've successfully defeated a bill that would have siphoned millions of dollars away from current students in public charter schools, in turn protecting the funds for these learning environments that had already been included in the bi-partisan 2019 budget.

More than 55 teachers union groups in Washington state have voted to go on «rolling walkouts» not only to protest the lack of funding for public schools but also the diversion of hundreds of millions of dollars away from the classroom and into the pockets of Wall Street corporations that make the high stakes tests.

The program has faced strong criticism that it will siphon dollars away from already - struggling public schools and that it was inappropriate to use tax dollars to send students to schools that teach religion.

No matter what you call it, vouchers take dollars away from our public schools to fund private schools at taxpayers» expense with little to no regard for our students.»

Although charter school companies like Jumoke Academy and Achievement First, Inc. have been unwilling to take their fair share of students who face language barriers and children who have special education needs, Malloy and Pryor have been diverting millions of dollars away from public schools to finance charter school operations.

A dollar - for - dollar credit operates less like a tax incentive and more like a direct transfer of taxpayer funds away from the public education fund and into private hands.

[Polis» proposal being that in the face of scarce public funds, more and more taxpayer dollars should get diverted away from the public schools, and instead be used to subsidize schools like the ones he is involved in].

The voucher program will siphon $ 10 million dollars away from the public school system in its first year, and is expected to expand in the future.

As the New York court observed, funneling public dollars into a charter school is inconsistent with the State's constitutional obligation, because «to divert public education funds away from the traditional public schools and toward charter schools would benefit a select few at the expense of» the majority of students in public schools.

Meanwhile, another Republican legislator, State Representative Rosa Rebimbas (R - 70th District) is pushing another ALEC concept, School Vouchers, which are designed to shift scarce public funds away from public schools and give the dollars to private and parochial schools.

But critics of the program say that the vouchers siphon funds away from the underfunded public school system and sends those tax dollars to private schools without accountability and transparency measures that ensure students are indeed getting a better education.

Democrats say sending millions of dollars to private, often religious schools, takes money away from public schools that the state has a legal mandate to maintain.

Despite all the problems that have recently cropped up in the last year concerning the utter lack of accountability for private schools and for - profit managed charters receiving public taxpayer dollars, Speaker Corcoran seems intent on giving more and more money away to those who will line their own pockets rather than educate our children.

While Cobey expressed support for moving public dollars into private education, he once again made clear his position on a bill that would move oversight of public charter schools away from the State Board of Education to a new, independent board.

But I will proudly stand by my statement that a Democrat who proposed doing away with teacher tenure for all public school teachers and repealing collective bargaining for teachers in the poorest school; who refuses to de-couple inappropriate standardized tests from teacher evaluation; who diverts a hundred million dollars a year from public schools to prop up unaccountable charter schools that refuse to educate their fair share of bi-lingual students and students who need special education services; and who refused to settle the CCEJF lawsuit and develop a long - term change to Connecticut's school funding formula... DOES NOT deserve the badge of honor that comes with being endorsed by teacher unions.

Not only are these schools segregationist and intended as elitist schools (never mind that they fail to deliver elitist - quality education), but also they suck millions of dollars away from the REAL public schools each year.

Opponents of charter schools, which include many school districts, say they worry that an increasing number of such schools will drain vital dollars away from traditional public schools and create a divided system in which select students attend charter schools and students with special needs fill the traditional schools.

The advocacy and lobbying group is also behind the multi-million dollar advertising campaign to undermine New York Mayor Bill de Blasio's decision to make New York City's public schools a high priority compared to the Bloomberg administration's approach that diverted tens of millions in public resources away from the public schools and to the city's privately run charter schools.

Therefore, despite the funding issues in and for public schools and the legislature being found in contempt of court, they snubbed the Supreme Court's decision and voted to take away money from public schools and give a portion of those dollars to the charter schools.

Hundreds of millions of dollars have been diverted during the past decade away from Florida public schools in the belief that the private sector would accomplish what some admittedly poor performing traditional schools could not.

GOP leaders want you to believe that the best way to rebuild our schools is by completely wiping away the largest school district in the state of Wisconsin and building a contingency of schools with full autonomy and no accountability, even though they are entitled to public dollars.