Sentences with phrase «public grant money»

You are misrepresenting what Wegman [very carefully] lays out: the incestuous relationships between grant recipients, which results in each passing uncritical peer review for the other, for the purpose of obtaining public grant money.

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CBS Radio brings in more than a billion dollars in revenue from about 50 million listeners, Henn said, and the public radio universe generates about the same amount of money from pledges and donations, as well as advertising and grants.

jrmcdowell All of the conjured up debt and the electronic money printing, granted gratis to our.01 %, is guaranteed by the public, signed by the public's agent - the politicians.

Three commissioners may grant some of the nation's largest refineries a tax refund of more than $ 135 million — money Texas» cash - strapped schools and other local governments have been counting on to help pay teachers and provide other public services.

(The U.S. grants travel licenses to Cuba for public performance, exhibitions or athletic competition, but discourages U.S. citizens from spending money there.)

The money from the Illinois Public Museum Operating Grant Program will be used to build a blacksmith shop to house the tools, as well as for new programs in blacksmithing, woodworking, pottery and candlemaking, said Elaine Keating, coordinator of historic sites for the Lisle Park District and the only full - time employee at Lisle Station Park.

The grant required NY 4 Life to use the money to conduct four public service projects, but according to Schneiderman, the organization held only one event.

The question before progressive advocates of public campaign financing in New York State is whether we push for full public campaign finance on the Clean Money model of equal and sufficient funding grants for all qualified candidates, or whether we settle for partial public campaign financing on the Matching Funds model used for presidential primaries since 1976 and for New York City local elections since 1989.

Prosecutors also maintained that the grants came out of a specific pool of money with very little public scrutiny or oversight.

So, in 2005, Silver awarded Taub's research center a $ 250,000 research grant from an $ 8.5 million pool of taxpayer money established by the state Health Care Reform Act — which was disbursed at the speaker's sole discretion with no public disclosure, court papers state.

The NYS Office of Indigent Legal Services would have awarded Monroe County's Public Defender's office the money but the County blocked the grant, saying they don't want to protect parents» interests at the expense of the child's well - being.

The public has a right to know how he is spending his publicly - financed campaign money and where the $ 83,550 grant he received from the public to run his campaign went.»

Wills was found guilty in July of directing thousands of dollars in public matching funds and grant money to a shell company that was meant to distribute campaign literature.

Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner plans to use the new state grant to qualify for other public money available for water and road projects.

In response to the court decisions, the supplemental grants were removed from the state's campaign financing law; the basic grant of public money to gubernatorial candidates was doubled to make participants more competitive and a low, $ 100 limit was placed on lobbyist contributions, thus limiting their influence.

Further, governors and legislators kept raiding the Clean Election Fund to help balance the budget — but denying the fund of money needed to safely cover public financing grants in future elections.

That ban on contractors» money was approved by the legislature along with a public financing system under which taxpayers pay for grants to fund state candidates» campaigns.

The quest for private donations without public financing can not match the overwhelming power of the small amounts needed to qualify for huge grants of taxpayer money.

But they are gatekeepers to a pool of public money which thus far has yielded $ 4.6 billion in grants statewide.

Assemblyman James Skoufis (D - Woodbury) announced that he helped secure $ 46,963 in construction grant money for the Tomkins Cove Public Library to replace the building's windows.

He has also funneled money to public universities and economic development initiatives with similar grants.

But there is one advantage to raising cash at home: The city has one of the most generous public matching programs in the country, with $ 6 of free public money granted for every $ 1 a candidate raises from New York City residents, up to maximum of $ 1,050 in matching grants per donor.

«Granted that a major component of the oversight function of the National Assembly is to consider and pass the Appropriation Bill into law and that no money can be withdrawn or spent from the Consolidation Revenue Fund or any other public funds except with the authorization of the National Assembly.

Full Public Campaign Financing A «Clean Money» system of full public campaign financing would provide every qualified candidate with an equal grant of campaign funding sufficient to reach the voters of their district with their message, provided they participate in a series of publicly sponsored dePublic Campaign Financing A «Clean Money» system of full public campaign financing would provide every qualified candidate with an equal grant of campaign funding sufficient to reach the voters of their district with their message, provided they participate in a series of publicly sponsored depublic campaign financing would provide every qualified candidate with an equal grant of campaign funding sufficient to reach the voters of their district with their message, provided they participate in a series of publicly sponsored debates.

Newly public data on grant funding success rates reflect one impetus for abandoning the set - aside: At many institutes, AIDS grants have been much easier to get than non-AIDS funding, suggesting that officials were struggling to find ways to spend the money.

Wintemute is one of just a few public health experts devoted to this research, which he has funded through a mixture of grants and nearly $ 2 million of his own money.

The dysfunction stems from a Spanish peculiarity: In the national science budget, the government not only includes lump sums to public research institutes and competitive grants to research teams, but also a pot of money aimed at supporting companies, universities, and public research institutions with loans.

Often, scientists in the same field are in competition for grant money to fund their work so there is an inherent need for discretion and confidentiality until results are made public.

It's a pity the answer is couched in formulaic terms that summon up remembrance of The Parallax View, All the President's Men, Capricorn One and just about any episode of Lou Grant in which all reporters are crusading heroes acting in the public interest, all corporate executives are money - grabbing, conscienceless villains, and all public relations people are sanctimonious toadies.

For example, some have noted the state's participation in the federal Reading First program, in which public schools received grant money to implement instructional and assessment tools.

In June 1997, the California Department of Education awarded $ 10 million in grant money to local education agencies for truancy prevention and public safety programs.

In the 1980s, the maximum Pell Grant — the money the federal money gives to low - income students to attend college — covered more than half the cost of a four - year public school, according to The Institute for College Access and Success, a think tank focused on college affordability.

• Denver Public Schools, by comparison, spent 13 percent of its turnaround grant money so far on consulting and other help from private companies.

Massachusetts is renewing its push to lengthen the school day, from adding more charter schools to appealing for federal grant money that could bring longer days to more traditional public schools.

The state's largest teachers union has blasted a new proposal from three lawmakers to give grants to advanced learners who live in low - income households, saying the proposal is another way to send public money to private education providers.

The per - pupil funding increases they've granted will help close Connecticut's worst - in - the - nation achievement gap, and the money for more charters will act as a lifeline for the 65,000 Connecticut kids still stuck in failing public schools.

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.

Great Public Schools Now is not putting a cap on how much money it will award or how many organizations will win grants.

Labour says it will end the public sector pay cap, but has not said how much money schools will receive in order to help them grant pay rises to their staff.

Advocates for private - school vouchers this week cheered the Supreme Court's decision that the state of Missouri may not deny a playground resurfacing grant to a church, calling the decision a first step toward an end to state bans on using public money to pay tuition at parochial schools.

Teachers are responding with enthusiasm to a website that helps them find grant money for classroom projects and professional development, according to the LA Fund for Public Education, the non-profit that launched the program last spring.

Among the proposed cuts are grant programs, including Teacher Education Assistance grants (for those who agree to teach, after college, for four years in a public school serving low - income families) and Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants (additional grant money for qualified undergraduate students from the lowest income legrants (for those who agree to teach, after college, for four years in a public school serving low - income families) and Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants (additional grant money for qualified undergraduate students from the lowest income leGrants (additional grant money for qualified undergraduate students from the lowest income levels).

Over the past two years, state regulators have reviewed 78 of Arizona's original charter - school operators, the first to be granted 15 - year contracts to create privately run public schools funded with state and federal money.

Asked whether Democrats take teachers» unions for granted, Van Roekel said that's not the issue and pointed to a different culprit: «There's so much money involved that somehow, some way, you have to get those deep pockets or you can't be in public service.»

FACT: Scholarship Tax Credits do not use public money Scholarship Tax Credits incentivize private donations to qualified scholarship granting organizations, which distribute...

In its race to meet a looming deadline to apply for a competitive federal grant, the State Board of Education adopted a series of legislative proposals to overhaul how Connecticut's charter schools are funded — proposals that are neither realistic nor reasonable and that could ultimately siphon money from communities for traditional public schools.

I had to file a Freedom of Information request in order to get a copy of the paperwork on the Gates grant and what I received was only the partial information, because as Connecticut taxpayers will have learned from the Jumoke / FUSE fiasco, while charter schools consistently argue they are «public» when it comes to accepting money from the state, they are quick to claim that they are private institutions when it comes to transparency and accountability.

The resolution cited the fact that charter boards accept public money but lack democratic accountability, that charter schools are contributing to increased segregation, that punitive disciplinary policies are disproportionately used in charter schools as well as other practices that violate students» rights, that there is a pattern of fraud of mismanagement in the sector in general, and it then called for opposition to privatization of education, opposed diversion of funding from public schools, called for full funding for quality public education, called for legislation granting parents access to charter school boards and to strengthen oversight, called for charter schools to follow USDOJ and USDOE guidelines on student discipline and to help parents file complaints when those guidelines are violated, opposed efforts to weaken oversight, and called for a moratorium on charter school growth.

(The district is not named in the paper, but the demographics, along with other details of the case study, match those of the Broward County Public Schools system in Florida, which the same researchers got grant money to study a few years ago.)

Among its provisions, Tillman's rewrite would require public school systems to share more pots of money with local charters, including sales tax revenues, gifts and grants and funds received for «indirect» costs.