Sentences with phrase «public millions of dollars a year»

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With bitcoin having certain non-tech advantages over ETH, mainly it's time on the market and the public's familiarity, teams adamantly expressed their belief to place some, if not most of the speculative one million dollars into BTC, over the next five years.

Malloy's proposed budget this year would bring more deep state cuts, either in staffing or pay and benefits to public employees, along with a shift of hundreds of millions of dollars in costs to cities and towns.

Horgan committed to making things better for survivors of sexual violence and for those fleeing abusive homes by making sure crime prevention dollars go to deliver much - needed services that keep more women safe, improving public policy, directing more funding to provincial and community based programs that directly serve women and children, and increasing funding to violence prevention and intervention programs by $ 8 million a year.

But if my public accounting firm offered me a job after my freshman year for like a routine salary i wouldve though about it and potentially left... let alone millions of dollars

«In our seven years at D.C. Public Schools, we have significantly increased the quality of food service while saving the District millions of dollars,» he said.

The HUD inspector general is conducting a wide - ranging audit into how Buffalo's public housing authority spent tens of millions of dollars over the past two years.

The business lobby is serious about crushing «the little party that could» (a Newsday headline of a few years ago), spending millions of dollars on television and mail against WFP candidates, and even trying to hire well - known progressive public relations firms to wage a PR battle against them.

Gerard Terry, an influential political operative and chairman of the North Hempstead Democratic Committee, has for years received government work paying him hundreds of thousands of dollars even as he compiled an income tax debt of $ 1.4 million and battled lawsuits alleging fraud and failure to pay back loans, a Newsday review of public records shows.

FRMC, an entity that controls millions of public dollars that just last year adopted commonly accepted standards of transparency, figures in the state's criminal complaint against former president Alain Kaloyeros, who is alleged to have rigged the state - sponsored nonprofit's bidding processes to favor certain companies for construction - related contracts.

Public Investments Toward Capital Upgrades to Keep CUNY Colleges in Queens Competitive QUEENS, NY — Borough President Melinda Katz today announced an allocation of $ 3.64 million of her Fiscal Year 2017 discretionary capital dollars to fund projects at four of the City University of New York (CUNY) public institutions of higher learning in QPublic Investments Toward Capital Upgrades to Keep CUNY Colleges in Queens Competitive QUEENS, NY — Borough President Melinda Katz today announced an allocation of $ 3.64 million of her Fiscal Year 2017 discretionary capital dollars to fund projects at four of the City University of New York (CUNY) public institutions of higher learning in Qpublic institutions of higher learning in Queens.

[From The WSJ] John Liu, a former New York City comptroller who ran unsuccessfully for mayor last year, accused the city Campaign Finance Board in a federal lawsuit of unlawfully denying his campaign millions of dollars in public matching funds.

Last year, de Blasio asked the Legislature for $ 300 million in new funding to help make capital improvements at the New York City Housing Authority, the crumbling system of public housing with a multi-billion dollar deficit.

Emails show Robert Nichols, Republican - turned - Democrat Assemblyman John Ceretto's top political aide, wanted none of the $ 1.6 million in tax dollars Ceretto was allocated last year by legislative leaders went to the town of Wheatfield, all of whose elected members are Republicans, because Town Supervisor Robert Cliffe allegedly gave Nichols and Ceretto the cold shoulder at a public picnic.

When employment figures begin going up, and real affordable universal health care is soon to be available, and wasteful Bush fantasies like Star Wars are back to being experimental programs on the fringes of public awareness and costing only hundreds of millions of dollars a year, when all of our long term allies are back to being on speaking terms with us, those 25 % ers will get their 25 % s and Congress will be even more democratic Party than now.

Hillary was investigated for over two years, 33 congressional hearings plus 4 public hearings at a cost of better then $ 10 million dollars.

Some union officials and their allies say the change in strategy also reflects a recognition that the traditional winter ad wars are not without cost to themselves, both in dollars — 1199 alone has spent as much as $ 10 million a year out of a joint fund with the Greater New York Hospital Association — and in public relations backlash.

The proposal, for the final budget of Mr. de Blasio's first term, provided a blueprint of sorts for a potential second term with big - ticket investments — including an additional $ 1.9 billion in capital spending to create more apartments for some of the poorest New Yorkers — and long - term plans, like tens of millions of dollars to start a preschool program for 3 - year - olds in city public schools, and new spending on homeless shelters.

E.J. McMahon, president of the fiscally conservative Empire Center for Public Policy, said that the number of million - dollar earners may be up but that more and more wealthy New Yorkers are declaring themselves to be only part - year residents of the Empire State — members of the «183 club» that spends at least that many days (half a year) living elsewhere.

Topics in the Q&A included the source of money for the City's planned pre-K advertising campaign, the City's target number of pre-K applicants, whether Speaker Silver thinks the proposed income tax surcharge should be pursued next year, how the pre-K selection process will work, how the City will cover the approximately $ 40 million annual gap between the estimated cost of pre-K and the amount provided in the state budget, when parents will learn whether their pre-K application has been accepted, how the City will collect data and measure success of the pre-K program, whether the existing pre-K application process will be changed, how the City will use money from the anticipated school bond issue, the mayor's reaction to a 2nd Circuit ruling that City may bar religious groups from renting after - hours space in public schools, the status on a proposed restaurant in Union Square, a tax break included in the state budget that provides millions of dollars to a Bronx condominium project, the «shop & frisk» meeting today between the Rev. Al Sharpton and Police Commissioner Bratton and a pending HPD case against a Brooklyn landlord.

The groups, made up of Cuomo appointees, award hundreds of millions of public dollars a year to job creation plans.

Amtrak, a for - profit public corporation run and funded in part by the federal government, owns Penn Station and Albany and Trenton spend tens of millions of dollars each year to rent concourses for their state and local train systems.

Public records show that Percoco, who left the state payroll for several months in early 2014 to run Cuomo's re-election campaign, said he received as much as $ 125,000 in still - unexplained «consulting» fees during that year from two companies, COR Development of Syracuse and Albany - based CHA Consulting, which have longstanding dealings and tens of millions of dollars in contracts with the state.

With the billions of dollars invested each year in public schools, both traditional and charter, and the millions of hours that we compel our children to attend these schools, it is critical that we have a basic understanding of the school environment that we are providing.

Yale University is putting millions of dollars a year into a new program that will help send top graduates of schools in New Haven, Conn., to public colleges and universities tuition - free.

Moreover, the program has been found to save taxpayers tens of millions of dollars every year because the private sector educates students more economically than does the public sector.

Midwestern gubernatorial races have been dominated by the dismal state of the region's economy — which has cost the region's public schools millions of dollars in state aid in the past few years.

Just this year, the Office of Chinese Language Council International — or Hanban, an affiliate of China's Ministry of Education — committed millions of dollars to help launch several ventures with U.S. schools, including a program in North Carolina to offer Mandarin Chinese classes in 45 public schools...

«As he had promised, public education receives the lion's share of new dollars in the Governor's spending plan; K - 12 schools would see a welcome infusion of $ 400 million in the coming year.

For both special - needs students, as well as millions of poor students, public schools provide services, from vision screening to speech therapy, to the tune of $ 4 billion in reimbursements a year, or 1 percent of all Medicaid dollars.

Roger Bacon Academy has raked in millions of dollars in profits that consist of public funds since 1999 — and Mitchell himself has profited to the tune of at least $ 16 million in management fees over the past several years.

Public school loyalists have seized on this and on a recent Legislative Fiscal Bureau (LFB) memo as proof the voucher system will suck hundreds of millions of dollars out of the public - school system — up to $ 800 million over 10 years, to be exact, according to thePublic school loyalists have seized on this and on a recent Legislative Fiscal Bureau (LFB) memo as proof the voucher system will suck hundreds of millions of dollars out of the public - school system — up to $ 800 million over 10 years, to be exact, according to thepublic - school system — up to $ 800 million over 10 years, to be exact, according to the memo.

Over the past two decades, the non-teaching staff at public schools in Mississippi has grown rapidly while the number of students actually decreased, costing taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars each year.

Some of the supporters of allowing public dollars to pay for private education justified it by considering it a pilot program with a limited number of students and public money — $ 10 million set aside in last year's budget.

Her remarks came just weeks before states» first due date for submitting accountability plans under the Every Student Succeeds Act that will guide state education policy and the distribution of millions of federal dollars to public schools in the coming years.

The money that comes to cities and towns to help fund public schools is based on an Education Cost Sharing (ECS) formula which is grossly underfunded to the tune of almost $ 700 million dollars this year.

Malloy claims that his «initiative» is providing Connecticut's 30 most struggling school districts with another $ 132 million in state aid, but the truth is that this year's increase is only about $ 45 million and that in order to get those funds, school districts were required to accept a series of new mandates and programs aimed at further implementing Malloy's corporate education reform agenda and diverting scarce public dollars to private companies.

Teach For America (TFA) receives hundreds of millions of public and private dollars and has garnered acclaim for sending college graduates, who do not typically have an education background, to teach in low - income rural and urban schools for a two - year commitment.

A broad coalition of Louisville nonprofits, government and businesses plans to raise tens of millions of dollars to enable every Jefferson County Public Schools graduate to obtain at least a two - year college degree.

Charter schools siphon hundreds of millions of dollars a year from public schools.

Chicago Public Schools officials are set to authorize $ 200 million of new borrowing to manage a cash crunch through the end of June while also taking out a separate line of credit to borrow nearly a billion dollars to get through the coming fiscal year.

«We at DFER applaud Mayor Muriel Bowser and Deputy Mayor Niles for prioritizing public education in the proposed FY2017 budget, which invests an additional $ 220 million dollars for full modernization of DCPS schools over the next two years, ends the «phases» approach, and increases the Universal Per Pupil Funding Formula to allow for schools to better meet the needs of every child.

Three years of expense reports analyzed by The Tribune show that several private companies regularly receive millions of public dollars for the services they provide to some of Utah's 100 - plus charter schools.

The charter school industry and their corporate education reform allies spend tens of millions of dollars — every year — on public relations, lobbying, campaign donations and faux media outlets.

State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson has given Los Angeles Unified a one - year reprieve from a ruling requiring the district to spend potentially hundreds of millions of additional dollars on English learners and low - income children to comply with the state's new school funding law.

Pryor has dedicated himself to hiring his personal friends, giving out millions of dollars in contracts to out - of - state, politically - connected companies, putting his «Turnaround Office» in the hands of Morgan Barth, a person who illegally taught and worked for Pryor's charter school management company (Achievement First, Inc.) for six years and relentlessly and consistently doing the wrong thing for Connecticut's system of public education.

Forget that as a result of the Sheff v. O'Neill case, Connecticut taxpayers are spending hundreds of millions of dollars every year to reduce racial isolation in public schools.

The legislature has willingly and knowingly severely underfunded urban school districts like Bridgeport for decades, but now wants to potentially point their finger at those very same cities and claim they are at fault for the performance of their public schools while allowing the proliferation of charter schools, which this year alone drained $ 5 million dollars from the BPS.

While the State of Connecticut spends hundreds of millions of dollars every year to reduce racial isolation in our urban school districts, as required by Connecticut's Constitution and Courts, Governor Dannel Malloy is pumping more than $ 100 million a year into Connecticut Charter Schools despite the fact that they have become a primary vehicle for the segregation of our public school system.

Despite the massive expenditure of public dollars, including more than $ 20 million a year in Connecticut state funds, the SBAC test and its sister version which is called the PARCC test, fail to adequately measure student achievement and have no appropriate role in the teacher evaluation process.

The Microsoft founder said in a keynote speech Thursday in Cleveland that a majority of the millions of dollars the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will spend over the next five years will go to networks of public schools, created to share achievements and failures in teacher development and curricula.