Sentences with phrase «public tax»

It seems, for now at least, that advocates of using public tax dollars for private schools will wait to fight another day.

In the 1950s, 1960s, and early 1970s, private school advocates tried to build support for tuition vouchers, payments of public tax funds for private school tuition.

They are funded by public tax dollars on a per pupil basis.

It's about sending public tax money to religious schools and for - profit private schools run by corporations, while reducing funds for public schools.

For almost a quarter century, I have criticized using public tax dollars to fund private voucher schools and privately run charter schools.

But they are private schools and ultimately should be funded privately and not with public tax dollars.

About half of the group's $ 10 million operating budget comes from food industry members, including membership fees and sponsorship opportunities, according to a review of public tax filings.

Many private schools that take public tax dollars discriminate against a large segment of our children — those with special needs.

In the end, those making the profits have the real choice: who to educate and how to spend or keep public tax dollars.

As public schools, charter schools are funded by public tax dollars.

Why is public tax money allowed to go to private school vouchers, when private schools do not have to test and, therefore, are not held «accountable»?

So the fans went after the politicians who agreed about spending public tax dollars for stadium, and BOOM results.

Who exactly is getting the $ 7 billion in public tax breaks and subsidies handed out by various state programs and hundreds of local Industrial Development Authorities?

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon will make public her tax return in the coming weeks, her campaign said Tuesday.

She had not filed a copy of the CHAR 500 form or Internal Revenue Service's 990 form, the required public tax records for charities, since the 2010 tax year.

and, while selflessly raking in public tax payer money (the Jumoke / Milner operations fee?

Reynolds added that he realizes there is a serious opioid addiction problem in Broome County, «but having an honest and open discussion over how best to dispense public tax dollars to combat that problem should always be an accepted practice.»

As a would - be candidate for governor — and one whose New York residency is sketchy — Democratic gadfly challenger Zephyr Teachout should immediately make public her tax returns.

The Court will consider the issue of whether the Nevada law, authorizing the use of scarce public tax dollars to fund private entities, is prohibited under the Nevada constitutional provisions requiring a uniform system of common schools, and a free public education for all students.

Charter School: Funded through public tax dollars from money meant for traditional public schools, operates in the private sector, may be managed by for - profit charter management organizations (CMO), and are not required to be transparent about how tax dollars are spent, free from many of the regulations that apply to traditional public schools.

NSBA supports public charter schools that respond to the same accountability measures required of public schools, but is strongly opposed to vouchers, tuition tax credits, and other forms of education that siphon public tax dollars toward for - profit interests.

For example, Emanuel has not supported public tax dollars funding religious voucher schools, as have Walker and some Democrats in Wisconsin.

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.

Furthermore, multiple choice, high - stakes tests have reliably padded the profits of education corporations, draining public tax dollars but have been unreliable in measuring the diversity of students» capabilities and learning.

Pelahatchie mother Martha Beard is convinced the state law allowing public tax dollars to pay for private - school instruction may be saving her daughter Lana.

But a study from Villanova University has shown just why those withholdings, specifically at the state level, are so important to public tax coffers around the country.

What indignation about Google's tax strategy misses is that public tax avoidance hardly damages this image at all.

09:43 - Will Brown tell the British public taxes have to go up in a recession?

Cuomo, as is custom for statewide elected officials, made public his taxes today, showing he earned $ 218,100 last year and is no longer receiving income from the proceeds of his 2014 memoir, «All Things Possible.»

«To those supporters of Mr. Bruno who believe this case should not have been brought because of his popularity, his age, his health challenges, or how many public tax dollars he steered to our area for airports and train stations and baseball stadiums, you should understand that prosecutors must base their charging decisions on the facts and the law,» he said at a press conference.

Assemblyman Will Barclay, R - Pulaski: No «I do not believe public tax dollars should be used to fund political campaigns.

«Right - wing ideologues are willing to spend big money on their agenda that undermines local public schools and shifts public tax dollars into their unaccountable education privatization experiment.

That review also included a note that said the school was opposed to the payment of social security taxes on religious grounds, despite their willingness to accept public tax dollars to support their educational program.

Finding appropriate instructional space is a perennial challenge for schools of choice which — unlike public district schools — do not have access to public bond markets or public tax levies.

The bill requires an annual apportionment of public taxes according to the equalized valuation of cooperative school districts.

Not only are such data crucial to build understandings, as noted, but they are also crucial in support of a functioning democracy, to allow others within a population concerned with a public institution test the mandates and policies they collectively support, in theory or concept (perhaps) but also via public taxes.

Invest public tax dollars first in Florida's K - 12 public schools which are valued community assets wholly owned by the people of Florida.

At its core, the Indiana Choice Legislation utilizes public tax dollars to subsidize school choice.

There's been a so - far failed attempt to create vouchers, which would send public tax dollars to private schools; changes to the state's A - F report cards to grade schools and districts; and the state budget.

(The donations are included in the group's 2009, 2008 and 2007 I - 990s, public tax forms that non-profits file each year)

Quite simply, the budget approved this month funnels public tax dollars to private schools, including those in wealthy suburbs.

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.

It is imperative that we openly debate the merits of having private corporations with unelected school boards control education (and its accompanying public tax dollars).

Here is the language in the Charter School Fix bill that allows charter schools to have any teachers they want, any class sizes they want and distribute public tax payer dollars in any manner they want:

There are others in that category as well, including the proposed Opportunity Scholarship Act (OSA) that would provide private school scholarships paid for by public tax credits.