Sentences with phrase «public tax dollars for»

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

The controversial program provides financial aid through public tax dollars for income - eligible families who want to send their children to private schools, offering $ 7,323 per K - 8 student last school year and rising to about $ 7,500 per student this fall.

During the reauthorization process, there was a collective effort by NSBA and local school board members to advocate before Members of Congress for a modernized education law that underscores the importance of local governance, protects federal investments in Title I grants for disadvantaged students, and prevents the diversion of public tax dollars for private use.

During this reauthorization process, NSBA has worked closely with lawmakers on both sides of the aisle to advocate for a modernized education law that affirms the importance of local governance, protects federal investments in Title I grants for disadvantaged students, and prevents the diversion of public tax dollars for private use.

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

Not exact matches

Financial Aid: In 2017, for the first time ever, America's public universities received more revenue from tuition than they did from tax dollars — a funding model that places a higher burden on students and their families and risks widening economic inequality, even as the population of would - be students becomes more diverse.

Let's see, hmmm, even if I didn't have to pay for it or the cleaning of it with my tax dollars, I would object to any monument to any religion being placed in a public space that I pay to keep clear for my and others use.

Parochial schools are supported by church funds in addition to tuition, not tax dollars, providing in many areas a reasonable alternative for working class and middle class parishioners and removing these millions of students from the public education system paid for by taxpayers.

Since my tax dollars pay for religious activities, I want religion out of public places all the more.

Herbert Grover is the increasingly visible state superintendent of public instruction for Wisconsin and a man determined that no tax dollar shall be soiled by the hand of a parent on its way to school.

If 100 years ago America had built an amusement park on public grounds and paid for its operation with tax dollars called «Bible Land» that featured all the bible stories and exemplified Christs teachings we could say that amusement park was founded on Christian principles, It is a Christian amusement park.

House Speaker Michael Madigan blamed teacher unions on Friday for killing a proposal to send tax dollars to private schools, claiming the powerful lobby doesn't want competition for Illinois public schools.

In turn, families will receive interventions that meet the highest levels of evidence for preventing child maltreatment, and they and the public can be confident that the programs they participate in and support through their tax dollars have the greatest potential to improve child and family well - being.

'' The next two years will provide no shortage of challenges for our Conference, its partners in government and all New Yorkers: A multi-billion dollar budget deficit needing closure, a government that is still too big and spends too much, chronic unemployment, some of the nation's highest taxes and a continued lack of public confidence in state government,» Kolb said.

Unshackle Upstate's Brian Sampson says in a TU OpEd that state taxpayer dollars slated for a public campaign finance system would be better spent on repairing aging infrastructure, expediting ongoing storm recovery efforts, restoring the Gap Elimination Adjustment, or providing tax relief for struggling middle - class families.

Each year, Erie County invests over $ 30 million in tax dollars for public works construction projects across the county.

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.

money, follow the money: These charter school proponents would love to privatize and monetize everything in sight - including your children's future - as they increasingly suck up your tax dollars and public buildings and public resources for their own ideological and profit - making ends — leaving the public schools starved.

The budget includes a multi step plan that could lower property taxes, $ 340 million dollars for schools to start pre-K programs, and a limited test program for public campaign financing.

But Kolb says he knows talks are going on about the top two remaining issues, renewing New York City's rent laws and an education tax credit for donors who give up to a million dollars to fund scholarships for poor children in private schools and fund afterschool activities at public schools.

«Anyone who wouldn't close some tax loophole in exchange for removing trillions of dollars of debt from the backs of our children doesn't belong in public office.

The town's Democratic committee is looking for a successor to Gerard Terry, who resigned last week as party chairman after Newsday reported he had collected $ 1.4 million in federal and state tax debts while receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars in public work.

What was bizarre about the HCRA tax was that all this money, billions and billions of dollars flowing into the state and flowing back out again for more than 20 different public health programs by the early 2000s, almost none of it was on the books.

The subjects up for negotiation — employee pay, benefits, and work rules — are ultimately political decisions about how to allocate tax dollars and how public services should be carried out.

It is clear that these fat cats who want the public to bail them out like AIG and Goldman Sachs; or the Speyer deal with Stuyvesant Town and a whole host of other scams, are organizing because they fear losing their «special treatment» like a West Street Headquarters will a half billion dollar real estate tax exemption; or the tax credits for complex real estate deals that made Related into a financial and real estate behemoth without really doing much to improve anything... It bothers these dukes and barons that the city helps the needy.

Longtime Democratic operative Gerard Terry has stepped down as the attorney for the Roosevelt Public Library Board after Newsday reported that he collected nearly $ 1.4 million in federal and state tax debts while making hundreds of thousands of dollars in government jobs.

While public schools are reimbursed for the full cost of this tax, religious and independent schools are not, creating a gap for them of nearly six million dollars.

Dozens of tax - exempt «charitable» groups have steered thousands of dollars to candidates for public office or to political parties, a NY Post review of Board of Elections filings reveals.

Dozens of tax - exempt «charitable» groups have steered thousands of dollars to candidates for public office or to political parties, a Post review of Board of Elections filings reveals.

Jan. 16 - Syracuse.com reports that SU officials won't share feasibility study with Miner or the public although it was paid for with tax dollars.

The budget also extends the millionaire's tax that was due to expire at the end of this year, preserving billions of dollars in annual revenue for schools and other vital public services.

The New York state legislature is due to adjourn later this week, but there's still no agreement by Assembly Democrats on an education tax credit sought by Gov. Andrew Cuomo that would allow donors a tax credit when they give up to a million dollars for private school scholarships and some public school programs.

And then there's Cuomo's economic platform — which, by the way, the W.F.P. signed onto in 2010 when it was begging Cuomo to endorse it — of a property - tax cap, reducing pensions for new public workers and cutting taxes, including some measures targeted at major banks and people with million - dollar estates.

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.

Sen. James Seward, R - Milford, No «State tax dollars should be used to help our schools, repair our roads, and enhance public safety, not pay for political ads.»

Of the public tax dollars spent on agricultural research, organic receives less than one percent of the funding.1 The first endowed chair went to the University of Wisconsin - Madison and agronomy professor William F. Tracy for his work on organic corn breeding.

Some people say the beach restoration work, which will largely be paid for with federal tax dollars, will mostly help to protect expensive homes for the wealthy — people who have free access to the beach — while most communities would still be charging fees for public access.

This is actually something parents of home - schooled children have done for years, but increasingly some seem to be saying that they would like some of the benefits of the local public school, for which they are paying with their tax dollars, as they do so.

«I can tell you this — if you gave the American people a choice today between using federal dollars to renovate and build new public schools or using public tax dollars to pay for private school vouchers, there would be no question how the American people would vote,» asserted U.S. Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley in a speech made when the report was released.

When almost 90 percent of all of our children are attending public schools, it doesn't make a lot of sense to me to use public tax dollars to pay for private school education.

He argued that such competition for those tax dollars would force public schools to improve.

Florida has the third - largest charter sector in the nation — with more than 650 schools serving almost 300,000 students — but half of its charters are operated by for - profit companies, fostering negative public perceptions and greater reluctance to share tax dollars.

Thus, as a public union, the NEA (so too the American Federation of Teachers), is, essentially, spreading around tax dollars, money over which the taxpayer has no control, an income redistribution effort that could easily be mistaken for a kickback or, in states where union membership and dues are not voluntary, a not - so - hidden and not - so - representative tax.

For each elementary student enrolled, a District charter school receives $ 11,879 in tax dollars, including $ 8,770 to match per - pupil academic spending in the regular public schools and a $ 3,109 facility allotment to help pay for buildinFor each elementary student enrolled, a District charter school receives $ 11,879 in tax dollars, including $ 8,770 to match per - pupil academic spending in the regular public schools and a $ 3,109 facility allotment to help pay for buildinfor buildings.

So when she says she is for public schools it is important that she distinguish between real public schools and charters that are only public because they get tax dollars.

«Those options do not divert federal dollars to non-public schools as vouchers and tuition tax credits do, and are effective in expanding opportunities for students and can help schools in their efforts to serve our nation's 50 million public school 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.

We need a moratorium on new charters until we get greater accountability on our tax dollars that pay for these alleged «public institutions!»

The movement toward boarding schools for low - income students has made some of its greatest strides in the District, where both Maya Angelou and the SEED Public Charter School receive an extra $ 14,000 in federal tax dollars each year for every student who lives on their premises.

Education choice allows tax dollars to follow students to the schools or services that best meet their needs, and parents have the ability to choose an education that they determine is right for their child, whether at a traditional public school, charter school, or private school.