Sentences with phrase «public taxpayer»

What are the chances that the mother was receiving some sort of public taxpayer welfare support to raise those children?

«We have an obligation to ensure that these infrastructure projects are delivered on time, on budget and that the use of public taxpayer dollars is maximized,» he said.

Superior Court Judge Robert H. Hobgood agreed with the complainants, declaring the program unconstitutional in 2014 and saying from the bench that «the General Assembly fails the children of North Carolina when they are sent with public taxpayer money to private schools that have no legal obligation to teach them anything.»

«The General Assembly fails the children of North Carolina when they are sent with public taxpayer money to private schools that have no legal obligation to teach them anything,» he wrote.

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.

Following the money trail further reveals that Rocketship solicits investments from hedge fund companies by guaranteeing rates of return above 10 %, effectively using public taxpayer money to make rich private investors even richer.

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.

ESAs work like school vouchers because they siphon public taxpayer money from community schools and transfer those funds to private and religious schools.

He said the Supreme Court doesn't allow public taxpayer funds to go to religious education.

«Education savings accounts are another example of taking public taxpayer dollars and allowing it to be spent on private schools with no accountability and no transparency,» Rep. Graig Meyer, an Orange County Democrat and outspoken public school advocate who sits on the state House education committee, complained Wednesday.

Lots of golfers and corporate types from ConnCAN and RI - CAN are anxious to get more charter schools and to see more public taxpayer money.

«It ultimately is the privatization agenda of putting public taxpayer money into privately operated charter schools that operate without proper regulations.

Though marketed as distinct from traditional school vouchers, the ESA is simply different dressing on a familiar scheme to redirect public taxpayer dollars to pay for private, unregulated, and unaccountable services.

Empowerment Scholarship Accounts (or what ALEC calls «educational savings accounts») work like school vouchers because they siphon off public taxpayer money for private and religious schools.

«The General Assembly fails the children of North Carolina when they are sent with public taxpayer money to private schools that have no legal obligation to teach them anything,» Hobgood said.

She said that charters «are public only by the fact that they receive public taxpayer dollars.»

Personal Education Savings Accounts, or PESAs, offer families that have children with disabilities the opportunity to receive up to $ 9,000 in public taxpayer dollars that are loaded onto debit cards intended for paying for private school tuition, tutoring, or other related expenses.

School Choice: Political trend to use public taxpayer money to pay for the educational program parents to choose for their children.

Tolliver explains that the county spends «millions of public taxpayer dollars» to represent indigent clients in courts through Lucas County, Ohio.

A lower court judge agreed, saying «the General Assembly fails the children of North Carolina when they are sent with public taxpayer money to private schools that have no legal obligation to teach them anything.»

I've just realized that the Turnaround Model the state is so anxious to effect on its «lowest performing schools» and of which Andrea Comer and Michael Sharpe are experts should actually be called the Turn Over Model — as in, Turn Over your public taxpayer dollars to a private «non-profit» charter company, such as FUSE or Achievement First.

, saying «the General Assembly fails the children of North Carolina when they are sent with public taxpayer money to private schools that have no legal obligation to teach them anything.»

«Since the voucher program in Wisconsin started in 1990, over $ 1.4 billion of public taxpayer dollars have gone to private schools.