Sentences with phrase «public taxpayer dollars»

«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.

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.

«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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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