Sentences with phrase «run by public funding»

If run by public funding then the school will not be permitted to claim the allowance, but if it is an academy, which has charitable status, it can claim.

Not exact matches

The fund will work with the public sector portion of Koch Industries, run by billionaire and Republican mega-donors Charles and David Koch, to help navigate public policy and regulatory law.

It went from being owned and run by a second - time entrepreneur to a limited partnership that brought U.S. retail experience to the table — private equity funds Advent International and Highland Capital Partners acquired a 48 % stake from Wilson in 2005 — and finally a public listing that has enabled the company to accelerate the pace of expansion.

The next phase of public pension reform will likely be touched off by a stock market decline that creates the real possibility of at least one state fund running out of cash within a couple of years.

They use a long - run sentiment index derived from principal component analysis of six sentiment measures: trading volume as measured by NYSE turnover; the dividend premium; the closed - end fund discount; the number of and first - day returns on Initial Public Offerings; and, the equity share in new issues.

Earlier this year, the activist investment firm Elliot Associates, run by famed hedge fund manager Paul Singer, recognized the disconnect between Advisory Board's public market price and the actual intrinsic value of the business.

Run by radicals for approximately twenty years, Berkeley has experienced the virtual ruin of its public school system, a vastly increased municipal bureaucracy, a greatly diminished housing stock (thanks to stringent rent controls and other restrictions on property rights), increased crime and drug abuse, widespread corruption, and wholesale waste of public funds.

While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

it is imperative that INEC as a public institution run with the approval, and from the funds of the public perform its responsibility of facilitating / regulating the electoral process responsibly as failure may lead to losing public / peoples support and by extension, its existence.

They gave their largest contribution of $ 15,000 to a public policy fund run by Citizen Action, one of the progressive groups who endorsed Nixon.

Ahead of it, the organization is calling on Governor Andrew Cuomo to implement reforms, most notably replacing the county - based system of public defense with one run by the state, with adequate funding.

The fund, run by state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, is also heavily weighted to stocks — and, like all public pension funds, is allowed to calculate its funding needs based on accounting assumptions that would not pass muster in the private sector.

«It's distressing, however, that Jack Martins has chosen an issue that unites us all — health care for veterans — to try to distract from the revelations of mismanagement and taxpayer - funded patronage that have emerged in the past week about the public hospital run by his political machine.»

With no oversight or subpoena power, «it is clear by now that the public advocate position has just become a taxpayer - funded method to run for mayor of the city of New York,» Sliwa said.

«I feel very privileged to be able to articulate my positions and my opinions on a myriad of subjects, and now I've been encouraged by many people in the general public, as well as Democratic funders and high level elected officials on both sides of the party line to seriously consider running,» the former star of «The Nanny» told reporters at the National Press Club in Washington.

It's not only the churches but other minority religious groups which are seeking to run schools and to be funded by the public purse to do so.

Although incumbents tend to have a leg up in fundraising, the Campaign Finance Board's public matching funds program ensures that first - time candidates and those with little access to wealthy donors can run serious campaigns by matching small dollar donations at a 6 - to - 1 ratio up to a certain amount.

He ran against Hillary Clinton for Senate in 2006, receiving 1.2 percent of the vote, and his platform calls for «universal single - payer health care, fully funded public schools, tuition - free SUNY and CUNY, building a carbon - free clean energy system — all paid for by restoring progressive tax rates on Wall Street and the rich.»

Public records indicate the sales took place about two weeks before a limited liability company run by Nicolla and involved in the land deal gave $ 50,000 to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's campaign fund --- among $ 150,000 in donations reported by the governor's campaign that day from LLCs tied to Columbia.

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.

They gave their largest contribution of $ 15,000 to a public policy fund run by Citizen Action, one of the progressive groups that endorsed Nixon.

People diagnosed with cancer gained 3.34 million years of life thanks to cancer clinical trials run by SWOG and supported with public funds, according to new study results to be presented at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), the world's largest clinical cancer research meeting.

The move gave total control of the lucrative Programme for Research in Third - Level Institutions run by the Higher Education Authority (HEA)-- one of two main public bodies funding science in Ireland — to Minister Lenihan's new department.

Run - to - Quit is a partnership of Canadian Cancer Society and Running Room with funding by Public Health Agency of Canada.

The schools operated by CMOs often receive less overall public funding on a per - pupil basis than comparable district - run public schools, with the deficit ranging from approximately 10 to 30 percent.

Carillion provides facilities maintenance, cleaning and catering services to hundreds of schools, but the government has confirmed that public funding will be provided to maintain the public services run by the firm.

Teach for America's major donors include the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; the Walton Family Foundation, run by the heirs to the Walmart fortune; the Eli & Edythe Broad Foundation, run by the real estate billionaire and Democratic donor; and the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, where hedge - fund dollars are used to support causes ranging from criminal justice reform to reducing the costs of public pensions (including those held by veteran teachers).

The state's 107 charter schools, including QEA, receive public funds but are run by separate non-profit organizations and intended to develop innovate teaching systems that don't exist at traditional public school systems.

Charter schools are public schools funded by tax dollars, but they are run by independent boards as schools that students choose to attend.

The landscape of subsidized OST programs includes those operated by public schools and public charter schools; those run by District government agencies, such as the Department of Parks and Recreation; and those organized by non-school entities that receive public funding, such as community based providers (CBOs).

Charter schools are public schools that are independently run from state school systems, and are typically funded by school districts or are considered independent charters.

In California, Fuller said virtual charters like those run by K12 Inc. began with a «virtuous» premise — offering additional paths to graduation for students who, for various reasons, struggle in brick - and - mortar schools — but public perception of the programs soured due to bickering over public funds and performance.

They support vouchers that would allow public funds to be spent on private schools — even those with religious orientations — and charter schools, which are frequently run by private corporations.

Charter schools are publicly funded but operate outside traditional public districts, and many are run by for - profit companies.

Almost all New Orleans» public schools are now charters, which are run by independent nonprofit boards but publicly funded.

The schools run by Academica, Florida's oldest charter school management company, use public funds to pay Doral College to provide unaccredited college coursework.

Over the past four years, state funding for privately - run charter schools has increased by 73.6 % [from $ 53 million to $ 92 million], while Connecticut's public school districts were provided with a 7.9 % increase in support.

Governor Malloy's tenure has been characterized by denigrating teachers, vigorously opposing adequate funding of public schools and vastly increasing financial support for privately run charter schools which fail to serve the state's neediest children, including English Language Learners and students with disabilities, have disturbingly harsh disciplinary policies, increase racial isolation, drain public money from needy public schools and have even been implicated in fraud and theft.

The Walton - funded New York Charter School Association, which takes considerable public money and advertises itself as «independently - run public schools,» refused state audits, arguing that they were run by boards outside the public domain.

Laurel is one of 16,000 students whose schools» futures were imperiled by the May court decision reaffirmed Monday, throwing these students into the center of a national debate about the viability of charter schools — schools that are publicly funded but can be privately run — and the role they play in public education.

It was also rich in symbolism because Chicago public schools were once run by Education Secretary Arne Duncan, a huge cheerleader for both the Common Core and the new exams, developed with $ 370 million in federal funds.

Beffa thinks charter schools, which are publicly funded but can be privately run, have harmed his city's public schools by wasting their money.

By the same token, when under - funded and under - resourced public schools do not show «adequate yearly progress,» our response should be to find out why these schools are struggling, and provide them with the materials and support they need to improve — not for the charter management companies that run these schools to walk away before the end of the school year, forcing families to scramble to get their kids placed into public schools with little notice and no assistance.

The key is that the funds are not available for purchase by the public, they're only available to folks running Fido funds - of - funds and similar products.

Instead, they envisage buying funds run by hotshot managers, timing the market, dabbling in initial public stock offerings and actively trading individual shares.

The Foundation is a 501 (c)(3) private foundation that is run by a volunteer Board of Directors and funded by PEDIGREE ® Brand and contributions from the public.

Recent solo exhibitions include: the world just makes me laugh at Berkeley Art Museum, let's start this day again at Contemporary Art Center (Cincinnati), giorni d'oro + notti d'argento at Museo d'Arte Contemporanea di Roma, Seven Magic Mountains organized by Art Production Fund and the Nevada Museum of Art (Nevada), vocabulary of solitude at Museum Boijmans van Beuningen (Rotterdam), i love john giorno at Palais de Tokyo (Paris), artists and poets at Vienna Secession (Vienna), breathe walk die at Rockbund Art Museum (Shanghai), human nature organized by Public Art Fund in Rockefeller Plaza, (New York), we run through a desert on burning feet, all of us are glowing our faces look twisted at Art Institute of Chicago, thank you silence at M - Museum Leuven (Belgium).

Initially carried out by Ted Heath's Conservative government, these cuts deepened under Labour after a run on the pound forced James Callaghan's government to take out a huge loan from the International Monetary Fund in 1976, which led to severe funding restrictions for public services.

His funding has enabled the Whitechapel Gallery to realise 3 projects over 4 years: a permanent post, The Daskalopoulos Head of Education & Public Programmes, held by Sofia Victorino, who runs the Gallery's programme of learning with talks, events, courses, schools, family and community programmes; a new initiative, the NEON Curatorial Award; and a cultural programme between Athens and London, the NEON Curatorial Exchange.

Previous to Work No. 975, a red neon text appeared in New York's Times Square (Work No. 225 1999, commissioned by Public Art Fund), a thirty - metre - long version was installed in Detroit (Work No. 790 2007), and another text in white neon ran the 75 ft length of the Rennie Museum's façade in Vancouver's Chinatown (Work No. 851 2008).