Sentences with phrase «schools with taxpayer money»

She funded efforts in Michigan to siphon funds from students in public schools, allowing for - profit companies to operate schools with taxpayer money and no accountability.

Our state is a leader in funding private school vouchers and charter schools with taxpayer money to the detriment of the more than 90 percent of Hoosier kids attending public schools.»

For the third time, a Florida court has struck down the state's best - known voucher program, calling it unconstitutional because it allows students to attend religious schools with taxpayer money — a violation, the court said, of the state constitution.

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«Tioga Downs» expansion will foster hundreds of new jobs and spur much - needed economic development in the Southern Tier, plus generate millions of dollars for public schools and local governments — with all private money and zero taxpayer dollars,» Commission Executive Director Robert Williams said in a statement.

«With the second consecutive on - time budget, major reforms to save taxpayer money, and a commitment to make New York's schools the best in the nation, Governor Cuomo is making New York's government work again, and making New York the comeback state,» Clinton said.

It might be different if you're being paid with taxpayer money — I'm not sure.PS — My girlfriend doesn't have a dime to disclose anyway other than her grad school debt.

While technically the money side of social welfare is indeed not payable to illegal aliens, (1) They still get an incredibly costly (to taxpayers) set of benefits such as free public school education for their kids; law - and - order which is a public good; and medical care in ER facilities who have to treat everyone, with or without insurance.

Charter schools are privately run with taxpayer money and promoted as an alternative to traditional public schools.

The investigation will conclude in spring next year, Tes has reported, and will also look at how the extent which Ofsted's approach to school inspection is providing taxpayers with value for money.

Given that Florida public schools spend close to $ 17,000 per disabled student and that the McKay program contains a roughly representative distribution of disability types, taxpayers are actually saving quite a bit of money with special education vouchers, and public school districts are certainly not being «financially punished.»

While I absolutely agree that too much of our taxpayers» money is spent on stuff that isn't making our schools better, I couldn't disagree more with what Peterson identifies as fat.

The Republican - led state legislature passed the law last year to provide parents with at least $ 5,100 a year in taxpayer money for private school tuition.

But he agreed that schools that can't successfully use taxpayer money to educate their students «should be kicked out of the program» and should not have been allowed in to begin with.

According to Hassan, «The voucher tax credit is bad public policy for public education in New Hampshire and our taxpayers, diverting millions of dollars in taxpayer money with no accountability or oversight to religious and private schools.»

Voucher schools have long been known to «counsel out» children with special educational needs and at - risk behaviors, even after accepting taxpayer money to educate those students.

In addition to increasing per - pupil funding, Huberty's bill provides schools with weighted funding for students with dyslexia, and reduces the amount of money that local taxpayers in wealthier areas would pay in Recapture by $ 163 million in 2018 and $ 192 million in 2019.

Charter schools are privately run with taxpayer money and promoted as an alternative to traditional public schools.

Voucher schools have drained over a billion dollars of taxpayers» money away from public schools and into private schools with little public accountability.

The schools assure the public that if they are freed from much of the restrictions that mire many public schools in bureaucracy, they will use taxpayers» money to provide students with a high - quality education.

It is the only check that the education inspectorate makes on free schools before they open and is particularly important as free schools are not monitored by local authorities, but are funded with taxpayers» money.

DPI officials testified that 78 percent of students in Milwaukee private voucher schools are attending with taxpayer money.

After controlling for variables such as students» socio - economic status, we found that independent public charter schools (and non-instrumentalities) are much more efficient with taxpayer money.

House Bill 1637 diverts taxpayer money to private and religious schools with no accountability or oversight, a clear violation of the New Hampshire Constitution, which states, `... no money raised by taxation shall ever be granted or applied for the use of the schools of institutions of any religious sect or denomination.»

The goal, Superintendent Tom Boasberg said, is to be more upfront with taxpayers about how Denver Public Schools spends its money.

As the Trump administration seeks to expand school choice nationwide, the academy was thrust into the national spotlight last month as part of a heated debate over whether schools that receive money from taxpayer - funded vouchers can discriminate against certain groups of students, such as LGBT children or students with disabilities.

For education, technology and charter school companies and the Wall Streeters who back them, it lets them cite troubled public schools to argue that the current public education system is flawed, and to then argue that education can be improved if taxpayer money is funneled away from the public school system's priorities (hiring teachers, training teachers, reducing class size, etc.) and into the private sector (replacing teachers with computers, replacing public schools with privately run charter schools, etc.).

Last year, the school received $ 1.13 million in taxpayer money, even with a slight drop in its enrollment.

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 Bronx Charter School for Excellence needs to come up with an extra $ 500,000 a year to pay off its bond holders in New York and since charter school management companies can skim off 10 % of a Connecticut charter school's revenue by way of a «management fee,» the Connecticut taxpayer money Malloy wants to hand over will certainly come in School for Excellence needs to come up with an extra $ 500,000 a year to pay off its bond holders in New York and since charter school management companies can skim off 10 % of a Connecticut charter school's revenue by way of a «management fee,» the Connecticut taxpayer money Malloy wants to hand over will certainly come in school management companies can skim off 10 % of a Connecticut charter school's revenue by way of a «management fee,» the Connecticut taxpayer money Malloy wants to hand over will certainly come in school's revenue by way of a «management fee,» the Connecticut taxpayer money Malloy wants to hand over will certainly come in handy.

While the overall waste of taxpayer money and student instructional time associated with the Common Core SBAC Testing disaster undermines the educational opportunities of every public school student, the testing scheme is particularly discriminatory against children who face English Language barriers, children who have special education needs and children who aren't «excelling» at one to two grade levels ahead of their classmates.

It has existed during the past two presidencies with the privatization of public education through the taxpayer funding of charter schools, the dominance of the standardized testing industry, and education standards determined by the man with the most money, but that oligarchy was hidden under the misnomer of «education reform.»

Opponents in California and in other states whose constitutions ban using taxpayer money for religious schools, while disappointed with the ruling, are warning not to read too much into it.

«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.

«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.

Assembly Republicans are considering a program that would allow Wisconsin parents to pay for K - 12 school expenses — including private school tuition, textbooks and tutoring — with a taxpayer - funded stream of money known in other states as Education Savings Accounts.

According to the group's most recent filing with the State Ethics Commission (filed yesterday), the corporate funded education reform advocacy front group also spent $ 14,000 for subway sandwiches and $ 6,771 to Staples to pay for the signs demanding that Connecticut legislators hand over nearly $ 21 million in scarce taxpayer money so that the infamous Steve Perry can open a publicly funded, but privately owned charter school in Bridgeport and a Bronx, New York charter school chain can save Stamford by opening up a charter school there.

, 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.»

the taxpayer money should go into improving the public schools, not into ghettoizing kids with the misfortune to have parents inferior to the wunnerful suzanne and marc.

Today, Connecticut is dumping $ 100 million dollars of taxpayer money into charter schools every year with little to no oversight and the governor's proposed budget contains funding for an additional four.

With a neovoucher system, however, the taxpayer never pays (all or most of) the taxes, which are forgiven through the tax credit when the taxpayer instead pays the money to a private non-profit (often called a «school tuition organization» or STO).

Do they stand with Connecticut's students, teachers, parents, public school advocates and taxpayers or will they continue to turn our public schools into little more than testing factories and money pits for an industry that is gorging itself on scarce taxpayer funds while undermining the role of teachers, parents and the local control of public education.

So the money goes from the taxpayer to the STO to the parent to the school, with the taxpayer then recovering the money from the state.

And the policy remain steadfastly unpopular with the American people — according to the 2013 PDK / Gallup poll, 70 percent of the public are opposed to using taxpayer money for private school enrollment.

Assembly Education Committee chairman Rep. Jeremy Thiesfeldt, R - Fond du Lac, said in theory, the accounts provide parents with more flexibility because the money doesn't just have to be spent on private school tuition like in the state's taxpayer - funded school voucher program.