Sentences with phrase «seeking public funding»

In addition to realizing an educational vision, pre-existing private schools cited attracting more students and seeking public funding as most important reasons for converting to charter status.

As a result, emerging businesses legitimately seek public funding far sooner than they used to.

«The Government expects that the evidence at trial will establish that the Governor's election in 2010 transformed Howe, then primarily a federal lobbyist based in Washington, D.C., into a key contact for individuals seeking public funds and other official action from New York State,» the government writes, «due to Howe's longstanding personal and professional relationships with the Governor and other senior officials in the Governor's administration.»

The growing Catholic population created their own schools in part because the religious teachings at public schools differed from their own beliefs; eventually they sought public funding for these schools.

The tablet's early 2013 launch became possible after its makers sought public funds of at least $ 49,000, though surpassed that and collected $ 72,707.

The letter made two key points: first, that a public funding certificate provided a measure of protection against adverse costs and second, that once the case had been allocated to the fast track, the claimant should seek public funding.

Not exact matches

Whether you're seeking third - party funding or marketing your brand, public speaking is essential to growth.

BlackRock and Neuberger Berman Group are among firms that California Public Employees» Retirement System, the largest U.S. pension fund, might look to partner with as it seeks help to manage its $ 40 billion private equity portfolio, people familiar with the matter said last month.

News of TPG's investment follows reports last month that Vice was seeking another funding round that would boost the company's value and potentially pave the way for an eventual initial public offering.

Perth - based BigHill Resources Ltd has today opened its initial public offer, seeking to raise $ 7 million to fund acquisitions and exploration of its Cookes Creek Tungsten project.

The new fund said it would seek to buy minority and majority interests in both private and public companies, from emerging businesses to established, multi-billion-dollar firms.

Question: How do you think recent poor performance of the public market will impact early stage companies, such as those seeking seed or Series A funding?

In addition to his public writings, John is a sought - after advisor to large hedge funds and to leading money managers.

Our proposal is to establish a public sector equity fund to take participatory shares in SMEs seeking additional equity funding.

This high risk fund does not require a initial public offering (IPO) so the stocks are offered to a selected group of investors that are seeking a high - risk, high - yield investment.

Among them was a large number of companies seeking initial public offerings in the mainland, which had the temporary effect of locking up about 5 trillion renminbi, or more than $ 810 billion, in investors» funds.

Just a week after the abrupt closure of BitConnect's lending and exchange platform, investors are seeking legal action to claim back their funds, according to public document.

If they want cheap places where they can express their religion, let them seek it in the «free market» and quit trying to force the government to pay for their private activities through subsidies, tax exemptions, resources like schools, public property of all sorts, or anything funded by government monies.

Although bearing the same gay stigma in the public mind as does the disease, these groups typically are broadly based, receive public as well as private foundation funds, and seek to serve without discrimination all who are affected by AIDS.

Health care for the poor, education in the inner city, job training for welfare mothers, discipline for criminally offending youths, improvement of community infrastructure and housing, nutrition for infants, drug treatment for recovering addicts» all of these things and more require the provision of public funds and are essential to the progress we seek.

FBOs must communicate clearly their understanding that they are accountable to God, to the poor constituents they seek to serve, and to the public — specifically, to the government entity through which they receive funding.

Tracing the interest of the bishops of the Catholic Church in obtaining federal monies for parochial schools, the magazine recalled that the church leaders had sought to obtain funding and avoid the «impending danger of a judicial establishment of secularism from public life.»

And while there have been a string of successful initial public offerings, including Healthscope's debut last week, this is not enough to counter the force of more competitively priced funds available in the debt market than the equity market for a company seeking to grow by acquisition.

CHICAGO — The Illinois Department of Public Health will seek rebates from all infant - formula companies that take part in its federally funded nutrition program, a move that could produce savings of up to $ 15 million.

The Illinois Department of Public Health will seek rebates from all infant - formula companies that take part in its federally funded nutrition program, a move that could produce savings of up to $ 15 million.

In seeking court - supervised administration of the park district, Devine's suit contends that the district «has utterly failed» in its accounting for the use of public funds.

The simplest approach to funding - direct funding by your municipality, a government agency, or by the state (e.g., state department of public health, school department budget), or through a government grant - may be all that is needed, particularly if you are seeking to start a Community Access Defibrillation Program (CAD) serving your entire community, or a significant segment, such as the public schools.

They still want their brick installed in the walkway at the park at Greenview and Elmdale Avenues and are seeking a token $ 1 in damages, said Patrick Korten, a spokesman for the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, a Washington, D.C., public - interest law firm that filed the suit.

She also served on the Food Allergy Initiative (FAI) Advocacy Steering Committee to help build a strong nationwide presence for the food allergy community in the public policy arena, and to actively seek to increase federal funding for food allergy research.

GAIN is the public private partnership funded by the Gates Foundation that works with over 600 companies - and is seeking to open up markets for fortified complementary foods for babies.

The two men who oversaw prosecution of the pay - to - play pension fund scandal that resulted in former comptroller Alan Hevesi's jail sentence today both said the penalty should serve as a warning against other public officials seeking favors and gifts while in office.

«Seeking to recover diverted public funds is neither dictatorial nor against the rule of law.

He later said that the Roman Catholic Church «in no way [wishes to] undermine the traditional American principle of separation of Church and State» and that «public funds were neither sought nor expected», for school construction and teaching services at least.

Q&A topics include: why the mayor and Governor Cuomo appear friendly and cooperative on pre-K when together but express different views when apart, will the city fund a single year of full day pre-K if the state does not, how many of the prospective new pre-K seats are in traditional public schools v. charter schools, what is the greatest challenge in converting existing 1/2 day pre-K sites into full day sites, how can the mayor assure that proceeds of his proposed income tax surcharge would remain dedicated solely to the pre - K / middle school program, regulatory issues around pre-K operators, how there can be space available in neighborhoods where schools are overcrowded, how many of the prospective new sites are in schools v. other locations, why the mayor is so opposed to co-locations of charter schools while seeking to co-locate new pre-K programs, the newly - announced ad campaign by charter school supporters, his views on academically screened high schools, his view on the school bus contracts, why he refused off - topic questions Friday evening despite saying on Friday morning that he would take such questions, the status of 28 charter schools expecting to open in fall 2014 in locations approved by the Bloomberg administration, his upcoming appearance on the TV series The Good Wife and his view on city employees marching in the Manhattan St. Patrick's Day Parade in uniform / with banners.

Governor Cuomo Introduces Campaign Finance Reform Legislation with a Public Financing Option Governor Andrew Cuomo has introduced legislation that seeks to enact a system of small donor matching funds for state elections, along with a number of other provisions designed to reduce corruption and special interest influence.

According to the email, the WFP is particularly pleased that its candidates fended off challenges from the «billionaire - funded «New Yorkers for Independent Action» SuperPAC seeking to privatize public schools,» adding:

At the moment, neither Public Campaign Action Fund or a related organization, Friends of Democracy, has filed an intent to lobby letter with the Joint Commission on Public Ethics — a documented required when the cost of seeking to influence state government is expected to be more than $ 5,000 for any given entity.

«Our objectives remain to promote the abolition of those obnoxious states» laws, which seek to allow former governors to receive life pensions either now or in the future when friendly governments are in place in their states, and to secure full recovery of public funds.

Her position is cheered by her liberal base — which plays an important role in a Democratic primary — because it has long sought more state and local funding for public schools and for progressive state programs.

Mayor Bill de Blasio has a simple message about the local impact of the $ 168.3 billion state budget: Now that the governor has secured funding he was seeking for subways and public housing, he is responsible for some of New York City's most intractable problems.

In fact, whatever else he may achieve in his pursuit of the presidency, the former Louisiana congressman and governor may be remembered as the last presidential candidate to ever receive federal matching funds; the very fact that he is the only candidate seeking and collecting those funds this year prima facie evidence that the public financing system for presidential elections is already functionally dead.

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.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who supports a public financing system, has said the cost would $ 120 million at most, and has said he would seek alternative ways of funding the system.

Cuomo proposed a comprehensive package of bills to combat workplace sexual harassment that includes sparing taxpayers from funding settlements involving public officials and barring governments from entering into secret deals not expressly sought by victims.

County governments had sought the indigent legal services funding as a way to satisfy a lawsuit over state support for public legal defense.

We will be up to the task of getting private efforts to fund our public and private universities; we will seek out generous donors locally and internationally.

City Council District 13 — open seat John C. Doyle, Democrat Alex A. Gomez, Democrat John C. Marano, Democrat Mark Gjonaj, Democrat — says he won't seek public matching funds Marjorie Velazquez, Democrat

The Saratoga - based organization «rejects a re-privatization plan now being circulated by Governor Cuomo that seeks to retain public control of NYRA and to unilaterally transfer funds legally designated for our state's thoroughbred racing industry into the state's general fund,» according to a prepared statement issued Tuesday.

He said just as funding had over the years been sought for all other public universities in the country, government would continue to seek funding for the new universities to blossom.

Acknowledging past support, seeking restoration of State Library funding, and discussing a new form of governance for the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library System are the main topics of discussion between representatives of the Buffalo & Erie County Public Libraries and local members of the New York State Assembly and Senate.