Sentences with phrase «sending public dollars»

Critics of the school voucher program challenged it in the courts, claiming that sending public dollars to private schools violated the state's constitution.

Teachers unions allege that sending public dollars to nonpublic schools violates the state's constitution, and they are challenging the law in court.

During its inaugural 2014 - 15 year, the program moved forward while the state Supreme Court considered the constitutionality of sending public dollars to private, religious schools that are subject to very little oversight by the state.

Vouchers, sending public dollars to exclusive private schools, sending public dollars to faith - based schools, privatization

It will send public dollars to backwoods churches and ambitious entrepreneurs.»

Keep that history in mind during this election season when you hear the voucher rhetoric and other oratory about the need to send public dollars to private and religious schools.

Critics of the program say that it's unconstitutional to send public dollars to private schools, which are held to very few standards and safeguards that would ensure students» academic success.

Some conservative governors — such as Mitch Daniels in Indiana, Scott Walker in Wisconsin, and Tom Corbett in Pennsylvania — have taken privatization to the next level and are pushing voucher programs, which will send public dollars to private and sectarian schools, possibly even to home - schoolers.

Not exact matches

Redirects education dollars to give parents the right to send their kid to the public, private, charter, magnet, religious or home school of their choice.

If you want god in your children's classroom, send them to a school run by a religious organization... public tax dollars should not be covering the teaching of god in any form, unless the church wants to start paying taxes.

House Speaker Michael Madigan blamed teacher unions on Friday for killing a proposal to send tax dollars to private schools, claiming the powerful lobby doesn't want competition for Illinois public schools.

«When government spends hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to send a message that New York is a place to visit and open for business, it should have clear objectives and show the public actual results,» DiNapoli said in a news release.

«When government spends hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to send a message that New York is a place to visit and open for business, it should have clear objectives and show the public actual results,» DiNapoli said in a release accompanying the audit.

And our news pages have more than borne out our warnings, filled as they are with stories about elected officials sent to prison for funneling these public dollars to non-profit groups that they themselves control.

After holding it for four months, the state Senate has just sent Governor Andrew Cuomo a bill that would add hundreds of millions of dollars * to state and local pension costs by allowing public employees to claim pension service credit for time spent in peacetime military duty.

In his «100 - day action plan to Make America Great Again,» Trump announced the School Choice and Education Opportunity Act, which, among other proposals, would redirect education dollars to give parents the right to send their child to the public, private, charter, magnet, religious or home school of their choice.

Senate Republicans were pushing proposals to eliminate the charter school cap and send hundreds of millions of dollars in funding to charter coffers at the expense of New York City public schools.

«When government spends hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to send a message that New York is a place to visit and open for business, it should have clear objectives and show the public actual results,» Mr. DiNapoli said in a statement.

It costs thousands of dollars to educate a child, so sending some of them to private schools would free up more space in public schools.

Yale University is putting millions of dollars a year into a new program that will help send top graduates of schools in New Haven, Conn., to public colleges and universities tuition - free.

When first explaining that a «school voucher system allows parents the option of sending their child to the school of their choice, whether that school is public or private, including both religious and non-religious schools» using «tax dollars currently allocated to a school district,» support increased to 63 percent and opposition increased to 33 percent.

Most controversially, school choice also includes vouchers and tuition tax - credits, which allow families to use public dollars in order to send their children to private schools or provide tax credits to individuals or corporations that make donations to organizations that grant scholarships to students.

«As you may know, school choice allows parents to use their child's K through twelve education tax dollars to send their child to the public, charter, or private school that best serves their needs.

Instead of sending federal taxpayer money to private schools, Congress should invest these dollars in the public schools that serve all students regardless of gender, disability, economic status, or educational achievement.

According to recent polling, 78 percent of Mississippians support giving parents the right to use the tax dollars associated with their child's education to send their child to the public or private school which best serves their needs.

Unwilling to accept status quo, she battled to get her daughter and youngest son into Hunter College Elementary, the state - funded school for the gifted that even parents who swear they will only send their children to public schools are willing to make an exception for, as well as spend thousands of dollars on test prep.

They already face a lot of obstacles, and now we are going to disregard them and take dollars away that were intended to support them in the public system and try to send them to private schools that may exclude them.»

Trump pledged to allow families to «redirect education dollars to give parents the right to send their kid to the public, private, charter, magnet, religious or home school of their choice.»

Rather than sending those education dollars and their child to the local public school, moms and dads of kids with disabilities would have been able to use their scholarships to create a custom - made education plan for their son or daughter, paying for the specific services and programs that work for their unique child.

According to the poll, 77 percent of voters support giving parents the right to use the tax dollars associated with their child's education to send their child to the public or private school which best serves their needs.

As for Trump, he has pledged to «redirect education dollars to give parents the right to send their kid to the public, private, charter, magnet, religious or home school of their choice.»

School choice gives parents the right to use the tax dollars associated with their child's education to send their child to the public or private school which better serves their needs.»

In a new survey, which was commissioned by American Federation for Children and conducted by Beck Research, 63 percent support «giving parents the right to use tax dollars designated for their child's education to send their child to the public of private school which best serves their needs.»

New polling from OnMessage Inc., a highly respected national polling firm, conducted after the November elections, shows 78 percent of Mississippians support giving «parents the right to use the tax dollars associated with their child's education to send their child to the public or private school that best serves their needs.»

Yes, sacrificing the have - nots by taking more educational dollars from already struggling public school Districts and sending them to upper class / upper middle class families who want to send their children to private schools.

Teach For America (TFA) receives hundreds of millions of public and private dollars and has garnered acclaim for sending college graduates, who do not typically have an education background, to teach in low - income rural and urban schools for a two - year commitment.

Nevada: A new law, which is being challenged in the courts, would send millions of public education dollars to private schools.

And in order to get THAT, the public has to agree to tax credits that send $ 50 million in tax dollars to private and religious foundations and another $ 70 million that will go in $ 500 increments to private and parochial schools as «credits» that act as vouchers.

The program has faced strong criticism that it will siphon dollars away from already - struggling public schools and that it was inappropriate to use tax dollars to send students to schools that teach religion.

Al Hartmann The Salt Lake Tribune Utah Rep. Rich Cunningham is accusing Athlos Academy of Utah of violating Utah law, which requires public schools to open a bid process before sending taxpayer dollars to building costs.

According to memos sent to superintendents, but not yet released to the public, Malloy and Wyman's Education Department will be withholding what are called Title 1 Federal Funds — those are the dollars that come through a fifty year - old federal program that provides states with extra money to help poor children succeed in school.

This includes sending taxpayer dollars to fund private and religious schools through voucher programs and fighting against effective charter school policies in favor of a charter sector with little public oversight and accountability.

The astronomical, hidden cost of sending kids to «good» public schools Public school education may be hundreds of thousands of dollars more than parentspublic schools Public school education may be hundreds of thousands of dollars more than parentsPublic school education may be hundreds of thousands of dollars more than parents think

But critics of the program say that the vouchers siphon funds away from the underfunded public school system and sends those tax dollars to private schools without accountability and transparency measures that ensure students are indeed getting a better education.

School leaders said they didn't know who sent the mailer but said no public dollars were used.

Democrats say sending millions of dollars to private, often religious schools, takes money away from public schools that the state has a legal mandate to maintain.

It could cost you hundreds of thousands of dollars (gulp) to send your kid to public school — and that's above and beyond the costs for things like supplies and extracurricular activities.

The controversial program provides financial aid through public tax dollars for income - eligible families who want to send their children to private schools, offering $ 7,323 per K - 8 student last school year and rising to about $ 7,500 per student this fall.

Although parents can then use these dollars to pay to send their children wherever they wish to go, parents can not access nearly as much as what public schools receive.

Choice programs give interested families public education dollars, or vouchers, to send their kids to private schools.