Sentences with phrase «siphon public tax»
Most of NCLB is a scam designed to siphon public tax dollars and place them in the hands of testing companies and for - profit school operators.
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The charters have been used for tax breaks by hedge - fund operators; worse yet, he continued, is that they're siphoning away children in poorer neighborhoods whose parents are aware enough to seek something better for them than their local schools, in what he called «a cannibalization of our public - school system... We need to fully fund our schools.»
The local school board fought them tooth and nail because the charters, of course, would receive school tax money based on how many students they «siphoned off» from the public school system.
Advocates for public schools say the program is siphoning crucial tax money from local districts.
Justice and Beyond, a community group that opposes the school maintenance tax because it says the tax will siphon money away from the locally elected school board, sued the School Board alleging misuse of public funds.
Long before Donald Trump and Parkland, teachers were chafing at GOP efforts to promote for - profit charter schools and finance tax cuts with funding siphoned from public education.
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.
State aid would be siphoned from local public school aid and shifted to private schools up to 150 percent of the per - pupil payment (again allowing school boards to raise local property taxes to make it up).
Opponents of school choice frequently claim that vouchers and scholarship tax credits «siphon» money from public schools and increase the overall cost of education to the taxpayers.
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.
But this was never about reform or access or leveling the playing field: it was about opening up public education as a market, siphoning off tax dollars to charters and for - profit vendors, shifting public funds from a system that had public oversight and control to private interests.
Critics of the voucher system say the program will siphon desperately needed funds out of the public school system to offer what would effectively be a tax break to families who can already afford to send their children to private schools.
We as parents and public employees are at the greatest risk, we can't afford to sit passively on our laurels as tax dollars are being siphoned away, assets needed to fund our children's school and our future job security; while P. M. are producing the last thing we need more of — puppies!