Sentences with phrase «so public dollars»

Such forms are required before a state contract can be awarded so public dollars go to honest companies.

Not exact matches

TORONTO — Ontario will be the first in Canada to issue so - called green bonds next year to generate the billions of dollars that's needed to expand public transit, Premier Kathleen Wynne said Wednesday.

So Europeans and Asians see U.S. companies pumping more and more dollars into their economies, not only to buy their exports in excess of providing them with goods and services in return, and not only to buy their companies and commanding heights of privatized public enterprises without giving them reciprocal rights to buy important U.S. companies (remember the U.S. turn - down of Chinas attempt to buy into the U.S. oil distribution business), and not only to buy foreign stocks, bonds and real estate.

I am so happy to live in a country where the Public Enemy (PE) Mafia can get away with Legalized Bustouts (LBOs) to fund their lavish lifestyles, multi-million dollar yachts, private airplanes and SHTF bolt holes in New Zealand.

So, it's not public funding or tax dollars.

So the fans went after the politicians who agreed about spending public tax dollars for stadium, and BOOM results.

It is important to note that under Speaker Sheldon Silver's bill, (1) receiving public funds depends on the candidate's ability to raise money from numerous small donors, so only donations up to $ 250 are matched with taxpayer dollars and that (2) candidates are limited to a maximum amount of public funds ($ 400,000 for Senate candidates and $ 200,000 for Assembly candidates in the general election race).

Third Question: Who will give a public apology to all the New York tax payers who will ultimately be the payee on this multi-million dollar law suit sure to be won, and deservedly so by this victimized young man?

Yet perhaps the administration will not be so contemptuous or evasive when it goes Wednesday before the state's Public Authorities Control Board, which will consider whether the Environmental Facilities Corp. should loan more than a half - billion dollars to the Thruway Authority.

Good government groups have for years complained that New York's campaign finance laws make it difficult for the public to determine the actual source of campaign dollars, whether due to the so - called «LLC loophole» — which allows business interests that control a network of subsidiaries to vastly multiply their political giving — or corporate formation laws that allow companies to obscure the individuals and other businesses behind them.

Governor - elect Andrew Cuomo made it clear this morning he intends to back up his tough talk against the so - called «special interests» — chiefly, the public employee unions — with dollars in an air campaign war, if necessary.

State agencies have racked up millions of dollars in outside legal fees reviewing and producing documents, but so far the public has seen only snippets or logs of the millions of pages of records related to the case, like emails excerpted in the complaint.

Nixon's criticism mirrored an op - ed she published last month that slammed Cuomo for his support of charter schools and for proposing to eliminate the so - called Foundation Aid formula for funding public schools, which critics argued would deprive districts of billions of dollars that they are still owed under 2006 court decision that found the state had underfunded public education.

The appointees «will focus exclusively on rooting out abuse and fraud by public officials so that New Yorkers can have confidence that taxpayer dollars are being spent wisely and everyone is playing by the same set of rules,» he said.

«We are over the five to one (ratio) so for every dollar of public money you are leveraging five dollars of private investment in the area.»

Again, Ghana's public purse — which has so far raked in over 3 billion dollars since the country began commercial oil production in 2009 — would have taken a devastating hit had the ITLOS judgment found Ghana in breach of the territorial waters of her western neighbor, Cote d'Ivoire, and the consequences would have been grave.

This multi-million dollar allocation of public funding is a direct investment into the public colleges of our borough so that CUNY remains able to meet the educational needs of its hard - working students.»

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.

This board, led by Catherine Schweitzer with representatives from the cultural, financial, legal and other communities, has been tasked with scrutinizing every application so we may make decisions on who is worthy of public dollars based on need and merit alone.

The Senate wants to give NSF $ 750,000 so that the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) can study the impact of the new criteria, which help legislators measure if NSF is meeting a 1993 law aimed at making sure agencies spend tax dollars wisely.

some time ago i would have asked if maybe the company would like to release something incredibly special with my help but i found that nobody who has enough marketing and other budget is interested in my formulas which may ACTUALLY cost 15 or more dollars for raws so now i just give them away.to the public as i do have a product line with a company but learned that people will spend 40 dollars on a 1 dollar product just as they will on a 15 dollar product.

That's the million - dollar question, why would this family dealing with something so private choose to do so on one of the most public and important nights of Stan's political career.

After Tim Burton's «Alice In Wonderland» made more than a billion at the worldwide box - office in 2010, all the movie studios — as they are wont to do for lack of a better idea — decided «hey, a billion dollars is cool, all these fairy tales are in public domain, so we need one of those stat!»

Attach public dollars to the kids so that the money leaves the system.

Attach public dollars to the kids so that the money leaves the bureaucracy.

We need to think hard about how to best use scarce public and private dollars so that personalized learning can achieve its promise.

This is actually something parents of home - schooled children have done for years, but increasingly some seem to be saying that they would like some of the benefits of the local public school, for which they are paying with their tax dollars, as they do so.

TIMSS does not include data on spending, so current national public spending per student in secondary education in international dollars was calculated on the basis of UNESCO and World Bank data.

How can it be that we pile dollars upon dollars and launch reform after reform yet have so little impact on student learning in our public schools?

So, K - 12 public education costs more than parents are paying for daycare and preschool, which is reasonable given that K - 12 education is a more resource - intensive activity, teachers typically make more, and the K - 12 dollar figure includes spending on services for students with disabilities.

Putting her in charge of the Department of Education really is an insult to all of the many teachers and educators and principals and so many Americans who have come through our public schools, who have had a chance in this economy to make it in their lives in part due to this commitment of America to public schools, which we need to invest in more versus the sort of alternatives that Betsy DeVos has pushed, including charter schools that have sucked billions out of our public education system and that have resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars of fraud.

Public colleges and universities are spending tens of millions of dollars to provide remedial courses so that graduates from Bay State high schools — who have «passed» the MCAS test — can master college - level material.

«Public education is the use of public dollars to educate our children at the schools that are best equipped to do so — public schools, magnet schools, charter schools, Baptist schools, Jewish schools, or other innovations in educPublic education is the use of public dollars to educate our children at the schools that are best equipped to do so — public schools, magnet schools, charter schools, Baptist schools, Jewish schools, or other innovations in educpublic dollars to educate our children at the schools that are best equipped to do so — public schools, magnet schools, charter schools, Baptist schools, Jewish schools, or other innovations in educpublic schools, magnet schools, charter schools, Baptist schools, Jewish schools, or other innovations in education.

So my compromise position would be to acknowledge parents» right to choose their children's schools (which, for low income parents, effectively means allowing them to take public dollars with them), while at the same time being vigorous in shutting off public dollars to schools (whether they be district, private or charter schools) that are failing to prepare students to succeed on measurable academic outcomes.

Thus, as a public union, the NEA (so too the American Federation of Teachers), is, essentially, spreading around tax dollars, money over which the taxpayer has no control, an income redistribution effort that could easily be mistaken for a kickback or, in states where union membership and dues are not voluntary, a not - so - hidden and not - so - representative tax.

So when she says she is for public schools it is important that she distinguish between real public schools and charters that are only public because they get tax dollars.

Today, billions of taxpayer dollars are being diverted from the nation's public schools to charter schools and with those funds has come a growing crisis of so - called education entrepreneurs who are using some of those scarce public funds to line their own pockets.

So I think as a percentage it ended up that we didn't need as much public dollars, but increasingly we want to have that as our base.

On the show with Rhee were Gates, whose foundation has spent a few billion dollars trying to reform schools, with little so far to show for it, and Davis Guggenheim, the man behind «Waiting for Superman,» a tendentious documentary that casts Rhee as an angel and public charter schools as wonderful.

Add in the tens of million spent by local school districts on computers and internet expansion so that students can take the on - line tests, along with the substitute teachers who were brought in so that full - time teachers could be pulled out to «learn about the Common Core,» and well over $ 150 — $ 200 million dollars (or more) in public funds have been diverted from instruction to the Common Core and Common Core testing disaster.

Require full fiscal transparency of for - profit charter school developers and managers so that districts may expeditiously recover public dollars in the case of failure

As a result of their ill - conceived policies billions of dollars in public taxpayer funds at the federal level and tens of millions of dollars here in Connecticut are being shifted away from classroom instruction so that corporate education reform companies can continue to make even more money.

At Frederick Douglass Academy High School, where I am a veteran Chicago Public Schools mathematics teacher, we are constantly asked to do more for our students while fewer and fewer dollars are allocated to help us do so.

Tracking the special education dollars that support services for students with disabilities attending public schools is complicated; attempting to track the funds to autonomous public charter schools is even more so.

Charter schools are incentivized to spend the fewest amount of public dollars on educating children, so they can funnel the remaining funds into the pockets of their business investors.

So we really have no opposition to any religious schools — only to the requirement tax dollars that have already been budgeted to support public schools be used to support that religious school.

I've just realized that the Turnaround Model the state is so anxious to effect on its «lowest performing schools» and of which Andrea Comer and Michael Sharpe are experts should actually be called the Turn Over Model — as in, Turn Over your public taxpayer dollars to a private «non-profit» charter company, such as FUSE or Achievement First.

They did so on a novel legal theory that centered on treating private schools like public schools for disability law purposes because private schools receive public dollars via a state - funded voucher.

«It's critical that when folks want to start a public school and be entrusted with public dollars and public school children that they be well - prepared to do so,» he told the Jackson Free Press.

Some people - including President - elect Donald Trump - believe that to improve U.S. education, the nation should stop spending so many tax dollars on public schools and instead invest in alternatives, including charter schools and taxpayer - funded vouchers for private and religious schools.