Sentences with phrase «spends public tax dollars»

Authorizers ensure schools have the freedom to adapt and meet the needs of their students, while ensuring each school meets performance expectations, treats all students fairly, and spends public tax dollars appropriately.

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

Not exact matches

The hospitals are funded by tax dollars, and clearly they don't want to be seen spending those dollars on things the public is likely to find dubious.

With this much public money on the line, monitoring how US tax dollars are spent in the recovery will be crucial to prevent waste, fraud, and shoddy work.

'' The next two years will provide no shortage of challenges for our Conference, its partners in government and all New Yorkers: A multi-billion dollar budget deficit needing closure, a government that is still too big and spends too much, chronic unemployment, some of the nation's highest taxes and a continued lack of public confidence in state government,» Kolb said.

If the success of a representative democracy hinges on the informed consent of the governed, it is critical that the public know as much as possible about the information used and the processes by which its representatives spend tax dollars and act on policy recommendations.

Unshackle Upstate's Brian Sampson says in a TU OpEd that state taxpayer dollars slated for a public campaign finance system would be better spent on repairing aging infrastructure, expediting ongoing storm recovery efforts, restoring the Gap Elimination Adjustment, or providing tax relief for struggling middle - class families.

The new site is a welcome addition to the growing list of online tools which help the public understand how the government is spending tax dollars.

«With our maximum - security prisons at 122 percent capacity and our overall prison population at 100 %, protecting the safety of inmates, corrections officers and the public at large means that tax dollars must be spent efficiently, and any reforms must address the extremely dangerous overcrowding and «double bunking» conditions at our medium - and maximum - security prisons.»

The Committee to Save New York has made public, under state lobbying disclosure rules, that they've spent over $ 12 million dollars on advertising and other promotions of Governor Cuomo's policy agenda, including a property tax cap and budget cuts.

Common sense reforms to ensure a competitive bidding process, allow the Comptroller to review contracts, and create a database of deals will ensure that the public's tax dollars are being spent appropriately.

We'll continue to press our case with ESD, Fort Schuyler and any other state development agencies that attempt to shield their spending of tax dollars from public scrutiny.

«Citizens aren't too keen to spend tax dollars funding the system...,» Fitzpatrick said of public financing.

«Billions of dollars in spending lacks key details that would better inform the public about how their tax dollars are being spent,» the comptroller noted.

«Even police officers need toilet paper, and our taxpayers have every right to know, where public safety is not affected, what their tax dollars are being spent on.

«People will tell us that the projects have great merit and were evaluated on those merits, and have solid public benefit, but when you have that kind of a coincidental correlation it raises real issues in the minds of the public and undercuts their confidence in the objectivity of how their tax dollars are being spent.»

«However, billions of dollars in spending lacks key details that would better inform the public about how their tax dollars are being spent.»

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.

Of the public tax dollars spent on agricultural research, organic receives less than one percent of the funding.1 The first endowed chair went to the University of Wisconsin - Madison and agronomy professor William F. Tracy for his work on organic corn breeding.

For each elementary student enrolled, a District charter school receives $ 11,879 in tax dollars, including $ 8,770 to match per - pupil academic spending in the regular public schools and a $ 3,109 facility allotment to help pay for buildings.

GCI recommends changes to the financial oversight of charter schools that it believes will safeguard the public's investment in education while providing transparency regarding how tax dollars are being spent.

Worse, parents who have little say in how tax dollars flowing to public education are spent become discouraged from being actively involved in their children's academic development.

In total, states spend around $ 800 billion tax dollars per year funding public education.

Charter School: Funded through public tax dollars from money meant for traditional public schools, operates in the private sector, may be managed by for - profit charter management organizations (CMO), and are not required to be transparent about how tax dollars are spent, free from many of the regulations that apply to traditional public schools.

At the end of the day, the public deserves to know whether or not their tax dollars are being spent on programs that help kids do better.

On average, the federal government contributes about 10 percent to the total amount spent on public education, but these dollars account for a larger portion of many high - poverty districts» budgets.11 For example, Los Angeles Unified School District and Chicago Public Schools — both high - poverty districts — receive about 15 percent of their budgets from the Education Department.12 These dollars serve essential purposes, such as supplementing services for low - income students, defraying the cost of individualized education programs for students with disabilities, and compensating for a loss of property tax due to federally ownedpublic education, but these dollars account for a larger portion of many high - poverty districts» budgets.11 For example, Los Angeles Unified School District and Chicago Public Schools — both high - poverty districts — receive about 15 percent of their budgets from the Education Department.12 These dollars serve essential purposes, such as supplementing services for low - income students, defraying the cost of individualized education programs for students with disabilities, and compensating for a loss of property tax due to federally ownedPublic Schools — both high - poverty districts — receive about 15 percent of their budgets from the Education Department.12 These dollars serve essential purposes, such as supplementing services for low - income students, defraying the cost of individualized education programs for students with disabilities, and compensating for a loss of property tax due to federally owned land.

Sunshine laws and public meetings allow citizens to have a say in how their children are educated and how their tax dollars are spent.

We strongly object to having our tax dollars suctioned out of public schools, where those hard - won rights apply, and spent to lure families into fly - by - night private schools, where all of the federal special education rights and protections disappear, to be replaced by nothing more binding than a warning of «buyer, beware!»

In the end, those making the profits have the real choice: who to educate and how to spend or keep public tax dollars.

«A recent bipartisan poll commissioned by TSTA showed that Texans overwhelmingly oppose diverting tax dollars to vouchers and instead favor tapping into the Rainy Day Fund to increase spending for under - funded neighborhood public schools.»

The study, which we co-authored, analyzed the public schools in Milwaukee that produced the best student outcomes per tax dollars spent.

More than 10,000 teachers from more than 20 districts scattered across Colorado are demonstrating as part of a burgeoning teacher uprising from the East to the interior West that is demanding more tax dollars be spent in public schools.

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.

More than 10,000 teachers in Colorado are expected to demonstrate as part of a burgeoning teacher uprising from the East to the interior West that is demanding more tax dollars be spent in public schools.

In a bid toward fairness, proponents of a bill that would funnel more tax and grant dollars to charter schools say that funds spent on each child's public schooling should stay with that child — wherever she attends school.

In April 2017, In the Public Interest released a report revealing that a substantial portion of the more than $ 2.5 billion in tax dollars or taxpayer subsidized financing spent on California charter school facilities in the past 15 years has been misspent on: schools that underperformed nearby traditional public schools; schools built in districts that already had enough classroom space; schools that were found to have discriminatory enrollment policies; and in the worst cases, schools that engaged in unethical or corrupt pracPublic Interest released a report revealing that a substantial portion of the more than $ 2.5 billion in tax dollars or taxpayer subsidized financing spent on California charter school facilities in the past 15 years has been misspent on: schools that underperformed nearby traditional public schools; schools built in districts that already had enough classroom space; schools that were found to have discriminatory enrollment policies; and in the worst cases, schools that engaged in unethical or corrupt pracpublic schools; schools built in districts that already had enough classroom space; schools that were found to have discriminatory enrollment policies; and in the worst cases, schools that engaged in unethical or corrupt practices.

Neither would increase the regulatory burden on voucher - receiving private schools, but they could help ensure that families better understand their options and assure policymakers and the wider public that tax dollars are wisely spent.

The property owner must demonstrate that the savings due to the exemption will be passed through to the public charter school, resulting in a savings of public tax dollars that can be spent on salaries, technology, and other critical classroom needs.

The more than $ 80 billion in U.S. tax dollars spent annually on the corrections system would be better invested in public schools.102 In order to redirect funding from prisons to schools, state policymakers must find ways to reduce their prison populations.

There will always be people who will pay for convenience just as there will always be those who want to spend nothing at a public library supported by their tax dollars.

Before spending millions of dollars on a major - league baseball stadium, Orange County commissioners want to know whether the fans will support a team and whether businesses are willing to pay some of the costs.Today, commissioners will consider spending $ 40,000 to research those questions and to find out how much of the county's resort tax money would be needed to build a stadium if Orlando wins a major - league franchise.The 17 - week study would be conducted by Public Financial Management Inc., a Philadelphia financial consulting firm.

Or how much has public spent in tax dollar related to space.

But it would be hard for the federal government to spends billions of dollars a year on a controversial topic, with every penny of the spending based on the presumption that global warming is a serious crisis worthy of billions of tax dollars, and not have those billions make a powerful impression on the public.

It is a lot easier to see the impacts of $ 10 / gal gasoline, or being forced to rely on public transportation, watching my energy bills double and triple or seeing tax dollars spent based on political concerns and not on sound business reasons (> 1/2 billion on Solandyra (sp?)-RRB-

Now if you are on the public payroll and can spend the tax payer's dollar at the click of a mouse then its helpful — otherwise not so much.

If we really must spend tax dollars, lets do it at the R&D; level and make the findings available to all via public domain licensing.

Arthur J. Rolnick of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis writes that, «Careful academic research demonstrates that tax dollars spent on early childhood development provide extraordinary returns compared with investments in the public, and even private, sector.

The ability of local governments to leverage the tax increment to get millions of dollars worth of new public infrastructure and private investment without spending current tax revenues.