Sentences with phrase «state taxpayer funds»

In 2013 - 14, related - party financial commitments were worth half a billion dollars of state taxpayer funds, representing 48 percent of charter school expenditures for contracts, leases and rents.

Greg David says Cuomo is commandeering city resources to make it look like he's solving problems and also wasting state taxpayer funds in his ongoing feud with de Blasio.

Cuomo's plan reportedly would seek about $ 200 million from budget education funds, place them among other state taxpayer funds in the budget and then use them to implement his teacher evaluation program.

State taxpayers funded about three quarters of the $ 102 million cost of the project.

Just last August, Superintendent Quesnel told the Middletown Patch news outlet that, «The East Hartford Public Schools are utilizing Alliance District funding [the extra state taxpayer funds his town was given] to support early literacy — particularly for getting needed materials for students in grades K - 2... These resources provide Common Core aligned instruction that help students reach grade level by Grade 3.»

While it remains unclear whether Governor Dannel Malloy's new education funding scheme includes a «money follows the child formula» that would force local districts to use local tax dollars to subsidize the privately owned and operated charter schools in their communities, the Governor's budget does shovel even more state taxpayer funds to the charter school industry.

The policy report, Following the Money: Twenty Years of Charter School Finances in Arizona, also found that related - party financial commitments were worth half a billion dollars of state taxpayer funds, representing 48 percent of charter school expenditures for contracts, leases and rents.

In exchange for the bribes, the complaint alleges, Senator Smith was to use his influence to steer half a billion dollars in state taxpayer funds to build a road in Rockland County to benefit a real estate developer's project.

A policy report by the centrist think tank the Grand Canyon Institute (GCI) revealed that up to 77 percent of Arizona's charter school holders use their state taxpayer funds for potentially questionable related - party financial transactions.

Phoenix — September 17, 2017 — A new policy report reveals that up to 77 percent of Arizona's charter school holders use their state taxpayer funds for potentially questionable financial transactions.