Sentences with phrase «supported by public money»

Space activities are mainly supported by public money.

It is as if the representatives of Safe Sleep Committees nationwide, who are general supported by public monies, assume that it is their civil right and not the parents civil rights to make one of the most important decisions parents make: how they will choose to care for and express their love to, their infants.

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The Supreme Court's Citizens United decision in 2010 allowed for unlimited political spending by corporations, but Justice Anthony Kennedy expressed his strong support for public disclosure of the money spent.

He therefore proposed a constitutional amendment in late 1875 that would have rewritten the First Amendment — applying it to the states, and adding that «no money raised by taxation in any State for the support of public schools... shall ever be under the control of any religious sect.»

Take the money away from the public schools where children will be taught real science and that a «theory» is very close to a proven fact because it is supported by the preponderance of the evidence.

I can only hope that this attempt is taken more seriously than the largely muted and clearly unsuccessful protests of late last season... although the plane writing escapade brought some much - needed attention to the matter, it failed to resonate with fence - sitters and those who had just recently fell off the Wenger truck... without a big enough showing of support the whole endeavor appeared relatively weak and poorly organized, especially to the major media outlets, whose involvement could have significantly changed what was to follow... but I get it, few wanted to turn on their club, let alone make a public display of their discord... problem is, they are preying on that vulnerability, in fact, their counting on you to keep your thoughts to yourself... who are you to tell these fat cats how to steal your money... they have worked long and hard to pull the wool over your eyes... they even went so far as to pay enormous sums of cash to your once beloved professor to be their corporate spokesmodel so that the whole thing would be more palatable... eventually the club made it appear as if this was simply a relatively small fringe group of highly radicalized supporters, which allowed the pro-Wenger element inside the club hierarchy to claim victory following the FA Cup win... unfortunately what has happened to this club can't be solved by FA Cups or a few players coming in, the very culture of this club needs to be changed and that starts at the top... in order to change the unhealthy and dysfunctional narrative that has absorbed this club we need to remove everyone who presently occupies a position of power... only then can we get back to the business of playing championship caliber football, which should always be the number one priority of this organization... on an important side note, one of the most devastating mistakes made in the final days of this hectic and poorly planned transfer window didn't have to do with the big name players like Sanchez or Lemar, but the fact that they failed to secure Jadon Sancho, who might even start for Dortmund this season... I think they might seriously regret this oversight... instead of spending so much time, energy and manpower pretending that they were desperately trying to make big moves, they once again lost the plot due to their all too familiar tunnel vision

A lot of money thus goes to supporting broadcast and print media in various ways, media that continue to be important for how people keep informed about public affairs, but also media that are increasingly being supplemented by online and mobile media of various sorts.

Unite has urged the government to invest the economy to good health through housing and infrastructure projects and by compelling the banks to use the # 350 billion of public money they are hoarding to support businesses in need.

This is in sharp contrast to, say, letting state - funded organisations from enforcing their faith (and by extension, the bigotries and inequalities of that particular faith) with the assistance of public money and state support.

The loan was only recently made public by the Cuomo administration, which said the Clean Water Fund money would be used to protect the Hudson River estuary rather than simply support construction.

By Sean Ryan Public money is fueling the tug of war for private development in cities such as Waukesha, where two manufacturers are requesting city support for expansions.

As today's Siena poll showed, nearly 2/3 of New Yorkers in every part of the state support real reforms that limit the size of fat - cat contributions and replacing them with small donations that are matched by public money.

MyDD's Jonathan Singer and Hotline's Jennifer Skala both pick up on a statement from Barack Obama hinting that, contrary to previous statements, he won't accept public financing because «We have created a parallel public financing system where the American people decide if they want to support a campaign they can get on the Internet and finance it...» Skala argues that since Obama isn't taking money from PACs or Washington lobbyists (state lobbyists is another issue), «What would he have to prove by signing up for public financing?»

Hawkins favors the Clean Money system where candidates who opt in to public financing qualify by raising a reasonable number of $ 5 donations to demonstrate support.

The CWU - previously led by Alan Johnson, so hardly a hotbed of Hard Leftism - should stop wasting its money on New Labour and start funding individual candidates, regardless of party (if any), who do in fact support public services, strong unions, rural communities, national sovereignty (both as against the EU and as against the foreign acquisition of a key national asset), and the monarchy's direct link to every address in the count.

Mr. Cuomo has also voiced support for a bill, backed by the Catholic Church and advocates of vouchers, that would offer tax credits to individuals and corporations who donate money to public schools, or to scholarship programs that help poor and middle - class students attend private schools.

It is our opinion that since secular education serves a public purpose, it may be supported by tax money if sufficient safeguards are provided to prevent more than incidental and indirect benefit to a religious sect or denomination.

The Stupski Family Foundation supports public education by giving money to school districts and organizations that are seeking to accomplish large - scale educational reform.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill Lee said he supports spending more public money on private school tuition around Tennessee, and that restrictions should be placed on lobbying by government entities that oppose school vouchers.

The Colorado Supreme Court upheld the Colorado higher education grant program against a challenge brought under one of its Blaine Amendments (Article IX, Section 7) because the program benefits students, not their schools, because it is available to private as well as public school students, and because it eliminates any danger of indirectly supporting religious missions by attaching statutory conditions on the use of the money.

The Maryland Court of Appeals held that using public money to provide transportation for children attending private or parochial schools does not violate Maryland's Compelled Support Clause because religious institutions would be aided only incidentally as the by - product of proper legislative action to secure the education of children.

The UK's Education Act 2011 points to an interesting approach: it raises academic accountability by means of reforming qualifications, a concept almost unheard of in American education politics, which practices giving out money to students primarily in proportion to their poverty instead of to their having earned that public support.

Mr. Cuomo has also voiced support for a bill, backed by the Catholic Church and advocates of vouchers, that would offer tax credits to individuals and corporations who donate money to public schools, or to scholarship programs that help poor and middle - class students attend private schools.

The plan promoted by Trump and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos widened a divide in the school - choice movement and brought swift condemnation from people who support more competition for public schools in the form of charter schools but oppose sending tax money to private institutions.

[xxix] They mandated that «schools maintained or supported wholly or in part by the public funds... be forever free from sectarian control or influence,» [xxx] and prohibited the «appropriat [ion]... or appli [cation]» of any public money to «any religious... instruction.»

The money is coming from the largest source of federal funding for state, local, and tribal public safety activities and is one of several programs administered by the Department of Justice that support law enforcement operations and improve officer safety.

The money will be awarded through the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation — established by the famed composer and producer — along with the American Theatre Wing, which is focused on supporting theater education opportunities for underserved students and under - resourced public schools in an effort to close the gap between talent and opportunity.

Over the past five election cycles, the American Federation of Teachers has handed the Democratic Governors Association more than $ 5.5 million in money that was earned by America's teachers and given to their union with the intention that the funds would be used to support candidates and promote policies that support teachers and enhance public schools.

The bill doubled the amount of money private donors could give to political parties, removed the cap on how much political parties could spend to support candidates participating in the public finance system and created a massive loophole by allowing candidates, in this case Malloy, to better coordinate their activities with political parties and other political action committees.

Initial media reports pointed out that the money being spent by the Greater New England Public School Alliance, Rhee's front group, in support of Brendan McGee and against Leo Canty came from Rhee's national organization, StudentsFirst, as well as from, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Steve Perry, the head of Hartford's Capital Preparatory Magnet School.

New polling shows broad voter support for a 2012 ballot initiative that would tax millionaires to raise money for education as well as public safety and social services, sponsors of the measure - led by the California Federation of Teachers reported Thursday.

Governor Malloy's tenure has been characterized by denigrating teachers, vigorously opposing adequate funding of public schools and vastly increasing financial support for privately run charter schools which fail to serve the state's neediest children, including English Language Learners and students with disabilities, have disturbingly harsh disciplinary policies, increase racial isolation, drain public money from needy public schools and have even been implicated in fraud and theft.

So, Mr. Cunningham, thanks again for all that you and Education Post do to «honor teachers for the work they do every day as professionals», and shining the bright reformer spotlight on the serious problems in public education today — by attacking unions, working to eliminate teacher tenure and job protections, and supporting the proliferation of for - profit charter schools (under the guise of «school choice») that under - perform and siphon money away from public schools.

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.

The Business of Saving Lives workshops, created by Mike and taught by the Center's team leaders, teach participants more effective ways to find families for orphan pets, as well as how to raise money to support their dreams, including the use of public relations and social media to brand their businesses.

The study, published in the journal Conservation Letters, is part of a larger effort by conservation organizations to protect tropical forests from the industries that threaten them by using charismatic species to harness public support and generate money for conservation.

A ProPublica investigation into oil and gas money received by members of the Natural Gas caucus found that they received 19 times more money on average than members of Congress who signed a letter in support of a proposal to require fracking companies to disclose the chemicals they use when drilling on public lands.

So - called environmentalists have supported these activities by public advocacy, and politicians have given them immense amounts of money for that support.

To counter criticism of the business community from college campuses, business organizations such as the Chamber of Commerce should support scholars who will defend the free enterprise system, develop speakers and support speakers» bureaus that will counter the liberal rhetoric coming from college campuses, subject textbooks to ideological review, insist on equal time for speakers exposing the views of the business community for speakers on campuses, insist that college faculties be balanced by those who will defend the free enterprise system, request that graduate schools of business include courses that support the free enterprise system, encourage local chambers of commerce to provide the views of the business community in high schools, establish staff who work with the media to communicate to the general public the views of the business community, monitor and criticize television programs that unfairly criticize the free enterprise system and where appropriate file complaints with the Federal Communications Commission, monitor radio and other media and pressure them to cover the views of defenders of the free enterprise system, support scholars who support the free enterprise system to publish in scholarly journals, establish incentives for scholars to publish defenses of free enterprise in books, papers, and pamphlets, spend more money on advertising that expressly supports the free market system.

The annual competition supports President Obama's broader Better Buildings Initiative goal to reduce energy consumption in commercial, multifamily, public, and industrial buildings across the U.S. by at least 20 percent in the next ten years and encourages college students to come up with new, innovative ways that American families and businesses can save energy and money.

Vote 4 Energy, which was mocked by a parody commercial during its public release, is the American Petroleum Institute's newest money dump to pretend that most Americans support politicians who represent Big Oil more than their own constituents.

11 (1) Subject to the approval of the Lieutenant Governor in Council, the Minister may make regulations in respect of schools or classes established under this Act, or any predecessor of this Act, and with respect to all other schools supported in whole or in part by public money,

The report concedes that there have been some «promising» moves by Ministers to promote family stability, such as the publication of their Social Justice Strategy and the release of public money to provide relationship support.

1997)(stating that in custody, support, or enforcement cases, the court shall inquire whether public assistance money was provided by the Department of Health Services for the minor child's benefit and, if it has, the DHS shall be a necessary party for the adjudication and establishment of the debt owed); R.I. Gen. Laws 15-5-16 (D)(1)(Supp.