Sentences with phrase «supported public tax dollars»

For example, Emanuel has not supported public tax dollars funding religious voucher schools, as have Walker and some Democrats in Wisconsin.

Not exact matches

Yes, this means we (just like you) pay our taxes dollars to support public education to the tune of $ 13092 per child on average and private education to the tune of $ 7567 per student on average.

But to use public land supported by tax dollars is ont alright.

Parochial schools are supported by church funds in addition to tuition, not tax dollars, providing in many areas a reasonable alternative for working class and middle class parishioners and removing these millions of students from the public education system paid for by taxpayers.

JK If you're talking about public schools, schools supported by everyone's tax dollars, please explain to me why my tax dollar would go to promote the belief in a god that I don't believe is real?

In turn, families will receive interventions that meet the highest levels of evidence for preventing child maltreatment, and they and the public can be confident that the programs they participate in and support through their tax dollars have the greatest potential to improve child and family well - being.

Democrats who dominate the Assembly support public campaign financing, while Republicans who control the Senate say it's an unwise use of tax dollars.

The private sector has already moved to these plans as a response to financial realities, and we expect the public retirement system — which we support with our tax dollars — to do the same.

Unlike governmental funding from the National Cancer Institute and other agencies — public support from tax dollars — private money is often used to advance early ideas that are considered a bit riskier to support, Pietenpol says.

Protestants, secularists, and public - school advocates proposed (and sometimes enacted) regulations that charged children with truancy if they attended Catholic schools; taxes on Catholic school property; bans on private schools that taught children in a language other than English; and constitutional amendments forbidding the use of public dollars to support even the secular instruction provided by a Catholic school.

When first explaining that a «school voucher system allows parents the option of sending their child to the school of their choice, whether that school is public or private, including both religious and non-religious schools» using «tax dollars currently allocated to a school district,» support increased to 63 percent and opposition increased to 33 percent.

That review also included a note that said the school was opposed to the payment of social security taxes on religious grounds, despite their willingness to accept public tax dollars to support their educational program.

I want my tax dollars to stay in my community to support my public schools.

According to recent polling, 78 percent of Mississippians support giving parents the right to use the tax dollars associated with their child's education to send their child to the public or private school which best serves their needs.

Critics say this lopsided exposure fueled Ms. DeVos's staunch support of privately run, publicly funded charter schools and voucher programs that allow families to take tax dollars from the public education system to private schools.

Deasy said district officials, administrators and teachers should demonstrate unity to the public in requesting the federal dollars at a time when California voters are being asked to support a tax - hike measure, Proposition 30, on the November ballot.

According to the poll, 77 percent of voters support giving parents the right to use the tax dollars associated with their child's education to send their child to the public or private school which best serves their needs.

In a new survey, which was commissioned by American Federation for Children and conducted by Beck Research, 63 percent support «giving parents the right to use tax dollars designated for their child's education to send their child to the public of private school which best serves their needs.»

New polling from OnMessage Inc., a highly respected national polling firm, conducted after the November elections, shows 78 percent of Mississippians support giving «parents the right to use the tax dollars associated with their child's education to send their child to the public or private school that best serves their needs.»

Our President - Elect seems to disregard the value of public education as he supports a nominee for Secretary of Education who advocates for plans of «school choice» that will shift undetermined tax - payer dollars out of public education.

Plaintiffs who brought this case, Southern Legal Foundation supporters, allege that public dollars can not be used to support a privately funded scholarship program where children use the money to attend private religious schools and donors receive state tax credits.

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.

The nation's state school boards associations and their 90,000 local school board members rely on lawmakers to support keeping federal tax dollars in public schools and public programs.

The second issue, her advocacy of vouchers funded through the use of public tax dollars, may well cloud her desired support of public schools.

The new secretary of education, Betsy DeVos, supports steering public dollars away from traditional public schools, saying tax - funded religious schools are a way «to advance God's kingdom.»

The report contains news stories, criminal records, and other documents to detail abuses such as charter school operators embezzling funds, using tax dollars to illegally support other, non-educational businesses, taking public dollars for services they didn't provide, inflating their enrollment numbers to boost revenues, and putting children in potential danger by foregoing safety regulations or withholding services.

Many of these schools do outstanding work, but I do not want to support them with my tax dollars to the detriment of public schools.

Either we support public schools governed by our elected neighbors or we let state governments dole out tax dollars to parents to shop for schools.»

Candidates needing additional support should complete remediation prior to program entry, avoiding the possibility of an unsuccessful investment of significant public tax dollars, as well as the candidate's own investment.

To really understand what school choice means, we need to pull apart the two major components of school choice initiatives: the ability to choose one's school from an array of public, charter, private, and religious options; and the use of vouchers to subsidize these choices with public tax dollars that have historically, and constitutionally in many places, been intended to support public education.

Candidates in need of additional support should complete remediation before entering the program to avoid the possibility of an unsuccessful investment of significant public tax dollars.

We know that austerity, incessant testing regimes to rate and rank schools and state takeovers of schools and districts are intentional strategies to undermine public support for public schools, to facilitate the transfer of tax dollars to privatized schools, and to disenfranchise parents, educators and communities.

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.

Admittedly, public libraries are usually tax - dollar supported, but academic libraries are funded by grants, endowments, and the users» own direct tuition 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.

NREL exists on tax dollars and, therefore, has a public interest obligation to strive mightily to encourage, support, perform and publicize only high quality, objective analysis.

University support for patent trolls is especially disappointing because many of the innovations that come from academia are funded by public tax dollars.

In turn, families will receive interventions that meet the highest levels of evidence for preventing child maltreatment, and they and the public can be confident that the programs they participate in and support through their tax dollars have the greatest potential to improve child and family well - being.