Sentences with phrase «supporters said funding»

When the program first passed in 2011, supporters said funding private school tuition would give poor kids in failing schools options to get a better education.

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That said, Trump is a believer in some type of universal healthcare coverage and a supporter of Medicare and Medicaid which he believes would be sufficiently funded as the economy grows.

«Alberta Enterprise has been a strong supporter of Yaletown as an investor in our second Fund and in the Accelerate Fund II, said Brad Johns, Partner with Yaletown Partners.

Given the need for early - stage funding that this new generation of companies requires, we're delighted to be a supporter of this program,» says David Kassie, Group Chairman, Canaccord Genuity.

Obama rescinded the ban on federal funds for overseas abortion providers and signed a healthcare law that many conservatives say subsidizes abortion, though the law's supporters say it respects the federal ban on abortion funding.

Supporters said donated dollars, grants and volunteer labor could allow the proposed park district to offer summer programs and fund the park district through the inaugural year.

Without the funds to lay the kind of groundwork other candidates are laying in South Carolina, the former Arkansas governor is relying on a sort of «viral marketing» there, in which supporters e-mail information about Huckabee to their friends, said Rep. Bob Inglis (S.C.), a supporter.

«Ms. Conlin betrayed the trust of NARAL's supporters and donors by using charitable funds to finance her lavish lifestyle,» said the Attorney General's Charities Bureau Chief Jason Lilien.

«Taxpayer money was given to this not - for - profit to provide healthcare services to underprivileged patients, but our investigation has found the funds flowed into the pockets of Senator Espada and his supporters,» Cuomo said in a press release.

Aside from fund - raising, Goff said the digital operation wasn't about getting supporters on their lists to vote — it was about getting their friends to vote for Obama.

He said messages he has received in his email from Lee supporters were «fueled by scumbags... small - minded, nasty, and funded by dark money.»

Chanting in a drizzle - spotted Foley Square, more than 100 people from the Working Families Party and supporters such as Citizen Action, New York Communities for Change and Make the Road Action said they were furious that critical funding could be in jeopardy.

More than 100 people from the Working Families Party and its supporters said they were angry that critical funding could be in jeopardy.

Q&A topics include: why the mayor and Governor Cuomo appear friendly and cooperative on pre-K when together but express different views when apart, will the city fund a single year of full day pre-K if the state does not, how many of the prospective new pre-K seats are in traditional public schools v. charter schools, what is the greatest challenge in converting existing 1/2 day pre-K sites into full day sites, how can the mayor assure that proceeds of his proposed income tax surcharge would remain dedicated solely to the pre - K / middle school program, regulatory issues around pre-K operators, how there can be space available in neighborhoods where schools are overcrowded, how many of the prospective new sites are in schools v. other locations, why the mayor is so opposed to co-locations of charter schools while seeking to co-locate new pre-K programs, the newly - announced ad campaign by charter school supporters, his views on academically screened high schools, his view on the school bus contracts, why he refused off - topic questions Friday evening despite saying on Friday morning that he would take such questions, the status of 28 charter schools expecting to open in fall 2014 in locations approved by the Bloomberg administration, his upcoming appearance on the TV series The Good Wife and his view on city employees marching in the Manhattan St. Patrick's Day Parade in uniform / with banners.

Lerner said Common Cause's larger financial supporters included the Proteus Fund, the New York Community Trust, the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation and the Park Foundation, which sponsored a 2014 Common Cause report on campaign and lobbying spending by the hydrofracking industry.

Bellafiore said it's also a win for New Yorkers for Independent Action, since one of its major supporters, Connecticut investor Thomas McInerney, gave $ 100,000 to the IDC four days before the election, thus helping to fund Alcantara's campaign.

Supporters of the decision to use the funds said the plan will save over $ 40 million in interest payments from what they would have paid if they borrowed from the Dormitory Authority.

Seeking donations, Kellner in an email to supporters said he wants to fund a «campaign to educate New Yorkers and our elected officials on the pressing environmental need for the BYOBag law which will drastically reduce the 9 billion plastic bags thrown out every year and end up littering our streets, clogging our sewers and poisoning our city.»

«Taxpayer money was given to this not - for - profit to provide healthcare services to underprivileged patients, but our investigation has found the funds flowed into the pockets of Sen. Espada and his supporters,» Cuomo said.

Speaking at an event for The Motion Picture and Television Fund in Los Angeles, Devito said he was also a «big - time» supporter of Corbyn, adding:

In an email accompanying the video, which is being blasted out to AQE supporters this morning, the organization's legislative director, Jasmine Gripper, says fully funding the CFE settlement is a matter of «racial justice.»

Trump strategist Paul Manafort argued that his candidate hasn't misled supporters by saying during the Republican primaries that he was a self - funded candidate who «couldn't be bought» and now trying to raise money for the general election.

With the budget deadline looming, Alex Matthiessen, the founder and director of Move NY, an early proponent of congestion pricing that has expanded into the Fix NYC Transit coalition, said supporters were pushing hard to ensure that infrastructure funding for a congestion zone be included in the budget.

Linda Alexander, an Upper West Side public relations executive, longtime community board member and Stringer supporter who's co-hosting a fund - raiser for him in October, said the process has paid off.

Asked how unions could take advantage of gaps in the law while criticizing others for exploiting LLC loophole, Korn said, «Twelve hedge fund billionaires gave more than 187,500 teachers in the 2014 elections,» referring to charter school supporters that gave heavily to an outside group backing Senate Republicans.

Many of the attendees said they had been longtime supporters of Katz, and the phrase «neighborhood girl» could be heard time and again from the residents at the fund - raiser held at the Forest Hills Little League fields.

Supporters of the employee - funded program say they'll provide outreach to help people understand how it works and how they may utilize it.

David Cameron betrayed anxiety about the coincidence — and its impact on potential Ukip supporters opposed to overseas aid or sceptical of climate change — by refusing to say how much Britain is likely to offer and stressing the funding would come from existing government funds.

In response to critics who say it is too violent and dangerous, supporters included in the legislation a fund to help cover the medical costs of fighters with brain injuries.

«As I sat there reading the letters saying you paid for this medical procedure for someone, or put down money for someone else, I have to wonder if some of that money came from embezzled funds,» she said about the dozens of letters Sampson supporters wrote to the court in a bid for leniency.

A Ukip spokesman said there was no surprise in the funding levels because its supporters wanted to donate to the leave campaign.

Supporters of Mr. Cuomo's proposals — which include increased disclosure of outside income, restricting personal use of campaign funds and pension forfeiture for public officials convicted of crimes — say they would probably cost little to put into effect.

And then yesterday, after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she thought the funding of the mosque opponents — not supporters — ought to be investigated, Hayworth issued yet another statement, asking Hall whether he agreed with the speaker and for him to weigh in on her employment of «tactics from the playbook of the old Soviet Union to intimidate Americans who are speaking their minds.»

«We are funded by grassroots supporters,» Carbo said, and «have had tremendous success in activating them.»

Supporters say a fair elections law would restore trust in government by giving prospective candidates for office access to public funding.

Supporters of the approach say the state has prompted new discussion among the business and civic leaders of the areas in which the councils operate and has made it much easier to apply for and observe the decision - making process for how taxpayer funds are spent.

Supporters of city employee and mayoral candidate Steve Noble say politics are behind allegations that he mishandled grant applications, potentially putting hundreds of thousands of dollars in outside funding at risk.

According to published reports, Cabrera also said he has gay supporters and that he has funded LGBT initiatives in his Bronx district.

«I would attribute a lot of the holding the line on science funding on sustained activism from scientists and their supporters,» says Michael Halpern at the Union of Concerned Scientists in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Some domestic observers worry that it will suck up so much talent and funding that universities outside London will suffer, but supporters say the Crick will strengthen science nationwide.

No obvious champions have emerged in Congress, and the US National Science Foundation has told HAARP supporters that it does not have funds to support the programme, says Dennis Papadopoulos, a physicist at the University of Maryland in College Park.

But the project's supporters say the only thing the ILC needs now is funding, as well as a country willing to host the project — Japan is currently the front - runner.

Both Obama and Clinton voted against the Hope Act and many stem cell research supporters have criticized the bill, saying it's a distraction and diversion of funds away from the greater promise of embryonic cells.

That means «there has been a 15 % increase for AFRI over the past 2 years,» says Thomas Grumbly, president of the Supporters of Agricultural Research (SoAR) Foundation in Arlington, Virginia, which advocates for farm science funding.

Although the public appears to be equally divided over school vouchers, backing for the idea wanes as supporters are told that vouchers could decrease funding for public schools, a national poll released last week says.

Senate sponsors of the bill say it will give charter and district supporters a shared motive to push for the funding commitment to be kept.

One of the supporters of Deasy's proposed philanthropic fund is Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who often says he supports private - public partnerships in this time of budget shortfalls and layoffs.

It declined to disclose the amount of the contract or the total spent on the development of the Common Core but said funding was provided by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (another supporter of NPR), Carnegie and other foundations, as well as state membership dues from CCSSO and the NGA.

Supporters of charter schools, which are funded with the taxpayer dollars that a local school district would otherwise get to educate a student, say the schools allow for innovative ways to teach outside the confines of the red tape found in traditional public schools.

While it is unclear how many districts will want to redirect precious unrestricted funds to textbook purchases, supporters say the additional flexibility would give educators a new tool to fight to the achievement gap.