Sentences with phrase «takes public dollars»

If a school takes public dollars, the public wants some control and oversight of what goes on there.

If they want this thing built with religious symbolism, they need to take public dollars out of the coffers.

Private schools can serve whomever they want, but if they take public dollars, equity regulations will kick in.

Conversely, any flexibility afforded to «choice» schools taking public dollars should be available to all public schools: if it's onerous and burdensome for charter schools, odds are it's burdensome for traditional public schools.

So my compromise position would be to acknowledge parents» right to choose their children's schools (which, for low income parents, effectively means allowing them to take public dollars with them), while at the same time being vigorous in shutting off public dollars to schools (whether they be district, private or charter schools) that are failing to prepare students to succeed on measurable academic outcomes.

Importantly, the bill did nothing to stop private schools from taking public dollars and discriminating against students on the basis of race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or ability.

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.

Not exact matches

The budget that President Donald Trump proposed Monday takes a hard whack at the poorest Americans, slashing billions of dollars from food stamps, public health insurance and federal housing vouchers, while trying to tilt the programs in more conservative directions.

That's exactly what's at the heart of this — that the use of public funds (e.g., tax dollars) should NOT be used to promote (e.g., force down the throat of others) any particular religion or religious belief or practice — that money shouldn't be taken by non-Christians by force (via taxation) and then given to Christians to put up displays of Christian religious symbolism.

«It took nine months between our attorney and the city attorney to put together a public - private agreement that allowed us to invest close to half - a-million dollars to construct and bring online two wells,» Norgrove explains.

According to our public betting trends, 75 % of spread tickets and 81 % of total dollars wagered have taken the road favorite.

According to our public betting trends, 77 % of tickets and 92 % of total dollars wagered have taken the over.

He reported similarly one - sided levels of public betting with 92 % of tickets and 76 % of total dollars wagered taking the Jets.

According to our public betting data, 52 % of spread tickets are on the C's, but 68 % of dollars wagered have taken the Dubs.

Perhaps the most interesting trend is that 55 % of public bettors are taking the over, yet 92 % of total dollars wagered are on the under.

The total opened at 40 and, according to our public betting trends, 82 % of tickets and 79 % of total dollars wagered have taken the over.

According to our public betting trends, 77 % of spread tickets and 85 % of spread dollars have taken Florida Gulf Coast plus the points.

According to our public betting trends, 62 % of moneyline tickets and 77 % of moneyline dollars have taken the Cavaliers to win straight up.

These betting trends fall in line with the public betting in Las Vegas, with 79 % of tickets and 77 % of total dollars wagered taking the Patriots at the William Hill sportsbook.

There has been similar public betting at the William Hill sportsbook where 80 % of tickets and 89 % of total dollars wagered have taken the Raiders.

Over at William Hill, the public betting has somehow been even more lopsided with 98 % of tickets and 95 % of total dollars wagered taking Atlanta.

In tonight's game, public betting has been fairly even but nearly two - thirds of total dollars wagered have taken North Carolina.

While public betting at our offshore sportsbooks has been fairly even, William Hill has taken most of their action on the Jets with 71 % of tickets and 75 % of total dollars wagered taking New York.

According to our public betting trends, 52 % of tickets are on the over but 86 % of total dollars wagered have taken the under.

Although the majority of public bettors usually take the favorite, the Seahawks are currently receiving just 69 % of spread bets and 81 % of total dollars wagered.

Public bettors jumped on the rare opportunity to back LeBron James as an underdog, with 55 % of spread tickets and 71 % of spread dollars taking the Cavs.

It took some trimming — a few million dollars here, a half - million dollars there — but the Buffalo Public Schools were able to close a projected $ 10.2 million deficit and come up with a balanced budget for next year.

The New York State Public Service Commission is taking legal action against the parent company of a local cable television and internet provider, threatening a million - dollar fine and possible re-evaluation of its cable TV franchise deal in New York City.

«The people of New York are demanding change and it's time we took action to restore the public trust by closing the LLC loophole and bringing fairness to our campaign finance system,» Cuomo said in the May 24 statement announcing his bill menu aimed at closing the loophole that has allowed tens of millions of dollars into campaign accounts.

Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's office also said the hefty suggestion stemmed from «the many egregious aspects of the defendant's crimes — including Silver's role as a high - level public official, his engagement in multiple corrupt schemes, the millions of dollars in bribe money Silver took in, and his laundering of his crime proceeds.»

ALBANY — A group advocating public campaign finance is taking the rare step of endorsing Zephyr Teachout's bid for Congress, a nod that aligns her with a cadre of donors who have previously spent half a million dollars backing Democrats in the district.

There have been many cases reported from Missouri in which people have not made any donation to Obama and were charged fraudelently, one person being charged 176,000.00 The others were charged around 2300.00 Pretty sad, and with reports of as mucha s 63 million dollars coming from foreign sources of the 150 million dollars they just took in September, can anyone say «bogus fund raising» and this is the exact reason why Obama did nt take public financing, he knew he was going to get outside help and just goes to show how shady he is and has been his whole political career!

And in the wake of Howe's guilty plea to corruption charges, the state's pursuit of multimillion - dollar deals and lucrative land transfers without competition and public scrutiny takes on a more ominous feel.

As a federal prosecutor representing Long Island, Brooklyn and Queens, and as Acting Deputy Chief of the Public Integrity Section, Todd took down corrupt elected officials who used taxpayer dollars to fund lavish lifestyles, as well as drug kingpins and other major felons.

President Donald Trump on March 16 took the first step to make good on his campaign promise to shift federal tax dollars from traditional public schools to a «choice» program that promotes charters, private and religious schools.

Again, Ghana's public purse — which has so far raked in over 3 billion dollars since the country began commercial oil production in 2009 — would have taken a devastating hit had the ITLOS judgment found Ghana in breach of the territorial waters of her western neighbor, Cote d'Ivoire, and the consequences would have been grave.

Once the ink had dried and the fine print was made public, one clause became a concern for some of the same officials who had cheered Mr. Cuomo's tough, take - charge talk: the city would be required to pay for whatever repairs the monitor ordered, a cost that could total hundreds of millions of dollars.

On October 24 vice presidential candidate Governor Sarah Palin took on what looked through her designer eyeglasses like silly pork - barrel spending by the U.S.: «Some of these pet projects, they really don't make a whole lot of sense, and sometimes, these dollars, they go to projects having little or nothing to do with the public good.

Roza and Fullerton outline several policy options that states could take to encourage greater efficiency in the use of public dollars.

Our center has taken the first systematic look at what implementing personalized learning schools costs, how school leaders are spending their funds, and what it might take to make personalized learning financially sustainable with public dollars.

Charter history is rife with stories about small - time crooks taking advantage of lax public oversight to steal dollars meant for education to enrich friends and family.

«Course choice» policies give K — 12 students the option of taking courses from a range of providers, often but not always online, and public dollars follow students to the chosen course.

As course - choice policies — in which K — 12 students have the choice to take courses from a range of, often but not always online, providers; public dollars follow students to the chosen course; and some percentage of the funding is withheld until the student successfully completes (ideally masters) the course — gain popularity across the country, an important question to ask is what constitutes success for course - choice policies?

Andrew Ujifusa and Alyson Klein of Ed Week note that the plan calls for the creation of a new $ 1 billion program that will allow students to take federal, state, and local education dollars to the public school of their choice.

Some of these Brown trustees have even begun to take steps to eradicate the Court's Brown mandate, pushing instead for initiatives, like vouchers, which use public dollars to, at best, extend educational opportunities to a select few.

If certain families don't want to attend these schools because they don't want their students taking these assessments, then they can find a private option that doesn't use public dollars.

Whether a district becomes an authorizer or not, charter schools may open in their service area as early as fall 2014 and become the public school for children who used to attend district schools, taking dollars away from those districts.

«The voucher floodgates are wide open as unaccountable private schools take tens of millions of dollars from students in neighborhood public schools,» said WEAC President Betsy Kippers.

They haven't succeeded in taking Social Security, but public school dollars are a gold mine waiting to be raided.

Voucher — Universal: Is taxpayer dollars taken from funds for traditional public schools and given directly to parents for tuition at any private or religious school.