Sentences with phrase «taking public taxpayer dollars»

«Education savings accounts are another example of taking public taxpayer dollars and allowing it to be spent on private schools with no accountability and no transparency,» Rep. Graig Meyer, an Orange County Democrat and outspoken public school advocate who sits on the state House education committee, complained Wednesday.

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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.

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.

Charter schools are public schools that use a mix of taxpayer funds and privately raised dollars to run their schools, said Paul Vallas, superintendent of the Recovery School District, which took over the city's worst - performing and flood - wrecked schools.

On the heels of Tuesday's election, four Democratic legislators are planning a bill to give property taxpayers the final say on whether they want to be on the hook for tax dollars taken directly out of public schools to fund vouchers.

Voucher School Referendum Bill Four Democratic legislators are advancing a bill to give property taxpayers the final say on whether they want to be on the hook for tax dollars taken directly out of public schools to fund vouchers.

At the same time we are defunding public education, how long will it take before taxpayers are paying a billion or more dollars a year for a statewide voucher system that supports unaccountable private and religious schools?

• In the K - 12 world, cyber schools — many of them operated by for - profit companies as an online option for public school — are still taking in taxpayer dollars even while many flunk on state report cards, reported Politico.

No matter what you call it, vouchers take dollars away from our public schools to fund private schools at taxpayers» expense with little to no regard for our students.»

«We're taking taxpayer dollars and putting them in (charter schools)... but we haven't fully funded our neighborhood public schools... to where... they're not out of portable buildings.

This would have given property taxpayers affected by the Racine and statewide voucher programs the final say on whether they want to be on the hook for tax dollars taken directly out of public schools to fund vouchers.