Sentences with phrase «taxpayer dollars»

Rather, the state chose to waste millions of taxpayer dollars in a futile attempt to keep the facts about its failure to fund schools from coming out in court.

It is a self - sustaining agency, and it does not use taxpayer dollars in its programs.

The schools plan on serving 3,000 students combined in the first year and stand to receive $ 66 million in taxpayer dollars annually by the conclusion of the four year pilot.

Although funded with taxpayer dollars, they operate free from many of the laws and regulations that govern traditional public schools.

This reduces calls of concern to animal control agencies, which saves taxpayer dollars in the process.

It spent millions of taxpayer dollars on partisan ads boosting it, but it is a mess.

On the issue of abortion, all three said they agree with the ban on using federal taxpayer dollars for abortions.

The election is off and running paid for by taxpayer dollars.

It is time for the federal government to stop wasting taxpayer dollars on subsidies for wind power.

That is why most states and the federal government choose to spend taxpayer dollars on «targeted» preschool programs open only to low - income families.

There are amazing opportunities, but there are also risks and complexity in balancing innovation with protecting students and taxpayer dollars from poor providers and models.

But just how many taxpayer dollars go to purchase soda, chips, snack cakes and candy each year?

What's more, this year's proposed budget would funnel $ 500 million in taxpayer dollars into private school voucher programs.

And we believe that private schools receiving taxpayer dollars to educate needy kids should test their voucher students and report the (aggregated) results.

Today, federal taxpayer dollars spent on financial aid are spread broadly across all years of education and all types of schools.

It's a follow up to a meeting with local municipal leaders, in the effort to save taxpayer dollars through a state - mandated shared services plan.

This means that the overwhelming majority of private voucher schools are free to spend taxpayer dollars as they choose, out of the eye of the public.

When all is said and done, we aren't talking about tens of millions of public dollars; we are literally looking at hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars at risk.

As a result, the state has to contribute more and more taxpayer dollars to keep teacher pensions afloat.

In particular, they point out that school voucher programs allow taxpayer dollars to go to private and religious schools.

We also want to encourage them to leverage resources to make taxpayer dollars go further to support sound projects across the country.

To get taxpayer dollars, they want to call themselves public schools.

Their federal taxpayer dollars pay, but there is no cost to the district, not for the experts, their travel, or room and board.

Not with the risky technologies and financially unstable companies he is investing taxpayer dollars in.

That money has allowed the district to build major projects without local taxpayer dollars.

Both conservatives and liberals have criticized business tax credits for unfairly picking winners and losers with scarce taxpayer dollars.

The program would not be funded with direct taxpayer dollars.

First, it's an extremely expensive, and relatively ineffective method of cutting carbon — conservative estimates place it as costing $ 150 taxpayer dollars per ton of CO2.

Investing precious city taxpayer dollars in our schools will not get the job done alone.

We should demand that precious taxpayer dollars be distributed based on creative and compelling business plans.

Each year communities are forced to spend millions of taxpayer dollars trying to cope with the consequences of this surplus of pets.

We invite you to explore our website and learn about the many programs, initiatives, and resources through which we strive to improve student achievement and to invest taxpayer dollars wisely.

On your argument any measure that reduces GHGs is worthy of throwing taxpayer dollars at in the form of advertising.

We should naturally be skeptical of any deal that sees taxpayer dollars go to a firm that made over $ 2 billion in profit just last quarter.

Stop expecting taxpayers dollars to fund expensive buildings and plans that provides better housing then the working taxpayers.

The requirement to finance automatic pay increases has undermined attempts to stretch taxpayer dollars further in a time of extreme financial stress.

Lawyers for the state argued taxpayer dollars aren't going directly to religious schools because parents still choose where to use the vouchers.

There are many other types of government spending for which the same taxpayer dollar would produce a higher GDP increase.

I'm an Atheist... I just see little point in arguing this unless taxpayer dollar is funding it but I was under the impression that was not the case.

That's why, to save the entire economy from an even worse catastrophe, we had to deploy taxpayer dollars.

The state has not released to the public the amount of taxpayer dollars committed to each film, but the state has promised to change that in the future.

It is a bet that spending taxpayer dollars today can lead to better jobs and more secure, cleaner energy for tomorrow's economy.

The researchers did note that less taxpayer dollars are being spent on voucher students to achieve the same results.

They worry expanding taxpayer dollars for private schools won't address bullying and will hurt public schools.