Sentences with phrase «taxpayer dollars through»

Low - income students can access taxpayer dollars through federal Pell Grants to help pay for tuition at private institutions such as Southern Methodist University (SMU) and Texas Christian University (TCU).

And relentless questions have dogged the eastern North Carolina charter operator Baker Mitchell, who runs four charter schools and has reportedly profited in the tens of millions in taxpayer dollars through his for - profit companies that lease the land to the schools and run their operations.

He has focused his efforts on saving taxpayer dollars through Government Reform — boosting...

He has focused his efforts on saving taxpayer dollars through Government Reform — boosting Economic Development to create local and lasting Suffolk County jobs — improving Long Island's Water Quality to protect the region's water supply — and enhancing the Quality of Life of Suffolk residents by improving public safety and investing in County parks and roads.

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This time, the president reinforced his assessment that Amazon's business is costing taxpayers «many billions of dollars» through subsidized rates at the United States Post Office.

As for their salaries, the «operation of the program» is funded through (a) federal reimbursement, which is derived from taxpayer dollars and (b) cash payments from district parents who can afford to pay for all or a portion of their children's meals.

«Comptroller DiNapoli has instituted a series of tough reforms, he's protected taxpayers by identifying hundreds of millions of dollars in cost savings and waste through improved and expanded audits, all while increasing transparency in government.

«Infrastructure funding allocated annually to each municipality through an established formula, will ensure a fair and equitable distribution of taxpayer dollars to benefit all New Yorkers,» said Clifton Park Town Supervisor Phil Barrett, who conceived of the idea for the S.W.A.P. Program.

Though she has been in the Council for only 18 months, she has already managed to blur the lines between her election donors and the organizations she personally allocates hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars to through her discretionary «member items.»

Sampson said: «Krueger is a proven reformer who can successfully work with Gov. Cuomo, the Assembly, and Senators on both sides of the aisle to restructure the budget process through long - term changes that radically reform how we spend taxpayer dollars.»

Tenney herself offered another explanation last night, saying she was able to avoid using taxpayer dollars by organizing the town hall through her campaign.

«Property taxpayers paying for village, town and county services should not have their hard - earned tax dollars diverted to subsidize the M.T.A. through this payroll tax,» said Martins at the press conference.

Hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer funds have flowed through the nonprofits — an arrangement that has been criticized by good - government groups who note that transparency laws that apply to state bodies do not govern the school's offshoots.

9/11 made America respect its police officers, through all their perceived selfless actions, and the notion of laughing at — and even with — law enforcement officers goofing around on taxpayers dollars was seen as not only dishonest but disrespectful.

It's a peculiar set of «revolutionaries» who suck millions of dollars from taxpayers through the largess of their ideological allies in Congress and can not even convince their own previous members that they used the funds effectively.

President Bush wrote that this was why in 2001 he pushed for NCLB's accountability - through - testing as a performance audit of the spending of federal taxpayers» dollars.

That is not surprising considering that the Department of Education reports that the program costs taxpayers 21 cents for every dollar in PLUS loans borrowers repay through it.

The school is funded through taxpayer dollars and is tuition - free to the students that attend.

The fact that these families have invested heavily in these schools (especially through their taxpayer dollars), along with their ties to the schools (which are often longstanding institutions in their communities, for better or worse) also makes their desire to overhaul them rather understandable.

In addition, the Knox County Delegation has asked for permission to expand the scope of their investigation to include all Offices of Diversity for public higher education schools, which are funded through taxpayer dollars, in the State of Tennessee.

They also counter that taxpayer dollars should not be used to subsidize wealthy families who can afford to pay private school tuition, which often exceeds the amount available through ESAs.

Here in Connecticut, the new Common Core testing scheme will not only impact students from Kindergarten through 11th grade, but will cost state and local taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars for new software, textbooks, computers, training and consultants to oversee it all.

BCSE seeks about $ 4 million in state taxpayer dollars to serve at most 392 children, from pre-K through fifth grade.

This includes sending taxpayer dollars to fund private and religious schools through voucher programs and fighting against effective charter school policies in favor of a charter sector with little public oversight and accountability.

That's good news since FHA, like any other insurance company, supports its flagship program through its premiums — not taxpayer dollars,» said Assistant Secretary for Housing — Federal Housing Commissioner Brian D. Montgomery.

A 2016 report by the Government Accountability Office contended that the government underestimated the expenditure of student loan forgiveness through the Income - Driven Repayment (IDR) Program by a whopping 70 billion taxpayer dollars.

REP. JOHN FLEMING (R - LA): What we really get is a pass - through of taxpayer dollars that go into what I would call artificial - or I call them paper mâché jobs, so - called green jobs.

American taxpayers alone are providing billions of dollars annually for research focused on human factors, through the EPA and other government agencies.

An «omnibus» spending bill to fund the federal government through October 2015 throws up roadblocks for the Obama administration's climate agenda, namely by blocking taxpayer dollars from going to the United Nations global warming fund.

Despite governments squandering hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars per year on «climate» schemes, much of the public sees through the charade — so much so that the UN and its power - hungry «member states» understand that their radical dream of a global «climate» regime controlling every facet of human existence is on the verge of slipping out of reach.

Tolliver explains that the county spends «millions of public taxpayer dollars» to represent indigent clients in courts through Lucas County, Ohio.

«It is our belief that the Liberal Party must pay back the millions of dollars stolen from taxpayers through the sponsorship scandal.

«As the leading advocate for home ownership, NAR strongly agrees that the existing system failed and that reforms are needed; however, redesigning a viable secondary mortgage model that will protect taxpayer dollars and serve the country's home owners today, and in the future, can only be achieved through a methodical, measured effort,» said Phipps, broker - president of Phipps Realty in Warwick, R.I.

Through raising premiums and a financial settlement with mortgage lenders, FHA was able to avoid needing taxpayer dollars to keep the fund solvent.