Sentences with phrase «taxpayer expense»

The voucher program allows low - income students to attend private school at taxpayer expense if they are in C -, D - or F - rated public school or entering kindergarten.

This will reduce taxpayer expense, as well as give them easier access to official portals.

Most are performing terribly, yet they continue to operate year after year, delivering, not a better education to students, but a worse education at great taxpayer expense.

The mayor argued that the city's version of the program would offer more affordable housing at a lower taxpayer expense.

Soon enough, they commit a crime again and are thrown back into prison, at enormous taxpayer expense.

More radical advocates say private schools should also be available as a choice, reimbursed at taxpayer expense via vouchers.

And remember, nearly 70 percent of the families receiving vouchers at taxpayer expense already had their children in private schools, but now, we taxpayers will be helping pay the tab.

Selection is no more than quality free education at the general taxpayers expense.

This should be public information and printing it at the so called expense of the taxpayer, it's an office paid for at taxpayers expense!

• Ignoring the reality of seriously ill people in need of intensive help ending up on the street or in county jails at local taxpayer expense because the state has shirked its responsibility and no other appropriate care is available is not making things better;

When introducing the bill, Senator Maria Cantwell (D — WA) said that about 1000 chimpanzees, half owned by the federal government, «languish at great taxpayer expense in six research laboratories across the nation.»

Or maybe Iran's was in respone to the U.S. deploying its «Ambassador of Death» (and now his wife too, I hear, at taxpayer expense of course).

(Police overtime amounted to more than $ 9 million in local taxpayer expense last year.)

Please look up PFI, please look up house flipping on taxpayers expense, please go and check the expenses claims of those you say represent Labour — they do not represent Labour, they are neoliberal CADS SIR, with one exception, Mr. Corbyn.

Likewise, in New York City this week, the NYPD and other services will be utilized at taxpayer expense when the NFL holds their draft this week at Radio City Music Hall.»

Soraa and Silevo, a solar panel manufacturer, were going to occupy a factory at Riverbend, built at taxpayer expense under the Buffalo Billion program.

(Republicans were not amused when the governor identified only one new fee when asked about it in a budget briefing for reporters last week, arguing that the changes could result in billions in taxpayer expense over several years.

We want for every part of the country for there to be a Margaret Hodge, holding to account those who are doing at taxpayer expense public services.

His decision to empower former SUNY Polytechnic president Alain Kaloyeros to manage big - ticket projects built at taxpayer expense upstate has mired his administration in scandal, culminating in criminal charges against state officials and developers, and leaving many planned developments in limbo.

He added that Schneiderman has filed more than 100 lawsuits at taxpayer expense against the Trump administration and the federal government while being «totally invisible» when it comes to taking on the Buffalo Billion scandal and other Albany corruption.

Before Fossella withdrew in 2008, the House Ethics Committee was investigating the DUI arrest, and also was expected to look into allegations that Fossella and Ms. Fay, who was a House military liaison for the U.S. Air Force, jetted to Europe at taxpayer expense during their affair.

Cohen demanded that the Senator reimburse the state for the self - promoting brochures she has had printed and distributed at taxpayer expense since she announced her campaign.

Then there was the benefactor, Baruch Eliezer Gross, an Israeli businessman virtually unknown in New York political circles, who paid at least $ 25,000 so that the mayor and his team could travel here without taxpayer expense.

As authorizing - board members listened in stony silence, the school board's new chair explained that a recent «self - assessment» revealed that staffers had been misusing school credit cards, teacher retention was miserable, the front office was staffed «like a Fortune 500 company,» and two - thirds of the previous year's students hadn't verified that they were D.C. residents and eligible to attend at D.C. taxpayer expense.

When combined with a federal tax loophole that allows taxpayers to receive a federal deduction on a dollar - for - dollar state tax credit, 10 of these states» credits are so lucrative that they allow some upper - income taxpayers to turn a profit (at federal taxpayer expense) on contributions they make to fund private school vouchers.

«We're talking about diminished resources for students in our neighborhood public schools while private voucher schools essentially get a blank check at taxpayer expense with zero accountability.»

Currently, 51 percent of Texas high school graduates require remediation at taxpayer expense upon entering community colleges, and only 19 % of Texas students in the 2000 cohort of 8th graders have in hand any type of postsecondary credential, including college or industry certification, within seven years beyond expected high school graduation.

The qualms mentioned in this story pertain to the expected taxpayer expense ten years down the road.

FHA asserts that lowering the MIP rates for streamline refinances will not incur taxpayer expenses or jeopardize its mutual mortgage insurance fund.

Alley Cat Allies had tried for years to get city leaders to end a catch - and - kill policy that caused needless deaths in shelters at considerable taxpayer expense.

The Labour leader at the London Assembly, Len Duvall, labelled it it a «pointless monument at vast taxpayer expense».

Not long after Obama returns from his Asian tour, expect a lengthy state visit to Canada, with announcements to follow of nuclear power plant development (needed to extract the oil) and carbon dioxide storage tests in Alberta: at Canadian and US taxpayer expense.

MARK STEYN: More than a decade and a half after 9/11, the mastermind of that murderous attack on the US mainland, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, sits in rather comfortable accommodations at American taxpayer expense in Guantanamo Bay.

For many of those injured patients, later treatment will come (if at all) at taxpayer expense through Medicare or other government benefits.

While there is great benefit in the Child Health Plus program, it should be pointed out that the program fills a void at taxpayer expense because too many businesses that could afford to do so, do not provide health insurance coverage for their employees and their families.

Stringer has sought to settle major civil rights claims before lawsuits are filed in a strategy, he says, intended to cut down on taxpayer expense and limit the families» pain.

This strategy takes advantage of the flexibility, efficiency and adaptiveness of private companies in making competitive technologies that respond to a growing space - related business marketplace while reducing taxpayer expenses.

CSEA also pointed out the Empire Center's hypocrisy in challenging public employee health care coverage at a time when many irresponsible businesses benefit at taxpayer expense under programs like Family Health Plus and Child Health Plus.

In March, Tenney was mocked by late - night comedian Jimmy Kimmel after she said that «somebody in the deep state» was responsible for ordering a $ 31,000 dining set at taxpayer expense for Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson's office.

Youths from outside of New York City are reportedly being diverted back to their home counties for placement at local taxpayer expense.

Cruz's public defenders said he should continue to be represented at taxpayer expense because he likely does not have the assets to pay a private lawyer for what will rapidly balloon into a multi-million dollar case.

«Rather than engage in endless legal battles at taxpayer expense, today I signed an executive order to dissolve the Commission, and have asked the Department of Homeland Security to review these issues and determine next courses of action,» Trump said in a statement.

In addition to his own IG's report on his wife flying to Europe at taxpayer expense, Shulkin earlier this month was hit by another IG report that criticized the department for a series of failures at a big veterans» hospital in Washington.

As poverty intensifies, governments are urged to bail out the economy's savers at taxpayer expense, cutting back wages even while shifting the tax burden from property onto labor.

Current provisions could constitute a blank check at taxpayer expense to broadcasters so that they could fund new equipment for the transition from the U.S. Treasury, as the legislation creates a new Treasury Fund in an undisclosed amount of money.

The VA inspector general concluded in the report that Shulkin improperly accepted Wimbledon tickets and airfare for his wife at taxpayer expense, he spent nearly half the 10 - day trip to Denmark and London last year sightseeing and he used an aide on official time to plan the leisure activities.

Actual persection is a little more serious than not being able to stick a creche on the lawn at city hall at taxpayer expense or giving civil rights to people whose behavoir you think is «icky» and you have rooted around in your scripture to somehow back up discrimination against them.

The ceo's received billions of bonuses at taxpayer expense.