Sentences with phrase «taxpayer expense public»

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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.

Nikolas Cruz's public defender argued that the Florida school shooting suspect should be represented at the expense of taxpayers because he likely doesn't have the assets to pay a private lawyer for his death penalty case.

Village officials hope making the payment will help stave off future downgrades, but the entire hotel boondoggle is already a prime example of a government's misguided priorities in public investment, which comes at the expense of taxpayers.

They provide a public service at taxpayer expense.

If the Legislature is serious about restoring the public trust in government, then this first step says that New Yorkers will not stand for the corruption of our politicians who want to enrich themselves at the expense of the taxpayers of this State.

Public pensions that offer a guaranteed rate of return — guaranteed at taxpayers» expense, that is — are another Unsustainable Quo.

Fiscally conservative groups including Unshackle Upstate argue against public financing for elections as nothing more than «labor's latest effort to enhance their political influence at the expense of taxpayers.»

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!

Senate Democratic official added: «There are no plans to print this at the taxpayers expense because it won't allow us to use public funds for political purposes to retake the Senate, which is what most of what our public funds are used for.»

The public aren't exactly enamoured with the political class at the best of times, and proposing to extend it at taxpayers» expense in the middle of a recession and the Eurozone crisis is a decision that Sir Humphrey, were he still with us, would describe as «courageous».

When parliament was recalled for the summer riots in 2011 it cost the taxpayer # 43,857, but that didn't include payments for MPs travel expenses, which would see public money stumped up to get them back to London from anywhere in the world.

MPs will be hoping to ease the public anger towards the revelations about politicians» use of taxpayers» money when a new audit unit to oversee MPs» expenses is introduced tomorrow.

The change comes as members of the British Parliament are under fire for spending huge sums of taxpayer money through their public accounts on such expenses as cleaning a moat and having light bulbs installed in their homes.

Cuomo, who is entitled to public funds to pay for his defense, said recently that he wants to spare the taxpayers the expense.

«They wanted to make sure they were going to get a donation when they give to public schools and private schools of their choice and they would get a 90 percent tax credit at the taxpayers» expense,» said Jasmine Gripper, Alliance for Quality Education.

«When a public servant seeks to use their position to profit at the expense of the taxpayers and the local community, they will be held accountable for their crimes and prosecuted appropriately,» Beach said.

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.

Blake is apparently holding a fundraiser at a Bronx public school, which I would imagine has security guards at the building at the time working at the taxpayer expenses.

The Audit Commission — the spending watchdog supposedly in charge of overseeing value for money in town halls — has been exposed hiring a vanity photographer to snap drink - fuelled parties at taxpayers» expense, and spending public money on a lavish series of events for friends of the quango.

«It is entirely reasonable to raise questions about the expenses of a public office when taxpayers are picking up the tab,» said Dia Chakravarty, the political director of the pressure group.

Those families would have saved the taxpayer money by paying their own education bill, but as they are eligible for a voucher, they can attend the private school at public expense instead.

But when they expect the state to educate their children at public expense, the public has a right to know whether those children are learning anything (no, not whether Johnny and Mary are learning, but whether the children of Waco — or Scarsdale — are learning); whether taxpayers are getting a decent ROI from the schools they're paying for; and whether their community, their state, their society will be economically competitive and civically whole in the future as a result of an adequately educated populace.

What Opponents of School Choice Say: School choice «siphons» money from public schools at the expense of kids and taxpayers.

The justices of the Massachusetts Supreme Court opined that proposed legislation that would provide tax deductions for certain educational expenses (tuition, textbooks and transportation) incurred by taxpayers whose dependents attended public or nonprofit private primary and secondary schools would violate Massachusetts» Blaine Amendment.

«If a federal bill was poorly drafted,» Davis says, «you could open up these sorts of problems, with taxpayers being able to turn a profit at the public expense.»

Similarly, the Florida school choice advocacy group RefinED contends that school vouchers, which allow parents to transfer students to private schools at taxpayer expense, make private schools part of the public school system.

The education establishment came out in full force at taxpayers» expense to support Common Core last Wednesday at the House and Senate Joint Public Hearing on HB254 and SB190.

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.

«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.»

She has lobbied for failed schemes, like vouchers — which take away funding and local control from our public schools — to fund private schools at taxpayers» expense.

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.»

Lawmakers pushed for school vouchers, arguing that North Carolina's public schools are failing its low - income and minority students and that families should have the choice — at the expense of taxpayers — to send their students to private schools as an alternative.

As pointed out in a recent expose in Business Week, school administrators and academic researchers are increasingly concerned that online schools fail children and overcharge taxpayers and that the model may have been embraced more broadly as a way to overhaul public schools at the expense of actual education.

While these «risk factors» paint a picture of potential problems facing K12 Inc. and other virtual schools, the supposed legitimacy of the virtual school industry has allows them to expand operations and continue to rake in the cash, all at the expense of taxpayers and real public schools.

«Vouchers, by any name, are a scheme that strips critical funds from public schools and gives a discount to individuals who can already afford private school, and all at taxpayer expense and with zero accountability,» said Kathy Miller, head of the liberal advocacy group Texas Freedom Network.

Some see the refusal to participate in SBAC testing as an act of courage and conviction; they see it as willful push - back against flawed education reform policies that since the passage of NCLB have failed to improve education in America's public schools and yet continue to be promoted by special interests who seek to profit at student, parent, and taxpayer expense.

SB 2 would create a new and costly government entitlement program that removes taxpayer dollars from public schools and gives this money to families to spend on private / religious school tuition, college savings, tutors, supplies, and other educational expenses.

So, unknown to the Tate, the public or the artists, the exhibition was transferred to London at American taxpayers» expense to serve subtle Cold War propaganda purposes.

Despite the fact that beyond certain superficial qualities, Lin's memorial shared little in common with the work of classic Minimalist artists such as Richard Serra or Donald Judd, critics nonetheless conflated it with Serra's equally controversial Tilted Arc, labeling it another example of an inscrutable Minimalist public artwork erected at taxpayers» expense.

This is an effective check against fraud and a means to obtain information that belongs in the public realm since the information itself was created at the expense of the taxpayer.