Sentences with phrase «taxpayer funds away»

A dollar - for - dollar credit operates less like a tax incentive and more like a direct transfer of taxpayer funds away from the public education fund and into private hands.

Through the ALEC Task Force, K12 has actually had an equal vote with state legislators on so - called «model» bills to divert taxpayer funds away from traditional public schools toward the objectives of ALEC's private sector funders, to help their bottom - lines and / or legislative agenda.

Not exact matches

She praised Trump «for protecting the conscience rights of American taxpayers and prioritizing federal funding for organizations that protect life over those that take it away.»

-- Why Soraa faced no penalty after walking away from a taxpayer - funded, $ 90 million facility where it had promised to create jobs.

He expressed worry that the governing party would invest taxpayer's money to fund smaller parties as a strategy to chip away NPP support ahead of the November 2016 elections.

Senate Republicans continue to oppose the creation of a statewide campaign finance system funded by taxpayers, which would needlessly divert resources away from our schools, infrastructure and initiatives to provide tax relief for hardworking families.»

New York taxpayers built a $ 90 million custom factory in DeWitt for firm that walked away without creating a single job — not the wisest use of public funds, experts say.

Many of the candidates on last night's stage have clear records of draining critical funding away from public schools to give to private schools, supporting charter schools that are unaccountable to students, parents, and taxpayers, and slashing education funding and those programs that serve students and help them in the classroom.

As a result of their ill - conceived policies billions of dollars in public taxpayer funds at the federal level and tens of millions of dollars here in Connecticut are being shifted away from classroom instruction so that corporate education reform companies can continue to make even more money.

But the bottom line is the same; With hundreds of new graduates from Connecticut's teacher preparation programs, the state's highest ranking education officials are literally using taxpayer funds to give away good paying jobs to people who, for the most part, don't come from Connecticut, didn't get their college education in Connecticut and didn't even major in education.

Although they claim to be «public» educational institutions, and are in fact funded with taxpayer dollars, no genuine public school would ever try or get away with the dubious education policies and practices that Achievement First engages in.

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.»

[Polis» proposal being that in the face of scarce public funds, more and more taxpayer dollars should get diverted away from the public schools, and instead be used to subsidize schools like the ones he is involved in].

Families for Excellent Schools is the corporate funded, New York based, charter school industry lobbying group that bused in students and parents from as far away as New York City and Boston, last year, to attend a rally in support of Governor Dannel Malloy's effort to divert even more taxpayer money to Connecticut's privately owned and operated charter schools.

Without the benefit of any public hearing, S.B. 2 would overturn decades of giving priority to funding of neighborhood public schools by adopting the «money follows the child» concept which shifts taxpayer money away from traditional public schools to charter schools without requiring these charter schools to meet the same accountability standards as other public schools.

Their plan would divert even more taxpayer funds to Connecticut's charter schools, while taking money away from Connecticut's successful magnet schools.

It appears that the endless hairsplitting arguments have one main purpose: to draw attention away from the subject of the original article, which is that GISS massages and adjusts climate data, and then does everything possible to avoid publicly archiving its taxpayer - funded raw data.

Maybe somebody can convince them to get off their taxpayer funded butts and away from their computer screens someday and do some field work.

Why should taxpayers be funding a very expensive court case — where each party promises to stay away from the other — simply because one of the parties refuses to put it in writing?

If campaign finance reform laws make progress maybe we'll see a return to public funding, but until then, it makes sense why both taxpayers and candidates have moved away from it.