Sentences with phrase «taxpayer funds for»

That would grant the regulator access to taxpayer funds for «debtor - in - possession financing.»

North Carolina has disbursed nearly $ 11 million in taxpayer funds for «Opportunity Scholarships» for this academic year.

Even though the nonprofits are funded by tax credits, proponents argue that neo-vouchers wouldn't violate the state constitution's ban on taxpayer funds for religious institutions.

Dedicated to promoting the privatization of public education, more taxpayer funds for privately owned, but publicly funded charter schools, the Common Core, the Common Core testing scheme and a host of anti-teacher initiatives, Students for Education Reform, Inc. (SFER) was created in late 2009, according to their narrative, by a couple of undergraduate students at Princeton University.

The very same Achievement First Inc. that is presently lobbying to get more Connecticut taxpayer funds for their charter schools, while using the funds that they have to help an charter school front group that won't even follow Connecticut's ethics laws.

The state's voucher program provides taxpayer funds for families to send their children to private schools.

Phoenix — September 17, 2017 — A new policy report reveals that up to 77 percent of Arizona's charter school holders use their state taxpayer funds for potentially questionable financial transactions.

A policy report by the centrist think tank the Grand Canyon Institute (GCI) revealed that up to 77 percent of Arizona's charter school holders use their state taxpayer funds for potentially questionable related - party financial transactions.

CCER's political agenda includes more taxpayer funds for charter schools and support for the incredibly unfair «teacher evaluation» system that is designed to denigrate and undermine Connecticut's public school teachers and the teaching profession.

Digital learning offers the potential for more cost - effective use of taxpayer funds for education, Finn observes, as the influence of good teachers can grow exponentially through technology, and students can customize the learning process to fit their needs.

Now, according to a poll just released by Associated Press and the National Opinion Research Center, vouchers that use taxpayer funds for low - income students to attend private schools gathered support from 43 % of the public, with only 31 % opposed.

Currently, such experiments can not be done with federal funding in the United States because of a congressional prohibition on using taxpayer funds for research that destroys human embryos.

Lawmakers aren't allowed to use taxpayer funds for mailings within 90 days of an election, so lawmakers were cut off from using the privilege in August.

A young Queens politico who ran for City Council in 2015 was arrested Tuesday for faking donations to get 6 - for - 1 matching taxpayer funds for her losing campaign, authorities said.

His office found the group diverted $ 800,000 in taxpayer funds for elderly services to pay off a mortgage on a vacant building and that its former director charged thousands of dollars of personal expenses to a company credit card.

He noted that in his 2018 State of the State Address earlier this month, he announced a new policy in which he prohibits the use of taxpayer funds for a sexual harassment payment if it is only based on the individual's behavior.

Last year, Malloy and his Republican opponent, Tom Foley, each received more than $ 6 million in taxpayer funds for his campaign, on the promise that each wouldn't accept state contractors» money.

They have also shown a different approach to the use of taxpayer funds for their respective campaigns, though Malliotakis — who plans to accept public matching funds — used to criticize the city's campaign finance system as a waste of taxpayer dollars.

The ECIDA does not use taxpayer funds for operating costs; we are self - funded, and we are not part of the Erie County government body.

Under the city's public - funding system, candidates may receive $ 6 in taxpayer funds for each of the first $ 175 donated by a city resident, for a maximum of $ 1,050 in public funds per contributor.

An aspiring Queens pol accused of faking donations in order to get matching taxpayer funds for her losing 2015 campaign went on trial Wednesday.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday released a package of measures designed to curtail sexual harassment in the workplace that include a uniform policy for state government employees, a ban on taxpayer funds for settlements related to sexual assault and harassment and require the disclosure from public and some private entities of harassment - related settlements.

Lawmakers in the Senate and Assembly have introduced legislation this year that ban confidential settlements while protecting the identity of the survivor and ending the use of taxpayer funds for settlements.

An aspiring Queens pol, would - be NYC Councilwoman Celia Dosamantes, who was accused of faking donations in order to get matching taxpayer funds for her losing 2015 campaign, went on trial yesterday.

So the response to the public to end taxpayer funds for these crops?

Beyond the total failure or the wall now we have Traitor Don going to Michigan and promising he will shut down our government over more US taxpayer funding for his useless boondoggle... Does anyone else think Cadet Bonespur's campaign promises should be taken seriously...» Who's going to pay for that wall?»

The government heralds the scheme as the most ambitious programme ever for improving energy efficiency, while simultaneously cutting all taxpayer funding for it.

ALBANY — The Ruben Wills indictment comes at a bad time for Gov. Cuomo, the Working Families Party and other advocates of taxpayer funding for political campaigns.

Crafting a new uniform policy for the public sector and barring taxpayer funding for settlements is a positive step, said the National Employment Law Project's Patricia Smith.

To provide staff to all private — meaning mostly religious — schools without a proper review of which facility has a need for this kind of security is an expensive way of going around constitutional prohibitions against using taxpayer funding for religious institutions.»

Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he wasn't surprised that his Moreland Commission investigating public corruption was split along partisan lines on the question of taxpayer funding for campaigns.

Washington (CNN)- Just a day before the health care bill was expected to go up for a House vote, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Saturday there would be no separate vote on restricting taxpayer funding for abortion.

Mal Pope # 4000 Owen Money # 6000 Chris Needs # 7500 Jon Gower # 8000 Brian Meechan # 4000 — this journalist interviewed me about taxpayer funding for the Welsh literati (Sunday Politics Show) but failed to declare that he himself had enjoyed a ride or two on the Welsh taxpayer gravy train.

«Since 2009, taxpayer funding for teaching and learning has increased by 71 per cent, twice the rate of growth in the economy,» Mr Birmingham said.

«On a Friday night without any publicly shared drafts or public hearings, the forces behind taxpayer funding for private and religious schools struck again,» Evers wrote in a news release.

More taxpayer funding for voucher schools that openly discriminate against LGBT students and parents

This evening the U.S. House of Representatives by voice vote passed a bipartisan amendment to the defense appropriations bill that will end taxpayer funding for painful experiments on dogs at Veterans Affairs hospitals for fiscal year 2018.

But by all means let us stop all taxpayer funding for S&W and if they can still start up and compete with coal, gas and nuclear and provide reliable base load power 24/7 you will have proved your point.

Loonies want to go on stealing taxpayers funding for biased «research» papers which deceive the readers and support a hardened orthodoxy originating from the Nazis.

The introduction of the Apprenticeship Levy in April 2017, which ends taxpayer funding for apprenticeships and instead levies a charge of 0.5 % of an employer's wage bill, means that employers who don't embrace apprenticeships will find themselves paying for them anyway.

«We don't want to commit taxpayer funding for abortion.

Ted Cruz told CNN's State of the Union host Jake Tapper that «Donald and Hillary both support taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood.»

Not exact matches

State pension funds, facing a potential multitrillion - dollar shortfall, find themselves in the center of a four - way battle: Employees and retirees expect to be paid their promised benefits; the pension systems have clear obligations but may not have the resources to pay them; politicians are looking for ways to resolve the underfunding and balance the burden among retirees and workers; and state taxpayers, challenged to provide for their own retirements, resent the additional tax load.

In Social Security, taxpayers will contribute about $ 1 to its trust fund for every $ 1.10 retirees are projected receive in benefits over the next decade.

There was a lack of transparency in both the Cisco and Open Text deals, so I am not optimistic that this fund will be run in a way such that taxpayers can determine if they are receiving value for money.

Rudd's $ 43bn fast web gamble The global recession has forced Kevin Rudd to scrap plans for a high - speed national broadband network funded by the private sector and wager at least $ 21.9 billion of taxpayers» money to fund his election pledge to bring internet speeds into the 21st century.

Whether it's a politician, organizer or corporate sponsor, each entity has something at stake and needs to spin the event's benefits for taxpayers, who typically fund the majority of costs.

Years later, in 2001, U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft chose Feinberg to determine payouts of $ 7.1 billion in taxpayer money set aside by Congress for the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund.

France's mostly taxpayer - funded public pension system may do better at ensuring every retiree is sufficiently funded (for now), and America's mostly private pension patchwork may be more sustainable into the future, but our hybrid system of individual -, employer - and government - funded benefits ranks high on both criteria, sufficiency and sustainability — «which is uncommon,» says Morin

Camden Fine told CNBC that comments by JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon on the economy and regulation «reflect Wall Street's inability to take responsibility for the economic crisis it caused and the taxpayer - funded guarantee against failure it continues to enjoy....