Sentences with phrase «transfers of public funds»

CAP said the budget «would dismantle public schools through massive cuts to teacher training, after - school programs in public schools, and transfers of public funds to private school vouchers.»

It would dismantle public schools through massive cuts to teacher training, after - school programs in public schools, and transfers of public funds to private school vouchers.

This is consistent with how the courts treat other transfers of public funds to individual citizens.

It raises important questions, but all of the answers it offers require a transfer of public funds to the private sector.

NYC's Coalition for Educational Justice wins $ 23 million investment in culturally responsive education; Houston beats back ten charter conversations, Michigan lawsuit halts the transfer of public funds to private schools.

Not exact matches

RIYADH, May 3 (Reuters)- The Saudi government has finalized terms to transfer ownership of the kingdom's glitzy $ 10 billion financial district in Riyadh to the finance ministry and Public Investment Fund (PIF), five sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.

RIYADH, May 3 - The Saudi government has finalised terms to transfer ownership of the kingdom's glitzy $ 10 billion financial district in Riyadh to the finance ministry and Public Investment Fund, five sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.

These taxes collectively add up to about 30 percent of national income, and are used to fund transfers and public goods that ultimately benefit all U.S. families.

Total federal government expenses consist of four major components: major transfers to persons (old age security, employment insurance benefits and children's benefits); major transfers to other levels of government (Canada Health Transfer, Canada Social Transfer, Fiscal arrangements, Alternative payments for standing programs, and Gas Tax Fund), direct program expenses (other transfers, Crown corporation expenses, and departmental and agency operating and capital expenses) and public debt charges.

I have not ever been in receipt of any public funds and neither was I the beneficiary of any payments in cash, transfer, cheque or otherwise from any government official during the tenure of President Jonathan.

First, the transfer of the Royal Mail pension fund to the public sector as part of its privatisation.

Adopt system of public financing of campaigns, with new lower limits on direct contributions to statewide and state legislative candidates; Establish the «New York State Campaign Finance Fund», with transfers from the Abandoned Property Fund and taxpayer designations of PIT liability; and limiting contributions to «housekeeping accounts» to $ 25,000.

«We wish to state that if by July 14, directives have not been issued for the transfer of funds to various public sector schemes, we will advise ourselves,» said Mr Awotwi Nkansah, Deputy Executive Secretary of GNAT in charge of Labour.

The transfers of bailout funds were performed in tranches over several years and were conditional on the governments simultaneously implementing a package of fiscal consolidation, structural reforms, privatization of public assets and setting up funds for further bank recapitalization and resolution.

Section 5 of the Petroleum Revenue Management Act indicates that the Petroleum Holding Fund earmarked for transfer into the Ghana Petroleum Funds shall not be used to provide credit to the government, public enterprises, private sector entities or any other person or entity.

The Saratoga - based organization «rejects a re-privatization plan now being circulated by Governor Cuomo that seeks to retain public control of NYRA and to unilaterally transfer funds legally designated for our state's thoroughbred racing industry into the state's general fund,» according to a prepared statement issued Tuesday.

Erie County Legislator John Mills and some of his colleagues recently proposed a resolution requesting the county transfer $ 5 million in unassigned funds to the Department of Public Works in order to address ongoing road issues.

The bill is an unprecedented transfer of $ 50 million of public funds -LSB-...]

Section 5 of the Petroleum Revenue Management Act indicates that the Petroleum Holding Fund earmarked for transfer into the Ghana Petroleum Funds shall not be used to provide credit to the government, public enterprises, private sector entities or any other person or...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Watchdog groups warned Tuesday that New York may be giving up too much by transferring $ 700 million from a public fund to Exelon Corp. as part of the deal to keep open the James A. FitzPatrick nuclear plant in Oswego County.

It is the objective that each initiative associated with that environment will advance the educational and research mission of SUNY Polytechnic Institute through the enhancement of research opportunities for faculty, students and staff; to promote the economic development and competitiveness of New York State by encouraging and facilitating the transfer of technology resources to the marketplace; and to enhance the ability of SUNY Polytechnic Institute to attract public and private funds to further research and technology development.

The city has proposed taking $ 78.60 per square foot from any of these air rights transfer and putting the funds into public improvement projects.

The proposed cuts include $ 269.78 billion from energy programs, including $ 158.7 billion of fossil fuel subsidies; $ 167.09 billion of agricultural subsidies, including $ 89.82 billion of federal crop insurance disaster aid; $ 212.02 billion of transportation subsidies, including $ 125.80 billion of general revenue transfers to the Highway Trust Fund; $ 101.8 billion of federal flood, crop and nuclear insurance subsidies; and $ 24.99 billion from wasteful or environmental damaging public lands and water projects.

The wage increases were, at best, transfer payments from the public treasury to the teachers — a maneuvering of funds that will neither increase nor decrease the overall social welfare, given that typically a dollar in the hands of one party is worth as much as it is in the hands of another.

The federal No Child Left Behind Act, which President George W. Bush signed into law last year, represented a victory for the advocates of public school choice: the law rejected funding for private school vouchers, but did mandate that districts allow children in persistently failing schools to transfer to public schools that perform better.

Various fundamental reform proposals put forward since the publication in 1989 of Politics, Markets, and America's Schools by John Chubb and Terry Moe would replace regulatory compliance with student - performance standards, make schools» existence and staff members» jobs contingent on performance, give families choices among public schools, and transfer control of public funds from centralized bureaucracies to individual schools.

Publicly funded school choice has increased considerably in recent years, helped by a variety of initiatives, including public charter schools, transfer options for students under the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), inter-district enrollment programs, and a variety of policies to subsidize private - school tuition.

We also collect data on public school - transfer options generated by NCLB, which required schools that received Title I funds and failed to meet minimum requirements on standardized tests for two consecutive years to offer students the option of transferring to a local school that did meet the benchmark.

An LEA shall use these grant funds to support direct student services including: (1) a student's enrollment and participation in academic courses not otherwise available at the student's school; (2) credit recovery and academic acceleration courses that lead to a regular high school diploma; (3) activities that assist students in successfully completing postsecondary level instruction and examinations that are accepted for credit at institutions of higher education; and (4) if applicable, transportation to allow a student enrolled in a low - performing school to transfer to another public school.

Perhaps its most controversial elements involve the potential for increased public funding of charter schools, all of which hold nonprofit status, but some of which are operated by for - profit management franchises, and a proposal to transfer authority over the IPS district from an elected school board to a board appointed by the city's mayor and city - county council.

And when we talk about improving public education, and the very real and increasing threat that is coming from the corporate «education reform» types, who want to layoff teachers, ban or reduce collective bargaining rights, take - over public schools and transfer the care and control of our public schools to various third parties... let's not forget that many districts do not fund enough IA positions and every district fails to fairly compensate IAs for the incredible work they do.

This represents just under half of total Nevada public school per - pupil spending (less ESA transfers) of state, federal, and local funds.

When the responsibility for public school funding is transferred from the state to local property taxes, school districts must either assume a greater share of funding or cut back their programs.

Nearly one - third of the children who transfer from private to public schools in Milwaukee (after the third Friday in September, when funding for schools is determined) are students with disabilities, according to Milwaukee Public Schools statipublic schools in Milwaukee (after the third Friday in September, when funding for schools is determined) are students with disabilities, according to Milwaukee Public Schools statiPublic Schools statistics.

The sending public school keeps the remaining 20 percent of state funding, in addition to any local or federal money associated with the cost of educating the transferring student.

The appropriation for the Standards of Quality for Public Education (SOQ) includes amounts estimated at $ 348,900,000 the first year and $ 361,100,000 the second year from the amounts transferred to the general fund from the Public Education Standards of Quality / Local Real Estate Property Tax Relief Fund pursuant to Part 3 of this act which are derived from the 0.375 cent increase in the state sales and use tax levied pursuant to § 58.1 - 638, Code of Virgifund from the Public Education Standards of Quality / Local Real Estate Property Tax Relief Fund pursuant to Part 3 of this act which are derived from the 0.375 cent increase in the state sales and use tax levied pursuant to § 58.1 - 638, Code of VirgiFund pursuant to Part 3 of this act which are derived from the 0.375 cent increase in the state sales and use tax levied pursuant to § 58.1 - 638, Code of Virginia.

The audit says the funds were inappropriately used to cover expenses from the previous year, instead of going toward other public schools that students transferred to after Kinston closed.

It allows grants of public funds to be transferred into private education savings accounts for Nevada school aged children to pay for their private schooling, tutoring, and other nonpublic educational services and expenses.

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.

The topics include responsibility for provision of Free and Appropriate Public Education (FAPE), Least Restrictive Environment (LRE), behavior intervention and supports, funding, transfer of records, virtual schools, and other important considerations.

«Parents of public school children in the state must be aware: As charter school advocates and professionals solidify their hold on the state's education policy apparatus, the drive to transfer public funds from traditional public schools to charter schools will grow,» the Stamford Advocate added.

Although Sharpe's Jumoke Academy has never served bi-lingual students and only takes a small percentage of special educations students compared to the number served in Hartford's public schools, Commissioner Pryor, the State Board of Education and the City of Hartford's Board of Education recently transferred Hartford's Milner elementary school, with all of its students and taxpayer funds, to Jumoke.

The transfer of students from private schools to charters has increased public - funding obligations by $ 1.8 billion, said analyst Adam B. Schaeffer of the libertarian Cato Institute's Center for Educational Freedom.

Money Supply The amount of money in the economy, consisting primarily of currency in circulation plus deposits in banks M - 1 U.S. money supply consisting of currency held by the public, traveler's checks, checking account funds, NOW and super-NOW accounts, automatic transfer service accounts, and balances in credit unions.

The ownership of the fund can easily be bought, sold or transferred in much the same way as shares of stock, since ETF shares are traded on public stock exchanges.

The main vehicles for adding to core collections are through the generosity of the Art Fund, and the Acceptance in Lieu (AiL) scheme, which offsets the transfer of art into public ownership against death duties.

There is an urgent need to scale up financial flows, particularly financial support to developing countries; to create positive incentives for actions; to finance the incremental costs of cleaner and low - carbon technologies; to make more efficient use of funds directed toward climate change; to realize the full potential of appropriate market mechanisms that can provide pricing signals and economic incentives to the private sector; to promote public sector investment; to create enabling environments that promote private investment that is commercially viable; to develop innovative approaches; and to lower costs by creating appropriate incentives for and reducing and eliminating obstacles to technology transfer relevant to both mitigation and adaptation.

This can be built by investing the savings in national priorities right now while clearly communicating to the general public that the new investments — regardless of whether they fund a new school, hospital, bridge, direct cash transfer, or subway line — are made possible because of subsidy savings.

No funds transferred from a purchaser to a seller of international offset credits under this paragraph shall be held by any officer or employee of the United States or treated for any purpose as public monies.

In addition to a Trump administration filled with climate deniers, and that wants to gut the EPA and cut NASA climate research funding, the schemes by many GOP lawmakers to transfer control of public lands — which includes national parks, national forests, wilderness areas and wildlife preserves — presents a unique, yet ultimately avoidable problem.