Sentences with phrase «use of public funds»

The autonomous nature of academies brings increased risks to value for money and the proper use of public funds.

You can either view this as an inappropriate use of public funds.

Yet they remain exempt from many of the performance and safety standards we put on public schools — even after studies showing lackluster performance and news reports of questionable uses of public funds.

The disappointment resulted in fusion reaction experiments losing priority as focus on the best use of public funds shifted.

Investment in evidence - based programs has proved to be a responsible use of public funds and a strong first step toward achieving positive outcomes for children and families.

The work, which will be the world's first officially approved use of public funding for human - genome editing, is to be led by The Francis Crick Institute's Kathy Niakan.

Code, § 89757 [prohibiting use of public funds by university or college for membership or participation in private organizations with discriminatory membership practices].)

Embezzlement is essentially the personal use of public funds by someone or persons that the funds were entrusted to.

Demonstrate wise use of public funds.

By contrast, the UCP led by Jason Kenney is enthusiastic and unstinting in its support for private schools, including continued use of public funds for high - tuition elite private schools that in Alberta charge up to $ 26,000 per year per student.

With 69 % of respondents reporting that facilities had been recently refurbished — the results raise concerns about the ineffective use of public funds and throw commissioning and procurement into focus.

Voucher programs are typically challenged based on a constitutional clause that either bars use of public funds to support sectarian schools or prohibits compelling individuals to support religious institutions without their consent.

To support student outcomes, appropriate uses of public funds, and democratic goals when offering private school vouchers, states can:

Across the country, more and more charter school operators are also being investigated, indicted and / or convicted of fraudulent use of public funds.

«Treasury Board will not have any discretion to use the funds for any other purpose, as this would be an unauthorized use of public funds,» Farees Nathoo wrote in an email.

Are you saying Brown in effect fired them for mis use of public funds?

[18][19] In 1992 when asked during parliamentary discussions of the Armley Asbestos Disaster for financial assistance in surveying local housing in the Armley area for residual asbestos, Young responded that the government would not provide financial assistance to the home owners or the council to pay for decontamination as this «would not be a justifiable use of public funds».

The commission also conducted «dozens of interviews» with public officials, lobbyists and their clients, political insiders, whistleblowers and both «expert and lay witnesses,» and sought lawmakers» payrolls, timesheets, per diems and travel expenses, records of when they entered and exited official buildings, and any other records that could «potentially improper personal and political uses of public funds,» according to the report.

Perhaps he is instinctively more forgiving about avoiding tax, which some right - wingers always regard as an indecent affront, than the free use of public funds.

In general, this approach would limit the unproductive use of public funds and quickly destroy any vendor that could not demonstrate good results.

A legislative conference committee this month snubbed the legislators» attempt to insert a measure prohibiting such use of public funds from an appropriations bill.

Consequently, he argued that philanthropy only mattered when it funded «high - leverage investments» (e.g. when it altered policies or practices governing the long - term use of the public funds that account for 99 % of school spending).

The justices of the New Hampshire Supreme Court opined that a proposed voucher program violated the New Hampshire Constitution because it contained no safeguard to prevent use of public funds for religious purposes.

Europe in turmoil, revolution overseas, Britain embroiled in long expensive wars, MPs accused of improper use of public funds, the press obsessed with celebrity gossip,...

This outrageous use of public funds leaves us with the maddening task of banging our collective fists on the brick wall of institutional inertia until the system changes.

The FoS released a report titled «Due Diligence on Renewable Demands by David Suzuki Foundation,» asserting that a renewable energy campaign by the Suzuki Foundation was «based on partisan demands that are not supported by evidence» and that would be «a wasteful use of public funds and detrimental for the nation at large.»

If LSUC was a government agency, a similar use of public funds for such a party would never be permitted.

A House panel on Tuesday voted to expand the range of permissible uses of public funds for lawmakers» security - making clear, among other things, that members can be reimbursed by taxpayers if they purchase bulletproof vests for themselves.

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.

The Scholarship Program has strong policies in place to ensure the proper use of public funds.

Outwood Grange Academies Trust (OGAT) has been the subject of controversy over inappropriate use of public funds and excessive payments to its former chief executive.

By contrast, the UCP led by Jason Kenney is enthusiastic and unstinting in its support for private schools, including continued use of public funds for high - tuition elite private schools that in Alberta charge up to $ 26,000 per year per student.

We believe that the underlying cause is poor policy making and inappropriate, ineffective use of public funds to privatize much of the system.

It is a questionable use of public funding with no evidence that it will help close the attainment gap between rich and poor.»

If an academy has a sponsor or sponsors, those individuals or organisations are also responsible for ensuring the good use of public funds, in addition to levering in other finance and resources when needed

Last month we asked, «Do you think such purchases are an appropriate use of public funds?»

(Apart from cronyism, nepotism, failing free schools, fraudulent use of public funds, headteachers punishing children for their parents» failure to pay dinner money.....)

The use of public funds to help develop Alberta's economy, once championed by former premier Peter Lougheed, has since fallen out of favour.

Isn't the question about the use of public funds — why would Christians want to have the 10 Commandments in a public school — isn't that personal?

I am opposed to the use of public funds for private education.

Also you might like to know that there was an executive order issued by the president prohibiting the use of public funds for elective abortions which was pretty much the impetus that got the health care bill passed.

You miss the point --(not that I think it's worth arguing)-- AA is challenging the use of public funds to support a belief.

In seeking court - supervised administration of the park district, Devine's suit contends that the district «has utterly failed» in its accounting for the use of public funds.

The leaked document, which is said to be the Attorney General's investigative report on the bus branding scandal which forced Dzifa Attivor to resign as Minister for Transport, found plentiful evidence of gross desecration of the 1992 Constitution, the Public Procurement Act and a number of other laws that govern the use of public funds, and recommended that the officials involved be investigated and punished.

The president last month lost another major legal case when the country's highest court found he violated the constitution over the use of public funds to upgrade his private residence.