Sentences with phrase «use of public money»

Indeed there are few better uses of public money.

Continuing to make these tests available would represent a poor use of public money.

Of course, far from everyone has approved of this explosive use of public money.

This is essential not just for better outcomes but for the better use of public money.

The Supreme Court decision is likely to encourage more use of public money for students attending private and religious schools, according to John Witte, a professor at the La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.

But critics on both the left and the right say Cuomo is failing to address the bigger picture — whether the $ 8.6 billion worth of programs are an effective use of public money.

The New York State Legislature has passed Industrial Development Agency (IDA) reforms that will increase transparency and accountability for use of public money in private economic development projects.

Unions slam free schools plan as an «irresponsible use of public money» ahead of tomorrow's Budget

«This cavalier use of public money is out of line with public expectations and what is considered acceptable elsewhere in the public sector,» committee chair Margaret Hodge said.

Robert Oxley, of the TaxPayers» Alliance, blasted the move as a «conference gimmick», while Mark Littlewood, of the Institute of Economic Affairs, said: «This is an enormously bad use of public money.»

The report on the Academies Programme went on to flag up that «Many academies have inadequate financial controls and governance to assure the proper use of public money» and to recommend that it should be made compulsory for all academies - sponsored or converter - to comply with basic standards of governance and financial management.

However, another prominent Republican, Onondaga county district attorney Bill Fitzpatrick — who is investigating public corruption in the state as the co-chair of the Moreland Commission — thinks public financing would be an excellent use of public money, leading to long - term savings for taxpayers.

MPs» outrage at the BBC's use of public money follows yesterday's Pollard review into the handling of the Jimmy Savile scandal, which cost Newsnight editor Peter Rippon and deputy head of news Stephen Mitchell their jobs.

Liberal Democrat health spokesman Norman Lamb described the employment figures as a «disgraceful waste of human talent and a scandalous use of public money».

The notion that the responsible use of public money is the work of some shadowy global conspiracy evinces a fundamental lack of seriousness about educating children.

«Creating surplus places is an inefficient use of public money and damages existing schools where spare capacity is created,» said Mr Barton.

«ATL knows that individual families can make a decision to buy private tuition for their children - but for a state - funded school to allow a private firm to use its premises to make money, and for the school to buy in cheap tuition from that firm instead of employing teachers, seems both unfair to those parents who can't afford the extra lessons and an unethical use of public money.»

Changing the name on all official documents, letterheads, etc., sounds like a priority use of public money to me.

Pláticas en Acción Use of Public Money for Private Schools At one time, education varied widely depending on the wealth of a family and on their race.

As an employee of Environment Canada, he has spent much of his career attempting to convince the powers - that - be that climate models are a legitimate use of public money.

For this reason, the Education Policy Institute says Labour's plan is not an effective use of public money, as it will not help the mobility of underrepresented or disadvantaged students.

It would be a far better use of public money to rebuild and refurbish existing schools, many of which are in dire need of repair, as these schools have taken the lion's share of the increased numbers of pupils, and will continue to do so.»

Heads, governors, teachers and parents will rightly regard this as an irresponsible use of public money.»

A damning report by MPs condemning the BBC's «cavalier use of public money» has been dismissed as «shabby» by Lord Patten.

This poor use of public money is compounded by some trusts holding very large cash reserves that are not being spent on raising standards.»

«It's hard to imagine a worse use of public money than our governments throwing it away on massive fossil fuel projects, which damage our communities and the climate,» said Alex Doukas of Oil Change International.

While this report welcomed «the impressive progress made by the Programme of sponsored academies to date» it expressed the worry that «academies» educational achievements should not be undermined by poor stewardship of the public funds necessary to sustain the impacts of the Programme» and that there are «increased risks to value for money and proper use of public money».

Is that the best use of public money?

As the national marriage equality postal survey entered its final week, the leading organisation behind the «no» campaign, the Australian Christian Lobby's NSW director wrote to councillors asking them to re-evaluate the use of public money for LGBTI groups.

While it's hard to agree with the use of public money, the Marlins took the 2011 - 2012 offseason by the throat and threw it through a plate - glass window.

Fort Bragg doesn't suffer from that problem, but the use of public money brings with it other problems.

Governor Cuomo is making some changes to prevent any future bid rigging in some of his major economic development projects, but critics on both the left and the right say the governor is failing to address the bigger picture — whether the $ 8.6 billion dollars» worth of programs are an effective use of public monies.

The legislation requires regulations set up for debates involving candidates who accept public matching dollars as well as places limits on the use of public money for criminal defense and non-campaign related activities.

The MPs» report added: «It is difficult to see how the use of public money to fund private healthcare for senior BBC managers can possibly be justified.»

The public accounts committee raised the alarm over a system which allows academies themselves to ensure the effectiveness of their use of public money.

Huge public interest in the case follows last year's expenses scandal, in which many MPs were questioned for their use of public money.

«However, it is also necessary that there should be transparency and accountability regarding the use of public money to recognise and reward school leaders.

Critics are throwing shade at Cuomo's pricey plan to install high - tech, color - changing lights on New York City's bridges, questioning whether the investment is the best use of public money.

«This is an important victory in the battle to make parliament and the use of public money more accountable to the people,» he said.

That effectively destroyed the use of public money in pursuit of the nomination.

While Schulz's suit is over the use of public money to pay settlements, this suit is also being funded by public dollars: Due to an earlier tangential involvement in the case, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said his office couldn't defend Silver.

Critics are throwing shade at Gov. Andrew Cuomo's pricey plan to install high - tech, color - changing lights on New York City's bridges, questioning whether the investment is the best use of public money.

These includes a proposal for legislation preventing the use of public money in settling sexual harassment claims, removal of forced arbitration provisions from employee contracts and a requirement that companies doing business with the state disclose the number of sexual harassment adjudications and nondisclosure agreements they've carried out.

But critics on both the left and the right say the governor is failing to address the bigger picture, whether the $ 8.6 billion worth of programs are an effective use of public monies.

ALBANY — Looking to rein in the use of public money to pay what he called excessive salaries, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo signed an executive order on Wednesday placing a $ 199,000 limit on the amount of state funds that contractors can use to pay executives.

But critics on both the left and the right say the governor is failing to address the bigger picture, whether the $ 8.6 billion dollars» worth of programs is an effective use of public monies.

«The book doesn't go into detail about why the Governor refuses to investigate Speaker Sheldon Silver's use of public money to pay off a sexual harassment claim.

Legislator Patrick Burke, D - Buffalo, who questioned the use of public money for a ride - share campaign, even made an initial attempt to separate out the ride - sharing campaign funding in a separate vote.

Arizona prohibits the use of public monies for any form of cloning.