Sentences with phrase «use public taxpayer money»

School Choice: Political trend to use public taxpayer money to pay for the educational program parents to choose for their children.

Following the money trail further reveals that Rocketship solicits investments from hedge fund companies by guaranteeing rates of return above 10 %, effectively using public taxpayer money to make rich private investors even richer.

Not exact matches

Deering is a public high school, and Craig was unsure of the best way to get money to provide the sports hijabs as part of the uniforms, because that would mean using taxpayer money for religious garments.

This has been in an effort to show just how much taxpayer money is being used to pay for staffers who are supposed to inform the public, but in this case, are concealing information instead.

In his State of the State speech this month, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo called for banning the use of taxpayer money to settle sexual - harassment claims involving all government entities and some private companies and to require public disclosure of the settlements.

He is also not participating in the state's public financing program, saying he is philisophically opposed to using taxpayer money to fund campaigns.

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.

But several aspects of the plan — including the use of $ 25 million in taxpayer money to turn public property into a stable for the private carriage industry, the move to curtail the pedicab industry, the loss of carriage driver jobs and the resulting shuttering the current stables on the West Side — have aroused considerable opposition from various corners, most recently from 68 owners of horse carriage medallions, who blasted their union for agreeing to the deal.

The latest, a report in USA Today that he spent more than $ 200,000 in taxpayer money chartering flights as a senator, helps Republicans argue that he is more interested using his office to help himself rather than the public.

The GOP has long maintained that a matching small donor plan using public funds is a waste of the taxpayers» money, and would only lead to more annoying robo - calls.

Both Jepsen and Westby are planning on using the state's public campaign finance system, which would give each more than $ 812,000 in taxpayer money to spend on this election.

«Australians are entitled to expect that politicians spend taxpayers» money carefully, ensuring at all times that their work expenditure represents an efficient, effective and ethical use of public resources,» he said.

MPs will be hoping to ease the public anger towards the revelations about politicians» use of taxpayers» money when a new audit unit to oversee MPs» expenses is introduced tomorrow.

The Republican leader of the state Senate has said public financing is not a good use of the taxpayers» money.

His statement Tuesday also included plans to outlaw sexual assault or harassment confidentiality agreements in public entities, establish a whistleblower process in state and local governments and prevent taxpayer money from being used to pay for sexual assault or harassment settlements, among other things.

It makes sense to the taxpayer to use public money wisely to improve health and reduce offending.»

He said after the speech that he liked a lot of it, but was opposed to using taxpayer money to fund public elections.

«Information involving the future of our hometown team should not come from anonymous sources, especially when millions of public dollars have been used for the Bills» stadium and when it is assumed taxpayer money would also be used if a new stadium were to be built.»

Despite the frequency with which public programs rely on beneficiaries to hold the quality of services accountable, Sara Mead asserts in an Education Sector report that, «accountability to parents alone is insufficient to protect the public interest or ensure taxpayer money is used well.»

He said: «If, in the autumn, the public finances continue to reflect the improvements that today's report hints at, then, in accordance with our balanced approach — and using the flexibility provided by the fiscal rules — I would have the capacity to enable further increases in public spending and investment in the years ahead while continuing to drive value for money to ensure that not a single penny of precious taxpayers» money is wasted.»

Other economists used their analytical tools in lawsuits arguing that states failed to provide adequate education for all students, while others developed models to show that spending public money on dropout - prevention programs would actually save taxpayer money if the dropouts were later incarcerated.

«The DCSD voucher program took taxpayer funds, intended for public education, and used that money to pay for private school education for a few select students.

DeVos is a Michigan billionaire who has used her fortune and political connections to lobby for charter schools and, especially, for taxpayer - funded vouchers that allow parents to take public money to help pay for tuition when their children attend private and religious schools.

Using voucher money to reduce class size in the public schools would be a good use of taxpayer money.

A second suit brought by a coalition of taxpayer groups also challenged the program, claiming that the Nevada Constitution requires the legislature to set apart money to be used to fund the operation of public schools «to the exclusion of all other purposes.»

After all, if the standards are a necessary part of holding schools that accept taxpayer money accountable for using that money to teach kids things we all agree they should learn, that would be no less true for private schools that accept taxpayer money than it would be for public schools that do.

The schools assure the public that if they are freed from much of the restrictions that mire many public schools in bureaucracy, they will use taxpayers» money to provide students with a high - quality education.

The AFT website moves into Bizarro territory when it concludes its mini anti-choice rant by informing us that public money used to subsidize private school tuition means «less accountability for taxpayers» dollars, a false hope for a handful of kids, and fewer resources for school reforms that actually work.»

And Meg Hillier, chairwoman of the Commons Public Accounts Committee, said it was «taxpayers» money that could be used to fund much - needed improvements in thousands of existing school buildings».

In some states, charter school operators can purchase school buildings from public school districts... using taxpayer money.

If more than 71 percent of voucher - using students switch from public to private, then taxpayers save money.

When it comes to their new proposed education agenda, it is bad enough that Malloy and Wyman plan to give more money to the privately owned but publicly funded charter school industry while making the deepest cuts in state history to Connecticut's public schools, but in a little understood piece of proposed legislation, the Malloy administration is trying to sneak through legislation that would give his Commissioner of Education and the political appointees on his State Board of Education a new mechanism they would use to punish taxpayers in certain communities where more than 5 percent of parents opt their children out of the wasteful and destructive Common Core SBAC testing program.

Calling themselves a «grassroots movement» in support of Governor Dannel Malloy's plan to use taxpayer money to open two new charter schools while making historic cuts to Connecticut's public schools, the New York based charter school industry group known as «Families for Excellent Schools Inc. / Coalition for Every Child» paid at least $ 87,000 to rent buses to bring in charter school parents and students from as far away as New York and Boston for the pro-charter school rally that took place at the Connecticut State Capitol last week.

And the policy remain steadfastly unpopular with the American people — according to the 2013 PDK / Gallup poll, 70 percent of the public are opposed to using taxpayer money for private school enrollment.

Using non-legally qualified lay people to conduct prosecutions in trials which could end in imprisonment could place the public's confidence in doubt, and result in longer trials, more appeals and cost the taxpayer more money.»

The ultimate insult to the public is for the bureau to continue spending taxpayers money that could be used for much better benefits for those in need....