Sentences with phrase «use taxpayer»

Despite what many people think, the FHA does not (normally) use taxpayer - derived funds to insure home loans.

I've heard of Congress taking flack, but this is ridiculous: Members of Congress can now use taxpayer money to buy bulletproof vests, the Washington Post's Mike DeBonis reports.

If the Turnbull Coalition government was to use taxpayer's money to reopen this old power station it would have to be one of the most unethical acts ever by an Australian government (at least since Liberal PM John Howard got Australia involved in the Iraq War) and Australia would be even more an international climate - inaction pariah than it already is.

That position jibes with that of many conservative Republicans who say governments shouldn't use taxpayer money to pick energy technology winners.

While Ex-Im Bank's mission might not be to alleviate poverty, Friends of the Earth hopes that it would not use taxpayer dollars in countries where there have been serious concerns about freedom of the press, safety of their citizens and corruption.

Ending the EPA's sue - and - settle agreements, which radical environmentalists have manipulated for years to use taxpayer money to dictate energy and environmental policy.

The Department of Energy (DOE) continues to use taxpayer money to support failed technologies.

John Mauldin fans the flames of «panic and civilization (as we know it) collapse» if Congress doesn't use taxpayer money to bailout Wall Street.

Despite what many people think, the FHA does not (normally) use taxpayer - derived funds to insure home loans.

It is why natural - gas extraction — the controversial practice known as fracking — has been virtually free of environmental regulation since 2005, and why government - owned car companies get to use taxpayer money to lobby against stricter fuel - economy standards proposed by the government.

Part 3 of an NC Policy Watch series Beginning in 2014, some North Carolina families will be able to use taxpayer dollars to send their children to private schools.

There are 25 voucher programs in 14 states, allowing families to use taxpayer dollars to pay for private or parochial schools, according to EdChoice, a pro-school-choice organization: Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Louisiana (two), Maine, Maryland, Mississippi (two), North Carolina (two), Ohio (five), Oklahoma, Utah, Vermont, Wisconsin (four) as well as in Washington.

Along with 529's, vouchers and ESA's that use taxpayer dollars for private and parochial schools, we also have another tactic to help the wealthy with scholarship granting organizations (SGO's).

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.

Jim Bender, president of the pro-voucher group School Choice Wisconsin, supports closing voucher schools that don't use taxpayer money responsibly but pointed to the difficulty in finding a model for evaluating school performance that various types of schools will accept.

Voucher programs use taxpayer - funded tuition assistance for families to send their children to nonpublic schools.

The law also does not require private schools to disclose what kinds of teachers they employ (and no teacher need have more than a high school diploma) and how well their students are faring in their classrooms unless they have more than 25 students who use the taxpayer - funded vouchers.

The law allows even middle - class parents to use taxpayer money to send their children to private secular and religious schools.

«Nevada's voucher program allows private religious schools to use taxpayer dollars to indoctrinate and discriminate against students on the basis of religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, and other grounds,» she added.

Posted on October 18, 2016 · A bipartisan group of state representatives hammered private school choice proponents at a heated legislative hearing on Monday, signaling an enduring uphill battle in the Texas House for proposals that would use taxpayer dollars to help parents send their kids to private or parochial schools, or educate them at home.

Instead of cracking down on subpar schools, SB 1 locks in a system in which students that are in private voucher schools declared to be «chronically failing» can continue to use taxpayer - funded vouchers to attend these schools.

Today, 17 states offer 33 programs that allow parents to use taxpayer money to send their children to private schools.

Our model of education is ready and available to be used in any state, for any interested school or congressional leader seeking meaningful change in they way they use taxpayer education dollars.

The Texas Senate Education Committee plans to discuss a bill next week that would allow parents to use taxpayer dollars to send their kids to private schools.

Achievement First — Hartford should not be able to use taxpayer dollars, and certainly shouldn't be able to expand, as long as they appear to have policies in place that serve to discriminate against students and families who speak Spanish or face language barriers or discriminate against students who have special education needs.

At a hearing last week that put a temporary halt to the new Opportunity Scholarships program, Judge Robert Hobgood learned some new facts about the most popular private schools that school voucher applicants were hoping to use taxpayer funds to attend.

But it is a different story for philanthropies such as Gates Foundation, which doesn't use any taxpayer dollars for its operations.

At a hearing last week that put a temporary halt to the new Opportunity Scholarships program, Judge Robert Hobgood learned some new facts about the most popular private schools that school voucher applicants were hoping to use taxpayer...

It doesn't matter how their proponents try to disguise them — education savings accounts, tuition tax credits, opportunity scholarships — vouchers are destructive and misguided schemes that use taxpayer dollars to «experiment with our children's education without any evidence of real, lasting positive results,» says NEA President Eskelsen García.

The answer to the frankly criminal ways of the educational establishment is to give parents the right to use taxpayer funds to send their kids to a non-government school.

This scheme will use taxpayer money in the form of tax credits for corporations and wealthy donors who make contributions to state - sponsored voucher scholarship programs.

When there are waiting lists at high performing schools that are bursting at the seams it does not make sense to use taxpayer's money to start a new charter school at LAUSD - owned sites, Schmerelson said.

«The one line the Obama folks have refused to cross is the voucher line» — that is, allowing students to use taxpayer money to attend any certified school, even a private school.

But he agreed that schools that can't successfully use taxpayer money to educate their students «should be kicked out of the program» and should not have been allowed in to begin with.

Why and how are privately run charter schools allowed to use taxpayer money to market, when that money should be going to instruction.

It found that 77 % of charter schools use taxpayer money for questionable financial practices.

The WPCP allows students who reside outside of the Milwaukee and Racine Unified school districts to use a taxpayer - funded subsidy to attend participating private or religious schools.

But Connecticut's charter schools, despite the fact that they also use taxpayer funds, end up with a very select student body.

Opponents of voucher programs argue that they siphon essential funding from already meager public - school budgets to other schools and at their worst are unconstitutional, as they can use taxpayer - funded vouchers to benefit religious schools.

In Colorado, that state's high court, also in 2015, struck down voucher programs that would have allowed students to use taxpayer funds to attend private schools, including religious ones.

The folks opposing us have the advantage of being able to use taxpayer dollars to spread misinformation.

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.

In its website alert, the MCCL said: «This legislation would specifically permit the University of Minnesota to destroy living human embryos for experimentation and to clone and kill human beings — and use taxpayer dollars to do so.»

Citing recommendations issued earlier this month by an NIH advisory panel, Collins said the agency will exclusively use taxpayer money to fund a comprehensive research initiative on pain and substance use disorder treatment.

But, according to the Buffalo News, the final budget deal could include refundable tax credits for small businesses that would use taxpayer money to make up the difference when the minimum wage is increased.

«I think it's almost impossible for the county legislature to go along with it, if we do use taxpayer dollars,» Mahoney said.

«It is the responsibility of elected officials to use taxpayer dollars in a manner that leads to the best return on investment for those same taxpayers.»

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.

At both the state and federal level, media reports have indicated it is common practice for governments to use taxpayer funded slush funds and confidentiality agreements to hide workplace harassment and sexual harassment from the public eye.

«As I have said in the past, when developers voluntarily use taxpayer subsidies to make their projects work, they must do better by their employees.