Sentences with phrase «using public tax dollars»

It seems, for now at least, that advocates of using public tax dollars for private schools will wait to fight another day.

And he's vehemently opposed to other items, especially against using public tax dollars to subsidize private school tuition for certain students, or so - called vouchers.

For almost a quarter century, I have criticized using public tax dollars to fund private voucher schools and privately run charter schools.

«I can tell you this — if you gave the American people a choice today between using federal dollars to renovate and build new public schools or using public tax dollars to pay for private school vouchers, there would be no question how the American people would vote,» asserted U.S. Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley in a speech made when the report was released.

When almost 90 percent of all of our children are attending public schools, it doesn't make a lot of sense to me to use public tax dollars to pay for private school education.

It's called the Opportunity Scholarship Tax Credit Program (OSTCP)-- a ridiculous bit of legislation that allows children in struggling public schools to use public tax dollars to pay for tuition at a private or parochial school.

Not exact matches

Let's see, hmmm, even if I didn't have to pay for it or the cleaning of it with my tax dollars, I would object to any monument to any religion being placed in a public space that I pay to keep clear for my and others use.

Have a candidate that can say and deliver me something to where NON of my tax dollars will be used fund any schools private or public on the teachings of this god magic, and they got my vote!

But to use public land supported by tax dollars is ont alright.

That's exactly what's at the heart of this — that the use of public funds (e.g., tax dollars) should NOT be used to promote (e.g., force down the throat of others) any particular religion or religious belief or practice — that money shouldn't be taken by non-Christians by force (via taxation) and then given to Christians to put up displays of Christian religious symbolism.

«Lazio may want to hide what he made as a Wall Street lobbyist from the public, but his Wall Street bosses used our tax dollars to pay Lazio and have an obligation to disclose how much he made in their service,» King said in a press release.

If the success of a representative democracy hinges on the informed consent of the governed, it is critical that the public know as much as possible about the information used and the processes by which its representatives spend tax dollars and act on policy recommendations.

«In this climate of corruption and climate of people feeling that public officials are using their tax dollars to line their own pockets, and this feeling of complete distrust of government, it's imperative that the law is followed and people have faith in government,» she said.

Democrats who dominate the Assembly support public campaign financing, while Republicans who control the Senate say it's an unwise use of tax dollars.

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has undertaken a statewide building boom using public construction contracts to spur private - sector job growth that since 2011 has committed billions of dollars in construction funds and tax breaks to companies.

Topics in the Q&A included the source of money for the City's planned pre-K advertising campaign, the City's target number of pre-K applicants, whether Speaker Silver thinks the proposed income tax surcharge should be pursued next year, how the pre-K selection process will work, how the City will cover the approximately $ 40 million annual gap between the estimated cost of pre-K and the amount provided in the state budget, when parents will learn whether their pre-K application has been accepted, how the City will collect data and measure success of the pre-K program, whether the existing pre-K application process will be changed, how the City will use money from the anticipated school bond issue, the mayor's reaction to a 2nd Circuit ruling that City may bar religious groups from renting after - hours space in public schools, the status on a proposed restaurant in Union Square, a tax break included in the state budget that provides millions of dollars to a Bronx condominium project, the «shop & frisk» meeting today between the Rev. Al Sharpton and Police Commissioner Bratton and a pending HPD case against a Brooklyn landlord.

Sen. James Seward, R - Milford, No «State tax dollars should be used to help our schools, repair our roads, and enhance public safety, not pay for political ads.»

Assemblyman Will Barclay, R - Pulaski: No «I do not believe public tax dollars should be used to fund political campaigns.

Unlike governmental funding from the National Cancer Institute and other agencies — public support from tax dollars — private money is often used to advance early ideas that are considered a bit riskier to support, Pietenpol says.

Protestants, secularists, and public - school advocates proposed (and sometimes enacted) regulations that charged children with truancy if they attended Catholic schools; taxes on Catholic school property; bans on private schools that taught children in a language other than English; and constitutional amendments forbidding the use of public dollars to support even the secular instruction provided by a Catholic school.

When first explaining that a «school voucher system allows parents the option of sending their child to the school of their choice, whether that school is public or private, including both religious and non-religious schools» using «tax dollars currently allocated to a school district,» support increased to 63 percent and opposition increased to 33 percent.

She's someone who has used her inherited wealth and the wealth that she's married into to try to distort and reshape our laws to advance her personal views, which are that we should basically redefine public education to mean our tax dollars should be going to fund private schools, religious schools, that advance her worldview.

Most controversially, school choice also includes vouchers and tuition tax - credits, which allow families to use public dollars in order to send their children to private schools or provide tax credits to individuals or corporations that make donations to organizations that grant scholarships to students.

«As you may know, school choice allows parents to use their child's K through twelve education tax dollars to send their child to the public, charter, or private school that best serves their needs.

During this reauthorization process, NSBA has worked closely with lawmakers on both sides of the aisle to advocate for a modernized education law that affirms the importance of local governance, protects federal investments in Title I grants for disadvantaged students, and prevents the diversion of public tax dollars for private use.

In another example of how the wealthy use the tax code to their benefit while public schools suffer, some states are funneling public dollars to private schools and allowing businesses and upper - income taxpayers to turn a profit in the process, according to a report released by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP).

During the reauthorization process, there was a collective effort by NSBA and local school board members to advocate before Members of Congress for a modernized education law that underscores the importance of local governance, protects federal investments in Title I grants for disadvantaged students, and prevents the diversion of public tax dollars for private use.

According to recent polling, 78 percent of Mississippians support giving parents the right to use the tax dollars associated with their child's education to send their child to the public or private school which best serves their needs.

Special Needs ESA: This program, created in 2015, allows parents of students with an Individualized Education Plan to use tax dollars on a variety of education expenses outside of public education, including private school tuition and fees, textbooks, therapy, etc..

Opportunity Scholarships are paid for directly with private dollars, and the State of Nevada uses public dollars to give tax credits to companies who fund the scholarships.

According to the poll, 77 percent of voters support giving parents the right to use the tax dollars associated with their child's education to send their child to the public or private school which best serves their needs.

School choice gives parents the right to use the tax dollars associated with their child's education to send their child to the public or private school which better serves their needs.»

In a new survey, which was commissioned by American Federation for Children and conducted by Beck Research, 63 percent support «giving parents the right to use tax dollars designated for their child's education to send their child to the public of private school which best serves their needs.»

New polling from OnMessage Inc., a highly respected national polling firm, conducted after the November elections, shows 78 percent of Mississippians support giving «parents the right to use the tax dollars associated with their child's education to send their child to the public or private school that best serves their needs.»

While awaiting conference proceedings to begin, NSBA will continue to work with potential conferees to ensure that Congress passes an education bill that reaffirms local governance, invests in Title I programs, and excludes vouchers, tuition tax credits, or other means of authorizing the use of public dollars for private education.

Plaintiffs who brought this case, Southern Legal Foundation supporters, allege that public dollars can not be used to support a privately funded scholarship program where children use the money to attend private religious schools and donors receive state tax credits.

We reject the bad - faith manipulation found in SB 1362 which legitimizes using scant dollars meant for our public schools to create separate, unequal systems of tax - payer funded schools.

So we really have no opposition to any religious schools — only to the requirement tax dollars that have already been budgeted to support public schools be used to support that religious school.

For example, ALEC is a big supporter of vouchers and tuition tax credit schemes which use public dollars to subsidize tuition at private or religious schools.

The second issue, her advocacy of vouchers funded through the use of public tax dollars, may well cloud her desired support of public schools.

Without significant increases in taxes, we can not use state tax dollars for both public and private schools.

Contrast the Louisiana and Georgia judicial experiences with Indiana where the state Supreme Court ruled unanimously — the vote was 5 - 0 — in April that public tax dollars could be used to fund private school tuition.

The program has faced strong criticism that it will siphon dollars away from already - struggling public schools and that it was inappropriate to use tax dollars to send students to schools that teach religion.

The report contains news stories, criminal records, and other documents to detail abuses such as charter school operators embezzling funds, using tax dollars to illegally support other, non-educational businesses, taking public dollars for services they didn't provide, inflating their enrollment numbers to boost revenues, and putting children in potential danger by foregoing safety regulations or withholding services.

To really understand what school choice means, we need to pull apart the two major components of school choice initiatives: the ability to choose one's school from an array of public, charter, private, and religious options; and the use of vouchers to subsidize these choices with public tax dollars that have historically, and constitutionally in many places, been intended to support public education.

For the prekindergarten program alone, they identified $ 92,220 in present value benefits and $ 8,512 in present value costs in 2007 dollars — a benefit - cost ratio of 10.83 to 1.22 The benefits derived mainly from reduced public education expenditures due to lower grade retention and use of special education, reduced costs to the criminal justice system and victims of crime due to lower crime rates, reduced expenditures on child welfare due to less child abuse and neglect, higher projected earnings of center participants, and increased income tax revenue due to projected higher lifetime earnings of center participants.

HB 382 / HJR 34 — SB 1030 / SJR 42 will allow public tax dollars to be used as the Legislature intended — for the public education of the students of Texas.

Students who use corporate tax dollars to attend private schools that lack accreditation, accountability and standards do not out - perform their counterparts in traditional public schools.

Explanation: The taxpaying public continues to demand greater accountability for the use of limited tax dollars.

The public, to whom USFWS is ostensibly accountable, is surprised at the way their tax dollars are being used to fund a witch - hunt.