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