Sentences with phrase «while receiving public funds»

The 1996 charitable choice legislation specified that religious groups are allowed to display religious symbols and discriminate in hiring while receiving public funds, but can not evangelize or prosletyze.

Not exact matches

Independent charters are particularly desperate for facilities funding, while large charters — mostly sited in co-located public school space — are focusing on increasing the amount of public money each charter school student receives.

The Conservatives received # 5.4 m (# 5.1 m in private donations and # 303,740 in pubic funds) while Labour received # 4.1 m (# 2.6 m in donations) and # 1.49 m in public funds.

Little public expense was involved, however, because Spitzer used campaign funds to cover most of the costs, while Pataki, in a highly controversial move, received the funding from business groups that had matters pending before the state.

UFT lawyers argue that «while charter schools may receive some funding from private entities, they are overwhelmingly funded by public tax dollars and they are subject to the disclosure requirements applicable to government agencies under the New York state Freedom of Information Law.»

While public school buildings are publicly funded, charter schools have no financial resources for building, renting, or renovating, and must find them or take them from the funds they get for teaching, which are in any case less than the support the public schools receive.

A private Montessori school in rural Minnesota last week cleared a key hurdle on its way to becoming the nation's first «charter» school, able under state law to receive public funds while remaining free from most outside control.

While these schools receive public funds, they operate unfettered by most state and local district regulations governing other public schools.

We can not dismiss that our counterparts at other public schools receive $ 5.5 billion in facilities funding annually while charter school students receive nothing.

It is no bargain that public charter schools receive zero in facilities funds while other public schools receive about $ 5.5 billion annually.

There will be 36 gubernatorial elections in 2018, and some candidates have received contributions from DeVos and her family, while others are unabashed supporters of her agenda to drain scarce funding from public schools to give to private and charter schools in the form of vouchers or education tax credits.

During yesterday's press conference, Rev. Kenneth Moales Jr. highlighted how children should have access to a quality education regardless of zip code and how, «for decades, low - performing and failing public schools have remained open while receiving money, and charter schools are consistently flat - funded.»

As NPE noted, these forms of instruction are «potentially profitable» because the schools receive the same funding per student that a standard district public or charter school would get, «while having far fewer costs for teachers, services, transportation or facilities.»

But Democrats who oppose the bill argue that the proposal helps charter schools, which are often privately operated, while hurting public schools by stripping them of funding they would have otherwise received.

While public schools are funded almost entirely by taxes, charters receive private money from corporate privatization proponents.

In Connecticut, interdistrict magnet schools receive special funding BECAUSE they are supposed to «reduce, eliminate or prevent the racial, ethnic or economic isolation of public school students while offering a high - quality curriculum that supports educational improvement.»

While public schools are required to grant students with learning issues or other disabilities accommodations, private and parochial schools that do not receive public funding are not required to grant students these accommodations.

While charter schools sometimes do receive all - public funding, that's not always the case: Harlem Children's Zone is a famous example, whose finances are apparently tied up in a number of real estate deals that give it the money it needs to operate but also make it pretty beholden to a number of financial interests.

«In a recent national study of charter school funding, Connecticut charter schools were receiving on average $ 12,631 per pupil, while traditional public schools would have received $ 16,476 for those students.

While working at the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Soon has received funding from fossil fuel interests including the American Petroleum Institute, ExxonMobil, the electric utility Southern Co., Donors Trust and the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation, according to public records obtained by Greenpeace and the watchdog group Climate Investigations Center.

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The campaign is being launched by a group of medical and public health researchers from across the nation because while we obviously think health and medical research is vital and that public good research should receive public funding, we also believe that funding should come from a universal, progressive and fair tax.

Pathology and radiology companies receive significant public funding and make sizeable profits while often paying relatively little tax, according to health policy analyst Professor Peter Br... Read more