Sentences with phrase «with public dollars»

That's right: this corporate program will be paid for with public dollars from a cash - strapped public university.

For years, school leaders and community activists have been working to improve the food purchased with those public dollars.

The best available evidence suggests that funding political campaigns with public dollars does little to reduce special interest influence, encourage competitive races or boost political participation.

There are also «education savings accounts» that provide families with public dollars to pay for private school tuition and expenses.

On the other hand, parental choice of schools supported with public dollars would provide a more promising framework.

Specifically, education savings accounts are simply accounts established with public dollars that parents can use for various educational expenses, including tuition at private schools.

The college paid for half of the study, but the other half was likely paid for with public dollars.

Findings about the nature and quality of children's experiences in early education settings should spark an interest in raising the quality of classroom supports broadly available to young children, particularly in settings funded with public dollars.

E.J. McMahon with the Empire Center, a fiscal watchdog group, say there might be some positive political fallout if the attention on the criminal charges cause New Yorkers to look more closely at some of the big projects now financed with public dollars, like the $ 750 million subsidy to the Solar City factory in Buffalo, run by Tesla chair Elon Musk.

We wouldn't demean any other profession this way, and just because these employees get paid with public dollars doesn't mean the public is interested in (or should have the right to see) an individual's private compensation.

Moskowitz called tax credits, which critics say is a means of funding parochial schools with public dollars, «a powerful form of parent choice.»

A 501c3 not - for - profit (formerly known as eMerge West Michigan) to allow philanthropic dollars to converge with public dollars and private investment to most equitably serve all entrepreneurs looking to launch new businesses, from neighborhoods to the high tech sectors.

Such a system would match contributions from New Yorkers up to a certain amount with public dollars.

Our center has taken the first systematic look at what implementing personalized learning schools costs, how school leaders are spending their funds, and what it might take to make personalized learning financially sustainable with public dollars.

The measure also prevents the sponsors of poor - performing schools from opening new ones, makes it harder for academically lagging schools to shop for new sponsors and ensures that classroom equipment purchased with public dollars remains the property of schools — not their operator or management company.

Charter schools — privately run with public dollars — can't operate without a sponsor.

«It's critical that when folks want to start a public school and be entrusted with public dollars and public school children that they be well - prepared to do so,» he told the Jackson Free Press.

Policymakers should work to ensure that content created with public dollars is openly licensed and freely available to state residents and that existing safe harbor provisions protect MOOCs from legal issues.

With new concerns about restrictions on visas for skilled immigrant workers, the industry could definitely benefit from a workforce trained with public dollars.

Charter schools are funded on a per - pupil basis with public dollars; many schools are also supported by generous businesses and foundations.

Charters are funded with public dollars, and as a result, they are accountable to the same state and national standards as traditional public schools.

In fact, most of the time it's paid for with public dollars.

EJ McMahon, with the fiscal watchdog group the Empire Center, say there might be some positive political fallout, if the attention on the criminal charges cause New Yorkers to look more closely at some of the big projects now financed with public dollars, like the three - quarters of a billion dollar subsidy to the SolarCity factory in Buffalo run by Tesla chair Elon Musk.

Indeed, according to the analysis conducted by the authors of this report, the use of school vouchers — which provide families with public dollars to spend on private schools — is equivalent to missing out on more than one - third of a year of classroom learning.

The Ohio Supreme Court, for instance, found that state law dictates that everything a private charter school company purchases with public dollars — from desks to computers — belongs to the private company, not the public.

These are salaries that are being paid with public dollars and the only way for Albertans to know that what these employees are being paid is fair, is to report it,» said Notley.

Since gaining prominence through the support of economist Milton Friedman decades ago, school vouchers, which subsidize student tuition at private and parochial schools with public dollars, are one of the most controversial ideas in education policy.

And you will find that Atheists won't say a word about a religious billboard — the problem comes up when it is forced on the rest of us with public dollars in an inappropriate public setting.

The most noticeable work being done with public dollars is the restructuring of the Robert Moses Parkway.

«Once again, while the public schools in Florida are held to prescribed standards, charter, voucher and virtual schools — all of which are funded with public dollars — are not required to meet the same standards,» Meyer said.

Public charter schools, funded with public dollars and tuition - free, are off - shoots of traditional public school systems and been glorified recently in critically - acclaimed documentaries like «The Lottery» and «Waiting for Superman,» which portray the schools as last hopes for parents raising children in urban areas with sub-standard schools.

Public charter schools, funded with public dollars and tuition - free, are off - shoots of traditional public school systems recently glorified in critically - acclaimed documentaries like «The Lottery» and «Waiting for Superman,» which portray the schools as last hopes for parents raising children in urban areas with sub-standard schools.

The Lens could have printed these salaries differently, but apparently, the indignity of having your salary printed is just a part of the special awesomeness of being paid with public dollars.

As Billy Ball of NC Policy Watch reported last week, one of the strategies appears to be part of a national movement to re-brand voucher schools as part of the public school system because they are funded with public dollars.

Rep. Graig Meyer, a Democrat representing Durham and Orange counties, said the corporate perks bill ostensibly clears «company schools» in North Carolina paid for with public dollars.