Sentences with phrase «state scarce funds»

It advised Wike to stop wasting the Rivers State scarce funds sponsoring some idle groups in the State to protest against the sound judgement of the Tribunal annulling his obviously fraudulent election.

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But funds for capital improvements are scarce, and borrowing power is limited by a state - imposed tax cap.

«The thought being, if the state is not prioritizing it's 9 -1-1 system, the federal government should not contribute its scarce funding that would allow for more diversion.»

This covers politicians who want access to public funds and the entire civil service structures at the federal and state level who despite being largely ineffective, corrupt and a drain on scarce public funds (with salaries and emoluments) have no productivity or performance objectives.

Anti-Trump signs were scarce, but many marchers expressed dismay about the case of Javier Duarte, the ex-governor of Veracruz who absconded with state funds and was recently arrested in Guatemala.

Without the state - sponsored funding available in Europe and Latin America, financing for independent projects remains scarce, with theatrical distribution even more challenging.

Superintendent Samuelson pointed to the consequence of within - state competition for the scarce resource of teachers, for funds, and for additional space.

And instead they wasted tens of millions of scarce taxpayer funds on out - of - state consultants, inexperienced staff and expensive new software in their race to the bottom.

Malloy claims that his «initiative» is providing Connecticut's 30 most struggling school districts with another $ 132 million in state aid, but the truth is that this year's increase is only about $ 45 million and that in order to get those funds, school districts were required to accept a series of new mandates and programs aimed at further implementing Malloy's corporate education reform agenda and diverting scarce public dollars to private companies.

Ideally, the new standards would be implemented with extensive professional development for teachers, but there wasn't funding to support that in Kentucky — the education department worked to establish networks of teachers to train each other — and funding has been scarce in many other states still recovering from the recession.

Additionally, all schools outside of New York City are denied access to state facilities funding and are therefore forced to pay rent or mortgage, and spend scarce dollars on building maintenance — something other public schools do not have to do.

In a brazen effort to hand over Hartford's Clark Elementary School to Friendship Charter Schools of Washington D.C. and divert more scarce public funds to another out - of - state charter school management company, a special meeting of the Hartford Board of Education has suddenly been called for tomorrow to approve a resolution «requesting» that Stefan Pryor, Governor Malloy's Commissioner of Education, use his authority to simply hand Clark Elementary over to Friendship Charter Schools without any further debate or discussion.

«It is bad enough that more than $ 50 million in scarce public funds have been turned over to Jumoke Academy / Fuse, but unless immediate action is taken to reverse the Malloy administration's bad policy decisions, the series of no - bid contracts and State Board of Education votes will mean literally hundreds of millions more will be given to this charter school chain,» Pelto concluded.

In a brazen effort to hand over Hartford's Clark Elementary School to Friendship Charter Schools of Washington D.C. and divert more scarce public funds to another out - of - state charter school management company, a special meeting of the Hartford Board of Education has suddenly been called for tomorrow to approve a resolution ``

Connecticut educator and education advocate, John Bestor, has written another powerful commentary piece, this time dealing with the utter waste of scarce taxpayer funds on the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium SBAC testing scheme that is designed to fail a vast number of our state's children.

Meanwhile, another Republican legislator, State Representative Rosa Rebimbas (R - 70th District) is pushing another ALEC concept, School Vouchers, which are designed to shift scarce public funds away from public schools and give the dollars to private and parochial schools.

According to the group's most recent filing with the State Ethics Commission (filed yesterday), the corporate funded education reform advocacy front group also spent $ 14,000 for subway sandwiches and $ 6,771 to Staples to pay for the signs demanding that Connecticut legislators hand over nearly $ 21 million in scarce taxpayer money so that the infamous Steve Perry can open a publicly funded, but privately owned charter school in Bridgeport and a Bronx, New York charter school chain can save Stamford by opening up a charter school there.

However, what has remained relatively secret is that Bronin's PR person is a well - paid adviser for Families for Excellent Schools, the New York based charter school industry group that spent more than $ 1 million lobbying Connecticut legislators on behalf of Governor Malloy's proposal to divert millions of dollars in scarce state funds so that Bridgeport and Stamford could get new, privately owned, but publicly funded charter schools --- one of which will make former Capital Prep Principal Steve Perry very rich.

Connecticut charter schools already collect more than $ 100 million in scarce public funds from the state of Connecticut, diverting money away from the real public schools that do fulfil their responsibility to accept and educate all students.

Providing the Support Principals Need and Want As the instability of federal, state, and local funding sources increases, school districts play a pivotal role in establishing priorities based on scarce budget dollars.

In addition to the millions of dollars that Commissioner Pryor wasted on out - of - state consultants and his successful effort to divert hundreds of millions in scarce taxpayer funds to Connecticut's charter school industry, another one of Pryor's controversial actions was to hire his close personal friend and former Newark aide, Adam Goldfarb, to serve as his chief of staff.

A recent article by Wendy Lecker entitled, Beware the new Connecticut legislative plan to channel even more public funds to charters, noted that a group of Democratic state legislators have released a plan aimed at diverting even more scarce public funds to Connecticut's charter schools will doing little to address the underlying system that inadequately funds Connecticut's public schools.

At today's State Board of Education meeting, Governor Dannel «Dan» Malloy's appointees will vote to re-commit Connecticut to the Common Core and then vote to divert scarce public funds to new charter schools in Connecticut.

In addition, Malloy's state department of education announced earlier this week that it is seeking proposals to fund even more charter schools, a strategy that will divert even more scarce funds away from public schools and to the private sector.

The REAL TRUTH is that more than $ 100 million a year in scarce Connecticut funds are being handed over to charter school companies and that according to the most recent reports filed with the Connecticut State Department of Education (2012 - 2013), every single major charter school in Connecticut is more racially segregated than the school district they are supposed to serve.

Sadly, Gov. Quinn prematurely re-opened the barn door, choosing to kiss Rangel's ring instead of being a responsible steward of scarce state funds.

However, rather than step up and address the major flaws with the existing failed funding system, Governor Dannel Malloy made a thinly veiled reference today, in his State of the State Address, that he plans to propose a new state education funding formula, one that would likely pump even more scarce public funds to Connecticut's privately owned and operated charter schState of the State Address, that he plans to propose a new state education funding formula, one that would likely pump even more scarce public funds to Connecticut's privately owned and operated charter schState Address, that he plans to propose a new state education funding formula, one that would likely pump even more scarce public funds to Connecticut's privately owned and operated charter schstate education funding formula, one that would likely pump even more scarce public funds to Connecticut's privately owned and operated charter schools.

«Publisher finance and other sources of development funds are becoming scarce,» stated Simon Prytherch, CEO of Chromativity, which is considering submitting projects to Kickstarter now it welcomes UK studios.