Sentences with phrase «as equal funding»

It is important to note that equitable funding is not the same thing as equal funding.

Not exact matches

The two entrepreneurs launched O'Leary Funds Management as equal partners, with O'Leary taking the chairman title and O'Brien serving as CEO.

I'd go so far as to project that within ten years the amount of money flowing through all crowdfunding platforms will at least equal that of all other funding sources.

As for recouping your investment — I am assuming since this is Mark Cubans Economic Stimulus plan and not Mark Cubans build my portfolio plan — a return on your investment over three years plus capitalized interest of that equal to that which would be earned in a money market fund should suffice.

Goldman Sachs said it would offer limited access for certain customers, but according to Bloomberg, the bank has demanded that some of its clients set aside funds equal to the full value of their bitcoin futures trades as a condition for doing the transaction, meaning Goldman is still very nervous about the potential for big losses in Bitcoin futures.

As long as the amount of cash coming in to the fund is equal to or exceeds beneficiary payouts, the scheme can continuAs long as the amount of cash coming in to the fund is equal to or exceeds beneficiary payouts, the scheme can continuas the amount of cash coming in to the fund is equal to or exceeds beneficiary payouts, the scheme can continue.

Use limit orders to trade funds such as the PowerShares S&P SmallCap 600 Equal Weight Portfolio (EWSC), due to their double - digit market spreads.

They're also not all created equal: Each fund takes its own route and timetable for moving into more conservative holdings — known as the «glide path.»

As of July 2015, its valuation hit nearly $ 51 billion, equaling the record set by Facebook in 2012.394 It recently secured an additional $ 3.5 billion in investment, bringing its total funds to $ 13.5 billion — a figure «far greater than most companies raise even during an initial public offering,» which Uber has avoided.395

BBP is likely to tilt smaller than our neutral cap - weighted benchmark because the fund equal - weights its holdings, and it dips into micro-caps as well.

In fact, some equal - weighted tech - focused funds that do hold Apple were able to rise yesterday even as the iPhone maker's stock was pummeled.

This switch from raising funds in equity markets to bond markets would, other things equal, also tend to raise concerns about credit quality, as corporate leverage would tend to rise.

BOSTON (March 12, 2018)-- MFS Investment Grade Municipal Trust (the «fund»)(NYSE: CXH) announced today that it will conduct a cash tender offer to purchase up to 7.5 percent of the fund's outstanding common shares (the «shares») at a price per share equal to 98 percent of the fund's net asset value (NAV) per share as of the close of regular trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on the date the tender offer expires.

The new NFTY is also a smart - beta fund, but its methodology is much simpler — a simple equal - weight approach as captured by the NIFTY 50 Equal Weight Iequal - weight approach as captured by the NIFTY 50 Equal Weight IEqual Weight Index.

The Lipper Balanced Fund Index measures the equal - weighted performance of the 30 largest U.S. balanced funds as defined by Lipper.

As I've explained more than once in this forum, this expression is merely economists» shorthand, serving to describe the process that begins with banks crediting borrowers» accounts with lent sums, is followed by the borrowers» drawing on their borrowed deposit credits by writing checks or otherwise transferring funds to various payees, and finally, other things equal, by a transfer of reserves from the lending bank to the payees» banks, for the sake of settling inter-bank dues.

I personally like this funds equal weight strategy, as I think that its quite smart to place a lot of small bets in the small cap biotech space and let the winners grow.

Raymond Abbott's name appeared as lead plaintiff in a court case brought by Camden and several other poor school districts against the State of New Jersey, demanding that the state provide equal funding for all schools.

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Alaska is the only state in the world to pay its individual citizens an annual, equal income, known as the permanent fund dividend (PFD), and this «basic income» is financed by the investment returns of its sovereign wealth fund, the Alaska Permanent Fund (Afund dividend (PFD), and this «basic income» is financed by the investment returns of its sovereign wealth fund, the Alaska Permanent Fund (Afund, the Alaska Permanent Fund (AFund (APF).

The fiscal year 2016 spending of $ 1.7 billion is equal to 8 percent of City's spending on salaries.5 The New York City Comptroller reported that, as of June 2017, overtime spending for fiscal year 2017 was projected to be $ 1.8 billion, a 4.5 percent increase over the prior year.6 (A portion of this overtime expenditure is attributable to security at Trump Tower with the City expected to receive Federal funds to cover the expense in part.7)

If the US government is not providing the same degree of federal funding to territories as states has any study been done comparing the degree of taxes payed in vs federal funds payed to the territories and if so generally is the US receiving more, about equal, or less in taxes as it's providing in services to these territories?

Humanists UK works for an end to irrelevant religious discrimination in publicly funded posts such as general pastoral support jobs in hospitals and elsewhere, which are often unfairly reserved only for religious people or people of certain religions, and for equal treatment of the non-religious according to need in the limited number of settings where belief - specific services are legitimately provided, including hospitals.

Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions, but subject to such requirements as the legislature shall impose by general or special law, indebtedness contracted by any county, city, town, village or school district and each portion thereof from time to time contracted for any object or purpose for which indebtedness may be contracted may also be financed by sinking fund bonds with a maximum maturity of fifty years, which shall be redeemed through annual contributions to sinking funds established by such county, city, town, village or school district, provided, however, that each such annual contribution shall be at least equal to the amount required, if any, to enable the sinking fund to redeem, on the date of the contribution, the same amount of such indebtedness as would have been paid and then be payable if such indebtedness had been financed entirely by the issuance of serial bonds, except, if an issue of sinking fund bonds is combined for sale with an issue of serial bonds, for the same object or purpose, then the amount of each annual sinking fund contribution shall be at least equal to the amount required, if any, to enable the sinking fund to redeem, on the date of each such annual contribution, (i) the amount which would be required to be paid annually if such indebtedness had been issued entirely as serial bonds, less (ii) the amount of indebtedness, if any, to be paid during such year on the portion of such indebtedness actually issued as serial bonds.

Although scientific merit may still be the key to the success of smaller research grants, such as those from China's National Natural Science Foundation, it is much less relevant for the megaproject grants from various government funding agencies, which range from tens to hundreds of millions of Chinese yuan (7 yuan equals approximately 1 U.S. dollar).

The African Women's Development Fund (AWDF)-- ... for... — Supports women's right to be treated as an equal within African society.

Now, as Goldrick - Rab points out, students have to pay expenses beyond tuition — books and supplies, room and board, and transportation — and she and Kendall propose a state - funded stipend equal to 15 hours a week at the region's «living wage.»

This proposal builds on some of the lessons learned from the charter school movement and would allow effective charter networks like Green Dot, KIPP, and North Star to operate as school support organizations on a level playing field with districts, with equal funding and authority.

First, just as the states refused to make good on the «equal» part of «separate but equal» after Plessy, for more than 40 years states have failed to provide equal access to the funding needed to achieve excellent schools for all children, largely because of a lack of federal accountability for equitable school funding.

Therefore, federal courts should eschew simple one - size - fits - all remedies such as mandating equal per - pupil funding.

Among those lessons learned are operationalizing adult learning / development and adaptive leadership by simultaneously attending to the personal and professional development of the people at all levels of the organization; creating and sustaining conditions and support mechanisms for effective teamwork and collaboration to occur; and redefining community engagement in ways that value families and communities and engage them as true and equal partners who possess funds of knowledge.

Others include the 1975 civil rights law mandating public education for special needs children, the bilingual education act of 1968, and the original civil rights education law, which passed in 1965 as part of President Johnson's war on poverty and mandated federal funding to states, equal access for all children, and higher standards.

«The ultimate issue is whether funding is provided to each school in the district so as to provide equal educational opportunity for all students.»

From the 1960's, the government was seen as a strong advocate for greater equity and equal opportunity providing funding to achieve those goals.

In addition to data on sports participation and program funding, schools could also provide information on how they provide equal access to various course offerings — particularly science, math, engineering and technology, or STEM — as well as how they prevent or respond to instances of sexual harassment or other forms of discrimination on the basis of sex, sexual orientation or gender in any program or activity.

«I hope that once we get back into session, we as parents, we as leaders, we as community advocates continue to push for equal education and equal funding for our children, because that's all we have for our future,» she said.

As a charter school founder, leader and parent I implore our lawmakers to show our children that they are not worth less by providing equal funding to public charter schools.

All special funds that take us away from equal funding for a worthy reason should be monitored (i.e. the LCHI SEN funds masquerading as Low Prior Attainment).

Support was expressed by northern districts for continued annual increases in per pupil aid as well as for annual per pupil adjustments (increases) to revenue limits that together would provide all districts with a predictable, annual funding increase at least equal to the increase in the consumer price index (CPI).

In the historic Edgewood vs. Kirby case (which came to be known as Edgewood I), the state's supreme court required Texas to modify its school funding plan in a way that provided every school district equal return for equal tax effort, instituting a process for equalizing school funding throughout the state (Cárdenas, 1997).

With a funding bill in each chamber of the Texas Capitol, the momentum continues to grow to end the wait list as well as provide equal funding for public charter school students.

On funding power, Maine's program does well, as per - pupil funding can equal the average cost statewide and even can go as high as 115 percent of the child's current funding.

Education is often touted as a means for boosting social mobility and making communities more equal, but inequality in school funding and resources has made that difficult to achieve, especially amid increasing poverty rates.

But what both sides fail to understand is that desegregation was pursued mostly as a last resort; blacks wouldn't achieve it immediately through the fiscal means (equal funding of schools) simply because of the opposition of Jim Crow segregationist - controlled school boards and legislatures.

In music as in all academic disciplines, equal opportunities will not be a reality until funding equity is a reality.

ALEC convenes legislators, corporate lobbyists, and right - wing think tanks to vote as equals, behind closed doors, on «model bills» that benefit ALEC's corporate members, industry funders, and right - wing allies.

It recently issued a state report card that evaluated states on criteria seen as promoting a professional teaching force, equitable and sufficient funding, and equal opportunities for all students to succeed.

In brief, SEAs and LEAs can use these funds towards hiring teachers and administrators, ensuring an equal distribution of quality educators (especially to lower income districts), professional development, family outreach, and providing training to better reach underserved populations such as ELLs and students with disabilities.

Fair school funding relies on two basic pillars: adequacy, which means that there is enough money to give all children the instruction and support they need to learn andequity, which means that they system distributes money is such a way as to give all children equal access to opportunities.

Students also got a taste of what advocacy looks like IRL as they engaged with lawmakers and hand - delivered more than 700 hand - written postcards from charter school students across the state demanding fairness and equal funding for charter schools during these last few weeks of legislative session.