Sentences with phrase «base funding approach»

The province of Ontario should immediately develop a new base funding approach to early years and child care programs in Ontario to ensure quality, affordability and access.

Opponents of the student - based funding approach cite the potential instability introduced into school district and school budgets, arguing that fluctuations within a school year would be difficult to absorb.

Not exact matches

Trump's base - oriented approach to policymaking and messaging could make future collaboration with Democrats all the more difficult as soon as Friday, when the government will shut down if a funding deal in Congress can't be reached.

A student of Warren Buffett's value investing approach based on hunting for undervalued stocks, Lee - Chin saw great dysfunction in the accepted practice of the fund business.

In addition to the rules - based approach, Mester also suggested the Fed not focus so much on short - term data changes in its economic projections, and tweaking those projections to link them to where each individual member believes the funds rate should be if those conditions come to fruition.

• Vicarius Pharma AG, a Switzerland - based which provides U.S. - based biopharmaceutical companies a new approach to commercializing assets in European markets, raised $ 21.8 million in funding.

Before revolutionizing the hedge fund industry with his mathematics - based approach, «Quant King» James Simons worked as a code breaker for the US Department of Defense during the Vietnam War, but was fired after criticizing the war in the press.

Managers of these funds, which are based on a relatively new approach, believe that human behavior leads to certain market inefficiencies that they can take advantage of to get a superior return.

The unique Council partnership has resulted in a strategic approach to high tech economic development that involves matching funds research, workforce development and a marketing program leveraging governmental, corporate and economic development organization budgets on a regional rather than local basis.

Hartford Schroders Tax - Aware Bond Fund uses a value - driven approach to seek total return on an after - tax basis by investing in a portfolio of predominantly investment grade, fixed - income securities.

To my mind it's a great benefit of the LifeStrategy approach that the funds are automatically rebalanced by Vanguard on a regular basis.

GFI is entirely supported by grants and donations.79 Their three largest donors provided a total of around 25 - 40 % of their funding in 2016, and we would expect those donors to provide a similar, perhaps slightly larger, amount of funding in 2017 — though GFI's intention is to raise significantly more money overall.80, 81 GFI's fiscal management strategy is to spend each year what it raised the prior year; this enables them to budget on a rolling 12 - month timeframe.82, 83 Overall, we think that while their funding sources are not especially diverse, they do rely on a relatively broad donor base and take a responsible and sustainable approach to their finances.

While the relatively strong performance of our stock selection approach has been an important factor in the Fund's returns since inception, even a single holding in a portfolio of over 200 can exert an effect on a day - to - day basis.

Hopeful of securing a broad ecumenical base of support, the Los Angeles Council of Churches was approached, but the needed funding was unavailable, so it was decided to underwrite the support within the American Baptist structure.

Policymakers should continue to expand access and funding for parent support and child development services delivered through home visiting, paying attention to resources that not only support the delivery of home visiting services but also support the rigorous evaluation of current evidence - based models and promising approaches in operation across the country.

Because of the move to «product - based» solutions, funding is already drying up for most infant and young child feeding support programs and for community - based approaches that teach and promote skills to make nutritious family foods from local indigenous ingredients.

Malang Fofana, the head of the Gambia delegation, expressed the concerns of many saying, «Because of the move to «product - based» solutions, funding is already drying up for most infant and young child feeding support programs and for community - based approaches that teach and promote skills to make nutritious family foods from local indigenous ingredients.

«In order to improve on the current legal procedures and ease asset recovery procedures, we have drafted the Proceeds of Crime Bill which provides for the transparent management of recovered funds and assets and a non-conviction based approach to asset recovery.

The Executive Budget establishes 10 Regional Economic Development Councils, which will be chaired by Lieutenant Governor Robert Duffy, to create a more regionally - based approach to allocating economic development funding and to act as one - stop shops for all State - supported economic development and business assistance programs in each region.

While the UK has arguably missed its chance to establish a resource - based citizen's fund — as might have been built up from North Sea oil and gas revenues — there is still much the UK can learn from Alaska's hybrid fund - and - dividend approach.

«This cloak - and - dagger approach to public consultation is unacceptable and is a fundamentally flawed basis on which to change school funding arrangements.

The Board of Regents endorsed that approach on a statewide basis in its recent funding recommendations.

We certainly hope her election will push state lawmakers to support public campaign financing — especially a Clean Money Clean Election approach where funds are provided based on obtaining a small number of donations (as opposed to the 6 to 1 matching approach used in NYC).

Howard Dean, for example, has risen from obscurity to national recognition on the back of his Web - based grassroots fund - raising approach, and campaign supporters of all types have learned to use a social - networking site, Meetup.com, to arrange political gatherings.

«Currently, most victims of elder abuse and neglect pass through our emergency departments with a life - threatening condition unidentified,» said the latter paper's lead study author, Tony Rosen, MD, MPH, of Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, N.Y. «A multi-disciplinary, team - based approach supported by additional research and funding has the potential to improve the identification of elder abuse and improve the health and safety of our most vulnerable patients.»

Whether this approach to funding could become a primary means of support on a continuing basis remains unclear.

Steven Finkbeiner, MD, PhD, was selected for extended federal funding based on his outstanding approach to better understand the root cause of Huntington's disease.

Dr. Jordan's treatment approach is science - based, and his research has been funded by the National Science Foundation,...

The V Foundation funds will allow Deshpande's team to apply an advanced sequencing - based approach to identify and validate potential targets for drugs that restore cancer cells» epigenome to normal.

Another significant achievement of TRANSVAC in its first funding period was to develop a roadmap to define a coherent and strategy - led approach to address the existing fragmentation of European vaccine development, based on the unification of leading European vaccine experts, so as to establish a «European vaccine R&D infrastructure».

By folding competency - based learning into the state's primary funding formula, all school systems have a shot to pursue this approach.

Completion - based funding policies could be an easy sell to state lawmakers eager to fund more personalized learning — but they're a short - sighted, and ultimately self - defeating, approach.

The fact that half of the states that have implemented school funding systems relied on «costing out» studies based on the evidence - based method suggests the strength of our approach.

The Democrats got what they wished for, but the bleak record of education achievement in the 1980s and 1990s shows their funding - based approach simply doesn't work.

The Scope of this project is to: - Provide seed funding and support pilot implementation of ideas resulting from the June 2014 design workshop on improving outcomes for babies in foster care; - Launch pilots of co-designed strategies for working collaboratively with parents in creating daily, regularized family routines in four sites and evaluate executive function skills, child development, child literacy and parental stress levels of participants pre -, during, and post-intervention; - Build a core group of leaders to help set the strategic direction for Frontiers of Innovation (FOI) and take on leadership for parts of the portfolio; - With Phil Fisher at the University of Oregon and Holly Schindler at the University of Washington develop a measurement and data collection framework and infrastructure in order to collect data from FOI - sponsored pilots and increase cross-site and cross-strategy learning; Organize Building Adult Capabilities Working Group to identify, measure and develop strategies related to executive function and emotional regulation for adults facing high levels of adversity and produce summary report in the fall of 2014 that reviews the knowledge base in this area and implications for intervention, including approaches that impact two generations.

And the system itself must ensure that there's what we broadly call a needs - based approach to funding schools and resourcing schools also has to be in place.

Like Alabama, Arizona committed extra funds, including $ 1 million for training, to extend the program's approach to all its elementary schools, and has worked with districts to redeploy federal Title I and Title II funds to pay for reading coaches, training, and research - based curricula.

«The Learning on Country project is a grass roots community - based approach to generating an education program where four communities got together and decided they wanted to put something far more structured, sustainable and permanent around this notion of Learning on Country, and so they got together, formed a steering committee, engaged with government to get some funding, and that was the genesis of the four pilot trials that I've been working with recently.»

Instead, Hanushek and Lindseth propose a new approach: a performance - based system that directly links funding to success in raising student achievement.

Title III does not advocate a particular instructional approach, such as English as a second language or bilingual education, but it does require LEAs receiving Title III funds to fund instructional approaches that are scientifically based.

Completion - based funding policies could be an easy sell to state lawmakers, but they're a short - sighted, and ultimately self - defeating, approach.

The U.S. Department of Education recently committed a wave of Experimental Sites Initiative funding to supporting competency - based approaches in postsecondary education, and more than 300 institutions are lining up to be among the approved experimenters.

Based off work CEELO engaged in with states, this brief focuses on approaches to family engagement in state funded pre-K programs.

Such an approach — even launched on a pilot basis — could take advantage of federal funding that is available for programs like these through AmeriCorps and both the Higher Education Act and the new Every Student Succeeds Act.

«20 in 10» grant funds supported the St. Ignatius Catholic School team in the development of a blended, inquiry - based approach that also incorporates elements of project - based learning, STEM, flexible instructional groupings and multi-aged classrooms.

Before changes made in the late 1990s, special education funds in California were distributed on a cost - based» model but the Legislature moved to a census - based» approach beginning in 1998 - 99 on the theory that the educational costs of students with disabilities would be spread somewhat evenly throughout the overall student population, according to a report from the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst.

To address both its inadequate and inequitable approach to school funding, Illinois should move to a funding system based on the Evidenced Based Mbased on the Evidenced Based MBased Model.

The NGLC grant will help fund the start - up of a new Da Vinci charter high school in 2013 with a «blended learning» instructional approach that combines online learning with hands - on, project - based learning in the classroom, resulting in more personalized, mastery - based learning.

Despite earlier Coalition scepticism about the efficacy of more dollars, it embraces the Gonski approach on needs - based funding, and commits to an extra $ 18.6 billion over a decade.

This report from a Connecticut - based education advocacy group aims to Fix Our Broken School Funding System with a reverse Robin Hood take - from - the - poor approach nicely wrapped in a pious package of verbiage designed to hide its true effects.