Sentences with phrase «challenges over funding»

Education secretary promises to make teaching more attractive - but faces challenges over funding.

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Now, the biggest challenge, according to Reuters, is to find a way around a reduction of the period over which U.S. - based entities can supply Russian energy firms with funding.

This budget makes a substantial investment in upgrading away from diesel: $ 220 million (over 11 years) for communities south of the 60th parallel and $ 21.4 million (over four years, starting next year) for continuing an existing northern program, and a portion of a new $ 75 million «challenge» fund aimed at solving clean tech problems through innovation.

«We have heard a great deal over the past couple years that there are funding challenges,» said Rose.

The challenge is that if you don't get into the first 1 — 2 funds you don't get in at all because they, too, become «over subscribed.»

The growing availability of credit has also expanded the resources available to new entrepreneurs launching businesses, and has given many families access to the funds they need to «smooth over» periods of financial challenge.9 / At the same time, competition among lenders for individuals with solid credit histories has reduced the price of credit for those consumers.10 /

Unfortunately, there aren't enough names with that large of a market cap and when two of them are bigger than the rest of the sector combined, funds are forced to add smaller companies to the mix, along with the challenges they can bring like higher volatility, wider spreads and more uncertainty over earnings.

She admits that though she has faced other obstacles as a researcher — including the challenge of securing funding for her projects — a new Science Center should take priority over other funding concerns.

Najib is grappling with a multi-billion-dollar scandal at state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) and popular anger over rising living costs, which have given momentum to the challenge from his 92 - year - old mentor - turned - foe, Mahathir.

Giancarlo explains funds will be used «to enhance economic cost benefit analysis capabilities; strengthen Commission examinations capabilities over swaps clearing houses; and address the regulatory challenges related to market innovation.»

While lack of access to additional funds was labelled as one of the biggest barriers to innovation for between 16 — 20 % of SMEs, for organisations with over 200 employees only 10 % saw it is as a major challenge.102

Using Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge funds, Pennsylvania awarded one - year mini-grants to align over 300 early childhood education courses.

Although a reduction in public funds for the sport post-London 2012 will present inevitable challenges, I'm confident that the momentum England Netball has built up over the last two years will carry the game forward.

I see changes in the African Union leadership and the body will face challenges over food, funds and security.

Fine, challenge David Cameron's integrity, by all means - but challenge the fact that a party that claims not to rely on funding from big business, and to be squeaky clean, has taken over # 2m not only from a crook, but of funds which were not even his to give.

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Gov. Paterson made an attention - grabbing appearance last night at a birthday - bash fund - raiser for his political rival, state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo — the likely 2010 Democratic nominee for governor over the poll - challenged incumbent.

Alongside the challenging funding situation, county areas have double the percentage of over 65s compared to London.

Another major progressive politics organization, Planned Parenthood Action Fund, has given its endorsement to Democratic U.S. Rep. Darren Soto over his predecessor Democratic former U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson who is trying to challenge him from the progressive wing in this year's primary.

Despite the public feuding between Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo over funding to address problems on the subway, Mr. Dinowitz said the city and state needed to work together given the magnitude of the challenge.

More than # 70,000 is being spent on the drive and over two dozen Scottish caravan holiday parks have joined the campaign, which has secured support from the VisitScotland Challenge Fund.

The challenge for Cuomo and lawmakers, also in a re-election year, would be to close the deficit without spurring a high stakes fight over education and health care funding.

The Senate Democrats seen as the most likely contenders to challenge Trump in 2020 — including Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand — all voted against the bill to reopen the government, even though most Democrats agreed to end the stalemate over immigration and fund the government again.

Looking ahead, maintaining the planned level of protection to frontline / operational numbers of the workforce over the whole CSR period will be very challenging — especially over the next 18 months, as two - thirds of the cuts to central Government funding falls within the first two CSR years (2011/12 and 2012/13).

Green Party campaigns in 2014 made a splash, from Howie Hawkins» historic result in New York to Gayle McLaughlin's triumph over a Chevron - funded challenge in Richmond, CA.

Over in southeast Queens, Community Board 12 Chairwoman Adrienne Adams, a Democrat who unsuccessfully challenged Queens State Sen. James Sanders last year, is replacing disgraced former Councilman Ruben Wills, who was expelled after he was found guilty of stealing public funds.

Other challenges, it said, included special schools, such as schools for the blind and the deaf, which were either closing down or about to do so, subvention not being released to the psychiatric hospital in Accra, nearly all statutory funds being in arrears and a significant number of public sector workers, including nurses and district chief executives employed by the government over a year ago not being paid.

Perhaps the bottom line, then, is that while the Obama Administration did what it could — at times generously so — on science and innovation funding, such investments and others in the discretionary budget have been secondary to the bigger fights that truly define our fiscal politics, over healthcare, retirement, deficits and debt, levels of taxation, and so on (and it can't be underestimated how truly intractable these challenges really are, as indicated by the labyrinthine wrangling and ultimate failure of the President's Bowles - Simpson deficit commission).

In 2014, ALS returned to the spotlight with the «Ice Bucket Challenge,» which involved people pouring ice - cold water over their heads, posting a video on social media, and donating funds for research on the condition, whose sufferers include British physicist Stephen Hawking.

Its leaders cite the need «not only to restore the purchasing power the NIH has lost to inflation over the past decade, but also to provide the sustained, long - term predictable funding growth essential to catalyze scientific momentum and address current and emerging health challenges.»

February 2010 - Italian stem cell scientists challenge goverment EuroSyStem scientist Elena Cattaneo challenges Italian government - the story continues In the summer of 2009, three Italian stem celli scientists unsuccessfully challenged their government in the courts over its decision to exclude human embryonic stem cell research from a ministerial funding call for projects on stem cell biology.

Ongoing challenges facing the scientific enterprise and the way it is funded have been well documented over the past 2 years (Alberts et al, PNAS 2014; Taylor, eLife, 2016).

Established in 1921 through an interstate compact authorized by Congress, today the Port Authority struggles with financial and political challenges, from insufficient funding to debates over who will pay for maintenance and new services...

Since that summer, researchers from all over the globe have identified several ALS genes thanks to funding from the ALS Association that resulted from the viral challenge.

In 2010 Gerry Duffy and Ken Whitelaw (pictured) embarked on this incredible challenge — their aim to inspire people all over the country to come out and run their first ever marathons and to raise funds (over half a million Euro) and awareness for Autism Ireland.

These concerns are compounded by a common expectation that budget pressures and lack of funding will be the biggest challenge for schools over the next 12 months.

Even before new cuts bite, a recent survey showed that over 50 per cent of school leaders expect budget pressures and lack of funding to be their biggest challenge in the next academic year.

The government launched the legal challenge to avert the strike over funding cuts, claiming that it was an unlawful dispute based on political grounds instead of a trade dispute about terms and conditions.

The lesson from the Ellis / Creighton / WestEd experience is that some extra funding committed over a substantial time can help challenged districts to improve.

Given the growth of national charter school networks, such as the Challenge Foundation — a national group that funds a pair of schools, accounting for nearly 11 percent of the student population, in rural Rutherford County — proponents say it's essential to maintain some local control over charters.

A growing research base shows that high - quality pre-k programs have both short - and long - term benefits for students, but bringing those programs to scale remains challenging due to long - standing questions over funding and teacher quality.

«Over the past 20 years, charter schools have transformed the lives of millions of students, and although we continue to face challenges, like funding inequity and facilities issues, we have become the answer for families looking for a quality education for their children.»

Educators say the state was slow to roll out rules for the system, which gives schools their first significant authority over spending since the late 1970s, when the state took over education funding after a taxpayer revolt and lawsuits challenging funding disparities.

Warrington school children are setting their own challenge to the Government over fairer funding with a unique take on «Food, Glorious Food».

There's incentive money for teacher merit - pay systems, as well as the proposed Early Learning Challenge Fund to increase access and quality of preK education, which includes $ 9.3 billion available in competitive grants over the next decade.

Rural schools in Arizona have a broad spectrum of needs and the proposal to increase teacher funding by 20 % over three years and restore soft capital funding over five years enables local school leaders to more effectively address the challenges facing our schools.

These two concepts — funding equity and funding adequacy — have featured in court challenges to state funding systems in different ways over time (See Overview of School Finance Litigation below).

While the DfE's recent announcement to increase school funding by # 1.3 bn over two years will help the financial situation for schools, the Institute for Fiscal Studies argues that schools still face an enormous financial challenge as their budgets will have fallen by 4.6 per cent in real terms between 2015 and 2020.

Over these past two years, we have shined a hot lamp on the problem — political handwringing, using yesterday's funding levels to solve tomorrow's challenges, expecting state and local governments to place big bets when the national government won't make long - term commitments, and applying 20th century policy to a 21st century context.

The value of these holdings will evolve over time — given performance differences in the underlying funds — and the investor or plan sponsor will eventually face the challenge of finding an effective rebalancing methodology.