Sentences with phrase «choice in public services»

David Boyle has just completed the Boyle Review on Barriers to Choice in public services for the Treasury and Cabinet Office.

This was another big break with the party's 2005 line, when the manifesto had struck a sceptical tone about the potential for choice in public services.

I want to leave the EU, I hate big government, I would like lower taxes and far more choice in public services.

Having read Millibore's article, it is hard to see him getting elected by Labour members under this agenda, which can be summed up as Re - Heated Blairism [«more choice in public services»] etc..

John Denham, the Skills Secretary, will tell a rally tomorrow: «We have got into a terrible mess by counterposing ideals like individual aspiration, or choice in public services, with the virtues of social solidarity and collective strength... trying to tailor individual policies to different groups of voters is a political dead end.

I think any discussion of choice in public services also needs to consider resources.

Not exact matches

But the government's choice to lead the probe --- the Public Service Agency --- raised eyebrows because some agency staffers, including its head, were also involved in the firings.

If you're interested in public service, becoming a federal employee can be a terrific career choice.

There he says, one, that the shift from the concept of «the State's role as providers of equal opportunities to every citizen» to that of providing education, health and other social services «to those who can afford to pay» is a U-turn in public policy which «has been made surreptitiously by administrative action without public discussion and legislative sanction»; two, that the total commercialization of social sectors is «alien even to free market societies»; and three, that «the ready acceptance of self - financing concept in social sectors alien even to free - market societies is the end result of gradual disenchantment with the Kerala Model of Development», which has been emphasizing the social dimension rather than the economic, but that it is quite false to present the situation as calling for a choice between social development and economic growth.

We recently sat down with Kern Halls, Area Manager of Orange County Public School Food & Nutrition Services, to discuss ways the OCPS district has engaged students in their food choices through creative initiatives like My Food Face — a sort of «internal Facebook» for students and their families — and the use of a food truck for school events and field trips.

Chicago Public Schools, where 87 percent of students are eligible for free and reduced - price lunch, already puts strict requirements on the items sold in vending machines — juice and water are the only available beverages, for instance — but Leslie Fowler, the district's executive director of nutrition support services, said students still bristle at the idea of schools controlling their choices.

Of course, it is true that population growth of any kind puts pressure on infrastructure, but in reality falling investment in public services represents a political choice by the current Conservative government, which has opted to spend the tax revenues generated by immigrants and refugees on tax cuts for businesses and reducing the deficit rather than expanding healthcare and education provision.

«Amber Small's commitment to her community, to women and public service make her the right choice to represent the 60th Senate District in Albany,» NYSUT President Kim Magee said.

Billed as a flagship public services website, Patient Choices will go live in the summer.

In an echo of his predecessor Tony Blair's commitment to «choice», the prime minister said next year would see public services «becoming more personal» to the «wishes and aspirations» of Britons.

It is a view which suggests that we need to emphasise «choice» in public services, tends to see the state as «nannying» and believes that the way forward is to treat individuals as consumers and offer them choice through insurance schemes.

«While we respect your commitment to public service, your record in Congress would leave us no choice but to actively oppose your candidacy should you decide to run,» reads the letter signed by more than a dozen conservative and tea party activists from Northern California.

Walter Schartner, the Sayville schools chief, said a cap override there is needed to maintain current services; the district's choices will be outlined in greater detail at an April 1 public forum, he said.

Over two weekends in September in Manchester — just as the Brexit negotiations start to move beyond preliminaries — citizens will focus on choices relating to trade and immigration, and the implications of these on issues such as the economy, jobs, public services and the degree to which the UK can control its own affairs.

«The choice we face is not between Labour growth in public services and Tory «cuts».

The public - service novice, who has spent her entire career in media and publishing, also dropped jaws at the meeting by likening her task of satisfying space - crunch concerns in every neighborhood to making «many Sophie's Choices» — a reference to the book in which a mother in the Auschwitz death camp is forced to decide which of her two children will live.

Robert B. Catell, Chairman of SUNY Stony Brook's Advanced Energy Research and Technology Center said, «John Dyson, through his extensive public service to New York state in the energy, economic development and business fields, is an excellent choice to serve on the NYPA Board.

Stringer cited among those services the possibility of adding halal choices in public school lunchrooms and the recent addition of two Muslim holidays to the public school calendar.

Sturgeon said: «The SNP opposes Trident, not just in principle, but at a time when our public services and the vulnerable in our society are under so much pressure, spending tens of billions of pounds on weapons of mass destruction is the wrong choice.

But he says his track record of leadership in the military and in business gives voters a clear choice between «two people who love public service but who come to it through two very different backgrounds.»

«Allowing health plans the flexibility to voluntarily cover more services outside the deductible would enhance consumer choice,» says Fendrick, a professor in the U-M Medical School and School of Public Health who heads the Center for Value - Based Insurance Design (V - BID).

Below is a guide to the many possibilities for satisfying life choices of careers combining science and service in the interests of society, justice, and public safety.

Georgia Pre-K, which is heavily regulated, allowed for greater freedom of choice for families, higher quality of services for lower costs, and some gains in equity when compared to public sector pre-K.

Included in the PowerPoint: a) Scarcity, Choice and Opportunity Cost - The Fundamental Economic Problem - The Meaning of Scarcity and the inevitability of choices at all levels (individual, firms, govt)- The basic questions of what will be produced ow and for whom - The Meaning of the term «Ceteris Paribus» - The Margin and Decision Making at the Margin - Sort run, long run, very long run b) Positive and Normative Statements - the distinction between fact and value judgements c) Factors of Production - the rewards to the factors of production: land, labour, capital and enterprise - Specialization and division of labour d) Resource Allocation in Different Economic Systems and Issues of Transition - decision making in market, planned and mixed economies - the role of the factor enterprise in a modern economy e) Production Possibility Curves - shape and shifts of the curve - constant and increasing opportunity costs f) Money - functions and characteristics in a modern economy - barter, cash and bank deposits, cheques, near money, liquidity g) Classification of Goods and Services - free goods, private goods (economic goods) and public goods - merit goods and demerit goods as the outcome of imperfect information by consumers PowerPoint Also Includes: - Key Terms for each Chapter - Activities - Multiple Choice and Essay questions from past exam papers.

While conservatives liked supplemental services, they weren't going to «lose a year» in getting to public - school choice in NCLB.

SK: Public - school choice comes before supplemental services in NCLB for a very interesting reason.

EdNext: How was it decided to have public choice precede supplemental services — and are you surprised by current interest in reversing that order?

If test results show that students are not making AYP in a school, and if eligibility criteria are met, supplemental services and / or public school choice must be made available that same school year.

Early on in the implementation of this new law, many people at the local and state levels have said that public school choice and supplemental services are sanctions.

Those parents who qualify for public school choice and supplemental services are the least likely to know it; fewer than one in ten parents with children in schools that failed to make adequate progress could correctly identify their school's status.

In terms of services, only 18 percent of choice parents said that a program for students learning to speak English was made available to them, compared with 50 percent of public - school parents.

The findings, if unsurprising, are nonetheless sobering: the extent of public school choice has been negligible; participation in supplemental educational services, while rising, remains low; and the law's restructuring requirements for schools and districts are being deployed in their mildest forms.

As long as teacher unions act like Mary Poppins to parents, media elites, and others, the general public is willing to suspend their normal inclination to desire choice and competition in the goods and services they consume.

Expanding student participation in public school choice and free tutoring, also known as supplemental education services

Specific actions, such as public school choice and supplemental educational services for students in schools identified for accountability consequences, become optional in waiver states, and few waiver states continue to require these specific interventions.

If a Title I school fails to meet AYP standards for a third year, students from low - income families in the school must be offered the opportunity to receive instruction from a supplemental educational services provider of their choice, in addition to continuing to be offered public school choice options.

On the importance of government, for example, Brian Eschbacher, executive director of Planning and Enrollment Services in Denver Public Schools, described policies and systems in Denver that help make choice work better in the real world: a streamlined enrollment system to make choosing easier for families, more flexible transportation options for families, a common performance framework and accountability system for traditional and charter schools to ensure all areas of a city have quality schools, and a system that gives parents the information they need to choose schools confidently.

Since some Oklahoma children have already started the school year, the Education Department will phase in some of the consequences of No Child Left Behind that Oklahoma had escaped under the waiver: The state must provide tutoring services and public school choice options no later than the 2015 - 16 school year.

In the event that the complaint pertains to services received through Title I, such as but not limited to homeless students, private schools, public school choice or Supplemental Education Services, the complainant will be referred to Michael Puntschenko, Director of Special Programs at (315) 4services received through Title I, such as but not limited to homeless students, private schools, public school choice or Supplemental Education Services, the complainant will be referred to Michael Puntschenko, Director of Special Programs at (315) 4Services, the complainant will be referred to Michael Puntschenko, Director of Special Programs at [phone].

«Through Pathway to Financial Success in Schools, Discovery Education and Discover Financial Services are providing students nationwide with engaging tools that make it simple to understand how to make smart financial choices in every aspect of their lives,» said Jacqueline Prester, Business and Technology Teacher, Mansfield Public Schools, Massachusetts.

Sequoia Choice — Arizona Distance Learning, founded in 1998, is a tuition - free Arizona public charter school authorized by the Arizona Department of Education to provide distance learning services to Arizona students in grades K - 12.

Public education in the «charter world» is viewed as a service of choice.

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