Not exact matches
LONDON — Chancellor Philip Hammond has said that Britain needs a «grown - up»
debate over whether pay for public
sector workers should be increased, arguing that the government must «hold its nerve» on austerity.
Cohen is also at the center of a huge
debate unfolding right now about raising the minimum wage, and the low pay of service workers in the restaurant industry, where employment has increased 72 percent since 1992, compared to job growth of 22 percent in higher - paying private
sector employment
over the same time period.
The endless
debate over the «hollowing out» of Canada's business
sector is but one symptom of anxieties surrounding our investment relationship with the Americans.
But, one need look no further than the current
debate in the UK
over the EU referendum to find other parallels with Repeal — e.g., an internal split in the Conservative party
over British identity (particularly in a world with increasing trade linkages); the difficulty in ascertaining the winners and losers from a fundamental reorientation of trade policy, amidst inherent uncertainty; the existence of tensions between different
sectors and regions, stemming from trade exposure; and so on.
Debate continued this week
over methods of cutting the public
sector debt.
Plans to allow more private
sector involvement in the NHS will be
debated in the Lords later as the struggle
over the health and social care bill continues.
«Let me share with you, when I left the private
sector 22 year ago, my retirement account was... worth a little
over $ 200,000,» said the Republican senator from North Carolina, during a
debate near Raleigh.
Throughout his discussions of the public, charter, and private
sectors, Smarick makes a convincing case that the decades old
debate over which
sector performs «better» is the wrong way of evaluating performance.
It represents two years of
debate, discussion and thinking across the education
sector about how assessment — particularly, formal assessments taken by 15 - 19 year olds in England — can and should evolve
over the next decade.
Over time, political
debating points have pigeonholed urban charter schools, especially those run by for - profits and charter management organizations, as an industrialized
sector bent on homogenization.
Political expediency and self - interest are well to the fore as parliament starts to
debate the plan, which is closer to the original Gonski model than present arrangements and would inject an extra A$ 18.6 billion in federal funding across the government, Catholic and independent school
sectors over a decade.
Nationwide the charter school
sector has grown
over the past few decades amid a
debate about its virtues and drawbacks — and even whether the publicly funded schools are public or private entities.
And that's because a relatively small number of charter networks — KIPP, Success Academy, and YES Prep to name a few — dominate the
sector in ways that
over the last decade or so have shaped the national
debates and policy agendas around charters.
But recent events have shown that at least one of those impediments is not only resolvable but entirely of our own creation: the political and ideological
debate over whether or not it is «right» for a school district to deploy private -
sector education organizations as part of its education improvement strategy.
While explicitly avoiding the
debate over the existence of charters and carefully noting that he was looking at the problems associated with a poorly regulated
sector taking public funds, Mr. Oliver looked at financial scandals and fraud in charter schools across the country:
As a simple report on the charter community, the data won't settle any
debates over demographics, backfilling, or network vs. independent charter school performance, but it does help paint the picture of NYC's robust charter
sector.
It shares the border with the US and the Ontario real estate market has long been the subject of heated
debate because of Toronto and other cities that have experienced widespread growth in the real estate
sector over the last few years.
There is a great
debate over whether the two divisions of the banking
sector should operate under one roof, or if the two are best kept separate.
The
debate over which
sector of municipal bonds, general obligation bonds (G.O.'s) or revenue bonds can provide a better return is a constant one.
Home to recurring, often acrimonious
debates over how to compensate rooftop solar customers for the excess energy they send to the grid, Arizona regulators, utilities and the rooftop solar
sector are still struggling to settle on a method that can satisfy both sides.
Echoing similar
debates in states like Arizona and Hawaii, the Nevada solar
sector and utilities have been engaged in an intense
debate over how to compensate rooftop solar owners.
As
debate over natural gas drilling in the Marcellus shale reaches a fever pitch, state and federal authorities are warning Pennsylvania law enforcement that «environmental extremists» pose an increasing threat to security and to the energy
sector.
When the administration of Bush II decided that it wasn't going to regulate CO2 emissions in the electric utility
sector, it also postponed an important
debate over the form those regulations will ultimately take, a
debate with key implications for climate equity.
As battle lines are drawn in the
debate over whether Britain should leave the EU, the legal
sector is beginning to take sides, with both pro and anti-Brexit groups of lawyers campaigning in the run up to the June referendum.