Sentences with phrase «debates about funding»

Numerous articles weigh in on the political and academic debates about funding universal pre-K, but the more interesting and basic question at hand is what we're asking of pre-K.

That is the fiscal year currently underway so that bill did not require debates about funding.

Over the years, there have been debates about the funding of the region and whether budgetary allocations are being spent judiciously.

He further advocated that the issue of cultural security and the barriers that Aboriginal people face in using health services are important in any debate about funding Aboriginal primary health care.

Not exact matches

«That does not mean we can't have a debate in Britain about the level of funding of public services,» he said.

Many people argue about what needs to come first in order to create an entrepreneurial community — ideas or capital — but it's a chicken - and - egg debate, says Brad Whitehead, president of the Fund For Our Economic Future, a program that pools funding for entrepreneurs from various philanthropic organizations across Northeast Ohio.

This paper will suggest that fund size segmentation yields important insight into the debate about the viability of the venture model and that smaller funds with less than $ 250 million of committed capital are the answer to better alignment and outsized returns.

I have never been even remotely an expert either on iron and steel production or on the Australian economy, but recent action in the iron ore markets and a vibrant debate within Australia has, in the past three weeks, set me up for several planned and unplanned meetings with Australians — some old friends, some fund managers and bankers, some government officials — who remembered some of the comments I made a few years ago about Australia and iron ore and who wanted to discuss future prospects.

While the debate about the future of chatbots remains speculative, Times Internet - funded Haptik is confident that whether it becomes a niche feature or a paradigm shift, the technology is here to stay.

While debate continues over who knew what about the G8 Legacy Fund and when (or at least who said what about who knew then), opposition members of the government operations

There are no shortage of issues that I hope will be the focus of debate in this election (urban sprawl, inner city schools, regional amalgamation, and others that I plan to write about over the next six months), but the one issue that may have the potential to create a major wave is the Katz Group «s desire to have the City of Edmonton to fund $ 400,000,000 for a new downtown arena.

Just 2 weeks ago, over $ 300 million worth of Tether was created which brought up another debate about the legitimacy of the funds.

Today, most participants in the debate about welfare reform» at least those outside the realms of the ACLU and the Children's Defense Fund» agree with Olasky that the government has not and can not offer this kind of effective compassion, and that consequently we must enlarge the role private charities play in the lives of the underclass.

There is room for debate about how comprehensive the safety net should be, and whether it is best funded and managed by local or national governments or by private voluntary agencies.

There has also been a lot of local debate about whether global activist funds will increasingly eye entering the Australian market.

As I explained in that post, students of color are the largest demographic served by the National School Lunch Program, yet their voices often go unheard in Congressional debates about how the program is funded or should operate.

Some might conclude that a funding shortfall on this scale means that the political debate we need to have is about the sustainability of the NHS.

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«Of course, we need an intelligent debate about the future funding of HE, especially given the current constraints on public finances.

One could frame the debate in the advantages of using less fossil fuel, which range from lower costs to people (an all electric car has operating costs about 1/4 that of a gasoline vehicle), to balance of payments (less capital flowing out of the country, especially relevant to countries who import most of their oil), to terrorism (not funding it, and western influence leaving the ME, which is the basis of most ME terrorist organizations) to conflict in general (most of the major conflicts in the last 30 years have involved ME oil), to finite supply (when we run out, we'll be facing a global economic meltdown).

The debate about how to provide long - term funding for the subway is part of the continuing conflict between Mr. de Blasio and Mr. Cuomo over how to tackle the transit system's woes.

«If my kids are riding on a school bus and the school bus needs brakes and I have the money to fix that, I'm gonna fix it,» responded Dietl, to a question from debate panellist Gloria Pazmino, a Politico New York reporter, about whether the candidates would fund half the MTA emergency action plan and support a potential congestion pricing proposal.

While her goal ostensibly was to establish a dialogue with the Board of Education, she also brought with her information about the various debates surrounding education law and funding in Albany.

An education bill is sparking debate about how universities receive performance funding and lawmakers are facing an important decision about the future of the program.

A debate is unfolding about use of the so - called rainy day fund to plug part of the hole — as a way of restoring some of the social service cuts.

Republicans said nothing during the debate over the «big ugly,» which also included about $ 25.8 billion in funding for public schools, revived the 421 - a housing subsidy program, creates a new scholarship program for public colleges, included billions for water infrastructure, spurs municipal service consolidation and extended the state's expiring millionaires tax for two years.

And, inevitably, it will add fuel to the debate currently raging about both the way political parties are funded - with demands for some level of state funding - and political patronage, particularly the appointment of peers.

There is plenty of debate ongoing about the pros and cons of congestion pricing - but little discussion yet about the purpose of creating such a large flow of money — $ 1 - $ 1.5 billion a year — that logically must be a way to fund the next MTA capital plan.

Watch for heightened debate - and finally some decisions - about recurring issues: the state's Brownfield Tax Credit program, justice reforms (see below), renewing the New York City mayor's power over its massive school district, and, of course, school funding.

Federal funding of science and technology may fall short of what is needed to keep the U.S. research enterprise competitive, said AAAS CEO Rush Holt, but he also increasingly hears «concerns about what I would call an ongoing trend that goes back many years, even decades, where ideology and ideological assertions have been crowding out evidence in public and private debates and policymaking.»

► The debate about how government money should be used to fund basic research is ongoing and often heated, and this week offered two more examples.

The debate about ethics in bio and life sciences in Germany was refueled last week: While Germany's central research funding organization, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), decided to revise its position on human stem cell research, the German government is finally reacting to heated public debates about sensitive issues by establishing a National Ethics Commission.

It is the product of a long and contentious debate in Congress that included efforts to eliminate the Transportation Enhancements program (TEP), which for about 2 decades has required states to spend a small portion of their federal transport funds on 12 types of activities, including bike and walking paths, but also «archaeological planning & research,» and «environmental mitigation.»

Another reason to be positive about virtual schooling is that it opens up debates about education that go beyond narrow questions of who funds and governs it.

California Governor Jerry Brown's recent proposal to kill funding for California's troubled longitudinal data system is sparking a renewed debate about the value of data among California policymakers and practitioners.

Concerns about charter schools include them challenging the long - existing status quo (there are more than 4,000 in the U.S.); adding fuel to the debate of vouchers, markets, and choice; and affecting the funding of traditional schools, seemingly pitting charter activists against traditional school educators.

If in doing so it deprives state schools of sufficient teachers then there will be a debate to be had about how to ensure sufficient teachers of the right balance of subjects and other experience for all state - funded schools.

That question requires stepping into the debate about the relationship between student outcomes and school funding and goes beyond the evidence we present here.

Overwhelmed, dispirited, eager for distraction, I allowed myself to be dragged briefly into a Twitter «debate» about education reform that instantly devolved into familiar rants about who is or is not qualified to set standards or policy, who's funding whom, and who stands to make a buck.

Teachers will remain caught between ideologies of short - term economic efficiencies and the findings of educational research — between bottom lines and holistic student development; caught in the rough - edged cogs of funding formulae about resources and student achievement; caught by the Gonskis in the public - private funding debate; stuck between the so - far - disappointing results of national, standardised testing and teacher accountability (more effort is made to hold teachers accountable than trust them!).

The Fairer Funding Formula and High Needs Funding Formula have both generated significant debate and it is expected that there will shortly be a second round of consultation about this.

But it's also impossible to legitimately debate what the right level of public school funding should be when bureaucrats misinform the public about what public school funding currently is.

For all the policy chatter and debate out there about funding inequities (between charters and neighborhood schools is one favorite), you don't hear much talk about just how inequitable the funding gaps can be among the 15,000 or so school districts (or among schools within the same district — don't even get me started).

In the letter to appropriators, NAESP and NASSP stated that «school principals, education stakeholders and the public deserve to know how the Committee would fund federal education programs,» and urged the Subcommittee to have an «open debate about deep cuts in education funding by holding a Subcommittee markup.»

The debate is about what strings should be tied to those federal dollars, and toward which reforms the funding should be aimed.

In the recent debate over NCLB reauthorization, for example, Democratic senators sought to create a new program allowing districts to apply for funding to help teach about climate change.

The debates about tuition fees and student funding have often come back to how universities can support social mobility.

While the debate rages on about whether or not North Carolina's General Assembly actually dealt public education a financial punch in the gut with the 2013 - 15 budget, NC Policy Watch is keeping a running tally of education funding cuts that local school districts are coping with as they open up for the 2013 - 14 academic year.

It always seems the debate about education revolves around inputs (funding) and never about outcomes (results).