Sentences with phrase «fewer public resources»

And school choice programs achieve these benefits with fewer public resources.
Housing is a huge unmet need with very few public resources available.
Indeed, with the collapse of manufacturing jobs in the 1970s, the area experienced a rapid onset of poverty and high unemployment, with few public resources available to alleviate economic distress.

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Think about the disruption being caused by electric and autonomous cars in automotive; by regulatory challenges in banking; by shale resources in oil and gas; and by a groundswell of public dissatisfaction in political institutions, to name just a few.
The need to address poverty's basic causes, including the unhealthy concentration of America's land and resources in the hands of so few owners — who have tended to misappropriate land values — ought to be high on our religious and public policy agendas.
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In smaller communities with few other public facilities, churches are a vital resource in that they provide a meeting (dare I say congregating) place for the locals.
«But I want to say that that task has already begun and that task is being done consistently and I believe that going forward in the next few years, no matter how we are criticized, if we stick to policy especially controlling excesses and corruption in public finance, this country will make the kind of progress that it deserves to make with all the resources at our disposal.
Draconian cuts during the red - and - green budget fiasco left the Department of Public Works with far too few resources to adequately maintain the sprawling county road system.
Hospitals in New York also have gone into overdrive against the Republican measure, saying it «would threaten health coverage for millions of New Yorkers, create a fiscal crisis for the state, and burden hospitals and health systems with fewer resources and more uninsured or underinsured patients,» said Bea Grouse, president of the Rensselaer - based Hospital Association of New York State, which represents over 500 not - for - profit and public hospitals in the state.
«The policies that dictate public and private finance are designed to remove resources from communities and cities and designed to consolidate them in the hands of a few people,» he said.
By providing readily accessible services and resources and promoting the use of models raising fewer ethical concerns, TEFOR is of major interest to support both public and private research.
These tribal members do not receive the financial benefits that some have received from PFS, and have few resources when compared with the millions of dollars that PFS is spending on lawyers and public relations.
Relatively few resources, however, have been invested in this issue in lower income settings,» says David Peters, MD, DrPH, MPH, senior author and Edgar Berman Professor and Chair of International Health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
«Few may have noticed that after Hurricane Harvey, her foundation and the Laura Bush Foundation for America's Libraries provided a combined $ 2 million for resources, supplies and books at schools and public libraries disrupted by the storm disaster.
It is an example of the so - called «deepfake» technology that uses advancements in AI to allow for the creation of convincing video - facsimiles of public figures with relatively few resources required.
A. Public institutions are feeling increased pressure as state governments raise the accountability bar and expect greater productivity with fewer resources.
A third possibility is that, so long as only a few students leave a public school with scholarships, the program could have effects on resources.
There are teachers and a brutal amount of schools that we could fit under the umbrella of innovation and then there are centers with very few resources, especially in the case public education; these have to be invented and renewed only from the good intention of the teachers for their students.
This, of course, begs the question: Why are private schools, despite having far fewer resources, able to provide significantly smaller classes than public schools?
«Rather than using taxpayer dollars to provide vouchers to a few, we must focus our resources and efforts on concrete reforms that make our public schools better for all of the District's schoolchildren.»
«Instead of diverting scarce resources from existing public school classrooms and spending it on unaccountable charter schools for a few students, we should be investing more in the innovative public schools we already have,» Mary Lindquist, president of the state teachers union, said in a news release in response to the signature turn - in.
A decision by a rural family to withdraw a child from the public school and enroll them elsewhere doesn't mean that the family disconnects from the school — it simply means that the school has fewer resources to provide the non-educational benefits critical for community members.
Voucher programs diverts desperately needed resources away from the public school system to fund the education of the few voucher students.
With fewer resources, public schools that are already struggling may be hard - pressed to sustain their infrastructure, let alone advance reform efforts designed to boost student achievement.
On tap for 2014: As public schools cope with fewer resources and fewer talented and well - trained teachers, will parents elect to grab school vouchers and run for private schools?
Their schools are small, they have one public school system for the entire country, they do not engage in competition or standardized tests, teachers make individual student success the priority and have the resources and freedom to do so, every school has the similar resources no matter its location, and all parents receive money from the state to help support each child... to name a few strategies explored.
As many public schools are facing budget cuts that lead to larger class sizes and fewer resources, many private schools are continuing to flourish.
It means talking with parents and community activists worried about children with greater needs having access to fewer resources, local business leaders concerned about protecting the critical contributions of public schools to their local workforce and economy, and many others who have a stake in public education and our country's future.
On average, charter schools enroll fewer students with disabilities than traditional public schools and they have generally not invested adequate resources to develop exemplary programs for students with disabilities.
The AFT website moves into Bizarro territory when it concludes its mini anti-choice rant by informing us that public money used to subsidize private school tuition means «less accountability for taxpayers» dollars, a false hope for a handful of kids, and fewer resources for school reforms that actually work.»
As a teacher educator and former classroom teacher, I have become increasingly concerned about the tenuous situation of the most vulnerable students in U.S. public schools — students who attend urban schools with crumbling infrastructures, few resources, and a highly mobile staff.
Today's school leaders, especially in Catholic schools, wear innumerable hats — curriculum specialist, instructional coach, advancement director, public relations officer, human resources expert, and assessment specialist, just to name a few.
«But, instead those programs and schools are likely to be on the chopping block if «Schools of Hope» passes, and instead a few millionaires who are politically connected and run for - profit schools will get our tax dollars intended for our children and the public school teachers the resources they need to do their job.»
Contrary to the claims of the powerful charter school lobby, the charter initiative has left public schools with a higher and higher percentage of challenging students and fewer resources to offer them.
These include over 500 NBCTs who are part of a collaborative managed by the Center for Teaching Quality (CTQ), thousands of alumni of NCCAT and Teaching Fellows, and a cohort of over 450 classroom experts identified a few years ago by the Department of Public Instruction to develop instructional and professional development resources.
Counting on the support from the ally, Governor Dannel Malloy, the charter school industry is intent on leaving Connecticut public schools will fewer resources and Connecticut residents with higher tax bills.
Unfortunately, those most directly responsible for improving education — state officials, school board members, administrators, and teachers — and those concerned about its success — educators, parents, policymakers, and the public — have few resources at their disposal to answer this question.
Like traditional vouchers, ESAs remove public funds from the public system, resulting in fewer resources for the 5 million + students who are still educated by public schools.
ESAs, tax credit scholarships, and other school vouchers divert scarce resources from public schools that serve all students to pay for private schools for a few.
These admission policies threaten to turn public schooling into a two - tier system where the students who need the most resources receive the fewest.
Contrary to the belief of a few, funneling public money to private schools will not fuel improvement of public education, but instead drain already limited resources and dilute broad community support for what has long been considered a valid civic function.
Vouchers undermine this vital function, however, by diverting desperately needed public resources away from the public school system to fund the education of a few students at private schools — without offering any actual reforms.
Principals have to manage, lead, and are held accountable for: common core; technology initiatives; social and emotional learning; referendum initiatives; math implementation; science implementation; special education, community outreach; reading; testing (local and state); effective instruction; transportation; public relations, parent custody issues, residency; student and staff discipline, evaluations; hiring; parent complaints; bullying; safety issues; budgeting; human resources issues; immigration questions / concerns; school safety, visibility in and out of school; championing the never ending requests and demands from the central office (one of the biggest challenges); the constantly increasing demands around social media and communications; and the barrage of emails / texts demanding immediate response 24/7, just to name a few.
The Windsor Public Library will have fewer books and more electronic resources.
The trouble is, few have the media and public relations experience and resources of a good publicity firm.
Neutering Sterilizing a pet is good for public health (fewer strays means fewer dog bites, less public resources needed for animal shelters etc.), good for a better house pet (less urine marking, tendency to fight or roam), no unwanted litters, reduced risk of many diseases, etc..
We the public; we the tax payers allow a few billionaires to ruien our planet, our resources in order to make themselves even richer.
A few days ago I was interviewed about the challenges and opportunities in reporting on complicated, but consequential, science (climate change being a prime example) for the Journalist's Resource project of Harvard's Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy.
The statement that the public must use less electricity, must travel less, and must consume fewer resources is a statement that the public must expect less of politicians and politics, and behave themselves.
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