The
overall funding pie remains the same, but $ 200 million can be pushed forward in 2014 and 2015 to fund research projects.
The
educational funding pie gets divided three ways, public, charter, and private tax vouchers which ensures no sector is adequately supported.
The ten regional economic development councils were back at it this week in their efforts to bring home as big a slice of three - quarters of a billion dollar
state funding pie as possible.
It also convinced the member states to earmark 4 % of the program's
funding pie over 7 years to a funding instrument for small businesses, inspired by the Small Business Innovation Research program that U.S. science agencies have run for the past 3 decades.
The levy credit move kind of increases the state's contribution to the pie (or at least moves the state's contribution from tax relief to education) but doesn't increase the size of the
total funding pie.
(Even low - income pet owners, who presumably would have had to share a smaller slice of the Animal Population Control
Program Fund pie, benefit from targeted TNR efforts: their neighborhoods are typically where the most community cats can be found.
During pitch competitions, entrepreneurs must go head to head with other ambitious founders to try and win a piece of
the funding pie.
While it's still getting a relatively small portion of the whole tech -
funding pie, it's a sector to keep an eye on, Jones says.
CSRs are the big brother to Departmental Spending Reviews, where ministries consider their goals over the short - and middle - term and match slices of
the funding pie to policies which — they hope — will be instruments to achieve desired outcomes.
Ricardo Letelier, professor of biological oceanography, says that although NASA used to represent a big slice of
the funding pie for university projects, that slice has shrunk in recent years.
Who's to say the engineers should receive more than a third of
the funding pie?
The commonwealth also provides funding for all school sectors, but directs most of its 30 % of
the funding pie to non-government schools.
Charter schools take a sizeable cut from
the funding pie for education in the Tar Heel state.
IDRA has contended for decades that rather than causing education advocates to fight over small slices of
the funding pie, legislators should create a larger pie that provides what is needed in all major education areas so that all students are served appropriately.
Near the apex of respectability in this microcosm are astrophysicists who think variable star and cosmic ray research should get its fair share of
the funding pie.