Sentences with phrase «inform the public spending»

The research will also inform the public spending review in 2017.

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First, it spends a majority of its time educating lawmakers, including giving classes to government staffers on how to send cryptocurrency transactions or informing congressional hearings of public blockchains» potential to create a better society.

In 2013, the Twitterati helped nudge Bitcoin into the public consciousness as both a controversial new investment and a punchline; kept investors informed as the Nasdaq suffered an unprecedented, hours - long meltdown; and posted live updates as legislators failed to reach a spending deal and shut down the federal government for 16 days.

«We believe that it is necessary to keep the public informed of key votes and let the taxpayers be aware of how elected officials spend our money.

If the success of a representative democracy hinges on the informed consent of the governed, it is critical that the public know as much as possible about the information used and the processes by which its representatives spend tax dollars and act on policy recommendations.

One Senator, Tom Croci of Long Island, said he did not attend because he disagrees with the governor's decision to tell lawmakers about the budget before informing the public about how taxpayers» money would be spent.

We want to see a more accurate and public record of spend so that it can properly inform strategy and decision making.

Gallivan said previously that public money will likely be spent on the stadium if it is built, so the public should stay informed.

The Welsh Liberal Democrats are huge supporters of the South Wales Metro system, but believe money would be better spent on an information campaign that informs and consults with the public.

To agree to the expectations of the Corbyn leadership would mean spending the next four years saying something which their colleagues, commentators and informed members of the public would know to be untrue.

«Billions of dollars in spending lacks key details that would better inform the public about how their tax dollars are being spent,» the comptroller noted.

One senator, Tom Croci of Long Island, said he didn't attend because he disagrees with the governor's decision to tell lawmakers about the budget before informing the public about how taxpayers» money would be spent.

«However, billions of dollars in spending lacks key details that would better inform the public about how their tax dollars are being spent.»

In sum, clear majorities of uninformed respondents want their districts to spend more, but when respondents are told current expenditure levels, they take those amounts into account — an indication that public thinking on expenditures would change if residents were better informed about actual fiscal practices in their schools.

Informed respondents were also more likely to support decreasing public school spending.

Forget about the hundreds of hours that children have already spent prepping or the absurd Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Field Test and forget that instead of informing towns that only 10 % of their students need serve as rat labs for this test, Malloy and Pryor decided that ALL Connecticut public school students should be used a guinea pigs — test subjects for a testing that will run from March through June — all without the approval of their parents.

Obama was partly home schooled and spent high school in an elite private boys school, and I think it informs his attitude toward public education.

«This NAO report provides a challenging judgement on the work of this government in meeting its responsibilities around evidence - informed and impactful spending of scarce public resources in education, particularly around the improvement and retention of the existing teaching workforce.

Those findings are consistent with the 2013 Education Next survey, which found that 63 percent of uninformed respondents wanted to increase public school spending but only 43 percent of informed respondents agreed.

Imagine, the question informs voters that the Governor's legislation «takes essential steps to close Connecticut's worst - in - the - nation achievement gap, raise standards for educators, allows immediate action to improve failing schools, increases access to high - quality public school choices, and improves how education dollars are spent.»

It is run by the state, it has clearly worded and publicly accessible statutes and rules, it shows publicly the odds of winning, it also shows the distribution of all wins, it informs the public and the overseeing public authorities how the revenues are spent, it even shows the statistics of each drawing (and cumulative statistics) going back several months.

Waxman was particularly dismayed that the EPA was running an ad on Spanish - language radio stations across the nation to inform the public about the president's environmental initiatives, using federal spending to cast the bill in a favorable light on public radio.