Sentences with phrase «lack of local support»

Another Kingwood resident active in the art community who also sees a lack of local support for the fine arts is Terrence Boggs.

State Superintendent Paul G. Pastorek acknowledged that lack of local support was a likely factor in the state's final score, but he said he does not want to water down any of the state's proposals in order to garner more buy - in for a round two Race to the Top bid.

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The research showed that while 84 per cent of secondary schools and 56 per cent of primary schools offered some form of counselling services for students, almost half said that a lack of local services and knowing what support is appropriate hindered their provision of support.

This unwillingness is strange, for the local church offers many of the pastoral - care facilities lacking in the broadcast organizations: continuity of interpersonal relationship, group support, the possibility of extended personal counseling, and the sacramental and interactive aspects of worship.

Lack of support form local media.

The excitement of watching mainly local lads playing for the local team, that all the family supported, made up for any frustration caused by the lack of success.

The scheme developed out of networking between the manager of the two Children's Centres, Suzy Turner - Jones, and the local homeless families unit, where residents were complaining of isolation and a lack of support when leaving the unit.

-LSB-...] about how fortunate we are that formula is adequate to sustain life now, or perhaps even bemoan the lack of support women have for establishing and sustaining breastfeeding, or discuss the local milk bank or milk -LSB-...]

It is also possible that the unique health care system found in the United States — and particularly the lack of integration across birth settings, combined with elevated rates of obstetric intervention — contributes to intrapartum mortality due to delays in timely transfer related to fear of reprisal and / or because some women with higher - risk pregnancies still choose home birth because there are fewer options that support normal physiologic birth available in their local hospitals.

These misunderstandings, perhaps the result of incomplete or absent education about normal infant behavior or lack of availability of local breastfeeding support, often cause a mother to perceive a breastfeeding or lactation problem that may not actually be present.

Her complaints about the lack of money available to her show that she either hasn't realised, or wishes to bypass, the hard slog of winning the support of hundreds of local people required to deliver leaflets for, and donate to, your campaign.

«So we're hoping that this infusion of dollars along with the support, with training and technical assistance and capacity building, that this'll really enable local people who might not otherwise be able to purchase one of our properties because of the lack of financing, the lack of know - how, this will help build that capacity.»

The Countryside Alliance believes a vibrant countryside needs five key changes and calls on the Government to: SERVICES — Ensure an accessible and reliable rural transport and broadband network HOUSING — Promote local solutions to the lack of affordable rural housing EDUCATION — Enable all children to gain a practical understanding of the countryside FARMING — Support British farmers and producers COUNTRY PURSUITS — Repeal the Hunting Act and champion country pursuits For more information or to arrange interviews please call the Countryside Alliance press office on 0207 840 9220 or 07500 834 163

HOUSING: Promote local solutions to the lack of affordable rural housing EDUCATION: Enable all children to gain a practical understanding of the countryside FARMING: Support British farmers and producers COUNTRY PURSUITS: Repeal the Hunting Act and champion country pursuits SERVICES: Ensure an accessible and reliable rural transport network

Another cause of fraud is the historic lack of central support and monitoring exercised by government over local administrations.

KINGSTON, N.Y. — David O'Halloran, who resigned last week as vice chairman of the Ulster County Republican Party, said the lack of GOP support for his plan to bring video lottery terminals to his Kerhonkson resort shows the party is less interested in helping local businesses than it is in looking for a «white knight» to ride in and save the county's economy.

The least poorly funded schools tend to be rural schools in low income rural areas with an insufficient local tax base to support them and with high costs associated with a lack of economies of scale and large transportation costs for students.

«While offering free college tuition to low - income families is laudable, the reality is that many students» paths to college are limited because their local K - 12 public schools lack the resources to support them,» said Jasmine Gripper, Legislative and Policy Director of the Alliance for Quality Education in a statement.

Corbyn said he accepted a share of responsibility for the loss of Copeland because he was party leader, but said the lack of local alternatives to jobs in the nuclear industry, inadequate rail services to Cumbria and a long - term decline in Labour support in the seat were to blame.

Wander of the Dragons was probably made on a lower budget than Double Dragon: Neon, a game which also supports local co-op only (for now), so the lack of online multiplayer shouldn't be too much of a surprise.

The main reason here is a local one: Whilst Radijojo gets significant funding from national level, it always lacks the support needed on local level; which constantly endangers the work of Radijojo as a whole.

Ray Barker concludes: «BESA discovered that the key reasons for schools» failure to effectively implement learning platforms were lack of guidance from local authorities, not enough training for teaching and support staff, and concerns over access for pupils without a computer and internet connection at home.

Thirty - one per cent of school leaders said that the most common barrier to finding support was due to lack of local services and 28 per cent put it down to budget constraints.

But he argues that the Obama administration erred by adopting a narrow definition of reform and by seeking to implement that definition universally, even where local support was lacking.

They struggle with the public's lack of understanding regarding their local school board's purpose, but maintain the public's support for local education governance.

Despite the lack of research to support such programs, a number of local and national initiatives are providing impetus for principal pay - for - performance plans.

Josh Lipshutz, a plaintiffs» lawyer, attempted to undercut her, by referring to an interview she gave to a local newspaper in which she stated «Teachers have expressed a lot of frustration with the lack of support they received from the district administration.»

The «overwhelming» majority of heads (93 per cent) said this was simply because there were more children with mental health issues — but 77 per cent reported that a lack of support from local authorities or mental health services was another factor.

The local working - class people of BASD are shouldering the cost of charter schools due to the state's lack of financial support and lack of desire to correct the problems.»

The best professional learning for teachers helps them acquire, practice, and apply new skills to better serve their students.2 But despite annual investments of $ 18 billion by federal, state, and local agencies into professional learning for educators, many teachers still do not receive the kind of professional learning that helps them grow and improve their practice.3 Less than one - quarter of teachers say that they have changed their instruction as a result of professional learning, likely in part due to the lack of a consistent professional learning strategy across states and school districts.4 Learning Forward, a nonprofit association dedicated to supporting professional learning for educators, contends that the current state of professional learning is one of «inertia.»

«For the 10th consecutive year, Americans named lack of financial support as the biggest problem facing their local schools,» said Thomas J. Gentzel, Executive Director, National School Boards Association.

The Court said that «public school students are entitled to equal enjoyment of the right to education, and a system of school financing that relied on local property tax revenues without regard to disparities in town wealth and that lacked significant equalizing state support was unconstitutional.

(District of Columbia) Cognizant of the lack of support states and local school districts have in confronting behavioral problems among students with disabilities, the U.S. Department of Education is planning to open a new national center devoted to interventions aimed at keeping disruptive students in the classroom.

1 - Lack of support for epub, if I want to lend a book from my local library.

While you can import books in certain other formats, most notably Adobe's PDF, the lack of support for ePub means that you generally won't be able to comparison shop for e-books and in many cases, you won't be able to use the Kindle to read e-books you've checked out from your local library.

The 501 C 3 nonprofit organization supports local rescues and shelters, taking in dogs that have been waiting for extended periods to find a home, dogs that have been returned multiple times and dogs that are struggling in the shelter environment due to fear and lack of socialization.

«Right now the travel industry lacks education about community - based tourism and how larger tourism companies are taking a way too bigger share of profits that could, and should, be going to supporting local people and projects, especially in developing countries.

Plans since to complete the building never really get much support for reasons of either cost or lack of local enthusiasm.

Split - screen multiplayer supports two players and performs well as it retains the speed and graphical fidelity of the single player with all of the tracks, bikes and race options available for selection providing for an entertaining local multiplayer experience, although it is essentially a port of the split - screen multiplayer found in the PS4 version of Ride as it lacks refinement in comparison other than the inclusion of wet weather and no camera angles being removed.

On Sunday, a visitor to the Perez Art Museum in Miami smashed one of Ai Weiwei's painted vases in an apparent act of protest against the city's lack of support for local artists.

Due to the esoteric nature and hybrid aesthetics of their graffiti - based paintings, and limited by their disparate locations around the globe, they had no way to band together and find an audience to support them because of the lack of enough interest within local communities.

Due to the esoteric nature and hybrid aesthetics of their graffiti - based paintings, and their disparate locations around the globe, they had no way to band together or find an audience to support them because of the lack of enough interest in their local communities for their esoteric and singular aesthetics.

The SAB finds that the EPA did not support quantitatively its conclusion about lack of evidence for widespread, systemic impacts of hydraulic fracturing on drinking water resources, and did not clearly describe the system (s) of interest (e.g., groundwater, surface water), the scale of impacts (i.e., local or regional), nor the definitions of «systemic» and «widespread.»

However a lack of knowledge, information and practice of sustainable forest management means the potential of forests to support these communities, help local businesses and create sustainable jobs remains largely untapped.

However, the ethos of MCA 2005, coupled with the guidance in RP and the PLO, suggests that local authorities are going to have to be more proactive than they have been historically in identifying those parents who may lack capacity and thus require social work support in their own right.

Unfortunately, due to the lack of interest from local commuters, Bitcoin support has now been removed.

Mothers were eligible to participate if they did not require the use of an interpreter, and reported one or more of the following risk factors for poor maternal or child outcomes in their responses to routine standardised psychosocial and domestic violence screening conducted by midwives for every mother booking in to the local hospital for confinement: maternal age under 19 years; current probable distress (assessed as an Edinburgh Depression Scale (EDS) 17 score of 10 or more)(as a lower cut - off score was used than the antenatal validated cut - off score for depression, the term «distress» is used rather than «depression»; use of this cut - off to indicate those distressed approximated the subgroups labelled in other trials as «psychologically vulnerable» or as having «low psychological resources» 14); lack of emotional and practical support; late antenatal care (after 20 weeks gestation); major stressors in the past 12 months; current substance misuse; current or history of mental health problem or disorder; history of abuse in mother's own childhood; and history of domestic violence.

The evidence bears out that greater success can be achieved through a state and community - based approach to early childhood systems building than it can when there is a lack of effective two - way communication, local buy - in, and state supports for local partnerships.

The debate is not about being a little more adventurous, like me perhaps, who owns a Mac and an iPhone, despite the lack of any support from my local real estate board.

S. 1813 (passed 74 - 22 on 3/14/12) NAR letter (supporting local - control amendment) H.R. 7 (withdrawn from floor consideration in February 2012 due to lack of support) Transportation For America Coalition Statement (on Passage of S. 1813) Transportation For America Coalition Comparison (of Senate and House Bills) NAR Transportation Policy