Sentences with phrase «levels of funding»

Bar chairman, Nicholas Green QC, asked the government for assurances as to future levels of funding, in his address to about 500 delegates at the 25th Bar conference, in London last week.

Criminal legal aid solicitors in the Australian state of Victoria are threatening to go on strike due to low levels of funding.

We recognise, however, that levels of funding are different from the structure of any fixed fee scheme.

It has some really neat rewards for various levels of funding like, heirloom seeds, a farmer dinner, digital downloads of the film, reusable totes, and even an Executive Producer credit.

Given where industry is in the process of developing these fuels, the authors said, some of these efforts — at least at the current levels of funding and personnel — may be premature.

Specific incidences include significant levels of funding since 1989 from the Kuwaiti government, foreign coal and mining corporations and Cyprus Minerals Company (totalling $ 72,554).

A majority of survey respondents disagreed that the government has done a good job funding climate science, and a large number of scientists warned that inadequate levels of funding are harming the capacity of researchers to make progress in understanding the causes and effects of climate change.

Supported by all levels of funding throughout her career she is an active community leader, the founding director of Gallery 44 and a member of the Art with Heart committee.

Essentially, kickstarter projects and their developers just need to tell everyone what will happen, up front, as best they can, at various levels of funding, especially if they have bigger plans at higher funding levels (stretch goals).

There are 7 different levels of funding to get in with, starting at $ 29, going all the way up to $ 127 for three cars with... more...

Interestingly, ComicsAccelerator will also offer a «reserve funding» option to let creators choose two different levels of funding, one just what they need to make the comic and one that would allow them to quit the day job and work on the project full time.

The implication is that the number of schools in focus will be larger, but given the funding constraints facing the government, it is unlikely that the same levels of funding, if any, will be made available to support improvement for these schools.

The pupil premium also serves to illustrate the importance of looking not only at the levels of funding but also how money is being spent.

The group is examining the relationship between state and local school funding, the levels of funding required to meet constitutional standards, and any needed policy changes that reflect the geographic diversity of the state.

While there are shortcomings to the Local Control Funding Formula that will need to be revisited in future years, we recognize that, as the new system is phased in over the next eight years, charter schools will achieve growing levels of funding equity, something we know that parents and the general public support and that charter school students clearly deserve.

Adopting a citywide, weighted student funding formula addresses two key needs: It recognizes that some students, e.g., students with disabilities, require higher levels of funding; and, for the first time, the same amount of money will follow a particular student, whether that student attends an RSD or an OPSB school.

Users can explore districts» current levels of funding, as well as the initial impact of new funding allocated in early April.

Alison Ruff, a primary teacher in Leicestershire, said: «The difference in levels of funding between rural and urban areas creates poverty in rural schools.

According to the BBC, the government has claimed that schools are receiving «record levels of funding» and that the proposed new funding formula «will distribute this more fairly».

To have Governor Scott, Senate President Negron, and Speaker Corcoran tell their version of this story, however, comes across as boastful, always touting «record levels of funding,» despite the fact that superintendents across the Sunshine State point out, most famously by Superintendent Runcie, that Florida ranks 44th in per - pupil funding.

But researchers and advocates for the poor have pointed to loopholes in Title I funding that effectively allow affluent schools to operate at higher levels of funding than low - income schools.

«It is not necessarily unfair for different schools to receive different levels of funding because some schools have higher numbers of disadvantaged children and are in areas with higher deprivation.

The government says the new formula is needed to tackle uneven levels of funding across England, with the best funded areas getting more than # 6,300 per pupil per year, while the worst - funded averaging just # 4,200 - but there are concerns that while some schools will benefit, a new formula could mean some schools in areas of need facing budget cuts.

Ms Greening said the new formula would go ahead and would address unfair and inconsistent levels of funding.

This is an important reform, which will fairly and transparently allocate funding on the basis of schools» and children's actual needs, rather than simply on historic levels of funding tied to out of date local information.

An outgrowth of decades - long debates on equitable funding of public schools is an effort to ensure that schools provide «adequate levels of funding» for all students in a state (Augenblick, et al., 1997).

The state has never conducted a study to determine if the levels of funding provided by the PSFA are sufficient to maintain a public school system that meets the qualitative standards of the Education Clause or the mandates of state education reform legislation and the Consolidated State Plan.

Too many neighborhood schools struggle to balance diverse, growing populations with recessionary levels of funding.

Education secretary Justine Greening says the old system is «unfair» as similar schools can get different levels of funding with «little or no justification».

UTLA President Warren Fletcher praised the resolution, arguing that Board member Bennett Kayser's proposal would remedy the «current degraded levels of funding, staffing and the ballooning class sizes.»

The Department for Education (DfE), which is carrying out a consultation on the changes, says schools are already receiving record levels of funding.

But the Department for Education says that schools are receiving record levels of funding and that a new funding formula will distribute this more fairly.

Even low property wealth districts are forced to levy higher rates to sustain even minimal levels of funding to support increasing populations of higher needs students.

School districts with low levels of funding and spending disparity are able to sustain appropriate levels of funding by placing that burden directly on local property tax payers.

By ruling that the state is currently providing sufficient levels of funding to meet its obligation to «make suitable provisions for a general diffusion of knowledge,» the court has put its stamp of approval on low expectations such that schools where half of the students are failing state assessments are considered to be performing at acceptable levels.

In ruling that the current levels of funding are adequate, the court has disregarded Texas children.

Program design, levels of funding and student participation vary.

Education Secretary Nicky Morgan is pushing ahead with a «national funding formula» for schools, to tackle uneven levels of funding across England.

Additionally, the acceleration of this flight would have political consequences for the strength of public schools in advocating greater levels of funding in the future.

Labour's shadow education secretary Lucy Powell says that for a national funding formula «the devil will be in the detail» and claimed that the government was stalling on revealing where schools would have reduced levels of funding.

Throughout the case, the state has maintained that schools are getting record levels of funding.

It is promoting «Teaching as a Profession» courses and, pending adequate levels of funding, investing $ 100,000 in innovation grants for targeted districts to develop plans to recruit diversity in the teaching force.

It is also estimated that the cost of dealing with such defects will double between now and 2021, even with current levels of funding because many buildings are near the end of their useful lives with most of the school estate being over 40 years old.

Doing so will free up significant levels of funding that could go to schools for educational purposes: a win - win scenario.

The group has campaigned for years against unfair low levels of funding in schools and wrote to Theresa May stating that they are «extremely concerned that the government is in danger of replacing one injustice with another».

However, the Department for Education (DfE) say that schools are receiving record levels of funding.

Most of the top education organizations have evolved to thrive in urban environments with higher levels of funding, significant philanthropy, and ready access to major talent pools.

This means that many buildings are near the end of their «useful lives», even with current levels of funding.

The new «fairer funding» proposals will not increase overall spending but look to redistribute it, so that schools with similar students from similar backgrounds receive the same levels of funding.

Before stepping down as secretary, she told Virginia's General Assembly that the «trifecta» of challenges facing Virginia public education are rising poverty rates, higher achievement expectations, and decreased levels of funding.