Sentences with phrase «more in public funds»

Illinois students, their families, and taxpayers can not afford to lose a dollar more in public funds as a result of fraud, misspending, or misdirection within the charter school system.

Other failed charters, of course, have absorbed much more in public funds.

The plaintiffs» study estimated a need for $ 1.7 billion to $ 5.4 billion more in public funding.

Not exact matches

Consistent delays can potentially taint crowd funding in the eyes of the public, Mollick says, adding that entrepreneurs need to be more realistic about their goals, and that backers need to be more patient.

What's more, the news - reading public has grown accustomed to announcements of multi-million-dollar investments over the last 15 years, a period of extremely active venture capital funding, which reached new highs in 2015.

The emergency declaration would also free up public health emergency funds at the Department of Health and Human Services, and grant individual states more flexibility in how they use federal dollars, and allow them to direct more funds toward addiction treatment and prevention.

While the Securities and Exchange Commission is attempting to ease the process of going public, recently widening the use of private draft - stage listings for example, long - term secular changes in the capital markets suggest that private funds are likely to remain equally, if not more, appealing to growing firms than public financing.

Importantly, investors must ensure they are putting money with top quartile managers, as the spread between the best and worst funds in these more esoteric strategies is much wider than that for traditional public managers.

For the university, the dealmaking complements more than $ 20 billion it already has invested in everything from public stocks to venture capital funds to real estate.

The Clinton platform also focuses heavily on education, including a call to broaden computer science education in public schools, revamp job training programs, and provide more funds for minority colleges to help tackle tech's diversity problem.

This wouldn't just be effective from a public health standpoint — every dollar invested in funding more depression and anxiety treatment options leads to a four dollar return in better work productivity, according to the WHO.

According to the now (in) famous Kauffman report last year, just 20 % of venture funds generate returns that beat a public - market equivalent by more than 3 %.

Bear in mind, the process leading up to financing is generally 30 to 60 days longer and potentially more complicated with public funding than with regular credit.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

H.B. 929 Status: Failed Relates to promotion of cybersecurity in the Commonwealth, initiates several efforts to promote economic development, research and development, and workforce development of the cybersecurity industry in the Commonwealth, creates two new matching grant funds, adds one administered by the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Investment Authority for private entities that collaborate with one or more public institutions of higher education on research and development related to cybersecurity.

Whether it's promoting the charity in general to receive more funds from the public, coordinating a large fundraiser or helping with financials, these are all very coveted skills that are sometimes more valuable than dollars.

Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund, the Public Investment Fund, which has more than $ 224 billion in assets, spent about $ 54 billion on investments last yfund, the Public Investment Fund, which has more than $ 224 billion in assets, spent about $ 54 billion on investments last yFund, which has more than $ 224 billion in assets, spent about $ 54 billion on investments last year.

All parties receive substantial public funding intended to support democracy, but it also means they are in varying degrees highly dependent on money that will disappear with a Conservative majority, making the Tories even more motivated to win and gain an advantage in the election after this one.

I believe you think we are heading for a long period of low returns, but still, with such a long investment horizon ahead of you, don't you think it could make sense to be more exposed to public equities, maybe in passive index funds, and trust the long term wealth building power of that asset class without so much attention to continuous portfolio rebalancing trying to anticipate short term returns?

Schwab Charitable is an independent public charity created in 1999 to help clients more effectively meet their charitable giving needs through a donor - advised fund account.

Financial Aid: In 2017, for the first time ever, America's public universities received more revenue from tuition than they did from tax dollars — a funding model that places a higher burden on students and their families and risks widening economic inequality, even as the population of would - be students becomes more diverse.

Making the appointment of Cohn even more of a travesty and insult to the American people, Cohn is reported to own more than $ 200 million in Goldman Sachs stock, much of it awarded to him during the company's years of selling their fraudulent mortgage investments to public pension funds.

He concluded that, based on the current stated amount of underfunding at every big pension fund, if the Dow / SPX declined 10 % or more over a sustained period of time — where «sustained period» is defined as 3 - 4 month — every public pension fund in the country would collapse.

A colleague of mine who works at a pension fund did a study last year in which he concluded that, because of the extreme degree of public pension underfunding, a 10 % decline in the stock market for a sustained period — i.e. more than 3 or 4 months — would cause every single public pension fund to blow up.

As I wrote back in October, more and more companies are opting to raise funds through ICOs instead of going public to bypass many of the restrictive rules and costs associated with getting listed on an exchange.

As long as PS Fund (along with any of its Related Persons) does not otherwise engage in (or has not otherwise engaged in) conduct that would otherwise result in its becoming an Acquiring Person by becoming the Beneficial Owner of 10 % or more of the shares of Common Stock then outstanding, PS Fund's solicitation and receipt of one or more revocable proxies from the Company's stockholders to be counted toward the number of shares of the outstanding Common Stock needed to cause a special meeting of stockholders to be called pursuant to and in accordance with the Bylaws, which proxies are given to PS Fund in response to a public solicitation of proxies made pursuant to, and in accordance with, Section 14 (a) of the Exchnage Act by means of a solicitation statement filed with the Commission on Schedule 15A, should not, of itself, cause PS Fund to become an Acquiring Person.

Hempco ® has been a bulk hemp seed processor and supplier for over a decade, and in light of the hemp industry impending growth and international recognition, what once was a small family business, realized the impending hemp industry growth, Hempco ® required large and fast funding and is now public trading, has raised approximately $ 4m and has more than $ 6m / yr in sales.

A stock buyback is basically a secondary offering in reverse — instead of selling new shares of stock to the public to put more cash on the corporate balance sheet, a cash - rich company expends some of its own funds on buying shares of stock from the public.

On the question of whether public funding for elite private schools that charge more than $ 10,000 per year per student in tuition should be eliminated, 75 per cent of respondents agreed and more than half, 53 per cent, agreed strongly.

Prior says that «as the aging population starts to jeopardise the sustainability of current healthcare funding it will place increased pressure on both public and private payers to find cheaper, more efficient ways of delivering care, and where possible reduce the need for care in the first place.»

The complete breakdown of funding between intermediaries, the closure of important segments of the capital markets and the loss of public confidence in major financial institutions were more severe than any previous event over a number of decades.

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Among them was a large number of companies seeking initial public offerings in the mainland, which had the temporary effect of locking up about 5 trillion renminbi, or more than $ 810 billion, in investors» funds.

In 2008, it went public to get more funds.

While this may be true initially for projects funded by the general public or unsophisticated retail investors, the average investment and risk in these securities will be small (i.e. max $ 2,500) enough to seriously negatively impact investor well - being, and investors will become more savvy at managing their personal portfolios and investment selections over time.

The situation is even more lamentable for the general public, which is fed a constant stream of propaganda by specialists in environmental issues from the mainstream media and well - funded alarmist blogs.

In more recent times, Catholics ran schools from the early 19th century onwards, with some public funding from the 1850s

Health care for the poor, education in the inner city, job training for welfare mothers, discipline for criminally offending youths, improvement of community infrastructure and housing, nutrition for infants, drug treatment for recovering addicts» all of these things and more require the provision of public funds and are essential to the progress we seek.

Issues of public funding become more important as the government assumes a larger role in social welfare.

Nor are all our alms given in public through community fund drives, encouraging individuals to do more than they would if appealed to privately.

Keep it at home, practice it all you want in your heart, but when it comes to voting for prayer in public school, or more military funding of Israel, make that vote with everyone in mind, not just your narrow religious world view.

About three thousand students are already benefiting from the latest wrinkle in five states, «education savings accounts,» which provide even more flexibility to families by allowing those who withdraw their children from public schools to receive a deposit of public funds into government - authorized savings accounts that can be used to pay for private school tuition, online learning programs, private tutoring, educational therapies, or college costs.

And while there have been a string of successful initial public offerings, including Healthscope's debut last week, this is not enough to counter the force of more competitively priced funds available in the debt market than the equity market for a company seeking to grow by acquisition.

Stuart says the money will help pay for more events to put the issue in the public eye, as well as fund the group's investigations into where waste occurs throughout the food chain.

Mehta acknowledged in his essay that some of this inequity is on the supply side: Schools that have the freedom and resources to adopt the techniques of deeper learning are more likely to be well - funded independent schools or public schools in wealthy suburbs or neighborhoods.

While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

• increase public funding for after - school programs • serve suppers instead of (or in addition to) snacks • recruit more school districts to provide after - school suppers and snacks • support and expand year - round participation by integrating the Afterschool Supper Program with the Summer Food Service Program • streamline and simplify the Afterschool Supper Program • serve meals during weekends, holidays and unanticipated school closures; and • improve meal quality

His international public health and development career spans five decades, including more than 30 years with agencies of the United Nations system (International Labour Office, United Nations Children's Fund, and the World Health Organization where he was the liaison officer (1990 — 2004) for LLLI), and seven years working in Turkey, Cameroon and Haiti.

After Park District officials declined an offer to feature a Nativity scene in a public park, the Thomas More Society filed a complaint and the Illinois Nativity Scene Committee lobbied to place a privately funded depiction of the birth of Jesus at North School Park.

The Chicago - based Thomas More Society, on behalf of former Arlington Heights resident Jim Finnegan, sent a letter to Park District officials and village leaders this week asking that a privately funded Nativity scene be allowed in the public North School Park.