Sentences with phrase «of scarce dollars»

In light of the benefit growth under current law — which greatly outpaces the growth in available revenue — it is far from clear that further net increases are a wise use of scarce dollars, particularly since broad - based expansions can be quite costly.

Not exact matches

In many cases the costs of use and adoption have a lot more to do with the calculated allocation of scarce personal time and precious resources rather than with just dollars and cents.

«The Liberals need to immediately scrap their policy of funneling scarce healthcare and education dollars into private sector projects and start using the Pacific Carbon Trust to lower the carbon footprint of schools and hospitals,» said Dix.

From the perspective of Forward, financial support of Haredi families not only diverts scarce dollars from the more deserving Jewish poor who recognize the imperative of «egalitarianism,» but also encourages what economists term «moral hazard,» the subsidizing of economically and socially dysfunctional behavior.

Proactive frameworks undoubtedly guarantee the stability of states and anchor judicious use of scarce resources as elections don't come cheap anymore considering that the 2017 Kenyan election is regarded as one of the most expensive elections in the world costing the Kenyan Government $ 499 million dollars.

Major challenges include convincing lab chiefs that higher paid staff scientists are as good an investment of scarce grant dollars as lower paid postdocs or graduate students.

► «The next CEO of Australia's leading research agency, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), is in hot water after suggesting the cash - strapped organization spend scarce research dollars investigating water divining, or dowsing.»

With researchers facing ever - stiffer competition for scarce research dollars, advisers to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) are urging the agency to dust off an old idea for improving its peer review process.

In short billions of dollars, scarce human resources, and lots of young lives are at stake.

If you train a different lens upon all this, however, you realize that you're looking at a badly messed - up system, one that privileges some kids over others, that extends rights to some citizens that others don't have, that invites finagling by both seekers and suppliers of educational services (and countless intermediaries), and that ends up being costlier than it needs to be, not to mention sitting substantially beyond the reach of policymakers seeking to apportion scarce education dollars across multiple legitimate causes, needs, and priorities.

Such studies often unleash stinging rebukes of administrators and teachers for spending scarce dollars on expensive machinery that fails to display superiority over existing techniques of instruction and, even worse, is only occasionally used.

And although the factory model has never benefited more than half the students, particularly those from low - income backgrounds, government still invests most of its scarce R&D dollars (for high schools) in trying to make it better.

Today, billions of taxpayer dollars are being diverted from the nation's public schools to charter schools and with those funds has come a growing crisis of so - called education entrepreneurs who are using some of those scarce public funds to line their own pockets.

Renaissance Academy Charter School of the Arts School Leader Dr. Donna Marie Cozine said: «Our school budget is spread thin, forcing us to spend our already scarce dollars on the cost of a building and its repairs.

By suggesting paying superior teachers more for their efforts, the report acknowledges that some teachers are better than others, thus destroying the union's notion that all teachers are worthy of our love, admiration and scarce taxpayer dollars.

The pro-Common Core, pro-Charter School group has even hired Malloy's chief adviser, as well as Malloy's former press secretary, to run their PR campaign in support of Malloy's plan to divert even more scarce public dollars to charter schools companies.

These contract provisions seek to protect union members at the expense of students and the cost - effective use of scarce tax dollars.»

«Given that we've got expertise right here in the district, I don't see a need to spend our scarce dollars to bring in more out - of - state consultants,» Juhnke said.

If he were truly concerned about the waste of scarce resource, s he would be demanding an investigation of why his administration approved a no - bid contract signed by his hand - picked superintendent of schools, a contract that is now wasting precious Bridgeport and state tax dollars.

We want to prioritize the very limited and scarce state dollars to schools that are either achieving at a high level, rapidly improving or doing great work in communities of exceptional need.

But the idea of funneling scarce taxpayer dollars away from public schools to pay for private school tuition has a way of bridging political divides.

When our state education officials impose an educational program that does nothing to develop our children's intellectual abilities, intentionally mislead parents about what the law on testing permits, then waste scarce taxpayer dollars, not on educational services, but rather on a media blitz to further snow the public, we know that they do not have the best educational interests of our children in mind.

Malloy claims that his «initiative» is providing Connecticut's 30 most struggling school districts with another $ 132 million in state aid, but the truth is that this year's increase is only about $ 45 million and that in order to get those funds, school districts were required to accept a series of new mandates and programs aimed at further implementing Malloy's corporate education reform agenda and diverting scarce public dollars to private companies.

Lindsay Sobel, Massachusetts executive director of the teacher leadership group Teach Plus, said the teachers she works with are concerned that Massachusetts could «open itself up to redirecting scarce dollars from their classrooms to the creation of an unnecessary new test.»

It is bad enough that Malloy is wasting millions of dollars in scarce taxpayer funds to push the Common Core and its unfair «SBAC» Common Core Test, but it is even worse that Malloy and his administration have been lying and misleading parents about their fundamental right to opt their children out of the new tests.

Additionally, all schools outside of New York City are denied access to state facilities funding and are therefore forced to pay rent or mortgage, and spend scarce dollars on building maintenance — something other public schools do not have to do.

The time is now for policymakers to stop wasting hundreds of millions of dollars, and thousands of school hours, on a useless standardized testing scheme; and to instead invest our scarce public dollars in programs that actually ensure that public schools are have the capacity to support and prepare students to have more fulfilling and successful lives.

[Polis» proposal being that in the face of scarce public funds, more and more taxpayer dollars should get diverted away from the public schools, and instead be used to subsidize schools like the ones he is involved in].

Meanwhile, as Achievement First, Inc. continues to claim that they need the scarce funds from New Haven in order to help the City, the company stays mum on its multiple relationships with the billions of dollars associated with the corporate education reform industry.

In reality, the Malloy administration's entire maneuver was nothing be a farce designed to, once again, mislead Connecticut's students, parents, teachers and taxpayers about the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) testing scheme, and the fact that the tests are wasting millions of dollars in scarce public resources and turning public schools into little more than testing factories.

However, what has remained relatively secret is that Bronin's PR person is a well - paid adviser for Families for Excellent Schools, the New York based charter school industry group that spent more than $ 1 million lobbying Connecticut legislators on behalf of Governor Malloy's proposal to divert millions of dollars in scarce state funds so that Bridgeport and Stamford could get new, privately owned, but publicly funded charter schools --- one of which will make former Capital Prep Principal Steve Perry very rich.

Michelle Rhee is infamous for pouring tens of millions of dollars money into the local political process to try and force local officials to shift scarce public funds from their public schools to the privatized corporate education reform model.

Funneling money through a variety of different organizations and front groups, the charter school advocates have been able «transform» public education in Connecticut by promoting Malloy's plans to divert hundreds of millions of dollars in scarce public funds to privately owned and operated charter schools.

Providing the Support Principals Need and Want As the instability of federal, state, and local funding sources increases, school districts play a pivotal role in establishing priorities based on scarce budget dollars.

In addition to the millions of dollars that Commissioner Pryor wasted on out - of - state consultants and his successful effort to divert hundreds of millions in scarce taxpayer funds to Connecticut's charter school industry, another one of Pryor's controversial actions was to hire his close personal friend and former Newark aide, Adam Goldfarb, to serve as his chief of staff.

Their failure to reveal the truth about a parent's right to opt their children out of the Common Core tests is leaving local school officials and parents twisting slowly in the wind as the multi-billion dollar Common Core SBAC testing scam continues to suck up scarce public funds.

This denial of facilities funding resulted in huge funding disparity and forces charter schools to pay rent or mortgage, and spend scarce dollars on building maintenance — something other public schools do not have to do.

Wright's suggestion, for example, that complaint - based impoundment followed by lethal injection is an efficient use of scarce tax dollars is demonstrably false.

«We are skeptical that a significant amount of carbon would ever be sequestered in this manner, and don't believe this is where scarce public research dollars devoted to energy should be spent.

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Meanwhile, President Obama has decided to use scarce budget dollars to further harm the sick and injured who may already be suffering directly because of his budget.

But, is this separation the best use of our scarce correctional dollars.

Opting not to undertake expensive and time which would cost millions of dollars, many of these cash financial settlements with patent trolls sacrificing scarce resources that should have to providing needed public transportation to move people to their jobs, school to providing needed public transportation to move people to their jobs, schools, and places of worship.»

People paid hundreds of dollars for little stuffed animals because they had limited distribution — they were scarce.

Many residents fretted about the influence of foreign dollars on the city's limited housing stock, but although good data was scarce, experts figured foreign buyers accounted for about 5 percent of home purchases.