Sentences with phrase «of scarce public resources»

«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.

At a time when Ofsted and the Government are holding schools more accountable for the Pupil Premium, it will also help schools to ensure that they are making the most of their funding at a time of scarce public resources.»

Put another way, as long as they pay their $ 127 to bring a motion, parties can litigate away without regard for how their conduct is affecting the use of a scarce public resource...

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«Scarce public investible resources have eluded sports.This is further compounded by misallocation, lack of transparency, poor asset management and an absence of a framework for measuring impact of public spending.

Rationing is an organized effort by a public or private institutions (e.g., Medicare or a private insurer) to equitably limit the availability of some desired or needed medical treatments in the name of preserving the economic sustainability of the institution as a whole or equitably distributing a scarce resource.

Today's report by the Public Accounts Committee into the National Audit Office's report on Managing the costs of clinical negligence in the NHS concludes the Government has been sluggish in its response to these predictable rising costs which are taking scarce resources away from frontline services and patients.

«It is, therefore, unfortunate and ridiculous that the government which has caused monumental pains to the civil servants and their relations could commit the very scarce resources of the state in buying over 143 pages (so far) of the Leadership newspaper of October 19th and 20th 2017 editions to mislead the reading public that his government is not owing salaries of civil servants.

QUENCHING SOCIETY»S THIRST Freshwater is becoming a scarce resource in much of the world, including Yemen, where residents get water from a public tap.

Athena Ballesteros, who leads work on climate finance for the World Resources Institute think tank, said, «If this meeting will help contribute to the goal of coordinating countries plans and actions to mobilize the $ 100 billion pledge, that would be most welcome, and part of the conversation is to find innovative sources of finance that would complement the scarce public resources being made availablResources Institute think tank, said, «If this meeting will help contribute to the goal of coordinating countries plans and actions to mobilize the $ 100 billion pledge, that would be most welcome, and part of the conversation is to find innovative sources of finance that would complement the scarce public resources being made availablresources being made available.»

In an obstructive response to increased competition for scarce public resources, public school officials may attempt to block the growth of charter schools by limiting access to buildings and information, adding burdensome bureaucratic requirements, or supporting legislation that would hinder the development of such schools.

By shifting funds, public attention and scarce organizational and budgetary resources away from schools and into the coffers of the testing industry vendors, the futures of poor and minority children and the schools they attend get compromised.»

In recent decades, public - private partnerships (PPPs) and private providers have emerged as major forces in education in the less - developed and developing worlds, often supplying the lion's share of education services where scarce resources have crippled state - run schooling.

They promise to strengthen public education by making it more accountable for student achievement, more attentive to the wishes of families, and more innovative in its use of scarce resources.

Changing governance arrangements clearly can make a difference in the way urban public school systems function, but such a strategy requires the right combination of ingredients - committed and skilled leadership by the mayor, willingness to use scarce resources, a stable coalition of supporters, appropriate education policies, and a cadre of competent, committed professionals to implement the reforms.

«Instead of diverting scarce resources from existing public school classrooms and spending it on unaccountable charter schools for a few students, we should be investing more in the innovative public schools we already have,» Mary Lindquist, president of the state teachers union, said in a news release in response to the signature turn - in.

Other major donors to Luke Bronin's campaign for mayor of Hartford is New Haven charter school activist Alex Johnston who, as the original head of ConnCAN, consistently pushed for diverting scarce public resources from public schools to the privately owned, but publically funded charter schools.

Considering Connecticut's biggest corporate executives are determined to see their policies adopted, no matter how wrong that are, it will be interesting to see if the new Executive Director of the Connecticut Council for Education Reform reverses herself and joins the call for charter schools or if she is able to sit down with her organization's members and explain why shifting scarce public resources from district schools to charter schools is not the solution for closing Connecticut's achievement gap.

Obama's «Race to the Top» policy — the brainchild of Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, the former «CEO» of Chicago Public Schools — further codifies high - stakes testing by allocating scarce federal resources to those states most aggressively implementing these so - called accountability measures.

NSBA Executive Director Thomas J. Gentzel said, «Voucher programs, including North Carolina's Opportunity Scholarship Program, rob public schools of the scarce resources available to provide an education to the majority of America's schoolchildren.»

Art Rainwater, former superintendent of the Madison Public School system, says providing quality education with scarce resources is a challenge facing superintendents across the board.

The following column is the third in a series of some of the key public policy issues that our elected officials must address as they grapple with the allocation of scarce resources.

The CTA takes the inherently political view that more of scarce taxpayer resources should be devoted to education rather than other needed government services, such as parks or public safety.

Feeding on the fears and desires of parents and communities to improve their education system, many of these «education reformers» are little more than white - collar crooks, stealing and wasting scarce public resources.

The truth is that the SBAC is a colossal waste of time and scarce resources and it should be dropped as a vehicle to label and punish students, teachers and public schools.

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.

From the moment Stefan Pryor arrived in Connecticut, the Malloy administration's education policy has been consistently designed to destroy local control, belittle and demean teachers, reduce parental involvement, undermine our public schools and divert scarce public resources to out - of - state consultants and carpetbagging staff.

Her efforts were largely focused in her home state of Michigan, where 80 percent of state charter schools are run by for - profit entities with little transparency around how those schools spend public money, and charter and traditional schools are wasting scarce resources competing for students.

In addition, Littman traces the relationship to no - nothing policy makers who have allowed scarce public resources to be squandered on the make - a-fast-buck industry that has been the foundation of Malloy's education reform effort.

Malloy, like newly sworn - in Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, has been a consistent supporter of efforts to privatize public education by turning over scarce public resources to charter schools despite the fact that these schools discriminate against Latino students, students who need help learning the English language and students who require special education services.

Places in desirable public schools are also scarce resources: an opportunity to attend some school is not the equivalent of an opportunity to attend the most desirable school in the area.

«The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation believes that data - driven, spatially explicit strategies for land conservation are the best means of insuring that scarce public and private resources are invested wisely and efficiently.

This manual aims to help public and private sector planners, developers and designers, as well as the management and operating staff, in the tourism sector to conceptualize and recommend options for energy systems, design and management, that minimize the consumption of scarce energy resources and reduce the energy system's environmental impacts.

Based on the model outputs from 1960 to the present, policymakers and the public would be better served by rejecting the alarmist scenarios A and B; instead, moving forward, base all adaption and mitigation policies on Scenario «C», which would likely produce better outcomes with superior allocation of scarce resources.

As a result of the scarce judicial resources, judges must make decisions about how to best use these resources if the public system wants to maintain its position as the primary system in adjudicating civil disputes and in driving the development of civil case law.

There are no special circumstances in this case that justify the use of scarce judicial resources to resolve the appeal: it will not have a practical effect on the rights of the parties; it does not entail an important issue that might independently evade review or of which a resolution is in the public interest; and the appeal is not of jurisprudential importance.

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.»