Sentences with phrase «other public priorities»

Rather than focusing on simply raising the level of funding made available for education (and the tradeoff of other public priorities required by such an approach), we should view our productivity failure as a signal that we need to alter education's incentive structure.

«If the project is funded by skimming property tax revenue that would have been collected anyway, that's a plain old subsidy that comes at the cost of other public priorities in the city budget.»

Heastie said the higher taxes on millionaires would generate sufficient revenue for the state to increase funding for schools, the aging, infrastructure and other public priorities.

Not exact matches

We believe the treatment of bond investors by Detroit and Stockton represents the bleeding edge of a trend that accords a higher priority to some public expenditures over others.

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«We've got enormous gravel demand on the horizon for the Gateway Project and other public building priorities moving forward,» said Mike Proudfoot, spokesman for the Ministry of Transport, who expects the Pitt River Bridge / South Perimeter Road to enter Environmental Assessment as soon as this summer.

For some homebuyers access to good public schools is crucial, while for others safety is the top priority.

My goal would be to both ensure that those who depend on the program are protected, while also balancing the growing cost of Social Security with other pressing priorities — from programs for children, the vulnerable, public investments, and shoring up our education and worker retraining systems.

In the women breastfeeding in public debate, it is the health of children everywhere that should take priority, not the «sensitivities» of adults who are perfectly capable of looking the other direction.

So yesterday the SNA went to Capitol Hill for a «national day of action» to protest the block grant proposal, and it was joined by a number of prominent congressional Democrats, the Food Research & Action Center, the Center for Science in the Public Interest, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and other advocacy groups.

So at a time when the public services that pensioners and others rely on are under strain, it can no longer be a priority to continue paying the winter fuel allowance to the wealthiest pensioners.

She added other priority areas such as energy sector especially renewables as well as infrastructure sector such as roads, railways, ports, airports, public housing and real estate development, manufacturing and Industry, mining industrial salt, gold, bauxite and iron ore and tourism, ICT and in the financial services sector especially equity financing.

Six hundred county and town highway superintendents, public works commissioners and other highway industry professionals are expected to swarm the halls of the Capitol and Legislative Office Building in Albany March 3rd & 4th to urge the Governor and state lawmakers to make the maintenance and repair of local roads and bridges a top priority in the state budget.

Clinton used the first public rally of her presidential campaign to align herself with the liberal wing of the Democratic Party, saying she wanted to ease income inequality and would push for expanded paid family leave, universal preschool and other liberal priorities.

ALBANY, NY (03/04/2015)(readMedia)-- ALBANY, NY - Six hundred county and town highway superintendents, public works commissioners and other highway industry professionals swarmed the halls of the Capitol and Legislative Office Building in Albany March 3rd & 4th to urge the Governor and state lawmakers to make the maintenance and repair of local roads and bridges a top priority in the state budget.

NEW YORK — Hillary Clinton used the first public rally of her presidential campaign to align herself with the liberal wing of the Democratic Party, saying she wanted to ease income inequality and would push for expanded paid family leave, universal preschool and other liberal priorities.

Schwarz and Benjamin also wrote a letter, which is joined by more than 20 other prominent New Yorkers, urging candidates for the New York State legislature to make public financing a top priority next year.

Proposing a $ 4.2 - million state ask and offering an eleven - to - one ratio of private to public dollars, the JM Development Group LLC project involves almost four times as much capital as the other four Ulster County projects on the regional priority list.

He said the extra money raised by the initiative, which was announced alongside a package of other green measures, would be spent on «priorities such as public transport and the environment».

«We can see that senseless and wasteful cost overruns on construction projects are destroying New York City's subway system and harming other public infrastructure priorities,» Sampson said.

Martin Kettle in last week's Guardian warned the Lib Dem leader that pursuing an elected Lords would be (i) unlikely to succeed, (ii) would make passage of other Coalition policies more difficult and (iii) would risk the Lib Dems looking like a party remote from the public's bread and butter priorities.

But he and members of other good government groups are putting a priority on strengthening FOIL in other ways, including passing a law that would mandate the payment of attorneys» fees to a plaintiff when a court finds that an agency had no «reasonable basis» to deny access to a public record.

Citing polls showing that the majority of the U.S. public does believe that climate change is taking place, Holdren said the real problem is that the issue isn't as urgent as other concerns that many people have: «We need to be more in the business of persuading people this needs to be higher on their priority list.»

HUD has an adaptation plan in place to assess those risks and prepare public housing, home lending and other programs for the challenges of climate change but it seems unlikely Carson would make that a priority.

Influenza remains a major health problem in the United States, resulting each year in an estimated 36,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations.4 Those who have been shown to be at high risk for the complications of influenza infection are children 6 to 23 months of age; healthy persons 65 years of age or older; adults and children with chronic diseases, including asthma, heart and lung disease, and diabetes; residents of nursing homes and other long - term care facilities; and pregnant women.4 It is for this reason that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that these groups, together with health care workers and others with direct patient - care responsibilities, should be given priority for influenza vaccination this season in the face of the current shortage.1 Other high - priority groups include children and teenagers 6 months to 18 years of age whose underlying medical condition requires the daily use of aspirin and household members and out - of - home caregivers of infants less than 6 months old.1 Hence, in the case of vaccine shortages resulting either from the unanticipated loss of expected supplies or from the emergence of greater - than - expected global influenza activity — such as pandemic influenza, which would prompt a greater demand for vaccination5 — the capability of extending existing vaccine supplies by using alternative routes of vaccination that would require smaller doses could have important public health implicatother long - term care facilities; and pregnant women.4 It is for this reason that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that these groups, together with health care workers and others with direct patient - care responsibilities, should be given priority for influenza vaccination this season in the face of the current shortage.1 Other high - priority groups include children and teenagers 6 months to 18 years of age whose underlying medical condition requires the daily use of aspirin and household members and out - of - home caregivers of infants less than 6 months old.1 Hence, in the case of vaccine shortages resulting either from the unanticipated loss of expected supplies or from the emergence of greater - than - expected global influenza activity — such as pandemic influenza, which would prompt a greater demand for vaccination5 — the capability of extending existing vaccine supplies by using alternative routes of vaccination that would require smaller doses could have important public health implicatOther high - priority groups include children and teenagers 6 months to 18 years of age whose underlying medical condition requires the daily use of aspirin and household members and out - of - home caregivers of infants less than 6 months old.1 Hence, in the case of vaccine shortages resulting either from the unanticipated loss of expected supplies or from the emergence of greater - than - expected global influenza activity — such as pandemic influenza, which would prompt a greater demand for vaccination5 — the capability of extending existing vaccine supplies by using alternative routes of vaccination that would require smaller doses could have important public health implications.

The AAS further endorses the report's key recommendations on optimizing instrumentation for, and offering broad access to, the full suite of public and private telescopes; on developing the capacity to further investigate Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) discoveries; on identifying the facilities needed to realize other decadal survey priorities; and on continuing technology development and astronomer training needed for the future.

Competition from charters and other schools of choice is one proven way to do that, so continuing to grow alternatives to traditional public schools should remain at the top of our priority list.

First, you published an article on a topic that entails conflicting priorities in setting goals for public good, policy constraints in achieving these goals, the science of learning, distribution of wealth, and doubtless other complexities that I'm too exhausted to identify and enumerate.

In other cases, it has involved turning elements of civil society and the private economy into arms of government policy — by requiring compliance with policy goals that are foreign to many civil - society institutions or consolidating key sectors of the economy and offering protection to large corporations willing to act as public utilities or to advance policymakers» priorities.

A task force of Ohio foundations and other grantmaking organizations is calling on state leaders to improve public education by adopting five broad, ambitious policy priorities.

Along with the cuts, among the steepest the agency has ever sustained, the administration is also proposing to shift $ 1.4 billion toward one of President Trump's key priorities: Expanding charter schools, private - school vouchers and other alternatives to traditional public schools.

The Local Wellness Committee will update or modify this LWP based on the results of HOPE COMMUNITY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL's annual self - assessment, the USDA triennial administrative review, and on other variables, including if / when HOPE COMMUNITY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL's health priorities change; the community's health needs change; the wellness goals are met; new health science arises, new technology emerges; and new federal or state guidance / standards are issued.

We continuously study priority issues, inform the public and policymakers and engage citizens, business leaders, families, students, and others in a shared mission to move Kentucky to the top tier of all states for education success.

Teachers are very concerned that the ministry's plans for CSIS are far ahead of any discussion and debate within the educational community about appropriate uses, necessary safeguards, and costs relative to other priorities in public education.

Today, we focus on informing the public and policymakers, studying priority issues, and engaging business leaders, families, students, and other citizens to demand educational excellence and equity from the earliest years through postsecondary education.

The health insurance program for low - income people consumes 17.6 percent of Utah's budget, hurting the state's ability to fund other priorities such as public schools, said Herbert, sounding a theme popular among conservatives.

Some of our other public policy priorities include:

Without the benefit of any public hearing, S.B. 2 would overturn decades of giving priority to funding of neighborhood public schools by adopting the «money follows the child» concept which shifts taxpayer money away from traditional public schools to charter schools without requiring these charter schools to meet the same accountability standards as other public schools.

Political challenges and other education priorities have also led to slower progress toward implementing additional evaluation policies, particularly the use of student growth measures based on state assessments in evaluating teachers.59 60 States have responded to public backlash by decreasing the weighting of value - added scores or other student growth measures in teacher evaluation ratings.

Since 1983, the Committee has worked to study priority issues, inform the public and policy makers about best practices and engage business leaders, families, students, and other citizens to demand educational excellence and equity for all children, from their earliest years through postsecondary education.

In contrast the privately funded non-profit HCZ, promise zones are high poverty urban, rural and tribal communities designated by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (H.U.D) to connect and partner with local leaders and receive federal funding aimed at «improving educational opportunities, leveraging private investment, increasing economic activity, reducing violent crimes, enhancing public health and addressing other communal priorities.»

In selecting communities to participate in the program, the statute requires DOT to give priority to those communities where (a) average air fares are higher than the air fares for all communities; (b) a portion of the cost of the activity contemplated by the community is provided from local, non-airport-revenue sources; (c) a public - private partnership has been or will be established to facilitate air carrier service to the public; (d) improved service will bring the material benefits of scheduled air transportation to a broad section of the traveling public, including businesses, educational institutions, and other enterprises whose access to the National air transportation system is limited (e) the assistance will be used in a timely fashion; and, (f) multiple communities cooperate to submit a regional or multistate application to consolidate air service into one regional airport.

The importance of work zone safety is a priority when exposed to the hazards of the motor public as well as other construction equipment.

K - 12 should be a major priority for public libraries — which should work closely with school librarians — but let's not neglect others.

Section 507 sets forth 10 categories of unsecured claims which Congress has, for public policy reasons, given priority of distribution over other unsecured claims.

If you have access to public transportation, you may wish to put other priorities ahead of the car note until you can afford to pay up.

Stopping the abuse of short selling is a an announced SEC priority, and it is considering other rules including more public disclosure of short trades.

Consider, too, whether some groups will have priority over others (members of the public, shelter staff, shelter volunteers, pro-active transfer / rescue partners, reactive transfer / rescue partners, etc.).

The safety of our Veterans, family, friends, the public, other animals, and our trainers is our number one priority.

While some never expected it to match up in that regard — it's a title from a very small team that has consistently made physics a top priority, and are only just now dipping their feet in the tricky console pool — the gaming public are likely to compare the game unfavourably to other, more established titles.