Sentences with phrase «outside consultants»

She said the district should consider hiring outside consultants to figure out a proposal to address some of that data.

These entities would then run the schools while being exempt for the state's laws on competitive bidding, purchasing and the use of outside consultants.

The government faced heavy criticism today for spending # 1 billion a year on outside consultants with no assessment of their value for money.

Some firms are forced to contract with outside consultants for staff training, which is just another costly expense.

Are your scientists tired of being trained by outside consultants who have no understanding of science and how it is done?

In traditional programs, counselors seek advice from outside consultants about the more difficult issues, but these consultants rarely treat students directly.

They are generally outside consultants who have exemplary expertise in a particular area.

The number of high - paid outside consultants will be sharply reduced, and the project will be broken down into smaller pieces that can be tackled separately.

I feel that he understood the audience better than other outside consultant.

Partners are more likely to «open up» to outside consultants during confidential interviews.

Attorneys who refuse to continuously pay for upgrades are forced to bring in expensive outside consultants should their billing system stop working correctly.

Not surprisingly, given the nature of the exercise, winning states relied heavily on outside consultants funded by private foundations.

«We've spent $ 2 million in the last two years on outside consultants and have nothing to show for it,» he said.

Nearly two - thirds of CEOs and almost half of senior executives do not receive coaching or leadership advice from outside consultants or coaches, the survey finds.

By asking these questions and also determining if your divorce attorney is willing to work with outside consultants, you will be in a good position to make the right choice for yourself.

These students are typically identified and evaluated by district personnel, or sometimes by outside consultants.

The Cabinet Office is also singled out for having failed to implement proper cost - benefit analysis of outside consultants in the 16 years since it first raised the problem.

Chicago Park District officials said Monday that they will consider a plan to use district employees to survey 237 parks rather than hire outside consultants for the task.

Ahead of Mr. Zuckerberg's trip to Washington, Facebook has hired a team from the law firm WilmerHale as well as outside consultants to coach him on questions lawmakers may ask, and on how to pace his answers and react if interrupted, according to people close to the preparations, who would speak only anonymously because the sessions were private.

Some, like Rep. Brian Higgins, cried foul when outside consultants determined it would cost less money to build a new station downtown than renovate the historic Central Terminal — Buffalo's original station and the congressman's preference.

«We believe that the building prioritization of retrofitting is best left in the hands of the building owner / manager, not outside consultants who seek to bundle projects and lead to higher costs for our members,» his letter said.

Outside consultants helped with strategy and research.

He said it's standard procedure for the DOT to seek outside consultants on such studies.

IBM management, the Compensation Committee and the Committee's outside consultant review IBM's compensation policies and practices, with a focus on incentive programs, to ensure that they do not encourage excessive risk taking.

Mr. Rosen, of the PR firm BerlinRosen, is perhaps Mr. de Blasio's best - known outside consultant — but the mayor's relationship with Mr. Rosen and others has been gaining greater scrutiny.

Over the past seven years, Scott's transformed the Borough President's office into a watchdog of government waste and mismanagement, issuing more than 50 reports on issues ranging from the City's runaway outside consultant spending at the Department of Education and deficient funding for the MTA to the need for fundamental reform of the New York City Housing Authority.

The goals of the Commissioner's Network appeared to be to circumvent collective bargaining agreements; to hire outside consultants such as Mass Insight; and to increase the amount of time devoted to a bewildering variety of standardized test packages and pilots (some estimate that there are 37 different standardized tests administered per student in certain grades).

He went on to make his mark in Silicon Valley by answering a call six years ago from former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, who recognized he'd have regulatory battles to wage and enlisted Tusk as Uber's first outside consultant to aid in navigating them.

Baby Friendly Hospital Consultant - Glendale Memorial Hospital and Health Center: In 2003, Glendale Memorial Hospital retained my services as its exclusive outside consultant to facilitate its successful effort to become the first hospital in Los Angeles County to be certified as Baby - Friendly by the World Health Organization and UNICEF.

Quinn, 44, a Manhattan Democrat who has expressed interest in running for mayor in 2013, has proposed $ 75 million in non-classroom cuts to education, legal services, public relations, transportation and technology, and eliminating outside consultants.

«Instead of gambling on costly outside consultants to turn troubled institutions around, de Blasio will work to partner financially - strained institutions with flagship hospitals here in the city that can help pool resources, share best practices, and improve quality of care,» he writes.

«We have real questions about the role of outside consultants advising elected officials who have public staff to provide them with strategy and communication ideas,» says Susan Lerner of Common Cause New York.

Not mentioned in the complaint, however, was that Spano's older brother, John, was a deputy commissioner of the Office of General Services just two years after Spano's lucrative outside consultant job began.

Plus, the whole outside consultant discussion has been relegated to the back burner, Brynien said.

In 2005 — 6, Fordham collected $ 244,840 in school fees while our sponsorship expenses for the year totaled $ 715,512, of which more than one - third went toward outside consultants, school - specific grants, and foregone sponsorship fees.

«The problems with our schools will not be answered by overpaid outside consultants or billionaire education dilettantes but rather by the people who actually work in our schools with our children in full partnership with the District.

Is it beyond the realm of reason to believe that he could have begun the transformation of middle schools to a STEAM curriculum at a lower cost than the current outside consultants Discovery Ed?

The county is paying outside consultant Centre for Organizational Effectiveness $ 10,000 to conduct the three meetings, county spokesman Michael Workman said.

Lead outside consultant for hospital in PA..

Provided Board and Executive reporting on budget impacts on programs, forecasted long - term funding requirements while directing outside consultants, as appropriate, for independent attestation of security audits directed.

The atypical involvement of a lobbyist and outside consultant in at least two of Pruitt's trips also led to rifts inside the EPA and objections from several top EPA aides, two sources familiar with the matter said.

He regularly advises a number of Fortune 500 companies on such issues as properly creating and preserving the attorney - client privilege and work product protections when conducting corporate investigations, when hiring outside consultants, when dealing with the government, and during other daily and extraordinary situations.

Solo practitioners have increased the use of outside consultants by 29 % and staff members other than a partner by 60 % from 2005.

The EPA's report, commissioned from outside consultants, also said that California regulators routinely failed to adequately examine the geology around an injection well to ensure that fluids pumped into it would not leak underground and contaminate drinking water aquifers.

VSCT's doctors are here for you and your pet 24 hours a day, 365 days a year because we reside locally, are not outside consultants, and do not work in multiple hospitals or locations.

Ahead of Mr. Zuckerberg's trip to Washington, Facebook has hired a team from the law firm WilmerHale as well as outside consultants to coach him on questions lawmakers may ask, and on how to pace his answers and react if interrupted, according to people close to the preparations, who would speak only anonymously because the sessions were private.

De Blasio, however, drew criticism for designating Rosen and other outside consultants as «agents of the city» — an attempt to exempt their communications with City Hall from New York's Freedom of Information Law.

Further, I know that Peter as a member of the Town Board, (not as a hourly paid outside Consultant) will contribute valuable input to the update of a Comprehensive Plan, able to give informed expertise acquired during his professional experience working in Civil Engineering and Surveying.

Facilitate completion of prior authorizations and / or referrals to coordinate care with outside consultants for additional patient care or pharmacy request.