Sentences with phrase «poor quality fund»

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Many high quality hedge funds have difficulty raising assets because they do a poor job of articulating their message to the marketplace and their strengths are underappreciated or unnoticed.

«In a horrible, truly worst - case scenario, a high - quality bond index fund is still less risky over the course of a year than stocks are in one day,» says the investment adviser Allan Roth, founder of Wealth Logic in Colorado Springs, alluding to the 20 percent decline in the Standard & Poor's 500 - stock index on Oct. 19, 1987.

By adopting secular standards in organization and fundraising, and by relying heavily on extra-ecclesial funding, [the church] has vastly expanded its capacity to assist the poor and to offer high - quality services.

To name a few additional struggles: we have to compete with the richest league in the world where every team has money and isn't begging for transfers of their best players to fund themselves (8/20 of the highest valued teams), we have a poor injury record that is being addressed, we have far fewer homegrown talents in our league, the overall league quality is higher even if the highest teams are not of the quality of other top teams, selling of our best players during the past decade has lead to a lack of momentum and yes, there has been times where our manager got it wrong.

The pro-school funding group Alliance for Quality Education, in a statement, accused Cuomo of «perpetuating educational racism and economic inequality» for not including billions of additional dollars to comply with a decade - and - a-half-old court order to fully fund schools in poorer school districts.

The Alliance for Quality Education, a statewide coalition of education groups including teacher unions, contends that all additional state financial assistance allotted to districts in 2016 - 17 should be distributed according to the state's «foundation» formula, which gives extra weight in funding distribution to districts with students who are poor or non-English speaking.

She spoke at a press conference Monday organized by the Alliance for Quality Education, an activist group that pushes for more state funding for schools and has said that the current funding distribution favors wealthy, white districts over poor areas with people of color.

The rally comes as a study released by the teacher union affiliated Alliance for Quality Education finds that under Governor Cuomo, funding inequality between rich and poor schools has grown wider.

The pro school funding group Alliance for Quality Education, in a statement, accused Cuomo of «perpetuating educational racism and economic inequality» for not including billions of additional dollars to comply with a decade - and - a-half-old court order to fully fund schools in poorer school districts.

Chad comes to us from the Alliance for Quality Education where he served as Statewide Campaign Coordinator, working with small cities and poor rural areas to ensure adequate school funding regardless of zip code.

This short of the $ 1.5 billion education advocates like the Alliance for Quality Education say is necessary to provide more equitable funding for poorer schools deemed to be in high - needs districts.

The Alliance for Quality Education's Billy Easton says New York has fallen far behind in carrying out an order issued eight years ago form the state's highest court saying schools, particularly the poorest districts, deserve billions of dollars more in state funding each year.

The rally comes as a study released by the teacher union - affiliated Alliance for Quality Education finds that under Cuomo, funding inequality between rich and poor schools has grown wider.

An investigation into how patient outcomes are assessed in clinical trials has revealed a worrying lack of consistency, raising concerns about funding being wasted on the acquisition of poor quality data.

Web pages that look sloppy, messy, or poor quality usually indicate that people haven't spent enough time, effort or funds on making their website look as good as it could.

In this country where critics and the public often cite the low quality of education, especially for the poor, localized funding for public schools and a proliferation of expensive private schools creates a vast divide between poorer and richer students» schools.

We need to see specific, well - funded strategies that prioritize the poorest — especially girls — , improve the quality of learning and reduce the literacy gap so that education becomes meaningful and universal.»

For example, the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act allocates additional funding to school districts with a high percentage of low - income students, who are more likely to have poor educational outcomes for reasons unrelated to school quality.

The bill also eliminates goals and performance targets for academic achievement, removes parameters regarding the use of federal funds to help improve struggling schools, does not address key disparities in opportunity such as access to high - quality college preparatory curricula, restricts the federal government from protecting disadvantaged students, does not address poor quality tests, and fails to advance the current movement toward college - and career - ready standards.

The poll found that 85 percent of voters say states should take action to correct differences in the quality of education within the state, and 84 percent say their states should adjust school funding to ensure greater fairness between wealthy and poor communities.

This school building was replaced thanks to government funding but too many are still of poor quality, says Riba

ATL general secretary, Dr Mary Bousted, will tell the Sub-Committee that schools» careers advice and education has been hit by a lack of funding following the Coalition Government's abolition of the Connexions service in 2010, there are too few apprenticeships and too many of those that exist are poor quality, and employers need to provide more work experience.

As the state defaults in its responsibility to fund education, most school districts in Texas, and especially property - poor districts, are unable to deliver the quality education that all students deserve.

Working in some of the poorest, most challenging rural places, the RSCT involves young people in learning linked to their communities, improves the quality of teaching and school leadership, advocates for appropriate state educational policies, and addresses the critical issue of funding for rural schools.

This school building was replaced thanks to government funding but the report says too many are still of poor quality

We agree with Senator Corman and most strongly urge the legislature to hold public hearings on the impact that inadequate and inequitable state education funding has on educational opportunities available to poor minority children and on schools» ability to offer all students quality CTE opportunities.

Private school vouchers often fund poor quality schools.

Because voucher programs lack accountability and oversight, vouchers often fund poor quality schools, including those that employ teachers with no credentials, are operated from dilapidated buildings and lack proper facilities, and often teach questionable curriculum.

Publicly funded pre-K is often touted as a means to narrow achievement gaps, but this goal is less likely to be achieved if poor / minority children do not, at a minimum, attend equal quality pre-K as their non - poor / non-minority peers.

The credit quality of securities in the Fund's portfolio is derived from Moody's and Standard and Poor's.

Valuations aren't actually a huge deterrent — but unfortunately, the real stumbling block has been (& still is) the quality of individual corporate management / governance... London - listed funds / companies have generally disappointed in terms of compensation & related - party transactions, capital allocation & fund - raising, and (most of all) management's poor quality of execution.

The source of the «troubles» that have made the draft 72.34 (2d) to be of poor quality is an agreement between CGSB and a government department, to create a draft 2nd edition for submission to the Council within an unreasonably short time, in exchange for funding.

They came up with $ 4.5 billion in additional funds to support the swaps and convince the counterparties (a number of European banks), whose poor quality loans were «insured» by the swaps, to hold off on taking further action.

Concrete actions by policy makers, already practised in many counties, are: matching paid parental leave to the rate and duration observed in Scandinavian countries; providing adequate public funding and developing tax policies that allow parents to make appropriate child - rearing choices, paying greater attention to children from poor or diverse backgrounds; integrating child care and early education under one ministry or agency and thereby enhancing quality, qualification requirements, accessibility and affordability.

New Jersey The Schumann Fund for New Jersey Early Childhood Development: We support efforts to heighten the chances of academic and social success for young children, especially the urban poor, by supporting programs and policies that provide high quality early childhood education and care to children from birth to eight years old.