Sentences with phrase «priority than funding»

It is important to note that the announcements encourage new collaborations, which are given higher priority than funding for existing partnerships.

Not exact matches

Forbes: Finance and Investing Donor - Advised Funds: Sustainable Giving for Any Market Charitable giving is one of the highest priorities for Americans, with research showing that people would sooner cut back on travel and eating out than significantly trim the support they provide to their cherished causes.

The peak industry group, which represents more than 60,000 businesses across manufacturing, engineering, telecommunications, mining, airlines and related sectors, will caution the Turnbull government against large cuts but call for careful spending reductions across aged care, health, the pension system and the public service to fund a company tax cut as a key priority.

About 71 % say it's more important for Congress to approve a budget agreement that would avoid a government shutdown than to defund Planned Parenthood, 22 % say it's a bigger priority to eliminate the organization's federal funding.

«As fiduciary of the state pension fund, securing sound investments for the more than one million members, retirees and beneficiaries is my first priority.

Along with the Victory Sports athletic and health complex, the council is requesting funds for more than 30 priority projects, including three other projects in Cayuga County.

We've talked about the # 2.5 bn Time to Care fund [to fund new NHS staff] but I think the priority next year for us is going to be putting money into more doctors and nurses rather than pay.»

Mayor Bill de Blasio unveiled the first executive budget of his tenure on Thursday, a $ 73.9 billion spending plan that manages to fund his political priorities without widespread agency cuts or tax increases, thanks to higher - than - expected revenues and spending from two reserve funds.

WASHINGTON (CNN)- President Obama's budget director told CNN's John King the spending bill before Congress right now is «uglier than we'd like,» but insisted the administration had little power to change it - and little choice but to support it, to preserve funding for key White House priorities.

► «If more African scientists are needed to solve Africa's health challenges, then where better to train those scientists and where better to make the funding decisions that have an impact on health research priorities than in Africa?»

The road map brings national priorities in line with the European Commission's nascent 7 - year funding scheme, Horizon 2020, in part because France hopes that its researchers will score better in that program than they have in previous E.U. funding rounds.

He says that the budget crunch has contributed to his decisions on what to cut, and that his institute's priority should be to fund research proposed by investigators, rather than programs designed by the NIH.

For each of these 2 categories, median priority scores were significantly less favorable and lower percentages of applications were funded than for nonclinical applications (P <.02).

Considering all applications together, as well as each type of application, median priority scores were less favorable and the percentages of applications funded were lower for applications with human subject concerns than for those without concerns (Table 4).

However, median priority scores (254.0 vs 244.0) and funding rates (23.9 % vs 28.1 %) were less favorable (P <.001) for R01 applications for clinical research (n = 7227 applications) than for nonclinical research (n = 10 209).

In each of the 4 density groupings, median priority scores and funding rates were less favorable for clinical than for nonclinical applications (P <.05 for each).

During 2 funding cycles in 2002, applications involving human subjects tended to have less favorable median priority scores and less funding success than applications not involving human subjects.

Considering all applications together, median priority scores were more favorable for MD applicants (P <.001) and a higher percentage of MD applications was funded (P <.001) than for non-MD applications.

However, even among R01 applications with no human subject concerns, median priority scores were less favorable (P =.003) and a smaller percentage were funded (P <.001) than R01 applications not involving human subjects.

There were also in - school challenges, such as limited funding to support professional learning, difficulty in taking time away from teaching, and leadership or management not supporting teachers who wanted to access subject - specific learning rather than something that was a strategic priority for the school.

The Legislative and Executive branches of government are in a far better position than the Judiciary to determine funding needs throughout the state and priorities for the allocation of resources.»

Our district is funded $ 20 million less than the average school district in Kentucky based on per pupil spending for our size but our focus on the right priorities such as instructional coaches allows us to continue to improve academic gains.

But if funding levels can be considered one measure of priorities, it's clear that the emphasis is on teachers after they're on the job rather than the training that gets them there.

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.

More than half the schools in England's priority building scheme do not have guaranteed funding, it has emerged.

For parent engagement advocates, California's new Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) was a significant victory because it made parent engagement one of eight statewide priorities and holds districts to a higher standard than in the past.

Although the state is in a much stronger fiscal situation now than it was in 2012, the phasing out of Prop. 30's revenue boost would mean fewer resources available in the coming years to fund California's various priorities.

Some members of the State School Board contend federal funding accounts for less than 7 percent of the state's overall funding for education so the state should not be boot - strapped to federal laws that conflict with state law, rules or priorities.

In its most recent report on spending on education, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities finds, «Thirty - five states provided less overall state funding per student in the 2014 school year (the most recent year available) than in the 2008 school year.»

A new national funding formula will mean money will go directly from central government to schools, rather than priorities being set locally.

His new attacks on public education include taking $ 17.1 million out of traditional public schools, which will curtail extended day and summer programs in needy school districts, make universal preschool impossible, not fund priority districts as promised and at less than last year, and limit aid for transportation of students.

Starving the schools 250 — decline, in dollars, in per - student K — 12 funding in North Carolina for fiscal year 2015 from 2014 («Most states still funding schools less than before the recession,» Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Oct. 16, 2014) 14.5 — percentage reduction in per - pupil spending in...

The campaign, launched earlier this month, draws attention to the more than 1 million student names on charter school waitlists across the country and asks Congress to continue making funding for charter schools a priority.

More than three - quarters (77 %) of the 69 consultants surveyed said target - date fund reviews are the top priority over the next year for their plan sponsors clients, closely followed by an evaluation of investment fees (73 %).

Make this small fund your top priority, and it shouldn't take much more than a month or two to do it.

Therefore, proposals that seek funding for neuter - before adoption projects are likely to receive a lower priority score than projects that are likely to reach new target populations at high risk for contributing to cat and dog overpopulation.

@Rolf W Jr: Putting the funds towards the game rather than a physical copy is our priority.

It could be that the fragile agricultural / distribution (energy intensive) food supply, energy procurement / production / distribution infrastructure, quality of basic life skills education, and social «getting alongness» between the various religions, countries, and «independent» peoples are larger here and now priorities than a new world wide hedge fund modeled carbon trading scam that will make ZERO impact on the weather and climate we live within for generations.

However, the United Steelworkers (USW), which represented Indalex's unionized workforce and certain pension beneficiaries, and a group of former executives receiving pension benefits, argued that Indalex's obligation to fund its pension wind - up deficiencies ranked higher in priority than Indalex's obligation to repay its debtor - in - possession (DIP) financing.

Those consequences often fall on the Americans who fund the government through taxes in the form of higher interest rates (more on this in a minute) and more government spending on debt rather than priorities like roads or health care.

For example, PPF (Public Provident Fund) will give you better returns than these kind of Endowment Plans (if safety of capital and tax benefits are your priority).

For example, PPF (Public Provident Fund) will can offer you better returns than these kind of Endowment Plans (if safety of capital and tax benefits are your priority).

This would involve establishing priorities and deploying funds appropriately at the regional and local levels rather than relying on parameters set, often through rigid and generic program guidelines, at the national or state level.

Fund - raising is still a constant priority for Spencer, who raised more than $ 100,000 last year alone.

Real estate funds trying to market themselves to high net worth investors should be aware that these individuals often have different priorities than institutional money sources, according to participants in the C...