Sentences with phrase «promised national funding»
The long promised national funding formula for schools will only work if there is sufficient money in the system to start with.
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Hammond's commitment to find the funds for Brexit preparations stands in sharp contrast to promises made by the Leave campaign before last year's referendum, which had assured Britons that leaving the EU would leave the country with hundreds of millions of pounds more a week to spend on other priorities such as its rickety National Health Service.
NDP promises include a two point cut in the small business tax rate (already implemented in the budget by the Conservatives); extension of the accelerated capital cost allowance for two years (also already implemented by the Conservatives); an innovation tax credit for machinery used in research and development; an additional one cent of gas tax for the provinces for infrastructure; a transit infrastructure fund; increased funding for social housing; a major child care initiative; increasing ODA funding to 0.7 per cent of Gross National Income (GNI); and restoring the 6 % annual escalator to the Canada Health Transfer.
After promising, to ensure that Nigerians across the country receive basic primary healthcare — so they won't have to pay so much out - of - pocket, he did it with the National Assembly's passage of the stipulation that 1 % out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund must go towards funding primary healthcare in the 2018 budget.
[76] At the conference, Miliband pledged to focus on six national goals for Britain until 2025, including boosting pay, apprenticeships and housing; a mansion tax and levy on tobacco companies to fund # 2.5 billion a year «time to care» fund for the NHS; a commitment to raise the minimum wage to # 8 or more by 2020; and a promise to lower the voting age to 16 ready for elections in 2016.
Promises to increase funding for SureStart, and additional subsidised childcare addressed women's concerns, and the investment in a National Care Service offered help to women who are more likely to be carers.
Most educational leaders accepted the fact that with Bush's national economic collapse — and the promise of anti-recessionary funding when Obama come into office they would not fight the State's pull back of funding through the GEA.
The Trump administration is considering drastically slashing several national security agency budgets to fund the president's long - promised border wall, according to a leaked budget draft.
On National Homeless Persons» Memorial Day, a coalition of faith leaders, advocates and housing providers gathered at the State Capitol in Albany to demand the Governor keep his promise to fund thousands of units of supportive housing for the homeless in communities across New York State.
This would raise money, he said, to fund the promised new national care service so it can cater properly for the needs of the rapidly ageing population.
The pledge card, which mirrors New Labour's initiative in 1997, will promise free party membership for trade unionists, the building of 1m new homes over the course of a parliament, an increase in the minimum wage funded by a cut in employers» national insurance, a cost - of - living test for every policy item and a cabinet minister to «take action for the consumer against rip - off companies».
He is also courting prominent national Republican donors and plans to hold fund - raisers in the Hamptons and in Palm Beach, Fla., in the weeks ahead, raising the stakes in what promises to be an extended intraparty battle.
He said the Government had added «more to our national debt than even Labour managed in 13 years» and criticised the decision to promise to retain a funding formula that favours Scots over the English.
Meanwhile, at the national research agencies, some relatively recent initiatives are giving promising early career researchers their own funds and lab space, to foster their independence.
As a consequence of its promise for elucidating basic science and its huge potential for meeting pressing human needs, the nascent field is growing as universities, funding agencies, and national governments pour money into new research centers, research networks, and conferences.
Clinical trials that charge enrollees to participate are ostensibly aimed at giving patients early access to promising therapies — often in the fields of stem cells or aging reversal — that are too unusual or have too little profit potential to get funding from traditional sources such as companies, foundations, or the National Institutes of Health.
The U.S. National Institutes of Health sees promise in cave fish as well, having agreed to fund the work of several cave fish biologists.
My next goal is to obtain promising data that I can use to secure long - term funding from a government agency such as the National Science Foundation or the National Institutes of Health.
«This study opens a promising new avenue of research into treatments that may prevent the development of epilepsy,» said Vicky Whittemore, PhD, a program director at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, who oversees the grants that funded this study.
Titanic international projects that are just kicking off, including the National Science Foundation - funded Ocean Observatories Initiative and Southern Ocean Carbon and Climate Observations and Modeling project, promise to pile on reams of new data and knowledge in the coming years — not all of it expected to be postcard pretty.
They have nearly $ 100,000 from the U.S. National Science Foundation for a one - year «design study» that was enough to pay for telescope time through November 2009 and hope to obtain another year of funds to seek promising results to justify additional grants.
Obama has promised to loosen the restrictions and double National Institutes of Health Funding over 10 years.
In the letter, Kevin Courtney, acting general secretary of the NUT, listed three appeals to avoid action: to fund schools sufficiently to cover increased staff costs; to tell academies thatchy must at least have regard to the national terms and conditions; and to promise meaningful talks to look for a full resolution of the dispute.
An assessment of text connectives for early primary school students, as well as a five - week intervention that demonstrated promising results, are part of the products of this project.Funding source: The Vocabulary Instruction and Assessment for Spanish Speakers (VIAS) project was a 5 - year program of research funded through grants from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) and the U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences (IES).
Further details were announced in the Chancellor's Autumn Statement, with the promise of a national rate for each pupil, with extra funding for those with additional needs.
Good Morning ICYMI: National Review article on Gov. Edwards» proposed funding cut to the Louisiana Scholarship Program — «Governor Goes After School Vouchers, Despite His Campaign Promise»
The controversial National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ)-- created by the conservative Thomas B. Fordham Institute and funded (in part) by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as «part of a coalition for «a better orchestrated agenda» for accountability, choice, and using test scores to drive the evaluation of teachers» (see here; see also other instances of controversy here and here)-- recently issued yet another report about state's teacher evaluation systems titled: «Running in Place: How New Teacher Evaluations Fail to Live Up to Promises.»
ICYMI: National Review article on Gov. Edwards» proposed funding cut to the Louisiana Scholarship Program — «Governor Goes After School Vouchers, Despite His Campaign Promise»
About NewSchools: NewSchools Venture Fund is a national nonprofit that finds, funds and supports promising and innovative education entrepreneurs, teams of educators and education leaders.
Labour MP Diana Johnson, who previously promised to flag the financial mismanagement of free schools to the National Audit Office, said it was «irresponsible» for the government to «waste money on a chaotic free school funding system that is simply not fit for purpose».
As Texas Aspires Chairman and former Texas Education Commissioner Michael Williams said, «It saddens me to see the representatives of a civil rights group become so embattled in the national politics of education that they fail to see the promise of more funding for all public schools or the great work so many charters are doing with students of color».
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Obama's signature education program, Race to the Top, had states competing for funds in exchange for promising education reforms, and it sparked feuds on these issues across the U.S. Even so, many teachers say they support Obama and both the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association have already officially endorsed him.
NewSchools Venture Fund is a national nonprofit that supports and invests in promising and innovative education entrepreneurs and leaders, and helps them accomplish their missions to achieve outstanding results for the schools, students and educators they serve.
NewSchools Venture Fund is a national nonprofit that supports and invests in promising entrepreneurs and teams of educators who want to reimagine learning.
Despite the many challenges that remain (especially the question of funding the new initiatives in a time of fiscal restraint), Rothman is optimistic that the opportunities for cross-state partnerships created by national standards hold promise for generating real changes in classroom instruction.
NAESP urges the President and Congress to make annual incremental increases to federal funding for special education so it can ultimately fulfill its promise to fund 40 percent of the national average per - pupil expenditure for students receiving IDEA services.
Sources: The sources of data provided on state pages include: state departments of education (enrollment numbers), the AFC Growth Fund (voucher / tax credit data), The Center for Education Reform (charter school data), the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), the America's Promise Alliance (dropout data), and the National Governor's Association (contact information.)
The National Resource Center on Charter School Finance and Governance also offers a plethora of related materials, including a resource clearinghouse, profiles of promising best practices, and a catalog of federal funding sources.
NewSchools Venture Fund is a national nonprofit that finds, funds and supports promising and innovative education entrepreneurs, teams of educators and education leaders.
There is not a single similar institution in the U.S. — oh, you might point to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, managed jointly by Bechtel and Battelle (oil pipelines and «clean coal» - FutureGen projects), but they get their funding slashed every year, more or less — and they cancelled their most promising biofuel program, algal biofuel, back in 1997 — good luck with that.
The fund will partner with existing investment funds and our National Laboratories to ensure that promising technologies move beyond the lab and are commercialized in the U.S Require 25 Percent of Renewable Electricity by 2025: Obama will establish a 25 percent federal Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) to require that 25 percent of electricity consumed in the U.S. is derived from clean, sustainable energy sources, like solar, wind and geothermal by 2025.
Realizing the Promise of Home Visitation: Addressing Domestic Violence and Child Maltreatment: A Guide for Policy Makers Family Violence Prevention Fund (2010) Presents recommendations for building a strong national policy framework to maximize the effectiveness and reach of early childhood home visiting programs and to ensure that Federal home visiting policies directly address the needs of mothers and children who are experiencing or at risk of experiencing domestic violence.
The Gift of Adoption Fund is a national 501 (c) 3 that inspires adoptions by giving grants that put adoption in reach: in reach for the 140 million children worldwide in need of families, for qualified parents yearning to adopt, and for those of us who want to do something concrete to move a child from a dire situation into a life of hope and promise.
In addition, several investigator - initiated research projects were funded to support applied research relating to home visiting services that show promise of advancing knowledge about the implementation and effectiveness to improve life outcomes among mothers, infants, and young children.9 This issue includes more details on this home visiting research network in the article by Anne Duggin and colleagues, «Creating a National Home Visiting Research Network.»
Early childhood education has long been on the back burner of economic priorities, but the proposed legislation, combined with the shifting national dialogue is showing that political leaders across the aisle are quickly viewing early learning as one of our nation's most promising tools for economic growth,» said Kris Perry, head of the national First Five Years Fund.
She said that after they'd secured partial funding from NAR, she was able to get local donors to increase their promised contributions by telling them a national organization had signed on.