Sentences with phrase «public spending numbers»

At the LSE event, most of the panellists argued that a degree of indicator continuity is essential to measure government performance or to track headline public spending numbers.

Not exact matches

He hires a bunch of economists and finance gurus to run the numbers on prospective deals while he spends more time talking because he receives a higher return for public appearances (and continues to increase the value of his «brand»).

In the Debate Mr Prentice tried to discredit the Wildrose by arguing that their numbers didn't «add up» and they couldn't possibly reduce public spending by $ 18 billion as promised.

And an archive will be available starting this summer where the public can view the ads and get more information on them, such as how much money was spent, the number of impressions they received and the demographics of the audience they reached, Leathern told reporters.

But facing a growing number of investigations and lawsuits, it spent millions on public relations experts, lobbyists and top - tier law firms.

I can only hope that this attempt is taken more seriously than the largely muted and clearly unsuccessful protests of late last season... although the plane writing escapade brought some much - needed attention to the matter, it failed to resonate with fence - sitters and those who had just recently fell off the Wenger truck... without a big enough showing of support the whole endeavor appeared relatively weak and poorly organized, especially to the major media outlets, whose involvement could have significantly changed what was to follow... but I get it, few wanted to turn on their club, let alone make a public display of their discord... problem is, they are preying on that vulnerability, in fact, their counting on you to keep your thoughts to yourself... who are you to tell these fat cats how to steal your money... they have worked long and hard to pull the wool over your eyes... they even went so far as to pay enormous sums of cash to your once beloved professor to be their corporate spokesmodel so that the whole thing would be more palatable... eventually the club made it appear as if this was simply a relatively small fringe group of highly radicalized supporters, which allowed the pro-Wenger element inside the club hierarchy to claim victory following the FA Cup win... unfortunately what has happened to this club can't be solved by FA Cups or a few players coming in, the very culture of this club needs to be changed and that starts at the top... in order to change the unhealthy and dysfunctional narrative that has absorbed this club we need to remove everyone who presently occupies a position of power... only then can we get back to the business of playing championship caliber football, which should always be the number one priority of this organization... on an important side note, one of the most devastating mistakes made in the final days of this hectic and poorly planned transfer window didn't have to do with the big name players like Sanchez or Lemar, but the fact that they failed to secure Jadon Sancho, who might even start for Dortmund this season... I think they might seriously regret this oversight... instead of spending so much time, energy and manpower pretending that they were desperately trying to make big moves, they once again lost the plot due to their all too familiar tunnel vision

The team spent months working through the numbers they tracked with the Square Play games and then looked at data that's never seen by the public — the exact dollar amount being wagered on every single game.

Berger, who spent 25 years working as a public school teacher and educational consultant in rural Massachusetts before joining Expeditionary Learning, clearly feels a special connection with those EL schools, like Polaris, that enroll high numbers of students growing up in adversity.

Cameron spends about two minutes reeling off horrible - sounding numbers about the level of public debt.

«The party must be careful about the implications of the failure to break through in Scotland, among public sector workers and in seats with large numbers of ethnic voters Main Cameron spent # 111 getting every extra Conservative vote»

With just four months till the September primary, candidates have begun to step up their fundraising efforts in order to pose a strong challenge to a mayor who is enjoying relatively comfortable polling numbers and is now able forge ahead with fundraising for the general election, having hit the maximum he can spend on the primary, with anticipated public matching funds.

«Having spent a number of years in public service I know what it takes to make a great elected official,» Ferrer said.

The numbers you should be comparing is spent money on public healthcare per capita to see which country actually spends more (see my comment on @blip's answer).

At a time where there is advocacy on managing Ghana's resources, this is not the time for the Akuffo - Addo Administration to pioneer the dissipation of public purse since he has been the number one lobbyist of judicious spending.

Cuomo went on to attribute the state's $ 10 billion deficit to chronic overspending by the Legislature and announced a number of fiscal austerity measures, including a salary freeze on public workers and drastically cutting Medicaid spending.

Growing numbers of English voters resent the advantages which Scotland is believed to enjoy in public spending and Parliamentary representation.

Graduation numbers are a controversial issue for New York state, which ranks below the national average in that area although its spending on public schools is among the nation's highest.

Albany, N.Y. (WBEN / AP)- New York public school students will spend less time taking the unpopular Common Core assessments that have been boycotted by large numbers of parents in recent years.

Under it, he said, educational officials trying to evaluate standards at yeshivas would be asked to consider the number of hours spent studying all topics, including religious studies, in determining whether such an education was «substantially equivalent» to secular public schools.

E.J. McMahon, president of the fiscally conservative Empire Center for Public Policy, said that the number of million - dollar earners may be up but that more and more wealthy New Yorkers are declaring themselves to be only part - year residents of the Empire State — members of the «183 club» that spends at least that many days (half a year) living elsewhere.

Turning to the economy, he says: «I don't think anyone in this room came into politics with their number one aim to cut public spending.»

But the public spending scaleback will come, accompanied by the biggest Treasury problem of all: MPs guarding their local patch, with one eye on the next election and the other on the coming selections (given the planned cut in the number of Commons seats).

Should we keep increasing total spending on education as we face a steep decline in the number of students in our public education system?

Messer, who worked for a number of years for the city Public Development Corp. — now called the Economic Development Corp. — has spent most of the campaign speaking about creating jobs and economic opportunities for residents.

But in Switzerland the number of publications is far higher than you would expect given the level of public spending.

In comparison, per - capita spending has declined over the decade in nine of the 10 states with the largest number of students enrolled in public research universities.

The authors argue that resources could be better spent getting good information to the public and collecting more data on the numbers, patterns, and behaviors of both sharks and people.

DPW Spends R53 million on Tertiary Education The Department of Public Works (DPW) continues to help increase the number of young people

And when provided with the actual numbers on salaries and spending, the researchers say, Americans experience «sticker shock» — and become much less likely to support an increase in government funding for public schools.

For example, no effort is made to show the increase in public - school spending in America during the past 30 (or 50) years, the uses to which that money has been put, the steady reduction in class size, the huge increase in numbers of school employees, and the various trends in achievement that correlate almost not at all with any of these resource trends.

In even - numbered years, when state and national elections are held, the share of the uninformed members of the public who favor higher spending is roughly 5 percentage points higher than it is in odd - numbered years, when most states do not hold elections.

Overall, the foundation is spending about $ 20 million a year to «leverage change in public education — especially in schools serving disadvantaged students — through large strategic investments in a small number of initiatives that bolster student achievement.»

For instance, a report from the Benjamin Center for Public Policy Initiatives estimated that New York State students spend about 2 percent of instructional time taking standardized tests, though that number has been criticized for being too low.

The average amount of money spent per pupil by U.S. public schools has more than doubled in real terms since 1970, and the number of pupils per employed teacher has declined from 22 to 15.

When it worked, it improved examination results and also impacted on reducing community disorder, neighbourhood nuisance, the number of NEETS (young people Not in Education, Employment, or Training), and saved the public money that would otherwise have been spent for many years on students who were now employable and would become net contributors.

Home to the largest number of public school students in the nation, California ranks at the bottom on measures of per student spending and academic performance.

In Milwaukee, the number of students using vouchers has increased sharply (see Figure 2), but the voucher itself has been worth only between 50 and 70 percent of per - pupil spending in the public schools.

And while taxpayers wait for a fuller accounting of how their public dollars are being spent at the state's largest voucher school, Trinity Christian is on track to keep their number one perch on the list of schools receiving taxpayer dollars: they currently lead the pack in the number of voucher applications for 2017.

This year's focus on public schools, which includes $ 649 million in new per - pupil funding, comes after three budgets that cut or froze public school spending, and expanded the number of families who could enroll children in private schools through taxpayer - funded vouchers.

We do spend 56 percent of our state budget on education — but that's K - 12 education and higher education combined, an inconsistency if every other number referenced in this video pertains just to K - 12 public education.

Looming over everything else has been a constant effort to get more money into the state's public schools (either through new state spending and / or through a growing number of local levy requests) and there is movement toward revamping the state's dated system of school financing.

Fallout from the public spending scandal in the southern California community of Bell has resulted in a number of bills passing out of the Legislature during the last days of session aimed at reforming pensions and salaries of government officials.

Two factors have exacerbated the funding squeeze on traditional public schools since 2010: The number of students has increased as the amount of money spent by the state decreased.

Before joining EdChoice in 2016, Jennifer spent four years running Mass Ave PR, a public relations consulting firm in Downtown Indianapolis, serving a number of public, private and nonprofit clients.

Before his election to the Senate, Senator Wiener served as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, where he authored a number of first - in - the - nation laws, including mandating fully paid parental leave for working parents, requiring water recycling and solar power in new developments, and banning public spending in states with anti-LGBT hate laws.

You are correct when you say the large numbers poor / minority (mostly) men who have spent time in our for profit prison is a failure of society at large, not solely the failure of public schools.

And while taxpayers wait for a fuller accounting of how their public dollars are being spent at the state's largest voucher school, Trinity Christian is on track to keep their number one perch on the list of schools receiving taxpayer dollars: they currently l

After graduate school, I worked briefly as a clinical professor in a teacher education program that had a residency component and spent a number of years as a Teacher Effectiveness Coach in Denver Public Schools.

The reasons for the current spending orgy are several — an increase in the number of useless educrats, the rise of teachers unions, a public that has been way too trusting of those in power, etc..

We talk about transparency in public programs and we spend a lot of time talking about fraud and abuse and misuse of taxpayers» money in a number of other programs.