Sentences with phrase «publicly funded effort»

A common refrain I hear in the course of my reporting and writing about school vouchers — a program that is set to take a large bite out of our public coffers in North Carolina in the months and years ahead — is that at the end of the day, it's the parents who should be the enforcers of accountability for this publicly funded effort to shift state money into private schools.

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I bring this up because this absence (or call it omission, if you like) underlies the staunch opposition of many conservative Republicans to the Affordable Care Act — and to previous government efforts to provide publicly funded health care and insurance coverage to their citizens going back to the passage of Medicare in 1965.

An 80 - year - old ban that has prevented private companies from publicly advertising their efforts to raise funds will lift on Monday.

When the Securities and Exchange Commission lifts its 80 - year - old ban on general solicitation on Monday, private companies will be allowed to publicly advertise their efforts to raise funds.

Senate Republicans are publicly supporting the goal of funding full - day kindergarten after Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie announced he had reached an agreement with Gov. Andrew Cuomo for the effort in next year's budget.

«We call on Senator Flanagan and the Long Island Republican Senators to stand up for real reform and to restore the confidence of the residents of Long Island by enacting campaign finance reform efforts by instituting a system of publicly funded elections that will stop Albany's culture of corruption,» said Lisa Tyson, executive director of the LIPC.

Like Bruno's fund, the Skelos» defense effort did not have to publicly disclose its donors.

Topics during the Q&A portion of his press conference included the looming discontinuance of the Rockaway ferry, a broad consideration of his earlier statement about «righting greater wrongs,» what happened to government funding for a ferry obtained by Anthony Weiner and Joe Addabbo, whether there is any City effort to «track down scammers» in the Build it Back program, how satisfied de Blasio is with the pace of Build it Back, whether an updated evacuation plan is contemplated in conjunction with increasing the housing supply in Rockaway and a government memo reported by The Wave which stated that more money was available from FEMA than publicly acknowledged and that such additional funding could be a political liability.

Critics say the union's influence has blocked the effort to lift the legislative cap on the number of charters, which are privately run and publicly funded.

Despite worries publicly issued by Cuomo about lawmakers trying to block the next round of funding targeted for Western New York job creation efforts, lawmakers on Monday delighted in announcing their support for the initiative.

But more political efforts, like doing away with fusion voting and creating a publicly funded campaign finance system, could still be a tough sell.

So the effort continues apace, both in commercially and publicly funded research.

Its lean budget — $ 1 million per year over the next 5 years — will likely preclude large - scale studies, but backers hope it will demonstrate the value of publicly funded gun research and perhaps help build support in Congress for a similar federal effort.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Human Genome Project, the publicly funded international effort to determine the precise makeup of the human genetic code, has taken another leap forward.

From a publicly funded health care system to multiple sustainability efforts, Iceland tops the list of the world's healthiest countries.

Recommendation: To enhance state efforts to target improvement funds to schools most in need of assistance, the Secretary of Education should ensure that states track which schools receive improvement funds and can comply with the requirement to make a list publicly available of all schools receiving Title I improvement funds by providing guidance to clarify when and how this information is to be made available and by monitoring state compliance.

The schools could have responded in either of two ways: improving the quality of the education they provided to their publicly funded students, or simply focusing their efforts on test preparation («teaching to the test»).

A casualty of legislative negotiations was an effort by the Senate to crack down on businesses using state capital dollars to profit from charter schools, which are publicly funded but privately managed.

That would take a 5 percent increase in school funding each year through 2020 (25 percent total) and a greater effort to offer publicly funded preschool programs and voluntary all - day kindergarten.

The group was also instrumental in supporting Steve Perry's effort to collect tens of millions of dollars in public funds so that he could open his own, privately operated, but publicly funded charter school in Bridgeport.

Section 33 also continues that law so that Steven Adamowski, the former Hartford Superintendent and present «Special Master» in Windham can add four more years to his publicly funded pension even though he was not certified, made no effort to become certified and the law, as it now stands, only allows certified teachers and administrators to collect a pension.

Alabama Governor Signs Measure to Allow Charter Schools * Education Week Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley signed legislation Thursday afternoon that will allow charter schools to open in the state after a years - long effort to get legislative approval for the publicly funded schools that operate without many of the regulations that govern regular public schools.

The program is little more than a publicly - funded effort to create a pipeline to recruit and train charter school administrators, paid for by taxpayers of Connecticut and its three poorest cities.

Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley signed legislation Thursday afternoon that will allow charter schools to open in the state after a years - long effort to get legislative approval for the publicly funded schools that operate without many of the regulations that govern regular public schools.

Recent legislative efforts include working to repeal pound seizure where publicly funded shelters and pounds are required to provide unclaimed dogs and cats for experimental and educational purposes.

And as the second Kickstarter funding effort was wrapping up, Nintendo publicly offended entire swaths of its community by suggesting there were no gay marriages in Tomodachi Life because the game didn't want to make «social commentary.»

Donald Trump's presidency has climate scientists concerned about the implications for U.S. environmental policies, the worldwide effort to curb the impacts of climate change, and the ability of scientists to freely to continue their research, which can be insidiously undermined through funding cuts, gag orders, or punitive measures and retaliatory attacks against scientists who publicly discuss their research.

But as yet, it has taken you decades to organise an effort to orient publicly - funded research.

The early policy decisions to use hospitals for the delivery of publicly funded health care has constrained efforts to reform health care policy in Canada ever since.

As part of the effort to re-assure customers, the following exchanges will be coordinating efforts over the coming days to publicly reassure customers and the general public that all funds continue to be held in a safe and secure manner: Coinbase, Kraken, BitStamp, Circle, and BTC China.

As part of the effort to re-assure customers, the following services will be coordinating efforts over the coming days to publicly reassure customers and the general public that all funds continue to be held in a safe and secure manner: Coinbase, Kraken, BitStamp, Circle, and BTC China.

Why has publicly funded early childhood education failed so miserably in its efforts to prepare children for school?

However, even as the number of Texas women needing to rely on the state's publicly funded family planning effort has increased, the program's capacity has decreased.

Many state policymakers have been looking to defund publicly supported family planning for decades (see «Efforts Renew to Deny Family Planning Funds to Agencies That Offer Abortions,» February 2002).

Although the U.S. publicly funded family planning effort now hangs precariously in the balance, in many respects, this current threat started in the summer of 2015 with the public release of a series of deceptively edited videos seeking to discredit Planned Parenthood.

The policy agendas of the incoming presidential administration and the next Congress are being shaped by leaders adamant in their ideological opposition to — and intent to dismantle — the network of providers and the funding streams on which they rely that have comprised this country's publicly funded family planning effort for decades.

FQHCs are an essential part of the nation's overall health care safety net, serving 25 million people annually, seven in 10 of whom live at or below the federal poverty level.2 Their role has been expanded by the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which invested billions of new dollars into FQHC infrastructure, driving considerable nationwide growth in the number of sites and their capacity.3 In conjunction with their overall growth, FQHC sites have become increasingly integral to the national publicly funded family planning effort.

FQHCs are an integral part of the publicly funded family planning effort in the United States, but it is unrealistic to expect these sites to serve the millions of women who currently rely on Planned Parenthood health centers for high - quality contraceptive care.