Sentences with phrase «scarce funding»

This high attrition rate means that many schools have large number of inexperienced teachers and that districts must spend scarce funds for recruitment and replacement costs.

This ensures maximum efficiency in the allocation of risk and the usage of scarce funding.

Secondly, vouchers take scarce funds away from public schools and sends them to private and / or religious schools that are not accountable to the public.

We need a dialogue among these academic scientists to know where best to invest scarce funds and to gain insights into predicting how quickly we might see a return on investment.

Some astronomers question whether the time is right to divert scarce funding for human space adventures.

If a school district or small municipality has a choice between giving scarce funding to teachers and administrators or strengthening buildings against distant future unknown events, human nature is going to take over.

So what is to be done with all this aging infrastructure in an era of rising gasoline prices and scarce funding for repairs?

Geoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said: «We are disappointed that the government has decided to spend scarce funding on expanding grammar schools.»

If council bosses start telling their local papers that Whitehall is making them pull scarce funding from essential services to look after refugees — not a vote - winning demographic — the pressure on central government will grow.

«There is a severe shortage of school places, yet this Government is sanctioning the opening of free schools in areas where there is no demand for additional places and eating up scarce funding in the process.

Students, already demoralized by scarce funding and no jobs, fret over whether basic research (of the sort that produced CRISPR in the first place) will be as esteemed as «patentable» work — and if their names will even be included on the patent.

Unfortunately, on a global scale there are not enough funds to meet the requirements for effective conservation everywhere, which means that scarce funds need to be allocated where they can be used most efficiently.

In addition, Malloy's state department of education announced earlier this week that it is seeking proposals to fund even more charter schools, a strategy that will divert even more scarce funds away from public schools and to the private sector.

You might think that the already scarce funding can be invested in something better, but the truth is, in today's world where all types of communication, data handling, customer support, selling and shopping for products and services are done via the internet, IT support is invaluable.

It advised Wike to stop wasting the Rivers State scarce funds sponsoring some idle groups in the State to protest against the sound judgement of the Tribunal annulling his obviously fraudulent election.

Competing for scarce funds with a myriad of other money - strapped domestic agencies, the civilian science agencies face the likelihood of budget cuts, some quite substantial.

But the world can not now afford to treat all the already - infected people who need antiretrovirals, raising the dilemma of where scarce funds should go, to prevention or treatment.

Rural communities all too often face scarce funding, instructors and facilities, forcing institutions to choose between offering a variety of introductory courses across a breadth of subjects or providing more narrowly focused, sequenced programs within one or two priority Career Clusters.

Applying criteria developed with these donors, Rescue Bank makes food grants to community - based animal welfare groups, allowing them to shift scarce funds to other needs, such as more spay / neuter and vet services, facility improvements, adoption events, etc..

As she plunges into staggering depths of exhaustion, Marlo faces down opponents familiar to so many mothers: an ineffectual partner, moody daughter, and differently abled son (and a school system that fails him); scarce funds for child care; and a postpartum body — heavy, leaking, and unwieldy — that's no longer her own.

Vouchers do not work and they take scarce funding away from public schools — where 90 percent of America's students enroll — and give it to private schools that are unaccountable to the public.

In such societies, where general levels of mortality are high and health problems are pressing, it would appear that family planning programs are not subject to the same strict criteria in competing for scarce funds that other health programs must meet.

Instead, they are spending their scarce funds on high - quality food products and ensuring that one integral piece of their lives remains intact.

This not withstanding, the current party executives are misappropriating and fleecing the party of its scarce funds for their private benefits».

He added, «It is a great disappointment that scarce funds that should be used to develop key sectors of the government such as education, health, security and reviving of Nigerian economy in these trying times were systematically allocated to non-existing projects with the sole aim of converting such into personal use in the nearest future.

«The thought being, if the state is not prioritizing it's 9 -1-1 system, the federal government should not contribute its scarce funding that would allow for more diversion.»

This has always been true, but today — with extended postdocs, scarce funding for the physical sciences, and faculty who (in the U.S. anyway) continue to occupy their faculty posts at least until death — the problem is more serious than ever.

The subsequent Soviet collapse, scarce funding, imprecise dosimetry, and difficulties tracking people over the years have limited the number of studies and their reliability, he says.

But because «grad students pay fees» and postdocs don't, she suspects that, in a competition for scarce funds, «there might be a shift in the ratio» of time spent on postdocs versus grad students.

The Lords warn that Waldegrave's emphasis on wealth creation may force universities and research councils to spend more of their scarce funds on research for industry.

School leaders said they were «disappointed» that the government was spending «scarce funding» on expanding grammars.

Scarce funds, long travel distances to out - of - district professional development opportunities, a lack of substitute teachers, and small school size are serious barriers to robust professional development offerings.

Principals are challenged to be problem - solvers, especially in terms of allocating already - scarce funding for updating technology to support new assessments and purchasing new CCSS - aligned textbooks.

«Meanwhile, we're left to scramble for scarce funds that are being diverted to private schools.»

Meanwhile, as Achievement First, Inc. continues to claim that they need the scarce funds from New Haven in order to help the City, the company stays mum on its multiple relationships with the billions of dollars associated with the corporate education reform industry.

«Instead, it continues the troubling trend of pitting charters versus traditional schools for scarce funding.»

In this way, smaller startups and developers can invest their scarce funds into purchasing a small part of the network.

Saved the Navy $ 1.2 M in scarce funds by turning - in all excess material back into the supply system to be utilized by another activity.