Sentences with phrase «scarce funding in»

«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.

Not exact matches

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.

But even in milder «left tail scenarios» it is price that makes the difference to mutual fund and ETF holders alike, and when liquidity is scarce, prices usually go down not up, given a Minsky moment.

While our global macro fund coverage is scarce compared to our long / short equity focus, we have in the past covered how global macro funds have struggled this year.

Particularly horribly, it's a cancer that most commonly occurs in children and because of its rarity, receives scarce attention or funding and there has been very little in the way of new treatments developed in the last 30 years.

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.

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.

Anti-Trump signs were scarce, but many marchers expressed dismay about the case of Javier Duarte, the ex-governor of Veracruz who absconded with state funds and was recently arrested in Guatemala.

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.

Namibia, which gained its independence in 1990, is still very much a developing country, so funds are tight and other resources scarce, Mumbengegwi says.

In an era when research funding is scarce, these 11 ideas serve as a timely reminder of the value of pure science not only in terms of satisfying our curiosity, but ultimately for its endless practical useIn an era when research funding is scarce, these 11 ideas serve as a timely reminder of the value of pure science not only in terms of satisfying our curiosity, but ultimately for its endless practical usein terms of satisfying our curiosity, but ultimately for its endless practical uses.

But although President Barack Obama ordered the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to recommence gun research in the wake of last December's massacre of 20 schoolchildren and 6 adults in Newtown, Connecticut, federal funding for research on gun violence remains scarce so far.

The study, now published in PLOS ONE, could present scientists with the additional dilemma of finding alternative funding sources, especially during a time when federal funding may be scarce, that won't jeopardize the perceived integrity of their research.

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.

DOJ's appeal notes, however, that Deisher, who has never applied for an NIH grant, claimed in a brief submitted Friday that «private funding is scarce» and that «in order to continue my research,... I must obtain funding from» NIH.

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.

With tenured positions and funding being scarce in the French universities and public research organisations, university graduates are the ones who most often lose out.

But as a general rule, a clinical degree confers no advantage in the competition for scarce research funds.

Concentrating resources in the «healthy» part of the system is especially important at a time when funding is very limited and new positions are scarce: two conditions that are currently met by the Italian academic system.

Without the state - sponsored funding available in Europe and Latin America, financing for independent projects remains scarce, with theatrical distribution even more challenging.

In this tough economy, funding for classroom supplies is growing increasingly scarce.

As funding becomes more scarce, the utilisation of funding to protect schools is extremely important, and those in education must look towards using smarter technology to achieve more for less money.

There are surely better uses for scarce taxpayer funds than subsidizing borrowers who are in the upper half of the income distribution and who hold graduate degrees.

At a time when head teachers across England and Wales are crying out for sufficient funds to run their schools, provide pupils with a broad and balanced curriculum and retain teachers and support staff, the Government is proposing to lavish scarce education funding on a policy which all the evidence confirms will undermine the high standards of education that comprehensive schools have been able to achieve in the decades since selective education was ended in most parts of the country.

Chicago's flunking policy has increased the dropout rate of retained students, has not improved their academic outcomes, wastes some $ 100 million in scarce school funds every year, and disproportionately affects African - American students.

And instead they wasted tens of millions of scarce taxpayer funds on out - of - state consultants, inexperienced staff and expensive new software in their race to the bottom.

Since taking office, Team Malloy / Wyman have dumped over $ 450 million in scarce taxpayer funds into charter schools in Connecticut, although these schools consistently discriminate against children who require special services, children who aren't fluent in the English language and children who won't adhere to the charter school's abusive «no - excuses» disciplinary policies designed to push out children with behavioral issues.

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.

Ignoring Connecticut's collapsing fiscal situation, the Governor and legislature actually handed the charter schools even more scarce public funds, even though those schools discriminate against Connecticut children by refusing to accept and educate their fair share of students who require special education services and those who aren't proficient in the English language and therefore need additional English language services.

Malloy claims that his «initiative» is providing Connecticut's 30 most struggling school districts with another $ 132 million in state aid, but the truth is that this year's increase is only about $ 45 million and that in order to get those funds, school districts were required to accept a series of new mandates and programs aimed at further implementing Malloy's corporate education reform agenda and diverting scarce public dollars to private companies.

As noted, there is no question that parents have the right to send their children to private schools, but we taxpayers don't directly pay the costs associated with parochial and other private schools, and we shouldn't be forced to syphon off scarce taxpayer funds in order to pay for schools like Achievement First, schools that fail to meet the most basic criteria of what makes a public school — public.

Second, resources are scarce, and any excess of funds tied up in teacher absence, which costs at least $ 4 billion annually, should be put to better use.

There will be 36 gubernatorial elections in 2018, and some candidates have received contributions from DeVos and her family, while others are unabashed supporters of her agenda to drain scarce funding from public schools to give to private and charter schools in the form of vouchers or education tax credits.

Ideally, the new standards would be implemented with extensive professional development for teachers, but there wasn't funding to support that in Kentucky — the education department worked to establish networks of teachers to train each other — and funding has been scarce in many other states still recovering from the recession.

Public school families are fighting over scarce resources, and the reality is that school districts like Freehold Borough have seen significant student population increases without corresponding dollars and schools like University Heights Charter School in Newark have had to cut back on needed mental health services and arts programming because they lack funding.

Because charter schools receive less in public funding than other public schools, it forces them to make difficult choices on how to spend their scarce dollars — and because many charter schools don't receive facilities funding, they also pay for their own buildings, which puts them at a significant financial disadvantage.

However, while vital programs are cut, the companies that own Connecticut's twenty - three (23) charter schools will be given more than $ 100 million in scarce public funds this year even though these privately owned, but publicly funded, schools refuse to educate their fair share of students who require special education services and students who need additional help with the English Language.

It is bad enough that Malloy is wasting millions of dollars in scarce taxpayer funds to push the Common Core and its unfair «SBAC» Common Core Test, but it is even worse that Malloy and his administration have been lying and misleading parents about their fundamental right to opt their children out of the new tests.

Pryor and other charter school advocates claim that the Amistad Academy and other charter schools provide a measurably better education than do public schools and are engaged in an all out lobbying and public relations campaign to change the way Connecticut funds its schools, shifting scarce resources from our public schools to the charter schools.

In a brazen effort to hand over Hartford's Clark Elementary School to Friendship Charter Schools of Washington D.C. and divert more scarce public funds to another out - of - state charter school management company, a special meeting of the Hartford Board of Education has suddenly been called for tomorrow to approve a resolution «requesting» that Stefan Pryor, Governor Malloy's Commissioner of Education, use his authority to simply hand Clark Elementary over to Friendship Charter Schools without any further debate or discussion.

«It is bad enough that more than $ 50 million in scarce public funds have been turned over to Jumoke Academy / Fuse, but unless immediate action is taken to reverse the Malloy administration's bad policy decisions, the series of no - bid contracts and State Board of Education votes will mean literally hundreds of millions more will be given to this charter school chain,» Pelto concluded.

In a brazen effort to hand over Hartford's Clark Elementary School to Friendship Charter Schools of Washington D.C. and divert more scarce public funds to another out - of - state charter school management company, a special meeting of the Hartford Board of Education has suddenly been called for tomorrow to approve a resolution ``

[Polis» proposal being that in the face of scarce public funds, more and more taxpayer dollars should get diverted away from the public schools, and instead be used to subsidize schools like the ones he is involved in].

Today, while much of the discussion about «Education Reform» revolves around the diversion of scarce public funds to privately owned and practically unaccountable charter schools and the debate about whether the Common Core Standards are useful or appropriate and whether the unfair and discriminatory Common Core testing scam can be derailed, there is a growing realization that the rise of the Common Core is one of the biggest public relations snow jobs in American history.

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.

I'm an Education funding specialist, using my 35 years of experience working with schools and local authorities to help everyone in the education sector make the most of their scarce resources.

Ray Dalio is the billionaire who Governor Dannel Malloy showered with scarce taxpayer funds in a failed effort to help subsidize Dalio's desire to move his company, Bridgewater Associates — the world's largest hedge fund from Westport to Stamford.

According to the group's most recent filing with the State Ethics Commission (filed yesterday), the corporate funded education reform advocacy front group also spent $ 14,000 for subway sandwiches and $ 6,771 to Staples to pay for the signs demanding that Connecticut legislators hand over nearly $ 21 million in scarce taxpayer money so that the infamous Steve Perry can open a publicly funded, but privately owned charter school in Bridgeport and a Bronx, New York charter school chain can save Stamford by opening up a charter school there.

However, what has remained relatively secret is that Bronin's PR person is a well - paid adviser for Families for Excellent Schools, the New York based charter school industry group that spent more than $ 1 million lobbying Connecticut legislators on behalf of Governor Malloy's proposal to divert millions of dollars in scarce state funds so that Bridgeport and Stamford could get new, privately owned, but publicly funded charter schools --- one of which will make former Capital Prep Principal Steve Perry very rich.

Connecticut charter schools already collect more than $ 100 million in scarce public funds from the state of Connecticut, diverting money away from the real public schools that do fulfil their responsibility to accept and educate all students.