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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.»

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But after the Naperville City Council last week expressed concerns about the massive library plan that councilmen had signed on to earlier this month, funding may be even more scarce than previously believed.

But with refuge funding so scarce and relationships with councils so fragile, most refuge managers were too afraid to go on the record and risk losing precious future funding.

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.

This covers politicians who want access to public funds and the entire civil service structures at the federal and state level who despite being largely ineffective, corrupt and a drain on scarce public funds (with salaries and emoluments) have no productivity or performance objectives.

Graduate schools generally concentrate so exclusively on university - based grant - funded research that exposure to the skills and knowledge needed outside academe is often scarce to nonexistent.

Absent a policy, the principal investigator?s decision - making may rest on allocating scarce research funds either to the cost of research supplies or a postdoc?s benefits.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Because funding for research on amphibians and reptiles was scarce, they spent several years researching infectious diseases of poultry and pigs, while working on turtles and salamanders after hours.

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.

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

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.

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.

The Corporate Education Reform Industry and its allies like President Obama, Former President George W. Bush, presidential candidate Jeb Bush and Democratic governors Andrew Cuomo and Dannel Malloy have repeatedly claimed that the Common Core, the Common Core testing scheme, diverting scarce public funds to charter schools, privatizing public education and evaluating teachers based on the Common Core test results would be good for the nation's public school students, their parents and the country's future.

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.

All together the various corporate funded «education reform» groups dropped another $ 1.4 million, over the last six months, to promote and lobby on behalf of Governor Dannel Malloy's anti-teacher, education reform initiatives that included diverting even more scarce public funds to privately owned, but publicly funded charter schools.

Additionally, all schools outside of New York City are denied access to state facilities funding and are therefore forced to pay rent or mortgage, and spend scarce dollars on building maintenance — something other public schools do not have to do.

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.

Connecticut educator and education advocate, John Bestor, has written another powerful commentary piece, this time dealing with the utter waste of scarce taxpayer funds on the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium SBAC testing scheme that is designed to fail a vast number of our state's children.

It is a product of the education reform industry that is set on convincing policymakers and the public that our nation's public education system is broken, that our public school teachers are bad and that the answer is more standardized testing and diverting scarce public funds to charter schools and other privatization efforts.

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.

Providing the Support Principals Need and Want As the instability of federal, state, and local funding sources increases, school districts play a pivotal role in establishing priorities based on scarce budget dollars.

In addition to the millions of dollars that Commissioner Pryor wasted on out - of - state consultants and his successful effort to divert hundreds of millions in scarce taxpayer funds to Connecticut's charter school industry, another one of Pryor's controversial actions was to hire his close personal friend and former Newark aide, Adam Goldfarb, to serve as his chief of staff.

on The «done deal» to divert scarce public funds to another Achievement First Inc. hits a road block

Do they stand with Connecticut's students, teachers, parents, public school advocates and taxpayers or will they continue to turn our public schools into little more than testing factories and money pits for an industry that is gorging itself on scarce taxpayer funds while undermining the role of teachers, parents and the local control of public education.

This denial of facilities funding resulted in huge funding disparity and forces charter schools to pay rent or mortgage, and spend scarce dollars on building maintenance — something other public schools do not have to do.

True jumbo financing has remained scarce since the housing bubble burst, which is primarily due to its reliance on private investors, banks and hedge funds that are still reorganizing and subjected -LSB-...]

I moved on and I do something else; to be honest, I returned back from work to go to university, which means my funds are very scarce, almost non-existent.

With the world economy in shambles, and nearly all national governments awash in debt, there is diminishing incentive for politicians to spend scarce public funds on the much - hyped hypothetical future «threats» posed by global warming — especially when there are very real, tangible issues demanding immediate attention and funding.

Marc's disciplinary work is very often undertaken on a direct access barrister basis, thereby saving substantial costs at a time in the life of the client when, by definition, funds may be scarce.

Not only has ethereum emerged as the principal platform for initial coin offerings (a process by which entrepreneurs working on blockchain projects sell a cryptographically scarce resource to raise funding), but major institutions including JP Morgan and Bank of America are developing projects on private versions of its software.