Sentences with phrase «scarce funds for»

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Funding and loans may seem scarce for most businesses right now, but there's a new option for independent local producers.

The problem for both administrations is that they have been trying to fund a bloated, inefficient, and overpriced medical system with scarce taxpayer funds, without capping its costs.

But funds for capital improvements are scarce, and borrowing power is limited by a state - imposed tax cap.

But funding for large projects is scarce because of property - tax caps that strictly limit the amount by which an Illinois taxing body such as a park district can increase its annual revenue, he said.

By your logic about «scarce public funds», surely it would be fairer to give the Child Trust Fund only to poorer families, rather than as a capital endowment for all young people?

«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.

«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.»

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.

The addition of prostitutes and heroin addicts to the list of high - risk groups did little to increase public sympathy, so at first funding for prevention and care remained scarce.

If, as seems to be the case, a fraction of scarce tenure - track faculty jobs go to «postdocs» who already have funding, then institutions that don't allow postdocs to apply for grants put their postdocs at a disadvantage.

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 uses.

Though details are still scarce, one expectation is that funding for basic research will rise to 10 % of total R&D spending by 2020, up from less than 5 % now.

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.

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.

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.

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

For science itself, the year 2005 had its share of headline - grabbing triumphs and controversies, but for scientists and science trainees planning their careers, the year offered mostly more of the same: the usual job - market uncertainties, a continuing scramble for research funds (which during the year became increasingly scarce), and more studies by important policy bodies aimed at increasing the number of scientists our nations produFor science itself, the year 2005 had its share of headline - grabbing triumphs and controversies, but for scientists and science trainees planning their careers, the year offered mostly more of the same: the usual job - market uncertainties, a continuing scramble for research funds (which during the year became increasingly scarce), and more studies by important policy bodies aimed at increasing the number of scientists our nations produfor scientists and science trainees planning their careers, the year offered mostly more of the same: the usual job - market uncertainties, a continuing scramble for research funds (which during the year became increasingly scarce), and more studies by important policy bodies aimed at increasing the number of scientists our nations produfor research funds (which during the year became increasingly scarce), and more studies by important policy bodies aimed at increasing the number of scientists our nations produce.

At the time, funds for Caral were so scarce that Shady had to enlist soldiers from a nearby base to do her excavating.

Despite all the progress and hope, funding for research that will push the next generation of cures remains scarce, and philanthropy is a key.

Not only is caring for SMA kids difficult, but federal funding for research is scarce.

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.

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

Besides ensuring that all students have compassionate, effective teachers creating classroom conditions and opportunities for these things to occur, a school principal's primary responsibility is to allocate the scarce resources of time, space, and funding to maximize children's positive and productive experiences of school.

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.

Be it access to advanced courses or electives like foreign languages or personal finance, it's virtually impossible for all schools to offer all courses, particularly when funding is scarce.

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.

Superintendent Samuelson pointed to the consequence of within - state competition for the scarce resource of teachers, for funds, and for additional space.

Other major donors to Luke Bronin's campaign for mayor of Hartford is New Haven charter school activist Alex Johnston who, as the original head of ConnCAN, consistently pushed for diverting scarce public resources from public schools to the privately owned, but publically funded charter schools.

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.

At a time when Ofsted and the Government are holding schools more accountable for the Pupil Premium, it will also help schools to ensure that they are making the most of their funding at a time of scarce public resources.»

Let's hear it for turning over our scarce public funds to the Corporate Education Reform Industry!

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.

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.

Cotto lays bare the truth about the charter school industry is taking Connecticut's taxpayers for a ride while diverting scarce public funds from Connecticut's real public education system.

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.

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

We helped to empower school communities to allocate scarce resources effectively and prioritize resources for our highest need students by OUSD and through the new Local Control Funding Formula.

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.

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 ``

Education Reform Advocacy Now Inc. is part of the massive three - headed corporate education reform behemoth that includes Education Reform Advocacy Now, Inc.; Education Reform Now, Inc. and Democrats for Education Reform, the related Political Action Committee that donates directly to pro-corporate education reform candidates and supports opponents of candidates who don't support the reformer's efforts to turn schools into little more than testing factories, while diverting scarce public funds away from real public schools and redirecting them to privately owned charter schools.

During the recent legislative session, Families for Excellent Schools / Coalition for Every Child ran television ads calling upon Connecticut's elected officials to divert even more scarce taxpayer funds to charter schools.