Sentences with phrase «scarce funds with»

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.

Not exact matches

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

With government funds scarce, an economist aims to support firearm study through private donations

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.

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.

EURenOmics is collaborating with E-Rare, a consortium built to link responsible funding bodies that combine the scarce resources and fund rare disease research via Joint Transnational Calls.

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

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.

Today, billions of taxpayer dollars are being diverted from the nation's public schools to charter schools and with those funds has come a growing crisis of so - called education entrepreneurs who are using some of those scarce public funds to line their own pockets.

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.

Governor Malloy and Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor's education reform and economic development strategy came into greater focus this week with news that a few months ago Stefan Pryor continued his un-ending effort to divert scarce taxpayer funds to consultants.

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.

It now exempts counties with less than 285,000 constituents, where options are scarcer and loss of even minimal student funding could cripple districts.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Public opposition to another privately run, publicly funded charter school in New Haven has led to the City's pro-charter superintendent of schools withdrawing his plan to turn over even more scarce public funds to Achievement First, Inc., the large charter school management company with schools in New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island.

The REAL TRUTH is that more than $ 100 million a year in scarce Connecticut funds are being handed over to charter school companies and that according to the most recent reports filed with the Connecticut State Department of Education (2012 - 2013), every single major charter school in Connecticut is more racially segregated than the school district they are supposed to serve.

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.

However, rather than step up and address the major flaws with the existing failed funding system, Governor Dannel Malloy made a thinly veiled reference today, in his State of the State Address, that he plans to propose a new state education funding formula, one that would likely pump even more scarce public funds to Connecticut's privately owned and operated charter schools.

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..

And in Delhi, where public arts funding is all but nonexistent and museums are not only scarce but underfinanced, Nature Morte has achieved a kind of cult following thanks to its innovate cross-disciplinary programming with nonprofits, other galleries and individual artists.

With public funding in the arts increasingly scarce, it would not be the first time that those in the arts and humanities look with envy towards the lavish budgets of the scientiWith public funding in the arts increasingly scarce, it would not be the first time that those in the arts and humanities look with envy towards the lavish budgets of the scientiwith envy towards the lavish budgets of the scientists.

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

Lacking the funds to build a parallel network with higher precision, they make use of this imperfect data because the network is extensive, already in place, has a long history and is paid for by someone else and not draining scarce research funds.

At a time when public funds are deemed scarce, a Robin Hood Tax would create a new source of revenue to pay for desperately needed public goods — like funds to provide healthcare and education for all and to help developing countries deal with climate change, for which the U.S. has committed to help mobilize $ 100 billion each year by 2020.

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.

With legal aid becoming scarcer and Citizens Advice Bureaus losing their funding, free information services such can be the last resort for those who seek legal help without having to pay for a lawyer.