Sentences with phrase «scarce public resources»

Despite these strong commitments, some countries are continuing to finance international coal projects using scarce public resources.

Rather than investing scarce public resources in coal projects, governments must shift financing towards clean energy infrastructure and technology.

And in any case, should scarce public resources meant to reduce climate pollution be used to pay for a climate - polluting activity?

«This NAO report provides a challenging judgement on the work of this government in meeting its responsibilities around evidence - informed and impactful spending of scarce public resources in education, particularly around the improvement and retention of the existing teaching workforce.

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.

It's competition for scarce public resources.

The reasons for inaction of the most European capitals (with notable exception of France) are twofold: unwillingness to spend scarce public resources on a politically unattractive defense, and the fear of «another Iraq».

And, from an equity perspective, the proposition of fielding a football team using scarce public resources implies the funds for a few student players comes at the expense of the many other students.

A career in research «allows me to answer these kinds of questions about how we should allocate scarce public resources — what are the policies and programs that really work for kids — while also staying true to my inner nerd.»

Feeding on the fears and desires of parents and communities to improve their education system, many of these «education reformers» are little more than white - collar crooks, stealing and wasting scarce public resources.

In addition, Littman traces the relationship to no - nothing policy makers who have allowed scarce public resources to be squandered on the make - a-fast-buck industry that has been the foundation of Malloy's education reform effort.

This is not only good for those who have pets as their responsibility; it also means that issues which might otherwise take up scarce public resources through the regulatory or lawmaking process are handled long before they become problems.

At the core of the issue is the Malloy administration's failure to properly fund Connecticut's public schools and their obsession with diverting scarce public resources to charter schools and related privatization efforts.

«Nevertheless, as New York policymakers look to revive 421a (or a similar variant), giving greater attention to the program's benefit levels so as not to oversupply tax subsidies would help make better use of scarce public resources.»

The Great Diversion American Prospect, 4/7/16» «Those who introduced [competition] for the most part claimed that it would spawn a virtuous cycle, and it has some virtuous aspects to it, but it has also spawned a competition between the charter schools and the mainstream schools for scarce public resources,» [Professor Paul] Reville says.»

Athena Ballesteros, who leads work on climate finance for the World Resources Institute think tank, said, «If this meeting will help contribute to the goal of coordinating countries plans and actions to mobilize the $ 100 billion pledge, that would be most welcome, and part of the conversation is to find innovative sources of finance that would complement the scarce public resources being made available.»

In an obstructive response to increased competition for scarce public resources, public school officials may attempt to block the growth of charter schools by limiting access to buildings and information, adding burdensome bureaucratic requirements, or supporting legislation that would hinder the development of such schools.

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.»

In reality, the Malloy administration's entire maneuver was nothing be a farce designed to, once again, mislead Connecticut's students, parents, teachers and taxpayers about the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) testing scheme, and the fact that the tests are wasting millions of dollars in scarce public resources and turning public schools into little more than testing factories.

From the moment Stefan Pryor arrived in Connecticut, the Malloy administration's education policy has been consistently designed to destroy local control, belittle and demean teachers, reduce parental involvement, undermine our public schools and divert scarce public resources to out - of - state consultants and carpetbagging staff.

Malloy, like newly sworn - in Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, has been a consistent supporter of efforts to privatize public education by turning over scarce public resources to charter schools despite the fact that these schools discriminate against Latino students, students who need help learning the English language and students who require special education services.

How should scarce public resources be applied?

Put another way, as long as they pay their $ 127 to bring a motion, parties can litigate away without regard for how their conduct is affecting the use of a scarce public resource...

And inasmuch as ex-panding the range of criminal sanctions would serve, arguendo, to impede the availability of retributive damages in the tort system, it would likely impede the realization of retribu - tive justice in situations of scarce public resources, such as those discussed immediately above.

It has also said that the state's margin of appreciation is greater when assessing priorities in the allocation of scarce public resources (Sentges v Netherlands (App No 27677 / 02)-RRB-.