Sentences with phrase «scarce resources from»

(Actually, all this unwarranted attention on cats is, I'm sure, diverting scarce resources from the real issues — so maybe the wildlife will, in the end, lose anyway.)

And yet, lawmakers in every state continue to champion charter schools without demanding proper accountability, even as they drain scarce resources from traditional public schools.

ESAs, tax credit scholarships, and other school vouchers divert scarce resources from public schools that serve all students to pay for private schools for a few.

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.

Worse, they divert scarce resources from schools that serve the neediest students and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.

Vouchers siphon off scarce resources from neighborhood public schools, which accept all kids including many students living in poverty, to benefit private schools.

The National Education Association claims that, «Voucher programs siphon scarce resources from already underfunded public schools.»

«Instead of diverting scarce resources from existing public school classrooms and spending it on unaccountable charter schools for a few students, we should be investing more in the innovative public schools we already have,» Mary Lindquist, president of the state teachers union, said in a news release in response to the signature turn - in.

Not exact matches

The Great Stagnation: In «Why the global economy may be doomed to lower growth — maybe forever,» Simone Foxman gives four reasons why economic growth may be much slower in the future: scarce resources, an aging labour force, stagnant technology growth and externalities from climate change.

Every buck makes a big difference, and nothing is taken lightly because in the world of scarce resources you're always stealing from some Peter or Penny to pay Paul.

Together these changes have shifted market power away from the firms that own content toward the digital platforms that control a new scarce resource: the customer.

«Support from co-workers probably dips in midlife as peers compete for scarce resources (promotion bottlenecks are often encountered during this career stage).

SCARCE supply and growing demand from the resources sector have helped push Perth's hotels market to the top of the class, with the Western Australian capital outperforming all major Australian cities over 2011, according to new research.

The United States sought to destroy Nicaragua's economy through U.S. and contra attacks against production sites and human services and by forcing the Nicaraguan government to shift scarce resources away from development and into defense.

For another, the more we conserve scarce and nonrenewable resources, such as the oil used so extensively in modern agriculture and elsewhere, the less pressure there will be to engage in an interventionist and imperialist foreign policy and the wars that follow from such a policy.

These same private cars are the most wasteful form of transportation from the point of view of exhausting scarce resources.

The study of how individuals and societies choose to allocate scarce productive resources among competing alternative uses and to distribute the products from these uses among the members of the society.

The fight grows intense when resources become scarce, or one group finds itself alienated from the mainstream, etc..

But what else should we expect from an educational system whose primary social function is to monitor competition over the scarce resources of wealth and power?

One of the two recently developed midwife - led units has been threatened with closure on the grounds of scarce resources [7], despite evidence from a randomised controlled trial demonstrating that they are actually cost - effective [8], with overwhelmingly positive birth experiences reported [9].

That's a very tall order, especially when resources are scarce (most schools get, in the end, about $ 1 from the federal government to spend on school food) and there is no money in the budget for food / nutrition education.

«These fraudsters engaged in the most reprehensible kind of conduct — stealing scarce housing resources from our most vulnerable citizens while at the same time lining their own pockets,» said Comptroller Scott Stringer.

Today's report by the Public Accounts Committee into the National Audit Office's report on Managing the costs of clinical negligence in the NHS concludes the Government has been sluggish in its response to these predictable rising costs which are taking scarce resources away from frontline services and patients.

The Aviation minister also commended the Ghana AIDS Commission and its partners for hosting the NHARCON 2018 conference, saying the event was a reminder that the goal to end AIDS was attainable and achieving it would require a change from «a business as usual» to a more result - oriented approach, to achieve maximum results in the midst of scarce national resources.

The field of bioethics has addressed a broad swathe of human inquiry, ranging from debates over the boundaries of life (e.g. abortion, euthanasia), surrogacy, the allocation of scarce health care resources (e.g. organ donation, health care rationing) to the right to refuse medical care for religious or cultural reasons.

This model failed because research was separate from teaching, interdisciplinary work was impossible, resources were scarce, and tight political controls and ideology were paramount.

QUENCHING SOCIETY»S THIRST Freshwater is becoming a scarce resource in much of the world, including Yemen, where residents get water from a public tap.

As they moved from seasonally collecting acorns and hunting gazelle to farming wheat and barley, many researchers think they went through an intermediary phase: a semisedentary period in which they built stone dwellings but still hunted for sustenance and moved on when resources became scarce.

Lead author Dr Robert Holland, also from the University's Centre for Biological Sciences, said: «Based on mapping patterns of freshwater consumption associated with energy sectors at subnational scales, our analysis also reveals that pressure on freshwater resources associated with energy production happens in a number of freshwater scarce river basins globally.

When water resources are scarce, some elephant friends would team up to drive others they did not know away from pools.

While security issues from Iran to Syria dominated the three - hour hearing, Kerry also wove climate, food security and competition for scarce resources into a broad new narrative of diplomacy.

O'Connor says this practice should be more widespread so that «researchers who are using this scarce but vital resource can learn as much as possible from as few animals as necessary.»

He is a leading scientist on global water resources, and strategies to build resilience in water scarce regions of the world, with more than 15 years experience from applied water research in tropical regions, and more than 100 research publications in fields ranging from applied land and water management to global sustainability.

And while back then my teenage friend was clearly hinting at financial possibilities, with the years I realized that there is one other resource — much more valuable and scarce — that is holding me back from realizing all the ideas I have in mind: Time.

The fight for these scarce resources has divided Earth's population into three main factions: the Cowbots, who live by mining asteroids and cultivating moisture from the land; the Scrappers, who prey on the Cowbots and pillage their communities for supplies; and the Royalists, who live unaffected by steam shortages and impose their superiority over the Cowbots.

Eva Green and Ed Skrein are among the stars in place for sci - fi thriller A Patriot, which is set to depict an authoritarian state separated from a world in chaos due to climate change and scarce resources.

National economies vary in the extent to which they rely on government directives (central planning) and signals from private markets (prices) to allocate scarce goods, services, and productive resources.

By shifting funds, public attention and scarce organizational and budgetary resources away from schools and into the coffers of the testing industry vendors, the futures of poor and minority children and the schools they attend get compromised.»

Activist groups that routinely assert that American children suffer malnutrition are actually measuring something they term «food insecurity,» a condition that usually results more from poor household management than from scarce resources.

With challenging classes, dedicated and knowledgeable teachers, and able, motivated peers from all kinds of backgrounds, it's reasonable to ask whether exam schools consume more than their share of scarce financial resources.

Already class sizes are increasing, school staff levels are being cut or jobs not being replaced, subjects are disappearing from the curriculum and materials and resources are scarce.

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.

Unable to increase local property taxes sufficiently, the warped education strategy that has been developed by Malloy and his Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor, will continue to mean that many communities will face higher property taxes while actually being forced to reduce their education programs so they can shift scarce resources away from student instruction and toward implementing the new Common Core tests and the absurd new teacher evaluation program.

Considering Connecticut's biggest corporate executives are determined to see their policies adopted, no matter how wrong that are, it will be interesting to see if the new Executive Director of the Connecticut Council for Education Reform reverses herself and joins the call for charter schools or if she is able to sit down with her organization's members and explain why shifting scarce public resources from district schools to charter schools is not the solution for closing Connecticut's achievement gap.

Opponents say charter schools will take money away from existing public schools at a time when resources are scarce.

As schools in cities and towns all across Connecticut are facing significant budget cuts and layoffs, one wonders what legislators were thinking when they adopted a law that will end up moving even more scarce resources away from our district schools and to these charter schools.

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.

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For example, in the recent resources boom, we heard from an acquaintance in the mining industry that mining truck tires were so scarce as to sell in many instances at a higher price second hand than new.

Additionally, AHS works with rescue groups from other areas of the country where resources for animals are scarce and adoption rates are low.