Sentences with phrase «whether public expenditures»

It also considers how well each is tracking whether public expenditures are yielding expected outcomes.

Not exact matches

The Comptroller shall review all revenue estimates and expenditure estimates for Medicaid, public assistance and pension contributions and health care insurance costs for County employees to be used in the proposed tentative budget prepared by the County Executive and submit to the Legislature in writing by the 15th of October a report indicating whether or not such estimates are suitable estimates for the upcoming fiscal year.

Sen. Kathy Marchione questioned whether the money for public financing would be better spent on gap elimination aid for education, while Sen. Greg Ball threw a pointed jab at Democratic Sen. Cecilia Tkaczyk, wondering out loud about independent expenditure groups funded by «Soros.»

In this paper we take a «market - based» approach to examine whether increased expenditures improve perceived school quality and whether the current level of public school provision is inefficient.

Like the Education Next survey, the Friedman survey asked respondents whether they thought public school spending was too high, about right, or too low, after first randomly assigning the respondents into two groups: one that first heard a prompt explaining that the average U.S. public school spends $ 10,658 per pupil (this is average operating expenditure per pupil), while the other group was not given any prompt.

They asked about charter public schools» facilities - related expenditures, whether their schools have amenities like gyms and libraries, and collected data points like the square footage and seat capacity of schools» current facilities.

The Secretary of State urged the court to consider whether it was necessary or proportionate to require such expenditure and effort when there are already two expensive public inquires looking into related aspects of alleged ill - treatment by British Forces in Iraq.

I even have my doubts as to whether Justice Nordheimer's reasons will stand up on appeal — I'm not sure the appellate courts will want to force the expenditure of public funds on not - quite - desperately - indigent criminal accused.

Under the taskforce plan, these funds would be pooled with existing expenditure on public hospitals and private sector doctors to create a Commonwealth Health Benefit that would pay a standard amount to hospital patients, regardless of whether they were in a private or public hospital.