The Giuliani administration took a hard-line approach yesterday in its first contract proposals to the city's 78,000 public-school teachers, making a long-anticipated demand for a merit pay system and an unanticipated demand that the teachers defer three weeks of pay.
Dr. Grebin is working to convince the State Health Department that the demand for these services merits Medicaid reimbursement: Dr. Manikam estimates that one in four children has some kind of feeding disorder, and that severe problems occur in 3percentto10percentcent of the population, a percentage that continues to rise as neonatal medicine improves.
Finally, from a health systems perspective, the emerging picture of the epilepsy patient with considerable comorbidity and demand for healthcare resources may merit development of practice guidelines to improve coordinated delivery of care.
"If you work at Stuyvesant for merit pay, you're going to get your merit pay".
This compact ESQ system has merits to satisfy a critical demand for developing intense He0 beams for alpha-particle diagnostics in fusion-relevant machines.
When the teachers' strike erupted in Chicago, on September 10th, negotiations broke down not over salaries but over Mayor Rahm Emanuel's demand for more charter schools and for teacher evaluation and merit-based pay tied to students' test scores.
Besides the unvarying demand for their goods and services, there are other investment merits in the companies within these sectors.
The demand for flexible electronics is revived because of their inherit merits of low cost, light weight, excellent portability, and user-friendly interfaces over conventional rigid silicon technology [6].
The Sharon government has rejected the report's demand for a freeze on settlements, and not just on its merits, but as what it contends is the tactical error of "rewarding violence" with up-front Israeli concessions.
Though seemingly obscure, these races deserve all New Yorkers' attention, if only to stoke public demand for a cleaner and more rational system for choosing judges based on merit.
