The public-finance criteria will be far harder to meet.
Dr. Lana Skirboll, a policy expert at the National Institutes of Health, said on Friday that all 60 of the cell lines met Mr. Bush's criteria for federal financing, criteria slightly less restrictive than rules proposed by former President Bill Clinton.
Public Schools, one of the best school systems in the country, can't qualify for federal Race to the Top financing, something is grotesquely wrong with the financing criteria.
Cecile Richards, the president of Planned Parenthood, said that the decision "came so abruptly in the face of a long, good, working relationship with Komen" and that the change in financing criteria "was written specifically to address the political pressure that they've been under".
For example, a cost and financing criterion could have subcriteria that include implementation costs, health services costs from changes in disease burden, opportunity costs of capital or land, and so forth.
In addition, local governments should develop rural children's funding standard and finance allocation criteria based on empirical studies.
In some countries lower level authorities may set their own priorities, and develop their own financing and criteria, possibly resulting in disparities between areas in access and quality of services.
"We're setting very high standards in terms of due diligence and project standards, making sure projects we finance meet specific criteria," Powell said.
This February, Australian Senator Eric Abetz went on an obscure tangent during a finance hearing questioning the criteria by which department officials select the flags to display in their foyer.
