For example, last year the Education Department considered only compliance data in making annual funding determinations for states and found that an overwhelming majority of states and territories -- 41 -- met the requirements.
Illinois' legislature and governor may be holding fast to principled decisions, but they also are subverting the Illinois constitution and are allowing, indeed forcing the third branch of our state government, the courts, to make funding determinations which amount to making all of the policy decisions about how our state functions.
The process of closing the achievement gap will require a steady funding stream and determination by the Bush administration to put pressure on districts that flout the new law.
However, Sanders has made clear that he has the funding and the determination to fight on all the way to the summer convention in Philadelphia, but his prospects are diminishing by the week.
Now, after more than four decades, $10 million in funding and much determination, Heizer is finally seeing his original vision realized.
California is already ranked in the bottom five (46th out of 50) compared to other states in "per pupil funding," a key determination in judging the value of a state's education program.
In the decades to come, Mr. Hargesheimer's fund-raising and determination built a clinic, another school and libraries in Ea Ea, renamed Nantabu, and surrounding villages.
From the start of the financial scandal late last year, she had distinguished herself by her evident dismay at the party slush funds, by her determination to root out such practices and by her indignation at Mr. Kohl's insistence that his "word of honor" prevented him from revealing the names of anonymous donors.
Following oral arguments in late March of this year, it appears the Supreme Court is likely to declare "trigger funds" unconstitutional, a determination that could have wide-ranging implications and affect the way we run elections here in New York.
Might other combinations of research questions, funding sources, desire, and determination inspire and sustain similar institutions?
