Sentences with phrase «republican education plan»

That is why the Republican education plan is such a money saver.

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Education advocates and Democrats who had decried Trump's proposed budget said that House Republicans» spending plan is still unacceptable.

The Plain Dealer via Cleveland.com, «Gov. John Kasich, Ohio House and Senate Republicans reach deal on education policy,» June 12, 2012 Ohio House Republicans caucus blog, «Finance Chairman Ron Amstutz announces committee hearings on school funding,» April 30, 2012 The Columbus Dispatch, «Kasich says he would scrap Strickland «s schools plan,» Sept. 22, 2010 Ohio Office of Management and Budget, The Reforms Book, Executive budget — FY2012 - 13

Jacobs point to the Common Core education standards being addressed in state spending plans — an issue where Democrats and Republicans have found common ground.

In response, he offered a compromise plan to link the Dream Act to an education tax credit favored by Republicans.

The New York state education commissioner's plans to quell the testing opt out movement is getting some back lash from some Republicans in the legislature, including a former teacher.

Key portions of the city budget are, of course, dependent upon the state budget, so much anticipation (and lobbying) surrounds negotiations in Albany, where Governor Andrew Cuomo is attempting to push through his spending plan, with major education and ethics reforms, despite significant disagreement from both Democrats (who control the State Assembly) and Republicans (who control the State Senate).

Mayor Bill de Blasio met with New Jersey Gov. - elect Phil Murphy on Wednesday in a closed - door session that focused on transportation, education, jobs and fighting the Republican tax plan making its way through Congress, the mayor's press secretary said.

Senate Republicans released the details of their one - house budget resolution on Wednesday that includes alternatives to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's property tax as well as plans to modify his education and ethics proposals.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio met with New Jersey Gov. - elect Phil Murphy in a closed - door session that focused on transportation, education, jobs and fighting the Republican tax plan making its way through Congress.

Top state and national Republican leaders hammered President Barack Obama and questioned his motives for a planned bus tour of upstate New York to discuss access to higher education.

Guy said he hired Jamestown Associates, a Republican political consulting firm in Washington, D.C., to run a campaign he plans to focus on the economy and education reform.

At the delegation breakfast, McIntyre touted his seniority in the House and took some digs at his Republican opponent's plans to cut education spending and overhaul Medicare.

Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate for governor who lives in Syracuse, said the concept is nothing more than a «bait and switch» plan to entice people enraged over the Common Core to vote for what he called the Republicans agenda of underfunding and privatizing education.

The Republican says this year was different because Gov. Andrew Cuomo added legislation like education and ethics reform to the state spending plan.

House Minority Leader Themis Klarides, a Derby Republican, says the plan contains deep cuts to addiction services, $ 36 million is cut from local school funding and special education and $ 13 million in cuts to state payments for hospitals.

ALBANY — State education commissioner John King said Republicans who plan to run for statewide office on a ballot line called «Stop Common Core» are spreading «mythology» that the academic standards represent a power - grab by the federal government.

And his recent plan to expand college education programs in state prisons has gone over very badly in conservative - leaning areas upstate, giving the Republicans choice election - year base - rallying material.

While the state plans on using the money to control spending, Senate Republicans proposed using the funds in three different areas: Education, as Nozzolio proposed, accelerating tax relief and investing in infrastructure.

Green Party gubernatorial candidate Howie Hawkins said today that Republic Rob Astorino's plan to run on a Stop Common Core ballot line is a «bait - and - switch diversion designed to channel legitimate concerns over Common Core behind the Republican agenda of underfunding and privatizing public education.»

The congressman from Texas and Republican candidate unveiled a budget plan yesterday to reduce the deficit that would eliminate five federal departments: Energy, Commerce, Interior, Education, and Housing and Urban Development.

Even though he made an unusual prime - time television appeal for his education budget, Idaho's Democratic governor was dealt a heavy political blow last week when the Republican - controlled legislature again approved a spending plan identical to one he had vetoed only days earlier.

Congressional Republicans and educators are dismayed over reports that the Department of Education plans to seek a minuscule increase for special education state grants for the next fisEducation plans to seek a minuscule increase for special education state grants for the next fiseducation state grants for the next fiscal year.

Washington — The ranking Republican member of the House Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary, and Vocational Education has taken strong exception to a Bush Administration plan to spend $ 6 million to audit schools as a way of verifying that they have not overestimated the number of school lunches they serve.

Both the Republican and the Democratic plans underscored the role of education in bolstering the nation's economic recovery, and both parties included a commitment...

Republican nominee Donald Trump has not released an education plan, but has supported expanding school choice and vouchers and reducing the cost of college.

Given the enhanced Republican majorities in the House and Senate based on Election Day results, Mr. Bush, if indeed the winner, would be well positioned to enact his campaign plans for education.

Four years earlier, Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole had pledged to abolish the Education Department, but in polls, voters said they preferred Clinton's ambitious federal education agenda to Dole's plan by a margin of 30 percentagEducation Department, but in polls, voters said they preferred Clinton's ambitious federal education agenda to Dole's plan by a margin of 30 percentageducation agenda to Dole's plan by a margin of 30 percentage points.

Republicans last week cheered its plan to balance the budget by 2002, while Democrats were relieved that most of Mr. Clinton's education initiatives had survived.

Some of President Bush's top education priorities — especially his plans for improving the nation's high schools — are rebuffed in a spending bill making its way through the Republican - controlled House of Representatives.

The Governor favors such vouchers, but he would prefer an unequivocal show of support on the issue from the Republican - controlled legislature before committing himself to a session devoted to the voucher plan and other education proposals, observers said.

Leaving aside the merits of the Trump school choice proposals, those plans face «uphill battles» in Congress, where Republicans are eager to assert their prerogatives over the budget, said Martin West, an associate professor of education at Harvard University and a former K - 12 adviser to U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander (R - Tenn.)

Republicans are hatching an ambitious plan to rewrite No Child Left Behind this year — one that could end up dramatically rolling back the federal role in education and trigger national blowouts over standardized tests and teacher training.

The House and the Senate plan to vote this week on a quickly crafted compromise version of the «education savings account» bill that Republicans hope will force President Clinton to reverse his opposition to it.

Reiterating his plans to make 2008 the «year of education» in California, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger says he intends to seek input from both Democrats and his fellow Republicans on how to repair the way the state pays for and governs its schools.

A reauthorization plan drafted by Republican aides to the House education committee for the primary federal special - education law emphasizes provisions designed to reduce disputes between school officials and parents of children with disabilities.

But it responds to critics of the Republican governor's plan by changing provisions on items ranging from special education to spending caps.

Republican legislative leaders are pointing to how they've increased education funding and are planning to give teachers this year an average 6.2 percent raise, the fifth straight year of raises.

The other problem with 529s for school choice: Yesterday, Dropout Nation explained why the plan by Congressional Republicans and the Trump Administration to transform 529 higher education savings vehicles to expand school choice does little for poor and minority communities who lack the incomes and wealth to use them.

Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee, in comments on Thursday night at a gathering of the Korean - American Coalition's D.C. chapter, endorsed the education plan of Arizona Republican John McCain «far and away» over those of either Obama or Hillary Clinton.

While Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's plans on education policy are largely vague and ill - defined, one of his campaign's policies is clear.

Bryan, a Mecklenburg Republican with a leadership role in education, said in August that he planned to introduce a bill that would force five of the state's lowest - scoring schools to close or convert to independently run charter schools.

Republicans also criticized Evers for the state's longstanding gap in academic achievement between black and white students, for his department's plan to comply with a new federal education accountability law and for a DPI software error that resulted in DPI unable to verify four - year graduation rates for 2016.

«While I appreciate some of the policies outlined in the secretary's waivers plan, I simply can not support a process that grants the secretary of education sweeping authority to handpick winners and losers,» said Representative John Kline, Republican of Minnesota, who is chairman of the House Education and the Workforce Ceducation sweeping authority to handpick winners and losers,» said Representative John Kline, Republican of Minnesota, who is chairman of the House Education and the Workforce CEducation and the Workforce Committee.

Rep. Todd Rokita, an Indiana Republican who chairs the U.S. House's K - 12 education subcommittee, cited the waivers as a reason to pass their rewrite plan.

That's it, folks — now that the «traditional white male» nation is officially a thing of the past, the new Republican game plan is to destroy this more colorful US at the roots by killing off public education.

Republican plans endanger critical education funding for families across the country.

After a period of relative quiet, voucher proponents have been active, pushing variety of proposals that appear to have made it into the package of K - 12 education items agreed upon by the Senate and Assembly, as reflected in the Legislative Fiscal Bureau summary of the Senate Republican budget plan.

But the real estate developer hasn't weighed in with a comprehensive plan for public schools, or talked in much detail about education, since becoming a contender for the Republican presidential nomination.

State House Republicans released a proposed budget on Tuesday that is significantly different than the Senate's spending plan in terms of education.