Sentences with phrase «about education cuts»

Sket is the county leader of Fund Education Now — an Orlando - based advocacy group concerned about education cuts.

To read more about education cuts included in the 2014 budget, head over to our blog.

At the meeting, held in the auditorium of PS 69 in Jackson Heights, Dromm spoke of his time as a teacher in Queens and expressed his concerns about education cuts and the upcoming budget deadline.

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They quickly pointed out the faults in Clark's boasts about her gender equitable government, which cut essential services women need: child care, family and poverty legal services, education, healthcare, the list goes on.

John B. Cobb makes a crucial point in this regard: «Since the actual decisions about the course of history are made on other grounds and on the basis of a situation that is not Christ - centered, one cuts oneself off from all that» (Occasional Papers, United Methodist Board of Higher Education and Ministry, 1:12, August 9, 1976, p. 6).

Already stuck with revenue about 1 / 20th that of Texas, GSU has also taken the brunt of concussive budget cuts to higher education in Louisiana.

My biggest concern about war is that billions of dollars are going to bombs while budgets are being cut for education, health care, social services and Medicaid.

In Texas, the Appropriations Committee is talking about budget cuts across the board rather than increasing the education budget.

Democrats quickly put Republican Thom Tillis on the defensive through early October, pummeling him with ads about cuts to education spending.

Not surprisingly, Mayor Bloomberg is none too pleased about the fact that NYC is facing a $ 2 billion cut in Gov. Andrew Cuomo's budget, including $ 1.4 billion worth of education aid.

Randi Weingarten, president of the United Federation of Teachers, criticized the Senate version of the bill for cutting about $ 40 billion from money «targeted to help states avoid drastic education cuts and teacher layoffs,» as well as $ 20 billion from construction aid to schools and colleges and $ 1 billion from new aid for Head Start and other early childhood education programs.

Democratic Senate candidate Adam Haber on Monday released his first TV ad of the campaign — a 30 - second spot that largely sticks to pledges about cutting taxes, bolstering education and aiding the environment.

«If the Government is truly serious about a high quality education for all, they need to stop cutting school and local authority budgets, ensure our class sizes are reduced and stop selling off school sports fields and libraries.

I don't believe, if you look at the way we've allocated it, about a 2 percent reduction to health care, about a 3 percent reduction in education, 2.7 percent, actually, to school districts statewide on average, a 10 percent cut to state government.

The spending plan calls for two - year appropriations on health care and education, cutting about $ 2 billion with fixed rates of growth.

Smith's remarks on this start at about the 5:30 - minute mark, when Mika Brzezinski notes a recent Times editorial that pointed out how low - income school districts are disproportionately hurt by Cuomo's $ 1.5 billion education funding cut — all but $ 270 million of which is included in the framework agreement announced yesterday.

About 68 percent of the restored education aid would be sent to schools districts north of NYC, Skelos said, explaining: «What we're doing is we are essentially restoring shares to the cuts.

Thousands of teachers, lecturers and support staff will be visiting Parliament tomorrow (Wednesday, 26 October) to lobby their MPs about pension cuts in the education sector.

Malpass said he was very impressed with Cuomo last spring — about the time when the newly - minuted Democratic governor was laying down the law with the Legislature, pushing for deep health care and education spending cuts along with a 2 percent property tax cap.

Here's the full text of Cuomo's e-mail, which was forwarded by a reader (interestingly, it speaks in very general terms about the budget and «realigning» spending, but makes no mention of the deep education and health care cuts, which opponents say will lead to service reductions):

They were particularly concerned about cuts to further and higher education.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's budget this year increases education aid by about $ 990 million, with $ 2.1 billion being spent over the next two years and also ends the education cuts known as the gap elimination adjustment.

What you say here about education funds could be said about any major budget line — education, medicaid, welfare, roads, and so on.There are always those who demand cuts and those who lobby to have the funds increased.

In the week when Labour's Liam Byrne launched his «Welfare Reform», barely distinguishable from the Tories; when Twigg set about education in a similar vein, and when Diane Abbott's loose but innocuous tweet was met by Labour with cringing apologies instead of forthright anti-racist defence, Leanne could have made more of the opportunity to put Plaid firmly at the forefront of the growing numbers that want to see politicians stand up to all this Tory tosh, lead the fight for jobs and against the cuts.

Turner said that if it were up to him, he would cut federal spending by 35 percent — including gutting the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and slashing the budget of the U.S. Department of Education — which he said would take about seven to 10 years to accomplish.

While Skelos might want his legacy to be about tax cuts and big increases in education aid, he will long be known on the inside as the master of Senate redistricting efforts.

The Fiscal Policy Institute joined with the Alliance for Quality Education and other groups to publicize the grim truth about Governor Paterson's $ 2.5 billion in school aid cuts.

About 85 communities would see their education cost sharing grants, the biggest source of state funding for public education in Connecticut, cut to zero in October.

Isn't there ANY independent, honest, and believable source of analysis that can cut through all this hooha and simply lay out the truth about the impact of state aid to education and proposed school budget cuts??

«But, while we agree there is some scope for efficiency savings in the education department, there would need to be very careful thought about where any cuts should be made to pay for this.

And let's stop talking about this as cutting education.

The budget also restores about $ 230 million of the $ 1.5 billion in cuts to education spending.

The wave of protests and strikes isn't just about pay, but about GOP tax - cut - driven starvation of education spending.

Second, he let Sen Landrieu take the heat and be called a whore by his GOP minions for aquiring additional funds for Medicade - althought it was at his bequest Third - he goes around galavanting around the country fundraising» instead of governing - He blasts government for all of the ills and blamed the BP oil mess on Washington - yet he went licking up to DC for funds so he could build berms that wold be mysterious for the coast and let BP off the hook Cut funding for education - although he was afforded a damn good one He sides with his GOP pals about health care reform - REMINDER his child has a pre existing condition - heart problem

«I was very concerned about these cuts to education,» Lancman said.

He also warned about cuts to the NHS and education.

But what is so absurd about these flights of wishful thinking is that there is not a single word about the real lessons which Labour needs to learn — the need for radical banking reform, the need for a massive revival of British manufacturing (when this year the UK deficit on traded goods is likely to exceed the entire UK budget deficit), the need to take back public control of the NHS and education system, the need for a jobs and growth strategy rather than a programme of endless cuts, the need for an effective anti-poverty strategy and a huge reduction in inequality.

He also talks about expanding early childhood education, raising the minimum wage, passing a hate crimes bill and tax cuts for working families.

Given that we have had to endure and fight against cuts to education, aid to local governments, state operations and we are fighting health care cuts and closures of hospitals like SUNY Downstate or mental health facilities, we need to start talking about how we sustain services that people need, before we consider tax cuts.

Cilento later added, «Given that we have had to endure and fight against cuts to education, aid to local governments, state operations and we are fighting health care cuts and closures of hospitals like SUNY Downstate or mental health facilities, we need to start talking about how we sustain services that people need, before we consider tax cuts.

«I'll speak for myself: I'm concerned about how we implement tax cuts, and how the loss of revenue impacts people who really need government service, particularly education,» Camara told Capital.

UFT members from Districts 13, 14 and 17 as well as high schools from those areas heard UFT President Michael Mulgrew speak about the proposed federal education budget cuts, the attack on unions by far - right privatization advocates, the dangers to hard - won benefits if a state constitutional convention is held in 2018 and other pressing issues.

Ron Deutsch, with New Yorkers for Fiscal Fairness, says a Siena poll this week found that people in the state do care about tax cuts, as well as education as chief priorities.

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A number of films touching on controversial subjects during the past year also made the cut including The Hunting Ground, about campus rape; 3 1/2 Minutes, 10 Bullets, about the shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a white man in Florida; Going Clear: Scientology And The Prison Of Belief, an in - depth look at the Church of Scientology; Winter On Fire: Ukraine's Fight For Freedom, which chronicles the unrest in the Eastern European country; and He Named Me Malala, about the young girl who survived being shot in the head by the Taliban for being outspoken about her country's education system.

with Kam Williams Headline: Tavis Talks about His Latest Special Report Due to nationwide budget cuts, music education programs are being eliminated from school curricula nationwide at a rapid pace.

Who cares about «DI» when there's so much cool, cutting edge, and disruptive stuff going on education?

TES has reported that Tony Foot, director of the Department for Education's funding group, is under «no illusion» about the financial challenges schools are due to face as a result of rising costs and real terms budget cuts.

We need to ensure that this process is not about reducing numbers, cutting funding, changing terminology and doing the same things, it is about improving the outcomes of all children and young people by offering a high quality education system that meets their individual needs and prepares them for adulthood in the 21st century.