Sentences with phrase «after years of budget cuts»

After years of budget cuts, the state is putting $ 1 billion into preparation for the switch.
Recent protests by thousands of teachers in far - flung parts of the United States reflect a deepening malaise in American education after years of budget cuts and stagnant salaries that have left many instructors feeling their work is not valued.
State Still Has a Role in Supporting and Holding Districts Accountable With the passage of Proposition 30 and almost nine out of 10 local ballot measures last November, the voters of California gave our schools an almost unprecedented chance to begin rebuilding after years of budget cuts.
This is rather refreshing, after years of budget cuts / stagnation!
The President of the state worker union the Public Employees Federation, Ken Brynien, says he's pleased that the governor seems to realize that state government can not continue in its current form, after years of budget cuts and staff attrition, and that it needs to be reorganized.
After years of budget cuts, the U.S. Small Business Administration is finally getting a $ 730 million boost from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

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However, a new shortfall of $ 170 million has opened in the state's current $ 29 million budget, even after legislators cut $ 230 million in last year's session.
«Almost a year after the 2012 budget, Conservatives still haven't given clear answers about which regions of the country will lose federal jobs or what services are going to be cut.
However, all of this changes after a few years, due to official budget rules that limit the cost of the bill to $ 1.5 trillion in total — which therefore means that in order to make the corporate tax cuts permanent, the individual tax relief will completely expire by 2025.
The good news: After burning its entire planned five - year budget of $ 40 million last year, the league saw expenses fall 28 % and revenues leap 43 % this year, thanks to staff cuts, increased corporate sponsorships (including backing from McDonald's and Coca - Cola) and relocation of the league office from New York to Atlanta.
The Spanish club are currently suffering a financial crisis after revealing that they are almost # 15million in debt, and facing years of budget cuts after gambles by the club's owners.
«This budget was an opportunity to reverse the loss of 30,000 after - school seats cut over the past several years,» de Blasio said in a statement, adding that without asking the wealthiest New Yorkers to pay more in taxes, the budget «affirmed a status quo that continues to leave working families behind.»
«Since a state aid increase such as the one that was received last year may represent upwards of $ 500,000 or more there is no way a district can trim that much from the budget after years of already cutting the expense side of the budget.
For example, the UK's Office of Budget Responsibility estimates that the MoD, after already implementing 40 % of necessary cuts, will see another 60 % needed (along with other non-ringfenced departments) over the course of the next ten years — a staggering amount.
After five years of bitter clashes, Republican congressional leaders and President Obama last night appeared to settle their final budget fight by reaching a tentative deal that would modestly increase spending over the next two years, cut some social programs, and raise the federal borrowing limit.
After years of struggle over state funding for Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Cuomo last week proposed the first state budget in years with no cuts in aid to the Buffalo research hospital.
TRIBECA — One day after a homeless man allegedly raped and tried to strangle a 21 - year - old woman in the TriBeCa section of Hudson River Park, politicians gathered at the site of the attack to speak out against anticipated budget cuts to the NYPD.
But now, tax revenues are running behind projections, a $ 2 billion deficit looms, and schools and hospitals are howling after two years of flat state budgets capped by an overall cut in spending in April.
A Member of the Finance Committee of Parliament, Kwaku Kwarteng, has pooh - poohed government's request for an additional Ghc1.89 billion as supplementary budget for the rest of the year 2016, saying after cutting expenditure in various sectors of the economy, government has no justification for the extra money.
Two weeks ago, after the House of Commons vote on the budget, when Labour MPs joined with a number of Tory backbenchers to demand cuts in EU spending over the next seven years, slightly more voters (42 %) wanted the EU budget cut rather than maintained or increased (39 %).
Gov. Andrew Cuomo promised more money for city schools next year in his budget address on Jan. 17, a welcome reversal after three years of budget cuts.
The Thruway Authority says it wants to keep tolls as low as possible, but after cutting $ 400 million out of operational costs and capital plans over the next three years, the authority budget is still in the red.
She said that because of the cuts the state began making in school aid after the economic downturn, the net amount of operating aid the district would get next year under Cuomo's budget — $ 217.1 million — would be less than the $ 217.3 million in aid it received in 2008 - 09.
Ontario universities are feeling the pinch after years of sustained cuts in provincial operating budgetscuts that, when combined with the effects of inflation and the existing cap on increases in undergraduate tuition fees, have left the universities with little room to maneuver.
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA — After a week of nationwide protests, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard on 19 April sought to reassure scientists that her government was rethinking a rumored $ 423 million (AUD $ 400 million) cut to medical research over 3 years, starting in the 2011 - 12 budget.
«Heaven's Gate» (1980) Given carte blanche for time and budget after the success of «The Deer Hunter,» Cimino made an epic Western that became an unmitigated disaster at the box office and was widely panned by critics — until a full directors - cut restoration in recent years began to turn the tide in terms of its legacy.
Finally, after years of obstacles and delays, casting collapses and budget cuts, «Albert Nobbs» is a -LSB-...]
Here's more: In our great but bedraggled state of California, where our editorial offices are based, we have an action - hero governor who has proposed cutting $ 4.5 billion from the state education budget (and this after declaring 2008 «The Year of Education.»)
The Museum School is also one of the district's 15 «theme» and partnership schools — which include a school in a zoo and one in a nature center — created as part of a turnaround strategy after a 20 - year decline that resulted in the closure of 35 schools, $ 100 million in budget cuts, and loss of 1,000 jobs, 600 of them teachers.
The Governor signed the legislation, which will increase the state sales tax from 2 percent to 3 percent until the end of the 1985 calendar year, two weeks after signing into law $ 125 million in cuts to the state's general - revenue budget for the current fiscal year.
Efforts to Improve Teacher Quality: Oklahoma is back to requiring and financing mentoring for all new teachers after a one - year hiatus because of budget cuts.
Four of the five worst hit local authorities — Middlesbrough, Reading, Isle of Wight, Doncaster — face further budget cuts over the next two years, even after taking into account any gains predicted by the Department for Education from its new funding formula.
After the unexpected budget freeze last year, and mid year cuts this school year, the reality of not having necessities such as pens, pencils, paper, and books is fresh and still negatively impacting classrooms across the district.
Restoring funds and allocating funding for new investments in public education is needed after years of cuts that squeezed budgets that were hit very hard during the Great Recession.
After all, this is the governor who in the middle of cuts three years ago urged voters to reject school budgets if teachers wouldn't take salary freezes.
«It's insult to injury after these years and years of budget cuts, and I think it's going to further damage morale at these schools,» Agan said.
This year's focus on public schools, which includes $ 649 million in new per - pupil funding, comes after three budgets that cut or froze public school spending, and expanded the number of families who could enroll children in private schools through taxpayer - funded vouchers.
Schools spend # 4bn a year — or 10 % of the total education budget — on 24,000 TAs, but some headteachers have cut back on numbers after previous research raised doubts about the impact of TAs on learning.
Despite the increase in funding, which Democrats have long called for after years of cuts or no increase in state funding for schools, the proposals drew the ire of Democrats on the budget committee over the voucher provision, expansion of independent charter schools and the addition of state money for services at private schools.
After years of painful budget cuts, new revenues will begin to flow to California school districts in 2014.
After three years of budget cuts that have battered schools with extensive teacher layoffs and deep cuts in art, music and other programs, 64 % of those surveyed said they would shell out more for schools.
These cuts are primarily driven by three factors: overstaffing in the previous school year; nine schools getting less federal funding for after - school programs; and the District moving the management of Measure G library funds from school budgets to the central office budget.
● This year's rollout of more Chromebooks in classrooms was delayed amid budget cuts, but the district now says students in grade 4 and some in grade 7 will get Chromebooks after all.
Deal added close to $ 167 million to the state budget, a restoration after years of austerity cuts.
The year had begun in chaos after the latest huge budget gap led Schools Superintendent William Hite to preside over another round of deep cuts.
Citing the constitutional rights of its public school student plaintiffs, the suit seeks to overturn state laws that schedule tenure consideration after two years of teaching, dictate the use of seniority when budget cuts force layoffs, and impose due process rules on teachers» terminations.
As most of Connecticut's local property taxpayers are being asked to pay more to preserve their local schools, and Connecticut's taxpayers are being asked to pay more to invest in Connecticut's most troubled schools, leave it to Mayor Finch and the majority Democrats in Bridgeport to sneak in an end of the year cut to their own schools... even after the state and its taxpayer's bailed them out of their school budget deficit last year.
After 30 years of proven success, creating an efficient, effective infrastructure for sharing ideas, the National Writing Project (NWP) was cut from the federal budget by the U.S. Congress.
Data were collected on three moments over a period of four years: (1) school year 2009 - 2010 (after granting the mentoring hours), (2) school year 2011 - 2012 (after the budget cut), and (3) school year 2012 - 2013.
Just five years after leaving the sport due to budget constraints, Peugeot is close to a return to the top class of endurance racing - but it wants new rules to cut costs before it commits
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