Sentences with phrase «as school budget cuts»

«The staying power of service - learning can be seen in that it has survived and continued over these past five years, despite considerable pressures, such as school budget cuts, focus on meeting state mandates, and concerns with implications of No Child Left Behind,» said Ellen Tenenbaum, a researcher at Westat, the firm responsible for conducting the survey.

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And in education, local school districts as well as colleges and universities are still struggling with budget cuts.

-LRB-...) Television stations, airports, hospitals, schools, fire brigades and social services from Spain's southernmost tip to the Balearic islands in the east are reducing headcount as Rajoy tasks regions and municipalities with shouldering 60 percent of the cuts needed to reduce the budget shortfall to 2.8 percent of gross domestic product in the next two years.

Unite Here Local I, the union representing the lunch workers, said the 200 cuts come in addition to the 163 lunchroom workers laid off last month as part of school budget cuts.

As principals got a better sense this week of their school's budget for the coming year, officials with the Chicago Teachers Union and privately run charter schools — which rarely agree on anything — both sounded an alarm over the effects of potential funding cuts.

Much bigger cuts lie ahead: Education Secretary Arne Duncan warns that as stimulus funding dries up, as many as 300,000 teachers and other school personnel could lose their jobs this year to budget cuts.

As the public continues to bear the brunt of pain after budget cuts to services, schools, and safety net programs, community leaders came together to demand that our elected leaders in the State Senate and Assembly ensure the priorities of Central New York are met by passing Fair Elections.

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Cuomo mentioned the salary of a Syosset schools superintendent, Carole Hankin, who earns $ 386,868 a year, as an example of where education officials might consider cutting to make up for the loss of state aid they are expected to suffer during this budget cycle.

Cuomo wants to freeze the growth in the STAR rebates that homeowners receive on their school taxes as a cost - cutting move in the state budget, saying New Yorkers are already getting property - tax relief through a separate rebate check program.

«Teachers, as usual, have worked hard to ensure that standards have been maintained despite this upheaval and the cuts to budgets in the post-16 sector, which have had a significant impact on the staffing levels and resources available in schools and colleges.

During the 2010 - 11 school year, the adjustment was a $ 2.7 billion cut to state education spending to balance the budget as the state emerged from a recession.

Haldar's suspension did coincide, however, with nearly 50 job cuts and layoffs at SUNY Poly by interim president Bahgat Sammakia, who has trimmed nearly $ 15 million from the school's budget as it seeks to stabilize its finances in the wake of Kaloyeros» departure.

The Buffalo Public School District has a new school budget with more spending and staff cuts as individual schools get a say on spending in their builSchool District has a new school budget with more spending and staff cuts as individual schools get a say on spending in their builschool budget with more spending and staff cuts as individual schools get a say on spending in their buildings.

Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, said: «The NASUWT warned at the outset when the Pupil Premium was first introduced that, in the context of the Coalition's savage austerity measures and its failure to protect school budgets despite its claims to the contrary, this funding would inevitably end up being absorbed into school budgets as the cuts bit.

Schools in Britain will see their budgets slashed by as much as 14 % over the next four years in the biggest cuts to education seen since the 1950s, tax and spending experts warn.

The president of the College of New Rochelle resigned as the school considered declaring «an imminent financial crisis» that could lead to budget cuts and faculty layoffs, according to a statement from the chairwoman of its board of trustees.

But the new urgency on the government's part seemed to stem from the realisation last week that cuts in both defence and the schools budget would not be as great as the Treasury had hoped.

The report released Monday as part of a collaborative study between the Geiger Gibson Program in Community Health Policy, part of the School of Public Health and Health Services at George Washington University, and the RCHN Community Health Foundation, reveals that due to federal budget cuts through sequestration, the nation's 1,200 community health programs will lose $ 120 million in funding.

Flanagan said his conference will remain focused on restoring the Gap Elimination Adjustment, a statutory formula that has distributed cuts across school districts in recent years, as the state has grappled with budget deficits.

Now a combination of Quomo's low ball budget proposal along with the poorly constructed tax cap in place school local school districts need to portray the extremely unpopular cuts they now face (loss of electives and AP options; cuts to music, art and athletics; increased class size) as being directly the result of decisions made by our legislators in Albany.

Gillibrand said over the last ten years, as schools have had to tighten their budgets, physical education has often been some of the first programs cut.

As I write, there is still no budget agreement in Albany, and the city school system is facing $ 500 million in cuts for next year.

Educators and parent leaders from Brooklyn's PS / IS 180 and PS 231, the District 75 school with which it shares space, held an early - morning «Black Friday» protest against budget cuts and layoffs on June 17 as part of the ongoing series of «Fight Back Friday» demonstrations at schools around the city.

Layoffs have already hit 530 school aides, whose positions were cut as principals sliced 4.9 percent from their school budgets this fall.

New York City school principals receive their budgets from Chancellor Joel Klein's office today, Klein says the schools face cuts of about 5 - percent next year, not as deep as he feared.

That is the underlying question that Mayor Mike Spano and members of the City Council are considering as they review a budget for fiscal year 2019, which starts July 1 and cuts more than 400 positions from both the Yonkers Public Schools and city government.

Cuomo spokesman Josh Vlasto said that the net impact of the state - aid cuts - the amount of money Long Island schools would lose as a portion of their overall budgets - is closer to 2.1 percent and that the statewide average is 2.9 percent.

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.

He and his Nassau and Suffolk colleagues have routinely stood as one to block any attempt to cut Long Island's share of state school spending, sometimes holding up broader budget negotiations to do so.

Syracuse — School officials in Central New York were generally pleased with Gov. Andrew Cuomo's budget proposals today — especially given the deep cuts they endured as the economy tanked.

As the pace of drug approvals accelerates and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) faces potential budget cuts, a new research design from Perelman School of Medicine scientists offers a new way to successfully assess safety of newly approved drugs, as well as drugs that have been on the market for a long time and have had a marked rise in their usAs the pace of drug approvals accelerates and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) faces potential budget cuts, a new research design from Perelman School of Medicine scientists offers a new way to successfully assess safety of newly approved drugs, as well as drugs that have been on the market for a long time and have had a marked rise in their usas well as drugs that have been on the market for a long time and have had a marked rise in their usas drugs that have been on the market for a long time and have had a marked rise in their use.

However, I do agree that quality of education for public schools shouldn't vary, but unfortunately in NYC our teachers are paid close to nothing (constantly getting laid off because of budget cuts), as well as our NYPD.

SYNOPSIS On the last day of the school year, mild - mannered high school English teacher Andy Campbell (Day) is trying his best to keep it together amidst outrageous senior pranks, a dysfunctional administration and budget cuts that are putting his job on the line just as his wife is expecting their second baby.

Research conducted by The Key has found that schools are having to think outside the box in order to generate funds into schools as budget cuts surface.

As a public school teacher in a state experiencing painful budget cuts, I want to send teachers a message that they can create a blended learning model using web 2.0 technology that is readily available and, in many cases, free.

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.

Given that school budget cuts, coach costs, changes in the curriculum cycle, staff cover, and health and safety legislation are largely beyond the control of out - of - the - classroom attractions, what exactly can be done to make school trips as painless and pleasurable as possible for those who want to undertake them?

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 teaSchool 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 teaschool 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.

Russell Hobby, General Secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, cautioned that although the idea is overall a good initiative, there are still issues such as budget cuts and recruitment matters which mean some schools are simply not in a position to offer the service.

In addition ~ the budget cuts of the Great Recession caused schools to further pull back in areas like art ~ sports and extracurricular activities and ~ as a recent survey points out ~ the sequester has had an impact as well.

Some of the nation's most innovative teacher - quality programs could be in jeopardy as decisionmakers for the Cincinnati public schools scramble to identify $ 20 million to cut from next year's budget.

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From San Diego to Baltimore, districts are being forced to make painful budget cuts as political and economic forces converge into one of the deepest school fiscal crises in decades.

If schools could have used the recession and budget crisis as an opportunity to cut their least - effective teachers, student achievement would actually have risen.

Those efforts emerge as a priority in the 2010 legislative season, even as many cash - strapped states face the prospect of tough spending decisions — including school budget cuts — on top of the midyear cuts they enacted in recent months.

The survey was conducted by the National Foundation for Educational Research for the Trust as part of their Teachers Voice Omnibus survey to highlight how budget cuts are affecting schools across the country.

As a result, around two thirds of primary schools will see a real - terms cut in their budget over the course of this parliament.

Under the new funding formula, large schools in cities such as London and Birmingham will have their funding cut, while places such as Buckinghamshire, West Sussex, Bath and Bournemouth will have their budgets increased.

Schools face a range of threats and it is imperative that institutions consider how budget cuts could impact on the risk of crime occurring, as well as their ability to effectively deal with the problem.