No more anonymous mail
attacks on school budgets.
Not exact matches
Labour, under
attack for ploughing money into education but failing to produce results, says spending
on schools (but not the entire education
budget) will continue to rise by more than inflation.
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.
In addition to cutting supports to teachers and after -
school programs, this
budget doubles down
on its
attack on teachers and working families by eliminating funding for the Corporation for National and Community Service, or CNCS, which provides volunteer support and educational awards for teachers in training and out - of -
school time programming.
Call it devastating, draconian or simply a vicious
attack on Connecticut's children, parents, educators and public
schools, the governor who has consistently worked to undermine and privatize public education, since taking office in 2011, has now proposed a new state
budget that destroys Connecticut's already failing constitutional requirement to adequately fund its public
schools.
Clearly
budget pressures are weighing
on states and
school districts, but there has also been a fierce
attack on the value of class size reduction.
«The tax
on books and the closure of libraries is an
attack on writers, bookstore owners, publishers, and students (who are being hit by this
budget six ways to Sunday, through
school closures, deep cuts to the university, threats to the tuition freeze, the loss of grants, job losses in the community colleges, and a hike in the price of already - expensive textbooks).