Sentences with phrase «avoid education cuts»

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The taxes are being proposed as the $ 168 billion budget proposal avoids cutting the two most expensive and politically senstivie areas of state spending: education and health care.

«A balanced approach to balancing the state budget makes good economic sense, but is also important from a societal perspective that the pain of balancing the state budget be spread more fairly and that counter-productive cuts in essential services, from education to mental health, be avoided,» said Frank Mauro, Executive Director of the Fiscal Policy Institute.

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.

Hundreds of Yonkers education advocates said at the Capitol today that the district needs an additional $ 26 million from the state to avoid a Board of Education plan that would cut all sports, limit supplies, reduce special education and eliminate as many as 200 staffeducation advocates said at the Capitol today that the district needs an additional $ 26 million from the state to avoid a Board of Education plan that would cut all sports, limit supplies, reduce special education and eliminate as many as 200 staffEducation plan that would cut all sports, limit supplies, reduce special education and eliminate as many as 200 staffeducation and eliminate as many as 200 staff members.

Education leaders from across New York said Wednesday they'll need more money than what Gov. Andrew Cuomo has set aside for schools next year in order to avoid cuts and improve the overall climate.

The state is grappling with a $ 4.4 billion shortfall, which has led to Cuomo proposing $ 1 billion in new taxes and fees to shore up revenue and avoid deep cuts or flat growth in education spending.

Aresimowicz says he's calling for a September 14th budget vote because his House Democratic caucus wants to avoid what he says are Democratic Governor Dannel Malloy's draconian cuts to public education that would take effect if there is no budget by October 1.

So, with ever - increasing scrutiny of financial regularity, how do you avoid this kind of wasted investment being the case in your school or academy and, with further cuts to education funding on the cards, how can you get «more bang for your buck» when it comes to ICT procurement?

The Education Policy Institute estimates that by 2019 - 2020 there are unlikely to be any schools in England which will avoid a real terms cut in per pupil funding, even in areas benefiting from the new formula.

In addition, NSBA urges consideration of FY 2019 appropriations while the final FY 2018 provisions are being considered and avoiding any further across - the - board budget cuts to education.

Along the route, students plan to march past CPS offices and the home of Chicago Board of Education President Frank Clark in calling on state lawmakers and local leaders to avoid deep budget cuts and layoffs at city schools this year.

Arne Duncan, the federal secretary of education, urged state and local authorities to avoid short - sighted decisions as they cut school budgets, and said laying off teachers based solely on seniority was «a wrong way to cut spending.»

In a time and situation like this, education leaders must step forward and appeal to legislators in both parties to craft a sensible, long - term fiscal plan for the nation that avoids short - term and haphazard budget cuts that imperil investments in education.

Sir Peter Lampl, chairman of the education charity Sutton Trust, said: «These figures should cause the government to avoid steps that could hamper access, including replacing grants for poorer students with loans leaving them more indebted than richer students, cutting widening participation funding, or reducing the independence of the access regulator.»

The federal government has made hefty financial commitments to education in recent years, including the implementation of No Child Left Behind and the subsequent waivers from the standards - based law as well as the influx of about $ 89 billion in stimulus dollars to prevent teacher layoffs, keep class sizes down and avoid program cuts.