Sentences with phrase «battle over education funding»

Gov. Kathleen Sebelius» State of the State Address did not directly mention the prolonged court battle over education funding in Kansas that ended — at least temporarily — last summer.

But voters, including many Republicans, appear to have rejected that idea in the face of budget woes and court battles over education funding.

Not exact matches

Topics include: Education funding and teacher layoff «propaganda», ethics reform, a property tax cap and the battle over naming an official state vegetable.

The battle between the two political heavyweights is the latest skirmish over education funding since Cuomo took office two months ago.

Despite the school's ongoing legal battle with the Pennsylvania School Boards Association and a bitter dispute over funding with the state education department, the president of Einstein's board of trustees vowed last week to fight the revocation.

In Florida, where the affiliate the NEA controls with the AFT is battling fiercely with Gov. Rick Scott and reformers unified under Scott's predecessor (and rival), Jeb Bush, the union gave $ 250,000 to progressive outfit Florida Watch Action, and handed over $ 500,000 to the state affiliate's Public Education Defense Fund.

The lawsuit — which was filed in 2011 and became the longest legal battle over school finance in state history — was brought against the state after the Legislature cut $ 5.4 billion in public education funding from the state budget while schools were already struggling to implement new academic standards.

In any event, AFT's latest battles against education reform have been centered on Michigan and Pennsylvania — the former because it recently stopped forcing its teachers to join the union as a condition of employment and the latter because of a squabble over education funding.

While the Hawaii State Teachers Union has been locked in a battle with the state over a new contract that would link student test scores to teacher ratings and pay, education reformers have praised the state for creating a merit pay pilot program and funding charter schools.

The battle lines have been drawn for a fight over funding in 2016, with the Department for Education (DfE) insisting schools can be more efficient and schools asserting that, with 80 per cent of their spend going on staffing, the curriculum is at risk if staffing is cut.

As a battle brews between Texas Governor Greg Abbott and the Legislature over pre-kindergarten funding, the Harris County Department of Education (HCDE) board voted Tuesday to keep the federal government's version of early education, Head Start and continuing 15 of their preschool Education (HCDE) board voted Tuesday to keep the federal government's version of early education, Head Start and continuing 15 of their preschool education, Head Start and continuing 15 of their preschool programs.

In Massachusetts, a years - long battle over eliminating a cap on expanding public charter schools will become even more heated thanks to incoming Gov. Charlie Baker, who has signaled that he will support reformers on this issue through his appointment of former New Schools Venture Fund boss - turned - federal education official Jim Peyser as the state's new superintendent.

New Mexico's Public Education Department (PED) did a disservice to New Mexico's students, and the taxpayers who fund schools, last week when it caved in to climate extremists in the battle over how to teach climate science in the state's schools.