Sentences with phrase «big funding increases»

I am not one to think that we solve problems by throwing money at them, but it was not only in New York City that schools received big funding increases.

Immediately after explaining in his budget speech why the government would not be keeping its commitment to balancing the books, Finance Minister Charles Sousa talked about the need to give hospitals the biggest funding increase they have seen in almost a decade.

The Legislature passed a state budget Sunday with a big funding increase for K - 12 schools that pleased school district leaders and a last - minute statutory change that angered them.

The «Gunfight at the K - 12 Corral,» as one commentator called it, came in 2005, when the Kansas governor and Legislature defied the state Supreme Court's deadline for a big funding increase for education.

Not exact matches

To inspire small business owners to increase their levels of physical activity, Funding Circle created this infographic highlighting the approximated daily and weekly caloric expenditures of some of the biggest names in business, according to exercise routine.

In recent years, an increasing number of tech startups have turned into big - time investments opportunities for VCs, and as a result, these funds have wanted to get in on the action to bolster investor returns too.

After all, Mylan acquired the EpiPen from another company, and while Bresch insists that significant improvements have been made to the epinephrine - delivering product itself, she also admitted on Thursday that a big part of the price increase rationale was to fund marketing and awareness efforts for the device.

The US saw the biggest increase in private equity transactions with a 52 percent rise in deals led by buyout funds, accounting for a total of $ 46.4 billion so far this year.

An analysis found that even a big increase to a full retirement age of 70 would only take care of 25 % of the Social Security funding gap, while a 1 % tax increase would make up for 52 % of the problem and eliminating the taxable wage cap would pay for 74 %.

If you've seen the movie The Big Short, you may remember the scene where right before one of the funds was getting ready to increase the size of their bet against the mortgage industry, they were a little bit concerned.

One of the biggest challenges facing all levels of government in the 21st Century has been Canadians» increasing reluctance to pay the higher taxes needed to fund the services they want.

Unlike the major retail banks, online banks have increased their savings rates in bigger increments as the federal fund rises.

«Overall, this is the biggest year - to - year increase in defense funding in 15 years — a $ 61 billion increase over FY2017 enacted levels.»

But the progressive vision of bigger government remains unsustainable, because the tax increase is insignificant as a funding device: If even under the....

The fund, managed by rural property veteran David Bryant, also grew distributions by 4 per cent to 8.92 cents in FY16 (a yield of about 5.4 per cent) as it benefited from rising global demand for the commodities its properties produce, the increasing scale and value of its portfolio and growing appetite for agribusiness from big institutional investors.

This comes after big cuts in SUNY funding and increase in tuition.

Lawmakers are also skeptical of Cuomo's promise to balance the budget — without big spending increases — while still funding many of the pricey proposals he laid out in his state of the state, which include upgrades to airports, big investments in economic development and increases in spending on education and workforce development.

One question focused on possible reasons to vote for «Woodstock,» citing reasons like fighting to improve the economy by taking on big businesses and monopolies, pushing for campaign finance reform, increasing education funding, changing the tax code to require the wealthy and large corporations to pay more and raising the minimum wage.

Kellogg said that for her and her running mates, the big challenges facing Hurley are, «Making a change in our local government, protecting the quality of life that we have in Hurley as development pressures move up the Thruway, protecting our water and the beautiful scenic qualities of our town, and maintaining our low tax rates as NYS mandates additional responsibilities to the localities without providing funding (at the same time that they cap our annual budget increases) and as we get additional pressures from New York City to reduce their tax contributions for the reservoir property.»

Cuomo's office said the state's rate of funding increase for Big Apple schools is 35 percent higher than City Hall's contribution over the three - year span.

In addition, the fund balance — money left over from the prior year, which can be used to reduce the tax levy increase if doing so leaves the town with a big enough cushion for emergencies — is also smaller, meaning that using it to provide tax relief may be difficult.

She said to increase survivor safety and perpetrators» accountability, the government had established two gender - based violence response centres in two of the biggest markets in the capital city of Accra, in addition to the setting up of a Domestic Violence Fund to assist in the rehabilitation and re-integration of victims.

As an example of one area where they've butted heads, he cited the state's refusal to increase education funding for the city after a landmark court ruling found the Big Apple has been consistently shortchanged.

Politically, the temptation to increase the giveaway would be irresistible: Why not fund a 25 percent discount for the slightly less poor, or a bigger one for the most needy?

In this effort to increase funding, the biggest ally of seniors and senior advocates was Council Member Margaret Chin, chair of the City Council Committee on Aging.

That's why the UFT is making another big push this year to increase Teacher's Choice funding in the city budget.

Now, parents and some state legislators think it is time the City of Buffalo pay a bigger part of the education bill, especially since the city has not increased its funding for schools in more than a decade.

The final city budget for the coming fiscal year will contain a 62 percent increase in funding for Teacher's Choice following a big social media and member - lobbying campaign by the UFT to show City Council members the direct impact that Teacher's Choice has on classroom learning.

But some of the other big - ticket items in the proposed budget plan, including the $ 163 million free college tuition plan, will only increase spending, Stec said, noting the 4.4 percent increase in the state's general fund.

«No one has a big interest in the tax component,» one Albany insider said, adding that there was a growing belief in the state capitol that the tax increases were a surreptitious way of funding the city's looming public employee union contracts.

The biggest civilian science funders — the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the Department of Energy's Office of Science — would all get budget increases that would not keep pace with inflation.

Moving nations out of «comfort zones» The scale of the need, combined with the unlikelihood of big increases in taxpayer - funded aid from the United States or Europe, she said, makes private - sector participation all the more important.

«It's a big increase, and I'll bet it will go up,» thanks to the overall strength of the economy and increased funding for higher education, says John Fulton, a vice provost at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and author of the report.

(see funding table) NIH was the big winner in this year's omnibus, garnering a full $ 2 billion increase over FY 2015.

By providing a $ 3 billion funding increase for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for fiscal year (FY) 2018 — the biggest NIH funding increase in 15 years — Congress has taken bold action to regain much - needed momentum in cancer research following a decade of stagnant funding for the NIH.

Among Freeman's specific recommendations are a «20 percent federal tax credit to electricity and natural gas utilities that gives highest priority to the efficient use of the energy they supply,» and ban on new coal or nuclear plants and retirement of the existing plants within the next 30 years, government - funded demonstration plants for Big Solar and hydrogen, increasing federal fuel economy standards one mile - per - gallon a year over the next 24 years, tax credits for plug - in hybrids or flex - fuel vehicles, and an excess - profits tax on oil to fund the tax credits.

If they did one on COTS and CCiCap they would come to similar conclusions but the big kicker here is that the NASA funding is pretty much fixed and any schedule slippage resulting in cost increase is picked up by the commercial partners.

Much of this increase in eating opportunity is likely to have been funded by Big Food.

The school district could not know exactly what Corbett planned to do with the education budget, but it recognized that a big increase in state funding to offset the elimination of federal stimulus funding was unlikely.

In a new analysis, Douglas Webber of Temple University finds that increased state for public - welfare programs — in particular, Medicaid — is the single biggest contributor to the decline in higher - education funding, with a $ 1 increase in per capita public - welfare spending associated with a $ 2.44 decrease in per - student higher - education funding.

John White and Joel Klein wrote in The Daily Beast on the benefits of carefully replacing persistently failing urban schools, and Jennifer Brown of The Denver Post showed how big promises and increased funding alone won't get the job done.

Funding must also be increased for pupils with special educational needs or disabilities, early years pupils and 16 - 19 education, all of which have suffered even bigger real terms cuts since 2010.

The district's rapidly increasing obligations to the Chicago Teachers» Pension Fund represent one of its biggest liabilities, putting enormous stress on the school system's budget as it makes hundreds of millions of dollars worth of annual pension payments.

Even with that big increase in the U.S., however, several other nations would still spend more on students than we would; but what a difference those extra funds could make in our country.

Considering the increase in funding for charter schools and the probable outcome of Malloy's «Commissioner's Network» program, Achievement First may very well be the entity that is the single biggest winner from Malloy's bill.

«But when you look at the big picture of how our education system is set up, it's not structured to take those funding increases and turn them into better results for students.»

What the Republican legislative leaders did then — and they along with McCrory have chosen to do since — is to cut taxes for the wealthy and big corporations rather than restore — let alone increase — funding for public education.

Moreover, the EdNext pollsters theorize that support for increases in funding rises in election years, when this issue is most hotly debated, and it's therefore unsurprising that it was seen as the biggest problem in public education.

For instance, it is irresponsible for officeholders to reduce school funding while giving more tax breaks to big corporations and the super-rich, while laying off teachers and increasing class sizes, and while forcing educators to teach to the test rather than teaching critical thinking or problem - solving.

The report is the Governor will «increase per - pupil funding for charter schools from $ 9,400 to $ 12,000» and that at least $ 1,000 per - pupil would be a transferred directly for the resource poor urban districts to the big - time donor supported charter schools that have recruited students from their area.