Sentences with phrase «budget pressures»

This has been linked to councils limiting services as a result of budget pressures which has resulted in some local authorities no longer employing any educational psychologists.
Corporate law departments face budget pressure and demand more value from their law firms.
Paying teachers according to effectiveness is particularly important when faced with budget pressures.
The net result of these spending cuts will be less money for local cities and counties, putting even more budget pressures on these municipalities.
It is also expensive at a time of increasing budget pressures.
It finds even schools benefiting from the funding shake - up will see their gains wiped out by budget pressures.
The good news is that there are proven ways to reform education which can ease budget pressures while simultaneously raising student achievement.
They also contend with budget pressure even as their portfolios expand in size and complexity.
Clients are looking to «build versus buy» due to increased budget pressure as law firm costs go up — how can firms become more efficient providers?
Yet budget pressures require food companies to keep a firm hand on the costs of sauce manufacturing.
This new report indicates that traditional, inclusive schools will continue to face added budget pressures if the charter sector grows further.
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.
There has also been a steep rise in the percentage of leaders who blame budget pressures for recruitment problems, from nine per cent in 2016 to 33 per cent this year.
The common public line is that, because of budget pressures, class sizes will rise to the extent that learning is virtually impossible.
These positions are public sector and governments at all levels are facing budget pressures, but even so average salaries are close to $ 100,000 and some go considerably higher.
Making leadership a priority Finding time and resource for professional development has become very difficult and this is compounded as schools face increased budget pressures.
That puts more pressure on NOAA to improve its ability to better understand and predict those events, at a time when budget pressure in Washington threatens to reduce the agency's ability to carry out those tasks, Lubchenco said.
This modest increase created budget pressures for the school district that required some midyear cuts, but the district managed to end the fiscal year with a small surplus.
In the rural areas of the United States, hospitals under budget pressures often cut the maternity wards first.
For example, Birmingham will see its grant reduce by a further # 332m by 2016 - 17 at a time when budget pressures — not least adult social care — are estimated to rise by # 273m.
«I have challenged the government on their failure to recruit enough teachers, their failure on school place planning and highlighted the huge budget pressures schools are now facing.
That number stands currently at 69, but will likely change given budget pressures, Ryan said.
Even as they grapple with budget pressures from a sagging national economy, states are being forced to make tough decisions on how they will cope with an even more severe long - term fiscal concern: a projected price tag pushing $ 3 trillion to pay the pensions and health insurance of retired teachers and other government employees.
Liam Collins head of Uplands Community College in Wadhurst, East Sussex, said budget pressures amounted to «a cut of 10 teachers, fewer clubs, no pastoral support, a narrowed curriculum, no counselling for students struggling with mental health issues, crumbling buildings, no IT upgrades, no new textbooks and no school planners.
The Public Accounts Committee heard this week from headteachers who said they had «cut teaching to the bare bones» to meet budget pressures.
• Schools chief Barbara Byrd - Bennett reminded board members that the district faces a $ 1.1 billion budget gap in the 2016 fiscal year, and called for action by state lawmakers to help alleviate budget pressure in the coming fiscal year, which begins in July.
«As federal and state budget pressures continue to intensify, providing this increased transparency on the middle - market seniors population will be essential to attract capital and stimulate private sector investment,» said Beth Burnham Mace, chief economist of NIC.
For our 11th Canadian Lawyer InHouse Annual General Counsel Roundtable, we brought together the heads of legal departments from a range of sectors — old and new economy — but the common thread in the discussion was the challenge of how to do it all under constant budget pressure, often in times of growth but also with diminishing or flat revenue.
Spending control and greater reliance on their own revenues are more promising responses to provincial budget pressures than higher federal transfers, according to a new report released today by the...
Roger Kennedy, who battled growing budget pressures and withstood congressional attempts to dismantle parts of the national park system, announced his resignation Monday as director of the National Park Service.
The review placed significant blame on a shift in emphasis from airworthiness to budget pressures forced upon RAF personnel by the government.
The fact that Congress decided, in a year of intense partisan politics and even more intense budget pressure, to place science among the nation's highest priorities is as close as postdocs are likely to get to a happy ending.
Rockey expanded transparency about NIH policies at a time of unprecedented budget pressures on biomedical researchers.
Meanwhile, NASA administrators, under perennial budget pressure, were having second thoughts about what direction to take with the Finder.
According to The Key's findings, financial worry has spread significantly among school leaders in the last year with 51 per cent considering budget pressures and lack of funding as the biggest challenge for the coming academic year.
Even before new cuts bite, a recent survey showed that over 50 per cent of school leaders expect budget pressures and lack of funding to be their biggest challenge in the next academic year.
Recent budget pressures have chipped away at these funds, revealing the true cost of these schools to students.
The campaign's message appears to run against the current, its leaders acknowledge, because many school districts are responding to recession - driven budget pressures by postponing the very types of capital - improvement projects the coalition is calling for.
Since 2000, more than half of the states have adopted requirements for mentoring novice principals.40 And a number of districts have stepped up their emphasis on professional development and principal coaching despite harsh countervailing budget pressures.
More than one in 10 D.C. public schools will close as part of a plan Chancellor Kaya Henderson put forth Thursday, a retrenchment amid budget pressures, low enrollment and growing competition from public charter schools.
Schools are facing serious budget pressures over the coming years, as the impact of rising pupil numbers, barely - resourced buildings overheads and the uncertainties of the new national funding formula kick in.
The Local Government Association told Schools Week that budget pressures meant that decisions like those in Leeds would become more frequent.
Lynn Knapp, the headteacher of Oxford's Windmill Primary School, warned schools were facing budget pressures despite moves to protect per - pupil funding.
Given that such budget pressures are the new norm for a long time to come, I'd like to renew a discussion that began here just over two years ago, as President Obama was poised to take office, with a post on The President and the Planet, On a Budget.
Severe weather events are becoming more frequent, creating major budget pressures for national governments, especially those in the developing world.
At the same time, it gives the firm some relief from its own budgeting pressure, provides associates with great experience while making them more marketable for the firm, and allows the firm to forge relationships with potential clients.
Faced with the same budget pressures and the same special - interest calls for higher taxes, New York stood its ground.»
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