Sentences with phrase «budget pressures schools»

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School nutrition directors shouldn't feel pressured to cut back on higher - cost healthy food just to balance their budget.

To a large extent, state fiscal policies have caused great pressure on property taxes in needy cities, counties and school districts, including decisions: to reduce revenue sharing; to decrease the share of local school budgets covered by state aid, to divide the non-federal share of Medicaid costs without considering ability to pay, and to allocate STAR benefits... (read more)

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio urged Cuomo and the Legislature to reauthorize mayoral control of New York City's public schools, ratcheting up public pressure as his aides scrambled behind closed doors on several budget - related education issues.

Brannan's request comes in response to mounting pressure on state legislators to secure funding for New York City public schools as Albany lawmakers head into budget negotiations.

That's why, despite all the pressures on the public finances, this Government is protecting the current schools budget.

We used that decision - making power to deliver on promises we had made to the electors: rapid demographic change had led to a shortage of local primary school places, so in the last four years we used the Council's resources to expand local primary schools to create twice as many; concerns about a scruffy and run down high street were addressed by comprehensive neighbourhood renewal; and pressure on household budgets was relieved by freezing the council tax and the cost of resident's parking permits.

Indeed, the move would likely apply more pressure on — or incentive to, depending on your point of view — local governments and school districts to budget within the property tax cap, which was approved in 2011.

The budget is expected to be somewhat more complicated beast this year, with a $ 4.6 billion deficit for lawmakers to close in an election year and the traditional pressures of adding more money for schools.

With less than two weeks before the Buffalo school board is slated to vote on its budget for the fiscal year starting July 1, it's under pressure to spend millions to put aides on every school bus.

Sepulveda noted that the delay in finalizing a state budget has also put pressure on school districts to put together their own spending plans, not knowing what funding will be coming from Albany.

WARRENSBURG — Regardless of the bolstered state education aid in the recently enacted 2016 state budget, area school districts will likely be facing continued financial pressure in upcoming years, area school district officials predicted this week.

«Decade after decade, mandates have been piled on local governments and school districts, straining budgets and increasing pressure on taxpayers,» Cuomo said.

This will address small scale maintenance costs, alleviating pressures on school budgets.

With Gov. Andrew Cuomo pressuring state lawmakers to pass his misguided education proposals as part of the state budget, 1,100 UFT members on March 12 converged on the state capital to shift the focus to the real priority: getting the state to pay the $ 2.5 billion it owes to New York City schools.

With UK school budgets really tight with economic pressures at their height, is it time that us parents started to help ease the burden?

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.

«The staying power of service - learning can be seen in that it has survived and continued over these past five years, despite considerable pressures, such as school budget cuts, focus on meeting state mandates, and concerns with implications of No Child Left Behind,» said Ellen Tenenbaum, a researcher at Westat, the firm responsible for conducting the survey.

In the wake of recession - era budget cuts and increased pressure on school performance, field trips at some schools consist of a webcam, projection screen and Internet connection instead of permission slips, brown - bag lunches and school buses.

At a time when school and educational sector budgets are under pressure, it is essential that local authorities, schools and other educational establishments can ensure that much - needed repair, maintenance, refurbishment and remodelling projects are quickly and efficiently completed without the need to compromise on quality.

These concerns are compounded by a common expectation that budget pressures and lack of funding will be the biggest challenge for schools over the next 12 months.

With the current financial pressures that schools are facing with squeezed budgets and deficits, budget monitoring is becoming an increasingly important and effective element of financial good practice.

Although school budgets are under pressure, safeguarding pupils will always have a high priority.

With school budgets under more pressure than ever, parental contributions are also becoming vital for schools towards the cost of providing technology for individual pupil use and making entire programmes possible.

School budgets are already under a lot of pressure with rising costs and shrinking budgets.

«ASCL urges the STRB to press the DfE to fully fund pay rises so that the government meets the additional costs rather than again expecting them to be met from existing school budgets which are already under huge pressure because of unfunded increases to employers» contributions to teacher pensions and National Insurance costs.»

In places with fast - growing enrollments, the independent public schools also eased pressure on facilities and capital budgets.

Commenting on the figures, Ian Nairn said, «With school and college budgets under increased pressure too many today are missing opportunities to save money and IT staff time by moving on - premise services such as email, storage, web hosting, collaboration apps, disaster recovery and tailored business apps to the Cloud.

Without appropriate planning, meeting their needs can over-stretch district budgets, especially in smaller jurisdictions (and free - standing schools such as charters), putting pressure on the education of other children, causing fiscal distress, and giving rise to political discord.

The latest news also comes as expectations around educational standards continue to increase, and following a Budget which revealed plans to roll out an «achieving educational excellence everywhere» strategy — putting additional pressure on teachers and school leaders.

School budgets are under pressure, of course, but the relatively low capital cost required to improve outdoor facilities delivers far - reaching benefits.

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.

At the same time schools are under pressure to raise educational standards, while seeing budgets squeezed.

Clean schools are successful schools, but the current economic turbulence has put enormous pressure on budgets, and the challenge is now to maintain high standards whilst at the same time reducing costs.

The immense pressure on school budgets resulting from the current funding crisis means that it is imperative that new funding is available to all schools to fund these increases.

With continuous pressure on school and local authority budgets, there continues to be a push for highly sustainable buildings that deliver lower than usual energy costs as well as limiting the ongoing maintenance work that some building types require.

According to the BBC, one of the options includes bringing in a four - and - a-half day week in schools in England to cope with # 3 billion in budget pressures.

We can expect unfunded new cost pressures with a flat cash school budget settlement, and an evolving middle tier via School Commissioners — whose clear remit is yet to be clearly underschool budget settlement, and an evolving middle tier via School Commissioners — whose clear remit is yet to be clearly underSchool Commissioners — whose clear remit is yet to be clearly understood.

Russell Hobby, NAHT general secretary, said: «While there's a better acknowledgement of the extent of mental illness among children and young people than ever before, the services that schools, families and children rely on are under pressure from rising demand, growing complexity and tight budgets.

The opportunity to touch, test and evaluate resources is perhaps one of the most valuable features of Bett, particularly when purchases need to demonstrate clear value to schools for whom budgets are under pressure.

With educational budgets constantly under pressure, schools and academies need an efficient and cost effective partner when it comes to managing their facilities.

Brian Lightman, ASCL general secretary, argued that «huge» budget pressures on schools were leaving headteachers with «no alternative» but to increase class sizes.

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.

As everyone in education is all too painfully aware, frozen budgets and rising costs have conspired to put schools and academies under increased financial pressure and led to cost - cutting measures.

Recent budget pressures have chipped away at these funds, revealing the true cost of these schools to students.

First, appointed (as opposed to elected) school boards would eliminate some of the multitude of political interests and pressures that shape budgeting decisions.

Faced with budget crunches and federal and state pressure to close achievement gaps and turn around awful schools, many districts are cutting their advanced classes.

In addition, the closer connection between schools and parents could counteract the upward pressure that special interests exercise on the budget.

Laptops costing four - figure sums were also stolen from primary and secondary schools across the Scottish capital, putting additional pressure on schools that are already struggling with budgets.

At the same time, letting out facilities can help generate a new stream of income for schools as their budgets come under more and more pressure.

Schools and colleges up and down the country continue to face pressure on standards, space, maintenance and budgets.