Sentences with phrase «by deep funding cuts»

Challenged by deep funding cuts and the need to keep pace with requirements that the Legislature was not prepared to relax, local educational agencies were actually encouraged by the Schwarzenegger administration to seek flexibility through the wavier process beginning in 2008.

Not exact matches

NYSUT gave its top honor to Kennedy last April following a bruising budget battle during which the union and the governor were at odds on his proposed deep education funding cuts (eventually approved by the Legislature).

Others say the governor and legislature need to do more to respond to potential actions by President Donald Trump and the Republican - led Congress that could lead to deep funding cuts, and a loss of immigrant rights.

Testifying at the year's first NYC Council budget hearing, de Blasio's Budget Director (and former top Assembly staffer) Dean Fuleihan said the city would be hurt by deep cuts proposed by Cuomo in funding for homeless services and insufficient education funding.

Funding provided by the Cuomo administration is now $ 9 billion less than required by court orders, leading to deep cuts for the Syracuse City School District schools and all throughout the State.

ELIZABETHTOWN The omnibus government spending bill passed by Congress and signed by the president last month rejects deep cuts to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and fully funds the agency at 2017 spending levels.

Dean Fuleihan (pictured) said the city would be hurt by deep cuts in money for homeless services and insufficient education funding in Andrew Cuomo's budget.

Throughout all this, legislators continue to reject the deep cuts sought by the Trump Administration, opting instead for smaller reductions with some targeted increases, with the possibility alive that additional funding could be added later in the process should Congress reach a spending deal.

Congress also preserved funding for a polar - orbiting satellite program that was targeted for deep cuts by the Administration.

The fiscal 2018 bill, approved by voice vote, would provide more funding than the Trump administration's request for many Department of Energy (DOE) offices but still would lead to deep cuts in energy programs if enacted.

Deep education funding cuts weaken that future workforce by diminishing the quality of elementary and high schools.

Deep cuts in state K - 12 spending can limit or stymie those reforms by limiting the funds generally available to improve schools and by terminating or undercutting specific reform initiatives.

In the letter to appropriators, NAESP and NASSP stated that «school principals, education stakeholders and the public deserve to know how the Committee would fund federal education programs,» and urged the Subcommittee to have an «open debate about deep cuts in education funding by holding a Subcommittee markup.»

An analysis of the Christie campaign's May 1 ad by PolitiFact New Jersey, a news fact - checking organization, said that while its claim about record K - 12 funding was true, the ad left out the fact that Mr. Christie had previously made deep cuts to state public school aid of nearly $ 1 billion.

Assembly Speaker John Perez moved Wednesday to reverse deep cuts to state support of child care programs by proposing repayment of $ 1 billion in Proposition 98 settle - up» funds.»

Instead, state control and grossly inadequate state funding have led to dozens of neighborhood school closures, deep cuts in programs and services in District schools, and the disenfranchisement of families, whose concerns about their children's education were ignored by the SRC.

However, New Leaders is extremely concerned by the deep cuts to education funding contained in the bill that recently passed the Committee; we strongly urge Members of the Senate to consider restoring, and even expanding, funding for critical education programs as part of an overall increase in non-defense discretionary spending as the bill moves to the Senate floor.

While Boulder Valley's budget is in good shape thanks to an annual $ 22.5 million tax increase approved by voters in November, many other districts are facing deep budget cuts because of decreases in state funding.