Sentences with phrase «chancellor said»

As the chancellor said in his party conference speech last week, maths is now the most popular A-level in England and the numbers taking further maths continues to grow.

Those are areas where public charter schools have grown quickly — in some neighborhoods enrolling more than half of public school students, the chancellor said — and leaving DCPS with half - empty buildings.

The chancellor said 250,000 students would benefit from extra loans - for tuition fees for students studying for higher level skills in further education, part - time students and postgraduates.

The chancellor said education was the «door to opportunity» and announced a new national funding formula from 2017.

The school system recently created an Office of Innovation and Research to develop strategies for boosting achievement, particularly for African American and Hispanic male students, the chancellor said.

The chancellor said she sees the evaluation system as a way to offer teachers the assistance they need to teach the Common Core standards.

A December 2014 letter from Cuomo's office to the regents chancellor said, «The Governor has little power over education, which is governed by the Board of Regents.»

In total 22 million people on low to middle incomes stand to gain # 120 this year, the chancellor said.

The chancellor said it was important to have an «equity lens» to serve disadvantaged students and vowed «we're going to have resources» to serve them when they're integrated in schools with higher - performing students.

In a highly political speech lasting just over an hour, the chancellor said the # 83bn public spending cuts over the next four years in the government's most severe financial retrenchment in decades were based on reform, fairness and growth.

To loud cheers from Tory MPs, who rose to wave their order papers, the chancellor said: «The average savings in departmental budgets will be lower than the previous government implied in its March budget.

Just an hour before Mr Rees - Mogg contested Mrs May's customs - partnership proposal, the shadow chancellor said that disputes over the customs union would cause the Conservative Party to «fall apart».

The former chancellor said that the government had protected too many areas of public spending after the new work and pensions secretary, Stephen Crabb, appeared to indicate that ministers would rule out cuts to the welfare budget for the rest of the parliament.

The shadow chancellor said the coalition government had given the «richest people in the country a huge tax cut» by scrapping the 50p top rate - something he said «can not be right».

«I won't support that kind of dialogue,» the chancellor said, adding that some of the parent's assumptions were wrong.

«We neither want to let banks off making their fair contribution, nor do we want to drive them abroad,» the chancellor said during the spending review.

The shadow chancellor said he was looking at cutting capital gains tax to reward long - term investors, but would keep the lowest rate of corporation tax in the G7.

The shadow chancellor said Labour would «balance the books in a fairer way» as he set out plans to reduce the deficit, that would include unpopular decisions.

The chancellor said it would be «very sad if we turned our back on world» as he reviewed the Parliamentary vote where MPs declined to back military action in Syria.

The chancellor said SUNY will also attempt to cut down on full - scale remedial classes by zeroing in on students» deficiencies and having them take remediation in just the specific areas where they are struggling.

The chancellor said lawmakers should «reopen» a section of the law that increases to about 50 percent the maximum weight that local school districts can assign to so - called «growth» scores in judging teachers» classroom performance.

During a visit to Sunderland, where he announced an extension to the North East Enterprise Zone, the chancellor said: «I am clear that the wealthy should pay more, which is why in the recent budget I increased the tax on very expensive property transactions.

Although the shadow chancellor said he backed the decision to fund the repairs, he said the Royals should think about helping out with the financing of it.

«This week we are going to step up our diplomatic efforts, our humanitarian efforts and make the case for a greater military effort against Isil», the chancellor said.

Fariña also heralded support from state education commissioner MaryEllen Elia who, the chancellor said, has «highlighted that what New York City is doing with struggling schools is something that should be a model for the state.»

On the prospect of opposition to any action, the chancellor said: «Those who are never gonna authorise or sanction or be part of any kind of British military action abroad of course are unpersuadable».

Clegg's second reason for floating a wealth tax was his concern that George Osborne is planning to target the poor after the chancellor said in the budget that an extra # 10bn in welfare cuts may be introduced by 2016.

The shadow chancellor said there was «less of a sense of urgency» around the need to pass an amendment at the party's autumn conference to allow candidates to stand with the support of fewer MPs, because the nature of the parliamentary party had changed.

The shadow chancellor said the levy on homes worth more than # 2m would be introduced in Labour's first budget and that the Treasury would start collecting the money in the 2015 - 16 financial year.

The chancellor said raising personal tax allowances will mean millions paying less — but it's not that simple

Public sector pay While unveiling his emergency budget the chancellor said public sector workers must «share the burden» of reducing spending and warned that unless action was taken more jobs would be lost.

The row broke out after the chancellor said on Sunday he favoured an extra runway, which could be built at Heathrow, and would seek a cross-party consensus to back the controversial move.

«Thank you for that introduction, Adam... Marshall,» the shadow chancellor said, trying to lighten the mood with a gag at his own expense about his Newsnight appearance.

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The slowing growth was due to «the toughest and most challenging year for the economy», the chancellor said, citing high oil prices and a slowdown in consumer spending.

«While we continue to work internationally to seek a global agreement on reducing aviation emissions, each country must take action domestically,» the chancellor said in his pre-Budget report (PBR) statement today.

«This incompetent government can't even organise a humiliating U-turn without messing it up,» the shadow chancellor said, suggesting a meeting between Mr Brown and Mr Field had established an agreement which Mr Darling «was not part of».

«In the last ten years we have achieved an almost unparalleled period of stable economic growth with historically low inflation - I want to keep it that way,» the chancellor said on this morning's Today programme.

The former chancellor said: «When I heard that this Urgent Question had been granted I thought that it was important to be here, although unfortunately we've missed the deadline for the Evening Standard.

The chancellor said he would increase class 4 national insurance contributions by 1 percentage point to 10 % in April 2018, rising again to 11 % in 2019.

They have not, in the past, come up with a sustainable position for Greece,» the chancellor said.

«The chancellor said in his budget that no one earning over # 40k in London should have their rents paid by other working people.

But speaking to BBC Radio Leeds reporter Daragh Corcoran in January, the shadow chancellor said: «If you abolish the whole status it will end up costing Britain money because some people will leave the country.»

There is «no way» left - wing activists will be allowed to force moderate Labour MPs out, the shadow chancellor said.

The shadow chancellor said Britain was coming out of the biggest recession since the war and the party had no choice but to tackle its economic difficulties decisively.

The chancellor backed the scheme in his Tory party conference speech on Monday, but the shadow chancellor said last week there would be no blank cheque from Labour for the project.

Changes to welfare will account for # 11bn worth of savings by 2014/15, the chancellor said, with changes to child benefits, housing benefits and the disability living allowance.

«Numerous colleges, depending on how you did this, would have to be closed,» the chancellor said.

Speaking at the think tank Demos, the shadow chancellor said the party is committed to the progressive policies of New Labour in a manner which Mr Brown's administration is not.

12:04 - The chancellor said train fairs would only rise by 1 % above inflation, so why are they rising by up to 11 %, Miliband asks.