Sentences with phrase «cited more state funding»

During his election - night speech, Evers cited more state funding and improving the rhetoric around the teaching profession as priorities.

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Several months ago, Paterson — citing the state's $ 9.2 billion budget hole — vowed to cut off funding for the state parks system, meaning that 41 parks and 14 historic sites would be shut down altogether and services cut at 24 more.

Citing the environmental, economic and political ramifications of President Donald Trump's pullout from the Paris climate accord — as well as the perilous effects of inconsistent weather and more intense storms that have already befallen their cities and counties — more than 200 New York officials on Monday called on state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli to divest the state Common Retirement Fund of companies that contribute to man - made climate change.

Citing funding cuts to public institutions in California and other states, Cole himself warned that «we could blow it if we follow the lead of some states, which don't seem to understand that it's infinitely more difficult to recreate excellence than to preserve it.»

Indeed, in a 2013 examination of charter school laws, researchers found the most popular purpose cited in state law for charter schools was to provide competition.41 The triumph of the market rationale over the laboratory theory also helps explain why more than 80 percent of states with charter school laws allow public funds to go to private, for - profit charter operators.42