Sentences with phrase «citing budget woes»
But in July 2010, citing budget woes, the MTA partially rescinded the rebate, only reimbursing residents after they made one round trip in a day.?
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Analysts have cited a legion of reasons for the state's slide in achievement: the steady leaching of resources from the schools that was the inevitable result of the infamous 1970s property - tax revolt led by Howard Jarvis; a long period of economic woes caused by layoffs in the defense industry; curriculum experiments with «whole language» reading instruction and «new math» that were at best a distraction and at worst quite damaging; a school finance lawsuit that led to a dramatic increase in the state's authority over school budgets and operations; and a massive influx of new students and non-English-speaking immigrants that almost surely depressed test scores.
On Friday, The New York Times ran a story called «Higher Education in Illinois Is Dying» and cited rising pension costs as a major factor in the state's budget woes.