Sentences with phrase «coalition over school funding»

Education Secretary Michael Gove has attempted to play down a row within the coalition over school funding, focussing instead on Labour's record.

Education Secretary Michael Gove attempts to play down a row within the coalition over school funding, focussing instead on Labour's record.

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Lucy Anderson from the National Policy Forum said Labour must seek to re-establish a form of local authority control over schools and Heather Wakefield from UNISON said that local government has been the biggest victim of the coalition's austerity binge and that, with privatisation, huge amounts of public funds were wasted when local government contracted out public services.

A row has broken out in the coalition over school places funding, with allies of Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg accusing the Education Secretary Michael Gove of «lunacy».

Schools could opt to offer the same schemes, but will have more autonomy over how to do so as the Department for Education (DfE) reorganises the way it funds projects to tie in with the coalition's emphasis on localism.

Labour has also promised to reverse the $ 30 billion reduction to school funding over the next decade revealed by the Coalition in its 2014 budget.

Finally, RFA assessed the impact of DEC funding on the coalition and on the debate over school governance in NYC.

For the 2013 - 14 budget year, a broad coalition of organizations, school stakeholders, education professionals, parents and community members are calling on the state legislature to: — Restore the nearly $ 1 billion in state funding cuts (made in each of the last two years) over a three -LSB-...]

Over the next six years the Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Advocacy paid Gaffney Bennett at least $ 540,000 to push for more charter school funding and changes to Connecticut's charter school laws, money and changes that would directly benefit Achievement First.

Associate Professor David Thomas, from the Menzies School of Health Research in Darwin, told Croakey that much momentum has been lost over the past two years, since the Coalition Government announced a review of Tackling Indigenous Smoking and halved its funding in the 2014 Budget with a $ 130 million cut.