Sentences with phrase «cut to schools»

The proposed cut to school budgets would bridge about $ 34 million from that.

Many of those solutions, which represent proven and sustainable methods to prevent violence in schools, have not been fully realized because of severe cuts to school funding over the past few years.

The fix included $ 147 million in cuts to school aids.

Ideas like this are gaining support from advocates given the state's estimated $ 10 billion budget deficit, which could require billions in cuts to schools and health care.

Third, even with cuts to school district budgets, charter schools like the one I went to still manage to do a better job, with less money than district schools.

And this situation is likely to get worse with rising pupil numbers and real term cuts to school funding.

As schools are making plans for next year and preparing their budgets, we have had a number of questions about budget cuts to school sites.

The hearing focused largely on the administration's proposed cuts to school programs while boosting funding for private - school vouchers and charter schools.

We would love help in this as the school districts and state legislature are looking at making more cuts to school libraries in the next few years.

This year marks another year of drastic cuts to school librarians.

The report suggests that in light of an overall cut to school budgets, leveraging existing, established sources of support for underperforming schools represents an «effective use of resources».

These included closures of children's centres and cuts to school support services, the conference was told.

Already, communities have suffered cuts to schools, first responders and other essential services.

Yet, when the district experienced budget cuts, they decided to apply the same cuts to every school.

Direct cuts to schools were kept to a minimum, while the majority of the cuts were made to the central office.

«There is no doubt that real - terms cuts to school funding and subsequent financial difficulties are putting our schools under increasing pressure,» he said.

Depending on how much more is cut from the central office, school sites may learn about budget cuts to their school sites this summer.

However it's clear from our survey that cuts to school budgets are undermining the support schools can provide.

By midday he was leading a protest against cuts to the schools building programme.

While neither the Malloy administration nor Mayor Finch consulted with the Bridgeport Board of Education, their «deal» will actually create an immediate budget deficit in this year's Bridgeport school budget, a budget deficit that require mid-year cuts to school programs.

«These challenges are compounded by cuts to school staffing and to external specialist support.

«Set this against cuts to the school building programme and we have a perfect storm where more kids will be crammed into bulge classes in schools designed for far fewer pupils.

The threat of additional, midyear cuts to schools posed by the newly adopted budget plan is unlikely, sources briefed on the deal said Tuesday.

NYSUT President Andy Pallotta, speaking after the State of the State speech, said he's confident that the governor will find a way to at least avoid cuts to schools.

A floor above, outside the Senate parlor, teachers and education advocates opposed Cuomo's planned 7.3 percent cut to school aid.

Budget hearings «up north» next week Public education grabbed the spotlight at last week's Joint Finance Committee budget hearings last week, and the next round is expected to reap more of the same — especially given the funding plight that has been plaguing rural schools in northern Wisconsin as a result of state cuts to schools over the past two biennial budgets.

The budget proposal would typically include a breakdown of how much additional money would be available for different types of school aid, such as to increase Foundation Aid or to restore the Gap Elimination Adjustment, a formula that has distributed cuts to school districts as the state has grappled with budget deficits.

John Pugh, the Liberal Democrats» education spokesperson, speculated that the government would be «forced to rethink» its «deeply flawed funding formula», which he said would see «savage cuts to schools in most areas of the country».

Walker's policies pushed through the largest cuts to school aid in state history and the largest per pupil cuts in the country in 2011 - 2012.

Francesca Richmond reports on local authorities successfully challenging government cuts to the school building budget

The parents of about half a million pupils in England are being sent a letter on Thursday warning of cuts to schools because of funding shortages.

ALBANY — Gov. David A. Paterson has reportedly put off what would unquestionably be a bloody fight with lawmakers over cuts to school aid — at least for the moment.

Meanwhile, State Police arrested 33 demonstrators — protesting cuts to school aid — in the hall outside Cuomo's office.

The $ 4.1 trillion White House budget proposal calls for cuts to school and health care funding that helps the state's neediest children.

The $ 132.5 billion budget cuts spending by two percent and eliminates a $ 10 billion deficit through cuts to schools, public colleges, social service programs and health care.

Additionally, the STRB has accepted the Department for Education's position that the pay awards can be managed without any more funding — effectively meaning a further cut to school budgets.

«The government must urgently work with the teaching community to address the many factors which are making teachers feel demoralised and under - valued; as well as reversing their devastating cuts to school budgets, which are putting increasing pressure on teachers and schools.»

Since the news of mid-year cuts last fall, many other teachers, students groups, school leaders, parents, and community members have been vocal in demanding no more cuts to school sites.

Mary Bousted, general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL), has warned cuts to school library budgets risk the literacy of children.

School support staff such as teaching assistants and school administrators are working overtime as a result of increasing workloads and cuts to school staff, new research shows.

The report was released as Arizona, Oklahoma and West Virginia continue to feel the aftershocks from teacher protests over low pay and cuts to school spending that shut down schools for days.

My fear is that unwitting parents and community members will join SFC because they want to rectify the problems they see every day in their children's public schools, such as underfunding, lack of arts programs, large class sizes, and cuts to the school year, only to find that they get roped into very different goals.

«Whether it is unaffordable housing, cuts to school classrooms, leaving seniors to suffer in understaffed care homes, long waits for basic healthcare, the lack of family doctors, or hallway medicine — ordinary individuals and families have paid the price for Christy Clark's tax cuts to the rich,» said Horgan.

Over the last two decades, the amount of time children spend playing each day has gone down considerably due to such factors as a lack of play spaces, the rising costs of organized sports and equipment and budget cuts to school physical education programs.

Students stood before the Chicago Board of Education on Wednesday and excoriated the members on the food served at lunch and cuts to school sports.

In 1981, Congress passed legislation that made substantial cuts to school meal programs.

No matter what, sources close to Paterson say the looming mental health and cigarette ideas are mere appetizers, and that meatier cuts to school aid, higher education and property tax relief could be on tap after next week.