Sentences with phrase «cuts in special education programs»

Yet, the district is making huge spending cuts in Special Education programs in spite of 33 % of our students being labelled as Special Needs students.

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However, the projected job growth in this field over the next ten years is just 6 %, likely due to budget cuts at the local and state levels that has led to the reduction in special education programs in some areas.

The documents obtained by The Post — dated May 23, the day the president's budget is expected to be released — outline the rest of the cuts, including a $ 15 million program that provides child care for low - income parents in college; a $ 27 million arts education program; two programs targeting Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian students, totaling $ 65 million; two international education and foreign language programs, $ 72 million; a $ 12 million program for gifted students; and $ 12 million for Special Olympics education programs.

But the Democratic governor also wants a $ 52.9 million cut in funding for special education, after - school programs, reading tutors and other services in low - performing public schools across the state.

This budget proposal not only harms children, by cutting vital programs such as special education services, reading tutors and after - school programs, but, as legislators point out, it hurts local taxpayers since municipalities will be forced to fill in the gaps.

Instead, what interests me is the fact that these cuts — coupled with other challenges that teachers faced in 2011 — targeted students in poverty and students with special needs, that they targeted arts and physical - education programs, and that they severely disrupted school processes as one seismic change after another was proposed.

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July 24, 2013: NSBA Letter to House Appropriations Subcommittee on FY2014 Labor, Health & Human Services Education Appropriations bill NSBA expresses concerns about funding cuts in proposed FY2014 appropriations for Title I grants for disadvantaged students and IDEA (special education) Education Appropriations bill NSBA expresses concerns about funding cuts in proposed FY2014 appropriations for Title I grants for disadvantaged students and IDEA (special education) education) programs.

The paper makes the point that state public education funding was cut by $ 5 billion over the 2011 - 12 biennium and that bilingual and special education programs suffered as a result, thereby contributing to the decline in achievement.

The single biggest cut in this year's school budget is for programs intended to support students who need special education services.

Shelby County Schools in Memphis are cutting programs like special education and teachers and staff and other important positions and resources that help a good school function.

For California districts, that means a two - month reprieve from facing potentially hundreds of millions of dollars in funding cuts to special education programs and Title I aid for low - income students, along with tens of millions in cuts to the preschool program Head Start, career and technical education and grants for teacher training.

Trump and U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos are seeking a small cut for special education grants, while they sought to keep traditional Title I aid at $ 14.9 billion, separate from the $ 1 billion choice program they want under Title I. Funding for the 21st Century Community Schools Program, which funds after - school and other enrichment activities, would be cut by $ 200 million in the bill, bringing total aid down to $ 1Education Betsy DeVos are seeking a small cut for special education grants, while they sought to keep traditional Title I aid at $ 14.9 billion, separate from the $ 1 billion choice program they want under Title I. Funding for the 21st Century Community Schools Program, which funds after - school and other enrichment activities, would be cut by $ 200 million in the bill, bringing total aid down to $ 1education grants, while they sought to keep traditional Title I aid at $ 14.9 billion, separate from the $ 1 billion choice program they want under Title I. Funding for the 21st Century Community Schools Program, which funds after - school and other enrichment activities, would be cut by $ 200 million in the bill, bringing total aid down to $ 1 bprogram they want under Title I. Funding for the 21st Century Community Schools Program, which funds after - school and other enrichment activities, would be cut by $ 200 million in the bill, bringing total aid down to $ 1 bProgram, which funds after - school and other enrichment activities, would be cut by $ 200 million in the bill, bringing total aid down to $ 1 billion.

School boards must now look for extra money to shore up federally mandated programs such as special education, which can not be cut despite a loss in funding.

The programs that would be spared cuts in the upcoming school year include Title I and Title II of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, special education, and career technical eEducation Act, special education, and career technical eeducation, and career technical educationeducation.

However, while vital programs are cut, the companies that own Connecticut's twenty - three (23) charter schools will be given more than $ 100 million in scarce public funds this year even though these privately owned, but publicly funded, schools refuse to educate their fair share of students who require special education services and students who need additional help with the English Language.

While legislators are going into special session, cities and towns across Connecticut are cutting local public school programs as a result of the inadequate education funding that is part of the state budget that was agreed upon in a deal between Governor Dannel Malloy and Democratic legislators earlier this month.

Special education programs are always among the first to be cut in a budget crisis, through ironically, they're the ones most in need of funds.

Professional development, the after - school tutoring program, two special education teachers, a literacy coach and $ 60,000 in instructional supplies would be just some of the difficult cuts Pamlico County would have to make as a result of the Arapahoe expansion.