People don't look often enough at the great things our teachers and students are doing, and now that we are facing the possibility of another $ 800,000 in
cuts next school year, teachers need community support more than ever.
Not exact matches
-LRB-...) Television stations, airports, hospitals,
schools, fire brigades and social services from Spain's southernmost tip to the Balearic islands in the east are reducing headcount as Rajoy tasks regions and municipalities with shouldering 60 percent of the
cuts needed to reduce the budget shortfall to 2.8 percent of gross domestic product in the
next two
years.
During a public hearing on the issue, district officials explained the staff
cut was based in part on the current number of students registered for
school next year.
Des Plaines — Increases in music, activity fees and lunch prices are among the ways Elementary
School District 63 plans to reduce the budget deficit
next year without
cutting programs.
Ed Balls has vowed to provide extra funding for
school pupils for the
next three
years, despite the need to
cut the deficit.
Surrounded by business leaders, Governor Cuomo outlined a plan that would
cut business taxes, and result in property tax reductions for businesses and homeowners, if local governments and
schools comply with a set of requirements in the
next three
years.
The $ 145.3 billion spending plan increases
school aid
next year by just under $ 1 billion (which
school boards say is not enough) and over the
next five
years commits to build thousands of units of affordable housing for the homeless, contribute $ 8.3 billion to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, spend $ 22 billion on upstate roads and bridges,
cut taxes for small businesses and create a rebate for Thruway toll payers.
Surrounded by business leaders, Cuomo outlined a plan Monday that would
cut business taxes, and result in property tax reductions for businesses and homeowners, if local governments and
schools comply with a set of requirements in the
next three
years.
PLATTSBURGH — Plattsburgh City
School District will be facing no cuts but plans on restricting certain programs for next school
School District will be facing no
cuts but plans on restricting certain programs for
next schoolschool year.
Schools in Britain will see their budgets slashed by as much as 14 % over the
next four
years in the biggest
cuts to education seen since the 1950s, tax and spending experts warn.
Niagara Falls
school officials are bracing for potential job
cuts of between 45 and nearly 70 employees under
next year's budget to help close an anticipated budget gap of between $ 5.9 million and $ 7.3 million.
The
cuts for
school districts in the Gap Elimination Adjustment were closed by 50 percent, with the proviso the rest would be taken care of
next year — a key campaign pledge for the conference during last
year's elections
Education leaders from across New York said Wednesday they'll need more money than what Gov. Andrew Cuomo has set aside for
schools next year in order to avoid
cuts and improve the overall climate.
Early
next year, newly inaugurated Gov. Andrew Cuomo will have to set forth an austere budget,
cutting more than $ 10 billion from projected state spending —
cuts that will send shock waves through local governments and
school districts, themselves reeling from declining revenue and recession - related spending demands.
«The Institute for Fiscal Studies states that
school spending is expected to fall by at least 7 % in real terms in the
next four
years, the biggest
cut since the 1970s.
City
school leaders say they will be short $ 46 million
next school year, which means they have to make
cuts.
The tax, which Mr. Cuomo wants to eliminate, could bring in billions of dollars in revenue in the
next few
years, cushioning
cuts to
schools and Medicaid.
As I write, there is still no budget agreement in Albany, and the city
school system is facing $ 500 million in
cuts for
next year.
With no state budget and Albany leaders passing emergency spending bills that keep the state government running, the mayor has
cut school budgets for
next year on the assumption that the deepest
cuts to education being contemplated in Albany will come to pass.
That would have meant a real
cut in
schools funding over the
next few
years.
City
schools will get a total funding
cut of $ 510 million
next year under the most austere state budget in more than a decade.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo promised more money for city
schools next year in his budget address on Jan. 17, a welcome reversal after three
years of budget
cuts.
New York City
school principals receive their budgets from Chancellor Joel Klein's office today, Klein says the
schools face
cuts of about 5 - percent
next year, not as deep as he feared.
«We need to work together to insulate children from bearing the brunt of these potential
cuts,» UFT President Michael Mulgrew said on March 24 in testifying before the City Council Education Committee on
next year's
school operating budget.
The mayor told reporters at the press conference that he had had a lengthy conversation with new Governor Andrew Cuomo and was expecting a
cut of some $ 1 billion from the state in
next year's
school budget.
In the face of angry advocates battling Cuomo's 7.3 - percent
cut in
school aid, some lawmakers might rather blame the popular Democrat alone for the historic
cuts and set their sights on spending
next year, an election
year.
Mayor Bloomberg's proposed education budget for
next year does almost nothing to make up for
years of
cuts to programs and staff, even though the state increased
school funding to city
schools next year by more than 4 percent, UFT Vice President Karen Alford testified at a City Council Education Committee hearing on March 21.
It could force deeper budget
cuts next year for many villages,
school districts and the city of Syracuse.
She said that because of the
cuts the state began making in
school aid after the economic downturn, the net amount of operating aid the district would get
next year under Cuomo's budget — $ 217.1 million — would be less than the $ 217.3 million in aid it received in 2008 - 09.
Over half of
schools leaders have said they are looking to
cut staffing costs over the
next year, a survey published by the Association of
School and College Leaders (ASCL) suggests.
Some of the nation's most innovative teacher - quality programs could be in jeopardy as decisionmakers for the Cincinnati public
schools scramble to identify $ 20 million to
cut from
next year's budget.
High
school principals in Philadelphia voted last week to eliminate interscholastic sports and other extracurricular activities for
next school year to meet budget
cuts imposed on them.
Cut to a
year later, and the
next school year has begun.
Over the
next three
years,
schools face a
cut in their main budget on the one hand, and an increase in their pupil premium funding on the other.
If Oregon voters approve the new tax, it is expected to generate $ 387 million over the
next two
years for the state's financially strapped public
schools, which are looking at an 8.4 percent budget
cut this fall and further reductions in the future.
The Institute of Fiscal Studies estimates that
schools in the UK will face up to 12 per cent real term
cuts over the
next Parliament while forecasts suggest pupil numbers will increase by seven per cent, a result of rising immigration and higher birth rates over the
next five
years.
Even before new
cuts bite, a recent survey showed that over 50 per cent of
school leaders expect budget pressures and lack of funding to be their biggest challenge in the
next academic
year.
Data conducted by the Institute of Fiscal Studies suggests that
school budgets are expected to be
cut by eight per cent over the
next five
years.
Boston, Massachusetts,
school officials were told to
cut the
school budget by 10 percent for
next year.
Uncertainty over federal funding is leading many local and state officials to use worst - case scenarios to plan
next year's
school budgets, anticipating at least a 17 percent
cut in federal aid.
Other key findings include: - Squeezed budgets mean many
schools have been forced to shed staff, with further reductions to staff spending expected over the next two years - Teacher shortages seem to be getting worse - Schools that opt for academy status are not embracing the freedoms it brings in terms of curriculum, and teachers» pay and conditions - Secondary governors are using 11 - 16 funding to subsidise their sixth forms, as cuts in post-16 budge
schools have been forced to shed staff, with further reductions to staff spending expected over the
next two
years - Teacher shortages seem to be getting worse -
Schools that opt for academy status are not embracing the freedoms it brings in terms of curriculum, and teachers» pay and conditions - Secondary governors are using 11 - 16 funding to subsidise their sixth forms, as cuts in post-16 budge
Schools that opt for academy status are not embracing the freedoms it brings in terms of curriculum, and teachers» pay and conditions - Secondary governors are using 11 - 16 funding to subsidise their sixth forms, as
cuts in post-16 budgets bite
During study hall the last week of
school with testing done ~ and less assignments for the students to work on ~ I often asked if anyone wished to
cut out «fresh» letters for
next year's bulletin boards.
School budgets are expected to be
cut 8 per cent
cut in real terms over the
next five
years, according to the Institute of Fiscal Studies.
Physics and maths graduates training to be teachers under the
School Direct salaried route
next year could get less cash after the government
cut funding for
schools.
Members of the city
school board voted unanimously Tuesday to approve a budget for
next school year that
cuts $ 30 million from
schools, $ 10 million from the central office and would lay off as many as 300 people district - wide.
The confidential responses from districts indicate how
schools are likely to be different
next year as a result of these
cuts, which are expected to include teacher layoffs.
«We are thankful that public charter
school students are ensured they will have a seat in their
school next year and were spared devastating
cuts.
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Geoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of
School and College Leaders, said that many
schools are so cash - strapped they are unable to afford even a meagre pay rise of 1 % for their staff
next year without having to make further
cuts.
In March, the three support staff unions admonished the trust for its plans to spend almost # 800,000 on its central teams
next year while
cutting jobs and
school budgets.