Sentences with phrase «cuts to education by»

The Lib Dems also want to end cuts to education by protecting per - pupil spending «in real terms, including in further education».

Any call for massive cuts to education by the same people who push for «vouchers» so they can send their kids to private Catholic schools and such, are the Christian Right seeking to gut secular education because they hate it.

Not exact matches

In order to create tax cuts in the province's education and healthcare systems, the party is also looking to find savings by reducing the number of grants and tax credits going to businesses.

His bid for the presidency was marred by a seemingly inadequate knowledge of national affairs, which was most pronounced during a televised debate that showed Perry unable to remember the name of a third federal department he'd said he planned to cut, along with the Departments of Commerce and Education.

That a 15 - year - old girl would be targeted and shot by the Taliban, live to tell the tale and then continue to fight for the education of women in Pakistan is the kind of story that cuts through cultural and geographic boundaries.

Protecting major transfers to persons, spending on health and education and other spending such as that for Aboriginal programs, research and development, and assuming you won't revisit defense and international assistance, then to find an additional $ 8 to $ 11 billion by 2015 - 16 would require major cuts in labor market programs, spending on the homeless, infrastructure programs, and last, but certainly not least, government personnel costs.

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The Philippine organizers of the Global March mention following: widespread poverty and social inequality resulting in the erosion of the family's capacity to nurture and protect children, the rise of informal economy requiring simple skills and technologies, globalization of capitalism where underdeveloped nations provide the rich with cheap labor, disrupted family patterns due to migration, AIDS, etc. and inadequate basic services from government, including education, due to cut of the state budget of non-profit sectors to follow structural adjustment programme dictated by the IMF and the World Bank.

In the past year, food manufacturers and retailers scaled up their ambitions and efforts to cut consumer food waste by standardizing food date labels, including The Consumer Goods Forum's Call to Action to standardize date labeling worldwide by 2020, complemented by enhanced consumer education of meaning of date labels.

After following closely developments in the impact sensor area for a number of years, and believing that this cutting edge technology had the potential to revolutionize the sideline identification of concussion in contact and collision sports and combat the chronic underreporting of concussions by athletes (which a new study has just shown persists, despite increased education), we decided to beta test the Shockbox football helmet sensor (one of the sensors nearing market launch).

In the U.S., the «Back to Sleep» public education campaign has been credited with cutting SIDS - also known as «crib death» - by more than 50 percent since 1994.

Cuomo's preliminary budget allocates $ 300 million less for the NYC Department of Education than was expected, according to a new report, and Cuomo wants to cut funding for charter school lease compensation by $ 86 million.

The sticking point appear to be (surprise, surprise) education aid, which Paterson wants to cut by $ 1.3 billion and the Assembly Democrats want to restore — at least to some degree.

If the budget isn't done by then, Paterson said, he'll be putting the rest of it into extender bills — including education — and force the lawmakers to choose between a shutdown and passing controversial cuts.

Speaking at the sod cutting ceremony to officially commission an ultra-modern computer laboratory for the Kongo SHS, the CEO of NPA, Mr. Asaga, underlined some policy interventions by government to accelerate the pace of development in ICT education.

NYSUT gave its top honor to Kennedy last April following a bruising budget battle during which the union and the governor were at odds on his proposed deep education funding cuts (eventually approved by the Legislature).

Of course, it is true that population growth of any kind puts pressure on infrastructure, but in reality falling investment in public services represents a political choice by the current Conservative government, which has opted to spend the tax revenues generated by immigrants and refugees on tax cuts for businesses and reducing the deficit rather than expanding healthcare and education provision.

Ellen's final ministerial job as Minister of Education was cut short by her untimely death in 1947 but not before, against strong opposition, initiating the raising of the school leaving age to 15.

The union also released the results of a poll conducted by National Opinion Research that found 63 percent of New Yorkers would prefer to see a temporary income tax increase on the state's highest earners (1 percent for those who make more than $ 1 million and 2 percent for those who make over $ 5 million) over education funding cuts of between $ 800 million and $ 1.4 million.

Most swing voters aren't persuaded by the case for near - revolution; but they are persuaded by more money for the NHS, opposition to so - called education cuts, and changes to tuition fees.

Stung by the expiration of federal aid intended to help states balance budgets as they seek to recover from the recession that began in 2008, the final budget is also expected to include another cut in local aid to cities and towns and to call for reduced growth in the rate of spending on education and health care, although special education is one of the few areas in which significant investments appear imminent.

Findings from a project led by London's Institute of Education and funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Department for International Development (DFID) show that using new ways of encouraging young children to stay in regular schooling cut drop - out rates by 42 per cent in just a year.

House Republicans are seeking to cut the U.S. Education Department's budget by $ 2.4 billion, or 3.5 percent — a substantial reduction, though far smaller than the $ 9.2 billion in cuts that Trump proposed.

This economy is shrinking badly, and Walker, his Republican buddies, and removing nearly a billion dollars from circulation by cutting education budgets are to blame.

• In practical and policy terms, what this means is that the APC administration to be sworn in on October 15, 2018, by the grace of God, must resume good governance that was cut short four years ago, and once again prioritise social investments in education, healthcare and other social protection programmes that reduce the cost of living, while raising the quality of life.

Sixth form colleges and school sixth forms will be hit by the particularly savage cuts of up to 20 % to 16 - 19 education.

Although DeFrancisco is hurt by widespread GOP support of Marc Malorino — his chief rival in the May nominating convention — voters should consider DeFrancisco's vow to cut taxes, his previous positions on the Syracuse City School District Board of Education and city council and his 40 - year undefeated record in political races.

By doing so, we will prevent future cuts to education funding and ensure that every teacher is held to a fair and meaningful standard of excellence.»

A lower reimbursement rate for some providers would lead to chaos and inequity in the early childhood system by cutting funds from community based organizations that provide care and education for New York's children.

Meanwhile, students, parents and community members organized by the Alliance for Quality Education, Citizen Action of New York and the New York City Coalition for Educational Justice delivered valentines to state lawmakers» local offices in the Capital District Buffalo, Syracuse, Binghamton, Queens, the Bronx, Brooklyn and Long Island asking them to reject Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposed education Education, Citizen Action of New York and the New York City Coalition for Educational Justice delivered valentines to state lawmakers» local offices in the Capital District Buffalo, Syracuse, Binghamton, Queens, the Bronx, Brooklyn and Long Island asking them to reject Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposed education education aid cuts.

The unusually high percentage of school budgets that passed yesterday in spite of dire predictions by everyone from Gov. David Paterson on down has become fodder for the teachers union and its allies in the fight to restore $ 1.4 billion worth of education cuts proposed by the governor.

-- open to entertaining the restoration of education aid proposed by both the Senate and Assembly in their respective one - house budgets (recall that just yesterday he insisted there's «flexibility» in his executive budget proposal), he basically accused districts that say they can't afford to cut back of playing politics with kids.

Iannuzzi will begin his latest term at a critical juncture for the labor movement, as issues like collective bargaining and seniority are under attack nationwide, and as public K - 12 and higher education in New York struggle to cope with the devastating effects of more than $ 1 billion in cuts by state government.

As this year's A-level students prepare to receive their results, the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union, is calling on the Government not to squander their potential by further funding cuts to education and training.

Excerpt: «As your state legislator I will work to preserve education spending as a priority investment by cutting mismanagement, waste and squander.»

The rest would be funded by cuts to other areas of the education budget.

He made cuts to Medicaid and increased education spending by $ 1.76 billion.

Albany, NY — Host Alan Chartock is joined by SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher, who is marking two years in her role, to discuss tuition, education cuts, and why SUNY can be an economic engine for the state.

From education to social services to the environment, Democratic leaders rejected cuts proposed by Malloy and restored millions to the budget.

In September, Bloomberg ordered a partial hiring freeze and told city agency directors to shrink their budgets by 5.4 percent this year and 8 percent next year, with smaller cuts for the Department of Education and police and fire departments.

In addition to cutting the Department of Education's budget by $ 350 million, the plan replaces $ 853 million of expiring Federal stimulus funding with city money.

But Democrats, who run the Assembly, continue to argue that most increased education funding should go to the highest - need schools, which would happen if it were put in the «foundation» funding pot by which most state aid is allocated, and which also was cut drastically during the economic downturn.

Ian Mearns, a Labour member of the Commons education select committee, said the minister was clearly «on a different planet» to the families and youngsters hit by coalition cuts.

«This bold action plan continues to deliver on the needs of New Yorkers by creating jobs, cutting taxes, investing in education and rebuilding our infrastructure from the ground up.

Democratic legislators, who opposed deep cuts in social services and education spending to close a $ 10 billion deficit, tried to alter the tax by introducing a «true» millionaires tax on the highest income earners.

Agencies under the UJA - Federation umbrella have lost a total of $ 6 million due to Paterson's veto of legislative earmarks known as member - item grants, the latest in eight cycles of budget cuts that have rocked the non-sectarian network of special education, child care, mental health, immigrant and other services, lowering revenue by 5 to 7 percent, said Soloway.

«I am dismayed by Governor Andrew Cuomo's public threat to shut down New York State's government if we do not approve budget cuts that will most definitely hurt the poor, our children's education, New York's healthcare system, and our senior citizens, Diaz said.»

The public spending cuts will wound a sector bolstered by injections of funding under Labour from the mid-90s when money was redirected away from universities to early years learning and further education.

The letter takes issue with Cuomo's deep health care and education spending cuts while giving wealthy New Yorkers a «massive tax break» by allowing the temporary three - year PIT increase to expire on schedule at the end of this year.