Sentences with phrase «cutting public classroom»

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«School districts are currently being forced to cut money from classrooms to pay for the Liberals» failure to take action on improving the energy efficiency of public school buildings.

Homeowners and elected officials are obviously in favor of the cap, but school officials, teachers unions and others involved with public education are claiming that the inability to raise taxes by even a modest amount could mean cuts in the classroom.

Speaking with reporters Wednesday at a ribbon cutting for Manhattan's Public School 191 campus, Fariña said she would promote classroom diversity by rezoning schools, as she did in Manhattan District 3, in other neighborhoods.

The NYC Human Resources Administration and the Parks Department have both proposed cuts to the Parks Opportunity Program (POP), which is a program providing a pay check, job training, and one day of classroom training to people on public assistance through the JTP program.

«We look forward to working with officials in Albany and New York City to minimize the effects of these proposed cuts on our classrooms, and to protect the interests of the city's public school children,» said UFT President Michael Mulgrew.

• What I've picked up from the Liberal Democrat conference so far is that Nick Clegg wants to cut the pay of classroom assistants, home helps, lollipop men and women and other low - paid public sector workers, to means test middle - class mums to decide whether they deserve child benefit, and to keep tuition fees.

Friendship Public Charter Schools — the city's largest charter network, with five schools and more than 4,000 students — has a surplus of $ 3.4 million that has funded cutting - edge equipment, including computerized interactive whiteboards that are found even in preschool classrooms.

«New Jersey's LIFO law forces school districts like Newark to retain ineffective teachers and, in fact, put them back in the classroom while cutting spending to other critical areas of public education.

In North Carolina, the push for charters is coming as the state grapples separately with a $ 1.9 to $ 2.4 billion budget shortfall that will result in drastic cuts to the state's public schools, with proposals like eliminating most teachers» aides positions in classrooms or cutting early education programs being considered.

In North Carolina, the push for charters is coming as the state grapples separately with a $ 2.4 billion budget shortfall that will likely result in drastic cuts to the state's public schools, with proposals like eliminating teacher's aides positions in classrooms or cutting out Smart Start and More At Four early education programs already on the table.

Chicago Public Schools CEO Forrest Claypool on Tuesday warned that cuts to the classroom would be necessary if teachers don't agree to concessions in a new contract.

Following a period of intense and painful budget cuts to public education funding, the new revenue coming to our schools is a welcome relief to classroom teachers.

Justin Racette, a 2nd grade teacher in Chicago Public Schools, explains the day to day impact budget cuts are having on his students and classroom.

In a meeting with the Tribune Editorial Board, Chicago Public Schools CEO Forrest Claypool warned that classroom budget cuts would be necessary if teachers don't agree to concessions in a new contract and if state lawmakers don't come through with $ 215 million for the district's budget.

When it comes to traditional public schools, more than three out of every four parents surveyed said they were opposed to reducing compensation for teachers or cutting resources for the classroom while increasing spending on charter schools.

«And we're doing it in a way that isn't necessarily at the expense of other educational cuts,» Tillis said, emphasizing that the House doesn't include severe cuts included in the Senate's plan, which would offer teachers an eleven percent raise but would also eliminate second and third grade teacher assistants from the classroom, cut the Department of Public Instruction by 30 percent, and reduce the number of badly needed school nurses around the state, among other cuts.

While the City of Bridgeport's public education budget faced additional cuts this school year, Achievement First Inc.'s charter school in Bridgeport will be getting a free $ 850,000 in public funds to construct a new cafeteria, classrooms and gymnasium space.

School leaders across the state say proposed cuts to the Department of Public Instruction would hurt North Carolina classrooms.

Superintendent Henderson Lewis Jr. promised in June to cut central office staff in the Orleans Parish public schools system and drive money to classrooms.

«Because of the failed leadership in Tallahassee, Hillsborough County schools are having to cut teachers, including bilingual classroom aides, and can't even afford to repair air conditioning in certain schools — while brand new for - profit schools are being funded and built with tax dollars that should be going to our public schools,» Cruz said.

By including a snapshot of each school's finances, USC's report also provides a useful temperature check on the fiscal health of the movement, and demonstrates quite dramatically how charters are uniquely poised to weather the economic storm gripping the nation and public education in California, and how charters are prioritizing and protecting the classroom from the worst cuts.»

Thousands of US public school teachers from Oklahoma walked out of classrooms yesterday to protest huge cuts to state education funding.