Sentences with phrase «despite budget cuts»

Perhaps the most promising bright spot on the professional development landscape is that despite budget cuts, schools acknowledge that professional learning is the key to improving instruction.

Turning to the exhibitors, despite budget cuts they appeared to be taking more orders than ever.

«Despite budget cuts and increasing emphasis on academic skills, schools are choosing to focus on improving student health, which ultimately can support improved academic performance.»

Not exact matches

In 2009, state - sponsored bank bailouts led to widespread panic; despite deep budget cuts, Ireland plunged into the deepest recession of any EU country.

He joined fellow Republicans in delivering Trump's greatest victory so far, backing the $ 1.5 trillion tax cut despite his own expressed concerns about budget deficits.

With a smaller tax - cutting budget available, and with little revenue available from closing «special - interest loopholes» despite Trump's rhetoric, Republicans will have to choose among tax benefits for four groups:

Budget balance has been achieved despite a slowing economy and new tax cuts mainly by doing almost nothing new on the spending side for the coming fiscal year of 2015 - 16.

VANCOUVER — A new threat of cuts to vital mental health services at Vancouver Coastal Health despite the growing need for resources shows the unreasonable pressures health authorities have been under due to the unsustainable Liberal budget, say B.C.'s New...

The Spanish government outlined an austere 2014 budget that includes further cuts in spending by its ministries and a salary freeze for public employees despite the country's emergence from recession.

Despite indications of deep cuts in the Pentagon's budget, given that this is an election year, there is little doubt that the House Armed Services Committee will approval all, or nearly all, of the money.

Despite severe cost cutting, scores of layoffs and wholesale restructuring last year, Chicago Public Schools faces a budget deficit estimated at $ 600 million to $ 700 million in 2013, with the cost of a longer school day still unknown, officials said.

The Chicago Park District Board passed a balanced budget for 2003 of $ 338 million Wednesday, despite an outcry from city residents and union members about cuts in park employees» hours.

Despite significant budget cuts and new workload demands, it has successfully delivered some limited reforms such as a new job search system and more flexibilities for frontline staff.

Conservative columnist Joseph Pucciarelli explains why he thinks the arts and humanities could continue to flourish in the United States, despite President Donald Trump's proposed budget cuts.

Despite the big society rhetoric, in reality, the cuts to local authority budgets are cutting away the pillars upon which the good society is built.

After all, George Osborne (laughably) balances his budgets by making cuts to it, despite the fact that it does not exist yet.

Despite low approval ratings, Paterson managed to impose budget cuts, increase oversight for New York's authorities and create a new pension tier for incoming state workers.

Speaking on the Capitol Pressroom this morning, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, D - Manhattan, said he was an effective negotiator for his conference, despite deep cuts to traditionally taboo budget areas like education aid and health care.

«Teachers, as usual, have worked hard to ensure that standards have been maintained despite this upheaval and the cuts to budgets in the post-16 sector, which have had a significant impact on the staffing levels and resources available in schools and colleges.

David Cameron is not prepared to retreat from plans to cut Britain's military budget, despite strong opposition from the defence secretary, according to a report.

The reality is that Labour has maintained the NHS Wales budget at 6.4 Bn - despite Tory cuts to the overall Welsh budget of 1.4 Bn

Despite Labour's budget plan to cut spending in Scotland by # 400m, the prime minister has increased his popularity over David Cameron - up 3 per cent to 12 per cent in the last month.

Despite concerns about potential funding cuts from Albany and Washington, Mayor de Blasio on Thursday unveiled a new $ 88.7 billion preliminary budget that boosts city spending by $ 4 billion over...

Despite a bruising round of budget cuts this spring, the city plans to lay off 250 more workers by the end of Jun 2012, in effort to save another $ 500 million, the new documents show.

Such permanent rate hikes and formulas ensure that spending in areas like education and Medicaid continue to explode despite annual budget cuts.

Despite this, Labour Ministers have chosen to cut funding to apprenticeship schemes in recent budgets, instead favouring less effective work experience schemes like Jobs Growth Wales.

Despite such cuts, Miner's budget spends $ 18 million more than the city will receive in revenues, a gap that will be filled by using up 30 percent of the city's $ 61 million rainy day fund.

NIFA, which calculated a $ 176 million budget deficit in January, last week estimated Nassau's fiscal «risks» at $ 118.8 million despite Mangano's efforts to cut costs through layoffs, early retirements and a police reorganization.

But despite spending cuts and consolidations, the city's fund balance takes a big hit, in order to fill a multi-million dollar budget hole.

Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, said: «The NASUWT warned at the outset when the Pupil Premium was first introduced that, in the context of the Coalition's savage austerity measures and its failure to protect school budgets despite its claims to the contrary, this funding would inevitably end up being absorbed into school budgets as the cuts bit.

The nationalists, which claim to be putting a record number of candidates up for election this year, are arguing that they have protected council budgets despite the cuts from Westminster.

«The challenge now is to continue making progress despite the cumulative impact of devastating budget cuts.

«Teachers should be commended for their hard work to ensure that standards have been maintained despite the assault on teachers» working conditions and the cuts to budgets in the post-16 sector, which have had a significant impact on the staffing levels and resources available in schools and colleges.

Defence budgets will always be under pressure, but the situation has been made worse by the recent revelations that despite Hammond's efforts to plug the UK MoD's budget «black hole» — defence is still set to suffer deep cuts.

David Cameron is not prepared to retreat from plans to cut Britain's military budget, despite strong opposition from the defence secretary.

However, he said the district is facing no cuts and plans to improve its programming despite the state budget.

However, this January it was closed by the state, a victim of Governor Andrew Cuomo's budget cuts, despite a petition from employees and supporters.

In 2003 Pataki made a controversial budget proposal in which he proposed several tax cuts, despite the state's rising deficits due to drying up tax revenue from the once boom to now bust dotcom sector, and resulting tech layoffs.

The country is increasingly becoming the humanitarian leper of Europe, cutting its aid budget this year, despite hosting the G8 conference.

Last winter, when County parks, DMV offices and other County agencies were devastated by budget cuts, the Library managed to sustain service at all 52 locations, despite an 11 % budget cut.

In a speech to Conservative conference, the culture secretary said National Lottery funding had protected «most budgets» despite cuts in taxpayer funding.

The Oswego City School Board approved a $ 79.5 million budget Tuesday, despite opposition from several students and parents who criticized its cuts to athletic programs.

Governor Cuomo says he thinks the state can afford a tax cut next year, despite a projected $ 1 billion budget gap.

The portion of the budget paid for by state taxpayers will rise just under two percent Despite the one - time windfall, he had to bridge a $ 1.8 billion deficit in the current budget, which he did by counting $ 373 million in additional, not immediately identified revenues as well as cutting $ 92 million from state agencies, booking $ 121 million in savings from «debt management» and cutting $ 1.4 billion from funding for various local assistance programs.

«I'm pleased to present a proposed budget that demonstrates my administration's effort to stabilize county finances, ensure our county safety and our vibrancy,» said McCoy, a Democrat, who hails the $ 679 million spending plan as one that builds on the county's «sound» fiscal practices while keeping county spending under the state - mandated tax cap for the fifth year in a row,»... despite the continuous pressures of unfunded mandates and the real cuts we face in 2018 for state aid and programs such as foster care.»

Despite Labour's commitment to half the budget deficit within four years (beginning in 2011 rather than 2010), and their admission that this would entail having to make cuts «worse than Thatcher», Labour politicians were rarely pressed on the subject on «The Andrew Marr Show» throughout the months leading up to the general election - unlike their Conservative opposite numbers, who were regularly pressed on the subject.

Government departments will not have to axe 40 % from their budgets - despite being ordered to plan for cuts on that scale, a cabinet minister has said.

The facts of this case are clear: the ex-banker tasked with cutting Britain's biggest peacetime Budget deficit handed more than # 40,000 of taxpayers» money to his boyfriend, despite parliamentary rules banning MPs from paying rent to partners.

Bloomberg's proposed $ 69.8 billion budget for the fiscal year starting July 1 calls for education cuts despite an influx of new revenue.

CITY HALL — As Gov. Andrew Cuomo patted himself and fellow state lawmakers on the back after reaching an early deal on the state budget Sunday, Mayor Michael Bloomberg slammed the cuts as «an outrage» and warned that, despite some restorations to city aid, the deal will force more layoffs and another round of new and painful cuts.