Sentences with phrase «education budget strain»

The government assumes the unpaid balance which can increase the higher education budget strain, but, it might allow these graduates an opportunity to finally save and prepare for the future like having a family or buying a house.

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In response to these strains, state and local governments have cut infrastructure investment, slashed support for higher education, cut spending on K — 12 education, cut spending on social benefits other than Medicaid, reduced administrative staff and reduced most other areas of the budget.

But this strains plausibility: it represents just 3 percent of the state's current $ 5.5 billion dollar higher education budget, and averages out to less than $ 300 per full - time equivalent student.

Education budgets in the UK are coming under intense strain.

The Education Committee of the Mississippi Senate has approved a bill aimed at helping school districts cope with fiscal strains created by state budget cuts.

A spokesman for the Birmingham City Council said: «All of Birmingham's children must benefit from any changes to the education system, so we need the government to make changes to enable this to happen so school and council budgets, that are already stretched, are not strained even further.»

Andrew Kelly, director of the Center on Higher Education Reform at the American Enterprise Institute, argues that the Obama plan will not address low rates of college readiness and student success but will strain public budgets and crowd out innovation.

With education budgets still strained, more layoffs loom and an improved system needs to be in place, he said.

A strain on tight budgets In general, city school districts suffer disproportionately from a rapidly eroding tax base and an overreliance on local property taxes to finance education, which virtually guarantees poor and urban areas will lag behind non-urban districts.

Ron Zimmer, an education researcher at Vanderbilt University, has said it's possible that fiscal strain on district budgets could spur competition, potentially helping all students.

An unexpected labor uprising has gripped some conservative states over the past two months as public school teachers have staged protests and strikes over low pay and strained education budgets.

Issued by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, the report cites research showing that the shift toward greater numbers of inexperienced teachers has «serious financial, structural, and educational consequences for American public education — straining budgets, disrupting school cultures, and, most significantly, depressing student achievement.»

With daycare bills, a mortgage and new baby gear straining the household budget, there's little cash left to save for a distant post-secondary education.