Sentences with phrase «education cuts»

Need to purchase and constantly update technology will go far beyond bond act dollars and will stress budgets in an era of education cuts.

Many regions were forced to make education cuts under balanced - budget rules.

Deep education cuts mean parents and students can expect to incur more college debt moving forward.

Meanwhile, about 100 students staged a sit - in at the gallery protesting against education cuts and university fees.

To read more about education cuts included in the 2014 budget, head over to our blog.

Thousands of students are protesting against increases in tuition fees and education cuts across the country.

High - poverty schools tend to have a greater reliance on state funds, and so state education cuts had a «dramatic effect» on them, he said.

Even more will be saved when higher education cuts are accounted for.

How are things going with these special education cuts after time has gone by?

The school lobby also is nervous because education cuts could come next.

He added that because of education cuts, he was not sure that if he were young now, he would be able to go to art school.

Paterson wavered on whether he would include $ 1.4 billion in education cuts in next week's emergency spending bill - a gamechanger that many believe could lead to a government shutdown.

Motivated by education cuts and a nationwide spirit of activism, dozens of teachers are running for legislative seats across the country.

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

The group spent nearly $ 10 million — mostly on ads — to pre-emptively blunt union critics and others on education cuts.

Weprin said education cuts to Queens classrooms could result in layoffs or program reductions.

A teacher rebellion in red states from West Virginia to Arizona has put Republicans on the defensive, forcing them to walk a fine line in the months before midterm elections between placating constituents who are angry over education cuts and conservative supporters who want a smaller government and low taxes.

«The agreement worked out among the governor, Speaker Silver and Majority Leader Skelos — a stark contrast with the political deadlock in Washington — will bring more fairness to the state tax code and help ensure that children in our public schools will begin to see restorations from the devastating education cuts of recent years,» he said.

Specifically, they oppose education cuts (76 - 22) and Medicaid cuts (64 - 32), but support reductions for state workers — from pension reform to wage freezes and furloughs — and are split on layoffs.

California ranks 47th of 50 states in per pupil education spending, and if the tax measure hadn't passed, $ 6 billion in additional education cuts would have been triggered.

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.

In the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009, enacted February 17, 2009, $ 100 billion is slated for a variety of state funding and incentives to avoid education cuts or improve education programs.

The UFT launched a radio ad campaign on May 28 urging the public to tell the legislature and City Hall to protect New York City's students and schools from education cuts.

A coalition of school districts last month notified the state that it would file new litigation, alleging that recent education cuts are unconstitutional.

Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Democratic Conference Leader John Sampson just emerged from a leader's meeting with Governor Paterson, and told Capital Tonight's Mike Whittemore they are still negotiating education cuts.

NYSUT Executive Vice President Andrew Pallotta called it «simply unacceptable» for the senators to support education cuts, adding the ongoing budget stalemate «thankfully» has provided time to «undo this wrong.»

The Syracuse Republican insisted the conference had to remain united on the minimum wage vote, which was packaged with a boost in school aid and an elimination of education cuts GOP lawmakers had pushed for since last year.

«Education cuts don't heal - they cause massive social and economic costs.

Blocking education cuts so we can protect all schools and all children.

Randi Weingarten, president of the United Federation of Teachers, criticized the Senate version of the bill for cutting about $ 40 billion from money «targeted to help states avoid drastic education cuts and teacher layoffs,» as well as $ 20 billion from construction aid to schools and colleges and $ 1 billion from new aid for Head Start and other early childhood education programs.

By waiting two weeks before seeking education cuts, Paterson is giving lawmakers time to finalize a budget deal before being forced to decide on accepting his cuts or shutting government.

To wit: New Yorkers overwhelmingly support (72 - 26) increasing taxes on the state's wealthiest residents (those earning $ 1 million and more a year), especially when told that supporters would use the cash that generates to offset education cuts.

The teachers union has launched a multimillion - dollar TV campaign in opposition to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's education cuts with an ad that pits cut schoolchildren against wealthy Wall Street executives.

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Instead, they are trying to take advantage of what they perceive to be good will toward them to create grassroots campaigns to lobby the legislature to stop education cuts and keep the so - called millionaires tax.

The New York State Senate on March 22 prepared to vote on a budget plan that includes $ 1.4 billion in statewide education cuts.

It's not just public schools that face devastating midyear education cuts.

With employability high on the agenda and education cuts looming, Andy Kemp, head of mathematics at Taunton School, argues the case for increasing the use of specialised ICT in the classroom, along with professional development to help get the most from technology

In order to achieve those proposed spending cuts, the president copied two major education cuts he proposed last year: the elimination of Title II teacher grants and the 21st Century Community Learning Centers.

On his blog, AEI education head Rick Hess pointed out (quite rightly) that coverage of the Trump budget request (featuring education cuts) was hyperbolic, given the cuts» unlikelihood of enactment.

These steps would put $ 8.5 billion into a special fund in next year's budget, sparing California's schoolchildren from further crippling education cuts.

While we can not be certain these gains will remain if additional and severe education cuts are enacted, we remain vigilant in protecting all forms of charter school funding and in reducing inequity in funding levels between charter schools and traditional public schools.

$ 40 billion in state stabilization funds to help avert education cuts.

How she and de Blasio choose to balance the needs of individual families, single schools, and the broader system in order to give all city students a fair shot at a great education cuts to the core of the de Blasio message, said Noguera, the education professor.

The bipartisan congressional supercommittee's failure to negotiate a national deficit reduction plan triggers automatic, across - the - board spending cuts that will have devastating consequences for schools and students already reeling from deep education cuts at the state level.

Every dollar freed up this way is a dollar that can restore education cuts; every dollar freed up this way is a dollar that doesn't have to come from taxes.