Sentences with phrase «even staff reductions»

Nearly all of the officials we spoke with expressed strong concerns that NCLB demands increased expectations and efforts at a time when districts are experiencing budgetary shortfalls and even staff reductions.

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Environmental Advocate's David Gahl says years of budget cuts at the state Department of Environmental Conservation, known as the DEC, has led to a one third reduction of staff, and an even greater decrease in the number of inspections of potential polluters.

The situation would be even more dire for Highville Charter School — it simply would not be able to make enough reductions in staff to weather a $ 650,000 cut at the end of the school year.

Funding categories that would be entirely eliminated under even a 5 % reduction include staff development, school technology, teacher mentoring pay, and dropout prevention.

All the while, schools in New Castle, Silt, Rifle, Parachute and Battlement Mesa are staring at a future of continued wages freezes for teachers and staff, additional staff reductions, program cuts and possibly even school closures.

With the local share of the total cost of educating students rising to nearly 60 % in 2014 - 15, even with the continued reductions in staff and academic programs, additional local revenue will be needed in many districts to balance budgets.

Israel Rios, Jubilee's principal, said the network could be of greater use now than ever before to small schools such as his and larger districts because even with budget cuts and staff reductions, students still have to complete required courses.

In a world that sees hundreds of thousands of new academic titles published each year, keeping up and ordering books on a title - by - title basis is a daunting task for time - strapped librarians — even at the most affluent academic institutions not facing severe budget cuts or staff reduction.