Sentences with phrase «facing significant budget cuts»

As schools in cities and towns all across Connecticut are facing significant budget cuts and layoffs, one wonders what legislators were thinking when they adopted a law that will end up moving even more scarce resources away from our district schools and to these charter schools.

Ornstein also predicted science programs will face significant budget cuts, including across - the - board reductions at the National Science Foundation, with social science research a particular target.

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The only difficulty is that the operating budget is already facing a significant shortfall that needs to be closed,» said Liu, who also opposes the mayor's cuts to capital projects.

Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan said her city needs $ 12.5 million in state aid to balance its 2017 budget, or will face «very, very significant cuts.»

While NASA's $ 200 million funding reduction pales in comparison to cuts that would face some federal agencies under the proposed budget (which has to be reviewed and approved by Congress before becoming official), it would make significant changes to how those dollars are spent.

Clearly this increase will add to the already significant challenges faced by public services, already under huge pressure because of budgets cuts.

Education spending has still yet to recover from the Great Recession in many states.11 Because of state constitution balanced - budget provisions, when faced with significant federal funding cuts, states are forced to either further cut education programs or raise taxes.12 The idea of further raising taxes to backfill Trump's education funding cuts simply is not practical in states such as Maryland, 13 Illinois, 14 and New Jersey, 15 which are struggling to fund their current responsibilities.

Already saddled with a major reorganization, significant budget cuts and staff reductions, the Commission on Teacher Credentialing now also faces a sudden uptick in workload generated by districts scouring cases of unreported misconduct.

Faced with a deficit, the District had to make significant cuts to balance its budget.