Sentences with phrase «from decades of underfunding»

Six million children under the age of 18 attend public schools — including 600,000 in charter schools — while nearly 3 million students are enrolled in the state's storied higher education system, which is still struggling to recover from decades of underfunding.

«For too long Alberta's public services have been strained from decades of underfunding and reliance on volatile energy markets,» said contributing economist Robin Shaban, who noted that Alberta has just seen the worst recession in over three decades.

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United for Medical Research, a Washington, D.C. — based lobbying group, says «this meaningful increase for NIH makes real progress toward catching up from the past decade of underfunding and keeping up with scientific advancements and public health needs.»

The legislature has willingly and knowingly severely underfunded urban school districts like Bridgeport for decades, but now wants to potentially point their finger at those very same cities and claim they are at fault for the performance of their public schools while allowing the proliferation of charter schools, which this year alone drained $ 5 million dollars from the BPS.