Sentences with phrase «further funding cuts»

Further funding cuts will make a bad situation worse.

The NEC shared his concerns about further funding cuts, which risked reducing services to the statutory minimum or worse.

As this year's A-level students prepare to receive their results, the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union, is calling on the Government not to squander their potential by further funding cuts to education and training.

Not exact matches

Already this year, some local NPR affiliates went as far as to advertise the potential federal funding cuts in their annual pledge drives.

And by leveraging the above tips, hopefully more technology startups may boost their odds of taking a cut of the more than the $ 1 billion dollar pie of Kickstarter funding the platform has accrued so far.

Big losers will include our cultural institutions, including the CBC and the Canada Council who will likely face further devastating cuts, as well as human rights, international development and arts organizations who were funded historically by the Canadian government (some of whom had already lost funding under the minority Conservative government).

Fidelity - owned funds cut their stake by 2.54 per cent in PC Jeweller last week and one of the company's promoters Balram Garg believes the continuation of the sharp fall in PC shares this week could be due to further selling by the foreign investor of its remaining stake.

According to the St. Petersburg Times, «He [Robert «Skip» Livingston] spent a year studying the impact a Palatka mill owned by Georgia - Pacific has had on Rice Creek and the nearby St. Johns River — but then the company cut off funding for further studies.

They can cut risk further with equally weighted stock funds so that no one big company in an index can do much harm if it flops in price or goes bankrupt.

Last October, Foreign Office ministers quietly slipped out the news that the UK had cut its search - and - rescue funding in a bid to discourage further refugees, most of whom are fleeing Libya.

Hi Stan, I think you and I disagree even more deeply than that — I'm not in favor of budget cuts for the cutting's sake, only in favor of funding programs we need and not ones we don't (in the abstract — the real world of politics is far too messy for such an innocent construction).

«Contrary to the Government's claims in its response, funding for post 16 is being cut savagely, which will further impact on access for young people, damaging their economic prospects and future life chances.

Further cuts may be necessary to address an emerging funding problem with tuition fees, MPs have said.

Implementing $ 1.5 trillion in cuts raises further questions over how what's left in transit funding needs will fit into a squeezed budget, Sifuentes said.

Along with tax cuts, the senate budget will further emphasize transportation infrastructure funding parity between upstate and downstate.

But reducing the overall tax «burden» meant going much further, and funding additional cuts in taxation by reducing the money that the government is able to spend on the things that, it might be argued, are best provided collectively: schools, hospitals, pensions, unemployment benefits, disability allowances, the police and the armed forces.

In next week's emergency budget legislation, to keep state government operating in the absence of a new budget, Mr. Paterson will include an array of further long - term spending cuts, but none involving education funds, according to an administration official.

Estimating a cost of this plan is a necessary element of deciding whether to further increase the City budget with the costs of this plan or to select other City spending to cut as a source of funding.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo went further on Tuesday in Ontario County, suggesting the money could be used to fund infrastructure, but also tax cuts and education.

David Jones announced that Wales would get an extra # 161 million to spend on infrastructure — but we all remember that this is just putting back some of the # 500 million cut in capital spending that was made in 2010 budget and even in the terms of this Budget it's not quite as simple as the Welsh Secretary would have us believe, because a further # 59m is cut out of the Welsh Government's revenue funding, forcing hard decisions about cuts to services on which we all rely.

Public - school funding is safe so far, according to Paterson, but big cuts in discretionary funding, local government aid, and health care are on the horizon.

The new defence secretary said he «hoped» there would not be further cuts to his department's budget and praised his predecessor for «taking some very tough decisions» in order to get funding «under control».

The new defence secretary «hopes» there will be no further cuts to his department's budget and praised him predecessor for «taking some very tough decisions» in order to get funding «under control».

Yet pretty much every major cut so far has been targeted specifically at children: new schools & playgrounds scrapped, Child Trust Fund scrapped, free school meals extension scrapped etc., and now Child Benefit cut.

The public spending cuts will wound a sector bolstered by injections of funding under Labour from the mid-90s when money was redirected away from universities to early years learning and further education.

«Pension fund managers across the country have cut or eliminated exposure to these overpriced and underperforming investments, while the Office of the New York State Comptroller has stood still and spent pension system funds chasing performance that continues to fall far short,» said Financial Services Superintendent Maria Vullo.

And, a big wild card that could further complicate things for Cuomo this year is what Washington does when it comes to funding cuts — particularly when it comes to Medicaid, which makes up a big portion of the state budget.

Further cuts in mental - health services will free up funding.

Ryan Budget Would Cut Federal Funding for New York and the Other States Far More Than «Sequestration»

UK's largest union sets up fighting fund for strike pay and campaign leaflets to fight further government spending cuts

Towns like West Seneca and Aurora would lose out on millions of funding that comes from their portion of the sales tax leading to possible draconian cuts or even worse, further tax increases at the town and village level.

That this House declines to give a Second Reading to the Welfare Benefits Up - rating Bill because it fails to address the reasons why the cost of benefits is exceeding the Government's plans; notes that the Resolution Foundation has calculated that 68 per cent of households affected by these measures are in work and that figures from the Institute for Fiscal Studies show that all the measures announced in the Autumn Statement, including those in the Bill, will mean a single - earner family with children on average will be # 534 worse off by 2015; further notes that the Bill does not include anything to remedy the deficiencies in the Government's work programme or the slipped timetable for universal credit; believes that a comprehensive plan to reduce the benefits bill must include measures to create economic growth and help the 129,400 adults over the age of 25 out of work for 24 months or more, but that the Bill does not do so; further believes that the Bill should introduce a compulsory jobs guarantee, which would give long - term unemployed adults a job they would have to take up or lose benefits, funded by limiting tax relief on pension contributions for people earning over # 150,000 to 20 per cent; and further believes that the proposals in the Bill are unfair when the additional rate of income tax is being reduced, which will result in those earning over a million pounds per year receiving an average tax cut of over # 100,000 a year.

«We're looking at extreme economic uncertainty and State and Federal governments that are likely to further cut funds,» Deputy Mayor Cas Holloway said in a statement, echoing the language of the letter which also points to a «chaotic stock market.»

Now add in the heavy cut in state funding for political parties, which of course hits Labour far harder than the Tories, with their plethora of billionaire City backers.

That number falls short of the $ 600 million in additional funding and savings that the mayor has been aggressively lobbying for and which he says is needed to stave off further cuts.

While the select committee's report will provide further political cover for that manoeuvre, Gove is still locked in discussions with the Treasury on the next round of spending cuts and has to find alternative sources of funding.

The bill authorizes a shift in funding away from climate science and geoscience, tightens the strings on NSF grantmaking in ways «that most scientists consider too restrictive,» and «cuts authorized spending levels at the National Institute of Standards and Technology far below what the White House has requested.»

In recent years we've seen states cut funding for public universities at the same time those schools are taking on additional students, which has furthered the need for federal financial assistance to offset this shift in costs.

Further cuts of $ 1108m will be made to the dependency fund for elderly and disabled people in 2013, putting these vulnerable people even more at risk.

Additionally, the STRB has accepted the Department for Education's position that the pay awards can be managed without any more funding — effectively meaning a further cut to school budgets.

So, with ever - increasing scrutiny of financial regularity, how do you avoid this kind of wasted investment being the case in your school or academy and, with further cuts to education funding on the cards, how can you get «more bang for your buck» when it comes to ICT procurement?

Diana Somers of Language Magnet thinks the education sector should brace itself for further reductions in resources, saying: «Like most public sectors, the education sector has been hit with funding cuts and, as a result, headteachers are having to reduce staff and resources.

The NAHT will discuss further steps in its campaign to oppose school funding cuts at an executive conference in June.

«Councils continue to face significant funding pressures, amid further cuts to funding by central government.

Far from being the levelling up of funding that councils and heads have demanded, the government is levelling down and schools across the country face real terms cuts in this Parliament.

«I can say unequivocally that I will not support any further cuts in total federal funding for education,» the Vice President continued.

This situation has been further exacerbated by the funding cuts imposed across all areas of education.

A further 74 per cent of teaching staff claim they have already heard head teachers express concern over funding, while 59 per cent are implementing or due to introduce bigger class sizes to accommodate funding cuts.

Other key findings include: - Squeezed budgets mean many schools have been forced to shed staff, with further reductions to staff spending expected over the next two years - Teacher shortages seem to be getting worse - Schools that opt for academy status are not embracing the freedoms it brings in terms of curriculum, and teachers» pay and conditions - Secondary governors are using 11 - 16 funding to subsidise their sixth forms, as cuts in post-16 budgets bite

Four of the five worst hit local authorities — Middlesbrough, Reading, Isle of Wight, Doncaster — face further budget cuts over the next two years, even after taking into account any gains predicted by the Department for Education from its new funding formula.