Sentences with phrase «hard budget times»

And in hard budget times, where should extended learning fall in the long list of priorities?

Hosting a legislator at your school helps build critical relationships for advocacy efforts, and during these hard budget times, illustrates that charter schools are doing more with less.

Not exact matches

A tax - cutting and big - budget extravaganza means Treasuries will have a hard time staying higher, it also means a steepener yield curve, just the thing banks need and explains the jump in bank stocks this morning.

«He has only been there a year and has been putting his team in place... It's hard to fix a discrete time frame, but over the next 12 months — heading into the 2017 budget — you would like to see some hard evidence that it's working.»

Otherwise, your already - tight budget is going to be stretched thin, and you'll have a hard time breaking a profit.

However, if making ends meet is the primary cause of your credit card debt, perhaps it's time to take an even harder look at your budget.

No one enjoys tax time, but it's especially hard when you're on a tight budget.

It might be a good idea to have smelling salts on hand the first time you take a good hard look at your wedding budget.

In addition Wenger and the club will have a harder time explaining why he is still the man to lead us forward if a club with a non existing budget out manages us / him.

To be fair the panel of people in the programme gave him a hard time but the interest.ting thing was his failure to factor in the impact on the Spuds of building a new ground both in terms of costs, impact on transfer budgets, having to play in Milton Keynes and player retention, and all this from a club that isn't successful anyway.

We are having a hard time making ends meet (despite trying very hard to budget responsibly and self - sacrificially) and are seeking what the Lord would have us do.

First, the House Republicans» proposal will raise the threshold on the Community Eligibility Provision, or CEP, causing school meal participation to fall dramatically and causing schools to have a harder time balancing their cafeteria budgets.

It wasn't as hard as I thought, but due to budget issues she was using cloth part time.

One iconic area in this regard is space technology: the Chinese Shenzhou programme of space exploration seems particularly daring at a time when both American and European projects are falling victim to budget cuts in their increasingly hard - pressed homelands.

This ideologically - driven experiment is hard to justify at a time of school budget cuts in addition to the loss of vital local authority services for SEN pupils, the squeeze on libraries and Sure Start amongst others.

The WSJ notes that this year's budget deal was harder to come by than usual because legislative factions on the right and left dug in their heels, revealing a «growing polarization» in Albany that «poses a hurdle for a governor who has long positioned himself as a moderate mediator who prizes governmental order such as on - time budgets.»

«We'll work very hard to be under budget and on time — we're going to make it happen,» she said.

«It's time to get down to the real task at hand: passing a budget that makes the hard choices about spending that need to be made to put New York back on the road to fiscal sanity,» DiNapoli continued.

As part of your team, working together to craft a budget that protects all New Yorkers during hard times, I hope that we can continue this discussion as we near the end of the budget process.»

Lawmakers at the time, including the new Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, lamented the heavy focus of policy — linked to spending or otherwise — in Cuomo's budget plan, saying the focus made it harder to achieve a three - way agreement in time for the April 1 deadline.

An on - time state budget is good news for school districts across the state, as they plug in the hard numbers to proposed budgets.

I will work hard with Governor Cuomo and my colleagues in the legislature to adopt a budget on time.»

Prepared for the New York Women's Foundation, this brief finds that three years of state budget cuts have frayed the safety net during a time of growing need, making it harder for low - income women to access income and job supports as well as vital supportive services, and to secure jobs with a future.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo won nearly every element of his hard - times budget proposal in talk with the Senate and Assembly, whose leaders acknowledged the state's grave fiscal crisis early on.

Gallo said with little hope of boosting the department's budget line in these hard economic times, the tourism office was «ripe for consolidation.»

It was the hardest budget, it's also the best budget and these are also the most difficult times,» Cuomo said.

Hundreds protested Cuomo's cuts, some were arrested, an intensity of unrest unseen in Albany since Republican Gov. George Pataki made deep budget cuts in hard times in the 1990s, after a campaign that called for an end to tax - and - spend Mario Cuomo.

ALBANY, N.Y. (CBSNewYork / AP)-- The first five - way meeting over Gov. Andrew Cuomo's hard - times budget is scheduled in Albany.

«At the same time, I understand moving from 25 years to 20 years is hard for some people, and I understand that, so our negotiating team of budget director Kitty Crow and HR director Joe Porpiglia did a lot of work and I credit them for this.»

The governor's budget plan would slow completion of this vital project for a second time, making it harder for people and products to get where they need to go.

You can't budget that way because it's hard to remember how many times you've pulled out $ 20.

NASA has fallen on hard times of late, having to cope with shrinking budgets and struggling to convince a skeptical Congress that it can control rising costs of the International Space Station.

This Alice in Wonderland print was probably the first thing I saw that I knew I'd buy when I had the budget to treat myself to an order, although I had a hard time deciding between the Audrey, the Brittany (which has heart pockets, and which I own with a makeup print on it!)

The thing with wardrobe staples is that they're a lot harder to find on sale than the trendy stuff, so the Nordstrom Anniversary Sale is a great time to replenish your closet with a few solid workhorse pieces to fill those wardrobe gaps (and I included budget versions for most of the pricier items)!

I have a hard time with scarves over $ 50, I have to fix the search before I can start looking so I don't fall in love with a scarf that's out of the budget!

If you're mind is made up on the perfect red, and your budget is already established, you won't have a hard time finding the perfect fit when it comes to colored pants this winter.

Curry the Yorkie is going to a cowboy but unfortunately for me, I haven't been able to buy a costume due to budget constraints (trying to fly myself to Tokyo and New York in the next few months is a lot harder this time around than years passed since I live on my own and have rent to pay) but I did buy candy to pass out to the kids!

With Vimbly, for example, I had a hard time finding a date that was both within my budget and within my time frame.

Take books for example, if you tried to compete with the Amazons and Barnes & Nobles with their massive budgets and affiliate networks you would have a hard time, however if you focused on first edition books or philosophy books you stand a much better chance.

The final of the films is the real low point of the series but its hard to blame the film makers, the budget was at a all time low here and the studio wanted a more lite family film here.

It's hard to say whether the increased use of green - screen was a creative decision on Jackson's part or a studio mandate to keep down the already huge budget and make up for lost time.

And funding is harder than ever for small - budgeted, immersive, independent docs that take time — sometimes years — to make.

There are plenty of small - to - mid budget films that could also have a hard time turning a profit for their respective studios (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Hail, Caesar!

But she knows by the time she reaches her last year of primary school she will need to convince her father, who is ill and unable to work, to scrape together enough of the family budget to buy her two hard cover exercise books to take notes with.

There aren't enough hours in the day, so budgeting your time is hard.

In the best of times, when budgets are appropriated annually, it's incredibly hard to invest in making your strategic operations more efficient and more effective — since doing so requires long - term thinking (what's that?!).

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan appeared before the Senate on Wednesday to defend his budget request and was given a hard time by Senator Lamar Alexander over his decision to revoke Washington state's NCLB waiver.

Given that he's pledged to cut taxes, balance the budget, and get rid of the deficit, a President Romney would have a hard time squaring this circle.

We continue to be impressed with this level of commitment even in the hardest of budget times.

I know, it might be hard to swallow, but for the first time, the V - 6 Camaro is a viable alternative to the big - boy V - 8 SS for enthusiasts on a budget.