Sentences with phrase «higher education budgets»

Another conservative leader, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, has taken a meat cleaver to higher education budgets, igniting a strong backlash from voters.

Diversions from the School Aid Fund to the community college and higher education budgets, which used to be covered by the general state budget before Gov. Snyder took office, represent almost $ 800 million or roughly $ 535 per pupil in lost K - 12 funding;

With government cuts beginning to take their toll on higher education budgets, many universities are having to reduce their costs to ensure that demanding efficiency targets are met.

On the other hand, state higher education budgets are under enormous pressure.

That depends on your perspective, but over time, I suspect higher education budgets will continue to be squeezed in favor of pensions.

Leading universities want the cap on tuition fees to be lifted amid fears that higher education budgets may be slashed this summer.

As California slashes billions from its higher education budget, the state's premier public business schools have quietly focused its efforts on raising private dollars.

A fair and predictable higher education budget from Springfield.

However, this year's higher education budget is a mixed bag for New Yorkers, leaving many unfinished items on the table and a trail of uncertainty for years to

«Any proposed savings from the higher education budget must be carefully thought through, and must not come at the expense of students.

Is the higher education budget better than what the governor proposed?

BONN — Germany's research and higher education budget is headed for a real increase for the first time in several years, with special emphasis on bolstering academic research.

But this strains plausibility: it represents just 3 percent of the state's current $ 5.5 billion dollar higher education budget, and averages out to less than $ 300 per full - time equivalent student.

No major cuts are proposed for K - 12 education, but Mr. Owens recommends trimming $ 8.5 million from proposed higher education budget.

The trouble started in 2008 when Gov. Bobby Jindal took office and sliced the state's higher education budget in half.

It also calls for the upcoming recommendations of the Diamond Review into student finance to be considered «with a view to early implementation where appropriate» but with no «negative effect» on the higher education budget.

Academic supports work, but are costly, and decades of state higher education budget cuts have left public institutions with large classes taught by less - qualified instructors, and little in the way of counseling, mentoring, and other core services.

Currently, 5 percent of the state's $ 1.2 billion higher education budget — roughly $ 61 million — is distributed based on performance metrics.

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The government assumes the unpaid balance which can increase the higher education budget strain, but, it might allow these graduates an opportunity to finally save and prepare for the future like having a family or buying a house.

Not exact matches

According to Fed economist Andrew Haughwout, sharply higher outlays for public welfare and education fueled the increase in the two states» public budgets, which grew more rapidly than those of the other states over the same period.

In response to these strains, state and local governments have cut infrastructure investment, slashed support for higher education, cut spending on K — 12 education, cut spending on social benefits other than Medicaid, reduced administrative staff and reduced most other areas of the budget.

Except that in his Tuesday budget speech, Morneau told the story of Joan, from Algonquin College, and thus another tip to federal attention — higher education, which also happens to be a provincial and constitutional responsibility.

«The Russian budget now is including $ 100 per barrel for the next three years and some more optimistic assumptions on economic growth, which are probably over-optimistic,» Guriev, who is currently a professor of Economics at Sciences Po, a French public research and higher education institution, told CNBC at the UBS European Conference in London.

New policy decisions announced in the Budget included personal income tax cuts, increased spending on defence and domestic security, and reform of higher education and Medicare.

In part because of declining budgets, and in part because of a deep commitment to the church, many persons involved in campus ministries are convinced that local churches must be engaged in carrying out this ministry in higher education.

In contrast, sectors of the population linked to international trade, occupying a dominant position in world markets, and depending on open diplomatic channels might well find themselves more in sympathy with lower defense budgets, higher education outlays, cosmopolitan values, and liberal religious institutions whose theologies favor universalism and whose moral teachings favor relativism and discretion.

Leading one of the highest - planted acreages of any AVA, Brannen will oversee the Commission's annual budget to market the Lodi region, facilitate grower education, viticultural research, and expand awareness of the sustainable farming practices of the Lodi Rules ™ — a third - party - certified sustainable winegrowing program started by the Winegrape Commission in 2005.

From K - 12 to Higher Education, the focus has been to provide our kids with the highest quality foods while meeting the challenges of a tighter budget.

In January 2012, Jindal announced an additional mid-year budget cut of $ 50 million for higher education, with Grambling losing out on nearly $ 1 million of that total.

Already stuck with revenue about 1 / 20th that of Texas, GSU has also taken the brunt of concussive budget cuts to higher education in Louisiana.

Of course, the federal budget proposal eliminates student loan assistance, so hopefully they can use their degrees right out of high school and not see a need to continue their education.

Senator Sampson is still working to resolve the outstanding budget issues, specifically an FMAP extension and higher education reform and plans to reconvene session once these final issues have been fairly addressed,» said Shafran.

«The question that we should ask is how can you inherit a budget deficit of 9.3 % of GDP, proceed to reduce taxes, bring down inflation, bring down interest rates, increase economic growth (from 3.6 % to 7.9 %), increase your international reserves, maintain relative exchange rate stability, reduce the debt to GDP ratio and the rate of debt accumulation, pay almost half of arrears inherited, stay current on obligations to statutory funds, restore teacher and nursing training allowances, double the capitation grant, implement free senior high school education and yet still be able to reduce the fiscal deficit from 9.3 % to an estimated 5.6 % of GDP?

Cuomo has insisted that extending high rates on wealthy earners is a key piece of his budget, which also includes a $ 961 million spending increase for education aid and a $ 163 million plan to phase out college tuition costs at state and city universities for those who earn less than $ 125,000.

The Governor prioritized education spending in his budget proposal, including growth that is twice what would be allowed under the cap.9 To truly prioritize education the State should reform the Foundation Aid formula to ensure the highest needs districts are properly funded without unnecessarily sending aid to the wealthiest districts.

Executive Budget proposal accepted with some modifications including ability to contribute to existing state health and higher education foundations.

The state now spends a total of $ 74 billion on education every year, when higher education is included — more than the entire budget of 47 different states combined, the office said.

He'll be complaining to the rest of the country that New York has been unfairly singled out for budget cuts, even while he continues to maintain the impression that the state can afford to offer its high school graduates a tuition - free college education.

New York's governor and legislature are touting progress in higher education funding in the just - passed state budget.

The Executive Budget justifies the elimination of Bundy Aid by replacing it with new funding for the Higher Education Capital (HECap) Matching Grant Program.

The report found that 49 of England's 130 higher education institutions will face serious financial trouble as a result both of an 80 % cut to teaching budgets and the impact of the government's plans to raise the cap for tuition fees to # 9,000.

But it would be ludicrous for Dr Cable to sit on his hands when he formulated and presented the policy and higher education represents a third of his departmental budget.

Nonetheless, successfully wooing an endorsement from Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, Cuomo pushed a new middle - class tuition subsidy program whose full annual cost he estimated at $ 163 million — a low - balled figure that failed to take account of the disruptive impact it would likely have on SUNY and CUNY budgets, not to mention New York's vital private higher - education sector.

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Education is the single highest budget item as opposed to military and security spending in most of the black - ruled states.

This is the conclusion of my paper, Free Universities, that the government's claim that «our student finance reforms will deliver savings to help address the large Budget deficit we were left» was disingenuous at best and that in fact the public spending crisis was used as an excuse to private higher education.

Cuomo's plan includes $ 1 billion more for schools and the extension of an additional tax on New York's highest income earners, known as the millionaire's tax, in order to pay for education spending and close a $ 3.5 billion budget gap.

The Council also continues to emphasize that, with multi-year, multi-billion budget deficits, New York needs to more fully examine its spending practices, especially in major programs such as Medicaid and education, and determine why are our costs are so much higher than other states without the results to match.»

The unusually high percentage of school budgets that passed yesterday in spite of dire predictions by everyone from Gov. David Paterson on down has become fodder for the teachers union and its allies in the fight to restore $ 1.4 billion worth of education cuts proposed by the governor.