Sentences with phrase «higher education cuts»

Protesting at proposed higher education cuts for art schools, they were separated from the partygoers by flimsy barricades.

Even more will be saved when higher education cuts are accounted for.

Not exact matches

«An excise tax on the endowments of some private colleges and universities, regardless of how many or how few institutions it affects, is a remarkably bad idea that takes money that would otherwise be used for student aid, research, and faculty salaries and sends it to the Department of the Treasury to finance corporate tax cuts,» said Ted Mitchell, president of the American Council on Education, a higher education traEducation, a higher education traeducation trade group.

The returns to education, even for the high - skilled, have become less clear - cut.

Still, Skyrocketing college costs, cuts to public funding for higher education, stagnant incomes and the growth in the college - going population are largely to blame for the uptick in outstanding student loans over the past decade.

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.

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.

Overall, the House GOP's plan will cut $ 65 billion from higher education over the next decade.

So I've gotten lots and lots comments on my MINDING THE CAMPUS «short take» on cutting higher education costs by scuttling the hotel.

Catholics in the United States may soon know North Dakota as the cutting edge of Catholic higher education reform.

John B. Cobb makes a crucial point in this regard: «Since the actual decisions about the course of history are made on other grounds and on the basis of a situation that is not Christ - centered, one cuts oneself off from all that» (Occasional Papers, United Methodist Board of Higher Education and Ministry, 1:12, August 9, 1976, p. 6).

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.

That same year, Jindal cut $ 219 million in state funds for higher education, including $ 5 million that would have been earmarked for Grambling.

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.

The city has seen huge deficits, high unemployment rates and cuts to police and education spending.

Fortunately, there's no education as effective as new motherhood, and if you've got a high - energy baby (read: he never slept) like I did, you learn to cut through the clutter and focus on baby products that really work.

-- To keep higher education affordable, the Legislature restores the Governor's devastating tuition assistance cuts ($ 49 million restoration) and community college cuts ($ 56 million restoration).

«However, we are committed to sparing our schools from the most devastating cuts and ensuring that our higher education system remains accessible to all New Yorkers.»

It has resulted in a substantial cut in the numbers of overseas students - relied on for the high fees they pay by the higher education sector - and has now been criticised by Cable.

Education advocates, led AQE, and the Board of Regents are arguing high - needs districts got disproportionately cut in 2011 - 12 and therefore should get the lion's share of the cash.

The union also released the results of a poll conducted by National Opinion Research that found 63 percent of New Yorkers would prefer to see a temporary income tax increase on the state's highest earners (1 percent for those who make more than $ 1 million and 2 percent for those who make over $ 5 million) over education funding cuts of between $ 800 million and $ 1.4 million.

The University and College Union warned that tuition fees of nearly # 7,000 would end up becoming the norm because of the government's wider cuts to higher education funding, however.

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.

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.

This, combined with the coalition's decisions to abolish Regional Development Agencies, the 27 per cent of cuts to local government services and cuts to higher education funding, leaves the arts at serious risk.

«Cutting Pell Grants and Medicaid funding without addressing the underlying causes of rising higher education and healthcare costs, simply represents a shift of costs to state and local governments who would be overburdened and unable to provide for vulnerable populations.»

Assemblywoman Deborah Glick, a Manhattan Democrat who chairs the Assembly Higher Education Committee, applauded the idea of tuition - free college, but was cautious given past cuts to state funding for higher educHigher Education Committee, applauded the idea of tuition - free college, but was cautious given past cuts to state funding for higher eEducation Committee, applauded the idea of tuition - free college, but was cautious given past cuts to state funding for higher educhigher educationeducation.

A Higher Education Bill will force universities to come clean over data that reveals poor standards and see a cut in the level of tuition fees they charge.

While acknowledging the Governor's high popularity ratings, they noted that majorities of the public are opposed to key elements of his agenda, including giving tax breaks to millionaires and cutting healthcare and education spending.

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.

Iannuzzi will begin his latest term at a critical juncture for the labor movement, as issues like collective bargaining and seniority are under attack nationwide, and as public K - 12 and higher education in New York struggle to cope with the devastating effects of more than $ 1 billion in cuts by state government.

«We want to make sure that economics is not a barrier to higher education and the Excelsior Scholarship is a great opportunity and we want to make sure that all students who want to seek that opportunity have that advantage and take advantage of that scholarship, which the cut - off time is July 21st.»

This report details the context for the cuts — a decade of underinvestment — and makes the economic case for supporting public higher education: it helps families through the current crisis, stimulates growth in the local economy, narrows racial gaps in income and education, and helps build a solid middle class for New York's future.

«Over the past two years we have cut middle class tax rates to their lowest rates in sixty years, cut taxes for small businesses, while at the same time investing like never before in our institutions of higher education,» Cuomo said.

Without the $ 440 million from tobacco, his proposed deep cuts to school aid and higher education funding would only get more painful.

Following the Great Recession in 2008, many states decreased the amount of appropriations set aside for higher education, with many states» budget cuts tending to focus largely on education spending, according to a Center on Budget and Policy Priorities report.

But Democrats, who run the Assembly, continue to argue that most increased education funding should go to the highest - need schools, which would happen if it were put in the «foundation» funding pot by which most state aid is allocated, and which also was cut drastically during the economic downturn.

Democratic legislators, who opposed deep cuts in social services and education spending to close a $ 10 billion deficit, tried to alter the tax by introducing a «true» millionaires tax on the highest income earners.

Such cuts also have counteracted and sometimes undermined important state education reform initiatives at a time when producing workers with high - level technical and analytical skills is increasingly important to the country's prosperity.

The deep education spending cuts states have enacted will weaken that future workforce by diminishing the quality of elementary and high schools.

Clinton's comments came during a 32 - minute speech in which she took aim at Walker and his signature legislation that all but eliminated collective bargaining rights for most public employees and his proposal in the last state budget to cut funding for higher education.

«If the Government is truly serious about a high quality education for all, they need to stop cutting school and local authority budgets, ensure our class sizes are reduced and stop selling off school sports fields and libraries.

State Senator Toby Ann Stavisky, who is the ranking member on the Senate Higher Education committee, just issued a statement suggesting Governor Cuomo's proposed cuts to SUNY and CUNY could lead to tuition hikes.

The Senator argues this is a reason funding should not be cut to higher education.

Researchers at the IFS estimate that the cuts will hit higher education, as funding to universities has been cut by 40 %, but some of that shortfall will be recouped with increased tuition fees.

The Universities and Colleges Union has warned that 15,000 jobs are at risk if Peter Mandelson goes ahead with his proposed # 135 million cut in spending on higher education next year.

«While one can argue with the governor's assertion that there are trend factors in some areas of the budget which have made increases automatic, there can be no doubt that institutions of public higher education have consistently seen nothing but cuts over the last few years,» Glick, a Manhattan Democrat, said.

Assemblywoman Deborah Glick, chair of the Higher Education Committee, released a statement today expressing disappointment in the 10 percent cuts to SUNY and CUNY included in Gov. Andrew Cuomo's 2011 - 2012 budget, calling them «short - sighted» and on track to overburden future generations with debt.

State university leaders and higher education advocates are warning that New York's community colleges may be forced to raise tuition or make cuts under Cuomo's proposed 2019 budget.

They were particularly concerned about cuts to further and higher education.