Sentences with phrase «in education spending pushed»

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An election - year boost in education spending helped push the Beehive State to the top last year.

NYSUT often spends heavily on pushing education issues in the halls of the Capitol.

The ads are part of a multi-million dollar push for health care spending in the budget, typically one of the costliest areas in the spending plan aside from education aid.

The WFP largely sat out the battle over the so - called millionaire's tax, which other lefties were pushing very hard to see reinstated in full to offset the deep health care and education spending cuts Cuomo had proposed.

Nixon, an actress known for her role in the HBO series «Sex and the City» is a prominent advocate for public education funding and has often pushed Albany to spend more money on schools, criticizing Cuomo's stance on funding issues.

The year is expected to be an especially difficult one for Cuomo and the Legislature, given the size of the deficit and the traditional push to hike education spending in an election year.

Key portions of the city budget are, of course, dependent upon the state budget, so much anticipation (and lobbying) surrounds negotiations in Albany, where Governor Andrew Cuomo is attempting to push through his spending plan, with major education and ethics reforms, despite significant disagreement from both Democrats (who control the State Assembly) and Republicans (who control the State Senate).

Unions like 1199 and the U.F.T. that pushed for more money to fund education and health care will get almost $ 2 billion toward bridging next year's budget deficit, which books 4 percent increases in spending to both of their topical areas.

Her criticism is especially off the mark when she joins a group pushing for about $ 3 billion more in education spending, nearly double what Cuomo proposed.

As the top Democrat on a spending panel that oversees several federal research agencies, Fattah has pushed successfully for greater federal investment in basic research and science education, with a special focus on neuroscience.

If the skeptics are right, Wood writes, Common Core «will damage the quality of K — 12 education for many students; strip parents and local communities of meaningful influence over school curricula; centralize a great deal of power in the hands of federal bureaucrats and private interests; push for the aggregation and use of large amounts of personal data on students without the consent of parents; usher in an era of even more abundant and more intrusive standardized testing; and absorb enormous sums of public funding that could be spent to better effect on other aspects of education.»

Washington — Not willing to risk a Presidential veto of a huge catchall spending bill and seeking to make good on a political vow to pass their own appropriations bill for the second straight year, key congressional leaders pushed through a weary 98th Congress, a record $ 17.6 billion in fiscal 1985 Education Department funding last week — not as part of the continuing resolution but in the $ 101 - billion bill for the departments of Labor, Health and Human Services and Education.

In recent weeks, for example, state affiliates have been pushing for higher taxes on businesses to boost education spending in Nevada, successfully suing to limit the governor's authority over education in Wisconsin, and working to sink an initiative to allow charter schools in Washington StatIn recent weeks, for example, state affiliates have been pushing for higher taxes on businesses to boost education spending in Nevada, successfully suing to limit the governor's authority over education in Wisconsin, and working to sink an initiative to allow charter schools in Washington Statin Nevada, successfully suing to limit the governor's authority over education in Wisconsin, and working to sink an initiative to allow charter schools in Washington Statin Wisconsin, and working to sink an initiative to allow charter schools in Washington Statin Washington State.

Still, the president spent mounds of political capital pushing policies designed to pressure schools to help minority youth, and «it puts him in a difficult position to be signing onto something that clearly empowers states to be less aggressive in addressing inequity,» said Peter Cunningham, former assistant secretary at the Education Department and a past adviser to Secretary Arne Duncan.

The administration promised $ 1 billion in new spending on preschool; spurred states to adopt controversial K - 12 reforms such as performance - based teacher evaluations and the adoption of the Common Core State Standards through its Race to the Top grant program and waivers to the No Child Left Behind law; significantly expanded the federal School Improvement Grant program to turn around low - performing schools; targeted for - profit colleges and attempted to increase accountability in the higher education sector; and pushed a proposal by the president to make community college free.

Donald Trump's pick to lead the Education Department, Betsy DeVos, has spent two decades successfully pushing «school choice» in her home state of Michigan — a policy that she and her husband vowed in 1999 would «fundamentally improve educatioEducation Department, Betsy DeVos, has spent two decades successfully pushing «school choice» in her home state of Michigan — a policy that she and her husband vowed in 1999 would «fundamentally improve educationeducation.»

With a strong push to provide true LRE (Least Restrictive Environment) more and more children with disabilities are spending most or all of their day in a general education classroom.

Because there can be so much variation in poverty within a school district (just think about the socio - economic differences between Tribeca and the Bronx), the Department of Education is making a big push to calculate exactly how much each school spends on a student.

And back in Hartford, after spending nearly four years pushing his corporate education reform industry agenda, Governor Malloy has decided to seek re-election and is now trying to persuade teachers, parents and public school advocates that he is going to transform himself into a supporter of public schools.

Educators, pointing to high - performing education systems in some European and Asian countries, have pushed for teachers to spend more time at work learning, not just teaching, so starting back in 2004, New York State began requiring teachers to complete 175 hours of professional development every five years.

From January through May 2012, Michelle Rhee, Patrick Riccards and the various corporate executives pushing Malloy's education plan spent over $ 2.6 million in Connecticut.

Hoosiers for Economic Growth chairman Fred Klipsch explained recently how his organization and several affiliated groups spent $ 4.4 million to push through the education policies that Indiana adopted in 2011, including a huge voucher program, expansion of charter schools and anti-union measures.

Obama also voiced his determination to oppose what he called «reckless» spending cuts being pushed by many lawmakers in Congress, drawing a strong line at education funding.

In Michigan, StudentsFirst spent $ 955,000 last fall to push an education package that included evaluating teachers primarily by student test scores and restricting union bargaining rights (so issues like the new evaluation system would not be subject to negotiation).

It is federal budget season again, and President Barack Obama is pushing for big investments and changes in early education, proposing healthy increases in spending on home visiting, preschool and Head Start.