Sentences with phrase «include increased funding for education»

Among it's selling points he said he believes the bill will include increased funding for education, the framework for the Buffalo Billion ², and the legalization of ride - hailing for Upstate /

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The NDP budget includes modest increases and projected stable funding for health care, education, advanced education and human services — core services that Albertans depend on.

In his seven years as president, President Houshmand has implemented many programs and initiatives to decrease the cost of higher education, including creating a $ 25,000, four - year bachelor's degree program, awarding more than $ 27 million annually in scholarship funds and waivers, and committing to capping tuition and fee increases at or lower than the rate of inflation for his tenure.

It includes a property tax rebate for homeowners, increased education aid, pre-k funding, and also some ethics reforms.

While de Blasio noted the increased funding heading toward the renewal schools that are the focus of much Department of Education effort and outside scrutiny, there are other key school - related additions to the budget, including $ 6.6 million for the DOE to «hire 50 additional physical education teachers and conduct a comprehensive needs assessment to address barriers and move schools toward full physical education compliancEducation effort and outside scrutiny, there are other key school - related additions to the budget, including $ 6.6 million for the DOE to «hire 50 additional physical education teachers and conduct a comprehensive needs assessment to address barriers and move schools toward full physical education complianceducation teachers and conduct a comprehensive needs assessment to address barriers and move schools toward full physical education complianceducation compliance.»

The UFT's other legislative priorities this year include new curriculum and teacher training aligned with the education standards that are being developed; restored funding for Teacher Centers statewide; additional funding for community schools and the Positive Learning Collaborative; closing tax loopholes to ensure the wealthy pay their fair share; and increased investment in technology and career and technical education programs.

They have offices in six cities across the state, and now regularly advocate for an agenda that includes ending the school - to - prison pipeline, increasing funding for community schools and pre-kindergarten programs, and railing against the expansion of privately - run charter school networks, what Easton calls the «privatization» of public education.

Cuomo's budget proposal provided about a four - percent increase in education aid, including targeted funding streams for pre-K and other programs.

A reinvented «New Labour» had further improved its credibility under Blair by promising traditional Labour essentials including more funding for healthcare and education, but also promising not to increase income tax and ending its commitment to the nationalisation of leading industries.

Nevertheless, the WFP's overtures presented him with a new dilemma: His «New Democratic Party» platform includes a pledge not to raise taxes and a promise to enact legislation capping future increases in local property taxes that directly contradict WFP tenets which seek more funding for education and social welfare programs by raising taxes on the wealthy.

Republicans defended the increase in charter school funding as part of an agreement included in a separate education bill (HB 7055) that will let school districts keep their local property taxes for maintenance and construction rather than share it with charter schools.

The government plans to cut «non-essential» education projects including youth clubs, after - school music and art activities and child safety projects to meet its commitment to increase funding for disadvantaged children under a pupil premium.

Assemblyman Bill Magnarelli, D - Syracuse, indicated the thruway toll tax credit did not get included in the Assembly budget bill because members wanted to increase funding for education.

The lawsuit, which includes parents from Yonkers and New York City, was announced Tuesday by the Alliance for Quality Education — a labor - backed group that advocates for increased funding for schools.

The higher education strategy aims to modernize Slovenia's universities and give them more autonomy; it includes an increase in funding for the entire higher education sector to 2.5 % by 2020.

Also in 2010, Representative Phillip Owens, the chair of the House Education and Public Works Committee introduced a bill aimed at establishing a more sustainable funding policy for CSD, and despite being stalled by opponents representing traditional districts, the 2011 - 12 state budget included a funding increase for CSD schools.

The bill includes $ 4.6 billion for the Chapter 1 compensatory - education program, an increase of $ 336 million over the 1988 funding level.

Yesterday, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) released the results of a poll conducted by a Democratic polling firm supposedly showing that American parents don't support a plethora of education reforms, including school choice, and would rather increase funding for public schools.

It was launched in 2004 as part of a three - sector strategy for urban education reform that also included increased funding for public charter - school facilities and added funds for educational improvements in District of Columbia public schools.

North Carolina's numbers do not include funding for one - time bonuses and increases for salaries and benefits for education personnel in order to accurately compare past and current education spending.

Legislators speaking included: Senator Jeffrey E. Piccola, Senate Education Committee Chairman and co-sponsor of Senate Bill 1; Senator Dominic Pileggi, Senate Majority Leader; Senator Mike Folmer, Vice-Chair of the Senate Education Committee; Representative Tom Quigley, Chair of the House Subcommittee on Basic Education and prime sponsor of HB 1330, legislation that would increase funding for the EITC program; Senator Jane Clare Orie, and Representative Tony Payton.

The funding increases in this legislation, including special education grants under the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), Title I, and Impact Aid are critical for America's public schools to continue to improve and educate a growing and diverse population of education grants under the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), Title I, and Impact Aid are critical for America's public schools to continue to improve and educate a growing and diverse population of Education Act (IDEA), Title I, and Impact Aid are critical for America's public schools to continue to improve and educate a growing and diverse population of students.

The new federal education law, the Every Student Succeeds Act, or ESSA, also provides increased access to funding for physical education by including the subject in its definition of a «well - rounded education.»

Entering its final year of a grant funded by the U.S. Department of Education, Project SOAR provides a wide range of services, including tutoring and summer programs to promote academic achievement; professional development for tutors and teachers; counseling for preparing for college; programs for increasing parent involvement; and a take - home computer program and computer training.

The Governor's plan, the full details of which should be revealed next week when he submits his budget to the legislature, also includes boosting beginning teacher pay to $ 35,000 by 2015, increased funds for early childhood education and textbooks, and a variety of pay - for - performance incentives that would be implemented by 2018.

The omnibus bill also includes funding increases for other federal education programs important to principals, as well as additional resources for training to address school violence and for improving mental health services in schools.

Earlier this year, the Texas Public Policy Foundation and the Texas Conservative Coalition Research Foundation published a list of principles for school finance which includes the fundamental point that the basis of the equity argument for increased education funding should be challenged, because educational equity is not the same as school funding equity.

The Governors recommendations for the 2008 - 2010 Direct Aid to Public Education budget include increased state funding for biennial rebenchmarking updates, as well as funding for new initiatives.

«We are pleased the Senate Appropriations Committee has preserved, and in some cases, increased funding for several critical education programs, including those that help our most vulnerable students and support effective teachers in the classroom.

California's 1,184 charter public schools, which serve more than 547,000 students across the state, will also benefit from the over $ 6 billion increase for education funding, including $ 53.1 billion in funding for the Local Control Funding Formula in the cominfunding, including $ 53.1 billion in funding for the Local Control Funding Formula in the cominfunding for the Local Control Funding Formula in the cominFunding Formula in the coming year.

There's incentive money for teacher merit - pay systems, as well as the proposed Early Learning Challenge Fund to increase access and quality of preK education, which includes $ 9.3 billion available in competitive grants over the next decade.

She joined the conservative Hoover Institution's Koret Task Force on K - 12 Education, a policy group that included Finn; Eric Hanushek, an economist famous for arguing that increasing education funding doesn't necessarily improve student learning; and John Chubb and Terry Moe, authors of the definitive early manifesto for markets and choice in publicEducation, a policy group that included Finn; Eric Hanushek, an economist famous for arguing that increasing education funding doesn't necessarily improve student learning; and John Chubb and Terry Moe, authors of the definitive early manifesto for markets and choice in publiceducation funding doesn't necessarily improve student learning; and John Chubb and Terry Moe, authors of the definitive early manifesto for markets and choice in public schools.

The appropriation for the Standards of Quality for Public Education (SOQ) includes amounts estimated at $ 348,900,000 the first year and $ 361,100,000 the second year from the amounts transferred to the general fund from the Public Education Standards of Quality / Local Real Estate Property Tax Relief Fund pursuant to Part 3 of this act which are derived from the 0.375 cent increase in the state sales and use tax levied pursuant to § 58.1 - 638, Code of Virgifund from the Public Education Standards of Quality / Local Real Estate Property Tax Relief Fund pursuant to Part 3 of this act which are derived from the 0.375 cent increase in the state sales and use tax levied pursuant to § 58.1 - 638, Code of VirgiFund pursuant to Part 3 of this act which are derived from the 0.375 cent increase in the state sales and use tax levied pursuant to § 58.1 - 638, Code of Virginia.

However, Congress's plan to keep sequestration in place means no increased funding in any education program — including Title I, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, and professional development for educators — regardlesseducation program — including Title I, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, and professional development for educators — regardlessEducation Act, and professional development for educators — regardless of need.

The Corporate Education Reform Industry has spent a record - breaking $ 6,767,957 plus in support of Governor Malloy's «education reform» agenda ------ An Agenda that includes forcing the Common Core and the Common Core testing scheme on Connecticut's public schools while cutting taxpayer support for public education and increasing public funding for privately owned and operated charterEducation Reform Industry has spent a record - breaking $ 6,767,957 plus in support of Governor Malloy's «education reform» agenda ------ An Agenda that includes forcing the Common Core and the Common Core testing scheme on Connecticut's public schools while cutting taxpayer support for public education and increasing public funding for privately owned and operated chartereducation reform» agenda ------ An Agenda that includes forcing the Common Core and the Common Core testing scheme on Connecticut's public schools while cutting taxpayer support for public education and increasing public funding for privately owned and operated chartereducation and increasing public funding for privately owned and operated charter schools.

Even after the subcommittee receives its allocation, funds will need to be distributed for programs beyond education — including the National institutes of Health, always a bipartisan priority for increases.

That said, Brown's spending plan includes no new funding for special education aside from a cost of living increase of about 1.5 percent.

The recommended budget from the Public Education Appropriations Committee included $ 25 million for the technology program, with additional revenue being gobbled up by a $ 40 million boost to charter school funding, $ 90 million for enrollment growth and a 2.5 percent increase, or $ 70 million, to the weighted pupil unit, a metric used for per - student - funding calculations.

While I am sure we can all debate the many reasons teachers offer for leaving the profession including increased emphasis on standardized test scores, the shifting focus of the annual professional performance review and the lack of funding for education at the state and national level, there is a growing stream of awareness that the core of the frustration is the lack of shared decision - making roles and opportunities for teachers in the majority of our schools today.

The recommendations made by the Governor regarding the Direct Aid to Public Education budget include technical adjustments to the Standards of Quality (SOQ), incentive, categorical, and school facilities accounts, as well as increased funding for existing programs.

Governor Jay Inslee has released a proposed 2017 - 2019 Washington State budget that includes a capital gains tax, new funding for education and other priorities, and a $ 25 per ton carbon tax with a 3.5 % annual increase.

In 2010, he chaired for Washington Governor Christine Gregoire her Higher Education Funding Task Force, and in 2011 he helped advocate for the successful adoption by the legislature of the task force's recommendations, including tuition - setting authority and increased accountability for the state's public universities and for the nation's first private - public funded endowment to enable more students to attend college.

The recently enacted FY2018 federal funding bill includes historic increases in funding for homelessness, housing, and education programs.

From 1966 to 1969 we secured new funding for services to low income people from the Office of Economic Opportunity, Health Education and Welfare, Oregon State Health Division and United Way, increasing our base of support to include government contracts, including Title X funding.

The Obama administration has won a series of other early education victories, including a sizable increase in funding for home visiting work.