Sentences with phrase «increase education funding because»

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c) The «speakers» sound ridiculous because their message is empty: there is no credible strategy on offer as to how to fund the massively (and unnecessarily) increased numbers of students entering a dumbed - down higher education system.

«However, despite the fact that 99 percent of this federal funding would go to traditional public schools, union leadership has tried to kill this education reform legislation because it increases the cap on public charter schools, which don't necessarily have to be unionized.»

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.

Universities, colleges, and their students in Canada were not anticipating much in the way of increased funding for postsecondary education initiatives because much of the talk leading up to this year's federal budget focused on health care..

Meanwhile, a key senator said he canceled a budget hearing because administration officials failed to deliver proposals to offset increased education funding with entitlement cuts.

There doesn't seem too much of a problem when it comes to federal funding, because the education budget has increased drastically in the last several years, and so Guggenheim more times than others points to the ineffectualness of the school system itself.

That's because along with the per - pupil increase and some boosts in aid, the committee's recommendation shifts a hefty chunk of tax dollars to private voucher schools, funding that could have restored public education funding that's been lost to years of cuts.

I differ on this point as to the weight of its contributing impact, because this one - time decrease in state funding for public education doesn't alter the fact that for the past 20 years in Texas, total annual public education funding from all sources — local, state, and federal — has increased by almost twice the sum of inflation and enrollment growth over that period, even after an adjustment for the growth in special education students.

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.

«I want to thank Gov. Nathan Deal, Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle, bill sponsors Rep. Scott Hilton and Sen. Fran Millar and the Georgia General Assembly for ensuring that more Georgia students will have access to a high quality and transformative public education because the public charter schools they attend will receive a funding increase.

The increase in state funding would not take money away from other public school students, he said, because it would not come out of the $ 9 billion state education budget dictated by the school funding formula.

Last year, a San Diego Unified report found that the amount the district needed to kick into special education rose by more than $ 49 million between 2012 and 2016, because of reductions in federal and state funding and increased special education costs.

Faced with a massive shortfall in revenue because of the recession, then - Democratic Gov. Bev Perdue asked Republican leaders to extend part of a temporary 1 - cent sales tax increase to maintain education funding.

Because there has been an increasing separation, in terms of the infrastructure, of education and funding.