Sentences with phrase «latest school cuts»

The latest School Cuts research — drawn solely from government figures — shows that staff numbers in secondary schools have fallen by 15,000 between 2014/15 and 2016/17 despite having 31,000 more pupils to teach.

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Later this month the Republican - dominated U.S. House likely will approve a cost - cutting bill that would dismantle the 48 - year - old National School Lunch Program, giving control of school - based feeding programs to individual sSchool Lunch Program, giving control of school - based feeding programs to individual sschool - based feeding programs to individual states.

Later in the day, my lunch room «eyes and ears,» Cheryl Sorak (a dedicated cafeteria volunteer at our school), reported that many of the little kids found the cutlet too hard to cut with their plastic spork — it was tender enough, but still hard to manage without a knife.

After lawmakers consented to his steep cuts to health care and school spending this year, he held a news conference to call the New York Legislature — for years the butt of late - night comics and a target of editorial pages — «the best legislative body in the nation.»

Schools, hospitals, public - safety and mass - transit programs are now going to have to face deeper cuts later, and everyone's probably going to get way higher taxes.

The governor says the money is needed to pay for a middle class tax cut, agreed to last year and which is scheduled to begin phasing in later this year, as well as a plan to provide free tuition at public colleges for New Yorkers earning less than $ 125,000 a year and to spend more on public schools.

Several other schools are also being shut down for poor performance in this latest round of cuts.

After the school district in Beaverton, Oregon, announced its latest round of budget cuts, teacher lay - offs and increases in class sizes, Jack and Julia's parents decided to enrol them in the state's full - time online school, Oregon Connections Academy.

«I found out later he was cutting school to go on collecting trips,» Irvine says, laughing.

«We became interested in studying the effects of economic downturns on public spending during the Great Recession of the late 2000s, when media outlets were filled with stories about states cutting optional Medicaid benefits, increasing school class sizes and reducing course offerings,» said Ho, who is also a professor of economics at Rice and a professor of medicine at Baylor College of Medicine.

Matched with a dreadful late - John Hughes score by Christophe Beck, all industrious walking horns cut with adult contemporary favourites, Cheaper by the Dozen is from the I Am Sam / Irreconcilable Differences school of kid welfare in which seven year - olds are Solomon and fifty - seven year - olds are dangerous, self - centered naïfs interested in the disintegration of their families.

Watch the latest movie trailer for the upcoming fantasy film «Beastly» by director Daniel Barnz (Phoebe in Wonderland, The Cutting Room) and starring Neil Patrick Harris (The Best and the Brightest, Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay), Vanessa Hudgens (Sucker Punch, High School Musical 3), Mary - Kate Olsen (The Wackness, Weeds), Alex Pettyfer (Entertainment Tonight, Tormented), Peter Krause (Dirty Sexy Money) and Lisa Gay Hamilton.

Set amidst the latest trends in music, dance and fashion, WE THE PARTY is a colorful, cutting - edge comedy set in an ethnically diverse Los Angeles high school during America's first black president.

with Kam Williams Headline: Tavis Talks about His Latest Special Report Due to nationwide budget cuts, music education programs are being eliminated from school curricula nationwide at a rapid pace.

Seidel knew he had similarly reached other students, but by the time he departed eight years later after funding was cut, South Boston High School was left with one visual arts teacher for an urban school comprising about 900 stuSchool was left with one visual arts teacher for an urban school comprising about 900 stuschool comprising about 900 students.

Schools that have bumped start times an hour later have seen the number of Ds and Fs cut in half.

In one of his early writings, excerpted in the following pages, James S. Coleman, the brilliant sociologist who later wrote the famous report on the equality of opportunity for education (the «Coleman Report») and the first study of public and private schools, identified the essential high - school problem: «our adolescents today are cut off, probably more than ever before, from the adult society.»

Cut to a year later, and the next school year has begun.

Budgetary shortfalls, school district bankruptcies, teacher and administrator layoffs, hiring and salary freezes, pension system defaults, shorter school years, ever - larger classes, faculty furloughs, fewer course electives, reduced field trips, foregone or curtailed athletics, outdated textbooks, teachers having to make do with fewer supplies, cuts in school maintenance, and other tales of fiscal woe inevitably captivate the news media, particularly during the late - spring and summer budget and appropriations seasons.

Four years later, she takes it as almost a personal failure that the 4th graders in her Reading First schools, more than 3,700 students, have cut the achievement gap with the state by more than half but haven't eliminated it.

The letter argued that the standards would lead to «long hours of instruction» in literacy and math, inappropriate testing, and didactic instruction that would» [cut] off children's initiative, curiosity, and imagination, limiting their later engagement in school and the workplace, not to mention responsible citizenship.»

Elementary and high schools nationally cut capital spending by $ 28 billion or 37 percent between fiscal years 2008 and 2013 (the latest year available), after adjusting for inflation.

While the media has reported on cuts in state education spending and the effects of these cuts in individual schools or school districts, the CEP survey presents the latest national data on the fiscal condition of school districts of all sizes.

So, TREE has joined with more than a dozen grassroots organizations that support strong public schools across Tennessee to demand accountability from the TDOE in the wake of confusion created by the latest release of «quick scores» and associated raw «cut scores» from recent TCAP tests.

On top of the anti-immigrant and refugee policies, the latest budget proposals from the administration and Congress have the potential to severely cut services to those who are the poorest among us — the homeless, frail homebound seniors, people with disabilities, poor children in after school programs.

When we heard about a major cut to charter schools in the latest budget proposal, members from across the state responded in force.

She said she hopes to one day send her 2 - year - old daughter too, but now worries the kind of programming that makes the school successful could be lost in this latest round of budget cuts.

Langdon, who did not respond to Policy Watch interview requests, also pushed through a budget amendment last week to cut the schools» requested exclusions from the dropout count, but they were restored later in the day by Rep. Rob Bryan, an influential Republican from Mecklenburg County who sits on the House Education Committee.

-- Is the focus on school choice and the latest move towards selection forcing schools into a cut - throat culture against their neighbours?

Trending in School Security, Keeping up to Keep Students Safe ASBJ decided to examine the latest trends in school safety and chat with security experts — and put together a list of cutting - edge issues worthy of your atteSchool Security, Keeping up to Keep Students Safe ASBJ decided to examine the latest trends in school safety and chat with security experts — and put together a list of cutting - edge issues worthy of your atteschool safety and chat with security experts — and put together a list of cutting - edge issues worthy of your attention.

Madison's public schools will need to get by with about 50 fewer staff members next year due to enrollment declines and budget cuts, according to the district's latest projections.

The Advocate: Surprise move: One day later, $ 44 million cut for public schools on way out http://bit.ly/1R6UP8Z

The study is from 2005 and two years later a series of school budget cuts removed billions from the system.

While Claypool said the cuts to school budgets would amount to $ 100 million, CPS later issued materials saying it would cut $ 75 million from school budgets this year, and that those cuts would be mitigated by the availability of $ 41 million in federal grant money.

Why Oil and Coal States Are Slashing Their Education Budgets Wyoming is the latest state to cut spending for K - 12 schools.

Later in the hearing, Sen. Patty Murray (D - WA) asked, «Can you commit that you will not work to privatize public schools or cut a single penny for public education?»

And you know that ribbon - cutting ceremony for SLAM that Susan Valdes attended and then later approved two new SLAM schools?

At first, the school paid the contractor $ 14,000 per 10 - day period for three workers, though it later cut the cost to $ 1,000 a week for someone to review the school's finances weekly.

Seeking to reach the young men who often cut school, arrived hours late, struggled academically, ran out the door as soon as the bell rang rather than take advantage of after school programs, P...

For staff and faculty, the school leader will likely need to address end of year evaluations, possible terminations due to budget cuts and training in the latest education trend.

The year had begun in chaos after the latest huge budget gap led Schools Superintendent William Hite to preside over another round of deep cuts.

Although the good news is that the devastating effect of sequestration will not occur in January, the bad news is that it will still happen later in 2013, a fact that Miller emphasizes in his memo when he writes that «the damage from across - the - board cuts... would be severe» during the 2013 — 14 school year.

These «teaching» schools would attract master teachers who want to educate new entrants to the profession and could also function as places to learn the latest in cutting - edge research and practice.

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Connecticut teachers are urging legislators to take up the critical issue of education funding when they convene for a special session later this month to focus on the draconian cuts devastating the state's public schools and shortchanging students» education.

Head over to my latest blog at https://schoolfinancialsuccess.com/school-cuts-alarmist-or-realist/ to see my analysis of the School Cuts information.

A few minutes later, when Katzenmoyer speaks, she says that during earlier budget deliberations, the school board promised not to cut music.

June Atkinson, superintendent of public instruction in North Carolina, is talking about the latest cut to the Department of Public Instruction (DPI), a $ 300,000 reduction that, all things considered, will deal relatively minor damage to the state department charged with providing support and oversight for local schools.

The state Department of Education said its latest multiple measurement ratings, or MMRs, show nearly two - thirds of Minnesota schools are on track to meet a state goal of cutting the achievement gap between poor and minority students and their classmates in half by 2017.

Two more schools made the cut to compete in the Dual National Championships held later this year at the SEMA Show and PRI Trade Show.