Sentences with phrase «local budget cuts»

«Lower class sizes are desired, but how the legislature has chosen to implement them presents significant challenges for districts and will result in either local budget cuts or local governments may have to increase taxes to pay for this change,» said Todd LoFrese, assistant superintendent for support services for Chapel Hill - Carrboro City Schools.

This funding will lay the foundation for a generation of education reform and help save teaching jobs at risk of state and local budget cuts.

This funding will lay the foundation for a generation of education reform and help save hundreds of thousands of teaching jobs at risk of state and local budget cuts.

This funding will lay the foundation for a generation of education reform and help save thousands of teaching jobs at risk of state and local budget cuts.

Schools must devote attention to all these needs while dealing with state and local budget cuts of a magnitude not seen for decades.

The unions and their allies would get a massive infusion of federal funds into the schools that would help offset state and local budget cuts.

This cap has the power to force real State mandate relief and local budget cuts.

Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy's local budget cuts, which he says he wants to bring to the state as governor, have taken their toll on services, critics say.

Not exact matches

With state budgets being cut, former SBA chief Karen Mills discusses how local economic growth does not necessarily need radical innovation to prosper.

Speaking at the first Prime Minister's Questions since the general election earlier this month, Corbyn said years of Conservative government cuts to local authority budgets had put public safety at jeopardy and had played a part in the fire that destroyed a tower block in Kensington, west London earlier this month, killing at least 79 people.

He is a strong proponent of a smaller local government and supports cuts to certain popular programs and caps on entitlements to township employees to keep the budget in balance.

And in education, local school districts as well as colleges and universities are still struggling with budget cuts.

Eliminating the state and local tax deduction would raise about one - quarter of the $ 4 trillion in revenues that some Republicans say they need to prevent tax cuts from creating a massive increase in the federal budget deficit.

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.

Some of the law enforcement agencies have withdrawn their school resource officers from local high schools in the wake of budget cuts, losing in the process what had been for many departments their main point of contact with driving - age teenagers.

Budget tip: You can get a batch of dish towels on the cheap from your local thrift shop, or cut up an old bath towel.

Unite Here Local I, the union representing the lunch workers, said the 200 cuts come in addition to the 163 lunchroom workers laid off last month as part of school budget cuts.

In 1981, local residents objected so vociferously to a proposal to close the zoo to meet Chicago Park District budget cuts that the district found money not only to keep it open, but to renovate it.

Finally, the report noted that state and local revenue gains from federal tax reform will be further offset by higher costs for state and local borrowing, resulting from tax reform, and greater demand for public services as charitable donations drop and federal budget cuts continue.

Unfortunately, many local public fitting stations have closed due to budget cuts because they did not charge a fee.

«Barriers to achievements for children with special needs and disabilities rise even higher as savage cuts to local authority budgets cause vital specialist support services to be axed.

They also need to stop cutting school and Local Authority budgets to ensure there is sufficient professional support available for those pupils who need it.

There's a real worry that with the cuts in music for young people - not just in school, where music budgets have been cut by # 16 million a year, but in local youth projects like the Rock School in Harlow - music will increasingly become not a right for all but a privilege for the few.

But youth justice projects are being squeezed or forced to shut down in the face of cuts to local authority budgets, NOMS, the YJB and YOTs.

The problem is that in the bleak landscape of austerity, where local councils have had their budgets halved since 2010 and are looking at losing another third of their funding over the next four years, a service which isn't even used by their own residents could start to look like an easy cut to make.

Its practical application, and that of the Coalition's Localism Bill, can be seen to have shifted responsibility for delivering services and managing budgets onto the local and community level, while effectively withholding power through enforcing cuts and strengthening government oversight, as with Gove's current dominion over education provision.

Charities have warned over and over again that the cuts to local authority budgets and welfare reforms would have an impact on society's most vulnerable people, but they have been ignored.

This ideologically - driven experiment is hard to justify at a time of school budget cuts in addition to the loss of vital local authority services for SEN pupils, the squeeze on libraries and Sure Start amongst others.

Local authorities have been forced to face the biggest spending cuts by central government, with 26 % of their budget slashed.

«Huge cuts to council budgets have left local authorities struggling to provide local services and look after our road network, resulting in crumbling roads, vehicle damage and placing the safety of drivers and pedestrians at risk,» she said.

At 12:30 p.m., the New York Housing Conference, Rep. Joe Crowley, members of Congress, advocacy groups, and local public housing residents, will hold a press conference to oppose Trump's proposed budget cuts to affordable housing and launch the #TrumpRentHike Calculator, Woodside Houses Park, 50th Street between Newtown Road and Broadway, Woodside, Queens

Also at noon, legislators and union members from Social Service Employees Union Local 371 rally to oppose proposed state budget cuts that target child safety and family well - being, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

The two - year budget deal reached in Washington on Friday ensures no draconian cuts in federal aid to the state and city, undercuts arguments to raise some local taxes and portends problems for Cuomo as he exaggerates the impact of Congress's tax bill on New Yorkers.

«Cuts to local council budgets are destroying life - saving services that it has taken my community decades and decades to built,» Brown said.

Stung by the expiration of federal aid intended to help states balance budgets as they seek to recover from the recession that began in 2008, the final budget is also expected to include another cut in local aid to cities and towns and to call for reduced growth in the rate of spending on education and health care, although special education is one of the few areas in which significant investments appear imminent.

Because the NHS, schools and other central government budgets are protected then some parts of local government will be cut most but is David Blunkett really wanting hospitals to be cut too?

Though there is much pain to go around, this decision spares local governments the worst of the budget cuts.

«The biggest threat to the human rights of older people receiving care at home is from cuts to adult social care budgets and it is very unclear whether tightening eligibility criteria to care will allow local authorities to continue to meet their human rights obligations,» she said.

Despite the big society rhetoric, in reality, the cuts to local authority budgets are cutting away the pillars upon which the good society is built.

«Years of decreasing, stagnant or slow economic growth have led local governments to cut vital services and tap their rainy day funds to balance budgets, a practice that is not sustainable in the long term,» the comptroller said.

At the same time, Republicans have been ones running on tax cuts, including a cap on local property tax levy increases and the middle - class tax cut in the budget — a measure initially proposed by Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan.

Local government and devolved administration budgets are also likely to be slashed, while public sector pay is also likely to bear a big burden of the cuts.

As with music and sport these are subjects that have been severely affected, if not entirely axed, as a direct result of cuts to schools and local authority budgets.

The mid year financial report released by Cuomo's budget office says options to close the gap include more cuts to state agencies, delaying payments to local governments and schools, suspension of some construction projects, and even borrowing money short term to pay for operating expenses.

On the other hand, in another excerpt regarding their Valley Energy project in the Town of Wawayanda, CPV's press release declares: «The project will also provide more than $ 30 million in local tax revenue, with the majority going to the local school system, which has been hit hard, in recent years by budget cuts.»

In the interview, Astorino knocked the mandated spending requirements in the budget he says make it harder for local governments to cut costs and keep taxes down.

The potential for substantial cuts in domestic spending poses gargantuan challenges for the state budget and budgets of local government entities throughout the state.

The call, which will start to ring on phones statewide at 9 a.m., urges respondents to contact their local assembly member to express support for a budget that cuts spending and holds the line on taxes, fees and borrowing.

That's more hyperbole, not least because the SNP's share of the vote and number of councillors was actually up slightly on the 2012 result - no mean feat considering local government budget cuts in the interim.

As Gov. Andrew Cuomo raises the possibility of an «extender» budget blamed on federal government - level uncertainty over potential cuts in spending to the state, the Fiscal Policy Institute has released a report examining the impact of D.C. aid to New York state and local governments.