Sentences with phrase «many years of underfunding»

«New Yorkers are suffering the consequences of years of underfunding and mismanaging of our mass transit system.

Now, they say, after years of underfunding, things have come to a «grinding halt», and nearly 6000 people with disabilities are on waiting lists.

«The dismal trend of many years of underfunding 2020 census preparations has finally been reversed,» says Phil Sparks of the Census Project, a nonprofit coalition based in Washington, D.C. «Our assessment is the Bureau now has the minimum resources needed to prepare for its constitutional mandate.»

The institution has long been regarded highly for its studies in physics, computer sciences and chemistry, though years of underfunding had left the university short of lab and classroom space.

That was followed by a scramble to a charter solution to compensate for years of underfunding and neglect.

«Adding to years of underfunding, my district simply can not meet all of the needs of all of our students with these devastating cuts.»

Cell phone book clubs could fit in with existing library programs and boost library - book circulation, which, even with a number of well - off «power readers» to raise the average in Alexandria, is only mediocre following years of underfunding for content.

After many years of underfunding LIHEAP, Congress funded the program at $ 5.1 billion in FY2009 and FY2010.

First, years of underfunding have left the court's administration, especially in the county courts, in varying degrees of chaos.

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The public awareness of the degree to which State pension funds are underfunded has risen considerably over the past year.

A colleague of mine who works at a pension fund did a study last year in which he concluded that, because of the extreme degree of public pension underfunding, a 10 % decline in the stock market for a sustained period — i.e. more than 3 or 4 months — would cause every single public pension fund to blow up.

As a result, the coming years are likely to see a major pension crisis across both corporations and municipalities because the illusory front - loading of returns has encouraged profound underfunding.

We discuss how taxable entities with underfunded pensions have been exploring the impact of increasing funding for their plans prior to the deadline for capturing the higher deductions (the deadline is generally 8.5 months after the 2017 plan year ends, so September 15, 2018, for calendar year plans).

I worked on the Income survey for a handful of years, and it is mired in dated ideas, methods and sadly underfunded.

Mick Carew, a research analyst with Haywood Securities, hopes we have found the bottom of the commodity cycle but expects M&A activity to continue apace through the rest of this year and into 2016 as low metals prices force the hands of underfunded management teams.

The sad reality, as I have said many times before, is that our school meal programs are almost criminally underfunded; our schools mostly lack kitchens, with some literally operating the meal program out of a closet, and even the schools with kitchens from 40 or 50 years ago lack equipment with which to scratch cook.

Pension woes blame Now that the Securities and Exchange Commission's cease - and - desist order has revealed that the state's politicians have underfunded the pension systems for 19 years, I would hope that the Tribune and others would stop blaming the employees who have their pension contribution deducted from every one of their checks.

«Any one of us can have a mental health problem, yet despite this, mental health services have been underfunded and overlooked for years,»

Since then, we've had 6 straight years of IDC - Republican control of the Senate; that's 6 budgets where thousands were held unjustly in pre-trial confinement, nearly a hundred thousand units of affordable housing were lost, and millions of kids attended underfunded schools.

For Cuomo, a united Democratic Senate majority is a nightmare scenario: a centrist at heart, he belittled raising the minimum wage before it came back into vogue, ridiculed the idea of hiking taxes on wealthy people, and still won't comply with a ten - year - old court ruling to fork over state cash to underfunded city public schools.

Former IRS Commissioner John Koskinen warned last year of a possible system failure, due in part to underfunding of the agency.

«That would only punish many of the same students who have seen their schools underfunded for years,» Stewart - Cousins said of the receivership proposal.

He is underfunded, and has less than $ 3 million dollars, compared to Governor Cuomo's high point of $ 35 million dollars earlier this year.

Though not yet able to crack double digits in any statewide polling, the 61 - year - old Hawkins — one of the party's most prolific vote - getters — believes he has «a fighting chance» this fall against Wall Street - funded incumbent Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his hapless Republican rival, as evidenced by the surprisingly strong showing of underfunded challenger Zephyr Teachout in the recent Democratic gubernatorial primary.

She did not address the quixotic nature of her quest — an effort a number of similarly unknown and underfunded Republicans have undertaken in recent years, only to be soundly defeated at the polls by Schumer.

An underfunded challenger, law professor Zephyr Teachout, garnered a surprising 34 percent of the vote against Mr. Cuomo last year.

After 14 years of continuous Labour rule Wales has a weak economy, underfunded schools and an NHS that costs more but delivers less.

Ultimately, after final budget negotiations last year, Ossining received an additional $ 2.2 Million dollars in Foundation Aid, yet remained one of the most underfunded Foundation Aid school districts in the state.

Cuomo faced a primary from the left four years ago when little - known and underfunded Fordham law professor Zephyr Teachout got a surprising 33.5 % of the vote.

After years of what critics say was underfunding legal aid for New York's lowest income people, the Senate and Assembly passed a bill in 2016 to create a state - funded system to ensure that indigent criminal defendants receive legal representation, as is their right under the U.S. Constitution.

Re-electing Andrew Cuomo will mean four more years of scapegoating teachers, underfunding public schools, cutting staff and programs, and proliferating privately - managed charter schools.

Hawkins criticized Cuomo's underfunding of the MTA, including diverting tens of millions of dollars this year in earmarked funds.

In 1997 Labour successfully painted the narrative of Conservative years of boom and bust and chronic underfunding of public services.

«We are asking for the state, to a minimum, fully fund the payments in lieu of taxes formula that's been on the state books for many, many, years, but has been dramatically underfunded.

«The first - year biology classes are too big», she explains, «and the labs are severely underfunded, such that many of the activities are reminiscent of labs I had during high school».

«We have data to show some contraction in the European biotech sector in the last couple of years, largely due to underfunding and mergers and acquisitions,» Hodgson says.

The global network of research centers, which many have long seen as underfunded, has now doubled its budget in 5 years.

It warned that previous experience has shown that providing 15 free hours to all three - and four - year olds has meant that underfunding and a lack of places can lead to poor quality provision.

That paved the way for a bizarre 2011 trial court decision holding that the state was underfunding education by billions of dollars each year.

APA's «continuation» of the School Funding Task Force's report estimated that $ 7.998 billion was required to realize educational adequacy for the 2003 — 04 school year, which implied that Minnesota's public school system was underfunded by approximately $ 953 million during that year.

Under the 10 - year timeframe a child starting Kindergarten in 2018 in an underfunded disadvantaged school deserves a greater level of resourcing for their education before they complete Primary school.

The same can be said for many Year 6 students today as they prepare for six years of schooling in disadvantaged and underfunded secondary education settings.

Board Chair Looks to Continue Urban Schools» Gains Despite underfunding and the challenges of recruiting qualified teachers in key subject areas, urban schools continue to make gains, according to George H. Thompson III, this year's chairman of the Council of the Great City Schools» board of directors.

The Foundation Budget Review Commission said two decades of soaring costs for health care and special education services meant the state formula for aid to districts was underfunding schools by at least $ 1 billion a year.

In a DOE national study of school finance during the 2008 - 09 school year, the department looked at differences in spending between schools in the same districts and found that about 40 percent of Title I schools were underfunded relative to non-Title I schools.

Despite a smoother budget process this year, city school officials say the district continues to struggle with chronic underfunding, and is stuck waiting for the delayed recommendations of a state commission charged with revamping spending on Maryland public schools.

All three agreed that public education is underfunded, more transparency is needed in school funding, more investment is needed in early education, and teachers need at least three years of experience before granted tenure.

TPS and LGPS Pensions are viewed as a benefit but, at the end of the day, someone has to pay for them and the pensions in education — and all the public sector — are so much better than in the private sector; the figures just do not add up and both pension schemes have been underfunded for years.

NSBA argues that by diverting tax money to private schools, the voucher program threatens the quality of public education programs, especially in North Carolina, where public schools have been underfunded for years.

Second, Gonski 2.0 removes some of the special deals so that underfunded schools will get the Commonwealth share of their target funding within six years — much sooner than under the 2013 Act.