Sentences with phrase «much education funding»

Trying to make good on a long - unkept promise to the nation's low - income schoolchildren that they should receive as much education funding as everyone else.

It's too soon to predict how much education funding the budget will include, or how individual school districts will fare, Magnarelli said.

Not exact matches

He does so in front of school kids and that's a clue: Primary education is a provincial responsibility, but it was symbolic of where much federal attention is focused these days, on funding matters in, or of relevance to the provinces.

Much like their deliberate cutting of education funding and all the other cuts they always insist on.

After all, that money can be much better spent on future education... like a university or college fund;)

(Apparently, although I didn't know it until he / she left a second comment here today, we even disagree over the desirablity of state - funded primary and secondary education, a hallmark of pretty much every advanced nation on the planet.)

Adult education courses are always a great place to start (funding to this area has already been severely reduced this year so there is much less provision) or you could even go on a painting holiday!

The Department for Education is planning for a distribution of high needs funding to local authorities that is more formulaic, and less reliant on past levels of allocation that have become outdated, and on local decisions on spending that have partly determined how much is allocated.

It was during the Reagan administration that the government tried to classify ketchup as the «vegetable» component of school lunches, in a failed attempt to save $ 1 billion in education funding, and not much has improved since then.

He's also not interested in a big education funding hike much beyond the almost $ 1 billion boost he proposed in January.

Lawmakers on Monday passed extender resolutions to keep the government running through the end of May, but also to fund pretty much all of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's economic development program — not to mention a $ 2.5 billion water infrastructure package that pretty much all sides want — but not contentious issues like education / charter school funding, raise the age and 421 - a.

Much bigger cuts lie ahead: Education Secretary Arne Duncan warns that as stimulus funding dries up, as many as 300,000 teachers and other school personnel could lose their jobs this year to budget cuts.

The Lib Dems for a while campaigned on putting a penny on Income Tax to fund education spending and it's unlikely it did them much harm (although it's possible that what was popular with their supporters might have had limited appeal beyond).

Cuomo is still pressured by groups like the Alliance For Quality Education, an organization that has worked closely with Nixon on education funding, much to his aEducation, an organization that has worked closely with Nixon on education funding, much to his aeducation funding, much to his annoyance.

Much of the support from hedge funds for Cuomo is being organized by Joe Williams, executive director of Democrats for Education Reform, who include the founders of funds like Anchorage Capital Partners with $ 8 billion under management, Greenlight Capital with $ 6.8 billion, and Pershing Square Capital Management with $ 5.5 billion.

There's also a dispute between Sampson and Silver on how to fund what is now expected to be as much as a $ 1 billion shortfall in anticipated federal Medicaid aid, an enormous loss at a time when politically nervous lawmakers are looking to add education funding to the final budget plan.

It's still unclear how much funding the Buffalo Public School District stands to lose for special education services, should the U.S. Senate pass the American Health Care Act approved last week by the House without significant changes.

Cuomo would increase education aid in the state budget by as much as $ 1.1 billion, but much of the funding is linked to his policy proposals, which also include a strengthening of the state's charter schools.

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.»

We are talking not about grants or loans, as the regime governing them is already much tougher for returning students, but about the removal of Higher Education Funding Council teaching support for any university that takes on returning students.

But lawmakers this legislative session have chaffed under what they see as an executive overreach with linking so much controversial policy to spending increase for education and the funding of capital projects.

Cuomo wants to boost education aid by as much as $ 1.1 billion, with the funding strings attached to backing the reforms.

«The 2017 - 18 Executive Budget seeks to balance spending and revenue and proposes much needed capital investments in clean water projects while increasing funding for education, health care and other programs,» DiNapoli said.

The budget includes a $ 1.5 billion increase in education funding, greater than the $ 961 million the governor proposed in January, but not as much as the $ 2.13 billion that the state Assembly wanted.

Cuomo has been a vigorous advocate of the education «reform» movement, a collection of hedge fund funded charlatans that are looking to siphon as much public money as possible from public education under the guise of «disrupting» education as we know it.

The state Board of Regents, a semi-independent entity charged with setting education policy in the state, last year set its funding aspirations at $ 2 billion, twice as much as what Cuomo has proposed with policy measures approved.

«That's why I've decided to join the Independent Democratic Conference, where I can best affect progressive change on issues like affordable housing, higher education, school funding equity, homelessness reforms, economic development, infrastructure upgrades, affordable healthcare, senior citizen protections and so much more,» Peralta said in the statement.

In urban central cities, funding levels per student tend to be at least average, but student needs (e.g. for special education for students with learning disabilities and for general support for very poor students such as homeless students) tend to be much greater.

That's why I've decided to join the Independent Democratic Conference, where I can best affect progressive change on issues like affordable housing, higher education, school funding equity, homelessness reforms, economic development, infrastructure upgrades, affordable healthcare, senior citizen protections and so much more.

Billy Easton, Executive Director of the Alliance for Quality Education, points out that test scores dropped much more dramatically in schools with high rates of poverty where school funding is significantly lower.

Success Academy recently netted an $ 8.5 million donation from hedge fund manager John Paulson, and Success» board of directors is famous and much - coveted in New York's education circles for its influence.

«While we still have much work to do to address the high costs of pensions and healthcare, the main drivers of expense to local governments, this year's executive budget keeps our funding for cities stable and begins smart investments into infrastructure and education which will pay long term dividends to all New Yorkers,» Miner said.

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..

But the fate of that NASA - funded education program and many others was very much up in the air until this week, when Congress passed a $ 1 trillion spending bill to fund the federal government through 30 September 2015.

Much of the rest will help fund education and outreach programs.

I am very much delighted and happy to know that the Department of Crop Botany of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University is implementing a sub-project entitled «Establishment of Digital Herbarium and Herbal Museum for Improving Academic and Research Capability in Crop Botany» with the financial assistance from Academic Innovation Fund (AIF) of Higher Education Quality Enhancement Project (HEQEP) under the University Grants Commission of Bangladesh (UGCB) supported by the World Bank.

How is it that states ranked at one extreme on the funding gap between poor and rich districts (Education Trust) can be ranked at the opposite extreme on how much it costs to raise all districts to the median (Education Week «s McLoone Index)?

Rather than focusing on whether or how much to invest, the discussion has increasingly focused on whether free tuition is the most effective use of additional funds for higher education.

Specifically, it would move American higher education from a voucher - funded market to a system with a free public option much like traditional K 12 public schools.

Budget shocks are measured by changes in overall state funding for higher education, interacted with a measure of how much each institution generally depends upon such funding for its own budget.

«While much public discussion has been solely focussed on funding, we've been getting on with the job of delivering a quality reform agenda in teaching education.»

We very much doubted that the secretary of education would threaten the country's most populous state, which teeters on the brink of bankruptcy, by holding back funds.

I explore three broad hypotheses for why African Americans might not have benefited as much as whites from the funding initiatives: 1) kindergarten funding disproportionately drew African Americans out of higher - quality education settings; 2) instead of raising additional revenue to fund local kindergarten programs fully, school districts offered lower - quality kindergarten programs to African Americans or moved funds from existing school programs from which African Americans may have disproportionately benefited; and 3) African Americans were more adversely affected by any subsequent «upgrading» of school curricula as more students entered elementary grades having attended kindergarten.

For example, much of the emphasis over the last several years has been upon the funding future of the Teaching American History Grants program administered by the U.S. Dept. of Education.

The new Prime Minister's slant is much different from former Prime Minister Tony Abbott's blanket refusal to consider extending Gonski funding, giving the education sector renewed hope that the importance of needs - based funding will be recognised by the Federal Government.

She wonders if the Department of Education will withhold federal funding if these states apply for waivers but offer much less in the way of conforming principles than Secretary Duncan would like.

They have tried to raise funds in new ways, such as letting the school premises during the summer holidays and evenings, and have converted to new ways of working, in an effort to save as much as possible without affecting children's education.

The shortfall is much larger than any in recent memory, and poses a threat both to Pell recipients and to funding for all education programs.

Legislature spent much of session in dispute with Governor over its education budget, which was $ 5 million less than the Governor's proposal and did not include any funding for a school - reform committee and the pilot projects it supports.

They claim that much of Australia's increased expenditure on education in the last 20 to 30 years has been «wasted» on efforts to reduce class sizes, arguing that this extra funding does not lead to better academic results.