Sentences with phrase «negotiating education cuts»
Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Democratic Conference Leader John Sampson just emerged from a leader's meeting with Governor Paterson, and told Capital Tonight's Mike Whittemore they are still negotiating education cuts.
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Its top - line pledges of a balanced budget, tax - cuts for the low - paid, investment in health and education, and environmental protection will not be deal - breakers for either the Red or Blue negotiating teams.
It has also emerged that Mr Laws played a key «behind the scenes» role in planning last week's Spending Review (SR)-- particularly in negotiating a settlement for education which saw the schools budget effectively ring - fenced and protected from cuts.
«It relies on too many unrealistic savings, it contains immense cuts to higher education, and it would violate existing state contracts with our employees, resulting in costly legal battles for years to come,» said Malloy, «if the responsible solution I negotiated with Democrats isn't going to pass, then it is incumbent on the legislature to reach a new agreement soon — one that is realistic and, ideally, bipartisan.»
Mayor Bloomberg on Jan. 29 spelled out the consequences of his failure to negotiate a new evaluation system for teachers with the union: heavy cuts to the city education budget.
Although the specific programmatic numbers still have to be negotiated, the deal will most likely prevent further education funding cuts, lift the devastating spending caps known as sequestration, and allow for potential targeted increases in education spending.
The bipartisan congressional supercommittee's failure to negotiate a national deficit reduction plan triggers automatic, across - the - board spending cuts that will have devastating consequences for schools and students already reeling from deep education cuts at the state level.
The Senate plan would also dish out cuts to the State Board of Education, a panel of gubernatorial appointees charged with overseeing and administering the state's public schools, eliminating multiple staff positions that report to the board, including two positions directed at negotiating legislative affairs with the General Assembly.