Sentences with phrase «of budget crunches»

This mindset is particularly convenient in a time of budget crunches, when districts feel pressured enough focusing on low - achieving kids at failing schools.

Second thing is that money could disappear overnight because of the budget crunch and the shortfall that they face according to the comptroller,» said Astorino.

«Because of our budget crunch, we need any money that we can get from the federal government.

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Cities and states across the country are working hard to overcome the double whammy of an economic slump and a fiscal budget crunch.

After months of desperate number crunching, Illinois finally passed a budget this week.

The site's spokeswoman Abigail Koch said the report found the cost of fresh food including vegetables and meat and fish crunched household budgets the most.

Tonight's vote is non-binding, meaning that Cameron can still carry out his preferred tactic of arguing for a real - terms freeze in the EU budget in next month's crunch talks.

Thanks to CapTon's Mike Whittemore and YNN's Solomon Syed, who's lending a hand down at the Capitol during the budget crunch, here's footage of the entire post-leaders meeting press gaggles held by Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.

And, raising the possibility of a broader agreement in a budget package, Flanagan indicated measures were intersecting, as they tend to do in Albany during crunch time.

But he has yet to identify where that money is coming from, and that «unprecedented» amount of funding is actually the smallest, or second smallest, state contribution to the MTA since 2000 when adjusted for inflation, depending on how you crunch the numbers, according to the non-partisan Citizens Budget Commission.

So the next few weeks will be busy ones for me and the rest of legislators as we cope with the budget crunch and other important matters.

Albany's budget crunch nearly prevented his appearance, and when a friend asked how come he was able to make it, the governor's sense of humor tumbled out: «Listen, it's a free breakfast.»

New York state delayed paying $ 2.5 billion of bills as a short - term way of staying solvent but its cash crunch could get even worse in August and September, Budget Director Robert Megna said on Tuesday.

From NASA's point of view, the value of amateurs is obvious: The more pairs of telescope - aided eyes scanning the cosmos, the greater the likelihood that significant discoveries will be made — and given the budget crunches of the past few years, the agency needs all the unpaid sky watchers it can get.

A «gruesome» yet valuable collaboration Washington, D.C., lawmakers have proposed a flurry of fixes to ease the budget crunch.

One huge unknown is the severity of DOE's budget crunch.

It's also unknown if Disney will try to hold onto its original December 21, 2012 release date, but I think that's a highly - optimistic time crunch for a movie that with a budget of $ 215 million.

Although, when enlightened on the meaning of STEM, more than two thirds (68 %) of parents stated that proficiency in tech is as necessary a life skill as budgeting or learning to cook, when it came down to the crunch 63.7 % of parents said that they'd rather their kids learned to speak a new language, than learned to code.

«Unfortunately, public relations is one of the first things to go in a budget crunch.»

Because of our state's budget crunch, however, that position is not funded at this time.

BTW, forgot to mention one of the first strategies our district had to give up in the state's budget crunch was a quality full day kindergarten program.

The Board of Education was thrilled to be on the cutting edge of innovation, but when a budget crunch hit a year later, they immediately looked to cut the professional development that the educators thought were needed.

London Councils, which represents the 32 London boroughs, plus the City of London, fears crunch time is rapidly approaching for the capital's education budgets.

With stimulus funding coming to an end and the economic crisis still imperiling local finances, several cities across the country are feeling the education budget crunch and responding with layoffs — or threats of layoffs.

Still, in these budget crunched times, citizens have been dismayed that the board, led by former Superintendent Larry Nyland, would reject a quarter of a million dollars for democracy education across all neighborhoods and schools in Seattle.

It looks like our CEO meeting with Heads of School to discuss student achievement and brainstorm new ways to push our students academically; it looks like our Managing Director of Finance crunching numbers to ensure that our current schools stay on budget and that we can fiscally support new schools; it looks like our Managing Director of Strategic Initiatives building relationships with stakeholders in potential Phoenix cities; and it looks like our COO ensuring consistency and efficiency across the network.

Yearly costs for an average home purchased in Metro Vancouver in 2016 are $ 44,354, and the report says that millennials would have to give up the dream of a single - family home in order to ease the budget crunch.

We've put this card above the life - of - balance cards below because after crunching the numbers on balances up to # 7,500 (as larger limits are rarer), we found it's cheaper, even with the fee, as long as you budget to pay off your debt within four years.

If you find it a bit tricky to remember all your different expenses or debts and aren't sure of the best way to organize them, we have a great budget calculator that lists and organizes everything and guides you as you create your budget and does all the number crunching for you.

Edwards replied, «the IGDA was created for sharing knowledge that is platform - agnostic — regarding how to do the craft, how to get better at what you do, crunch time issues... etc.» Finally, the moderator Gunnar Lott raised the concern of how project budgets are escalating, and how top - selling games are not consistent in terms of quality — «is the industry reaching a point where it's crashing?»

With states facing budget crunches and having to cut so many government programs that seek to help lots of citizens in need, states likely will continue to see the economic wisdom of cutting a government program that seek to kill a few citizens who murder.

To compound the problem of complex issues and stretching budgets, legal departments are also facing a resource crunch.

«We're not facing a budget crunch because of anything individual Albertans did.

In the 2011 biographical movie about Oakland Athletics» general manager Billy Beane's efforts to assemble a winning team from a small budget, Brad Pitt starred as the guy who employed the assistance of a number - crunching economist to use data and analytics to put together a competitive team despite having less money than most other major league teams — about one third that of the New York Yankees.

Over at the blog for budgeting app Mint, they did some quick number - crunching on one year of diapering.

The adult drivers ed course is affordable to meet the demands of even the most crunched budget, and it can be completed in as little as 6 - hours.

Modern - day computers have enough processing power to cure diseases and crunch your monthly budget numbers without breaking a sweat — but none of that matters if you're so annoyed by interface quirks and little irritations that merely sending email is an exercise in frustration.

The fact that Unlimited Plus customers get uncapped data speeds and HD video streaming more than makes up for the extra cost, though budget crunched families who don't care about fast data may find the Unlimited Choice plan to their liking, especially with HBO streaming part of that mix.

Sarah J. Sorenson, GRI, of Whale's Tail Realty Inc. in Kahului, Hawaii, created Wishing Well... for Maui Students to assemble wish lists for 32 budget - crunched public schools in Maui and find individual and corporate donors who can make those wishes come true.