Sentences with phrase «over education cuts»

A teacher rebellion in red states from West Virginia to Arizona has put Republicans on the defensive, forcing them to walk a fine line in the months before midterm elections between placating constituents who are angry over education cuts and conservative supporters who want a smaller government and low taxes.

Not exact matches

Still, Skyrocketing college costs, cuts to public funding for higher education, stagnant incomes and the growth in the college - going population are largely to blame for the uptick in outstanding student loans over the past decade.

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Overall, the House GOP's plan will cut $ 65 billion from higher education over the next decade.

The cutting instrument is now what it always was, providing education and opportunity for advancement in life over the lack of both that is current in the troubled areas.

While social service programs and education throughout the state get cut, Illinois governor Bruce Rauner forks over as much as $ 1.26 million in tax credits to poach ConAgra from Omaha.

Silver and Sampson informed reporters that the meeting was held to discuss the remainder of the budget itself — not the next round of extenders, which Paterson told DN Capitol Bureau Chief Ken Lovett over the weekend might not include the hot - button issue of education cuts.

In fact, we would have to lay off workers sooner than our plan of January 1, and we would probably have to have something like a one percent cut to all services across the board, which I don't know, particularly in the area of health care, where we've cut over $ 5 billion now, and education, where we've cut over $ 2 billion, that they could sustain additional cuts to that extent.»

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.

The union also released the results of a poll conducted by National Opinion Research that found 63 percent of New Yorkers would prefer to see a temporary income tax increase on the state's highest earners (1 percent for those who make more than $ 1 million and 2 percent for those who make over $ 5 million) over education funding cuts of between $ 800 million and $ 1.4 million.

Gov. David Paterson last Thursday proposed $ 5 billion in cuts over the next two years to fill a growing state budget deficit, and the plan makes deep reductions in funding to education, health care and state agencies.

«Over three million children in the UK live in poverty, a key inhibitor to educational progress, and experience every day the harsh realities of cuts to welfare, specialist services and support, education grants and the wider effects of the recession.

A Higher Education Bill will force universities to come clean over data that reveals poor standards and see a cut in the level of tuition fees they charge.

The WFP largely sat out the battle over the so - called millionaire's tax, which other lefties were pushing very hard to see reinstated in full to offset the deep health care and education spending cuts Cuomo had proposed.

The superintendent of Rockville Center schools, who earns $ 310,000 a year, thinks Cuomo's cap is a «distraction» from the fight over $ 1.5 billion in education aid cuts.

Repeating the governor's claim that state cuts to education do not require layoffs, Mulgrew said it was clear that Mayor Bloomberg's priority «is not to get money for the schools; he would rather fight over who to lay off than fight on behalf of children.»

«Over the past two years we have cut middle class tax rates to their lowest rates in sixty years, cut taxes for small businesses, while at the same time investing like never before in our institutions of higher education,» Cuomo said.

The cuts to education aid from the Gap Elimination Adjustment will be cut by «well over 50 percent» and a full restoration will be made next year, Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos on Monday told reporters.

Schools in Britain will see their budgets slashed by as much as 14 % over the next four years in the biggest cuts to education seen since the 1950s, tax and spending experts warn.

For AQE, which is pushing for education spending on par with a decade - old court ruling, the problem for them was Cuomo suggesting a short - term extender may be a viable option for the state budget considering the uncertainty emanating from Washington over the federal government's budget cuts.

«This represents the largest cut in education spending over any four - year period since at least the 1950s.

He seemed to almost dare legislators who are balking over education and health care cuts and key policy issues like prison closures and the med - mal cap to challenge him to a game of budget chicken.

The two administrations have also been at odds over education funding cuts and the amount of cash the city has in reserve.

«While one can argue with the governor's assertion that there are trend factors in some areas of the budget which have made increases automatic, there can be no doubt that institutions of public higher education have consistently seen nothing but cuts over the last few years,» Glick, a Manhattan Democrat, said.

The Times sees Cuomo's budget as a mixed - bag, expressing disappointment over the lack of revenue raisers and concern over the deep education cuts, which the paper thinks go too far.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's budget this year increases education aid by about $ 990 million, with $ 2.1 billion being spent over the next two years and also ends the education cuts known as the gap elimination adjustment.

Billy Easton, with the Alliance for Quality Education, says last year, Cuomo presided over a budget that cut $ 1.3 billion dollars in aid to schools.

Billy Easton, with the Alliance for Quality Education, says last year, Cuomo presided over a budget that cut $ 1.3 billion in aid to schools.

«The governor moved more than anyone could have anticipated,» said Billy Easton of the Alliance for Quality Education, one of the groups pushing to restore school aid and social service funding cut over the last three years of fiscal crisis.

The NHS and DFID ringfences were expected, but that Education was cut only 3.4 % over the period was disappointing because we believed there were intrinsically desirable cuts greater than this.

Well another politician who stands by a minority (the wealthy) and not the majority (the working class) when over 72 % of the public agrees we should bring back the wealth tax so we don't have to lay off Goverment employees and cut back on services such as education fire fighters law enforcement then we are not living in a Democracy.

Gillibrand said over the last ten years, as schools have had to tighten their budgets, physical education has often been some of the first programs cut.

Hanging over everything was the Republican tax overhaul and possible federal budget cuts, both of which could squeeze state education funding.

Not surprisingly, NYSUT, which is already at war with the Senate and Paterson administration over charters and education spending cuts, has signaled it might not endorse in the governor's race this year.

It was not immediately clear if the Education Secretary - who has no say over welfare cuts - was authorised to make her comments by the Chancellor or Prime Minister.

ALBANY — Many of the major parameters that Gov. Andrew Cuomo will announce in his executive budget proposal on Tuesday afternoon are already known: continued growth in Medicaid and education spending, a suite of tax cuts worth $ 2 billion over the next several years and a to - the - bone spending posture that holds state agency budgets flat for at least the third year in a row.

The Education Secretary tried to pour cold water on the bubbling Tory row over PIP cuts - but her claims don't stand up to much scrutiny

ALBANY, N.Y. (CBSNewYork / AP)-- Days before one of New York's toughest - ever state budgets is due, protests over education and social services cuts persisted and Gov. Andrew Cuomo warned that the government could shut down if the Legislature gets in the way of his cost - cutting plans.

Since 2009, the board has made major cuts to the public schools, eliminating over 400 positions and reducing kindergarten to a half day while increasing spending on special education and transportation for private school students.

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However, they are becoming increasingly underused and underappreciated in education, with a survey by the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) revealing that over a fifth of school staff said their school library budget has been cut by at least 40 per cent since 2010.

Rick Hess and Paul Peterson, for example, have compared state cut scores for proficiency on their state tests to results on the U.S. Department of Education's National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) to show that the level of achievement required to be declared proficient in many states has been dropping over the last decade.

At a news conference last week, he said, «The tax cut should be targeted to the middle class and to education so we raise incomes and growth for America over the long run.»

Education is a labor - intensive industry, and because most districts devote well over half of all spending to teacher compensation, budget cuts have already led to the most substantial teacher layoffs in recent memory.

Gov. Ed Herschler of Wyoming in his opening address to the legislature has asked lawmakers not to subject the state department of education to cuts over the next biennium any deeper than the 6 - percent reduction he recommended in his budget.

While the education secretary, Justine Greening, promised an extra # 1.3 bn for state schools over two years, headteachers across England calculated that this amount would translate to a real ‑ terms cut of 4.6 per cent from 2015.

Funding gifted education is thus left largely up to school districts, which are hard hit by falling property taxes and looking to cut budgets without reducing the number of kids who get over the minimum - proficiency bar.

We don't know who will win the election but one thing we do know for certain though, is that whoever wins will preside over a real terms cut in education funding during the next parliament.

As preparations for the local elections in England gather pace, the National Association of School - Based Teacher Training (NASBTT) has joined forces with Universities» Council for the Education of Teachers, the Chartered College and the Teaching Schools Council to suggest solutions to the issues which students and teachers face, namely: dealing with funding cuts; struggling to find access to quality CPD; confusion over training routes; a «cumbersome» application process and skills tests which act as a barrier to teacher recruitment.

The David Ross Education Trust has been given a «final warning» by unions over job cuts as part of its # 1 million saving scheme.