Sentences with phrase «over staff cuts»

One district deeply riven by the impact of efforts to dismantle public education is the Spooner Area School District in northwest Wisconsin, where parents, teachers and students have been up in arms over staff cuts, increasing class sizes and other indignities.

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In the past week, Walmart, Sears, and Target have all been under the microscope for, respectively, disappointing financial results, staff cuts and speculation over consumer malaise.

This spring, he spent two weeks running the numbers and battling insomnia before making a dramatic announcement to his 120 - member staff on April 13, inviting NBC News and The New York Times to cover it: Over the next three years, he will phase in a minimum wage of $ 70,000 at Gravity and immediately cut his own salary from $ 1.1 million to $ 70,000 to help fund it.

But it hasn't been all smooth sailing for the internet culture king; Huh cut about 35 percent of its staff (24 employees) earlier this year amid lagging ad revenue as audiences have begun to favor mobile over desktop.

He's presided over multiple layoffs, including cutting 18,000 staff in 2014 and thousands in the following years.

Airports across the country are seeing lines balloon in size, thanks to a «perfect storm» of conditions — the number of airline passengers has increased to 700 million; there's massive attrition of TSA security screeners each week; TSA has cut staff by 10 percent over the last three years; and not enough passengers have enrolled in TSA's PreCheck program, the Associated Press reports.

One, man - hours per ton of output were quickly cut in half, from 70 to the upper 30s; two, sales per employee of $ 21,000 in 1983, just before Foster took over, soared to $ 109,000 in 1991; three, he instantly dismissed 15 of Chromalloy's 38 salaried staff.

The cuts are likely to be over 5 % of staff, the people said.

After Tribune Publishing announced in October yet another round of staff cuts — like déjà vu all over again — the newsroom, too, joined the chorus.

Over the last few years large mining companies and investment banks cut staff almost to the bone in that regard because no one was interested in doing deals or looking at acquisitions.»

That's for the coaching staff to determine, but given the holes in Landry's game I don't see him as a clear cut choice over the competition.

And it seems as we travel around to state and national conferences to talk to our many friends in the recreation field, more and more we hear about budgets being cut, staff let go and recreation programs being forced to turn their programs over to volunteer based organizations simply because they have no other choice.

The brunt of the cuts fell on lower civil service grades, with some losing over 30 per cent of staff (more than 60,000 posts were lost among administrative officers and assistants) while staff in top grades (Grade 7 and above) showed a small net increase.

She said it was ministers who decided to change franchising policy, cut over a third of the DfT's staff and «failed to act» despite «warning after warning».

The Commons» defence committee said it would be better to prioritise service personnel in the Ministry of Defence's (MoD) cuts over its civilian staff, whose redundancies will only be voluntary.

All have presided over program and staff cuts.

It's been reported that federal subpoenas in a probe of the Cuomo Administration cover over two dozen companies doing business with the state, and several of Governor Cuomo's top staff, but Cuomo says his understanding is that it focuses on just two people who the governor has cut ties with.

Barbara Bowen, a CUNY English professor who is president of the Professional Staff Congress, the union that represents 25,000 CUNY faculty and staff, said she was happy to see the governor acknowledge the need for money to cover the retroactive raises that the union has been fighting for but was worried over the $ 485 million cut in state spending for Staff Congress, the union that represents 25,000 CUNY faculty and staff, said she was happy to see the governor acknowledge the need for money to cover the retroactive raises that the union has been fighting for but was worried over the $ 485 million cut in state spending for staff, said she was happy to see the governor acknowledge the need for money to cover the retroactive raises that the union has been fighting for but was worried over the $ 485 million cut in state spending for CUNY.

Unite, which represents BA's cabin crew, had pledged not to strike over the Easter break as it continues to resist a pay freeze and staff cuts on long - haul flights.

Public sector staff in eight more prisons have learned they face privatisation just two weeks after job cuts were announced by the company set to take over Birmingham prison, the Public and Commercial Services union says.

Staff numbers have been cut by ten per cent over three years.

Added to jobs cuts and office closures, staff have the double whammy of privatisation hanging over their heads.

The department will cut a total of 670 jobs, roughly one - quarter of its staff, over that period.

To start with, this show does some really heavy adaptations based on the book, it cuts the huge staff of over 100 characters the book had, into at least a dozen or two of them, and it completely changes every single character, every single one.

► A gorilla grows quickly to about 20 feet, roaring into the camera and beating his chest until sanctuary staff place him in a cage; he becomes angry and breaks out, smashing walls, doors, windows and equipment, jumps over a building and into the street, smashing an SUV with his fists, and a man points a tranquilizer rifle but does not shoot; police cars cut the animal off as a helicopter with armed men flies by and they shoot the gorilla with large tranquilizer darts (the gorilla collapses, unconscious).

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.

The AET is proposing to cut the number of buildings and estates staff in schools by over 25 per cent, resulting in at least 34 redundancies across its 66 primary, special and secondary academies.

Twenty - one per cent of primary school heads reported that their school had got rid of teaching staff, and over half (54 per cent) said their teaching assistants had been cut.

A further 74 per cent of teaching staff claim they have already heard head teachers express concern over funding, while 59 per cent are implementing or due to introduce bigger class sizes to accommodate funding cuts.

Other key findings include: - Squeezed budgets mean many schools have been forced to shed staff, with further reductions to staff spending expected over the next two years - Teacher shortages seem to be getting worse - Schools that opt for academy status are not embracing the freedoms it brings in terms of curriculum, and teachers» pay and conditions - Secondary governors are using 11 - 16 funding to subsidise their sixth forms, as cuts in post-16 budgets bite

Over 70 per cent of secondary school leaders say that their schools has had to cut teachers over the last year, with a similar proportion saying the same about teaching assistants or support stOver 70 per cent of secondary school leaders say that their schools has had to cut teachers over the last year, with a similar proportion saying the same about teaching assistants or support stover the last year, with a similar proportion saying the same about teaching assistants or support staff.

While primary school heads were much less likely to report that their school had got rid of teaching staff (21 %), over half (54 %) still said their teaching assistants had been cut and over a quarter (29 %) said their support staff had been cut back.

Added to the increased pension and national insurance contributions, Collins said heads now faced «difficult conversations» with staff and parents over cuts.

Teaching assistants, school librarians and lab technicians are facing a soaring workload as staff are cut and they are increasingly being expected to teach, according to a National Education Union (NEU) survey of over 1,700 support staff members.

One of England's largest academy trusts has been issued with a «final warning» by unions over job cuts in what they claim is an unprecedented move that could lead to a strike by staff.

The preliminary decision addresses a ground - breaking court challenge to layoffs that devastated the staffs of three middle schools during job cuts over the last few years in the Los Angeles Unified School District.

Over half of respondents reported that teaching posts had been cut, with 80 % reporting teaching assistant posts and 60 % reporting other support staff posts being cut.

«The first half of his tenure was marked by a series of reforms: closing more than one dozen failing schools and programs and creating several others that have thrived; decentralizing the system by cutting the headquarters staff by more than half; giving principals power over budget decisions; creating choice for city families, and competition among middle and high schools; and signing a landmark pay - for - performance teachers» union contract that was hailed as a model in the nation.

Over a thousand parents, teachers, school support staff and head teachers will be bringing the message to MPs that schools are seriously underfunded and will ask them to join us in demanding that the Chancellor release more funds for our schools, at today's School Cuts mass lobby of Parliament.

«Outsourcing and temporary staff costs rocketed over period when Ministry of Justice suffered deep cuts.

The first of these is the graph above illustrating the cuts of over 150 Special Education staff positions (from Matt DeFour's report on the new MMSD Middle School Mental Health initiative).

Over one million adult learners have been lost from further education, and thousands of talented staff have left the sector as their jobs have been cut and their pay and conditions eroded.

Over my 15 years in media, I saw our book coverage capacity plummet as reporting staff was relentlessly cut back and the newspapers themselves shrunk in size.

The streaming video service aims to make movies and educational videos more accessible over the internet and cuts down on actual staff doing the grunt work.

In the last few months they axed their executive staff, fired 190 people and cut back funding by over 74 %.

Over the past few years, budget cuts trimmed staff and now the 10 library media specialists in the district's 15 schools have become merely «prep - time providers,» according to Sandra George, media specialist at Riverside Central Elementary School in Rochester.

While the Millais Gallery at Southampton Solent University searches for new premises (its existing site having been given over to lecture rooms due to swelling student numbers), the gallery staff continue to provide cutting - edge projects in unexpected locations.

«We've spoken to representatives from several different state agencies across the country over the past year, and they are deciding which beaches to stop testing, which staff to lay off, and if they can keep their water testing labs running at all with these looming budget cuts,» says Surfrider Foundation Water Quality Manager Mara Dias.

The Colombian government steadily cut back the park department's staff and funding as it sought to hand over management of the park to private entities.

Myron Ebell recommended cutting the EPA's staff by over 5,000 over the next four years, and suggested that the budget be cut in half, reported the Washington Post: [108]