Sentences with phrase «over the biennium»

Senate leaders unveiled portions of a 2015 - 17 budget proposal Monday that gives teachers an average four percent pay raise and lowers class sizes in the early grades — but much like last year's initial Senate proposal, the budget would also substantially gut funding for teacher assistants by eliminating more than 8,500 * TA jobs over the biennium.

And independent charter schools would receive $ 18.4 million more over the biennium.

: Nevada Legislators approved an additional $ 20 million in tax credits over the biennium to companies participating in the scholarship program.

In total, the budget request amounts to a $ 707 million increase in funding over the biennium, not including legislated automatic increases for vouchers and independent charter schools.

Transportation: Lawmakers are projecting that the cost of fuel will stay low over the biennium, so they've decreased the school transportation budget by $ 20 million compared to the base each year of the biennium.

expansion of the interest rate subsidy program to support school construction over the biennium and the provision for a limited amount of literary fund revenue for loans;

When the cutting was finished, just $ 19 million per year over the biennium remained out of a two - year pot of roughly $ 100 million traditionally allocated to family planning.

La Crosse, a district with nearly 7,000 students, faced a budget decrease of $ 7.7 million over the biennium.

Noting that research supports the notion that students do better in early grades with smaller classes, the Senate proposes increasing funding for classroom teacher positions by more than $ 270 million over the biennium to reduce class sizes in kindergarten to a 1:17 ratio and in grades 1 - 3 to a 1:15 teacher - student ratio.

With the Deuell rider still in effect, that means there's $ 18 million over the biennium — just $ 9 million per year — to provide money to more than 50 non-FQHC contractors currently serving more than 227,000 women.