Sentences with phrase «pressures over school funding»

The incoming education secretary will face pressures over school funding and decisions about university tuition fees.

New Education Secretary Damian Hinds has made a priority of social mobility - but he will also have to make some big decisions about the pressure over school funding.

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The union's advocates are expected to pressure lawmakers for an increase of at least $ 1.5 billion — a figure that education advocates have argued satisfies a lawsuit over school funding.

These concerns are compounded by a common expectation that budget pressures and lack of funding will be the biggest challenge for schools over the next 12 months.

The announcement follows mounting pressure on the government from campaigns over funding shortages, and will see an additional # 1.3 bn spent on schools in England over the next two years.

Even before new cuts bite, a recent survey showed that over 50 per cent of school leaders expect budget pressures and lack of funding to be their biggest challenge in the next academic year.

«The government has failed to provide schools with funding for pay awards over the course of several years, and this is one of a series of additional cost pressures which have pushed school finances to breaking point,» he said.

The National Union of Teachers conference in Harrogate is set to hear calls for a strike over pressures on school funding on Sunday.

Greening, who was re-appointed as education secretary earlier this month after narrowly keeping her seat in the general election, faced pressure from MPs on both sides over school funding details as she made her first speech in this parliament.

Affirming his longstanding belief in local control, Gov. Jerry Brown said Thursday that advocates for tighter state controls over the Local Control Funding Formula would better spend their time in school districts, pressuring local boards to spend money on low - income children, than making their case in Sacramento,

Despite widespread concern over funding pressures, there was no extra money earmarked for school revenue budgets in the Budget last week.

So, how on earth can these packages have been awarded, given the pressures of schools funding over recent years?

School funding chiefs and academy trust bosses have been under increasing pressure to crack down on excessive executive pay following a public backlash over rising academy CEO pay in recent years.

Schools in England are being promised an extra # 1.3 bn over two years, as the government responded to pressure from campaigns over funding shortages.

Schools are facing serious budget pressures over the coming years, as the impact of rising pupil numbers, barely - resourced buildings overheads and the uncertainties of the new national funding formula kick in.

School leaders and parents have kept up the pressure over the past several months to urge state lawmakers to either delay the class size changes or come up with more money to fund the smaller class sizes.

According to the Institute for Fiscal Studies (ISF), schools face average cuts of 6.5 per cent over the course of this parliament as a result of rising cost pressures and frozen per - pupil funding.

(Calif.) Bowing to pressure from legislative leaders and advocates for low - income students, the Brown administration has promulgated draft regulations imposing far more accountability requirements over billions in new school funding than originally proposed.