Sentences with phrase «public school cut»

Now, my first daughter's birthday is nine days after the public school cut off date for starting kindergarten.

In response to the USDA's recommendations that public schools cut back on sodium, starchy foods like potatoes, saturated fats and total calories in school lunches, while including more whole grains and a wider variety of fresh fruits and vegetables, Congress decided that the tomato paste in pizza should count as a «vegetable.»

WASHINGTON — With public schools cutting back on spending for physical education, some members of Congress want to intervene, worried that the nation's schools are churning out too many fat kids.

Not exact matches

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act approved expanded use of 529 plans to include tax - free distributions (after December 31, 2017) of up to $ 10,000 per year per student to pay for tuition at elementary or secondary public, private, or religious schools.

«School districts are currently being forced to cut money from classrooms to pay for the Liberals» failure to take action on improving the energy efficiency of public school builSchool districts are currently being forced to cut money from classrooms to pay for the Liberals» failure to take action on improving the energy efficiency of public school builschool buildings.

The ground is being prepared for a neoliberal «cure»: cutting back pensions and health care, defaulting on pension promises to labor, and selling off the public sector, letting the new proprietors to put up tollbooths on everything from roads to schools.

Since 2016, the Commonwealth government has been forced to shut down 179 primary and secondary schools, increase the sales tax to 11.5 %, and «sharply [raise] electricity and water rates,» while calling for a $ 450 million cut to the island's public university — all policies that hurt the nearly half of Puerto Ricans living below the poverty line.

and that's why the Republicans want to cut funding for public schools — so ghetto kids will never be able to leave the ghetto because they have no education — and they won't be able to get birth control either so they will proliferate and perpetuate their situation for generations — and this will never stop until America ends its dependence on fossil fools like Romney, McConnell, Cantor, Ryan, The Bohner, Limbaugh, etc..

They tend to withdraw into gated communities, with private security guards and «enclaves of good schools, excellent health care, and first - rate infrastructures — all the while scoffing at almost all functions of government, thus cutting off the supply of taxes for most public undertakings — leaving much of the rest of the population behind.»

It takes a little research but the legalization in Colorado has proven to be beneficial - crime rate cut in half; tax revenue with a huge portion going to support public schools.

Given the budget cuts in public schools and the push for students to specialize in an extracurricular activity, experts generally agree with him.

During a public hearing on the issue, district officials explained the staff cut was based in part on the current number of students registered for school next year.

Even though statistics prove that art education benefits the child in so many ways, funding for art and music and other creative instruction is continually one of the first program cuts from public school programs.

In the Somerville, Mass. public schools, the 6,200 students who eat school lunch sometimes get chicken nuggets but the chicken is skinned and the nuggets are baked, not fried, to cut fat.

Despite severe cost cutting, scores of layoffs and wholesale restructuring last year, Chicago Public Schools faces a budget deficit estimated at $ 600 million to $ 700 million in 2013, with the cost of a longer school day still unknown, officials said.

Chicago Public Schools has increased property taxes the past two years, a move Emanuel has justified in part by talking about cost - cutting initiatives at the central office and the need to emphasize greater spending on the city's children.

For our public schools beleaguered by budget cuts, teacher layoffs, scandals, it seems like another nail in the coffin.

It's time to cut our losses in order to salvage what's left of the public school system.

John Flanagan and his Albany cronies have sold out Long Island public schools and have cut a deal with high finance charter school operators to exchange millions in taxpayer dollars for campaign cash for Chris McGrath,» said Democratic Senate Campaign Committee spokesman Mike Murphy.

But abolishing the CTF was part of the Lib Dem manifesto in 2005 - and at the time the money was going to go to cutting primary school class sizes, not reducing public spending.

Even if the recovery had been progressing as well as ministers might have hoped, we would still have seen the clashes over public sector pensions, tuition fees and cuts to public services - police, schools, the NHS - currently driving the government's popularity downwards.

«He's supported charter schools, cut funding for public schools, and has said failing schools should face the death penalty.

Instead the Republican budget cuts taxes on the rich, defunds programs for the most in need New Yorkers, and hurts public schools.

As the public continues to bear the brunt of pain after budget cuts to services, schools, and safety net programs, community leaders came together to demand that our elected leaders in the State Senate and Assembly ensure the priorities of Central New York are met by passing Fair Elections.

But charter schools get a cut of taxpayer dollars, which threatens the money needed to fund the public schools and keep the Syracuse Teachers Association operating.

Thus will the United Federation of Teachers maintain its hammerlock on the city's $ 26 billion - a-year public - school shipwreck while the political class lines up for its cut every campaign season.

Following a month of abundant citywide community activism and outreach, City Public Advocate Bill de Blasio has submitted to City Hall more than 10,600 parent petition signatures, dozens of video and audio testimonies and nearly 20 resolutions from Community Education Councils, Community Boards and the Schools Chancellor's Parent Advisory Council, all protesting teacher and day care cuts.

She then briefed on Cuomo - related issues, including him failing to close campaign finance loopholes, failing to veto any incumbent protection gerrymandering, not doing enough for election reform, for looting public schools to give tax cuts to banks and not taking a stance against fracking.

Gov. David Paterson and legislators quietly borrowed state money in 2010 to give to their favorite baseball clubs, veterans halls, museums and even a racetrack casino at the same time they were cutting jobs and support for schools, health care and other basic public services.

At 1 p.m., Lt. Gov. Bob Duffy will deliver remarks at a ribbon cutting and renaming of Parcel OH on the Buffalo Outer Harbor with Buffalo Public School students.

Those cuts, in fact, come at a time when there are 15,000 fewer teachers and support staff in New York state public schools than two years ago, and as districts statewide expect to lay off at least 10,000 more employees in 2011 - 12.

«It is clear that voters want quality public schools, and state can and should reverse what would be devastating cuts to education.»

With $ 30 billion more in state revenue, we could restore full funding for public schools and colleges, pay for the state mandates on local governments through increased revenue sharing, cut regressive local property and sales taxes, and build the infrastructure and services of the Green New Deal.

Since public - school funding is safe for now, the Medicare cuts are likely to be his most unpopular proposal.

ALBANY — After a two - hour debate that touched on climate change and several anti-Semitic incidents at the City University of New York, Republicans in the state Senate endorsed a one - house budget resolution that shifts costs to New York City, increases aid for public schools and cuts taxes for middle - income New Yorkers.

Public - school funding is safe so far, according to Paterson, but big cuts in discretionary funding, local government aid, and health care are on the horizon.

Further, her call for a state takeover of far more of the cost of public schools may yet resonate with New Yorkers as they begin to feel the impact of cuts in staff and services to schools and local governments, experts said.

We would liek to cut all property taxes to 3 or 4 percent annually... We haven't been able to get any cooperation from the Legislature... so we've come back to them and said look we'll just tax the entities which are not school taxes which are voted on by the public... but we haven't been able to get the Assembly to pass that either, so we're still trying.

The sheer magnitude of continued «unspecified» spending cuts forced by the two percent spending cap — $ 1.7 billion in fiscal year 2017, $ 3.3 billion in 2018, and $ 4.8 billion in 2019 — will inevitably starve our schools and public universities and prevent our state from making the investments needed to expand opportunities for those struggling to lift themselves out of poverty.

While the budget allocated $ 146 million to early childhood education and after - school programming, Public Advocate Bill de Blasio said city officials had missed a chance to restore cuts from previous years.

«We've had more cuts to public schools than anywhere in the nation.»

July 25 — TAPCo Public School of the Arts is hosting a ribbon cutting unveiling a beautiful 4,000 sq. ft. mural highlighting the diversity and challenges faced by the mental health community in the Bronx, 5:30 pm.

State spending rose slightly and the cut to public school aid ranks as the steepest percentage drop in a generation.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WBEN)- Buffalo Public Schools is planning to transfer five teachers out of City Honors and cut a guidance counselor position by half its time at the end of the month.

The Department of Education's proposal to amend ESSA would label most Westchester public schools as «in need of improvement» and would cut federal funding for any school where 5 percent of students or more opt out of Common Core testing.

The Buffalo Public School District has a new school budget with more spending and staff cuts as individual schools get a say on spending in their builSchool District has a new school budget with more spending and staff cuts as individual schools get a say on spending in their builschool budget with more spending and staff cuts as individual schools get a say on spending in their buildings.

«We must finish the job and pass a responsible budget that makes college tuition free for the middle class, fully funds our public schools, cuts taxes for the middle class, Raises the Age of criminal responsibility, combats homelessness, and moves New York forward.

The group plans to deliver to Senate Republicans, asking them to sign the checks because they're prioritizing tax cuts for millionaires over investment in public schools.

The hostilities between the mayor and the governor have only escalated in the last year over a variety of concerns, including mayoral control of New York City schools and proposed cuts in funding to the City University of New York, tumbling into public view with a rare intensity, even for two jobs that are often in conlfict.

«I urge local authorities to join with schools, parents and the public, who are outraged by the cuts to the school building programme, and support the NASUWT's lobby of Parliament on Monday 19 July.»