Sentences with phrase «rebuild aging schools»

English said the city's budget problems are not the fault of the teachers, but of declining enrollment, which means reduced state funding, and the need to rebuild aging schools.

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Mr. Cuomo has hinted occasionally at the makings of a broad, if workmanlike, agenda for the next four years: creating jobs, particularly upstate; rebuilding infrastructure, including upgrading New York's aging airports; demanding better performance from the state's public schools.

As evidence of the deep divisions on Raise the Age, Senator Thomas D. Croci, a Republican from Long Island, suggested that Mr. Heastie and Mr. Cuomo «care more about keeping teenage drug gang members, murderers and rapists out of jail than they do about funding our public schools, providing tax relief for our families and rebuilding our infrastructure.»

As the White House pledges a big push to rebuild the national infrastructure, education advocates push for money to rebuild and refurbish aging, substandard schools.

The second is a bond measure that would raise $ 360 million over 10 years to replace or rebuild aging and obsolete elementary and middle schools.

«The rapid advance of technology and the very different way teachers approach teaching today, along with the almost simultaneous [aging] of the nation's education infrastructure, is creating a tremendous need to rebuild schools — yet school officials have very little knowledge about what education will look like 10 or 20 years from now.»