Sentences with phrase «recent education budget cuts»

This lack of federal investment, in combination with the recent education budget cuts at the state and local level has made it increasingly difficult for schools and early education programs to continue to provide the services that young children and youth with disabilities need and to which they are legally entitled.

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A recent Siena poll showed voters support Cuomo and his budget conceptually, but oppose education cuts and support the millionaire's tax.

What are the short and long term implications for essential services, local taxpayers and the state's economy of the freezes and cuts in revenue sharing with cities, towns and villages and in state aid to education have helped the state to balance its own budgets in recent years?

However, looking at this objectively, while BESA's recent «Resources in English Maintained Schools» research shows that 2011/12 has seen budget cuts of 1.8 per cent in primary education and a 2.7 per cent drop in secondary education, schools still have significant funds to spend, particularly when compared with budgets ten, five or even two years ago.

Despite recent budget cuts within the sector, both locally and nationally, Shaw Education Trust successfully hosted a laughter - fuelled, skill based day at a fraction of the cost of an event usually that size.

Education is a labor - intensive industry, and because most districts devote well over half of all spending to teacher compensation, budget cuts have already led to the most substantial teacher layoffs in recent memory.

For one, given the recent draconian budget cuts that have descended on public education from coast to coast, many central offices have been gutted to the point that meaningful support to school principals and teachers seems next to impossible.

The report also notes that nearly two decades of revenue caps have taken a steady toll on school resources, and recent steep cuts in support for K - 12 education in the 2011 - 2013 biennial budget are likely to accelerate that trend.

During his recent testimony before the House Education Appropriations Subcommittee, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan blasted House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan's (R - WI) FY13 budget proposal to slash federal spending, which the White House estimates would result in a more than 5 percent cut -LRB-- $ 784 million) to Title I grants (currently $ 14.5 billion) in FY13 and a 19 percent cut -LRB-- $ 2.7 billion) inBudget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan's (R - WI) FY13 budget proposal to slash federal spending, which the White House estimates would result in a more than 5 percent cut -LRB-- $ 784 million) to Title I grants (currently $ 14.5 billion) in FY13 and a 19 percent cut -LRB-- $ 2.7 billion) inbudget proposal to slash federal spending, which the White House estimates would result in a more than 5 percent cut -LRB-- $ 784 million) to Title I grants (currently $ 14.5 billion) in FY13 and a 19 percent cut -LRB-- $ 2.7 billion) in FY14.

Recent issues of Capitol Connection have reported on the potentially devastating effects of sequestration, the across - the - board cuts to education and other federal programs set in motion by the congressional budget impasse last fall.

The education secretary is aiming to spread his gospel of teacher accountability, pushing education reform in the face of massive state budget cuts and his own recent decision to unilaterally waive components of the federal No Child Left Behind education law.

Recent protests by thousands of teachers in far - flung parts of the United States reflect a deepening malaise in American education after years of budget cuts and stagnant salaries that have left many instructors feeling their work is not valued.

Jon Richards, Head of Education, UNISON, said: «Education budgets have been cut to the bone in recent years, and school support staff have suffered huge job losses.

In recent years, school districts have had to contend with mid-year cuts in state education funding, which is disruptive to local budgets.

Did You Know, there has been a major shift in recent years away from the classroom taught Driver Ed Course, to the Interactive Courses provided online, due to cost cutting and budget restraints throughout the various education departments?

(RALEIGH, NC)- If the new analysis released by the Annie E. Casey Foundation is any indication, previous investments in the health and education of children in North Carolina have generated dividends, returns which now stand in jeopardy due to recent state budget cuts and eroding family economic security.