Sentences with phrase «reduce federal education spending»

Washington — House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill last week sharply criticized a Senate - passed deficit - reduction measure that could drastically reduce federal education spending.

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1) Repeal Obamacare; Pursue Patient - Centered Care 2) Stop the Tax Hikes 3) Reverse Obama's Spending Increases 4) Scrap the Code; Replace It with a Flat Tax 5) Pass a Balanced Budget Amendment 6) Reject Cap and Trade 7) Rein in the EPA 8) Unleash America's Vast Energy Potential 9) Eliminate the Department of Education 10) Reduce the Bloated Federal Workforce 11) Curtail Excessive Federal Regulation 12) Audit the Fed

Stung by the expiration of federal aid intended to help states balance budgets as they seek to recover from the recession that began in 2008, the final budget is also expected to include another cut in local aid to cities and towns and to call for reduced growth in the rate of spending on education and health care, although special education is one of the few areas in which significant investments appear imminent.

«Elise unfortunately voted to reduce future funding for Pell Grants,» said Derrick, who called for an increase in federal education spending.

According to the mayor, the state budget reduced education spending next year by $ 1.2 billion, while the city also lost $ 850 million in federal stimulus money that's used to support teachers» salaries.

Soon after President Richard Nixon took office in 1969, it was widely reported that his administration was considering a federal VAT with the revenue to be shared with state and local governments to reduce their reliance on property taxes and to fund education spending.

The radio ads criticize Buerkle, claiming she supports a Republican bill to cut federal education spending by 40 percent, as well as reduce science and technology research spending by 40 percent.

Finding that «local policy prerogatives and dire financial conditions trumped federal pleas for reform and led to the spending of massive amounts of aid on preserving the status quo and protecting existing jobs and programs,» Smarick urges policymakers to heed the lessons learned from that experience and to focus on reducing the gulf between reforms promised and reforms delivered when it comes to the Department of Education's $ 4.35 billion Race to the Top fund.

For decades, Title I of ESEA has included important fiscal requirements to ensure that federal funding is supplemental to state and local education funding and that states and districts do not reduce their own spending in response to receiving federal dollars.

States will be required to report chronic absenteeism rates for schools, and school districts will be allowed to spend federal dollars on training to reduce absenteeism, under a sweeping education bill signed into law by President Obama on Dec. 10.

Continuing this practice, while also reducing total ECS spending (compared to FY 2017 levels) in FYs 2018 and 2019, puts Connecticut at further risk of violating its federal maintenance of support (MOS) requirement, which is the primary fiscal measure by which states are judged to be eligible for federal funding under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).

Pearson Education, ETS (Educational Testing Service), Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, McGraw - Hill and dozens of other companies have spent tens of millions of dollars lobbying to weaken privacy laws or stop the federal and state governments from reducing their access to student data.

The program ended when Congress failed to appropriate funds for its continuation in the 2015 federal spending bill.14 In some sectors, there is increased debate about whether federal funds for education are best allocated through formulas or competitive processes, with opponents of competitive grants citing a desire to reduce federal influence in favor of state and locally - driven education policies.

Introduced by education committee chair Rep. John Kline (R - MN), the Student Success Act (H.R. 5) would significantly reduce the role of the federal government in education by moving spending and accountability decisions to state and local authorities.

There are no federal student loan provisions targeted in this package, but the President has indicated he wants to send more spending cuts to Congress in the future and those proposals could see education funding reduced.