Sentences with phrase «said education cuts»

But, in contrast to Mayor Bloomberg's threat to cut 21,000 city teachers, the governor said his education cuts could be managed without layoffs.

But, in contrast to Mayor Michael Bloomberg's threat to cut 21,000 city teachers, the governor said his education cuts could be managed without layoffs.

Not exact matches

«An excise tax on the endowments of some private colleges and universities, regardless of how many or how few institutions it affects, is a remarkably bad idea that takes money that would otherwise be used for student aid, research, and faculty salaries and sends it to the Department of the Treasury to finance corporate tax cuts,» said Ted Mitchell, president of the American Council on Education, a higher education traEducation, a higher education traeducation trade group.

Verizon Communications, among the biggest beneficiaries of the corporate tax cut this year, said it would double its commitment to fostering science, technology, and engineering education (STEM) in schools that lack such resources.

But even Gates, a vocal advocate for uplifting those in the developing world, has said the old - school model of education doesn't always cut it.

His bid for the presidency was marred by a seemingly inadequate knowledge of national affairs, which was most pronounced during a televised debate that showed Perry unable to remember the name of a third federal department he'd said he planned to cut, along with the Departments of Commerce and Education.

Swaminathan says that many students in China lacked access to cutting - edge management education after graduating from college.

Hard - working Albertans can't afford the Prentice PC's plan for more job losses, more taxes and more cuts to healthcare and education,» said Bilous.

Local resident Marian Kamlish, 92, said: «In times of austerity, this vanity project is an insult to those in the NHS, in education, in the fire services and the police force, all suffering cuts while this rich man's railway sucks up our money.»

Some say that it is never a good idea to cut costs on education.

SNA said it supports the Senate agreement on school nutrition standards, and opposes the House bill, H.R. 5003, the Improving Child Nutrition and Education Act of 2016, which would restrict school eligibility for CEP and institute a block grant pilot that would cut funds for school meal programs.

The Chicago Board of Education will increase lunch prices for the second time this year, lay off 150 more teachers and cut $ 14 million in transportation costs to help make up an $ 80 million budget deficit, officials said Tuesday.

In terms of the state's economic woes, Cuomo said there will have to be cuts to education, health care and state operations.

Still, Silver said that with the larger than expected deficit, keeping the surcharge is better than cutting into education and health care, the state's two biggest expenses.

Flanagan now want to protect the 40 percent Trump windfall tax cut to health insurance companies and opioid manufacturers, which will mean cuts to education and Medicaid,» he said.

If the budget isn't done by then, Paterson said, he'll be putting the rest of it into extender bills — including education — and force the lawmakers to choose between a shutdown and passing controversial cuts.

Government and UN officials say the refugee influx has placed a huge burden on already overstretched water and power supplies, as well as housing and education, which has rendered subsidy cuts necessary.

«As the states face huge cuts from Congress in education and health care and transportation and housing, this is smart revenue that can be obtained fairly,» said Michael Kink, the executive director of Strong Economy For All.

While he warned of the dark times ahead, the governor did not name any spending cuts that might have to be made, and even said he wants to increase some education programs.

Many of the cuts would hit education and healthcare hard, and Paterson said he doubted a new $ 135 billion budget would be enacted by June 1 — a full two months after the deadline.

Warming to his subject, he condemned Mr Cameron's plans to share the proceeds of economic growth between investment in public services and tax cuts, saying this would mean «substantial» cutbacks in health and education funding.

Assemblyman says Congress must «referee» to stop Secretary of Education from cutting federal school funding to punish NY for massive student opt - outs of grades 3 - 8 tests

«The only thing Mayor de Blasio had done was pre-K and Vision Zero,» Malcolm said, referring to free early education opportunities for four - year - olds and the city's plan to cut the number of fatalities from traffic crashes with pedestrians.

Washington (CNN)- Education Secretary Arne Duncan says a West Virginia school district is laying off teachers due to deep spending cuts across the federal government set to take effect on Friday.

Speaking on the Capitol Pressroom this morning, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, D - Manhattan, said he was an effective negotiator for his conference, despite deep cuts to traditionally taboo budget areas like education aid and health care.

«To put up money to say we're going to defend the governor who defends us from paying the surcharge we have now on our taxes, but we're going to cut $ 15 billion where and take money out of education.

-- open to entertaining the restoration of education aid proposed by both the Senate and Assembly in their respective one - house budgets (recall that just yesterday he insisted there's «flexibility» in his executive budget proposal), he basically accused districts that say they can't afford to cut back of playing politics with kids.

Nearly 2,000 AFSCME members will be in town today to lobby state lawmakers in hopes of getting them to reject Gov. Andrew Cuomo's «dramatic» cuts to education and health care, which unions says will disproportionately hurt the state's most vulnerable residents, raise unemployment and undermine progress made in the recovery of New York's economy.

Klug said Wadleigh's middle school students didn't have physical education last year and lost their only guidance counselor and math coach because of budget cuts.

«If the class size increases, the children won't get the attention they deserve,» Laris said, noting that she is also concerned that layoffs will force her school to cut music and arts education and after - school programming.

«As the chair of the Senate Education Committee, Senator Oppenheimer should be leading efforts to reform the state school aid formula so districts do not have to endure billions in cuts any given year and can operate within the confines of a local property tax cap,» said Cohen.

Repeating the governor's claim that state cuts to education do not require layoffs, Mulgrew said it was clear that Mayor Bloomberg's priority «is not to get money for the schools; he would rather fight over who to lay off than fight on behalf of children.»

The new task force has its «work cut out for it,» said Billy Easton, executive director of the advocacy group the Alliance for Quality Education, which is partially funded by teachers» unions, in a statement.

«A balanced approach to balancing the state budget makes good economic sense, but is also important from a societal perspective that the pain of balancing the state budget be spread more fairly and that counter-productive cuts in essential services, from education to mental health, be avoided,» said Frank Mauro, Executive Director of the Fiscal Policy Institute.

«Over the past two years we have cut middle class tax rates to their lowest rates in sixty years, cut taxes for small businesses, while at the same time investing like never before in our institutions of higher education,» Cuomo said.

He said he'd particularly target the education, environment and agriculture departments for cuts.

Sixty - eight percent said his cuts to school aid and tax cuts would convince them to oppose him, while 67 percent said the Committee to Save New York would keep them from pulling the lever for Cuomo, after the pollsters» described the group as a «shadowy» organization «that raised more than $ 17 million from Wall Street, real estate moguls and other business interests to promote his agenda of education cuts and tax breaks.»

City Councilman Robert Jackson, who chairs the Education Committee, also reacted with anger, saying the cuts «penalize students who had nothing to do with creating those deficits.»

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.

The issue was, as it always is, the budget: a swollen $ 136 billion chimera that, $ 9.2 billion out of balance, would require massive cuts to education and health care spending and possible layoffs of state workers, to say nothing of some tax increases.

The Conservatives» failure to rule out cutting the English education budget means that Wales would lose out under their plans, Jenny Willott MP has said.

De Blasio spokeswoman Amy Spitalnick said a property tax and assessment cap «would result in severe cuts to vital services such as public safety and education.»

«If they don't agree to the millionaire's tax extension, then you can't do a billion dollars in education spending, you can't do a middle class tax cut, you can't do college affordability,» Cuomo said.

A de Blasio spokesperson said Flanagan's proposal «would add an arbitrary, unnecessary and restrictive cap to the New York City property tax code — which already has a number of existing caps — and cost the city billions, resulting in severe cuts to vital services such as public safety and education.»

Medicaid would be cut by $ 2.85 billion, the sources said, and the $ 21 billion education budget would be cut by more than a billion.

Ian Mearns, a Labour member of the Commons education select committee, said the minister was clearly «on a different planet» to the families and youngsters hit by coalition cuts.

Hundreds of Yonkers education advocates said at the Capitol today that the district needs an additional $ 26 million from the state to avoid a Board of Education plan that would cut all sports, limit supplies, reduce special education and eliminate as many as 200 staffeducation advocates said at the Capitol today that the district needs an additional $ 26 million from the state to avoid a Board of Education plan that would cut all sports, limit supplies, reduce special education and eliminate as many as 200 staffEducation plan that would cut all sports, limit supplies, reduce special education and eliminate as many as 200 staffeducation and eliminate as many as 200 staff members.

«For state legislators, it is much harder to raise taxes on income or sales or cut spending on education or other vital services, while legalizing and expanding gambling is seen as a relatively easy and painless source of revenue and job growth,» said Lucy Dadayan, the Rockefeller analyst who wrote the report.

Agencies under the UJA - Federation umbrella have lost a total of $ 6 million due to Paterson's veto of legislative earmarks known as member - item grants, the latest in eight cycles of budget cuts that have rocked the non-sectarian network of special education, child care, mental health, immigrant and other services, lowering revenue by 5 to 7 percent, said Soloway.

When the mayor proposed cutting $ 1.3 billion out of the capital budget for education because we didn't have the CFE money, we all stepped up to the plate and said, «Our children can't wait.»