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Researchers at the Oxford Martin School say that food and farming will be responsible for almost half of the planet's «carbon budget» by 2050 but that cutting meat out of our diets, or simply cutting down on the amount we eat, will have a major impact on associated emissions.

Ten certified teaching positions will be cut at the end of the school year at Glen Ellyn Community Consolidated School District 89 due to budget constraints and declining enrollment officialsschool year at Glen Ellyn Community Consolidated School District 89 due to budget constraints and declining enrollment officialsSchool District 89 due to budget constraints and declining enrollment officials said.

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.

Unite Here Local I, the union representing the lunch workers, said the 200 cuts come in addition to the 163 lunchroom workers laid off last month as part of school budget cuts.

«Working together, our accomplishments are many ---- a game - changing property tax cap, record support for schools and elimination of the GEA, a 20 - percent middle class income tax cut, six straight budgets that have held the line on spending, targeted investments that will create jobs and revitalize our economy, and critical road and bridge funds for every region of the state,» he said.

New York City School Chancellor Cathie Black says the budget cuts will lead to thousands of teacher lay offs.

DeFrancisco, the Senate deputy leader, said it's going to be difficult to find cuts even in the largest portion of the budget: school aid.

The mid year financial report released by Cuomo's budget office says options to close the gap include more cuts to state agencies, delaying payments to local governments and schools, suspension of some construction projects, and even borrowing money short term to pay for operating expenses.

Cuomo wants to freeze the growth in the STAR rebates that homeowners receive on their school taxes as a cost - cutting move in the state budget, saying New Yorkers are already getting property - tax relief through a separate rebate check program.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo this week continued his simmering disagreement with Senate Republicans over tax and fee increases in the budget, saying that without the revenue, the state would have to cut back on health care and school spending.

Upstate, rural school districts say they're being disproportionately cut in Cuomo's budget.

For districts that get most of their funding from the state, it will mean, he said, some school officials will have to cut programs or staff because they will be forced to plan conservatively in what they might get from Albany if a state budget goes unresolved until May 31.

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.

Silver says the Assembly's budget plan, due out March 11, will restore $ 260 million dollars Cuomo cut to New York City schools, after they failed to meet the governor's deadline to agree on a teacher evaluation plan.

«This budget was an opportunity to reverse the loss of 30,000 after - school seats cut over the past several years,» de Blasio said in a statement, adding that without asking the wealthiest New Yorkers to pay more in taxes, the budget «affirmed a status quo that continues to leave working families behind.»

«The Mayor has threatened to lay off a quarter of the teaching force, but Governor Cuomo made it clear today that there is nothing in the proposed state budget that would require local layoffs,» he said in a statement, adding that the governor's planned cut to city schools amounts to only about three percent of the city's school's budget.

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.

Throughout budget negotiations budget writers said members projects were cut and priorities were reshuffled to fund the $ 400 million «Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Act,» which included $ 67 million for a controversial program to arm school personnel and more funding for mental health services in schools across the School Act,» which included $ 67 million for a controversial program to arm school personnel and more funding for mental health services in schools across the school personnel and more funding for mental health services in schools across the state.

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.

Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, said: «The NASUWT warned at the outset when the Pupil Premium was first introduced that, in the context of the Coalition's savage austerity measures and its failure to protect school budgets despite its claims to the contrary, this funding would inevitably end up being absorbed into school budgets as the cuts bit.

«While we were recently able to pass an on - time and fiscally responsible budget, our pragmatic approach to closing the budget gap has caused extreme hardship in the form of cuts to schools, health care, energy and environmental programs and a drastic reduction in the state workforce,» Avella said in a statement.

The College of Saint Rose has been in a cost - cutting and layoff mode due to what the school's leadership says are budget shortfalls.

Billy Easton, with the Alliance for Quality Education, says last year, Cuomo presided over a budget that cut $ 1.3 billion dollars in aid to schools.

Flanagan said his conference will remain focused on restoring the Gap Elimination Adjustment, a statutory formula that has distributed cuts across school districts in recent years, as the state has grappled with budget deficits.

Morris Peters, a spokesman for the Budget Division, acknowledged that poorer districts rely on state aid for a larger share of their operating budgets, but said the cuts were structured «progressively, accounting for each school district's wealth, student need, administrative efficiency and tax burden.

Billy Easton, with the Alliance for Quality Education, says last year, Cuomo presided over a budget that cut $ 1.3 billion in aid to schools.

In addition, the IBO said Cuomo wants to cut funding for charter - school lease compensation by $ 86 million while also tightening oversight of school budgets.

Gillibrand said over the last ten years, as schools have had to tighten their budgets, physical education has often been some of the first programs cut.

Expressing anger at what he called austerity budgets from Cuomo, Hawkins said that the Governor, «Cut taxes for the rich and paid for it by cutting our schools.»

«Four consecutive austerity budgets featuring tax cuts for the rich and underfunding of schools and public services is nothing to boast about,» said Hawkins.

«My audits have shown some school districts will be able to rely on ample rainy day funds to offset the low growth in revenue, but others must examine their budgets to determine where they can limit spending or cut costs in order to stay under the cap,» Mr. DiNapoli said in a statement.

School officials carefully managed the current budget not to cut programs while «judiciously using portions of that same savings that the comptroller so vociferously criticizes in the report,» he said.

The governor had presented lawmakers with a $ 3.2 billion budget reduction plan, which legislators had said before the vote that they would not approve because it entailed mid-year cuts to schools.

«This school needs to be saved and it needs help,» said city Councilman Robert Jackson, who added that the school was still reeling from more than $ 1.5 million in budget cuts since 2009.

Lancman agreed and said the governor's request that lawmakers chop $ 3.2 billion from the budget would have triggered the loss of «thousands of jobs in Queens,» in part because of cuts to health care, and made mid-year cuts to schools.

Health and Defence budgets were not included in today's cuts, while the coalition government also said it had found money to protect existing Sure Start and schools spending.

New York City school principals receive their budgets from Chancellor Joel Klein's office today, Klein says the schools face cuts of about 5 - percent next year, not as deep as he feared.

«We need to work together to insulate children from bearing the brunt of these potential cuts,» UFT President Michael Mulgrew said on March 24 in testifying before the City Council Education Committee on next year's school operating budget.

State Sen. John Flanagan (R - East Northport), chairman of the Education Committee, said in talks leading up to the budget presentation, that Republicans who control the Senate told the governor that any proposed cuts to school aid should to be «fair and equitable.»

Silver wouldn't say how much of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposed cut to school funding would be restored in the budget.

«Governor Cuomo's first budget makes heartlessly large cuts to our schools to finance tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires and students in poor and middle class districts will lose the most educationally,» the group's executive director, Billy Easton, said in a statement.

Cuomo spokesman Josh Vlasto said that the net impact of the state - aid cuts - the amount of money Long Island schools would lose as a portion of their overall budgets - is closer to 2.1 percent and that the statewide average is 2.9 percent.

ALBANY, N.Y. (CBSNewYork / AP)-- After closed - door negotiations with Governor Andrew Cuomo Friday, New York's legislative leaders said they will restore some of the school funding that Cuomo proposed cutting from the state budget.

The mayor is actually expecting a $ 1 billion cut in school money, but his budget assumes that huge increase, «because the previous governor over a long period of time, many times, assured us that that would be there when the next budget is passed,» Bloomberg said.

Senator Michael Ranzenhofer said, «The final plan secures our fair share of state funding for our school districts in Western New York, and restores funding — initially cut under the Executive Budget proposal — to our local public libraries.

They say they also hope to build alliances with parents around the state, who may not have a specific political ideology but are upset over school budget cuts and dissatisfaction over the implementation of the new Common Core standards.

The Hasidic - controlled school board says the budget for the public schools is approaching destitution levels and they are therefore cutting out programs offered to the public schools except perhaps for your Common Core.

She said that because of the cuts the state began making in school aid after the economic downturn, the net amount of operating aid the district would get next year under Cuomo's budget — $ 217.1 million — would be less than the $ 217.3 million in aid it received in 2008 - 09.

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