Sentences with phrase «school budget cuts»

The study is from 2005 and two years later a series of school budget cuts removed billions from the system.

Researchers also found that school budget cuts don't appear to have made much difference to pupil results — suggesting schools are stepping up to the challenge of operating with less cash.

The payday stands out amid a wave of deep school budget cuts across the country.

Following quickly on these closings were disastrous school budget cuts.

This ideologically - driven experiment is hard to justify at a time of school budget cuts in addition to the loss of vital local authority services for SEN pupils, the squeeze on libraries and Sure Start amongst others.

Isn't there ANY independent, honest, and believable source of analysis that can cut through all this hooha and simply lay out the truth about the impact of state aid to education and proposed school budget cuts??

BRADENTON — Manatee County parent Christine Sket's response to the recently approved school budget cuts went beyond surprise.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew joins educators, parents, unionists and elected officials on the steps of City Hall on Sept. 23 in warning against midyear school budget cuts.

In his speech Walcott called for an agreement by Dec. 21 and invoked the threat of school budget cuts if no agreement is reached.

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 staying power of service - learning can be seen in that it has survived and continued over these past five years, despite considerable pressures, such as school budget cuts, focus on meeting state mandates, and concerns with implications of No Child Left Behind,» said Ellen Tenenbaum, a researcher at Westat, the firm responsible for conducting the survey.

Those efforts emerge as a priority in the 2010 legislative season, even as many cash - strapped states face the prospect of tough spending decisions — including school budget cuts — on top of the midyear cuts they enacted in recent months.

Major School Budget Cuts.

Collingwood said school budget cuts are having a «significant impact» on mental health provision.

She went on to become the founding director of the Boston Parents Organizing Network, which began as a community - based group advocating to avert school budget cuts and establish a strong office of family and community engagement.

Document Philly School Budget Cuts is a site that other cities and communities should replicate if they haven't already.

Save Duval Schools was founded in 2009 to stop school budget cuts in the city of Jacksonville, Florida.

Fails to provide parents with protection from substantial school budget cuts: Sen. Alexander's bill eliminates the ESEA's current «maintenance of effort» provision, which ensures that districts that receive Title I funding — designed to help low - income and disadvantaged students — maintain approximately the same spending levels from year to year.

Utah school budgets cut class sizes, popular outdoor center Education» Several districts to give raises to teachers, cut programs.

Then on November 13, students protested school budget cuts and the «toxic swaps» that have devastated the city's school funding.

Hanushek suggests using stimulus funds to simply pay incompetent teachers to go away: He summarizes his plan for turning school budget cuts and more federal bailout funds into an opportunity to improve -LSB-...]

And high - quality candidates are being driven away from the field by school budget cuts imposed during the recession and the vitriol that often surrounds the education reform debate, educators say.

A long list of anxieties — around school budget cuts, bullying, coarse political discourse and the shaky status of immigrant students — is taking a toll on teachers, a new survey shows, with more educators now saying their mental health is suffering than just two years earlier.

Given the harsh school budget cuts being carried out across the U. S., this is simply not the time to throw more precious education funds away on more experimental or damaging policies.

You will be aware from recent press reports, that Headteachers across the country are very concerned about school budget cuts.

The schools have continued to perform well amid the Great Recession and its attendant school budget cuts, labor - management tensions, and economic hardship for many of their students» families.

Plainfield Superintendent Kenneth DiPietro presents a list of proposed school budget cuts, at a Plainfield Board of Education meeting on Dec. 13.

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.

Still suffering from last year's school budget cuts and with the mayor threatening more to come, UFT members at high - achieving Leon M. Goldstein HS for the Sciences in Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn, rallied and leafleted faculty, staff, students and members of the community on Nov. 17 with the message «No Budget Cuts — Save Our Schools.»

When the prospects for education seem bleak and when new waves of school budget cuts and finger pointing at teachers and their union reps seem to fill the airways, it feels odd — even uncomfortable — to be focused on what's succeeding in education.

Given that school budget cuts, coach costs, changes in the curriculum cycle, staff cover, and health and safety legislation are largely beyond the control of out - of - the - classroom attractions, what exactly can be done to make school trips as painless and pleasurable as possible for those who want to undertake them?

But it did produce this nifty little debate between my friend Diane Ravitch and me, on the topic of school budget cuts.

In addition, schools had to contend with reduced provision due to school budget cuts.

School budget cuts are trimming the school nursing ranks, and a nationwide nursing shortage is making it harder to hire school nurses when jobs are available.

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«This was something I had hoped to avoid at all costs,» Claypool told reporters of school budget cuts he said could affect teachers, support staff, school clerks and other workers.

And it's how educators dodge meteor fields of school budget cuts and duel virtually with ed reform raiders.

(Huffington Post) School Budget Cuts: A Small Town Fights Back (The Fiscal Times)

School budget cuts have hit music programs hard, from instruments going without repairs to schools losing elementary strings programs.