Sentences with phrase «school budget cuts in»

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

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.

Not exact matches

And in education, local school districts as well as colleges and universities are still struggling with budget cuts.

It was the largest tax amnesty program in U.S. history — at a time when a budget crisis forced California to cut funding for schools, colleges, and police departments.

Puerto Rico has been mired in a painful recession since 2006 and has repeatedly cut budgets for education, shutting down schools and sparking a wave of migration to the U.S..

-LRB-...) Television stations, airports, hospitals, schools, fire brigades and social services from Spain's southernmost tip to the Balearic islands in the east are reducing headcount as Rajoy tasks regions and municipalities with shouldering 60 percent of the cuts needed to reduce the budget shortfall to 2.8 percent of gross domestic product in the next two years.

Until I found out that my then - boyfriend - now - husband (a poor, broke, medical school student at the time) spent close to two months eating bologna sandwiches every day in order to cut down his grocery budget to $ 10 a week, just so he could save up enough money to buy me an engagement ring.

Some of the law enforcement agencies have withdrawn their school resource officers from local high schools in the wake of budget cuts, losing in the process what had been for many departments their main point of contact with driving - age teenagers.

Given the budget cuts in public schools and the push for students to specialize in an extracurricular activity, experts generally agree with him.

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.

For our public schools beleaguered by budget cuts, teacher layoffs, scandals, it seems like another nail in the coffin.

In SFUSD, for example, the school board has in the past contributed funds to cover a food services shortfall; in an era of steep budget cuts, that's a hard pill to swalloIn SFUSD, for example, the school board has in the past contributed funds to cover a food services shortfall; in an era of steep budget cuts, that's a hard pill to swalloin the past contributed funds to cover a food services shortfall; in an era of steep budget cuts, that's a hard pill to swalloin an era of steep budget cuts, that's a hard pill to swallow.

While more children used the regular school year food programs, budget cuts in many states caused school districts to eliminate or reduce their summer programs.

Des Plaines — Increases in music, activity fees and lunch prices are among the ways Elementary School District 63 plans to reduce the budget deficit next year without cutting programs.

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If not it will go the way of Pupil Premium funding whereby schools already struggling due to cut budgets will simply have to use the new money to plug gaps in other areas of provision.»

Instead the Republican budget cuts taxes on the rich, defunds programs for the most in need New Yorkers, and hurts public schools.

But beyond personal choice, the Guardian reports that she started education advocacy work «in the early 2000s, when then New York mayor Michael Bloomberg proposed cutting the schools budget.»

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.

As the public continues to bear the brunt of pain after budget cuts to services, schools, and safety net programs, community leaders came together to demand that our elected leaders in the State Senate and Assembly ensure the priorities of Central New York are met by passing Fair Elections.

On the other hand, in another excerpt regarding their Valley Energy project in the Town of Wawayanda, CPV's press release declares: «The project will also provide more than $ 30 million in local tax revenue, with the majority going to the local school system, which has been hit hard, in recent years by budget cuts.»

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Against the backdrop of city and state budget - cutting teacher layoffs, Rep. Michael Grimm weighed in on LIFO with Schools Chancellor Cathie Black, calling it «unacceptable» during a meeting with her in his Washington office.

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.

The unusually high percentage of school budgets that passed yesterday in spite of dire predictions by everyone from Gov. David Paterson on down has become fodder for the teachers union and its allies in the fight to restore $ 1.4 billion worth of education cuts proposed by the governor.

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

«Teachers, as usual, have worked hard to ensure that standards have been maintained despite this upheaval and the cuts to budgets in the post-16 sector, which have had a significant impact on the staffing levels and resources available in schools and colleges.

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.

The governor's budget, which includes a 3.1 percent increase in school aid, a two - year property tax freeze and phased - in business tax cuts, offers something for everyone in a year where Cuomo and all 213 members of the legislature are up for reelection.

The governor's budget, which includes a 3.1 percent increase in school aid, a two - year property tax freeze and phased in business tax cuts, offers something for everyone in a year where Cuomo and all 213 members of the legislature are up for reelection.

Cuomo's $ 137 billion budget plan includes more money for schools, including a phase - in of funding for universal pre-kindergarten programs, and tax cuts.

«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.»

ALBANY — After a two - hour debate that touched on climate change and several anti-Semitic incidents at the City University of New York, Republicans in the state Senate endorsed a one - house budget resolution that shifts costs to New York City, increases aid for public schools and cuts taxes for middle - income New Yorkers.

«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.

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.

Haldar's suspension did coincide, however, with nearly 50 job cuts and layoffs at SUNY Poly by interim president Bahgat Sammakia, who has trimmed nearly $ 15 million from the school's budget as it seeks to stabilize its finances in the wake of Kaloyeros» departure.

MANHATTAN — Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposed a plan to slash billions from the state's budget, including a 2 percent cut in Medicaid spending, a $ 1.5 billion reduction in school aid and nearly 10,000 state worker layoffs, according to a plan unveiled Tuesday.

ALBANY — A tense standoff, a three - hour delay and backroom wrangling marked an internal Republican struggle before GOP senators decided to vote in a bloc to support a steep minimum wage hike in exchange for a budget that increased school spending and cut income tax rates for many.

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In announcing his $ 68.7 billion budget proposal, Mayor Bloomberg proposes cutting early childhood and after school programs — for the fifth straight year.

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.

Schools in Britain will see their budgets slashed by as much as 14 % over the next four years in the biggest cuts to education seen since the 1950s, tax and spending experts warn.

In addition, the $ 579 million cut is approximately 2.7 percent of the city's total school budget, which is lower than the statewide average cut of 2.9 percent of the average school budget.

«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.

On the heels of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's war of words with school districts yesterday, the business - backed Committee to Save New York has hit the airwaves with a new TV ad — its third of this budget cycle, I believe — in support of the governor's education funding cuts.

If the Budget Director applied this rationale to the State budget, $ 3.5 billion in State closing funds balances from this year would obviate the need for any school aid cuts, statewide.&Budget Director applied this rationale to the State budget, $ 3.5 billion in State closing funds balances from this year would obviate the need for any school aid cuts, statewide.&budget, $ 3.5 billion in State closing funds balances from this year would obviate the need for any school aid cuts, statewide.»

«The NASUWT predicted that the funding changes, driven by a desire by the Department for Education to mask the level and impact of cuts to school and local authority budgets, would result in those who needed the support to address their needs losing it.

«Teachers should be commended for their hard work to ensure that standards have been maintained despite the assault on teachers» working conditions and the cuts to budgets in the post-16 sector, which have had a significant impact on the staffing levels and resources available in schools and colleges.