Sentences with phrase «schools cut costs»

When schools cut costs and reduce class, we have to make sure it is not destructive to the futures of low - income students and English language learners.

In some cases, they think schools cut costs or take other adverse measures that negatively affect their child's access to a free and appropriate education.

In reality, however, despite the areas in which year - round schooling cuts costs, it also incurs additional ones: administrative, utility, maintenance, transportation, and salary costs, and many enrichment opportunities occur during the traditional summer break, making them unavailable to students in year - round schools.

Not exact matches

During most MBA programs, business school students read numerous case studies, evaluating the strategies of many different kinds of companies, analyzing the cost of bringing new product lines to market and novel methods to cut expenses.

Some schools are attempting to cut this cost by replacing full - time faculty with adjunct professors.

Christen Middle School's community garden helped grow lettuce for the salad bar in 2015, cutting food costs and allowing students to connect with where their meals came from.

(It didn't help that, according to Wikipedia, «on the same day that the USDA announced the cost - cutting proposal for school lunches, the White House purchased $ 209,508 worth of new china and place settings with the presidential seal embossed in gold» Doh.)

Throughout OSPI there is the concept that, although our School Child Nutrition Programs are not for profit but to feed students, we should be cutting costs as a priority over what is sometimes recognized as good nutrition — a subject where many entrenched and trendy ideas prevail and are promoted by giant food manufacturers.

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.

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Sandburg and Willow Grove High Schools have gotten the go - ahead to become part of Orland Park, giving the village a school it had been seeking and cutting some costs for Consolidated High School Districschool it had been seeking and cutting some costs for Consolidated High School DistricSchool District 230.

Chicago Public Schools has increased property taxes the past two years, a move Emanuel has justified in part by talking about cost - cutting initiatives at the central office and the need to emphasize greater spending on the city's children.

School nutrition directors shouldn't feel pressured to cut back on higher - cost healthy food just to balance their budget.

House Republicans initiated the block - grant proposals under the Personal Responsibility Act to return control of the schools and curriculum to the local level, cut costs and reduce federal bureaucracy, said Kristin Woltemuth, a legislative assistant to Rep. Harris Fawell (R., Naperville) a member of the House Committee on Economic and Educational Opportunities.

Later this month the Republican - dominated U.S. House likely will approve a cost - cutting bill that would dismantle the 48 - year - old National School Lunch Program, giving control of school - based feeding programs to individual sSchool Lunch Program, giving control of school - based feeding programs to individual sschool - based feeding programs to individual states.

They describe the culture at these high - achieving schools as «cut - throat competitive» and promoting a «succeed at all costs» mentality that leads to cheating on tests and assignments.

Schools Chancellor Joel Klein told City Council members the $ 500 million cut in state aid coupled with increasing costs will leave the Department of Education $ 750 million short in fiscal 2011.

«These numbers are further proof that Governor's tax cap is a success and they also demonstrate that even with a stricter 1.56 percent cap this year, the tax freeze is working as intended to encourage schools and local governments to cuts costs and provide relief to property taxpayers.

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.

Well its really the teachers union driving up the costs and school boards that negotiated the contracts and who aren't willing to make the appropriate cuts elsewhere.

Still, the mayor noted cuts and cost shifts averted include $ 144 million for charter schools, $ 129 million for child welfare services and $ 65 million for special education.

In an effort to cut costs, the Connecticut towns of Monroe and Easton have joined talks with nine other school districts to consider regionalizing their resources.

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.

Further, her call for a state takeover of far more of the cost of public schools may yet resonate with New Yorkers as they begin to feel the impact of cuts in staff and services to schools and local governments, experts said.

Every council is required by law to have a local child poverty strategy, and the good news is that reducing child poverty benefits everyone by cutting the costs to local authority services and boosting the local economy through improved skills and qualifications for school leavers.

In Sweden, profit - making free schools tried to cut costs by employing unqualified candidates over candidates with teaching qualifications.

The briefest look at a new survey looking at the «win - at - all - costs» generation now working its way through the country's schools shows a cut - throat attitude to achieving victory which many MPs au fait with the darker arts of politics will be very familiar with.

He grasped the centre ground by focusing on living standards and cost of living policy discussion and announcements: the Pupil Premium, capping social care costs, state pension reforms, free childcare, cutting income tax, and, his big policy statement: free school meals for all infants.

If schools can't live within their means, they need to cut their costs of layoff un-needed jobs.

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.

This year, the state budget impasse, the proposed $ 1.4 billion cut in school aid and the lack of a state budget forced school districts and taxpayers to absorb cost increases alone.

Cannon, 62, a longtime West Ender and ex-mayoral candidate with a background in municipal finance, tells voters he would be a «fresh voice» on the board and suggests slashing «bloated» administrative costs to help pay for school programs that budget cuts have phased out.

The major policy announcement on free school meals was the obvious move in this direction — as well as being a sop to middle class voters who lost out after cuts to child benefit — but Nick Clegg's speech is full of references to policies which help in day - to - day life: the pupil premium, flexible parental leave, free childcare, a cap on social care costs.

Brennie has been very active as the Town Board's liaison with the town's recreation department and Brennie has helped to cultivate a strong relationship with the Highland Central School District in an effort to work together and possibly share services to cut costs when and where it makes sense.

The cap keeps taxes from rising as municipalities and school districts struggle with soaring pension costs, but the law doesn't cut property taxes, which Cuomo said Tuesday are «a crusher,» especially for homeowners in New York City's northern suburbs and upstate.

«It's not sustainable, and what they do is they keep pushing the cost down to the local taxpayer, saying, «We cut at the state level», which is true, but somehow it has to get funded, which really pits the taxpayer against the school district,» Brown said.

«Although some [schools and local governments] can rely on available reserve funds to bridge the gap,» he explained in a statement, «others may need to take a hard look at operations to find ways to cut costs to stay under the cap.»

DiNapoli said the tax cap plan originally included cutting state regulations, to help local governments and schools reduce costs, but that's been slow to materialize.

CITY HALL — City Council members blasted Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott Wednesday over threats to cut more than 6,000 teachers, questioning the city's numbers and insisting there are better ways to cut costs.

Originally, cuts to the budget of the city's Administration for Children's Services would have eliminated $ 91 million in funding that paid childcare costs for 16,000 low - income children so that their parents could work or go to school.

Comptroller DiNapoli says the tax cap plan originally included cutting state regulations, to help local governments and schools reduce costs, but that's been slow to materialize.

«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.

The school boards group also urges a statewide freeze on government salaries - which would save billions without laying off a single employee or cutting back a single service - and requiring all workers to pay at least 10 % of their health insurance costs, which is less than most private - sector workers shell out.

«Angle's radical plans to eliminate the Department of Education would cost Nevada college students more than $ 500 million in financial aid like Pell grants, and hundreds of millions for our state's elementary and secondary schools — all at a time when our students can least afford such draconian cuts,» Reid campaign spokesman Kelly Steele said in a statement.

«I and other members of the Senate Democratic conference stood firm against mid-year cuts to schools and also rejected health care cuts that would have cost New York hundreds of millions of dollars in lost federal funds,» Onorato said.

With the $ 600 million in «foundation aid» meant to go to the classroom channeled into deficit reduction instead, and school spending flat this year even as costs rose, speakers charged that the present state education appropriation itself amounted to a cut.

Fiscal watchdogs and independent budget analysts have estimated those proposed cuts — which include a shift in how the City University of New York schools are funded, city assumption of its own growth in Medicaid costs, and a state clawback of savings the city achieved through a debt refinancing — would cost the city nearly $ 1 billion in the coming fiscal year, an amount that would increase with each passing year.

«I'm mining through all of these different vendors, trying to get the ones with the highest value, the highest impact, best cost for students,» said Schools Superintendent Kriner Cash, who has indicated that he may look to cut some of the consultants.

We are also focused on cutting the costs required to repair them,» said professor Shiling Pei, an Assistant Professor at Colorado School of Mines who is leading the tests funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and a variety of industry sponsors.

In recent years we've seen states cut funding for public universities at the same time those schools are taking on additional students, which has furthered the need for federal financial assistance to offset this shift in costs.