Sentences with phrase «significant budget cuts»

To me, that is a sign of desperation slightly smaller than making significant budget cuts.

Meanwhile, the first significant budget cuts in recent memory forced public school districts to tighten their belts in unprecedented ways.

The plan includes significant budget cuts to the public services and facilities, such as police, fire, libraries and parks.

Experts point to the emphasis of math and reading comprehension education and testing as some factors reducing arts education as well as significant budget cuts that many communities have experienced.

This is a time of very significant budget cuts, the likes of what we haven't seen in decades.

Ornstein also predicted science programs will face significant budget cuts, including across - the - board reductions at the National Science Foundation, with social science research a particular target.

Despite significant budget cuts and new workload demands, it has successfully delivered some limited reforms such as a new job search system and more flexibilities for frontline staff.

Washington (CNN)- Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner drew a hard line in the sand this week, renewing a battle over the debt ceiling unless President Barack Obama agreed to significant budget cuts during what may be a lame - duck session after the November elections.

With NIH, NSF, and other civilian agencies already losing ground to inflation and on notice that the coming years will bring significant budget cuts, competition for grant money is likely to increase, perhaps sharply.

Even the searches that are moving forward are being conducted, Halperin says, «with a certain amount of nervousness because we expect further significant budget cuts.

Indeed, even amid significant budget cuts that have shortened the school calendar from 180 days to 160, Ms. Reed has been able to drive higher student achievement year after year.

The school funding law is based on what the Legislature has put into state statutes before significant budget cuts that were made during the recent record drop in state revenue.

The most significant budget cut is evident has soon as you pick up the Archos G9 80 though — its body is clad in plastic like the budget Arnova model.

With the rise of the internet, there has been an undeniable decline in the public's appreciation of printed matter — a decline mirrored by the waning public interest in NASA's space program, which has consequently received significant budget cuts in recent years, making the shift to privatized and corporate space travel an encroaching reality.

Since earning my promotion to warehouse manager for XYZ Company's 35,000 - square - foot distribution center three years ago, I have received consistent commendations for achieving gains in productivity, safety and efficiency — accomplished during a time of significant budget cuts.

As schools in cities and towns all across Connecticut are facing significant budget cuts and layoffs, one wonders what legislators were thinking when they adopted a law that will end up moving even more scarce resources away from our district schools and to these charter schools.

«We are anticipating that New York will be in the same situation as the federal government and other states that have to make significant budget cuts, and the health and human services sectors will feel the impact,» said Ron Soloway, UJA - Federation's managing director of external and governmental affairs in a phone interview before a press conference at the State House.

After the issue was raised and school administrators faced growing concerns about these significant budget cuts, Team Vallas issued a memo explaining that they had everything under control.

Already saddled with a major reorganization, significant budget cuts and staff reductions, the Commission on Teacher Credentialing now also faces a sudden uptick in workload generated by districts scouring cases of unreported misconduct.

Opens the door to significant budget cuts: Sen. Alexander's bill eliminates the ESEA's «maintenance of effort,» or MOE, provision, which requires states to maintain approximately the same spending levels from year to year.

Most egregiously, this has led to the axing of primary health care research, development and evaluation with the loss of the PHCRED Strategy and BEACH; mental health reforms floundering between Primary Health Networks and the National Disability Insurance Scheme; and efforts to Close the Gap on Indigenous disadvantage making little progress due to significant budget cuts and program delivery increasingly removed from Indigenous organisations.

Despite the regular upheaval of major policy changes, significant budget cuts, changing governments and the constant bureaucracy churn, we have still managed to see some encouraging improvements in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health outcomes — although the 2017 Closing the Gap Report shows a mixed picture with insufficient progress in the key areas of health, education and employment.

«The regular upheaval of major policy changes, significant budget cuts and changing governments in the short election cycles at all levels, are major impediments to improving life outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

This is due largely to the significant budget cuts RHS program have experienced over the last several years.