Sentences with phrase «significant cuts to public education»

While protecting charter schools, who proved to be among his largest campaign donors, Malloy's new spending plan actually includes a variety of significant cuts to public education programs including a $ 15 million cut in the school transportation grant which will simply shift the burden for those costs onto local property taxpayers.

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Although public schools may still feel the repercussions from the 2008 recession, federal data showed a significant upsurge in state and local education spending in the 2014 - 15 school year — an increase that, if it persists, could eventually restore four earlier years of deep budget cuts, according to an analysis by The Hechinger Report.

Considering Governor Malloy has instituted the deepest budget cuts in Connecticut history to the state's public institutions of higher education, cuts that have led to significant tuition increases, it could be that the Governor's handlers are worried that they won't receive a warm welcome.