Sentences with phrase «slash public education budgets»

Here's how it plays out: Politicians slash public education budgets, remove local control, implement flawed educational practices, and then sanction and shame the schools that have been put through this crucible.

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As California slashes billions from its higher education budget, the state's premier public business schools have quietly focused its efforts on raising private dollars.

But with upheavals in public education currently taking place, budgets being slashed and targets raised, many teachers feel stretched to the limit as it is, in terms of their effort and time available to them.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Wednesday detailed the fallout he attributes to Chicago Public Schools making good on a $ 634 million pension payment: 1,050 workers will lose their jobs, 350 vacant positions will be eliminated and several education programs will be slashed as a result of $ 200 million in budget...

President Trump wants to cut 13.5 % from the Department of Education's budget and slash investments in public schools, while diverting dollars to private school voucher schemes.

The Senate budget also slashes other areas of education to pay for the steep raise, notably cutting the jobs of more than 7,000 teacher assistants and crippling the Department of Public Instruction with a 30 percent reduction.

Governor Corbett and state lawmakers used a revenue shortfall in the 2011 state budget justify slashing nearly $ 900 million in public education funding.

In addition, rather than appropriately fund Connecticut's education grants, Malloy's budget plan seeks to redirect existing state aid for public schools to Connecticut's poorer towns by slashing grants to wealthier and middle income communities.

The Trump - DeVos budget would slash the federal investment in public education programs by a whopping 13.6 percent for the upcoming fiscal year, eliminates at least 22 programs, and cuts $ 10.6 billion from federal education initiatives overall.

«With this budget, Trump and DeVos want to slash billions of dollars from public education, but it's more than education programs.