Sentences with phrase «squeezed school budgets»

This is at a time of squeezed school budgets, with funding for extracurricular activities among the first to be chopped.

The news comes after a period of particularly strained relations between the two groups, regarding forced adademisation, primary assessment, teacher shortages and squeezed school budgets.

The teachers union, which is close to Assembly Democrats, says the cap has squeezed school budgets and created inequality.

«As the Government continues to squeeze school budgets, there simply aren't enough funds to replace staff.

That being said, knowing how and where to invest in education technology can be a very complicated issue, especially when faced with an increasingly squeezed school budget.

Knowing how and where to invest in education technology can be a complicated task, especially when faced with a squeezed school budget.

«It's no good just awarding a pay increase if this squeezes school budgets and overall resources still further,» he said.

However additional cost pressures — such as rising employer pension and national insurance costs — are squeezing school budgets.

Not exact matches

The maker of electronic smart boards was squeezed by shrinking school - board budgets and a failed foray into the business market.

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.

When contribution rates go up, as they will during the next school year, the effect is to put a squeeze on district budgets.

As school budgets continue to feel the squeeze, the notion of employing cheaper unqualified teachers may seem attractive but it is wrong.

Schools minister David Laws has said the cost of school uniforms was often «unnecessarily high» at a time when family budgets were being squeezed.

A squeeze on budgets have meant schools are having to deliver the curriculum with less.

With the current financial pressures that schools are facing with squeezed budgets and deficits, budget monitoring is becoming an increasingly important and effective element of financial good practice.

Seven out of ten academies are operating with accounting losses, as budgets are being squeezed and schools seek to find cost savings, according to an independent survey of academies.

But with the time, effort and additional resources needed to manage tablets, schools are currently assessing whether making an investment from their already «squeezed» budget, is worthwhile.

As states continue to slash education budgets to accommodate declining tax revenues, schools respond by trying to squeeze even more out of their beleaguered teachers.

The Chronicle cites a school finance consultant to the California Department of Education to make the harm to general education parents clear: «This is not sustainable... Special education is a growing portion of budgets in many districts, squeezing out services for other pupils.»

Marketing and communications is an area that is often overlooked, misunderstood and can be seen as an unnecessary expenditure in already squeezed budgets — a perception that can limit a school's success in attracting pupils and securing a positive reputation in the community.

However, since its initial interest growth, 3D printers have become not only far more affordable - many companies who sell 3D printers to schools offer all - in - one packages for squeezed academic budgets - but have also become more in demand.

At the same time schools are under pressure to raise educational standards, while seeing budgets squeezed.

Sir Peter Lampl, founder and chairman of the Sutton Trust, said: «Our new polling adds to the growing evidence from highly credible sources that the squeeze on school budgets is having a detrimental effect on schools.

It revealed that seven out of ten academies are operating with accounting losses, as budgets are being squeezed and schools seek to find cost savings.

Of course, letting out their facilities may not be high up on their list of priorities, as many schools spend a lot of their time juggling a host of important issues, from squeezed budgets to exam results.

A squeeze on budgets means that costly building extensions are no longer the go - to option for schools — so what is the answer?

Deputy headteacher of Quintin Kynaston, Ross McGill, who is also part of the Teacher Development Trust's National CPD Network, stated that «it is deeply inadequate that schools are squeezed into a corner» and «forced to make a decision to cut, or have no CPD budget available to their staff».

Weston continued: «Whilst we recognise that schools budgets are being increasingly squeezed, it is vital that senior leaders and governors in schools realise the consequences of not investing in their staff.»

Other key findings include: - Squeezed budgets mean many schools have been forced to shed staff, with further reductions to staff spending expected over the next two years - Teacher shortages seem to be getting worse - Schools that opt for academy status are not embracing the freedoms it brings in terms of curriculum, and teachers» pay and conditions - Secondary governors are using 11 - 16 funding to subsidise their sixth forms, as cuts in post-16 budgeschools have been forced to shed staff, with further reductions to staff spending expected over the next two years - Teacher shortages seem to be getting worse - Schools that opt for academy status are not embracing the freedoms it brings in terms of curriculum, and teachers» pay and conditions - Secondary governors are using 11 - 16 funding to subsidise their sixth forms, as cuts in post-16 budgeSchools that opt for academy status are not embracing the freedoms it brings in terms of curriculum, and teachers» pay and conditions - Secondary governors are using 11 - 16 funding to subsidise their sixth forms, as cuts in post-16 budgets bite

Whether it's from increasingly squeezed budgets, higher demand for school places or growing concerns about young people's mental health, schools are still expected to balance these while providing a high - quality education and a positive springboard into adolescence and adulthood.

The hedge fund managers who support charter schools and also want their income taxed at lower rates than regular earned income, thereby squeezing education budgets?

However, since its initial interest growth, 3D printers have become not only far more affordable — many companies who sell 3D printers to schools offer all - in - one packages for squeezed academic budgets — but have also become more in demand.

«Our new polling adds to the growing evidence from highly credible sources that the squeeze on school budgets is having a detrimental effect on schools.

As schools face squeezed budgets, shared back - office functions are increasingly seen as a way to make efficiencies.

A third academy chain in as many months has told staff across its schools they face losing their jobs — as the budget squeeze seemingly spreads to multi-academy trusts.

But the economy has changed, putting many school districts in a budget squeeze, and after voters rejected the 2000 initiative, Billings had a change of heart.

Because academies are not required to honour school teachers pay and conditions the salaries offered to attract senior staff were unaffordable, this contributes to squeezed budgets and unfortunately it's the people on the lowest pay being sacrificed for a top heavy system.

I know of LA schools that are cutting 20 staff due to falling rolls and / or the budget squeeze.

School budgets are also squeezed with an 8 per cent real - terms fall expected by 2020, according to the Institute of Fiscal Studies.

Unsurprisingly, 61 % said the support staff redundancies had been made because of financial shortages, with school budgets being ever - squeezed.

The factors contributing to the budget squeeze are much more interrelated: a rapidly shrinking school district, coupled with the 2008 economic downturn and a shift in the composition of the teaching force.

School governors have pointed to a «catastrophic» squeeze on budgets, as the government prepares to introduce a new funding formula for schools.

Yet, a faltering economy has put the squeeze on school operating budgets and has made voters less likely to support ambitious construction proposals.

School leaders with squeezed budgets have long complained about recruitment agency costs and the high price of advertising jobs in newspapers and online.

Many school districts, already squeezed by shrinking state education budgets, say that to fill the hole they anticipate would be left by the Republican push to restructure Medicaid, they would either have to cut those services or downsize general education programs that serve all students.

The trusts said the proposed redundancies that covered both teachers and supply staff across all their schools was necessary to meet squeezed budgets.

The National Audit Office has previously said schools are facing the worst budget squeeze since the mid-1990s.

James Toop, Teaching Leaders chief executive, said the programme had been successful in terms of pupil achievement and retention but squeezed budgets could mean schools struggle to find the # 2,000 needed each year to place teachers on the programme.

So why then are school district budgets getting squeezed?

In the current climate of burgeoning teacher shortages, it's a sellers» market; NQTs are an attractive option to schools with squeezed budgets, so you can afford to be discriminating.