Sentences with phrase «strained local budgets»

In order to collect more money and help ease strained local budgets, some libraries have been sending unpaid fines to collection agencies.

Though immigration may strain some local budgets in the short term, costs and benefits tend to balance out in the end, said Alex Nowrasteh, immigration policy analyst at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank.

These costs can strain local budgets in the best of times.

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In response to these strains, state and local governments have cut infrastructure investment, slashed support for higher education, cut spending on K — 12 education, cut spending on social benefits other than Medicaid, reduced administrative staff and reduced most other areas of the budget.

However, as local, state and federal governments manage strained budgets, continued investments in the health and well - being of our children and our schools is not a given.

Block grants school nutrition programs in three states, a dangerous idea that will put further strain on state and local school districts» budgets and jeopardize children's access to quality, healthy school meals no matter where they live.

«Although the number of local governments designated as fiscally stressed has declined noticeably, there are still too many communities struggling with chronic budget strain,» said DiNapoli.

«Decade after decade, mandates have been piled on local governments and school districts, straining budgets and increasing pressure on taxpayers,» Cuomo said.

Some intriguing ideas are stranded by an overarching concept that severely strains credibility in this low - budget drama that takes place in a small town in northern California, where an exiled Afghan journalist (Dominic Rains) gets a job as a freelance crime reporter and settles with a local police officer (Melissa Leo)-- the mother of a friend — allowing him to experience firsthand the town's surprisingly extensive web of corruption and violence.

Notably, both the GAO and AASA studies reported that local school officials felt compelled to disregard the calls for reform given «the realities of strained federal, state, and local budgets,» and the resulting likelihood of layoffs and other cuts.

A strain on tight budgets In general, city school districts suffer disproportionately from a rapidly eroding tax base and an overreliance on local property taxes to finance education, which virtually guarantees poor and urban areas will lag behind non-urban districts.

To alleviate some of the strain on local budgets, the federal government passed and implemented a large stimulus package, which included funds for school districts.

Second, the price that a district must pay a charter for local students who attend serves a big blow to school budgets already stretched and strained.

By extending school districts» obligation to pay for private school placements until all appeals are exhausted, the decision creates an incentive for parents to prolong litigation rather than to work collaboratively with school districts to resolve disputes without delay; the increased liability for private tuition and legal fees from needlessly prolonged litigation imposes an untenable burden on the already - strained budgets of local school districts and diverts resources away from providing educational services to all children.

By preventing unwanted animals from being born, we will also reduce the strain on already tight agency and local budgets that must cover the cost of caring for and ultimately disposing of unwanted and homeless animals.

Financial prudence, not political correctness, should dictate investment decisions — and, when that ceases to be the case, retirement dreams are jeopardized, and local, state, and even federal budgets may be strained.

«We are being asked to do more work than ever to prepare for hearings, and during hearings; and we must also bear the brunt of the added difficulties presented and experienced by litigants in person, often in very stressful circumstances, and — in family cases — by the added strains on local authority budgets.»