Sentences with phrase «support education cuts»

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Many municipal golf courses have closed, because governments are unable to justify support for golf when they have cut spending on education and social services.

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.

Key policies include introducing a Guaranteed Annual Income; ensuring universal access to quality childcare and early childhood education; cutting debt for post-secondary students; honouring the Kelowna Accord with Aboriginals; expanding the rights of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transsexual Canadians; and easing the income support levels required for immigrant family sponsorship.

Those who speak out against abortion and family practice and at the same time support cuts in education, school lunch funding, decry reasonable control of weapons and other programs that help children can not call themselves Christians.

Words can never fully express my gratitude for the guidance, informative cutting edge education you so generously shared, and for the gentle support and love you provided throughout your childbirth education program that I attended in preparation for the birth of my son.

SNA said it supports the Senate agreement on school nutrition standards, and opposes the House bill, H.R. 5003, the Improving Child Nutrition and Education Act of 2016, which would restrict school eligibility for CEP and institute a block grant pilot that would cut funds for school meal programs.

Specifically, they oppose education cuts (76 - 22) and Medicaid cuts (64 - 32), but support reductions for state workers — from pension reform to wage freezes and furloughs — and are split on layoffs.

At the same time, the government have proposed cutting wildly at student support for those in further education, with both the Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) and the Adult Learning Grant (ALG) set to be entirely aeducation, with both the Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) and the Adult Learning Grant (ALG) set to be entirely aEducation Maintenance Allowance (EMA) and the Adult Learning Grant (ALG) set to be entirely abolished.

These means - tested weekly payments of up to # 30 are a crucial means of support for those who wish to remain in further education - and it is simply not possible for the Government to claim their cuts to be fair at the same time as they remove this support for the poorest in our society.

«Over three million children in the UK live in poverty, a key inhibitor to educational progress, and experience every day the harsh realities of cuts to welfare, specialist services and support, education grants and the wider effects of the recession.

Although DeFrancisco is hurt by widespread GOP support of Marc Malorino — his chief rival in the May nominating convention — voters should consider DeFrancisco's vow to cut taxes, his previous positions on the Syracuse City School District Board of Education and city council and his 40 - year undefeated record in political races.

This report details the context for the cuts — a decade of underinvestment — and makes the economic case for supporting public higher education: it helps families through the current crisis, stimulates growth in the local economy, narrows racial gaps in income and education, and helps build a solid middle class for New York's future.

«Cuts to our education system will have repercussions for generations to come as the facilities and support systems that schools rely on are cut to ribbons.

A recent Siena poll showed voters support Cuomo and his budget conceptually, but oppose education cuts and support the millionaire's tax.

To wit: New Yorkers overwhelmingly support (72 - 26) increasing taxes on the state's wealthiest residents (those earning $ 1 million and more a year), especially when told that supporters would use the cash that generates to offset education cuts.

The pro-Cuomo Committee to Save NY is backing up a recent TV spot supporting the governor's proposed education aid cuts with a mailer that accuses school superintendents of going behind closed doors and «taking money out of classrooms — but putting hundreds of thousands of dollars in their own pockets.»

Thousands of teachers, lecturers and support staff will be visiting Parliament tomorrow (Wednesday, 26 October) to lobby their MPs about pension cuts in the education sector.

On the heels of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's war of words with school districts yesterday, the business - backed Committee to Save New York has hit the airwaves with a new TV ad — its third of this budget cycle, I believe — in support of the governor's education funding cuts.

Liberal lawmakers had hoped that once the full impact of the $ 1.2 billion in cuts were felt to education, support would gather for the surcharge.

«The NASUWT predicted that the funding changes, driven by a desire by the Department for Education to mask the level and impact of cuts to school and local authority budgets, would result in those who needed the support to address their needs losing it.

«But Congresswoman Ann Marie Buerkle supports a plan in Congress that would cut education by 40 percent.

Rob Astorino, the Republican Party candidate for Governor, will further segregate our schools by resisting fair housing settlements, supporting even more cuts to the education budget, and trying to outdo Cuomo in his promotion of charter schools.

Korn points to a December Siena University poll that shows that 74 percent surveyed opposed Cuomo's proposed cuts to education, while 73 percent supported continuing the millionaires tax.

Cuomo's austerity budget will probably feature $ 2.3 billion in cuts to Medicaid and $ 1.5 billion to education — and be adopted with the support of many of the very people whose budgets are being hacked.

The committee began airing an ad Friday supporting the governor's proposed $ 1.5 billion cut to education, saying the trim «targets bureaucratic waste, and protects our students and teachers.»

With the city Education Department announcing layoffs of some 800 support staff, including school aides, parent coordinators, lunchroom workers, bus coordinators and others, UFT Secretary Michael Mendel joined City Councilman Charles Barron, Assemblywoman Inez Barron and nearly a dozen other Council members in decrying the budget - cutting move at a press conference on August 30 outside DOE headquarters.

The radio ads criticize Buerkle, claiming she supports a Republican bill to cut federal education spending by 40 percent, as well as reduce science and technology research spending by 40 percent.

She added, «But Congresswoman Ann Marie Buerkle supports a plan in Congress that would cut education by 40 percent.

RESOLVED, that the UFT work with the AFT by supporting the PFT in calling for a restoration of all education cuts, and be it further

Budget cuts and the lack of resources and support from the DOE have left special education decimated.

The Assembly, led by Speaker Sheldon Silver, is likely to fight to restore cuts, with the support of labor, health care and education interests.

Sally Mason, president of the University of Iowa, pointed to state legislatures cutting support to higher education in an attempt to balance state budgets.

The disproportionate cuts to education and Medicaid may be because these programs garner relatively less voter support in times of tight budgets, they said.

«This plan will allow important research to continue while accommodating the agency's budgetary constraints and its core mission to support cutting - edge science and education,» the statement says.

Beyond Sea Grant, the cuts would target grants and programs «supporting coastal and marine management, research, and education,» which are a lower priority, the budget request states, than functions maintained in the budget like «surveys, charting, and fisheries management.»

This plan will allow important research to continue while accommodating the agency's budgetary constraints and its core mission to support cutting - edge science and education.

The budget would cut $ 250 million in «targeted NOAA grants and programs supporting coastal and marine management, research, and education.»

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The National Pancreas Foundation provides hope for those suffering from pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer through funding cutting edge research, advocating for new and better therapies, and providing support and education for patients, caregivers, and health care professionals.

Included in cuts, the Department for Education (DfE) is proposing to shrink the Education Services Grant (ESG), funds which are used to support academies to cover the cost of services that would otherwise be provided by local authorities.

Dr Mary Bousted, joint general secretary of the National Education Union (NEU), said: «Support staff are feeling the brunt of school cuts as schools struggle to make ends meet.

Christine Blower, general secretary of the National Union of Teachers, said: «Reductions in education funding have led to cuts in provision such as breakfast and after school clubs, music lessons, SEN support and the Education Maintenance Allowance which helped students stay on in eeducation funding have led to cuts in provision such as breakfast and after school clubs, music lessons, SEN support and the Education Maintenance Allowance which helped students stay on in eEducation Maintenance Allowance which helped students stay on in educationeducation.

Almost one in three authorities are cutting budgets used to support deaf children's education, research shows

In 2010 and early 2011, district management warned repeatedly that severe cuts would have to be made if the state or the city did not increase support for K — 12 education once the federal stimulus funding ended in 2011.

But the governor surprised the district (and school districts throughout the state) in March 2011 when he proposed a state budget that cut support for basic education by nearly 10 percent.

In 2010, the state faced reduced revenues and cut its own support for K — 12 education but used the stimulus funds to increase overall allocations to school districts.

Merrow shared his hopes that HGSE graduates will consider how they can give back to society by supporting educational opportunity and equity, using education to cut through smokescreens, and supporting public education.

Trump's budget proposes a 13.5 percent cut in the Education Department's 2018 budget, including a $ 2.3 billion cut that would eliminate Supporting Effective Instruction States Grants, which fund teacher training and development.

«Every day we support education professionals who are suffering the consequences of many factors causing severe pressure: budget cuts; fewer staff, bigger class sizes and localised recruitment and retention difficulties in some areas are adding to workload and increasing stress levels.

Even with the infusion of federal support proposed so far, states may have to make further cuts in their education budgets if the economy does not improve quickly.