Sentences with phrase «underfunded by billions of dollars»

But now, teacher pension plans are underfunded by billions of dollars, and states have been forced to cut benefits for future retirees.

Billy Easton, with Alliance for Quality Education, explains report showing schools are underfunded by billions of dollars.

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Even worse, the cost of carrying these well organized groups is very much understated: nearly all the public - sector pension plans are underfunded by hundreds of billions of dollars and taxpayers are on the hook for the difference.

The formula was set up to address a decade - old court order known as the Campaign for Fiscal Equity that said the state was underfunding schools by billions of dollars.

That paved the way for a bizarre 2011 trial court decision holding that the state was underfunding education by billions of dollars each year.

In late 2011, a trial court judge, Sheila Rappaport, issued a bizarre and outrageous decision declaring that Colorado was underfunding education by billions of dollars.

Unfortunately, Title I grants and related programs have been underfunded by tens of billions of dollars for decades.

That decision held that Washington is underfunding public education by billions of dollars, according to The Seattle Times.