Sentences with phrase «yawning budget gap»

Make up, in the coming year, for a yawning budget gap in the Pell Grant college - aid program, estimated at roughly $ 7 billion.

In the shadow of a debate on how to close California's yawning budget gap, a group of lawmakers has introduced 10 bills that would restructure just about every aspect of the state education system.

COPENHAGEN — A bitter row has broken out at the University of Copenhagen, which has been forced to cut its scientific staff to close a yawning budget gap.

The governor promised not to enact any new taxes to help close the state's yawning budget gap, but many say that pledge is easier said than done.

The Conservative - controlled north London council has committed to spending # 1.5 m this financial year on a much - hyped reform programme to help close a yawning budget gap, but it is on course to recoup just # 1.4 m in savings in the year.The programme is budgeted to deliver savings of # 13m a year by 2014, about a third of the total cuts planned by the council.

Cuomo has long insisted the state has been funding schools at record levels after initially seeking to scale back spending hikes in order to close yawning budget gaps he inherited during the first year of his first term.

Not exact matches

The circumstances in 2016 are far different: The state's financial picture has improved over the last five years and the budget doesn't face a yawning $ 10 billion gap.

Paterson initiated the discussion by bringing up the tough choices foisted upon him as the accidental governor, after Spitzer left him with a yawning $ 14 billion budget gap.