Mr Twigg added that "with the economy flat-lining... a proper school building programme would be good for pupils and good for jobs".
Mr Jindal apparently promised not to touch the pay rise if lawmakers supported a bill, dear to his heart, that created a school-voucher programme for impoverished New Orleanians.
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He proposed individual job-training accounts and a school-voucher programme.
At Stornoway, there was a 2.4% fall, mainly due to the completion of the school building programme, a project which used external construction workers flying between Stornoway and the mainland.
Russ Kramer, a musician who heads the Mason City high school band programme, says that music, and a stubborn spirit of optimism which it helps to underpin, are still central to life in the town.
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He called for armed police at every school and offered a programme to train schools in security.
The Scottish Borders was one of the parts of Scotland which took part in a pilot programme of free school meals in primaries.
The programme states that that schools should be fit for purpose and that a major capital investment programme to upgrade school buildings, exceeding the sums provided during the previous assembly term, should be continued.
During his tenure voters have approved tax increases for an expansion of the light-rail transport system (2004), a new justice centre (2005), and a voucher programme for pre-school education (2006).
Last week Megan and Celine had a brilliant chance to interview Rolf Harris, who was in the school for one day only filming for a new BBC programme called Made in England.
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The feedback has guided the school in a revamp of its MBA programme.
Cranfield School of Management in Britain has gone a step further, becoming the first business school to incorporate a popular online business-strategy game into its MBA programme.
Meanwhile, BBC Radio 1's Aled Haydn Jones will present a programme about being bullied while at school in Wales.
Sheila says a programme to support Callum in infant school was not transferred to his new junior school, despite their requests.
Spanish school IESE has recently announced a new EMBA programme based in Sao Paulo, to help develop executives across Latin America.
Critics accuse him of diverting those funds from existing schools: he has cancelled a big programme to rebuild or refurbish every secondary school in England.
And it is tackling the long-term causes of child poverty through policies aimed at pre-school children in poor areas, and a new programme designed to cut teenage pregnancy.
We need a programme to raise the quality of teaching and school leadership which is what makes the most difference but under this government, we've seen 10, 000 teachers leave the profession.
Neil Partrick is a visiting fellow at the Gulf Programme at the London School of Economics and associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies (RUSI) in London.
Trium, a Global Executive MBA programme run jointly by NYU-Stern school, HEC Paris and the London School of Economics, is celebrating its tenth anniversary by adding a second cohort in 2012.
And called for a new national strategy building on the success of the School Sports Partnership Programme.
Pupils and teachers from schools in Sandwell have joined a meeting in Westminster, London, over cuts to the school rebuilding programme.
Another programme offers undergraduates early guarantees of a place in medical school if they are willing to practise in rural areas.
"Our aim must be that over a five to 10-year period we work towards every single secondary school within easy reach of a university being covered by such a programme, " she said.
Carmarthenshire has a 10-year schools' reorganisation programme, aimed at improving school buildings as well as cutting surplus places, that could see up to 32 schools closed and replaced with new area "super schools".
All students are now assigned to the school closest to their homes unless they have chosen to attend a magnet programme.
Plugged In also runs a programme called Community Kids which hosts 55 children each day after school and involves them in hands-on arts and crafts and computer projects.
The school had been earmarked for a re-build on the wider rebuilding programme, Building Schools for the Future, but then the entire programme was scrapped by Education Secretary Michael Gove.
Word spread about my work with youth education, and I was invited to help create a programme in Pakistan to improve the quality of education at a school serving at-risk children from poor families.
As part of my report for the Today programme I'm also speaking to a teacher at another school who is worried that technology is a distraction rather than an aid for pupils in her English literature lessons.
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