We should pay attention to the local town hall vote on the school budget and the local mayoral race.
The Conservative-run council said the decision had been made due to constraints on the school budget and high running and maintenance costs.
Camden's local taxes pay for only 2% of the city's school budget.
Moreover, empirically successful programs like debate might enjoy a Renaissance in popularity if their fundraising could be liberated from both the regular school budget and extracurricular budget.
School-budget ballots are normally low-turnout affairs, and therefore dominated by the teachers themselves.
Under Devolved School Management control of the school's overall budget is largely at school level.
Now the income stream is helping the school balance its budget, he said.
But he said he hoped this time it would be less, and that it should not affect the school's budget.
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Housed in a grim, unassuming building near the Los Angeles airport, it had lost its high school due to budget cuts, and the dropout rate had soared to nearly 60 percent.
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Even before the projected cuts, almost half of the school districts in Texas faced budget shortfalls, according to the Texas Association of School Administrators.
Little Kids Rock provides music instruction and free instruments for public school students affected by budget cuts.
They are missing a fifth of the school year because of budget crunches.
State funding now accounts for less than 14% of the school's educational budget, down from as much as 62% in 1970-71.
Each school controls its own budget, spending money on its own educational priorities (such as improving aboriginal-student results), while following the provincial curriculum.
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So the school increased its marketing budget 15%, adding airport and radio advertisements in an effort to draw more applicants from outside the region.
As time has passed I have not seen the pay raises from the company that I currently work for to counter balance effects of school loans on my budget.
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As part of a School Improvement Grant, schools may budget funds for a partnerships coordinator who can work directly for the school or for a community-based nonprofit partner.
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The state of Wisconsin, according to the head of the Board of Regents in a talk this fall, currently contributes less than 10% to the budget of this school, a world-class institution, built by the taxpayers of Wisconsin over 150 years (and by generous alumni contributors lately), and purportedly for the citizens of this state first, and then of the world.
Andrew Baxter, who represents Fort William and Ardnamurchan, asked if the council was actively considering changes to the school week as part of future budget preparations.
Class sizes in Detroit high schools are expected to go up to about 60 next year because of school closings to help minimize a budget deficit.
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Ultimately, a set of reliable assessments might make it easier for the School District of Philadelphia to meet its budget (other spending and population issues notwithstanding).
Cuts in the education budget will probably shorten the school year by a week, require teachers to be laid off and cause classes to get bigger.
President Obama, our school is in big trouble because our budget cuts are -- 25 of our teachers already have been fired, to get pink slips.
But Plaid Cymru group leader Councillor Neil McEvoy said the proposal to close the riding school was included on a list of budget savings on the council's own website.
Boyd says she conceived of Schoola when reading about the devastating tax shortfalls and concomitant budget cuts that dropped public school funding by 21% in her home state of California (not to mention Arizona, Hawaii, and South Carolina too).
But the component parts -- cutting taxes for middle-class families, cutting taxes for small businesses that are hiring our veterans and hiring the long-term unemployed, putting teachers back in the classroom -- here in the state of Hawaii, you have a bunch of kids who are going to school four days a week because of budget problems.
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So my balanced budget triples the funding for summer school and after school programs.
To balance its budget last year, Jefferson County School District laid off a number of teachers and education support staff, including me.
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So the Recovery Act included the largest investment in education by the federal government in history while preventing more than 300, 000 teachers and school workers from being fired because of state budget shortfalls.
This points to two other defects inherent in defined-benefit plans: All the risk is borne by the taxpayers, and the inability to foresee how much more money will be needed to fully fund the plans makes long-term budget-planning extremely problematical for school boards.
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