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Phil Riddle

Texas Schools Face Deep Budget Cuts Amid Budget Crunch - 0 views

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    I think Texas, like many states, are finding it more and more difficult to cut school budgets without letting go of personnel. They cannot skate around the issue any longer. In the words of the spokeswomen for the Texas Association of School Administrators, "There's no fat left."
Jonathan Becker

WWW.WPCVA.COM - 0 views

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    School superintendents protest against budget cuts
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Obama's budget: A play for the center? - CNN.com - 0 views

  • While it's absolutely essential to live within our means ... we can't sacrifice our future in the process," he told reporters while touting some targeted new education spending. "We have a responsibility to invest in those areas that will have the biggest impact in our future" while "demanding accountability."
Victoria Schnettler

Update on State Budget Cuts for the US - 0 views

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    Gives a detailed look at state budget cuts in education across the American map.
Victoria Schnettler

Letter about Budget Pitfalls in Wisconsin - 0 views

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    What the REAL budgets are in Wisconsin and what the real fight may be about....
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Highlights of Obama's 2012 spending plan - CNN.com - 0 views

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    Obama requested $77.4billion for education. The latest republican cuts included reductions in Pell Grants and other education line items.
Victoria Schnettler

Leaving Children Behind - 1 views

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    Texas budget cuts - very similar to Virginia - cut programs that ultimately harm our children and their education.
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    The last line is very sad..."Lose the future"...yet I feel this way here in VA as well!
Tara McDaniel

Education Aid Caught in Budget Debate Crossfire - 0 views

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    The vulnerability of education funding
Phil Riddle

Budget Mix-Up Provides Nation's Schools With Enough Money to Properly Educate Students - 1 views

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    I know the class is over, but this is a good one.
Victoria Schnettler

Class warfare Continues In Louisiana, U.S. Budget Debates . - 0 views

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    class warfare is spreading...and taking away all of these social programs WILL filter to our children and their education.
Roger Mancastroppa

State jobs directed to private companies to remedy budget shortfall | HeraldTribune.com - 0 views

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    So Florida is privatizing its public sector jobs to private industry which has not proven reliable in the past. Go figure.
Victoria Schnettler

The Pulse: Name that School, Trim That Deficit - 1 views

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    Doritos High School....is that where you would like to attend, where your high school memories will be formed? The push and allowance of corporate sponsorship of schools are a response to impending and repeated education budget cuts.
Georggetta Howie

Another Year Without Fred Rogers, When We Need Him the Most - 1 views

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    A man with passion took a stand and shared our free public television and radio change the then, now and tomorrow. If we were as passionate about reforming free public education would we see a difference?
stephlennon

Message From Both Sides of the Mountain - 1 views

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    Solidarity is key! (so is spelling the title of the article correctly, but that did not seem to bother NBC 29!) Regardless- I am completely in support of collective forces saying that not only are the budget cuts unacceptable- but how dare anyone impose more mandates now.
Phil Riddle

Teach for America: Letting the Cream Rise - 0 views

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    A very positive view of Teach for America and the ability of that organization to improve educational outcomes. George Will makes some bold claims and doesn't substantiate them. "Until recently...it seemed that we simply did not know how to teach children handicapped by poverty and its accompaniments - family disintegration and destructive community cultures. Now we know exactly what to do."
Victoria Schnettler

Obama Still Increasing Education Spending in New Budget - 0 views

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    Seems Obama is serious about education even though the government is threatening a shut down over budgetary issues.
mirabilecp

Federal Funding Cuts From This Week - 1 views

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    Reading Was Fundamental.....The 8% that comprises the federal part looks like a lot of money right now...
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Education cuts coming, but fewer than GOP wanted - Washington Times - 1 views

  • Striving Readers, a program to boost literacy rates among middle- and high-school students, takes a $250 million hit,
  • some programs not only were spared but will get more money than the administration was looking for. The Teaching of Traditional American History, designed to help fund classes devoted to U.S. history, will lose $73 million from 2010 levels but will get $46 million more this year than the administration requested.
  • Adult education will be cut by $31 million
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  • But the GOP is looking for bigger cuts and wants to reduce Pell Grant spending to “pre-stimulus levels,” cutting the annual federal allocation by about half while blaming Democrats for doubling the size of the program since Mr. Obama took office.
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