Budget favours roads and schools
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Schools and transport could be big winners in Finance Minister Andy Kerr's spending plans.
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The Legislative Budget Board approved using $591 million in state funds for health and human services programs for the poor. The board endorsed funding that was announced last week by Gov.
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The government wants to keep schools open longer - to provide more childcare and welfare services.
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Car-users should be charged to use roads to help pay for upgrades, a business organisation claims.
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Superintendent cites parental pressure to compete with Fairfax in proposed 17 percent budget increase.
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The Fairfax County School Board was moving toward a vote last night on a much-debated $2.3 billion annual spending plan that several board members said was likely to preserve some programs the superintendent had proposed to cut to offset declining tax revenue.
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The state transportation secretary said yesterday that taxing drivers based on how much they use their cars, to supplement the gas tax that helps pay for highway projects, is an experiment worth a look in Massachusetts.
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Road pricing and faster rail links could be part of the future transport policy in Scotland.
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The 14 kilometres of road works financed by the Italian Financial Protocol will serve as a benchmark for how roads in Malta and Gozo should be built, the Prime Minister said.
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Appeals over school places rose in primary schools but fell in secondary schools last year.
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England's universities will benefit from a new funding scheme to be announced by the prime minister.
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Expenses like travel and food cost parents of state school pupils more than Â£700 a year, says a report.
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The House unanimously signed off Monday on a $2.9 billion state spending plan for Louisiana's public schools, submitted by the state education board.  House Concurrent Resolution 208, the spending plan for the 2007- 08 school year, would increase public school spending by $209 million.
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The Northern Virginia Transportation Authority released yesterday for the first time a list of road and transit projects that would be funded by proposed regional taxes and fees.
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Heads say England's school funding means pupils in disadvantaged areas are missing out.
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The government backs a new inspection service for some private Muslim and Christian schools.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon waits for the voting of Israel&#39;s 2005 budget at the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, December 1, 2004.