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 government agrees to the building of a road between Bexhill and Hastings that has been opposed by green campaigners.
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The government backs a new inspection service for some private Muslim and Christian schools.
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For years, residents and businesses of Northern Virginia have complained that, when it comes to state taxes and state spending, there's a two-lane highway heading down to Richmond, and a one-lane road coming back.
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The state budget for the year 2005 was approved by Parliament. According to the Prime Minister Mikulas Dzurinda, Slovakia's step forward will be stabilized and peaceful.
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Heads say England's school funding means pupils in disadvantaged areas are missing out.
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By PETER BACQUE  Gov. Timothy M. Kaine wants to spend $500 million more on the state's limping transportation system over the next two years.  The money would move forward a number of critical road, rail, port and transit initiatives around the state.
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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 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 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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By Tom Wilemon, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Sep. 22--BILOXI -- The Police Department has put its school resource officers and traffic-control division on regular patrol duty because of a shortage of patrol officers.
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The education secretary is giving schools more time to agree plans for dealing with disruptive pupils.
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GPs are to be given their own budgets to pay for services for their patients.
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TORONTO (CP) - Proposed government changes to school transportation funding formulas don't make any sense, the New Democrats and parents with children in the Durham District School Board said Thursday.
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Ministers press IT firms to bring down costs but parents of school students will have to contribute
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Gordon Brown will put increased investment in the country's schools and higher taxes on polluters at the centre of his pre-budget report, a curtain-raiser for next year's budget, reports said.
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Local people in England will have a direct say in how council budgets are spent under new government plans.