New Hampshires justices recently decreed that local funding of public schools is unconstitutional because some towns are richer than others.
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The government is expected to unveil local authority funding cuts of about 25% in the Comprehensive Spending Review to be announced on 20 October.
Its programs opened up American politics at the state and local level to the long arm of Washington as never before, involving the federal government in everything from the construction of city parks to the curriculum and funding of local schools.
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The local government minister said that the more than doubling of central funding for local government since devolution showed the Welsh government "commitment to local government".
Even though the department provides only about 6% of the funding for local school districts, it takes nearly 50% of those districts' staffs to administer the funds.
It thereby undercut the main funding source of local governments, especially school districts.
He said that this program would require no great national funding or use of local resources.
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Education Secretary Charles Clarke has admitted some schools face problems as a result of the introduction of the local government funding formula.
As a result of state and local funding cuts, as many as 280, 000 teacher jobs could be at risk in the coming year.
In slashing state funding to local governments the governor of Ohio, John Kasich, suggested that those entities could become more efficient by merging services, by shrinking the layers of government we support with our tax dollars.
Health was the biggest area of uncertainty, with local health boards often requiring extra funding to balance their books at the end of the year.
Key to driving forward the delivery of MDGs in BiH will be two funding windows, one supporting the implementation of Local Environmental Action Plan priority projects at local level, and a second providing assistance for innovative proposals that link environmental management and poverty reduction, and provide lessons to inform further policy development at national level.
What about the long-terms issues of funding for students and a review of voting systems for Local Government?
The event was organized at a local school, with support of UNESCO funding.
Council leader Paul Carter said it would have to revise its plans after details of government funding for local councils were announced on Wednesday.
It appears the money was sent out to local authorities as part of their general funding and was not set aside for paying for training.
In a community project with just a slither of outside funding, local people got together to build their own sewers, contributing both money and labour.
But he said that new streams of joint funding from local authorities and private developers had allowed 60 schemes to happen that otherwise would not have gone ahead.
There are strong arguments for shifting the balance towards local funding, but this depends on the feasibility of measures.
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But, giving details of individual funding allocations to local authorities on Wednesday, the government said it was now winning the battle against absenteeism.
An EcoAd from the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 103 is funding an energy efficiency project at the Putnam Avenue Housing Project in Cambridge, Mass.
"We are making available all categories of public assistance funding for local governments and non-profit organizations to rebuild, restore and reconstruct public facilities, including schools and infrastructure, " Clinton said.
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Although fingerpost signs are the responsibility of the county council, some have previously been restored by parish councils, often with the assistance of grant funding from the Local Member Schemes budget.
The Welsh government said the majority of funding it provided to local government in Wales was not ring fenced and it was up to each authority to make its own budget decisions.
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Sadly, most of these local outposts have suffered a funding cut in recent years.
About a third of the funding is coming from local government in London and higher business rates in the city.
His report - No Stone Unturned - was published last November and it advocated using Local Enterprise Partnerships to decide the allocation of central funding to projects.
Conservatives education spokesperson Angela Burns said that funding schools directly, instead of through local authorities, would cut red tape and mean more money to spend on equipment.
They remember the Poll Tax - and they also know that local taxation raises a relatively low proportion of council funding but provokes a huge degree of voter ire.
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