Not exact matches
The Senate Republicans» budget restores $ 280 million worth of education cuts proposed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, eliminates $ 296 million in unfunded mandates for
local governments and
spend slightly
less overall than the governor ($ 132.5 billion, to $ 132.9 billion)-- all without any new revenue generators (AKA taxes).
Legislators rejected this change during the first round of budget negotiations, with the Assembly creating a credit based on income (and not tied to
local spending) and the State Senate embracing a simpler but
less onerous plan advanced by groups representing cities, towns, counties, school boards and villages to give the «freeze» check back to the
local government to invest as it sees fit.
Cuomo's budget assumes the federal
government will approve a $ 10 billion Medicaid waiver, and that state operating
spending will hold to
less than two percent a year, which helps balance his plans for a
local property tax freeze and for $ 100 million in funding during this coming year, to begin expanding pre-K programs statewide.
Why don't teh
local governments tell us how much
less they would
spend if the mandate did not exist, and then tell us how much they are
spending on each?
In 23 states, state and
local governments are together
spending less per pupil in the poorest school districts than they are in the most affluent school districts, putting the children in these low - income, high - need schools at an even further disadvantage.
Talbot said the measure ultimately will save the state money, because the voucher amounts will be
less than what state and
local government now
spends on a child in public schools.