Sentences with phrase «additional public funding for»

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Affordable housing is a priority for this Assembly and we propose to help address this priority with $ 3.8 million to provide incentives for homeowners to replace fuel tanks and to provide funding to cover additional costs for water and sanitation services for public housing.

The $ 400 million budgeted for the 15 - mile project is slated to cover basic infrastructure needs; the San Antonio River Foundation's role is to augment public funds with donations from corporations, foundations and individuals to fund the enhancements and additional amenities that will make this linear park world - class.

In February of 2008, Fox Valley Park District residents approved a $ 44.8 million referendum to fund improvements for local parks, trails and public facilities, acquire new land for additional recreation space, preserve Fox River shoreline areas and create additional venues for athletic fields, and numerous other goals.

Tentative deals have been reached on parts of a new state budget, including about $ 1 billion in additional funding for public schools, a work - around for some higher - income New Yorkers to reduce the impact of new federal tax deduction limits, and a freeze on what Albany sends to local governments around the state.

Following the 2008 financial crash, the need to find additional public resources to reduce or obviate the need for painful spending cuts and fund growing long - term demand for public services makes wealth an attractive potential tax base.

The campaign is also eligible for an additional $ 300,000 in public matching funds and is on track to qualify for $ 2 million in the coming year.

The funding can be used for training and additional resources that are necessary for protecting the public and emergency personnel.

We are still waiting for the final breakdown of that funding but I believe the public benefitted greatly from the additional funding,» said Majority Leader Lorigo.

Our delegation has led the fight to pass legislation and fund the rebuilding of Yonkers Public Schools (YPS), brought in $ 21 million in capital resources, including funding for a new football field, additional funding for arts and after school programming in Yonkers.

Additional Funding for Enforcement; Review of JCOPE to Ensure Performance The Budget also provides an additional $ 1.2 million for enforcement activities at the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, amounting to a 27 percent increase in the Commission's operatiAdditional Funding for Enforcement; Review of JCOPE to Ensure Performance The Budget also provides an additional $ 1.2 million for enforcement activities at the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, amounting to a 27 percent increase in the Commission's operatiadditional $ 1.2 million for enforcement activities at the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, amounting to a 27 percent increase in the Commission's operating budget.

«Despite the progress outlined in this tentative deal there is clearly a lot of work ahead of us, including stronger criminal justice reforms; full funding for our state's public education system; ensuring affordable college for all New Yorkers, including DREAMers; additional support for Planned Parenthood; and ethics and voting reforms,» said Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins.

At 2 p.m., Assemblywoman Shelley Mayer and advocates gather to call for additional funding for public transit, pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure in the final New York state budget, Fountain Plaza at Ridge Hill, 1 Ridge Hill Blvd., Yonkers.

Area transportation advocates, lawmakers and labor and business leaders gathered Friday at two separate press conferences to urge Cuomo to provide additional funding for public transportation in the Rochester and Finger Lakes region.

In his proposed state budget, Cuomo also has proposed $ 11 million in funding to hire additional health care workers at cancer treatment facilities for outreach work, $ 15 million for public education campaigns targeting underserved communities, and $ 5 million to support commercialization of cancer - related technologies.

The additional funding would bring the total investment in NYCHA to $ 550 million for the beleaguered city public - housing program.

The two additional items that Thomas was charged with mentioned above does not include misuse of campaign funds, but two campaign expenses of $ 2,000 to pay for a Chanel purse for his wife and a family trip to Mexico, both paid for by the inaugural committee, are difficult for the public to forgive.

By ensuring that no additional public funds are spent to complete the Memorial and Museum, today's agreement puts in place a critical and long overdue safeguard to finally protect toll payers and taxpayers from bearing further costs, and, at the same time, put the project on a path for completion.»

This year's push by parents and educators for additional state funding for public schools paid off when the governor and Albany lawmakers on April 1 finalized a new state budget that contained a $ 1.4 billion increase in state education funding, with $ 525 million going to New York City public schools.

Cuomo has threatened to withhold more than $ 1 billion in additional state funding for public schools if the Legislature does not agree to his reforms in the upcoming state budget.

This year when we learned that Yonkers Public Schools faced a $ 26 million deficit, I asked that we all advocate for additional State funding — and you did.

Library officials last asked the public for additional funding back in 2009, when taxpayer contribution was bumped up to $ 321,000 annually.

«This report highlights the critical need for additional funding to maintain and preserve public housing.

City officials are calling on Gov. Cuomo and state lawmakers to hand over millions in additional funding for Big Apple public schools.

The viral nature of the campaign earned the national ALS Association, an organization which raises public awareness and funding for ALS, an additional US$ 115 million1.

In recent years we've seen states cut funding for public universities at the same time those schools are taking on additional students, which has furthered the need for federal financial assistance to offset this shift in costs.

To build adequate, equitable, and sustainable financing with effective incentives for quality additional resources will need to come from a combination of public and private resources, with the largest portion of funding coming from public investments, the report says.

With this additional funding for its independent research program, OpenBiome will work to advance public knowledge on how gut bacteria can be engineered to help cure or even prevent disease.

Dr. Story Landis, chair of the NIH Stem Cell Task Force, said states like Maryland, which offer their own public funding to researchers, often help get projects off the ground — and scientists then use their early research to apply for additional federal funding.

Critics of the report pointed to the report's «new age, neo-naturalist» stance, noting that the nutrition scientists at the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (now the DHHS), who urged caution in the face of the limited science on nutrition and chronic disease, could not compete with this popular ideology either for public support or for government funds for additional research.21

Presented by ITVS, the series is funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a private corporation funded by the American people, with additional funding from PBS, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Wyncote Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Opening up school premises for public use can create better engagement between schools and their communities, provide greater commitment to the schools from local residents and create additional funding.

This would include funding for a pilot private - school voucher program, new money for charter schools, and additional money for Title I that would be directed to follow students to the public school of their choice.

The scarcity of information reflects the fact that private schools, unlike public schools, do not receive additional funding for students with disabilities, and consequently are not required by federal law to follow complex procedures for the identification of those students.

The measure calls for a commission consisting of the governor, state superintendent, and legislative leaders to devise means of generating an additional $ 1 billion in state revenue to increase the state's share of public school funding from about 40 percent to roughly 65 percent.

The administration has yet to release a proposal for how the federal government might foster more school choice in states and localities around the country, although its initial budget proposal included additional funding for charters and other forms of public school choice, as well as funding for a new private school choice program.

Later as the first African American and female superintendent of San Francisco Public Schools, she introduced a program to target additional resources and create a new equitable funding formula for schools.

The district also contends that because the mayor and board of education have provided additional funding for traditional public schools ever since the act was passed, those actions have created an authoritative legal precedent.

To the extent that panel participants knew their work was likely to be used to advocate for additional funding for the state's public schools (or that panel participants» predispositions reflect CBE's and / or KEA's mission and values), there is an obvious bias injected into the Verstegen and Associates study from its inception.

4) Members of the public are less inclined to favor using additional funds for class - size reduction if they know its cost relative to the cost of teacher pay and the purchase of new books and technologies.

Instead, the judges suggested a reasonable floor would require the state to spend at least $ 802 more a year per public school student — with additional funds allocated for at - risk students and other specific student populations.

Public schools expend considerable resources identifying children eligible for special services, both because they are under an obligation to provide those services and because they receive additional funds from federal and state governments if a child is identified as having a disability that affects their learning.

Funding was provided by the HumanLinks Foundation, with additional support from Yakima Public Schools, and the Center for Bridging the Digital Divide.

Public schools receive additional funding for students with special needs and hire specialized staff to serve their unique needs.

This challenge is compounded by the fact that charter schools are chronically underfunded, operating, on average nationwide, with only three - quarters of the operational funding of traditional (district) public schools, and typically with no additional funding for facilities or capital infrastructure.

To comply with a new class size law this fall, Elizabeth City - Pasquotank Public Schools officials estimate they'll need an additional $ 1 million to fund the hiring of 20 additional teachers for the elementary - school grads.

Finally, in September 1959, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the County to «take immediate steps» toward integrating its schools, bringing the situation in the County to a breaking point.13 The county board of supervisors, with assistance from the Virginia General Assembly, took additional measures to undermine funding for integrated public schools.

In addition to suffering from the problems that all voucher bills have in common, this bill would also undermine the main purpose of Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), which is designed to target federal funds to public schools with high concentrations of poverty in order to provide additional educational services for these students.

In 1988, Gov. Thompson vetoed legislation to increase funding for the Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) and provide additional teachers to reduce class size — but he included a voucher program proposal in his state budget.

Throughout Washington, D.C., and around the country, parents are raising hundreds of thousands — even millions — of dollars to provide additional programs, services, and staff to some of their districts» least needy schools.7 They are investing more money than ever before: A recent study showed that, nationally, PTAs» revenues have almost tripled since the mid-1990s, reaching over $ 425 million in 2010.8 PTAs provide a small but growing slice of the funding for the nation's public education system.

The Wake County Commissioners voted 5 - 2 today to adopt their budget with $ 21 million in additional funding to Wake County Public School System for the 2017 - 18 school year.