Sentences with phrase «additional state funding»

The budget also includes additional state funding for the purchase of land from «willing sellers» in order to help protect drinking water supplies.

It provides additional state funding to the districts, which have been allowed to create their own programs within certain guidelines.

For example, in school systems where reducing class sizes is a top priority for student achievement they could request additional state funding to carry out their plans.

A law approved last year allows additional state funding and exemptions to charter schools that open near failing public ones.

Malloy's SB24 locks in additional state funding for charter schools when our public schools aren't even adequately funded.

• Moving Buffalo Manufacturing Works, the industrial innovation center operated by nonprofit EWI, to the Northland Corridor in the Fillmore - Ferry area; expanding greenway space in the Niagara Gorge corridor; and additional state funding at the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, historic sites, and in waterway access areas.

«I am very supportive of additional state funding to local municipalities within the capital district for improving and upgrading our aging infrastructure.

School district leaders say a GOP - authored budget mandate that schools trim class sizes in grades K - 3 beginning with the 2017 - 2018 academic year will have major consequences in North Carolina public school districts without additional state funding or staffing flexibility for district leaders.

The Governor's executive budget for the 2017 legislative session proposed additional State funding to bring the quality of representation in all other counties to the level to which the State had agreed for five counties in the Hurrell - Harring settlement.

These federal funds combined with additional state funds will give our rural communities in Upstate New York greater access to the resources they need to get online and stay competitive in our digital economy, and I was proud to fight for this investment.»

Considering the Buffalo Public School District has struggled with graduation rates hovering near 50 percent, the school board is aiming high as it seeks additional state funding to help dramatically improve those rates.

CCLS works with the Cumberland County Commissioners to leverage additional state funding through the increase of the Cumberland County Library Tax in December 2003.

In the short term, the District faces a looming deficit that is unlikely to be closed by additional state funding from a legislature that has steadfastly refused to raise the revenue necessary to adequately fund PA's public schools.

And because Glen Ellyn's upcoming special census will not include residents from the properties along Park Boulevard, the village would not realize additional state funds for newly annexed residents until after its next census.

«If it's too difficult to take big money out of politics because the public will never accept additional state funding even when the deficit is under proper control, of course we'll never get there,» Sir Christopher added.

«My Mayor, Honorable Stephanie A. Miner, says that New York City is owed additional State funding of $ 2.6 billion under the CFE ruling,» Roberts wrote.

«We downgraded the university to Aa3 negative in July reflecting its financial reliance on the state and anticipated pressure on its already thin operating cash flow from potential additional state funding cuts.

Absent additional state funding, Syracuse needs some way to compensate for the fact that more than half of the city's property tax base is owned by tax - exempt institutions.

Sears says schools like Lakewood need a «full - force attack» on poverty, meaning additional state funding for social services, child care, health care, pre-K and smaller class sizes, as well as a stabilized teacher pipeline.

The Hartford Board of Education also approved a proposal to proceed with selecting a Hartford neighborhood school to become a «lighthouse» school which would, in turn, attract additional state funds for the school.

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«Only additional state funding can protect our civil legal aid system and access to justice for our most vulnerable residents.»

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.

* Moving the Buffalo Manufacturing Works, the industrial innovation center operated by nonprofit EWI, to Northland, expanding greenway space in the Niagara Gorge corridor, and additional state funding at the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, historic sites, and waterway access areas.

The Legislature has also taken steps to address the issue by providing additional state funding for the 2017 — 19 biennium to increase school districts» access to attendance data and support districts in identifying successful strategies to address chronic student absenteeism.

(8) And finally, a town can not cut funding to the network school — even if they have to cut their own school budget — and if they do get additional state funds or raise taxes to fund their remaining schools they MUST provide the Commissioner's Network school the same proportional increase in funding even though the local board of education doesn't control the network school nor is the network school unionized.

Thurmond, however, says he would block approvals of new charters without additional state funding.

The Governor's executive budget for the 2017 legislative session proposed additional State funding to bring the quality of representation in all other counties to the level to which the State had agreed for five counties in the Hurrell - Harring settlement.

The legislation allocates $ 1.1 million additional state funding toward expanding the service.

Similarly, school systems which would rather commit resources to Career Technical Education (CTE) programs to ensure their students are workforce - ready upon graduation should be permitted to seek additional state funding to implement those programs.

Cuomo also pledged Thursday not to sign a state budget without $ 250 million in additional state funding for NYCHA that he first pledged on Saturday.

Dana touched on the districts that have private donations, additional state funding and so on.

Nick Clegg ruled out any additional state funding when he announced last week that he wanted to set up cross party talks about party funding and hopes to reach a consensus by Easter.

With no additional state funding, all 3 parties are likely to resist a significant cap on donations.

But he insisted there was no alternative, claiming that the public had to face up to the reality that additional state funding is needed if large donations are to become a thing of the past.

There's $ 700 million for the redevelopment of the Farley Post Office building in Manhattan into a new wing of Penn Station, and $ 108 million in additional state funds to jump - start plans to transform the Kingsbridge Armory into a cluster of ice rinks.

The event traditionally includes a critique of gubernatorial budget proposals and appeals for additional state funding.

De Blasio spokeswoman Amy Spitalnick said the city was looking «forward to understanding the source of the additional State funding» and applauded Cuomo's «commitment to — for the first time — start to address the chronic underfunding» of the MTA.

The announcement of the savings was made in June 2017 — after the city received $ 12.5 million in additional state funding.

State budget officials say the PFM Group report provided recommendations to address these obstacles and wean the city off additional state funding.

Senator Klein also announced $ 50,000 in additional state funding for this weekly fitness and wellness program held by Urban Health Plan in the spring, summer, fall and winter.

And David says «the law is clear that the additional state funding is linked to a teacher evaluation system, just like (it was) last year».

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.

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.

«The law is clear that the additional state funding is linked to a teacher evaluation system, just like last year,» Alphonso David said in a statement obtained by Capital New York.

Part of the additional state funding this year is going to a research program that involves planting hemp seeds on 2,000 acres from Erie County to Long Island.

Political developments did not provide much hope for additional state funding, however.