Sentences with phrase «aid budget last»

When Gov. Rick Snyder signed Michigan's school aid budget last week, that act officially threw a big curve ball to teachers.

Not exact matches

Tucked into last week's U.S. Senate budget deal was $ 4 billion for student - centered programs that aid «college completion and affordability.»

 The Harper government's decision last year to write off every penny of the auto aid and thus build it all into last year's deficit calculation (which I questioned at the time as curious and even misleading) has already been proven wrong. Since the money was already «written off» by Ottawa as a loss (on grounds that they had little confidence it would be repaid — contradicting their own assurances at the same time that it was an «investment,» not a bail - out), any repayment will come as a gain that can be recorded in the budget on the revenue side. Jim Flaherty has learned from past Finance Ministers (especially Paul Martin) that it's always politically better to make the budget situation look worse than it is (even when the bottom has fallen out of the balance), thus positioning yourself to triumphantly announce «surprising good news» (due, no doubt, to «careful fiscal management») down the road. The auto package could thus generate as much as $ 10 billion in «surprising good news» for Ottawa in the years to come (depending on the ultimate worth of the public equity share).

As per last year's budget agreement, this year's state education aid is scheduled to increase by 4 percent.

Senate Finance Chairman John DeFrancisco (R - Syracuse) got things going last month when he suggested that Medicaid rather than school aid should take the brunt of budget cuts.

«While total state spending has been held to 2 percent annual growth and most state agency budgets have remained flat, school aid has increased by 27 percent over the last five years, proving that it's already a funding priority,» Peters said.

Once this was discounted, aid budgets increased by just nine per cent in 2005 - making it highly unlikely the G8 would meet last year's target of # 50 billion extra by 2010.

The defence secretary, Phillip Hammond, made efforts before the last spending review to blend some of his budget with that of overseas aid, but was repulsed by the very tight international definitions of overseas aid set by agencies such as the OECD.

«I want to be very clear on this because there can be no dispute about it — New York City will get $ 579 million less in education aid than it did in last year's budget.

He's said he'll recommend an increase in school aid by perhaps as much as five percent over last year, but he's also promised to not raise overall spending in the state budget above two percent.

But Bloomberg said that based on the commitment the state had made to New York City's education budget last year, the city will actually receive $ 1.4 billion less in aid than expected for 2011 - 2012.

Division of Budget spokesman Morris Peters released the following statement last week addressing the lack of school aid runs: «There's no need to have school aid runs until we have agreement on getting the reforms that the governor has asked for.»

Late last month, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration broke with the longstanding tradition of providing school districts across New York State with «runs,» the projected aid increases, based on the governor's education funding proposal, which district officials use to help shape their own budgets.

The Cuomo administration released amendments to the state budget last week that added an additional $ 5 million of funding for AIDS treatment programs, on top of money already committed in the original budget.

The Department of Budget confirmed last week that there will no «impact aid» for Putnam, Westchester or Rockland counties.

The Mayor's budget assumed a double - digit percentage increase in education aid even though the city received a year - to - year cut in last year's budget.

«Since a state aid increase such as the one that was received last year may represent upwards of $ 500,000 or more there is no way a district can trim that much from the budget after years of already cutting the expense side of the budget.

Last week's Budget comes hot on the heels of the news that the coalition government's pledge to spend 0.7 % of the UK's national income as overseas aid has finally made it into law (pending royal sign - off).

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's $ 152.3 billion executive budget proposal includes a $ 1 billion increase in state education aid and the beginning of an income tax cut for middle class New Yorkers, he announced last night as the deadline for submission of his fiscal plan loomed.

Democrats took away the school aid money the last time they controlled the senate in 09 - 10 and couldn't figure out how to balance the budget.

De Blasio revealed an $ 82.1 billion preliminary spending plan, including federal and state aid for the coming fiscal year — a $ 3.5 billion overall spending increase from the $ 78.5 billion budget plan approved by the City Council last June for the current fiscal year.

In a statement released this afternoon from NYCOM, Executive Director Peter Baynes warns against equating more aid — which has remained flat over the last several budget years — with a «bailout.»

Remember last year, when Cuomo was in full - on war mode against the teachers unions, and trying to force education reform down the Legislature's throat by inserting it into his budget language and tying his proposals to a boost in school aid?

After years of struggle over state funding for Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Cuomo last week proposed the first state budget in years with no cuts in aid to the Buffalo research hospital.

Walker said his plan for the next budget involves an investment of 25 percent more than the last budget for the Local Road Improvement Program, $ 65 million in new aid to local governments and «the largest increase to the Local Bridge Improvement Program in over 20 years.»

The Budget holds flat most direct aid to local governments; it is funded at $ 715 million, the same level for the last 6 years.

Those general reductions come on top of municipal aid cuts and «holdbacks» approved last fall as part of a bipartisan $ 20.73 billion budget plan.

Billy Easton, with the Alliance for Quality Education, says last year, Cuomo presided over a budget that cut $ 1.3 billion dollars in aid to schools.

Billy Easton, with the Alliance for Quality Education, says last year, Cuomo presided over a budget that cut $ 1.3 billion in aid to schools.

Last year, Cuomo's proposed school aid runs — and the aid runs made available after a budget agreement was reached — included how much each school district would receive through the state's Smart Schools initiative.

The 31 - page document, apparently drafted after the Senate and Assembly approved one - house budget bills of their own last week, lays out in intricate detail where each chamber and the governor stand on dozens of outstanding budget issues, from billions of dollars in school aid to cuts in welfare checks to rules for marine fishery licenses.

Ultimately, after final budget negotiations last year, Ossining received an additional $ 2.2 Million dollars in Foundation Aid, yet remained one of the most underfunded Foundation Aid school districts in the state.

Last year, the NYS Assembly Majority's one house budget bill funded Foundation Aid at 100 %, phased in over three years, as well as a year - one minimum 50 % funding of Foundation Aid for low percentage funded communities.

Republicans, with the aid of a few frustrated Democrats in the House and Senate, last month managed to pass a budget plan they insisted could solve the fiscal crisis.

«While closing a $ 4.4 billion gap, this year's budget sends $ 16.5 billion in aid to the city — more than 40 percent of funding awarded to all local governments — and a half billion dollar increase over last year,» Peters said in a statement.

Morris Peters, a spokesman for the state Division of the Budget, said in a statement to Newsday: «Governor Cuomo ended the [Gap Elimination Adjustment] once and for all last year, which is appropriately reflected on the school aid runs.

The $ 2.7 billion state legislators carved from the budget last week includes delays in aid to Queens hospitals, but saves jobs in the borough and avoids mid-year cuts to schools, according to area lawmakers.

«I understand that there is a cap in the law,» James Tallon, a Regent who chairs the state aid committee, said after presenting the budget ask last Monday.

Here's the six school districts in Onondaga County that lost the most aid in last year's state budget because of GEA reductions.

A former Cabinet Minister last night called on supporters of the foreign aid budget to restate the case for investing in overseas development.

The Liverpool Central School District had its state aid reduced by $ 2.3 million last year because of this state budget trick.

We need to end the property tax cap and the Gap Elimination Adjustment, which has balanced the state budget on the backs of our children by cutting state aid to schools for the last five years.

Yet the mayor's spending plan deliberately does not include any extra cushion to provide for the possibility of a handful of cuts in state aid outlined in Gov. Andrew Cuomo's executive budget last week.

Mayor Bill de Blasio on Thursday revealed an $ 82.1 billion preliminary spending plan, including federal and state aid for the coming fiscal year — a $ 3.5 billion overall spending increase from the $ 78.5 billion budget plan approved by the City Council last June for the current fiscal year.

Last week, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger proposed scrapping California's entire welfare - to - work program, including child care and cash assistance, as the state grapples with a $ 19 billion budget shortfall — an action that would eliminate aid for roughly a million children.

School districts across New York were thrown for a loop last week when Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration declined to provide school runs, the projected aid increases district officials use to help shape their budget proposals.

The chancellor warned in his emergency Budget last month that departments faced cuts of around 25 per cent over the next four years on average - apart from health and overseas aid, whose budgets were ring - fenced.

The Syracuse school district will need a $ 9.7 million increase in state aid next year to balance its books — substantially higher than the $ 2.7 million hike offered by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in his budget proposal last month, the district's leaders said tonight.

The Senate's version of the bill includes a proposal to modify the «last in, first out» teacher firing policy as well as $ 280 million in additional school aid — about 9 percent more than Cuomo's proposed budget, State Sen. Liz Krueger said.

... Buried within it, the plan describes a few significant policy changes,» including the end to the 10 % budget set - aside for AIDS research, as Kaiser reported last Friday.