Sentences with phrase «aid cuts last»

Local educators have been trying this year, so far without success, to get lawmakers to restore $ 30 million in state school aid cut last year.

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It also recently drew the ire of President Donald Trump, who last week cut off Pakistan's military aid over frustrations with alleged Pakistani assistance given to terrorists in Afghanistan.

The Syracuse Republican insisted the conference had to remain united on the minimum wage vote, which was packaged with a boost in school aid and an elimination of education cuts GOP lawmakers had pushed for since last year.

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.

«As always, you have to make decisions about how much you can afford to do in school aid and how much money you have to put aside for the potential impact of federal cuts in Medicaid and in health care,» Assembly Majority Leader Joe Morelle (D - Irondequoit) said last week.

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.

Bloomberg will likely issue a plea for lawmakers to restore some of NYC's $ 300 million in aid to localities Gov. Andrew Cuomo axed in his 2011 - 2012 spending plan and also ask for the repeal of «last in, first out» rule when it comes to laying off public school teachers, which he says the governor's cuts will force him to do if they're allowed to stand.

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.

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.

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.

Prior to this year's proposed cut in state aid, average tax levy increases declined for five straight years, from 6.89 percent in 2005 to 5.91 percent in 2006, 3.91 percent in 2007, 3.37 percent in 2008, and 1.89 percent last year.

Republican lawmakers were clearly less than impressed with Malloy's proposals for municipal and school aid cuts, several of which were rejected by the legislature last year.

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.

«The governor moved more than anyone could have anticipated,» said Billy Easton of the Alliance for Quality Education, one of the groups pushing to restore school aid and social service funding cut over the last three years of fiscal crisis.

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.

In Port Jervis, which escaped layoffs last year, district business administrator Lorrie Case expects the state aid cuts could cause up to 40 layoffs.

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.

Last week, Mr. Cuomo proposed major cuts to Medicaid, school aid and the state work force, while inviting unions to come to him with their own proposals to save money.

Cuomo said it would finance middle - class tax cuts approved by the governor and state Legislature last year and help pay for a billion - dollar increase in school aid.

Cuomo says it would finance middle class tax cuts approved by the governor and legislature last year, and to help pay for a billion dollar increase in school aid.

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.

Even in the last parliament, when unusually the coalition had a majority in both houses, the Lords tried to block cuts on legal aid spending and the benefit cap.

Global poverty: During the last recession Ken Clarke, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, cut international aid spending.

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.

And on 7 December, a report from Policy Cures in Sydney, Australia, a group that monitors global research and development for neglected diseases, showed that public and private funders last year cut their commitments to HIV / AIDS research targeted at the developing world by US$ 67.5 million, or 5.9 %.

The reductions in state education aid — coupled with cuts approved in two special sessions last year — mean districts will receive about 5 percent less in 2008 - 09 than they did in the previous school year.

Gov. Christine Todd Whitman of New Jersey proposed a budget last week that increases state aid to poor school districts while cutting funds for wealthy suburban districts.

Gov. Mario M. Cuomo of New York last week presented a fiscal 1993 budget that calls for the third round of cuts in state aid to education in two years.

The New York legislature completed deliberations on a budget last week only one day into the state's new financial year — close enough for lawmakers to claim an on - time finish and ample enough to earn cheers from education advocates pleased with the prospect of a year without state - aid cuts.

That would follow three years of cuts in general state aid to schools — 5 percent three years ago, 11 percent last year and 11 percent this year.

Because of Moukawsher's ruling, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy felt free to cut $ 20 million in school aid from the Education Cost Sharing (ECS) school funding formula last week.

To illustrate Connecticut's irrational system, Moukawsher cited the legislature's decision last session to cut school aid for poor districts while providing more aid for wealthy districts.

I realize that much has changed in the last few years — widespread economic hardship, cuts in state aid by both Democratic and Republican state governments, much slower than anticipated growth in property values,, the opportunity to cut staff compensation under the threat of union busting, dramatic cuts to the revenue limit base — but despite all of these changes, if you go back to the principles and the details of Partnership Plan used to sell the 2008 Operating Referendum (which passed overwhelmingly) I think you can find plenty of justification for increasing property taxes in order to achieve the mission of the district.

Mr. Bush last year vowed, by the end of this year, to get them to agree on a goal for big cuts later in the century, in a process that he says is intended to aid the separate United Nations treaty talks.

As just one comparator, in a report issued last year, Statistics Canada calculated the low income cut - off, before tax, for a single person living in a metropolitan area (more than 500,000 people) for 2014 at $ 24,328, or more than twice the figure that Legal Aid Ontario uses [1].

More worryingly last week the Government announced further plans to cut legal aid in its consultation paper «Transforming Legal Aid: Delivering a more credible and efficient system&raquaid in its consultation paper «Transforming Legal Aid: Delivering a more credible and efficient system&raquAid: Delivering a more credible and efficient system».

Phil pointed out that we need concrete things to ask for, because during the last Parliament Labour were critical of the transformation of legal aid, but when it came down to making promises to overturn specific cuts, more often than not they did not deliver.

The report says that it was estimated that the LASPO provisions would cut # 450m from the legal aid budget, but «last year, legal aid spending was actually # 950m less than in 2010».

Adding its voice to the growing clamour for the government to look again at the cuts it imposed on civil legal aid, last month LAG published Justice in freefall.

Simon Creighton spoke candidly on the impact the cuts have had on the quality and quantity of prison advice services over the last few years following the decision of former Lord Chancellor Chris Grayling to remove legal aid assistance in nearly all Prison Law cases.

The report — Cuts that Hurt: The impact of legal aid cuts on access to justice — draws on research conducted between October last year and June, including interviews with 30 individuals not eligible for legal aid as a result of LACuts that Hurt: The impact of legal aid cuts on access to justice — draws on research conducted between October last year and June, including interviews with 30 individuals not eligible for legal aid as a result of LAcuts on access to justice — draws on research conducted between October last year and June, including interviews with 30 individuals not eligible for legal aid as a result of LASPO.

A study carried out by The Times last year showed that around 40 % of people have stopped using lawyers in their divorce, this is largely due to the cuts in legal aid and people going through amicable divorces looking to save money and time.

The first half outlined the series of judicial review claims that have been brought over the last two years to challenge the lawfulness of the cuts to legal aid brought about by the Legal Aid Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders (LASPO) Act 2012, while the second half examined the effect of human rights in individual cases across different areas of laid brought about by the Legal Aid Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders (LASPO) Act 2012, while the second half examined the effect of human rights in individual cases across different areas of lAid Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders (LASPO) Act 2012, while the second half examined the effect of human rights in individual cases across different areas of law.

January 14, 2017 — «The attorney general has ordered a third - party review of Legal Aid Ontario, after the agency announced last month that it was dramatically cutting back on services due to a $ 26 - million deficit.

Since legal aid was cut for private family law matters last April, Resolution has launched a financial product to provide family law clients with loans for legal advice, in conjunction with Iceberg Client Credit, as well as Family Matters, a service for separating couples.

The Greater Manchester Law Centre opened last week on Princess Road, with seasoned legal aid lawyer Robert Lizar and community activist Dr Erinma Bell cutting the ribbon.

Legal aid lawyers maintain that the desire to cut costs, reinforced by austerity in the last eight years, has had a serious effect on access to justice — and thereby the rule of law.