Sentences with phrase «aid cuts proposed»

NYC Councilman Robert Jackson, who chairs the Council Education Committee and is an original plaintiff in the CFE case, is going to lead a protest Saturday against record setting education aid cuts proposed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the rollback of the settlement payout.

The deal also restores some $ 270 million in $ 1.5 billion worth of education aid cuts proposed by the governor.

«If Albany moves forward with the school aid cuts proposed by the Governor, New York City may have to lay off 6,400 teachers — the first teacher layoffs in New York City since the 1970s,» the letter reads.

Not exact matches

The proposed cut to the State Department's diplomatic corps and the foreign aid budget are particularly striking, and likely to include security contractors at diplomatic missions abroad after the GOP criticized Democrats for security at the U.S. facilities in Benghazi, Libya, where four Americans died in a 2012 attack.

The leaders of America's top evangelical aid groups and denominations urged Congress today to reject proposed cuts to foreign aid in a letter signed by more than 100 prominent Christians, including 2 of the 6 clergy who prayed at President Donald Trump's inauguration.

The country's Prime Minister Tony Abbott proposed cutting off government aid to parents who refused vaccines for their children.

Albany, New York — In a move that veteran lawmakers called «unprecedented», Governor Andrew Cuomo sent his Lieutenant Governor, Robert Duffy, to defend his proposed school aid cuts to a joint hearing of the legislature's education and fiscal committees.

Corbett, whose proposed 2011 - 12 budget includes $ 2 billion in cuts to education and a 50 percent reduction in aid to colleges and universities, also emphasized that those cuts are only proposals.

Iannuzzi has been one of the few outspoken critics of Governor Andrew Cuomo and his proposed budget, which cut state aid to schools by 2.7 % or about $ 1.3 billion.

Cuomo has proposed a $ 990 million increase in education aid and a partial end to the cuts in the Gap Elimination Adjustment.

Meanwhile, students, parents and community members organized by the Alliance for Quality Education, Citizen Action of New York and the New York City Coalition for Educational Justice delivered valentines to state lawmakers» local offices in the Capital District Buffalo, Syracuse, Binghamton, Queens, the Bronx, Brooklyn and Long Island asking them to reject Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposed education aid cuts.

But 64 percent oppose Cuomo's proposed $ 1.5 billion reduction in state aid to school districts, and 56 percent oppose his 10 percent cut to SUNY and CUNY.

-- open to entertaining the restoration of education aid proposed by both the Senate and Assembly in their respective one - house budgets (recall that just yesterday he insisted there's «flexibility» in his executive budget proposal), he basically accused districts that say they can't afford to cut back of playing politics with kids.

The average proposed School Aid cut for the same districts under the Governor's budget is over $ 1,438,000.

Mr. McKenna stressed the proposed cuts aren't official and said local state elected officials believe some of the district's state aid will be restored.

And Faso quickly shot back «no» when asked whether he would support legislation in the proposed budget to cut funding to legal aid services.

Without the $ 440 million from tobacco, his proposed deep cuts to school aid and higher education funding would only get more painful.

The bills were based, by law, on the spending plan Paterson first proposed in January, but they restored some of his school aid cuts, eliminated his tax cap and took out a proposal to allow SUNY and CUNY the ability to raise tuition unilaterally — basically all the stuff that might possibly have compelled any of the members to explain anything difficult to their constituents.

HARTFORD — On the heels of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's proposed adjustments to the state budget — including potential cuts in state aid for municipalities — Democratic legislative leaders and mayors from throughout the state gathered at the Capitol Friday to praise one aspect of the budget that Malloy said won't change — property tax reform.

MANHATTAN — Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposed a plan to slash billions from the state's budget, including a 2 percent cut in Medicaid spending, a $ 1.5 billion reduction in school aid and nearly 10,000 state worker layoffs, according to a plan unveiled Tuesday.

Both the Senate and Assembly have proposed restoring some of Cuomo's $ 1.5 billion worth of education aid cuts in their respective one - house budgets.

The pro-Cuomo Committee to Save NY is backing up a recent TV spot supporting the governor's proposed education aid cuts with a mailer that accuses school superintendents of going behind closed doors and «taking money out of classrooms — but putting hundreds of thousands of dollars in their own pockets.»

The council questions Cuomo's claim that schools have received «tremendous» increase in funding over the past decade, noting, for example, that aid increased 1.9 percent in 2009 - 10 largely because federal stimulus cash averted the need for layoffs that would have been caused by the $ 1.1 billion worth of cuts proposed by then - Gov.

The Long Island senators are calling Cuomo's proposed education aid cuts to Nassau and Suffolk counties a «deal breaker.»

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.

The Republican - led Senate's riposte to Cuomo's proposed budget laid bare some of the biggest points of contention in their education agendas — restoring cuts in school aid and the creation of a tax credit for school donations.

Reps. John Faso and Elise Stefanik are decrying President Trump's proposed cuts to student aid programs.

This year, the state budget impasse, the proposed $ 1.4 billion cut in school aid and the lack of a state budget forced school districts and taxpayers to absorb cost increases alone.

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.

Some of the party's major players are the United Federation of Teachers and SEIU 1199 unions, neither of which are delighted with Cuomo's proposed cuts to education aid and Medicaid spending.

An analysis by AQE found Cuomo's proposed cuts in operating aid average $ 773 per pupil in the 30 urban and suburban school districts classified as «high - need» by the State Education Department that have the greatest concentration of black and Hispanic students.

The plan proposes new spending cuts in programs such as Care4Kids, magnet schools, and reducing municipal aid for the Elderly Circuit Breaker program.

By using resources that could be used for critical local infrastructure investments and for the provision of adequate state aid for education, the business tax cuts proposed by the Commission may in fact cause business to leave New York.

The governor, who has feuded with de Blasio since 2015, also proposed cutting $ 11 million in state aid to the city's health department, arguing that the city is more readily able to access federal funds compared to the state's county governments.

Isn't there ANY independent, honest, and believable source of analysis that can cut through all this hooha and simply lay out the truth about the impact of state aid to education and proposed school budget cuts??

In an unusually impassioned budget speech, Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Feb. 1 called on legislators to get a broken Albany budget process under control this year, and proposed a $ 1.5 billion — or 7 percent — cut to state education aid.

While Cuomo says he will increase funding for the AIDS institute by $ 5 million next year, he proposed a $ 12 million cut in this year's budget.

He has proposed Draconian cuts to state aid to cities and towns if there's no budget by October 1.

The city is also at risk of losing some of the roughly $ 7 billion in direct federal aid it may receive — the Trump administration and Republican Congress» priorities mostly do not match de Blasio's, and there have already been both threats to withhold funding and proposed cuts to the city.

ALBANY — The Republican - led Senate's riposte to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposed budget laid bare some of the biggest points of contention in their education agendas — restoring cuts in school aid and the creation of a tax credit for school donations.

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.

Republican Councilmen Dean Bodnar and Jim Gordon proposed additional revenues of $ 128,000 for commercial businesses to recycle; $ 150,000 in fees for special events; $ 225,000 more in state highway aid that's been announced; and various cuts to positions such as the mayor's spokesman.

With the deadline for the state budget four weeks away, a push is on to block a proposed cut in state aid to libraries.

«I'm pleased to present a proposed budget that demonstrates my administration's effort to stabilize county finances, ensure our county safety and our vibrancy,» said McCoy, a Democrat, who hails the $ 679 million spending plan as one that builds on the county's «sound» fiscal practices while keeping county spending under the state - mandated tax cap for the fifth year in a row,»... despite the continuous pressures of unfunded mandates and the real cuts we face in 2018 for state aid and programs such as foster care.»

The cuts would offset billions of dollars worth of proposed property tax cuts and increased education aid.

NEW YORK, NY (05/11/2012)(readMedia)-- Early this afternoon, a team of welfare recipients, unemployed New Yorkers looking for work, public housing residents, and people living with HIV / AIDS — members of the grassroots organizing groups Community Voices Heard (CVH) and Voices of Community Activists and Leaders (VOCAL - NY)-- led other New York residents in a series of actions in Lower Manhattan to highlight the inequality prevalent in our City today, and lift up the need to restore critical programs currently proposed to be cut in Mayor Bloomberg's Fiscal Year 2013 budget.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has proposed cutting more than $ 1.5 billion in education aid statewide for the 2011 - 2012 fiscal year.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Feb. 1 called on legislators to get a broken Albany budget process under control this year, and proposed a $ 1.5 billion — or 7 percent — cut to state education aid.

The final state budget, which was reached on March 27, adds more than $ 200 million to Governor Cuomo's proposed education budget, though the cut to statewide education aid still totals more than $ 1 billion.

State Sen. John Flanagan (R - East Northport), chairman of the Education Committee, said in talks leading up to the budget presentation, that Republicans who control the Senate told the governor that any proposed cuts to school aid should to be «fair and equitable.»