Sentences with phrase «approved local funding»

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The Community Enhancement Fund, which was created and is supported by Measure H, a half - cent local sales tax measure approved by Rancho Cordova voters in November 2014, generates approximately $ 7.2 million annually in revenues for the city's general fFund, which was created and is supported by Measure H, a half - cent local sales tax measure approved by Rancho Cordova voters in November 2014, generates approximately $ 7.2 million annually in revenues for the city's general fundfund.

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.

Through it, the state can fund up to 75 percent of a project's costs if local voters approve a bond sale.

«Forcing parents and other supporters of schools to only offer federally approved food and snacks at fund - raisers is a perfect example of the overreach of government and intrusion into local control.

Cuomo announced almost $ 40 million to be rewarded to local projects for economic development; $ 39.2 million in economic development funding has been approved for 34 projects across the state.

Local environmentalists are thanking voters for their overwhelming approval of the Community Preservation Fund, a proposition that was approved Tuesday by wide margins in each of the five East End towns.

An official from Cuomo's office told POLITICO the proposal would focus more on the methodology of how districts are distributing funds, and wouldn't infringe on voter rights as local voters approve the district budget as a whole and not how resources are distributed by school building.

Similarly, the amount state and local governments will have to pay into the state's main pension fund for other public employees would double to nearly $ 4 billion — even if most localities opt into a borrowing scheme approved this year by lawmakers to soften the blow.

Local community parents, advocates, and leaders spoke out against any further county legislature delays in approving the resolution for funding, voicing their support for the opening of the drug treatment facility.

The Legislature approved the funding at today's annual Budget Meeting to support the local firefighters and increase their safety during training exercises.

«By approving this local law, the Legislature would ensure that the County Road Fund receives a boost in funding.

Local Bronx Senator and Senate President Pro-Tem Jeff Klein has bucked the Governor, calling upon the state to approve the city plan put forward by Mayor Bill DeBlasio to tax city residents who earn over $ 500,000 to fund a universal Pre-K plan in the city.

After approving the tax increase, House lawmakers quickly signed off on a reworked spending plan that would funnel funds to local schools, social service programs, higher education and other state operations such as the lottery, prisons and road projects.

Biden, in 2009, was put in charge of the stimulus spending approved in the wake of the recession — government funds meant to support a host of local - level projects.

Cuomo's budget assumes the federal government will approve a $ 10 billion Medicaid waiver, and that state operating spending will hold to less than two percent a year, which helps balance his plans for a local property tax freeze and for $ 100 million in funding during this coming year, to begin expanding pre-K programs statewide.

While the new funding, if approved, will keep the wolf from the door for another year, Sheehan had been hoping to see an annual funding stream that would allow the city to craft «a realistic budget and a more permanent solution» to create stability for everyone involved — local officials, taxpayers, developers and even bond rating agencies.

State officials have taken a big step in the fight against public corruption, as the Legislature has approved a proposal to enact a constitutional amendment that would strip taxpayer - funded pensions from state and local leaders who commit felonies in connection with their office.

Erie County's 2015 budget, proposed last month by County Executive Mark Poloncarz and approved with minor amendments by the legislature in one of the least contentious budget processes in memory, includes about a 1.4 percent increase in funding for local cultural organizations.

The Town of Newcomb is one of 20 local and county governments to be approved for significant state funding toward the improvement of its water infrastructure.

All HIV prevention materials funded by CDC must be approved by local San Francisco program review panels.

Georgia legislators have scrapped a proposal to fund school construction through voter - approved local sales taxes after meeting resistance from municipal leaders who did not want to have to compete with school districts for funds.

Currently, the state supplies about 60 percent of local education funding; if lawmakers approve the plan, that proportion would rise to 75 percent.

An informal survey of several state Chapter 2 coordinators last week also revealed that while many officials approve of the Reagan Administration's proposal to increase funding for the program by approximately 50 percent, they do not think it will translate into many significant education - improvement efforts at the local level.

With the city's tax base wiped out by the hurricane, New Orleans could no longer count on local funding for schools, nor would the tax revenue be available to back a pre-Katrina approved bond issue.

Opponents also argued that splitting the funds would violate the will of voters, who had approved the taxes for their local public schools.

Specifically at issue has been the revenue from local mill - levy overrides (MLO), voter - approved property - tax increases that supplement a district's base funding and support a wide variety of special projects.

The Legislature established the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence two years ago in the law creating the Local Control Funding Formula and approved a $ 10 million budget for the new agency.

The flow of private donations to largely small districts serving wealthy parents will continue despite the implementation of the Local Control Funding Formula championed by Gov. Jerry Brown and approved by the Legislature in June.

After soliciting input for over a year from education groups, research and advocacy organizations, students and parents, the State Board of Education on Friday approved final regulations governing how districts spend funds they receive through the Local Control Funding Formula, the state's new school financing law.

State funds administered by the Department of Education and local matching funds may be used to support only those activities identified in the school division's approved local plan for the education of the gifted.

Shared Accountability — In June 2014, the Hayward Board of Education approved its first Local Control Accountability Plan, which is required under California's new Local Control Funding Formula.

(Ore.) The state board of education last week approved a set of temporary rules governing a new program that will provide matching funds to local districts for building and upgrading school facilities.

Brown said the policies he had promoted were addressing those issues: Passage of Prop. 30, the initiative approved by voters two years ago that is generating billions of dollars of extra tax revenues for schools, and the Local Control Funding Formula that is targeting billions of state education funds to low - income students and English learners.

As a part of the new Local Control Funding Formula tentatively approved by legislative leaders and Gov. Jerry Brown this week, school districts will be required to track and report the academic progress of subgroups of students as small as 30 members.

Additional revenues approved by this process are funded exclusively by increasing the local tax levy.

The ATL motion approved today calls on the union's leadership to lobby the government to restore and fund local authority supply lists — platforms run by councils that allow supply teachers to find vacancies without using a costly agency.

Deasy has said that his budget for the next school year is already predicated on LAUSD receiving an additional $ 188 million via Brown's Local Control Funding Formula getting approved by the Sacramento legislature.

Over the summer, the committee approved the first three bills in this series: the Setting New Priorities in Education Spending Act (H.R. 1891), the Empowering Parents through Quality Charter Schools Act (H.R. 2218), and the State and Local Funding Flexibility Act (H.R. 2445).

A committee of local education leaders established by Act 467 approved 10 -1-1 a formula that ensures the schools serving the neediest students in our city are receiving the funding they need to support those students.

Before voters approved that proposal, local property taxes provided the majority of school funding, which created large spending disparities between schools in rich and poor communities.

Last spring opponents in the General Assembly insisted no local property tax dollars should be allowed to fund new state - approved charter schools.

Legislators are currently considering four other CTU - supported bills that directly impact conditions in public schools: HB 5481, requiring school districts to report class size data to ISBE and sets targets for K - 12 class sizes beginning in 2020; HB5721, which mandates improved public input and transparency in CPS capital spending and provides supports for schools and students hit with school actions like closings and turnarounds; HB 3786, which requires fully empowered local school councils in publicly funded schools, including charters, that must vote by a super-majority to approve school closures and reorganizations; and HB 4800, which would move surplus TIF funds to public education needs.

I use the word «rob» because these were funds local voters had approved under the condition they were used in their own school district — not some other school district.

The Advocate: Lafayette educator association says the state, not local districts, should fund state - approved charter schools http://bit.ly/1Rwm9gf

However, despite that opposition from the local officials responsible for education policy and despite the fact that Connecticut doesn't even fund its existing public schools adequately and the fact that the State of Connecticut is facing a massive $ 1.4 billion projected budget deficit next year, Governor Malloy's former Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor, and Malloy's political appointees on the State Board of Education approved four new charter school proposals last spring.

While charter schools in Florida must be approved by the local school board to open, they compete with the regular public schools for students and per - pupil funding.

Elm City Montessori is a local charter school which means we have our charter approved by and receive funding through both the New Haven Board of Education and the Connecticut Department of Education.

The approved bills remove language found in previous iterations that set aside 10 percent of the Local Academic Flexible Grant funding for private school voucher programs and limited the U.S. secretary of education's authority to address state standards, assessments, and accountability.

The California Board of Education is facing some tough choices — and heavy lobbying from parent groups and student advocates — as it works its way toward approving a new school accountability system that meets federal mandates and the vision of Gov. Jerry Brown and the Legislature in passing the Local Control Funding Formula.

Under the Title I, Part A of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) specifies that local educational agencies (LEAs) may receive funds under (ESEA) if the LEA has an approved plan on file with the Georgia Department of Education (GaDOE).