Sentences with phrase «budget wrangling»

However, news that the state's per - pupil expenditures on public schools had actually declined, dropping from a lowly 42nd last year to 43rd in 2017 - 2018, seemed to galvanize education advocates as Senate budget wrangling began in earnest.

The budget wrangling comes amid new figures from the N.C. Department of Public Instruction (DPI) this week which show the problems seem to only be mounting at both schools in the state's pilot program.

But even then, the budget wrangling wasn't over.

And the way Cuomo wins his battles — strong - arming and horse - trading; a mastery of talking past inconvenient questions and facts — tends to antagonize enemies and allies, as in the most recent round of budget wrangling, in which he managed to chafe both liberals and business fat cats.

COMMACK, N.Y. (CBSNewYork)-- We've seen bitter budget wrangling in Nassau County, but now Long Island's county to the east, Suffolk, is getting hit with its own budget crisis.

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The Children's Museum, also located on Centennial Park just by the Dome, is another low budget necessity for those wrangling children on the trip.

And, an added bonus to the new tax law - Cuomo and the legislature have saved themselves a lot of wrangling in next year's budget, though the governor says they will still have to cut $ 2 billion more dollars.

And that, of course, would be a big win for Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who would be able to say he not only got an on - time budget, but managed to wrangle an early agreement from the traditionally slow - footed Legislature.

The two programs have been held up in wrangling over the federal budget.

President Clinton taught him that the best way to wrangle a bigger HUD budget from Congress was not to go up to Capitol Hill but to visit Congressional districts and persuade people to pressure their representatives.

ALBANY — A tense standoff, a three - hour delay and backroom wrangling marked an internal Republican struggle before GOP senators decided to vote in a bloc to support a steep minimum wage hike in exchange for a budget that increased school spending and cut income tax rates for many.

Malliotakis, who is still in Albany while the Legislature wrangles over the state budget, said she plans to appeal Minardo's ruling, which she said «was made on procedure and not on the merit of the case.»

But you can't deny that the last - minute wrangling, which saw lawmakers burning the midnight oil to reach an agreement, resulted in closure on several of the most important issues left unresolved after lawmakers arrived at a budget in late - March.

As the Journal's Jacob Gershman reports, lawmakers voted Monday to furlough 100,000 state workers for a single day next week, marking perhaps the first time that the governor's lame - duck status proved to be an asset as Albany's wrangling battle budget battle continued.

Albany, NY (AP) A Republican senator says major policy issues creating gridlock in budget negotiations will likely be eliminated from the final compromise as lawmakers wrangle to craft a timely state budget.

He says he's relieved after all of the wrangling over the leadership changes in the past few days to be doing something normal like attending a budget meeting.

Perhaps the bottom line, then, is that while the Obama Administration did what it could — at times generously so — on science and innovation funding, such investments and others in the discretionary budget have been secondary to the bigger fights that truly define our fiscal politics, over healthcare, retirement, deficits and debt, levels of taxation, and so on (and it can't be underestimated how truly intractable these challenges really are, as indicated by the labyrinthine wrangling and ultimate failure of the President's Bowles - Simpson deficit commission).

It is NASA, its $ 18.7 billion budget the object of political wrangling between Congress and Barack Obama's administration, which faces the bigger challenge.

But after months of wrangling on Capitol Hill, the 2007 budget handed to NASA last week made it clear that NASA's science programs will continue to hemorrhage for at least another year.

Throughout months of political wrangling, research funding has been relatively protected from cuts — but the R&D budget will drop next year, before shooting up in 2015.

The studio and the creative team wrangled with the budget all summer.

There's a great deal more veteran Metal Gear Solid talent hanging on at Konami than Kojima legging it with the studio name suggests, but it's under new leadership now, and with Kojima out the door it's probably going to have to get used to a new kind of production schedule without an auteur to wrangle deadline and budget blow outs from management.

As Connecticut's lawmakers wrangle with the budget in the coming days, one area of the budget they have not yet considered for cuts is the state's SBAC testing program.

It has a huge price tag in terms of budget revenue, however, so it's always the subject of great political wrangling, and sometimes brinksmanship.

It's a little less oriented towards individuals looking to budget for the future or wrangle their household expenses and more towards people looking to make sense of their retirement accounts and plan for the future.

More impressive still is the fact that Calgary accomplishes this with no taxpayer dollars at all, which protects animal services and the animals from political wrangling over budget cuts and economic trends.

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This is certainly an expense most of us can fit into our budget, even if it takes a little bit of wrangling around with our financial resources to make it happen.

His plan has earned early learning a place on the state and national stage — but also makes it part of a discussion that will likely focus less on children and more on the realities of statutory wrangling, legal compliance and the realities of a state budget.