Sentences with phrase «building aid»

Additionally, charter schools do not have access to equitable facilities funding or recurring and reliable state building aid for capital construction and renovation.

But they do not receive state building aid to cover rent or build their own facilities.

«If we do not receive building aid for our capital project the shortfall would grow an additional $ 625,844,» he said.

If some version of the Senate plan to fund building aid remains in the final budget, it will allow charters upstate to expand after a period of retrenchment, he said.

«The state needs to finish the deal and grant charter school students access to the same statewide building aid program that students in district schools already have.»

Poloncarz encouraged districts to take advantage of a 40 percent state aid increase, and a 30 percent hike in building aid.

The bill was amended late Monday night to give Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia more authority in testing frequency and to add language ensuring that all remediation techniques are reimbursable through building aid and that districts can access emergency funding, as determined by the commissioner, for large - scale remediation projects.

Potential policies outlined in the model law include giving charter schools a right of first refusal to lease or buy unused school facilities, giving them access to statewide building aid or financing programs, and including charters in bonding and tax levy requests.

Charter schools in cities like Buffalo were already «on the ropes» because of the lack of building aid and had trouble paying for the space they needed to expand enough to meet rising demand.

The GEA is partially offset by $ 305 million of growth in existing expense - based aids such as Building Aid, Transportation Aid and BOCES Aid.

«In order to establish the tax cap calculation as of March 1, state Education Department guidance directs school districts to use «applicable executive budget computer runs» to estimate anticipated building aid and transportation aid.

The plan includes $ 180.5 million in debt service savings for Fiscal 2018, primarily from re-estimates of debt service costs related to variable - rate bonds and the retention of state building aid revenue by the Transitional Finance Agency.

Under the self - described «student lobbyist,» they've received no per - pupil building aid and have been banned from creating pre-kindergarten classrooms.

MIDTOWN — Backers of the grassroots effort to build an AIDS memorial in the West Village need only $ 500,000 to reach their $ 4 million fundraising target.

Elizabethtown - Lewis Central will see a total aid increase of 5.8 percent once building aid is subtracted, or about $ 65,000.

The Foundation is raising money to build an AIDS Monument, a permanent art project devoted to the people who have died of AIDS.

Supporters in Buffalo, Rochester and across the state have sent roughly 5,000 emails and tweets to legislators in Albany in less than 24 hours in a last minute effort to save building aid for charter schools.

The Senate remains steadfast in its support of charter schools, and included two very positive proposals: allowing charters that do not receive facilities aid to access the state building aid program, which NECSN has been fighting for year in and year out, and providing additional funding for students.

Changes in special education, BOCES funding and building aid were also rejected by the Legislature.

The plan does not make the charters eligible for state building aid to make up for the mayor» scapital funding cut, sources said.

Funds for building aid and money allocated to districts required to perform certain community services were not included.

And like other officials, DuBois said the Building Aid threshold for small capital projects needs to be increased.

But excluding Community Schools Aid (a new categorical program) and Building Aid (reimbursement

O'Mara said that the testing would be fully covered by the state under reimbursable BOCES building aid and that any remediation would also be reimbursed through the building aid — though he conceded that reimbursable building aid doesn't always fully cover school projects, so there may be some cost to schools.

The restored funding comes after the state legislature rejected a bid by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to cap state building aid to the city in its final budget deal.

A Cuomo administration official refuted the advocates» claims, arguing that the statute is crystal clear: The budget constructs the pre-K funding like transportation or building aid, which is reimbursed for districts after the costs are incurred.

The fact that they built prisons faster than they built aid centers after Hurricane Katrina is a sign of the fear involved in catastrophe.

As an isolated muscle - building aid, its ergogenic benefits haven't been proven.

HMB is often sold as a muscle - building aid but the research purported to demonstrate these benefits is shaky at best, hindered most by design flaws.

Title: «Relative to the provision allowing operators to retain a portion of meals and rooms taxes collected and the appropriation of meals and rooms tax revenues to school building aid» Sponsor: Rep. Michael Cahill (D - Newmarket) Continue reading LSR 2190 relates to the appropriation of taxes to the school building aid fund

That means equitable funding, access to building aid and protections for a parent's fundamental right to choose a public school that works for his or her child.»