Sentences with phrase «bullet aid»

There's also $ 24 million in so - called bullet aid, which lawmakers hand out to schools, libraries and other educational interests.

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, R - Nassau County, acknowledged yesterday's contretemps over $ 9.9 million in bullet aid for education became «testy» but defended the money, which was doled out exclusively to Republican - represented school districts.

Critics of bullet aid have compared the funding to legislative pork, a notion that Skelos, naturally, disagreed with.

The latest bullet aid from State Senate Republicans is going, by and large, to schools and libraries in the districts now held by Republican senators.

WAMC's Brian Shields spoke about bullet aid today with Nikki Jones of the Alliance for Quality Education, a school and education advocacy group in New York.

For instance, Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos's hometown of Rockville Centre received $ 75,000 in bullet aid.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo disagreed and kept member items out of the state's $ 132.6 billion budget (though so - called «bullet aid» for education was allowed and allocated by Senate Republicans).

Whoever decided that BULLET aid was a great name to be bandied about in public policy circles should be slapped upside the head.

BULLET aid.

A debate over distributing $ 9.9 million worth of so - called «bullet aid» erupted on the floor of the state Senate late this afternoon after Democrats decried a resolution that sent the money to schools Republican - controlled districts.

It is called «bullet aid,» but others have called it «school district pork.»

The state Senate's effort to provide some relief in the form of about $ 200 per student in «bullet aid» was greatly appreciated, but was a one - time thing and ultimately won't close a multi-thousand-dollar gap.