Sentences with phrase «city education aid»

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Some challenge specific parts of the curriculum (mandatory AIDS education, New York City's distribution of condoms to schoolchildren without the knowledge or consent of the parents, textbooks that propagate anti-Christian doctrines, gym - class dress requirements at odds with the modest dress required of Hindu, Muslim, and other children, «values clarification» classes that teach that there is no objective source of right and wrong, and so forth).

The annual event is magnificent in its simplicity: Dine at one of the 3,000 participating restaurants in nearly 60 cities across North America and that restaurant will donate a generous portion of the day's proceeds to fund HIV / AIDS care, prevention, education, testing, counseling and other essential services in their city.

The city comptroller campaign of Eliot Spitzer released its latest TV ad today that highlights one of his happier moments as governor: increasing education aid to city schools.

Cuomo has insisted that extending high rates on wealthy earners is a key piece of his budget, which also includes a $ 961 million spending increase for education aid and a $ 163 million plan to phase out college tuition costs at state and city universities for those who earn less than $ 125,000.

Schools Chancellor Joel Klein told City Council members the $ 500 million cut in state aid coupled with increasing costs will leave the Department of Education $ 750 million short in fiscal 2011.

Stung by the expiration of federal aid intended to help states balance budgets as they seek to recover from the recession that began in 2008, the final budget is also expected to include another cut in local aid to cities and towns and to call for reduced growth in the rate of spending on education and health care, although special education is one of the few areas in which significant investments appear imminent.

Other commission members were Scott P. Campbell, executive director of the Elton John AIDS Foundation; Rose Harvey, commissioner of the State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation; Thomas Krever, CEO of the Hetrick - Martin Institute; Kelsey Louie, CEO of Gay Men's Health Crisis; Christine Quinn, the former City Council speaker who is now CEO of Women in Need; Melissa Sklarz, development director at the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund; and Glennda Testone, executive director of the LGBT Community Center.

ALBANY — Minimum wage, education aid, state university tuition and cost shifts to New York City loom as the major roadblocks as Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and legislators scrambled Monday to agree on a budget in time to beat New York's fiscal deadline.

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 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 education aid cuts.

«I'm looking to have balance throughout the state when it comes to tax cuts, when it comes to education aid, and it seems that certain members in the room when it comes to another branch their only concern is New York City and Mayor de Blasio,» Skelos told reporters.

«I want to be very clear on this because there can be no dispute about it — New York City will get $ 579 million less in education aid than it did in last year's budget.

The mayor had threatened mass layoffs if the administration cut deeply into the city's education aid, but he has since backpedaled on that threat.

«Rather, on a year to year basis, education aid to New York City is cut $ 579 million.»

According to the budget, the city is slated to lose $ 518 million in state education aid in 2011 - 2012, with a drop from $ 8.1 billion this school year to $ 7.6 billion the next.

Earlier, the mayor had warned that stripping $ 1 billion in education aid could force the city to fire up to 21,000 teachers — roughly equivalent to every new teacher hired over the past five years.

But Bloomberg said that based on the commitment the state had made to New York City's education budget last year, the city will actually receive $ 1.4 billion less in aid than expected for 2011 - 2City's education budget last year, the city will actually receive $ 1.4 billion less in aid than expected for 2011 - 2city will actually receive $ 1.4 billion less in aid than expected for 2011 - 2012.

Senate President Martin M. Looney said he was looking forward to using the new revenue to «better fund public education, protect aid to cities and towns, and end the year with a balanced budget.»

There are 13 high schools under the domain of the local education authority, 12 of which are either comprehensive, foundation or voluntary - aided, and one city academy.

The governor's newly released budget includes serious cuts, including $ 518 million less in education aid for the city.

12:00 PM — New York City Public Advocate Letitia James, Assemblywoman Latrice Walker and the AIDS Community Research Initiative of America host a sexual education and HIV prevention training for senior New Yorkers, Tilden Senior Center, 630 Mother Gaston Blvd., Brooklyn.

In this Focus on Education report, WBFO's Eileen Buckley explores how this effort is aiding one of the city's six failing schools.

At nearly the same time, about a thousand members of the city teachers union arrived in Albany to rally for more education aid and against Cuomo's plans, which include tougher teacher evaluations and more charter schools.

The Mayor's budget assumed a double - digit percentage increase in education aid even though the city received a year - to - year cut in last year's budget.

Nolan, the chair of the education committee, criticized the mayor because the city has yet to come to an agreement on the teacher evaluation plan required by the state and now stands to lose millions in aid.

In case you're curious, Astorino was in town to lobby state lawmakers on more education aid for Yonkers along with the city's mayor, Phil Amicone, (a fellow Republican).

«Governor Cuomo's budget does not cut $ 1.4 billion in education aid to New York City.

Unlike Senate Republicans, who had to accept a minimum wage increase to $ 15 in the New York City area, Democratic lawmakers in the Assembly are largely happy with the final agreement, which also includes a 12 - week paid family leave program and a boost in education aid by $ 1.5 billion.

Sen. Martin Golden agreed with Black that Cuomo's budget calls for New York City to bear an unfair share of the cuts in state education aid.

Speaking at the Bloomberg Global Business Forum at the Plaza Hotel in New York City on Wednesday, Nana Addo stated that, ensuring universal access to education for all children on the continent within the next two decades, will greatly aid the improvement of the general standards of living on the continent.

«Gov. Cuomo was crystal clear — if the New York City Department of Education and United Federation of Teachers do not reach an agreement on the parameters of how to best evaluate teachers, the city could be forced to sacrifice crucial state aid,» said Micah Lasher, Executive Director of StudentsFirsCity Department of Education and United Federation of Teachers do not reach an agreement on the parameters of how to best evaluate teachers, the city could be forced to sacrifice crucial state aid,» said Micah Lasher, Executive Director of StudentsFirscity could be forced to sacrifice crucial state aid,» said Micah Lasher, Executive Director of StudentsFirstNY.

While the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit was supposed to give the city its fair share of education aid, Walcott said city revenue would cover 61 percent of non-federal education spending in next year's budget.

De Blasio, who plans to travel to Albany Wednesday for the governor's speech, said he plans to meet in person with Cuomo and the legislative leaders to discuss not only homelessness but also the city's plans on housing, affordable housing and education aid.

In a move widely seen as dismissive of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's education initiatives, Miner and de Blasio on Monday called upon state officials to revise school aid based on the Citizens for Fiscal Equity court decision, which held that New York City schools were inadequately funded.

Democrats and Republicans said earlier this year that zeroing out education aid and shifting the $ 400 million pension costs to cities and towns were not proposals that would get through the General Assembly.

«Among other items, the agenda will include a revised version of the Education, Labor and Family Assistance Article VII bill that I was forced to veto earlier this year to prevent an unaffordable increase in school aid, an appropriation bill to authorize distribution of $ 607 million in federal Education Jobs Fund money to school districts, and necessary legislation to reorganize the New York City Off - Track Betting Corporation.»

A judge ruled that New York has met its «constitutional obligation» to provide enough aid to eight small - city schools, a key victory for the state in its fight with education groups over school funding.

Education has been a hot - button topic in New York politics - Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver is turning up the heat by calling for reversing Governor Andrew Cuomo's plan to withhold school aid from New York City.

Guillermo Linares — a former assemblyman and city councilman — will head the state Higher Education Services Corp., which reviews and distributes $ 1 billion in tuition assistance and financial aid to 370,000 college students.

A $ 5 million «Graduate to Homeownership» program would aid recent graduates, whether from online or bricks - and - mortar higher education programs, in buying first homes, especially in upstate cities.

«He has been a vocal champion for pre-k funding and for additional state aid for education, and a proponent of Community Schools, which put needed health and community services where they have the most impact — inside city school,» said Mr. Mulgrew.

«A big piece of the state's education aid goes to New York City,» Cuomo said.

City schools are set to receive $ 319.5 million in new state funding for the coming school year, part of a statewide 4.9 percent increase in education aid, the largest since the last recession began in 2007.

Despite a 4.4 percent increase in state education aid, the city cut its contribution so spending on schools will hardly budge.

What are the short and long term implications for essential services, local taxpayers and the state's economy of the freezes and cuts in revenue sharing with cities, towns and villages and in state aid to education have helped the state to balance its own budgets in recent years?

The issue of equitable aid was at the heart of the $ 1.11 billion lawsuit brought by the Alliance for Quality Education on behalf of 26 students in eight small city school districts, including Kingston, in 2008.

The mayor has stuck to the same number of planned layoffs even though the state came through with more than $ 200 million in additional education aid since February and the city has $ 100 million of new federal aid to support medical services in special education.

In addition to the housing plan, the Assembly's budget proposal to be unveiled Friday rejects Cuomo's attempt to shift $ 485 million in CUNY costs on to the city and seeks to boost education aid to localities by $ 2.1 billion, more than twice what the governor has proposed.

The breakdown of the evaluation talks in the wee hours of Jan. 17, after the mayor torpedoed a deal agreed to by his own education department and the UFT, cost the city $ 280 million in state and federal funding, threatened a further loss of $ 224 million in state aid next year, and jeopardized $ 700 million in statewide Race to the Top funds.

Charter school provisions are often traded for things like mayoral control of city schools or additional education aid to the broader public school system.

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