Sentences with phrase «cut in state aid»

With the deadline for the state budget four weeks away, a push is on to block a proposed cut in state aid to libraries.

And that's resulted in cities and towns facing cuts in state aid.

He has threatened drastic cuts in state aid to cities and towns.

Risking students» futures Like nearly all public school districts, Stratford faces a budget deficit created primarily by cuts in state aid.

Yet the mayor's spending plan deliberately does not include any extra cushion to provide for the possibility of a handful of cuts in state aid outlined in Gov. Andrew Cuomo's executive budget last week.

Paterson's proposed cuts included $ 55 million in reductions to Medicaid and $ 260 million in across - the - board cuts in state aid to local governments.

Malloy offered his own deficit reduction proposal Monday, and it included major cuts in state aid to cities and towns as well as a range of sometimes dramatic state agency spending reductions.

The school - spending plans approved this week reflected Paterson's governor's 5 percent cut in state aid — the same cut many school officials implied they couldn't live with.

While the stimulus was a successful stop - gap, its depletion, along with deep cuts in state aid (and less drastic cuts in local funding) left school districts with very tight budgets.

In addition, the district suffered a financial crisis in 2008 and then reeled under massive cuts in state aid in the 2011 - 12 school year.

The city Health Department, however, would see an $ 11 million cut in state aid under the budget proposal.

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.

HARTFORD — On the heels of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's proposed adjustments to the state budget — including potential cuts in state aid for municipalities — Democratic legislative leaders and mayors from throughout the state gathered at the Capitol Friday to praise one aspect of the budget that Malloy said won't change — property tax reform.

Miner anticipates a significant cut in state aid this year, but said Albany can make up for it with reforms.

They simply don't have the LEGAL authority to cut the overwhelming majority of their expenses and with the double digit cut in state aid most local school districts will receive, they will have to make up for that money by significantly jacking up property taxes... which are far more regressive and oppressive than income taxes.

Mr. Christie's boasts about K - 12 finance are a sham, contends Ms. Buono, who says that as Senate majority leader she took a prime role in fighting his previous cuts in state aid to districts.

The second was this quote from Board President James Howard in Defour's story on greater than anticipated cuts in state aid to the Madison Metropolitan School District:

Massachusetts schools, which have suffered through three consecutive years of cuts in state aid to education, were offered some hope this month when Gov. William F. Weld advocated boosting funding.

The package, including $ 55 million in reductions to Medicaid services and $ 260 million in across - the - board cuts in state aid to local governments, was intended to cover shortfalls in tax revenue during this fiscal year that have emerged since the budget was passed.

Prior to this year's proposed cut in state aid, average tax levy increases declined for five straight years, from 6.89 percent in 2005 to 5.91 percent in 2006, 3.91 percent in 2007, 3.37 percent in 2008, and 1.89 percent last year.

In an attempt to help towns, the state legislature voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to waive any penalties for municipalities that reduce their education budget after suffering major cuts in state aid.

Matt Pommer Gov. Jim Doyle's talk of a 2.5 percent cut in state aid to local schools guarantees more stress for school boards, unionized teachers and property taxpayers.

Nonetheless, the financial statistics certainly reflected the tough times that schools faced in 2010 - 2011, still reeling from the administration and Legislature's deep cuts in state aid the year before.

The balancing act for local municipalities is that the cuts in state aid must be coupled with mandate relief.»

Districts that have extra cash lying around should use the funds to fill holes left by the cuts in state aid, state United Teachers President Dick Iannuzzi said today.

Gov. Cuomo's latest assault on Mayor de Blasio — a «humiliating» cut in state aid to the city — is prompting predictions that an infuriated de Blasio will reciprocate by backing efforts to dump the governor in 2018, sources tell The Post.

In 2010, when the local school district was facing a serious budget gap after a cut in state aid, the company's foundation stepped in to make up the difference, giving the district more than $ 14 million over the next four years.

School districts are still taking a cut in state aid, but now it's less than the figure they received in February, when Gov. Andrew Cuomo released his proposed budget, which called for a $ 1.5 billion reduction to education.

Gov. Mario M. Cuomo of New York last week presented a fiscal 1993 budget that calls for the third round of cuts in state aid to education in two years.

In the face of a dramatic $ 1.2 billion cut in state aid, school districts held the average statewide property tax levy increase at 3.4 percent under the proposed 2011 - 12 district budgets.

School districts are being forced to increase the tax levy in response to cuts in state aid.

Due to Wisconsin's broken school funding system and cuts in state aid to schools, at the start of the budget process maintaining educational offering and quality would have required an estimated $ 28.2 million increase in locally generated revenue.

There have been complaints about this for years; the complaints may be louder this year because the cuts in state aids have further exacerbated this and other flaws in our school finance system.

It really was about how much total money was invested in education; capital provided at levels well below cost - t0 - continue; and a cut in state aid, while, at the same time, big property tax increases were passed on to many school districts.

Later, when asked by Board member Beth Moss about the lowering of the revenue limit increase — from $ 280 to $ 200 — that was also part of the «fix,» Pocan revealed that in exchange for a higher revenue limit, Doyle demanded at least a 4 % cut in state aid; the $ 200 limit increase came with with only a 2.5 % cut in state aid.