Sentences with phrase «cuts to school aids»

The fix included $ 147 million in cuts to school aids.

ALBANY — Gov. David A. Paterson has reportedly put off what would unquestionably be a bloody fight with lawmakers over cuts to school aid — at least for the moment.

Sixty - eight percent said his cuts to school aid and tax cuts would convince them to oppose him, while 67 percent said the Committee to Save New York would keep them from pulling the lever for Cuomo, after the pollsters» described the group as a «shadowy» organization «that raised more than $ 17 million from Wall Street, real estate moguls and other business interests to promote his agenda of education cuts and tax breaks.»

Without the $ 440 million from tobacco, his proposed deep cuts to school aid and higher education funding would only get more painful.

The vetoes also include $ 419 million in restorations of Paterson's more than $ 1 billion in cuts to school aid and $ 106 million for community colleges and the Tuition Assistance Program.

State Sen. John Flanagan (R - East Northport), chairman of the Education Committee, said in talks leading up to the budget presentation, that Republicans who control the Senate told the governor that any proposed cuts to school aid should to be «fair and equitable.»

A floor above, outside the Senate parlor, teachers and education advocates opposed Cuomo's planned 7.3 percent cut to school aid.

Cuomo secured a historic cut to school aid and health care without tax increases and blocked the Assembly Democrats» effort to continue an income tax surcharge on New Yorkers making over $ 200,000 a year.

Walker's policies pushed through the largest cuts to school aid in state history and the largest per pupil cuts in the country in 2011 - 2012.

Not exact matches

Look it up for yourself: the GOP has cut school lunch programs, Aid to dependent children, Planned Parenthood health care which provides medical care for expectant mothers (under the guise that they perform a limited number of abortions annually), Medicare programs which provides health care to the children who were born in the past because they weren't aborted, WIC which provides food to Women, Infants and Children... one could go on.

But with roughly half of all departmental spending in ringfenced areas like schools, the NHS and aid spending, the remaining departments will have to make cuts of around 3.6 %.

-- $ 600 million — including $ 177 million for New York City — of the Governor's $ 1.4 billion in devastating school aid cuts is restored, providing direct classroom support and property tax relief to working families throughout New York State.

Despite this, their detailed tax policies are a net giveaway of 0.1 % of national income, their detailed social security measures would only provide a tenth of the cuts that they have said they want to deliver, and their commitments on aid, the NHS and schools would (relative to a real freeze) increase spending on these areas by 0.3 % of national income.

The budget will include a complete end to the school aid cuts under gap elimination adjustment, a move that impacts predominantly suburban school districts.

The Syracuse Republican insisted the conference had to remain united on the minimum wage vote, which was packaged with a boost in school aid and an elimination of education cuts GOP lawmakers had pushed for since last year.

«If Albany moves forward with the school aid cuts proposed by the Governor, New York City may have to lay off 6,400 teachers — the first teacher layoffs in New York City since the 1970s,» the letter reads.

Albany, New York — In a move that veteran lawmakers called «unprecedented», Governor Andrew Cuomo sent his Lieutenant Governor, Robert Duffy, to defend his proposed school aid cuts to a joint hearing of the legislature's education and fiscal committees.

Albany, New York — A major New York State union is going on the air with televisions ads to try to convince state lawmakers to continue a tax on the wealthy instead of adopting Governor Cuomo's billion and half dollars in school aid cuts.

DeFrancisco, the Senate deputy leader, said it's going to be difficult to find cuts even in the largest portion of the budget: school aid.

«If allowable levy growth remains restricted, school districts will have to increasingly depend on overrides, state aid growth, and expenditure cuts to balance their budgets, a credit negative,» Moody's found.

The Democrats under Sheldon Silver don't want aid to schools cut?

Senate Republican President Len Fasano says cuts to municipal aid and school funding have been restored.

«As always, you have to make decisions about how much you can afford to do in school aid and how much money you have to put aside for the potential impact of federal cuts in Medicaid and in health care,» Assembly Majority Leader Joe Morelle (D - Irondequoit) said last week.

Cuomo mentioned the salary of a Syosset schools superintendent, Carole Hankin, who earns $ 386,868 a year, as an example of where education officials might consider cutting to make up for the loss of state aid they are expected to suffer during this budget cycle.

Iannuzzi has been one of the few outspoken critics of Governor Andrew Cuomo and his proposed budget, which cut state aid to schools by 2.7 % or about $ 1.3 billion.

He also said there are «loose ends» that still remain to be tied up, but school aid is «pretty much closed down» with a tentative agreement to restore some $ 250 million worth of the $ 1.5 billion Cuomo cut.

But 64 percent oppose Cuomo's proposed $ 1.5 billion reduction in state aid to school districts, and 56 percent oppose his 10 percent cut to SUNY and CUNY.

Lawmakers said they were still working out exactly how school aid would be distributed; Heastie said there was yet not a deal over how much money would flow through the Foundation Aid formula, which prioritizes need and so helps urban districts, as opposed to restoring cuts from the Gap Elimination Adjustment, which hit suburban areas hardeaid would be distributed; Heastie said there was yet not a deal over how much money would flow through the Foundation Aid formula, which prioritizes need and so helps urban districts, as opposed to restoring cuts from the Gap Elimination Adjustment, which hit suburban areas hardeAid formula, which prioritizes need and so helps urban districts, as opposed to restoring cuts from the Gap Elimination Adjustment, which hit suburban areas hardest.

«As the chair of the Senate Education Committee, Senator Oppenheimer should be leading efforts to reform the state school aid formula so districts do not have to endure billions in cuts any given year and can operate within the confines of a local property tax cap,» said Cohen.

«Instead, she has voted to eliminate property tax relief, increase state spending, increase taxes, and cut state school aid — and we still have no property tax cap.»

The $ 145.3 billion spending plan increases school aid next year by just under $ 1 billion (which school boards say is not enough) and over the next five years commits to build thousands of units of affordable housing for the homeless, contribute $ 8.3 billion to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, spend $ 22 billion on upstate roads and bridges, cut taxes for small businesses and create a rebate for Thruway toll payers.

ALBANY — After a two - hour debate that touched on climate change and several anti-Semitic incidents at the City University of New York, Republicans in the state Senate endorsed a one - house budget resolution that shifts costs to New York City, increases aid for public schools and cuts taxes for middle - income New Yorkers.

The poll cited seven different possible rationales for rejecting Cuomo: the Moreland Commission scandal, cuts in school aid, tax cuts, his alliance with a «shadowy» group called the Committee to Save New York, his donations from Republicans including the Koch Brothers and Ken Langone, his support for charter schools, and his «values,» which show he «caters to the wealthy and corporations.»

Public - school funding is safe so far, according to Paterson, but big cuts in discretionary funding, local government aid, and health care are on the horizon.

Randi Weingarten, president of the United Federation of Teachers, criticized the Senate version of the bill for cutting about $ 40 billion from money «targeted to help states avoid drastic education cuts and teacher layoffs,» as well as $ 20 billion from construction aid to schools and colleges and $ 1 billion from new aid for Head Start and other early childhood education programs.

SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher said cuts to programs that help disadvantaged high school students gain the opportunity to attend college, as well as reductions to federal college aid and cuts to medical research, including cancer research, would have a huge negative impact on New York's colleges.

I believe if we continue doing what we're doing the state goes down the road to ruin,» Cuomo said during a speech formally announcing the austere plan, which also calls for a massive government restructuring, the merger or consolidation of 11 state agencies into four, and a 10 percent cut in aid for SUNY and CUNY schools.

It is expected to call for thousands of layoffs and massive cuts in school aid.

The bills were based, by law, on the spending plan Paterson first proposed in January, but they restored some of his school aid cuts, eliminated his tax cap and took out a proposal to allow SUNY and CUNY the ability to raise tuition unilaterally — basically all the stuff that might possibly have compelled any of the members to explain anything difficult to their constituents.

Then came the big one: school aid cuts, authorization to sell wine in grocery stores and a property tax cap, all rolled into a single extender.

MANHATTAN — Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposed a plan to slash billions from the state's budget, including a 2 percent cut in Medicaid spending, a $ 1.5 billion reduction in school aid and nearly 10,000 state worker layoffs, according to a plan unveiled Tuesday.

State spending rose slightly and the cut to public school aid ranks as the steepest percentage drop in a generation.

In a little over a month, voters in most school districts go to the polls to decide yes or know on that district's spending plan and five of them in Erie County have less state aid to work with in the recently approved state budget In Erie County, Sweet Home sees the biggest cut in overall state...

But Democrats, who run the Assembly, continue to argue that most increased education funding should go to the highest - need schools, which would happen if it were put in the «foundation» funding pot by which most state aid is allocated, and which also was cut drastically during the economic downturn.

Ultimately, the measure was tucked into a massive education bill that included spending increases for school aid and an end to education cuts under the Gap Elimination Adjustment, a long - sought goal for Senate Republicans.

The pro-Cuomo Committee to Save NY is backing up a recent TV spot supporting the governor's proposed education aid cuts with a mailer that accuses school superintendents of going behind closed doors and «taking money out of classrooms — but putting hundreds of thousands of dollars in their own pockets.»

About 68 percent of the restored education aid would be sent to schools districts north of NYC, Skelos said, explaining: «What we're doing is we are essentially restoring shares to the cuts.

Bloomberg will likely issue a plea for lawmakers to restore some of NYC's $ 300 million in aid to localities Gov. Andrew Cuomo axed in his 2011 - 2012 spending plan and also ask for the repeal of «last in, first out» rule when it comes to laying off public school teachers, which he says the governor's cuts will force him to do if they're allowed to stand.

If the Budget Director applied this rationale to the State budget, $ 3.5 billion in State closing funds balances from this year would obviate the need for any school aid cuts, statewide.»

Speaking to a Long Island business group on Friday, Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan said the minimum wage increase was a compromise in order to get a tax cut and a boost in school aid.