(According to
district budget figures, New York City, for example, spends as much on teachers who no longer teach as on those who still do.)
Not exact matches
A preliminary estimate by the village indicates that a tax rate of 25 cents for each $ 100 of assessed valuation would be needed to sustain a park
district, Holmes said, adding that the final
figure would depend on whether the village turns over its existing parks or any part of its parks and recreation
budget.
O'Neill said he needed the audit
figure to get a more accurate picture of money transfers to and from the Sanctuary Golf Course and other Park
District budget funds.
In other words, it's up to each school
district, and by extension the community that agrees to its
budget, to
figure out how to cover the debts of kids who can't pay for meals.
And Senate Democrats who hope to flip the
district once held by Republican former Sen. Dean Skelos are pointing to the support from groups like the PAC maintained by StudentsFirstNY after the initial charter school aid proposed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo was doubled to $ 54 million in the final
budget agreement — a
figure that was backed by Senate Republicans.
The final amount will be calculated after the
district knows how much state aid it will receive — a
figure that relies upon agreement on the state
budget by Cuomo and the state legislature.
Figures from the
districts released Wednesday by the state Education Department, called the property tax report cards, show
budgeted spending growing by an average 2.36 percent in Nassau County and 2.33 percent in Suffolk County.
That was a big enough
figure for councilors to be concerned and call a special committee meeting, but school Superintendent Sharon Contreras wrote a letter to councilors saying the
district can «effectively manage» its
budget and that the land bank is a «positive force» for the city and should continue its work.
District - by - district figures on school budgets, tax caps, pay raises and other data are included in Newsday's School Voter
District - by -
district figures on school budgets, tax caps, pay raises and other data are included in Newsday's School Voter
district figures on school
budgets, tax caps, pay raises and other data are included in Newsday's School Voters Guide.
«Not having state aid
figures to craft a
budget is especially difficult for
districts that rely most heavily on state aid.
Mattituck - Cutchogue School
District Superintendent Anne Smith said in an email Tuesday that while school
districts are just starting to evaluate how the latest proposed tax cap and state aid
figures will affect their
budgets, efforts are already underway to advocate for more funding.
Reading from the resolution, Trustee Robin Jacobowitz said school
districts were expected to have tax levy limit calculations filed with the state by March under legislation written by Cuomo, but the governor has refused to release aid estimates needed by
districts to determine accurate
budget figures.
Riverhead School
District Superintendent Nancy Carney said they're analyzing figures to see the full impact of the state aid on the district's
District Superintendent Nancy Carney said they're analyzing
figures to see the full impact of the state aid on the
district's
district's
budget.
Urban school
districts spend significantly less per pupil on their high - poverty schools than their low - poverty ones, a fact that is routinely masked by school
budgets that use average - salary
figures rather than actual ones, a new paper suggests.
And because of
budget constraints and parent - student demand,
districts and states will welcome these new suppliers and won't see them as threats to be snuffed out (see
Figure 1).
The
figure is a maximum estimate — a representation of the most dollars school
districts would have to share if all of their area charter schools were eligible for capital aid, said Rep. Manny Diaz Jr., a Hialeah Republican who is the House pre-K-12 education
budget chairman.
For instance, the Christie administration is about to announce its new state
budget, which is a routine process but also one that contains the
districts» all - important state - aid
figures.
So when the state gave local school
districts more flexibility in creating their
budgets to serve students more equitably, Olson made sure that attendance
figured prominently in his spending plan.
District officials in both Sun Prairie and Verona said the
figures released Wednesday were very close to their forecasts, and that they had
budgeted accordingly.
Staff also stressed the
figures were just estimates based on projections, with actual
budgets to be reviewed annually «to ensure (the
district's) limited financial risk.»
Since 2001, school
district students have received between $ 1,000 and $ 2,000 more than charter students, depending on the year, according to
figures from the Joint Legislative
Budget Committee Per - Pupil Funding Reports and the Arizona Department of Education's Annual Report.
Despite tight
district budgets, some principals in Los Angeles Unified and Oakland Unified have on their own initiative
figured out a way to provide programs this summer by reaching out to their local communities and private foundations for support.
Rather than serve as a conduit for flowing
district policy to school principals, who are then expected to act on those centralized decisions, Ms. Allen and her team in the 20,000 - student
district help principals learn how to best exercise autonomy in their schools, from making staffing decisions to
figuring out instructional priorities to determining if there's enough money in the school's
budget to buy a van for after - school activities.
With unemployment down and tax revenues up, Koch said there's reason to be optimistic.The state won't issue revised
figures for its projected
budget until next month, however, and school
districts must work with the numbers they have now to approve their first interim financial reports this month.
This was so far off the radar that even
districts like Madison that benefited from the change did not include the benefits in their
budget discussions or explanations (I tried to get them to and if they had
figured in the recent credits of about 1.5 % for most taxpayers, this may have given them the courage to not under - levy so extremely).
Now, with the state facing a $ 3.5 billion
budget deficit, school
districts still reeling from painful
budget cuts last summer will have to
figure out how to pay for the online and Advanced Placement courses the law mandates.