Sentences with phrase «districts more aid»

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Revised Statute 167.273 (1990) makes available additional state aid to local school districts for a program of parent education established in one or more high school that service pregnant teens and teen parents enrolled as pupils in the district.

Although officials haven't revealed the exact details of how they will make up the loss in federal aid, Johnson said the district is «relatively certain» that Smart Snacks will cause it to lose more than the subsidy is worth.

A vote on a separate piece of legislation Paterson will be sending up to delay $ 1.5 billion worth of education aid payments to school districts could be more problematic — particularly since this is an election year and few lawmakers are going to want to take that potentially troublesome vote.

New York voters will head to the polls next Tuesday, May 16, to vote on school budgets that are benefiting from a $ 1 billion boost in state aid and a more flexible property tax cap, with just 12 districts seeking a 60 percent vote to override the cap.

«Although school districts more reliant on state aid derive a greater benefit from the current environment of low levy growth and increased state revenues, property taxes have traditionally been a more stable source of revenue than state aid.

«Growth in state aid revenue has outpaced levy growth, which generally benefits districts that are more reliant on state revenues and challenges districts more dependent on property taxes,» Moody's found.

With the cap levy progressively lower each year since it's been in effect, state aid has grown, making districts more reliant on funding from Albany.

The crimping under the cap makes school aid all the more important for districts, NYSUT argues.

To a large extent, state fiscal policies have caused great pressure on property taxes in needy cities, counties and school districts, including decisions: to reduce revenue sharing; to decrease the share of local school budgets covered by state aid, to divide the non-federal share of Medicaid costs without considering ability to pay, and to allocate STAR benefits... (read more)

«The Governor is right to prioritize helping high need districts, but we would like see more of the increase for all districts targeted to general operating aid.»

Robert Lowry, deputy director of the New York State Council of School Superintendents, said a threat of losing state aid is more detrimental to districts than unions, so it puts school administrators at a disadvantage during negotiations.

Ruscio pointed out the amount of state aid to the district hasn't been determined yet, so there's more work to be done.

The leaders of school districts, teachers unions, and parents are presenting a united front in calling for $ 2.2 billion dollars more school aid next year.

The net effect is that districts find themselves more dependent on state aid than ever before.

Some 20 districts lost at least small amounts of operating aid, while other systems enjoyed gains of more than 6 or 7 percent.

Newsday's calculations focus on operating funds, because those are widely considered a more meaningful measure of what a district receives than aid for school construction and renovation, which may or may not go to a district in a given year, depending on whether the work is completed then.

Schenectady Schools superintendent Larry Spring says his district, one of the poorest in the state, should be getting $ 62 million more in aid per year, if the court order were followed.

Joseph Dragone, assistant superintendent for business in the Roslyn school system, noted that his district would lose more than 2 percent in operating aid next year based on the governor's plan.

The two agree that the state has to do more to ensure that school districts in Dutchess County are getting «their fair share» of state aid, although they differ on how best to reduce the reliance on property taxes to fund education.

«Since a state aid increase such as the one that was received last year may represent upwards of $ 500,000 or more there is no way a district can trim that much from the budget after years of already cutting the expense side of the budget.

Long Island public school districts would gain an additional $ 75.3 million in combined operating assistance, or a hike of more than 2.8 percent, under the state aid proposal for the 2017 - 18 academic year released by Cuomo's office.

The Gap Elimination Adjustment took much more aid back from kids in poor districts than in places like Scarsdale and Chappaqua.

Jim Tallon, a former assemblyman and chair of the Board of Regents» state aid committee, expressed broad criticisms of Cuomo's budget proposal, arguing the spending plan should have included more information about the distribution of funding and more money for pre-K for upstate school districts.

Comptroller Tom DiNapoli's office on Friday released a report assessing the impact of federal aid on New York's local governments and schools districts, finding they rely on more than $ 11 billion combined in 2015.

School districts in the mid-Hudson region are looking at a collective state aid hike of more than $ 30 million to a total of nearly $ 970 million.

According to the Citizens Budget Commission, most of the $ 1.4 million education increase in this year's budget is allocated outside Foundation Aid formulas; and as a result, affluent districts benefit proportionately more than the neediest districts.

Long Island school districts stand to recover more than $ 117 million in lost state financial aid during the coming year, according to the region's education leaders who say the money will help compensate for tighter state property tax limits.

«That means that we can now focus our efforts in the coming years on getting New York City schools the Campaign for Fiscal Equity money they are still owed and building equity into the state aid formula so that poor school districts get more state aid than wealthier ones,» Mulgrew said.

By raising the threshold amount from $ 100,000 to $ 250,000, «districts could make critical capital improvements in a more timely manner and receive state aid much faster,» she said, a measure that would also save the state money on interest payments.

The extra state aid will help the more than 700 school districts in New York as they struggle to stay under the state property tax cap, which allows them to increase their tax levy by only.12 percent this year without seeking voter approval.

In the Boyland case, which ended more than two years before McDonnell was decided, the former assemblyman, who was once acquitted on bribery charges, was found to have taken bribes in exchange for securing approvals for a carnival to be held in his district and aiding a real estate venture.

They say they've already cut back and laid off and that a cap would erode arts, sports and special programs, and hurt poorer and rural districts, which are more dependent on state aid than rich ones with greater property wealth.

they chanted, demanding the state honor a settlement in the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit that requires it to provide more aid to under - funded school districts.

School districts in the mid-Hudson are looking at a collective state aid hike of more than $ 30 million to a total of nearly $ 970 million in Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposed 2018 state budget.

While Buffalo schools are looking for millions of dollars more from Albany in the annual school aid budget fight, the district is diving into the intricacies of its spending and hoping to knock millions off its costs.

In addition to Valley Central, the Goshen, Tuxedo and Fallsburg districts would see aid cut under Cuomo's proposal, while Greenwood Lake, Kiryas Joel, Middletown, Washingtonville, Livingston Manor, Ellenville, Highland, Kingston and New Paltz would see increases of 6 percent or more.

Some groups condemned the governor for calling on districts to direct more of their state aid to their neediest schools — an exhortation that seemed at odds with his history of fighting the state's Foundation Aid formula, which directs more money to the state's poorest school districts and which advocates argue is itself underfundaid to their neediest schools — an exhortation that seemed at odds with his history of fighting the state's Foundation Aid formula, which directs more money to the state's poorest school districts and which advocates argue is itself underfundAid formula, which directs more money to the state's poorest school districts and which advocates argue is itself underfunded.

Almost as stupid as STAR where New York intentionally overtaxes to build up money to write rebate checks for people like Rump... and to give more aid to wealthy school districts than poor ones.

Hawkins» platform includes a call for a $ 15 hourly minimum wage rate, a ban on hydrofracking, using government money to hire unemployed workers for public projects, a single - payer healthcare program, rejecting the Common Core teaching standards (and the federal money that came with them), refiguring school aid to give more help to poorer districts and raising taxes on the richest New Yorkers.

There are unfunded mandates and lack of aid from the state, and while he has provided more money for education, it is less than the Campaign for Fiscal Equity settlement [the 2006 court ruling requiring the state to pay billions in backpay to shortchanged school districts]... When [Assembly Speaker Carl] Heastie proposed a slightly progressive income tax, he just rejected it.

She said she will fight to end unfunded state mandates, bring more aid to school districts and reinstate the STAR tax rebate checks.

Erie County Legislators Lynne Dixon, Joseph Lorigo and Ted Morton joined the New York State Attorney General, along with local, county and state officials, at a press conference today to support efforts to aid victims who were subjected to price gouging during the November storm that dumped more than six feet of snow on their districts.

As for state aid, the governor has proposed 1 percent increases for both districts — Greenport will receive an additional $ 10,755 and Southold will get nearly $ 11,910 more.

Talk of the Sound has been reporting for more than a year on the out - of - control spending by the New Rochelle School District and warning that totally unrealistic assumptions about property assessments, state aid and one - time injections of stimulus funding.

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.

PRESS RELEASE Rockland County District Attorney Thomas P. Zugibe and Rockland County Executive C. Scott Vanderhoef announced on Wednesday that two Village of Nyack store owners and several clerks have been charged in connection with the fraudulent use of the Supplemental Nutritional Aid Program (SNAP), more commonly known as food stamps.

Instead, he proposed lowering the levels of poverty and updating Census data used to calculate aid for each school district, changes that he argues would drive more aid to high - needs districts.

The critical report is part of the Alliance for Quality Education's multi-year campaign to get billions more in school aid for districts like Utica that suffer from high poverty rates.

The leaders of school districts, teachers unions, and parents are presenting a united front in calling for $ 2.2 billion more school aid next year.

Eliminating the GEA favors wealthy districts, whereas running the state's Foundation Aid Formula — created to more equitably distribute funding to districts — benefits high - need districts.