Sentences with phrase «dollar school budgets»

We computed real - dollar school budgets, based on actual staff salaries, and found huge within - district variations in per pupil spending.

Not exact matches

As California slashes billions from its higher education budget, the state's premier public business schools have quietly focused its efforts on raising private dollars.

Budgeting Tips for Back to School — Jason Alderman at Huffington Post gives some great suggestions for stretching those back to school doSchool — Jason Alderman at Huffington Post gives some great suggestions for stretching those back to school doschool dollars.

They know they have the skills to serve more meals to kids, but the dollars and cents of expanding programs like school breakfast, afterschool meals and summer meals seem daunting and could hurt their already tight budget.

But I've often wondered if the skills acquired in a high - end restaurant kitchen have much to do with the problems faced by school food departments: extremely tight budgets (just a dollar per meal for food), reams of federal regulations, often seriously deficient infrastructure, and a notoriously fickle and hard - to - please clientele.

Back in 2003, for example, the Assembly and Senate overrode the governor's budget vetoes for the first time in two decades, increasing state taxes over Pataki's opposition to restore billions of dollars in spending on schools, hospitals, nursing homes and localities.

It took some trimming — a few million dollars here, a half - million dollars there — but the Buffalo Public Schools were able to close a projected $ 10.2 million deficit and come up with a balanced budget for next year.

Ron Deutsch, with New Yorkers for Fiscal Fairness, says the state could begin to close its $ 2 billion dollar budget deficit and have more money for schools and health care if it began collecting more taxes on corporations and other businesses who the groups believe are underpaying right now.

Governor Cuomo released a state budget plan that closes a $ 2 billion dollar gap, recommends a phased in state takeover of county health care costs, and offers an ultimatum to schools to accept a teacher evaluation program or lose access to increased school funding.

Governor Cuomo released a state budget plan that closes a $ 2 billion dollar gap, recommends a phased in state takeover of county health care costs, and offers an ultimatum to schools to accept a teacher evaluation program or lose increased school funding.

Meanwhile, a budget watchdog group said the state could still spend more money on the poorest schools and save hundreds of millions of dollars if only it reconfigured the formula for distributing school aid.

The Rochester City School District School Board has adopted a nearly $ 950 million dollar budget for the 2018 - 19 schoolSchool District School Board has adopted a nearly $ 950 million dollar budget for the 2018 - 19 schoolSchool Board has adopted a nearly $ 950 million dollar budget for the 2018 - 19 schoolschool year.

$ 25 million dollars is also in the state budget to beef up security at JCC's, schools, and other facilities under threat.

The budget includes a multi step plan that could lower property taxes, $ 340 million dollars for schools to start pre-K programs, and a limited test program for public campaign financing.

Silver says the Assembly's budget plan, due out March 11, will restore $ 260 million dollars Cuomo cut to New York City schools, after they failed to meet the governor's deadline to agree on a teacher evaluation plan.

In recent years though, Cuomo has been providing more money to schools, including adding another billion dollars in his current budget, something he touted while in Rochester on January 24.

The Trump administration's «skinny» education budget includes what Mulgrew called «a billion - dollar voucher program» and cuts to after - school and summer programs [see page 3].

Governor Cuomo has proposed increasing school aid by $ 800 million dollars in the new state budget, lawmakers have requested a few hundred million more.

In recent years, though, Cuomo has been providing more money to schools, including adding another billion dollars in his current budget, something he touted in Rochester on Jan. 24.

The New York State Sheriffs» Association this week called on the Legislature to include funding in the next state budget for at least one armed school resource officer at every grade school and high school, which could run into the hundreds of millions of dollars.

Governor Cuomo released his State of the State message and $ 143 billion dollar budget spending plan, including $ 1 billion more dollars for schools next year, and ethics reforms.

Mayor calls for audit of school district's practices relating to Green Acres Mall payments Valley Stream Mayor Edwin Fare on Nov. 30, 2016, called on the state comptroller to audit a village school district, saying the district's budgeting practices relating to payments it received from the Green Acres Mall may be the cause of hundreds of dollars in tax hikes for residents.

At the same time, Cuomo's budget office did not release the school aid runs — projected dollar amounts for districts so they can begin to budget for the next school year.

These guys are the biggest hypocrites when it comes to spending tax payer dollars in their big budget school district.

As Cuomo and lawmakers seek to wrap up budget negotiations this week, a state appeals court threw a $ 69 million wrench into the talks, lifting a stay that allowed the state to hold off from releasing millions of dollars that were earmarked for failing schools but has been tied up in litigation.

The governor says schools that achieve their agreements early, by September, will get credit toward a competition for $ 250 million dollars in grants that Cuomo intends to award, as part of his school aid budget.

Local advocates have estimated that over 2 million dollars stand to be cut directly from local programs, with over 47,000 children in northern Manhattan losing child care and after school programs under the proposed budget after August 30th.

The budget increases spending to schools and health care by 4 % over last year, when there were $ 10 billion dollars in cuts.

«Leon County Schools will still be short about 600 thousand dollars, in a budget that I think is a 1.6 million dollar increase from last year.»

The Syracuse City School District Chief Financial Officer Suzanne Slack faces a multi-million dollar budget gap this year.

Billy Easton, with the Alliance for Quality Education, says last year, Cuomo presided over a budget that cut $ 1.3 billion dollars in aid to schools.

Improvements to the school's pool, field house, and water main are included in the budget and are expected to cost seven million dollars.

Flanagan had publicly said that the Senate would not approve a budget unless the budget totally eliminated something called the Gap Elimination Adjustment, which took millions of dollars in school aid away from suburban and rural school districts.

The Hempstead school board Monday night voted to seek the state comptroller's help in how to pay down a multimillion - dollar budget deficit, about $ 2 million of which officials said is tied to increased enrollment in local charter schools.

Nolan and many of her colleagues have signed a letter seeking $ 1.9 billion additional dollars in school aid in the new 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.

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo on Wednesday proposed using his first substantial budget surplus to fund a $ 154 billion spending plan that includes a $ 2.1 billion increase in school funding over two years and billions of dollars in legacy - building construction projects.

The 31 - page document, apparently drafted after the Senate and Assembly approved one - house budget bills of their own last week, lays out in intricate detail where each chamber and the governor stand on dozens of outstanding budget issues, from billions of dollars in school aid to cuts in welfare checks to rules for marine fishery licenses.

Ultimately, after final budget negotiations last year, Ossining received an additional $ 2.2 Million dollars in Foundation Aid, yet remained one of the most underfunded Foundation Aid school districts in the state.

Here is a comparison between the proposed budget for aid to schools in dollars for 2011 - 12 and what that aid is currently.

The Hempstead school board voted to seek the state comptroller's help in how to pay down a multimillion - dollar budget deficit, about $ 2 million of which officials said is tied to increased enrollment in local charter schools.

Three Long Island school districts — Levittown in Nassau County, and Montauk and South Huntington in Suffolk — should not have built up multimillion - dollar budget surpluses, state auditors said in separate reports released last week.

to Gov. Cuomo's plan to give billions of dollars in tax cut giveaways to banks and the wealthiest New Yorkers while schools and communities suffer under austerity budgets and continuing layoffs.

With the proposed Buffalo school budget slated to pull millions of dollars out of thinning reserves to balance the spending plan, board members spent several hours Wednesday night looking for savings.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo released his State of the State message and $ 143 billion dollar budget spending plan, including $ 1 billion more dollars for schools next year, and ethics reforms.

One of the most polarizing issues in Governor Cuomo's budget is an education tax credit that would allow donors of up to one million dollars to public and private schools to receive a tax benefit.

The budget also extends the millionaire's tax that was due to expire at the end of this year, preserving billions of dollars in annual revenue for schools and other vital public services.

The proposal, for the final budget of Mr. de Blasio's first term, provided a blueprint of sorts for a potential second term with big - ticket investments — including an additional $ 1.9 billion in capital spending to create more apartments for some of the poorest New Yorkers — and long - term plans, like tens of millions of dollars to start a preschool program for 3 - year - olds in city public schools, and new spending on homeless shelters.

ALBANY — Just a day before the deadline for a new multibillion - dollar spending plan, negotiations over the final pieces of the New York State budget slowed to a crawl on Friday, as Democrats in the Assembly effectively blamed a Brooklyn senator for holding up talks over a provision that would ease state oversight of religious schools.

Now Chicago schools are carrying the burden of a $ 1.1 billion budget shortfall — in addition to a multibillion - dollar shortfall in the pension fund.