Sentences with phrase «dollars in education aid»

The schools were supposed to get around 5.5 billion more dollars in education aid, after the Court of Appeals ruled in 2006 in the Campaign for Fiscal Equity case.

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However, Prop 42 will go into effect at a time when federal financial aid for education is drying up; there will be fewer dollars for deserving, underprivileged youngsters who have excelled in the classroom, much less for academically marginal athletes.

Cuomo is also trying to shake up education policy, by threatening to withhold hundreds of millions of dollars in increases in school aid from schools that don't agree on teacher evaluation plans with teachers.

The ads are part of a multi-million dollar push for health care spending in the budget, typically one of the costliest areas in the spending plan aside from education aid.

And it's something Gov. Andrew Cuomo believes would be a disaster for the state, assuming billions of dollars in county Medicaid costs just as the state has pulled out of the recession and is trying to spend money on more education aid, free tuition at public colleges and upgrade aging water systems.

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.»

Also at 12:30 p.m., Assembly Education Chair Cathy Nolan and Sen. Kevin Parker will release letters signed by more than 70 legislators in both houses calling for $ 2.4 billion in new school aid with an emphasis on Foundation Aid, Million Dollar Staircase, 3rd Floor, state Capitol, Albaaid with an emphasis on Foundation Aid, Million Dollar Staircase, 3rd Floor, state Capitol, AlbaAid, Million Dollar Staircase, 3rd Floor, state Capitol, Albany.

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.

In his presentation, Bloomberg blamed shortfalls in expected state education dollars and a reduction in federal education aid for the layoffIn his presentation, Bloomberg blamed shortfalls in expected state education dollars and a reduction in federal education aid for the layoffin expected state education dollars and a reduction in federal education aid for the layoffin federal education aid for the layoffs.

State aid in Massachusetts is targeted at districts that can not meet the foundation budget out of local funds, so the state's education dollar is concentrated on poor districts.

In a decision designed to spark a transformation of New Jersey's school finance formula, the state board of education concluded last week that poor rural districts have been shortchanged in a state known nationally as a leader for providing billions of dollars in extra aid and programs to its poor urban districtIn a decision designed to spark a transformation of New Jersey's school finance formula, the state board of education concluded last week that poor rural districts have been shortchanged in a state known nationally as a leader for providing billions of dollars in extra aid and programs to its poor urban districtin a state known nationally as a leader for providing billions of dollars in extra aid and programs to its poor urban districtin extra aid and programs to its poor urban districts.

The state of Arizona faces a severe disruption in its budget, and some of its school districts face the loss of millions of dollars in federal impact aid, because the U.S. Education Department has declared the state's system for equalizing resources among districts inadequate.

The Commission will examine factors that impact spending in education, including: school funding and distribution of State Aid; efficiency and utilization of education spending at the district level; the percentage of per - pupil funding that goes to the classroom as compared to administrative overhead and benefits; approaches to improving special education programs and outcomes while also reducing costs; identifying ways to reduce transportation costs; identifying strategies to create significant savings and long - term efficiencies; and analysis of district - by - district returns on educational investment and educational productivity to identify districts that have higher student outcomes per dollar spent, and those that do not.

That's because along with the per - pupil increase and some boosts in aid, the committee's recommendation shifts a hefty chunk of tax dollars to private voucher schools, funding that could have restored public education funding that's been lost to years of cuts.

Several states have resisted the wave of changes prompted partly by the Obama administration, which offered states and districts millions of dollars in federal aid in exchange for overhauling their education policies through its Race to the Top program.

For California districts, that means a two - month reprieve from facing potentially hundreds of millions of dollars in funding cuts to special education programs and Title I aid for low - income students, along with tens of millions in cuts to the preschool program Head Start, career and technical education and grants for teacher training.

«There's some core principles that all the leaders here believe in — making sure that we continue to provide resources to the poorest school districts and not creating a situation where we can suddenly shift dollars from... poorer districts to wealthy districts, or alternatively, that education aid suddenly can start going to sport stadiums or tax cuts at the state level,» Obama said in remarks to the media after the meeting.

Malloy claims that his «initiative» is providing Connecticut's 30 most struggling school districts with another $ 132 million in state aid, but the truth is that this year's increase is only about $ 45 million and that in order to get those funds, school districts were required to accept a series of new mandates and programs aimed at further implementing Malloy's corporate education reform agenda and diverting scarce public dollars to private companies.

To date, Oregon has received nearly $ 121 million in education stimulus funds — representing a combination of funding for Title I, IDEA, Vocational Rehabilitation grants, Independent Living grants, Impact Aid dollars and Homeless Educatioeducation stimulus funds — representing a combination of funding for Title I, IDEA, Vocational Rehabilitation grants, Independent Living grants, Impact Aid dollars and Homeless EducationEducation grants.

Obama, in contrast, has sent education dollars from the federal government to the states via grants and direct aid, under the economic stimulus program, to save programs and jobs.

California placed a year - long moratorium on the use of Common Core exams to make «accountability» decisions, a modest step that drew threats from Duncan to withhold hundreds of millions of dollars in federal education aid.

From 1993 to 2000 the state doubled local education aid, increasing it by a billion dollars in a mostly equalizing way.

Stamford strives to serve all its more than 16,000 children — with little help from the state, which owes Stamford's children millions of dollars in state education aid.

In higher education, colleges and universities must be accredited to qualify for federal financial aid dollars, such as Pell grants.

The tax would generate hundreds of billions of dollars in revenue annually for critical needs such as healthcare, education, job creation and the international fight against HIV / AIDS and climate change.

For example, the Department of Education reports that for every dollar held in a 529 account in a parent's name, up to 5.6 cents will be subtracted from the family's federal need - based financial aid package.