Sentences with phrase «earlier budget testimony»

Not exact matches

During his budget testimony in Albany earlier this month, de Blasio highlighted his administration's attempt at turning around struggling schools: a $ 150 million Renewal Schools program to add academic supports and turn the schools into community schools with social services.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew told delegates at the March 24 Delegate Assembly that the chancellor's testimony earlier that day averred that the best way to fix the city budget was to save money by «removing seniority layoff provisions, and firing the ATRs and everybody in the rubber rooms.»

Mayor de Blasio's decision to aid the city's struggling public hospitals, known as NYC Health + Hospitals is another issue that must be addressed when the executive budget is released in late April or early May, something Fuleihan acknowledged in his initial testimony.