Sentences with phrase «education aid cuts»

Education aid cuts — both in K - 12 and SUNY / CUNY — could be a sticking point in the budget battle, however.

It's likely Paterson will close the entire budget next week with a large extender, including major education aid cuts.

Oswego, NY — Mexico School Superintendent Nelson Bauersfeld discusses possible mid-year state education aid cuts.

The Long Island senators are calling Cuomo's proposed education aid cuts to Nassau and Suffolk counties a «deal breaker.»

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.»

Both the Senate and Assembly have proposed restoring some of Cuomo's $ 1.5 billion worth of education aid cuts in their respective one - house budgets.

NYC Councilman Robert Jackson, who chairs the Council Education Committee and is an original plaintiff in the CFE case, is going to lead a protest Saturday against record setting education aid cuts proposed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the rollback of the settlement payout.

The superintendent of Rockville Center schools, who earns $ 310,000 a year, thinks Cuomo's cap is a «distraction» from the fight over $ 1.5 billion in education aid cuts.

General fund spending is reduced by $ 8.9 billion, including Medicaid and education aid cuts of $ 2.85 billion each.

Meanwhile, students, parents and community members organized by the Alliance for Quality Education, Citizen Action of New York and the New York City Coalition for Educational Justice delivered valentines to state lawmakers» local offices in the Capital District Buffalo, Syracuse, Binghamton, Queens, the Bronx, Brooklyn and Long Island asking them to reject Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposed education aid cuts.

The deal also restores some $ 270 million in $ 1.5 billion worth of education aid cuts proposed by the governor.

Silver reiterated that the issues of key importance to his conference are restoring some of his education aid cuts and safeguarding an «affordable» SUNY / CUNY system that is «available to all residents of New York; If we go away from that mission, we're doing a disservice to this state.»

Not exact matches

«An excise tax on the endowments of some private colleges and universities, regardless of how many or how few institutions it affects, is a remarkably bad idea that takes money that would otherwise be used for student aid, research, and faculty salaries and sends it to the Department of the Treasury to finance corporate tax cuts,» said Ted Mitchell, president of the American Council on Education, a higher education traEducation, a higher education traeducation trade group.

Yes, there's nothing more principled than a candidate like Ron Paul who wants to further cut taxes for the rich, get rid of subsidies for student loans, get rid of the department of education and the environmental protection agency, and end aid to starving countries in Africa, just to name a few.

The Philippine organizers of the Global March mention following: widespread poverty and social inequality resulting in the erosion of the family's capacity to nurture and protect children, the rise of informal economy requiring simple skills and technologies, globalization of capitalism where underdeveloped nations provide the rich with cheap labor, disrupted family patterns due to migration, AIDS, etc. and inadequate basic services from government, including education, due to cut of the state budget of non-profit sectors to follow structural adjustment programme dictated by the IMF and the World Bank.

The sticking point appear to be (surprise, surprise) education aid, which Paterson wants to cut by $ 1.3 billion and the Assembly Democrats want to restore — at least to some degree.

The Syracuse Republican insisted the conference had to remain united on the minimum wage vote, which was packaged with a boost in school aid and an elimination of education cuts GOP lawmakers had pushed for since last year.

Albany, New York — In a move that veteran lawmakers called «unprecedented», Governor Andrew Cuomo sent his Lieutenant Governor, Robert Duffy, to defend his proposed school aid cuts to a joint hearing of the legislature's education and fiscal committees.

Corbett, whose proposed 2011 - 12 budget includes $ 2 billion in cuts to education and a 50 percent reduction in aid to colleges and universities, also emphasized that those cuts are only proposals.

Schools Chancellor Joel Klein told City Council members the $ 500 million cut in state aid coupled with increasing costs will leave the Department of Education $ 750 million short in fiscal 2011.

I spoke out against UK Government cuts to legal aid during a Westminster Hall debate on public legal education this week.

Stung by the expiration of federal aid intended to help states balance budgets as they seek to recover from the recession that began in 2008, the final budget is also expected to include another cut in local aid to cities and towns and to call for reduced growth in the rate of spending on education and health care, although special education is one of the few areas in which significant investments appear imminent.

But if Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver loses his 108 - vote veto - proof majority, the Republican conference will take on a whole new level of importance — particularly during a tough budget battle in which likely Gov. Andrew Cuomo has made clear that everything — including education aid — will be on the cutting table.

According to the march's guiding vision and definition of principles, they are against any federal, state or local cuts or restrictions on women's ability to access reproductive healthcare services, birth control, HIV / AIDS care and prevention, or «medically accurate sexuality education.»

Cuomo mentioned the salary of a Syosset schools superintendent, Carole Hankin, who earns $ 386,868 a year, as an example of where education officials might consider cutting to make up for the loss of state aid they are expected to suffer during this budget cycle.

Speaking on the Capitol Pressroom this morning, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, D - Manhattan, said he was an effective negotiator for his conference, despite deep cuts to traditionally taboo budget areas like education aid and health care.

Cuomo also panned the Senate GOP's proposal to use the $ 500 million worth of education aid for which he wants districts to compete to restore some of the $ 1.5 billion in funding cuts.

Cuomo has proposed a $ 990 million increase in education aid and a partial end to the cuts in the Gap Elimination Adjustment.

«I'm looking to have balance throughout the state when it comes to tax cuts, when it comes to education aid, and it seems that certain members in the room when it comes to another branch their only concern is New York City and Mayor de Blasio,» Skelos told reporters.

-- open to entertaining the restoration of education aid proposed by both the Senate and Assembly in their respective one - house budgets (recall that just yesterday he insisted there's «flexibility» in his executive budget proposal), he basically accused districts that say they can't afford to cut back of playing politics with kids.

The mayor had threatened mass layoffs if the administration cut deeply into the city's education aid, but he has since backpedaled on that threat.

Not surprisingly, Mayor Bloomberg is none too pleased about the fact that NYC is facing a $ 2 billion cut in Gov. Andrew Cuomo's budget, including $ 1.4 billion worth of education aid.

«Rather, on a year to year basis, education aid to New York City is cut $ 579 million.»

• $ 700 in education - aid cuts and a delay of some already - promised payments.

«As the chair of the Senate Education Committee, Senator Oppenheimer should be leading efforts to reform the state school aid formula so districts do not have to endure billions in cuts any given year and can operate within the confines of a local property tax cap,» said Cohen.

Randi Weingarten, president of the United Federation of Teachers, criticized the Senate version of the bill for cutting about $ 40 billion from money «targeted to help states avoid drastic education cuts and teacher layoffs,» as well as $ 20 billion from construction aid to schools and colleges and $ 1 billion from new aid for Head Start and other early childhood education programs.

Sixty - eight percent said his cuts to school aid and tax cuts would convince them to oppose him, while 67 percent said the Committee to Save New York would keep them from pulling the lever for Cuomo, after the pollsters» described the group as a «shadowy» organization «that raised more than $ 17 million from Wall Street, real estate moguls and other business interests to promote his agenda of education cuts and tax breaks.»

Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy is again warning that some of the state's wealthier communities may see cuts to state aid for public education if lawmakers fail to reach a budget agreement before the end of the month.

Without the $ 440 million from tobacco, his proposed deep cuts to school aid and higher education funding would only get more painful.

The governor has repeatedly defended his budget plan, which slashes spending across the board, including major cuts to education aid.

The governor's newly released budget includes serious cuts, including $ 518 million less in education aid for the city.

But Democrats, who run the Assembly, continue to argue that most increased education funding should go to the highest - need schools, which would happen if it were put in the «foundation» funding pot by which most state aid is allocated, and which also was cut drastically during the economic downturn.

Ultimately, the measure was tucked into a massive education bill that included spending increases for school aid and an end to education cuts under the Gap Elimination Adjustment, a long - sought goal for Senate Republicans.

The Mayor's budget assumed a double - digit percentage increase in education aid even though the city received a year - to - year cut in last year's budget.

Sampson seemed to be pitching Cuomo on reconsidering his opposition to extending the so - called «millionaire's tax,» which is set to sunset at the end of the year, to reduce some of his deep cuts to Medicaid and education aid.

The cuts to education aid from the Gap Elimination Adjustment will be cut by «well over 50 percent» and a full restoration will be made next year, Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos on Monday told reporters.

Democratic Senate candidate Adam Haber on Monday released his first TV ad of the campaign — a 30 - second spot that largely sticks to pledges about cutting taxes, bolstering education and aiding the environment.

«Governor Cuomo's budget does not cut $ 1.4 billion in education aid to New York City.

The Education and Labor Committee made deep cuts in programs that it knew were politically sacred: Head Start and impact aid for local schools, and care for the elderly.

The 2011 - 12 state budget included a $ 1.2 billion cut to education aid at the urging of Gov. Andrew Cuomo.