Sentences with phrase «education aid over»

In the report, the group takes issue with how Cuomo interprets the decade - old ruling for education spending and the governor's rhetoric touting increases in education aid over the years.

Not exact matches

Here we examine student aid, costs of undergraduate education, and enrollment over time.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

«I'm so excited, I'm bubbling over,» said Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand after the US Senate cleared the way for New York to receive some $ 2.6 million worth of federal Medicaid funds and education aid.

The money raised by the taxes in part would go toward a potential boost in education spending, an apparent sticking point in the talks as lawmakers and Cuomo fight over what's known as foundation aid in the budget.

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, R - Nassau County, acknowledged yesterday's contretemps over $ 9.9 million in bullet aid for education became «testy» but defended the money, which was doled out exclusively to Republican - represented school districts.

Discussion over how to spend the settlement cash has included suggestions from the state Legislature that include boosting education aid, as well as funding new infrastructure projects.

«Under Governor Cuomo, state education aid has increased by $ 6.2 billion or 32 percent over six years, about 70 percent of which goes straight to high - needs schools.

Education aid, one of the costliest items in the budget aside from health care, is expected to increase by 4.8 percent in the current fiscal year and grow by 5.3 percent on average over the next three fical years.

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.

Earlier, the mayor had warned that stripping $ 1 billion in education aid could force the city to fire up to 21,000 teachers — roughly equivalent to every new teacher hired over the past five years.

«Over two years, we will have increased aid to education by 8.6 percent.

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.

Earlier in the day, Assembly Democrats unveiled plans to introduce a one - house budget proposal that increases education aid by $ 1.8 billion over the current fiscal year, including slicing the GEA nearly in half.

The New York State Educational Conference Board, a coalition of state education organizations, is calling for a $ 2 billion increase in school aid in the 2018 - 19 state budget, despite a looming deficit and uncertainty over federal spending.

Democratic lawmakers expressed disapproval for the education reform measures included in the spending plan, which boosts school aid by $ 1.3 billion over last year.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's budget this year increases education aid by about $ 990 million, with $ 2.1 billion being spent over the next two years and also ends the education cuts known as the gap elimination adjustment.

«Well, one of the most important things is the increase in over $ 1.1 billion in education aid,» Carlucci says.

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.

The Alliance for Quality Education looked at the school aid in the state budget allotted to 161 of the poorest schools among the over 700 districts in New York.

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

«The governor moved more than anyone could have anticipated,» said Billy Easton of the Alliance for Quality Education, one of the groups pushing to restore school aid and social service funding cut over the last three years of fiscal crisis.

The text of the budget bill relating to school aid, the groups say, suggests that «no district would receive an increase in aid over what it received in 2014 - 15» if Cuomo's education reform agenda isn't included.

A judge ruled that New York has met its «constitutional obligation» to provide enough aid to eight small - city schools, a key victory for the state in its fight with education groups over school funding.

There were still plenty of small things for the governor and legislative leaders to bicker over - education aid restorations, for example - but nothing that appeared to threaten to hold up the process.

Nixon has worked over the years with the Alliance for Quality Education, a group heavily funded by unions that has pushed for more equitable distribution of state aid to public schools.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP)-- New York lawmakers pressed top state education officials Tuesday to clarify how school districts can handle uncertainties in state aid levels and dissatisfaction over student assessments.

The budget was adopted a little over a week into the new fiscal year, which begins April 1, after compromises were reached among legislative leaders and Governor Andrew Cuomo on contentious issues such as raising the age of adult criminal responsibility, education aid, a college tuition affordability program, the allocation of large sums of affordable housing monies, and more.

Making the case for aid, Gates and his wife Melinda listed numerous successes through vaccination, education and agricultural programmes over the past decade.

The above agencies / departments operate in over thirty Developing Countries, providing aid for a range of activities in areas as diverse as health, education, agriculture, the environment, good governance, and human rights.

The bill raises K - 12 state aid by $ 120 million over the $ 4.5 billion fiscal 1998 education budget passed earlier this year.

Sub-Saharan Africa, home to over half of the world's out - of - school children now receives less than half the aid to basic education it obtained in 2002.

Reilly's perspective, honed over more than 30 years in the field, continues to mature asthe financial aid system in the United States undergoes yet another round of reforms, and American families fret over how to pay the ever escalating costs of higher education.

Total aid to education stands at US$ 12 billion — 4 % lower than in 2010 — while total development aid over the same period increased by 24 %.

What we need to do is to work alongside them to give them the right tools to engage with their students, aid in their teaching methods, give them freedom to personalize education to all students, and not be a barrier or try to take over.

Frustration over inequities in higher education dominated the annual College Board conference, as educators and administrators debated strategies to ensure fair admissions procedures and financial - aid processes.

When those changes are combined with the departures of six other panelists who retired, lost a re-election bid, or moved to the Senate, almost one - third of the 45 members of the Economic and Educational Opportunities Committee will be new to the intricacies of special education, student aid, vocational education, and other school issues facing the 105th Congress over the next...

But the impact - aid rules at the center of the dispute could cause similar disruption in other states and plunge the federal government into local controversies over education finance.

That sector deals with adults and, hence, has been less prone to regulation than K — 12 education, but it has nonetheless become increasingly subject to federal controls, including through accreditation and a Sword of Damocles — separation from student aid — hanging over institutions that, regardless of the mix of students they serve, do not meet federal performance metrics.

Media attention unfairly prioritizes some countries over others: more than half of available humanitarian aid to education was allocated to just 15 out of 342 appeals between 2000 and 2014.

Nicky Morgan has also released information concerning a second financial injection into the education sector, pledging over # 4 billion worth of allocations to schools, local authorities, academy trusts and voluntary aided partnerships.

President George W. Bush pointed out in his memoirs that federal - aid - to - education spending over the decades had not been improving the education of children from less - educated households.

Such quibbling over semantics may seem petty stuff, particularly when it's done over terminology, however, eLearning is described in the literature using a wide variety of terminology, such as e-Learning, eLearning, Computer Assisted Learning, Instructional Technology, Educational Technology, Information and Communication Technology, Computer Aided Learning, Computer Aided Assessment, Distance Education, and Computer - Mediated Communication (Bayne, 2015; Januszewski & Molenda, 2013; Moore, Dickson - Deane, & Galyen, 2011).

That's a huge expansion of federal higher education spending; for comparison, the Congressional Budget Office projects that the Pell Grant program, the biggest part of the federal financial aid budget right now, will cost $ 380 billion over the next 10 years.

This budget language has the effect of allowing school divisions to carry - over, for appropriation in fiscal year 2003, state fund balances for any Direct Aid to Public Education account with the exception of the SOL Algebra Readiness program and those required to meet the Standards of Quality (i.e., Basic Aid, Textbooks, Vocational EducationSOQ, Gifted Education, Special EducationSOQ, Remedial EducationSOQ, VRS Retirement, Social Security, and VRS Group Life).

Under the budget passed by the General Assembly this week, state funding for postsecondary education will be cut over the next two years, with total biennial decreases of 2.5 % for financial aid resources and for institutional funding.

Under the budget bill passed by the House last week, state funding for higher education will increase modestly over the next two years, with growth both in financial aid resources and institutional funding.

The Department of Education's responsibilities include gathering data to assess how well certain programs and grants are working, awards Pell grants federal financial aid through loans and provides oversight over state policies to prevent discrimination.

Local taxpayers have no say over charter school costs, which are deducted from a public school district's Chapter 70 state education aid, based on the number of students attending charter schools.

Attorney General George Jepsen's office filed an appeal Thursday asking the Connecticut Supreme Court to conclude that a trial judge embarked on «an uncharted and legally unsupported path» last week in asserting authority over how the state distributes education aid and sets standards for graduating from high school, serving special - needs students and evaluating teachers.