Sentences with phrase «to fill budget holes»
Pally and others argue that a lot has changed since 2009, when the recession caused the MTA to scramble to fill a budget hole of more than $ 1 billion.
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In instances where stimulus funds failed to fill budget holes completely, states and districts generally did not blaze a trail for reform, instead opting for temporary, shortsighted cuts designed to help them hunker down and ride out the current storm.
Instead of just filling budget holes as it did elsewhere, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act passed by Congress last February offered Arkansas — one of the few bright spots in a dismal national landscape for K - 12 spending — a rare opportunity...
Filling the budget holes of upstate cities can't be done with such legerdemain.
The Democratic governor's latest proposal, one that would effectively allow the state to capture «excess reserves» from Fidelis, is still on the table, and though legislators have expressed discomfort with the proposal, they may need to accept it to fill a budget hole that is somewhere between $ 400 million and $ 500 million.
The law stipulated that states first use their allotments to fill budget holes and, instead of giving states the opportunity to reconsider their allocation of resources, it mandated that they use their existing funding formulas.
Moreover, charter school can not ask for tax increases to fill the budget holes.
But in most states, local governments depend on property taxes to raise money for education, which means that poor communities have less wherewithal than affluent ones to fill budget holes.
Savings that districts realize in their local special education expenditures should be allowed to be reallocated to the general education budget — or to fill budget holes — so administrators can dedicate these resources in a manner that best serves all of their students.
Nations and states use the revenue to reduce other taxes, fund clean energy projects, and fill budget holes.
The government on Thursday revealed plans to withdraw 121 billion kroner ($ 15 billion) from the $ 890 billion fund next year as part of an oil - fed spending bonanza that's filling a budget hole that's almost 8 percent of gross domestic product.