Sentences with phrase «flexibility in the state budget»

More than 40 school districts use this flexibility in the state budget to hire more teachers.

Not exact matches

«As the Legislature looks to return to Albany in the coming days to finalize the remaining piece of the state budget, I wish to inform residents in the 58th Senate District that I will unreservedly continue my fight for the inclusion of UB 2020 Flexibility and Economic Growth Act in our final negotiations,» Stachowski said in a statement.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo in an interview on Sunday called his effort to gain more «flexibility» over the budget after its approval a «major sticking point» with lawmakers, but a necessary move given the potential for federal actions that could negatively impact the state.

Cuomo's budget director, Robert Megna, rebuts DiNapoli's charges, saying the governor needs more «flexibility» in the budget to improve efficiencies for things like procurement, and the consolidation of information technology among state agencies.

Here's perhaps the best proof of the flexibility the governor has in state spending: for all the uproar among gun rights advocates over the SAFE Act ammunition database, no one has ever identified a provision of the budget which funds the state's separate rifle registration system, which had tallied more than 44,000 records by 2015 without ever once being mentioned in the governor's budget requests.

In a statement, the governor said, «extending the state budget also allows us flexibility to adjust to future federal changes, which if enacted, could cost the state billions.

«As the Legislature looks to return to Albany in the coming days to finalize the remaining piece of the state budget, I wish to inform residents in the 58th Senate District that I will unreservedly continue my fight for the inclusion of UB 2020 Flexibility and Economic Growth Act in our final negotiations.»

So when the state gave local school districts more flexibility in creating their budgets to serve students more equitably, Olson made sure that attendance figured prominently in his spending plan.

School district leaders say a GOP - authored budget mandate that schools trim class sizes in grades K - 3 beginning with the 2017 - 2018 academic year will have major consequences in North Carolina public school districts without additional state funding or staffing flexibility for district leaders.

A recent San Francisco Chronicle article points to the nearly 90 charter schools that may open this fall, in part because «flexibility is allowing charter schools to grow as other public schools are undoing a series of education reforms that began more than a decade ago when California's state budget was flush with cash.»

The «skinny» budget also strips states and districts of flexibilities available under ESSA before they can ever be used, limiting the ability of Chiefs to affect meaningful change that will improve teaching and learning and lead to dramatic progress in academic outcomes for all kids.

The final budget bill cut state K - 12 spending by nearly $ 800 million, over7 percent — the largest amount in Wisconsin's history — and limited local governments» abilities to make up for these cuts through property taxes.14 That same year, Gov. Walker passed major tax cuts primarily targeted toward corporations and the wealthy that totaled $ 2.33 billion over 10 years.15 Gov. Walker and Act 10 proponents argued that the bill's reforms would allow schools to offset these cuts by reducing teachers» benefits and hiring lower - paid teachers, preventing budget cuts from affecting students.16 Gov. Walker also argued that eliminating requirements to bargain over salary structures, hiring, and working conditions would give schools additional flexibility needed to attract and retain higher - quality teachers.17

On the other hand, if the calculated amount is too small or does not grow proportionately to match an increase in enrollment because more people fall below the poverty line, then the states would have less flexibility to provide care because they would be restricted by a smaller budget.