Sentences with phrase «foundation aid»

Advocates estimate the state still owes $ 4.3 billion in foundation aid to school districts across the state.

The move is expected to generate about $ 100 million in savings to the state and would be added to foundation aid for the next school year.

That could be done through adjusting foundation aid, the largest source of funding for the state's public schools.

David Sciarra of the New Jersey - based Education Law Center, which has taken over the CFE's legal efforts, said the tour also provided evidence for potential use in a sequel of sorts to the original CFE lawsuit, which was thought to have been resolved by the 2007 establishment of a state foundation aid formula.

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.

The biggest shares of foundation aid go to school systems in New York City and other urban and poor suburban areas.

Fighting for the restoration and full funding of state foundation aid as soon as possible tops the UFT's legislative agenda this year, he said.

All of these issues are apparently linked, as tends to happen this time of the year, with a push for the 421a real estate tax abatement by Republican lawmakers underway, along with Democrats trying to preserve foundation aid funding for public schools.

Cuomo's $ 168 billion budget proposal increases school aid y $ 769 million, with foundation aid due to grow by $ 338 million.

Cuomo has long pushed back against calls from public education advocates to increase annual school foundation aid in the budget by more than $ 1 billion.

Assemblyman Phil Steck said getting districts like Schenectady their fair share of so - called foundation aid remains one of his top priorities.

Ravitch pointed to Hawkins» opposition to hydrofracking, support for a full - time Legislature that would ban outside employment for state lawmakers and full foundation aid for public schools.

«Our goal is to drive additional dollars into foundation aid, which is more flexible and is distributed by a more progressive formula,» said state Budget Division spokesman Morris Peters.

Testifying in Albany on the governor's proposed budget on Jan. 31, UFT President Michael Mulgrew called on state lawmakers to boost foundation aid for public schools in the face of fiscal threats from the federal government.

«I believe we'll find more foundation aid for charter schools because they are public schools.»

Almost 70 percent of the $ 338 million foundation aid hike Cuomo proposes will go to cover what districts have to pay into the teachers» retirement system, Kremer said.

No one asked me that question,» said Elia, referring to the governor's proposed foundation aid increase.

The pontifical foundation Aid to the Church in Need and a coalition of other Catholic Italian non-governmental organizations that are co-sponsoring this performance art are counting on this unlikely juxtaposition.

«We have huge inequalities in this state, and foundation aid deals with that,» said Billy Easton, executive director of the Albany - based Alliance.

Both the Assembly and Senate want to increase foundation aid beyond the $ 266 million proposed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

«It does not provide foundation aid for the CFE decision to make our education system whole.

But he did revise a previously planned 4 percent bump in education funding to 3 percent — that's a $ 769 million increase as opposed to $ 1.2 billion — while foundation aid will see a $ 338 million proposed increase.

Another lawmaker, Sen. Jim Tedisco, said foundation aid as proposed by Cuomo, some $ 300 million in increases, will double.

It took a little longer, but our hard work yielded results: The new state budget increases education aid by $ 1.1 billion, which includes $ 700 million in additional foundation aid for school districts.

«We are respectfully requesting on behalf of our communities that we enter budget negotiations with the objective of securing an additional $ 300 million in foundation aid above and beyond what is contained in the Assembly one - house budget bill.»

Buffalo Public Schools received close to $ 465 million in foundation aid during the last school year.

Iannuzzi was on CapTon earlier this week to discuss the possibility of a new legal challenge of what education advocates say is a long - standing inequity in the state's foundation aid formula that disproportionately hurts low - income districts.

After finally closing the Gap Elimination Adjustment last year, this session we will work towards accelerating the implementation of foundation aid to fairly fund our schools,» said Sen. David Valesky, the conference's deputy leader and a Syracuse lawmaker.

St. Paul — Only weeks after going into effect this fall, Minnesota's «open enrollment» plan, which allows 11th - and 12th - grade students to take college courses with tuition paid by per - pupil state foundation aid, has come under sharp attack on economic and constitutional grounds.

A spokesman for the governor, Rich Azzopardi, said 80 percent of the major portion of the state's school aid, known as foundation aid, already is directed to the state's neediest schools.

He wanted to scrap the basic formula for determining how much funding schools will get — called foundation aid.

In an Albany TU OpEd, former Gov. Eliot Spitzer takes on Cuomo over his effort to do away with foundation aid, which was set up to settle the CFE case, but never fully funded.

Earlier this week, the Assembly proposed $ 1.1 billion in statewide school foundation aid, as part of that chamber's budget resolution, and the Senate proposed $ 880 million.

«Some of the other key pieces of legislation in this budget is continuing the monitor in the East Ramapo School District as well as a fund, a dedicated fund, of $ 3 million to keep full - day kindergarten, programs like music and art, as well as an increase in foundation aid of about $ 1 million for East Ramapo as well.

AQE and its allies have sought a $ 1.2 billion in increase in foundation aid for education, a figure it says works to satisfy the terms of an equitable funding lawsuit.

«Everyone understands we want to increase foundation aid but we also run into a 2 percent spending cap as well as a 4 percent spending cap on education,» said Sen. Jeff Klein, the leader of the Independent Democratic Conference.

The association released it's 2014 budget recommendations this week and the proposal includes phasing out the gap elimination adjustment and phasing in the foundation aid formula.

The foundation aid increase backed by the Assembly stands at $ 1.2 billion, a figure backed by public education advocates who say the state is not spending enough on poor and high - needs school districts.

Cuomo wants to spend an additional $ 960 million on education, including $ 428 million in foundation aid.

School districts in this year's budget did receive a boost in foundation aid as well as a complete end to the Gap Elimination Adjustment.

Meanwhile, more details on spending are trickling out: The state will increase education spending by $ 1 billion, including a $ 619 million hike in foundation aid and $ 240 million more in expense - based aid.

The state came up with the «foundation aid» formula in 2007 to comply with a 2006 court ruling aimed at helping New York's poorer public schools following a Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit.

The Regents have recommended a $ 2.4 billion boost, with $ 1.3 billion going to foundation aid and more than $ 400 million to GEA restoration.

«I think overall in the budget we still had the third highest increase in foundation aid, free college tuition, raise the age was near and dear to us,» he said.

FPI prepared the data for this report this report from the Alliance for Quality Education — showing that the proposed cuts in foundation aid in the executive budget disproportionately hurt students from poor households.

Tallon, a former Assembly majority leader, said the Regents feel strongly that the foundation aid needs to get back on track, and it's worth having that discussion with the governor and the Legislature.

There are more landmine up ahead as well, including a likely push from lawmakers in both parties to add more money to the proposed $ 338 million increase in foundation aid and, from Assembly Democrats, opposition to an increase in charter school tuition aid.

The foundation aid program came out of a 2006 court decision that found the state had long underfunded New York City schools.