Sentences with phrase «from state mandates»

But relief from state mandates addresses the major cause of high local property taxes.

As usual, he's offering no relief from state mandates that drive up local costs.

We must return teacher evaluation to local districts free from state mandates by repealing New York State Education Laws 3012 - c and 3012 - d.

Potential 2018 gubernatorial candidate Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro says Cuomo's proposal for counties to put shared - services plans before voters is an attempt to divert the public's attention from state mandates being the root of local tax increases.

Overall results from their state mandated assessments for the past few years were low and not improving.

Yes but unfortunately upstate has to work under the state umbrella which means upstate gets to pay the same crazy state taxes that we all pay and then the locals get suffocated from state mandates, like the most generous Medicaid program in the country.

Governor Cuomo's plan to cap property taxes and deliver relief from state mandates marks a giant first step toward reversing that trend.»

Onondaga County Legislature Chairman Ryan McMahon said while he appreciates the governor's focus on lowering property taxes, he said the way to go is to provide relief from state mandates like Medicaid that are passed on to local governments.

One proposal championed by former Erie County Executive and now Congressman Chris Collins, would grant relief to New York State Counties from the state mandate that we pick up roughly half of the non-federal share of Medicaid costs.

It's her final budget, since she can not run again due to term limits, and she says keeping taxes from rising is a challenge, given the big impact the county always faces from state mandates.

It will take a major shift from state mandated reform and compliance to creating the conditions in which schools themselves devise the means for continuously improving their performance.

Culbertson says that broad agreement exists among educators and policymakers that «good work can happen without state requirements,» such as districts piloting expanded early education SEL standards independent from any state mandate to do so.

This bill further provides that an educator is not: (1) Required to spend the educator's personal money to appropriately equip a classroom; (2) Evaluated by professionals, under the teacher evaluation advisory committee, without the same subject matter expertise as the educator; (3) Evaluated based on the performance of students whom the educator has never taught; or (4) Relocated to a different school based solely on test scores from state mandated assessments.

This is different from the state mandated clinical evaluation / Drug and Alcohol evaluation and can only be administered by a certified traffic school.

To get there we must first repeal Education Law 3012 - c and 3012 - d and return teacher evaluation to local districts, free from state mandates.

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. >> Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro says Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposal for counties to put shared - services plans before voters is an attempt to divert the public's attention from state mandates being the root of local tax increases.

Flanagan said without additional money, New York's taxpayers will have to finance the Medicaid cuts one way or the other, so it won't be the true relief from state mandates that many Republican senators have sought in the past.

The assemblyman has tried to muddy the waters on his vote, sending out a mailer earlier this year that claimed he «favors a tax cap and relief from state mandates.»

Local officials say that would force them to slash already thin services unless the tax cap exempts state mandates like employee health care and pensions, or is at least tied to relief from state mandates and regulations.

Charter schools by their nature are free from state mandates, so they can come up with new ways to educate children, including doing the most with what they get, Smith said.