Sentences with phrase «gap elimination»

The budget will include a complete end to the school aid cuts under gap elimination adjustment, a move that impacts predominantly suburban school districts.

The plan would call for an investment in infrastructure as well and end the controversial gap elimination adjustment for school funding.

Superintendent Hoose says declining enrollment and the demise of Gap Elimination Adjustment funds from the state puts many districts the size of Cortland under fiscal stress.

Farrell said the district received the amount of Gap Elimination Adjustment funds it had anticipated, with $ 54,000 bringing the district, like all money due across the state, to full restoration.

Nozzolio: New York should use $ 3.3 billion from BNP Paribas settlement for school aid, end Gap Elimination Adjustment

These groups have concluded that restoring Gap Elimination Adjustment cuts within a single year would benefit mostly districts of moderate wealth, because the poorer districts already have had most of that money returned.

Like other districts across the state, Keene Central benefited from a restoration in Gap Elimination Adjustment funds.

Senate Republicans on Tuesday returned to familiar, and politically fertile ground: The push to end the so - called gap elimination adjustment for education spending in the state.

The state Senate voted (again) to end gap elimination aid — a policy that allowed the state to withhold a portion of school funding from local districts to prop up the state's overall budget.

Sen. Kathy Marchione questioned whether the money for public financing would be better spent on gap elimination aid for education, while Sen. Greg Ball threw a pointed jab at Democratic Sen. Cecilia Tkaczyk, wondering out loud about independent expenditure groups funded by «Soros.»

Senate Republican Majority Leader John Flanagan reiterated on Wednesday that his conference, which holds the bare 32 - vote majority needed to pass legislation in that chamber, will not approve a state budget that does not entirely eliminate the remaining Gap Elimination Adjustment, a leftover from the 2008 fiscal meltdown.

To limit school aid growth in future years, the budget proposes a new Gap Elimination Adjustment formula in permanent law that limits growth in the out - years based on the growth in personal income.

Morris Peters, a spokesman for the state Division of the Budget, said in a statement to Newsday: «Governor Cuomo ended the [Gap Elimination Adjustment] once and for all last year, which is appropriately reflected on the school aid runs.

Over the last several years, I have heard from hundreds of parents, teachers, school board members, school superintendents and administrators with the same message; put an end to the disastrous Gap Elimination Adjustment (GEA)!

The budget would get rid of gap elimination adjustment this fiscal year — a major priority of Senate Republicans.

Despite the pomp and circumstance across the state, the reinstatement of Gap Elimination Adjustment funds was anemic for Westport Central.

Senate Education Committee Chairman John Flanagan, however, did expect to see the Senate add $ 217 million more in gap elimination aid than Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposed.

In a news conference outside of the Senate chamber, school organizations called for a bump in state aid for districts of $ 2.2 billion in the coming 2016 - 17 budget year, along with a complete elimination of the so - called Gap Elimination Adjustment while also pledging to fully fund Foundation Aid that helps poorer districts.

«We were able to get $ 1.7 billion to schools and classrooms and an increase in foundation aid and end gap elimination,» he said, referring to a school aid take back that ended this year.

Erie County Legislator Edward Rath announces that the Erie County Legislature unanimously approved a resolution he sponsored calling for the repeal of the State's Gap Elimination Adjustment Law that has caused a large financial burden for school districts the past six years.

The Democratic - led Assembly wants a $ 1.8 billion increase in education funding, the Republican - controlled Senate wants a $ 1.9 billion boost that helps end the Gap Elimination Adjustment.

But Senate Republicans say they have a lot to cheer in the year since Flanagan took over, including $ 4.2 billion middle - class income tax cut, a complete end to the Gap Elimination Adjustment along with a return to parity in upstate - downstate transportation funding.

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.

Also among the calculations for the Senate Republicans was the budget containing a number of their proposals, including an end to the education cuts under the gap elimination adjustment as well as a $ 1 billion tax cut.

They voted «aye» on all five, which contained the Gap Elimination Adjustment, which cost LI taxpayers alone more than $ 1.3 billion.

State aid in recent years has actually increased in state spending plans, while the budget this year closed the gap elimination adjustment.

The spending plan included a long - sought Senate GOP goal of restoring $ 434 million in cuts from the Gap Elimination Adjustment to education spending.

In a release announcing her re-election campaign, Serino touted her efforts for increase school aid and an end to the gap elimination adjustment as well as an extension of the property tax cap.

The latest TV ad from Democratic Senate candidate Todd Kaminsky touts the passage of the state budget in Albany, specifically mention issues close to Senate Republicans: A $ 1 billion tax cut and an end to the Gap Elimination Adjustment.

More broadly, Skoufis cheered the end of the Gap Elimination Adjustment as well as a tuition freeze at public colleges and universities in the state budget.

The budget that year also ensured the end of the gap elimination adjustment for school funding, a concern Republican lawmakers had campaign on since it was put in place.

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.

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.

The lost money, known as the Gap Elimination Adjustment or GEA, was cut from districts» revenues in 2010 and 2011, in response to a statewide fiscal crunch.

Worked with the Legislature and Governor to successfully advocate for a significant investment in State Aid and to eliminate the Gap Elimination Adjustment (GEA);

However, he noted, the State Senate is committed to eliminating the Gap Elimination Adjustment and increasing Foundation Aid funding.

Lawmakers should move forward with enough of the fair - share revenue options outlined in this report to ensure that this year's state budget includes $ 2.2 billion in new school aid to comply with CFE and pay down Gap Elimination Adjustment arrears.

Data from the State Education Department shows that public schools in New York State are owed $ 5.9 billion in Foundation Aid and Gap Elimination Adjustment funding.

In recent years, the state aid runs have also signaled how money will be apportioned in the Foundation Aid formula or to reduce the Gap Elimination Adjustment.

«This is the year the state should significantly increase the Foundation Formula, eliminate the Gap Elimination Adjustment and make good on its commitment that, no matter where students live or go to school, they have the opportunity for the sound, basic education the New York Constitution requires.»

The measure, contained in a budget bill that included a boost in state aid for education and the end of the Gap Elimination Adjustment, was approved unanimously by Republicans in the state Senate.

Unshackle Upstate's Brian Sampson says in a TU OpEd that state taxpayer dollars slated for a public campaign finance system would be better spent on repairing aging infrastructure, expediting ongoing storm recovery efforts, restoring the Gap Elimination Adjustment, or providing tax relief for struggling middle - class families.

The conference is still seeking an end to the gap elimination adjustment for school districts, which Cuomo's budget only partially addresses.

The Budget fully eliminates the outstanding $ 434 million Gap Elimination Adjustment.

Cuomo has proposed a $ 990 million increase in education aid and a partial end to the cuts in the Gap Elimination Adjustment.

Remember this: Democrats passed the GEA (Gap Elimination Adjustment) when they last controlled the senate.

«The data shows school districts continue to be in a prolonged period of fiscal stress due to the continuation of the Gap Elimination Adjustment (GEA), failure to fully fund the Foundation Aid formula and cap on local revenues,» said Michael J. Borges, NYSASBO's Executive Director.