Sentences with phrase «increase public school aid»

ELIZABETHTOWN As the state enters choppy fiscal waters, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has proposed increasing public school aid by 3 percent this year.

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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.

We need to hold the line on property taxes, continue helping Superstorm Sandy victims get back in their homes, work to increase aid to our local public schools, and fight the scourge of opioid abuse that has plagued Long Island.

«The state's rapidly improving economic picture means there's a real opportunity for the state to more fully invest in its public schools, including dedicating new money to Foundation Aid as a way of increasing equity and further helping students to thrive,» said NYSUT President Andy Pallotta.

He has long expressed frustration with the efforts by public education and teachers union organizations lobbying and pressuring him to increase school aid.

Cuomo later angered teachers by pushing a new evaluation system, and he has increased aid to public schools at a level that they say is not adequate.

[31] The spending included a record $ 1.8 billion aid increase to local school districts, and $ 2.5 billion in aid for construction projects at state and city public colleges.

Young said she was proud of the GOP conference's action on a set of women's issues, including increases in public school aid, stronger equal - pay protections and bills to crack down on human trafficking.

ALBANY — After a two - hour debate that touched on climate change and several anti-Semitic incidents at the City University of New York, Republicans in the state Senate endorsed a one - house budget resolution that shifts costs to New York City, increases aid for public schools and cuts taxes for middle - income New Yorkers.

Breen was referring to a lack of additional state aid to municipalities, (AIM), and the fact that the Yonkers Public Schools did not receive additional education aid above and beyond the xx increases given to school districts statewide.

The $ 13.6 million increase in state aid that Cuomo proposed for the Buffalo Public Schools in his 2017 budget will come in handy.

Mulgrew welcomed the Council's support in two statewide initiatives: lobbying Albany to increase state aid in light of the $ 2 billion the state owes New York City public schools as a result of the Campaign for Fiscal Equity court settlement, and supporting full funding for Teacher Centers.

They also said the governor is proposing a $ 1 billion increase in aid to public schools and assumes the level of health care funding from the federal government will remain flat for the next fiscal year.

ALBANY — A deal that would link future increases in per - pupil charter school aid to public school funding could be breaking the logjam around the state's $ 150 - plus billion budget.

If the State Legislature approves the Assembly's budget increase for education aid — it could mean more funding for Buffalo Public Schools.

The K - 12 budget's Foundation Aid increase of $ 700 million will help address the resource needs of New York's public schools, which remain among the most inequitably funded in the nation.

According to the administration, the budget will increase aid to public schools by $ 1.5 billion and maintain tuition rates at SUNY and CUNY.

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.

This year we built upon those numbers by investing a record $ 1.2 billion, a $ 700 million increase, in Foundation Aid which is critical to our students in public schools.

Along with his running mate for lieutenant governor, Brian Jones, a former Harlem elementary school teacher and active union member, Hawkins supports expanding public education from full - day Pre-K through college and increasing state aid to local schools.

De Blasio called the bill «fiscally responsible,» but State Senator José Peralta told Gay City that he and other elected officials in Queens have been begging the administration for increased funding for crossing guards — something that would demonstrably aid the safety of public and private school students — only to be told that there is no money for it.

As WAMC's Southern Adirondack Bureau Chief Lucas Willard reports, Schenectady's public school district is celebrating a big increase in state aid over last year.

Indeed, while announced plans to increase tuition and child care subsidies will compete with expected increases in Medicaid and public school aid in the operating budget, the state has more options for building projects.

The Assembly wants to increase state aid to public schools by $ 1.8 billion, or $ 864 million more than Cuomo proposed.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has called for a $ 1 billion increase in state aid to public schools while proposing a change to the formula used to distribute education aid statewide.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has proposed a $ 1 billion increase in state aid to public schools while proposing a change to the formula used to distribute education aid statewide.

The governor sought to put pressure on Senate Republicans, who oppose extending the millionaire's tax, by saying in a Jan. 24 speech that there can be no increase in aid to public schools unless legislators vote to continue the income tax surcharge on millionaires.

In interviews with over a dozen state committee members, Capital heard common frustration with Cuomo's fiscal record — he blocked an income tax hike on wealthy city residents, cut corporate taxes, reduced school aid in 2011 (and slowly dialed it back up), reduced pensions for newly hired public workers and pushed for a cap on local property tax increases.

-- Charter schools will see roughly $ 50 million in additional aid this year, and increases to their tuition aid will be linked to overall state assistance to public schools.

The budget will increase spending for K - 12 public schools by $ 1.1 billion in the coming fiscal year, Cuomo said, and routes $ 700 million through the foundation aid formula.

The $ 430 - per - pupil aid to charter schools is aimed at keeping pace with increases for traditional public schools, Cuomo said Thursday night in his budget briefing.

In his first budget address to the legislature, Murphy said he would use the extra revenue to ramp up state aid for school districts, increase funding for the beleaguered NJ Transit and a make a larger payment into the cash - strapped public worker pension system.

In their meetings with lawmakers, UFT members advocated for a substantial state funding increase, noting that Albany still owes New York City public schools $ 2 billion as a result of the 2016 settlement of the Campaign for Fiscal Equity school aid lawsuit.

At the event, Jones, who serves as Franklin County Chairman, introduced his education platform, which includes increasing state aid to public schools and the elimination of the Common Core, which he said places teachers and students in high - pressure environments with «high stakes» testing.

The New York State legislature this month passed a $ 462 - million increase in state aid to public schools, bringing to nearly $ 1 billion the amount of new money it has invested in elementary and secondary education in the past two years.

Gergen also spoke about the need to increase student funding and financial aid at Harvard's public - service schools in order to attract the best students and lessen the burden of education debt.

By using the threat of effectively denying the children of military personnel access to public education, the bill seeks to force the federal government either to increase its impact - aid payments to districts or to establish separate schools, with full federal funding, on the bases.

Gov. Jim Edgar of Illinois has proposed to use an anticipated increase in profits from the state lottery to fund a $ 30 - million increase in state aid for public schools.

My new book, Presidents, Congress, and the Public Schools (Harvard Education Press, March 2015) contains such a proposal: states would be encouraged to adopt research - based improvements while the federal government provides increased funding and more flexible financial aid to help address these basic issues.

The funding increases in this legislation, including special education grants under the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), Title I, and Impact Aid are critical for America's public schools to continue to improve and educate a growing and diverse population of students.

That's because along with the per - pupil increase and some boosts in aid, the committee's recommendation shifts a hefty chunk of tax dollars to private voucher schools, funding that could have restored public education funding that's been lost to years of cuts.

Currently, the transfer amount is indexed to general and categorical aid increases to public schools in the same way per pupil payments to private voucher schools and independent charter school payments are adjusted — which accounts for the governor's proposed increase for private school tuition subsidies of $ 217 per pupil.

For the third time in four years, state Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Evers proposes changing the way public schools are funded and increasing statPublic Instruction Tony Evers proposes changing the way public schools are funded and increasing statpublic schools are funded and increasing state aid.

Half of those funds went to local school districts to prevent layoffs and cutbacks, 17 percent went to increase student financial aid, and 10 percent went to aid low - income public school students.

Malloy claims that his «initiative» is providing Connecticut's 30 most struggling school districts with another $ 132 million in state aid, but the truth is that this year's increase is only about $ 45 million and that in order to get those funds, school districts were required to accept a series of new mandates and programs aimed at further implementing Malloy's corporate education reform agenda and diverting scarce public dollars to private companies.

In response to this letter, Christie allocated an additional $ 27 million to Newark Public Schools as a form of «transitional aid» to help ameliorate increased tuition payments to charter sSchools as a form of «transitional aid» to help ameliorate increased tuition payments to charter schoolsschools.

This is a familiar tactic for Governor Cuomo who originally tied the tax credit together with the Dream Act and whose budget negotiation stance insisted that any increase in state aid for public schools had to be connected to his test - centric teacher evaluation plans.

Walker said that even after the aid increases in his proposed budget, choice schools would be getting «about half» the per - pupil funds that public schools receive.

He spoke out against the governor's successful push to strip most public employees of collective bargaining rights, and Evers has also advocated for significant increases in school funding — both by increasing state aid to schools and by allowing local school districts to raise additional revenue through property taxes.

The dramatic increase in charter costs compounds the financial hardship for public school districts reeling from a 4 % cut in state education aid because of declining state tax revenue.