Sentences with phrase «increasing ties to governor»
Disappointed by his increasing ties to Governor Cuomo, Langworthy's committee dropped its support of Grisanti two years later.
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The governor tried unsuccessfully late last year to tie many of these reform ideas to a legislative pay increase that many lawmakers — especially the downstaters — desperately wanted after going since January 1999 without a boost in their base salary of $ 79,500.
Typically, schools use the governor's budget proposal as a working point for crafting budgets, but this year Cuomo has proposed tying $ 1.1 billion in school aid increases to his education reforms, including teacher evaluations.
He says he expects Governor Cuomo's proposals to toughen teacher evaluations and tie increased school aid to expanding charter schools will be «tough areas» of the budget to negotiate.
The state aid increase should not have been tied to the governor's teacher evaluation proposal, which in turn should not be increasingly based on test scores, said David Gamberg, who is superintendent of both the Greenport and Southold districts.
The Democratic Assembly Majority is pushing its favorite items in a different form than the governor has included - a minimum wage increase larger than Cuomo's, a DREAM act resolution that isn't tied to an education tax credit, and a seven - rather than three - year extension of mayoral control of schools.
«I think it's awful that the governor's representatives here think that he should be king... I would like to recommend that everybody get a salary increase that is not tied to anything except for the fact that we need good people.»
But after a near mutiny by upstate Republican senators, Cuomo and the Legislature agreed to raise the wage upstate to just $ 12.50 an hour over five years with future increases designed to get to $ 15 an hour tied to a formula that will be set by the governor's Division of Budget, in consultation with the state Department of Labor.
This week, as part of his proposed budget, the governor is tying a four percent increase in the $ 20 billion in subsidies given by the state to traditional school districts and charter schools to implementation of the new teacher evaluation system by next year.
Today, U.S. Secretary Arnie Duncan and Governor Dan Malloy will be holding a press conference about «education reform» and the Connecticut legislation that increases the number of standardized tests, seeks to improve test scores and begins the process of tying test scores to teacher evaluations so that administrators can determine which teachers to keep and which to let go.
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.
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