Sentences with phrase «local education revenues»

I previously addressed the question of whether local education revenues are compatible with the principles of student - centered funding.

The $ 37 billion in the stimulus package that is intended to offset reduced state and local education revenues, which were down 4.6 percent for the first quarter of 2009, will cushion what would otherwise have been the first significant per - pupil spending reduction in 60 years.

The $ 37 billion in the stimulus package that is intended to offset reduced state and local education revenues, which were down 4.6 percent for the first quarter of 2009, will cushion what would otherwise have been the first significant per - pupil spending reduction in 60 years, explain Guthrie and Peng.

The fact that eight of the 14 cities in our study provided essentially no local education revenue to their public charter schools is shameful.

The $ 37 billion in the stimulus package that is intended to offset reduced state and local education revenue in 2009 will cushion what would otherwise likely have been the first significant per - pupil spending reduction in 60 years.

Not exact matches

Revenue from this tax funds education, public safety, public health and other needs in local communities where barrels are stored.

While property taxes in the state serve as an important source of revenue for local governments and public services (including public education) the average Alabama homeowner pays just $ 550 per year in property taxes.

Property taxes in North Carolina are a key source of revenue for local governments, providing funding for services such as public education and law enforcement.

Cuomo proposed using some of a $ 4 billion surplus, which he acknowledged was a «one - shot» revenue source from numerous financial settlements, on infrastructure spending, education and for helping local governments find ways to share services as part of an overall economic development boost for the upstate region.

The Niagara Falls Board of Education and Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center each received 5.5 percent or $ 750,000 of the local casino revenue each year, whichever is less.

The credit rating agency Moody's in a report released Thursday enumerated the challenges facing the state's budget, including faltering tax revenue, increasing costs for Medicaid and education, and the capping of state and local tax deductions by Congress.

After the decision, Gov. George Pataki's administration, though a special commission, concluded that $ 1.9 billion in additional combined state, local and federal revenues, to be phased in over a five - year period, was a valid determination of the cost of providing a sound basic education in New York City.

The Senate Republicans» budget restores $ 280 million worth of education cuts proposed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, eliminates $ 296 million in unfunded mandates for local governments and spend slightly less overall than the governor ($ 132.5 billion, to $ 132.9 billion)-- all without any new revenue generators (AKA taxes).

Even if revenue falls short of expectations, education and local governments are benefiting, Cuomo said.

By law, every new dollar of state revenue must go to education aid, property tax relief, and assistance to local governments.

In the next decade, the sweeping changes to the tax code could put $ 370 billion worth of state and local revenue and 370,000 education jobs at risk, according to a state - by - state analysis by the National Education Asseducation jobs at risk, according to a state - by - state analysis by the National Education AssEducation Association.

Any additional unspent funds from this revenue would be held in a new priority reserve fund to be dedicated towards future needs regarding «job creation, local mandate relief, education, health care and mortgage foreclosure protection.»

Cuomo said even if revenue falls short, education and local governments are benefiting.

What are the short and long term implications for essential services, local taxpayers and the state's economy of the freezes and cuts in revenue sharing with cities, towns and villages and in state aid to education have helped the state to balance its own budgets in recent years?

Co-sponsored legislation and supported efforts to combat the Heroin and Opioid crisis, including a policy to raise additional revenue for education and prevention, creating a Family Advocate to help individuals and families navigate insurance and other issues while seeking treatment and supporting local advocacy groups.

Soon after President Richard Nixon took office in 1969, it was widely reported that his administration was considering a federal VAT with the revenue to be shared with state and local governments to reduce their reliance on property taxes and to fund education spending.

He added that he hopes the governor's tax proposals will be put together in a way that «allows schools to raise the local revenues that they need to ensure each and every child a quality education.»

But the mayor noted that seeking additional revenue from valuable property owners in Albany such as Albany Medical Center or imposing student fees at local higher - education institutions would likely result in those entities or groups clamoring for the state to either block the local efforts or pick up the costs.

They also employ women in the slums to make lingerie bags and 2 % of Naja's revenue is donated to local charities that provide education to these women.

Using census data to sort districts within each state by the federal poverty rate among school - age children, the group identified the poorest and richest districts - those with the highest and lowest poverty rates, respectively, whose enrollments compose 25 percent of the state's total enrollment - and matched that information with education revenues from state and local (but not federal) sources.

I explore three broad hypotheses for why African Americans might not have benefited as much as whites from the funding initiatives: 1) kindergarten funding disproportionately drew African Americans out of higher - quality education settings; 2) instead of raising additional revenue to fund local kindergarten programs fully, school districts offered lower - quality kindergarten programs to African Americans or moved funds from existing school programs from which African Americans may have disproportionately benefited; and 3) African Americans were more adversely affected by any subsequent «upgrading» of school curricula as more students entered elementary grades having attended kindergarten.

Nevada is one of only 10 states with negative wealth - neutrality scores, meaning that, on average, property - poor districts actually have more state and local revenue for education than wealthy districts do.

The issue is a major one for education, since property - tax receipts account for nearly all local school revenues in the state.

Extra revenue received via the ESG (Education Services Grant) can be spent on much - needed resources, which a local authority school would not have previously been able to afford.

In particular, K - 12 education relies heavily on local revenues, which on average contribute approximately 44 percent to the education budget (Johnson et al., 2011), with these dollars drawn mostly from local property taxes.

States spend between one - third and one - half of their budgets on elementary and secondary education, and the revenue available to state and local governments is shrinking fast.

Among these conditions are 1) education's privileged legal status in most state constitutions; 2) schooling's uniquely decentralized operation and diffuse revenue - generation structure; 3) local political dynamics and institutions that foster a favorable fiscal environment for public schools; 4) a multitiered structure for funding schools with complicated intergovernmental funding incentives and reliance on inelastic tax sources, such as property taxes at the local level.

But Oklahoma is one of only 10 states with negative wealth - neutrality scores, meaning that, on average, property - poor districts actually have more state and local revenue for education than wealthy districts do.

The state ranks 45th out of the 50 states on the wealth - neutrality score, which indicates that inequities in state and local revenue for education are tied substantially to local property wealth.

Opponents of mandated MLO revenue sharing argued that it would infringe upon the cherished principle of local control, particularly at a time of lagging state support for education.

Walker's latest budget proposes a $ 129 million general aid increase to K — 12 education, but a freeze on property - tax limits suggests that this revenue will be used to replace a portion of local money rather than increase funding as a whole.

Beyond raising local revenues, school districts have few options for preserving investments in education.

Jen Walmer, state director of Democrats for Education Reform, explained, «Our focus was always on ensuring that all kids enrolled in public schools — including charter schools — had equal access to local revenues.

An Education Intelligence Agency analysis of 2010 - 11 Internal Revenue Service filings reveals five of the eight largest teacher union local affiliates in the nation operated with budget deficits.

Equity: Oregon has slight inequalities in local and state revenue for education, based on local property wealth.

Public education revenue has been insulated from the direct effects of economic ups and downs by a number of politically constructed conditions, including a privileged legal status in most state constitutions, multiple state and federal revenue sources, and stable tax support, such as property taxes, at the local level.

In 2010 - 11, state and local revenues for K - 12 education totaled $ 550 billion.

The program was part of a controversial education bill signed into law in July by Gov. Rick Scott that also makes local property tax revenue available to charter schools.

Brown said the policies he had promoted were addressing those issues: Passage of Prop. 30, the initiative approved by voters two years ago that is generating billions of dollars of extra tax revenues for schools, and the Local Control Funding Formula that is targeting billions of state education funds to low - income students and English learners.

In many states, local revenue makes up the lion share of education funding, but in Mississippi the state appropriates the majority of the money spent to fund Mississippi's public schools.

Due to the displacement of local property taxes as a source of education funding, and because the state itself suffers from a similar downward «ratcheting» effect on its revenue and expenditure levels, the state is effectively incapable of providing the level of funding necessary to fulfill the mandate of the Educatioeducation funding, and because the state itself suffers from a similar downward «ratcheting» effect on its revenue and expenditure levels, the state is effectively incapable of providing the level of funding necessary to fulfill the mandate of the EducationEducation Clause.

While the California Department of Education and the California's Community Colleges Chancellor's Office would report on student attendance and local property tax revenue.

«However, each current voucher student who returns to a public school increases the local district's necessary education expenditures without increasing the local tax revenue for schools, obligating the state to provide increased funding to the district.»

School districts are statutorily and constitutionally limited in their ability to generate revenues from local resources, but are dependent upon the state, which has consistently failed to provide sufficient funds to meet the qualitative mandate of the Education Clause and the requirements of education reform legislation and the Consolidated StEducation Clause and the requirements of education reform legislation and the Consolidated Steducation reform legislation and the Consolidated State Plan.

The new law also ensures that state charter schools are eligible for RESA (Regional Education Service Agency) services and membership; provides an increase in capital funds for brick and mortar state charter schools located in the boundaries of a local school district where the capital revenue (per student) exceeds the state average total capital (per student); increases per - student capital funding for virtual schools to offset certain technology costs; and provides a Department of Education and State Charter School Commission grant program for replicating high performing charter schools.