Sentences with phrase «local school budgets covered»

To a large extent, state fiscal policies have caused great pressure on property taxes in needy cities, counties and school districts, including decisions: to reduce revenue sharing; to decrease the share of local school budgets covered by state aid, to divide the non-federal share of Medicaid costs without considering ability to pay, and to allocate STAR benefits... (read more)

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Additional taxes assessed to local communities as part of the annual school budget to cover program deficits.

Collectively, level funding through the appropriations process and the cuts of sequestration have exacerbated the need for school districts to raise taxes or use local budget dollars to cover an ever - growing share of the federal contribution to special education.

School officials said on Thursday the revised budget would close a $ 269 million gap with help from $ 130 million from a local tax increase that will cover some of the steadily increasing contributions CPS owes to its teacher pension fund.

Additional taxes assessed to local communities as part of the annual school budget to cover program deficits.

NBC Nightly Covers Puerto Rico — and the Curley K - 8 Thousands of Puerto Rican students are settling in at schools across the US, but the mass exodus has left some local schools with budget troubles.

Local school districts will be forced to redirect more money from their general education budgets to cover the federal shortfall for special education.