Sentences with phrase «local school district budgets»

The state United Teachers union is launching a television and radio campaign urging voters to support local school district budgets while also touting what they see as the success in New York schools.

Not exact matches

And in education, local school districts as well as colleges and universities are still struggling with budget cuts.

Mark lives in Salem, Oregon, where he serves on the school district budget committee as well as a number of church boards and committees at the local, state, and regional level.

Block grants school nutrition programs in three states, a dangerous idea that will put further strain on state and local school districts» budgets and jeopardize children's access to quality, healthy school meals no matter where they live.

As labor accounts for about the same amount as the typical school district pays for food (about 44 % of the budget for the program), it is impossible to determine if other schools or other districts could try to do a similar program with a local restaurant, or even just with their own chef and cooking facilities, unless they know the labor costs.

It also comes as school districts and local governments are budgeting within a tax cap with the lowest allowable limit in the levy increase since the measure first took effect in 2012.

Local government and school district officials have been pushing for changes to make it easier to budget within the cap, though that is unlikely to occur this legislative session.

Should deductions be eliminated for state and local taxes, the immediate impact would likely be on the school districts and communities whose budgets depend on that revenue.

Local school districts are preparing for another tight budget season this year, with minimal state aid increases projected in Gov. Andrew Cuomo's tentative spending plan and a cap of less than 2 percent on tax levy growth.

The 2013 - 14 Executive Budget and Management Plan builds on two years of balanced, fiscally responsible budgeting and invests in economic development, education reform, rebuilding after Superstorm Sandy, provides support to local governments and school districts, and includes no new taxes or fees.

WHAT: Press conference calling out Senator Carlucci's vote shortchanging local schools in state budget and gutting the State's Foundation Aid formula through which schools in his Senate District are owed $ 65 million.

This year's budget must demand local districts disclose their funding formulas so we know what the rich schools receive and the poor schools receive.»

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)

An official from Cuomo's office told POLITICO the proposal would focus more on the methodology of how districts are distributing funds, and wouldn't infringe on voter rights as local voters approve the district budget as a whole and not how resources are distributed by school building.

«Local governments and school districts are putting together their budgets, and they're doing it in the dark with no clear picture of how much state aid they'll get.»

In recent weeks, as Nixon began her upstart campaign, Cuomo has been talking about a budget proposal that would require school districts within cities with a population of more than 125,000 people — New York City, Buffalo, Syracuse, Yonkers and Rochester — to submit an annual plan detailing the allocation of local, state and federal funds by school building.

Another noteworthy development: The Long Island senators are now saying a tax cap is unlikely not only in this budget, but in this entire session due to the lack of mandate relief to soften the blow for school districts and local governments.

Take a deeper look into the crosstabs... 41 % think New York's citizens were losers as a result of the budget and 57 % think their local school district were losers.

«If you have to live within a budget, like each and every one of us do during these tough fiscal times, why not school districts and local governments.»

School districts and local governments alike are bracing for another year of budgeting with a tax cap of less than two percent.

With budget season well underway for St. Lawrence County school districts and still no aid increase in the proposed state budget, local educators are struggling to make ends meet.

[I'd like him to succeed as well but his budget, like so many others, is largely based on screwing local governments and school districts.]

I'd like him to succeed as well but his budget, like so many others, is largely based on screwing local governments and school districts.

Please recall — local taxpayers vote on (and support) school budgets put before them for approval despite NY State walking back it's historical level of support for local districts!

In school districts, budgets are not approved until the spring and it takes 60 percent of local voters to override the cap.

As local school districts await word from Albany on state aid, some are developing multiple budget proposals based on best, worst and most likely scenarios.

All school district budgets should be decided by a simple majority of local voters; as Assemblyman Kevin Cahill (D - Kingston) was quoted yesterday as saying, the 60 % override vote for tax levies exceeding the cap is «undemocratic».

Indeed, the move would likely apply more pressure on — or incentive to, depending on your point of view — local governments and school districts to budget within the property tax cap, which was approved in 2011.

Why is it you would use the governor's extensive budgeting powers to force an indefensible, costly, laughable, and quickly repudiated teacher evaluation system onto local school districts but you will not utilize the same budgeting power to force anti-corruption measures onto Flanagan and Heastie?

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.

The rebate program was part of the 2014 - 15 state budget agreement that spreads nearly $ 1 billion in relief over the next two years providing that local governments and school districts budget within the state's cap on property - tax increases.

Proponents of the cap have pointed to the vast majority of school districts and local governments being able to budget within the cap.

«School districts worked hard under very trying circumstances to make sure the budgets they presented to voters balanced educational quality with the very real concerns of local taxpayers,» said NYSSBA Executive Director Timothy G. Kremer.

The two percent property tax cap, approved a year ago by lawmakers in New York state, is another thing that local governments and school districts have to take into account while they plan their budgets.

Early next year, newly inaugurated Gov. Andrew Cuomo will have to set forth an austere budget, cutting more than $ 10 billion from projected state spending — cuts that will send shock waves through local governments and school districts, themselves reeling from declining revenue and recession - related spending demands.

They said since school aid is the largest portion of the state budget, that could adversely affect the flow of money from the state to local districts.

Now a combination of Quomo's low ball budget proposal along with the poorly constructed tax cap in place school local school districts need to portray the extremely unpopular cuts they now face (loss of electives and AP options; cuts to music, art and athletics; increased class size) as being directly the result of decisions made by our legislators in Albany.

«While it is welcome news that so few school districts across the state have been classified as in fiscal stress, school officials should remain vigilant and carefully consider how their budgeting decisions will affect their long - term fiscal condition and local taxpayers,» DiNapoli said in a statement.

School district budgets are approved by local voters.

While only 22 % percent of New Yorkers think the recently enacted state budget is either excellent or good for the people of the state, at least 71 % agree that creating a $ 2.5 billion clean water infrastructure fund, increasing aid to local school districts by $ 1.1 billion, allowing ride - sharing services to operate in the state, and making SUNY / CUNY tuition free for families making less than $ 125,000 will make New York better, according to a new Siena College poll of New York State registered voters released early Monday morning.

When the comptroller announced the system earlier this year, he said those local governments and school districts identified as experiencing fiscal stress would be offered an array of services from his office, including budget reviews and multi-year financial planning.

Now that the state budget has been passed, school districts in New York have a better idea on what to expect in state aid, as voters get ready to decide local school budgets on May 16.

It's school vote day today on the North Fork, with budget proposals and open school board seats on the ballots in all five local school districts.

We're now at a 65 - year low in terms of the proportion of the state budget going to state education aid to local school districts.

The state of Pennsylvania has had to delay payments to school districts and local governments, social - service organizations and even to state workers to try to maintain balance in the their [sic] budget.

Local governments and school districts DO depend on property taxes for their budgets.

«Aid runs are necessary and critical to the local budget development process for the hundreds of school districts across the state.»

«Decade after decade, mandates have been piled on local governments and school districts, straining budgets and increasing pressure on taxpayers,» Cuomo said.

The stark analysis from the governor, released one day after he held his first budget negotiation with legislators, shows his resolve in demanding his education reforms in order for local school districts to get more money.

They say since school aid is the largest portion of the state budget, that could adversely affect the flow of money from the state to local districts.