Sentences with phrase «lower education taxes»

State - level voters would have grounds to fire the governor or legislature at the next election and to vote for higher or lower education taxes in the next referendum.

Not exact matches

For their part, Congressional Republicans insist that the tax was designed, not to punish a particular subset of colleges, but to encourage them to use their endowments to lower the cost of education.

Your loans and education expenses can lower your tax liability when you file your return thanks to the student loan tax deduction and other tax benefits.

The MassINC Polling Group, working for the Barr Foundation found that improving Massachusetts highways, roads, and bridges was the top priority for respondents, ahead of improving education or lowering taxes.

Yeah, fasting and praying so that health care can be denied sick children, so that taxes can be lowered on the rich and raised on struggling middle - class families... praying that education loan programs be gutted and that social services for people in need get eliminated.

A teacher rebellion in red states from West Virginia to Arizona has put Republicans on the defensive, forcing them to walk a fine line in the months before midterm elections between placating constituents who are angry over education cuts and conservative supporters who want a smaller government and low taxes.

At the same time, that shrinking, aging population, facing higher tax rates and lower property values, must pay for all the needed services — police, fire, health, education, road maintenance — both in the hollowed out city and the inefficiently sprawled out countryside.

For his part, Cuomo has pointed to achievements including legalizing gay marriage, tightening gun restrictions, raising the minimum wage, banning fracking and increasing investments in education — all while working to lower taxes and jumpstart the upstate economy.

Its top - line pledges of a balanced budget, tax - cuts for the low - paid, investment in health and education, and environmental protection will not be deal - breakers for either the Red or Blue negotiating teams.

«With pro-growth fiscal policies, a quality education system and lower taxes, there is no reason why New York can not rebound as an economic powerhouse.

«Even a very low rate surcharge (of one percent or less) can provide billions of dollars that would allow us to avoid property tax increases and steep cutbacks in education and other essential services,» said Mauro.

«Over the past two years we have cut middle class tax rates to their lowest rates in sixty years, cut taxes for small businesses, while at the same time investing like never before in our institutions of higher education,» Cuomo said.

«Suzi Oppenheimer has been a knowledgeable and determined advocate for New York, especially on issues of importance to Westchester such as education, flood control, and lowering burdensome property taxes,» said Senator Schumer.

In his endorsement, Schumer praised Latimer as a «fighter for Westchester» who has «fought to lower taxes, pass strong ethics reforms and help fix our broken education system.»

«With him at my side on the federal level we will continue to improve our economy by lowering taxes, creating jobs and fixing our broken education system.

NYPIRG says it is «deeply troubled» by the wording, which «seems to go beyond explanatory or descriptive and trespass into advocacy» by highlighting all the potential benefits of more gaming in New York — lower property taxes, more education aid and job creation — but makes no mention of any of the downsides, like an increase in gambling addiction.

For Lower Taxes for EVERYONE For Restoring Local Decisions on Education For Protecting the 2nd Amendment For FULL Repeal of the SAFE Act Against Crony Capitalism.

That report, which is entitled Taking New York Backwards: Pataki Commission's Tax Cuts Exacerbate Inequality and Favor the Wealthy, details the flawed budgeting and severe inequity of the recommendations, which fail to adequately address urgent needs in education funding, health care, infrastructure investments, and progressive tax relief for lower and middle - income familiTax Cuts Exacerbate Inequality and Favor the Wealthy, details the flawed budgeting and severe inequity of the recommendations, which fail to adequately address urgent needs in education funding, health care, infrastructure investments, and progressive tax relief for lower and middle - income familitax relief for lower and middle - income families.

In New York, 840,000 children are lifted above the poverty line each year by safety net programs; 597,000 residents were lifted out of poverty by the earned income tax credit and child tax credit from 2011 — 2013; 576,000 low - income households rely on federal rental assistance; 2,968,000 residents received SNAP in FY 2016; and hundreds of thousands more rely on investments in job training, education, and other social services.

DioGuardi uses his rebuttal to slam NYS for the level of its taxes and says it needs to lower the cost of education.

So today, I'm proposing a Middle Class Recovery Act that does three things — focuses on jobs and infrastructure, education, and lowered taxes.

In that vein, Cuomo announced the Middle Class Economic Recovery Act — a set of proposals aimed at creating jobs and infrastructure, improving access to education, and lowering the tax burden for the middle class.

As Congressman, I will continue to fight for working families by creating good paying jobs, lowering taxes on the middle class and ensuring that Brooklyn and Staten Island receive our fair share of education, healthcare and transportation funding.»

Equitable education funding, lowering taxes and shrinking state government are among Destino's priorities.

The Conservative national leader William Hague attacked the Labour council as he said they lowered the education budget while setting one of the highest metropolitan council taxes in the country.

The Education Investment Tax Credit will increase funds in two areas — donations to public schools, school districts and teacher - driven projects; and scholarships to help low - and middle - income students attend religious and other tuition - based schools, according to the NY Archdiocese.

Toward that end, he said he would be proposing a Middle Class Recovery Act that would focus on jobs and infrastructure, access to education and lower taxes.

Major issues during the 2013 legislative session included education reform, providing healthcare for low - income and other uninsured residents, and a tax relief package that sought to lower property taxes.

He has also proposed using natural gas revenue to lower taxes and energy bills and to support education.

• Higher education — fiddle with loan interest rates and repayment periods, seek ways to reintroduce a private market for student loans; use the tax code to incentivize institutions with large endowments to lower tuition costs; and create a friendlier environment for for - profit providers.

Last week, Florida's state school establishment sued to kill an education tax credit program that benefits 60,000 low income, mostly black and Hispanic children.

Yet the United States already bears costs from our broken education system, including higher crime rates, additional expenses for health - care and public - assistance programs, and lost tax revenue as well as the untold costs of telling generations of children in chronically under - resourced, low - performing schools: «You don't matter!»

First, she said the decision «removes barriers to the implementation of other financial means of supporting parents who want to send their children to nonpublic schools, such as education tax credits or direct grants to low - income families.»

In the school finance cases in California three decades ago, the Court of Appeal reasoned that negative consequences «inevitably flowed» onto low - income residents as a result of the law alone, since, they argued, property - tax funded education inevitably disadvantaged low - income people.

In the Serrano cases, it was the state's reliance on local property taxes to pay for education, combined with the residential preferences of higher - income homeowners, which left low - income households with a smaller tax base to fund their schools.

Rather than reallocating dollars slated for education, supporters proposed to give tax credits to individuals and businesses that donated money to nonprofit organizations providing low - income students with scholarship grants to attend private schools (see Table 1).

That same year 19,852 students eligible for special education took advantage of the opportunity to use a voucher to attend private schools, and 21,493 students received scholarships averaging $ 3,750 from a tax credit program that opened private schooling to students from low - income families.

More controversial in state and national policy discussions have been proposals to enable parents, especially low - income parents, to exercise greater choice over their children's education through school vouchers, tax credits, charter schools, or home schooling.

The hedge fund managers who support charter schools and also want their income taxed at lower rates than regular earned income, thereby squeezing education budgets?

A solid majority of the public as a whole, and a plurality of every subgroup, support education tax credits for low - and moderate - income parents who send their children to private schools.

Those districts with large amounts of taxable property can produce more revenue at a lower tax rate and will provide their children with a more expensive education.

The Hechinger Report, the Education Writers Association, and the Dallas Morning News have teamed up to study how financial aid and tax credits for tuition have shifted from lower - to higher - income students.

Opposition to tax - funded scholarships permitting low - income students to attend private schools — an approach favored by U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos and allowed in 16 states — fell from 29 last year to 24 percent, and 54 percent of respondents said they favored them.

Third, it provides tuition assistance to low - income families through nonprofit scholarship organizations (SGOs) that are funded by private tax - creditable donations — better than any other system of third - party education aid.

Opponents said the tax hike would hurt low - and middle - income families while failing to address fundamental problems in education.

Boehm extolls the charter school system: «Pennsylvania boasts a robust charter school system that includes cyber charter schools; the Education Improvement Tax Credit, or EITC, which provides an average scholarship of $ 1,000 to low - income families who want their children to attend private schools; and rules that allow parents to teach their students at home.»

A hope operator is a nonprofit organization with tax exempt status under s. 501 (c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code that operates three or more charter schools that serve students in grades K - 12 in Florida or other states with a record of serving students from low - income families and is designated by the State Board of Education as a hope operator based on a determination that:

Local parcel taxes are one way that communities may supplement state funding for education, and lowering the vote threshold will make passage of these measures more likely.

The Per Pupil Revenue Limit (PPRL) analysis shows that districts of higher poverty have significantly lower PPRL, and therefore less ability to receive aid and levy appropriate taxes to fund public education than more affluent districts.

On average, the federal government contributes about 10 percent to the total amount spent on public education, but these dollars account for a larger portion of many high - poverty districts» budgets.11 For example, Los Angeles Unified School District and Chicago Public Schools — both high - poverty districts — receive about 15 percent of their budgets from the Education Department.12 These dollars serve essential purposes, such as supplementing services for low - income students, defraying the cost of individualized education programs for students with disabilities, and compensating for a loss of property tax due to federally oweducation, but these dollars account for a larger portion of many high - poverty districts» budgets.11 For example, Los Angeles Unified School District and Chicago Public Schools — both high - poverty districts — receive about 15 percent of their budgets from the Education Department.12 These dollars serve essential purposes, such as supplementing services for low - income students, defraying the cost of individualized education programs for students with disabilities, and compensating for a loss of property tax due to federally owEducation Department.12 These dollars serve essential purposes, such as supplementing services for low - income students, defraying the cost of individualized education programs for students with disabilities, and compensating for a loss of property tax due to federally oweducation programs for students with disabilities, and compensating for a loss of property tax due to federally owned land.