Sentences with phrase «more education aid»

Some on the left have been pushing Democratic lawmakers to hold out on a deal — especially in the Assembly when it comes to getting more education aid — arguing that a bad budget is worse than a late budget.

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.

Cuomo's budget increases education aid by $ 961 million; typically the final agreement includes more education aid.

And it's something Gov. Andrew Cuomo believes would be a disaster for the state, assuming billions of dollars in county Medicaid costs just as the state has pulled out of the recession and is trying to spend money on more education aid, free tuition at public colleges and upgrade aging water systems.

In case you're curious, Astorino was in town to lobby state lawmakers on more education aid for Yonkers along with the city's mayor, Phil Amicone, (a fellow Republican).

At nearly the same time, about a thousand members of the city teachers union arrived in Albany to rally for more education aid and against Cuomo's plans, which include tougher teacher evaluations and more charter schools.

Senate Democrats call for more education aid — at least $ 2 billion — while also backing an indexed minimum wage increase coupled with local control.

Not exact matches

The planning tool projects future college tuition, room and board, financial aid and more for a number of post-secondary institutions using data from the National Center of Education Statistics.

The provincial government is streamlining the application process for Manitoba Student Aid and Manitoba Bursary to help more low - income and Indigenous students access funding, Education and Training Minister Ian Wishart announced today.

Yes, there's nothing more principled than a candidate like Ron Paul who wants to further cut taxes for the rich, get rid of subsidies for student loans, get rid of the department of education and the environmental protection agency, and end aid to starving countries in Africa, just to name a few.

And far many more benefited as the Church aided the poor, treated the sick and helped assimilate wave uponwave of immigrants... Neighborhoods were anchored by parish churches, and by parochial schools that still serve as models of education.»

A similar confusion to which Protestantism is even more prone ensues when the Bible is so made the center of theological education that the book takes the place of the God who speaks, and love of the book replaces devotion to the One who makes himself known with its aid.

One was the work of a sociologist, Earl Brewer, who, with the aid of a theologian and a ministries specialist, sought by an extensive content analysis of sermons and other addresses given in a rural and an urban church to differentiate the patterns of belief and value constituting those two parishes.67 The second was the inquiry of a religious educator, C. Ellis Nelson, who departed from a curricular definition of education to envision the congregation as a «primary society» whose integral culture conditions its young and old members.68 James Dittes, the third author, described more fully the nature of the culture encountered in the local church.

Thus the G.I. Bill, the Public Facilities Act, the National Defense Education Act, and the various forms of student aid initiated in the 1960s — BEOGs, SEOGs, Work - Study, Pell grants, etc. — have subsidized the survival of many colleges and universities, but inexorably they have served as well to make the grantee institutions more anxious to observe the laws and regulations of the State than the strictures of the Church whose sponsorship is, by comparison, so intangible.

But the more commonly heard suggestion is that proceeds from the dividend should go to any of a wide variety of social programs: AIDS research, day care, education, drug control, medical care, public housing, environmental protection, repair of the nation's infrastructure.

The timing could not be more perfect as some of our families our struggling to make ends meet and this money added to our tuition aid assistance program will help make it easier for a number of those families to continue their education at Assumption.

Revised Statute 167.273 (1990) makes available additional state aid to local school districts for a program of parent education established in one or more high school that service pregnant teens and teen parents enrolled as pupils in the district.

Cuomo proposed a $ 960 million increase in education aid, but lawmakers back more than $ 1 billion in school spending.

A vote on a separate piece of legislation Paterson will be sending up to delay $ 1.5 billion worth of education aid payments to school districts could be more problematic — particularly since this is an election year and few lawmakers are going to want to take that potentially troublesome vote.

Email blasts from the two liberal organizations note that Avella used to be an outspoken opponent of charters — and co-location in particular — and yet voted «yes» on the Senate one - house budget that education advocates say pushes more of the controversial co-locations and hikes state aid to charters at the expense of traditional public schools.

«Their point was that they modified the governor's budget — they put in more taxes, they restored education aid... The governor now says: I'm going to veto all the modifications they made: 6900 vetoes.

And IDC is backing calls for juvenile justice reform, spending more on Foundation Aid for education and provide legal assistance for immigrants.

Cuomo has proposed a $ 960 million increase in education aid, but typically lawmakers successfully add even more spending for schools in the state.

Meanwhile, more details on spending are trickling out: The state will increase education spending by $ 1 billion, including a $ 619 million hike in foundation aid and $ 240 million more in expense - based aid.

New York State is investing more in education than at any other time in history, bringing the new education aid total to an historic $ 25.8 billion.

Farley, a partner at the equity firm Mistral Capital, launched her effort with a video that borrowed an argument recently deployed by Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo: New York State pays roughly more in federal taxes ($ 40 billion in 2016, she noted) than it gets back in federal aid — money, Farley said, that could be used to rebuild state infrastructure and boost education, among other things.

Leaders of both parties said they are working for financial responsibility in town, especially after the state budget uncertainty, which had threatened more than $ 20 million in education aid to the town.

The Department for International Development (DFID) must do more to ensure the money spent by the UK on international aid and development is successfully securing the goal of universal access to quality education for all children, regardless of ability to pay.

In the last year alone, secret deals to aid immigration enforcement have been exposed between the Home Office and the Department of Health and NHS Digital, Department for Education, the Greater London Authority and more.

As for the governor, he made no appearances yesterday, but issued yet another lengthy statement insisting he won't sign off on more state education aid unless the budget includes reforms that address «accountability, performance and standards.»

«In terms of advocating on school aid and looking for more money, that's certainly [the Education Department's] position, but it's also the Legislature's position,» Greenberg said.

He uses political advocacy math instead of numbers, receiving $ 334 million more — not less — education aid than last year,» Azzopardi said in a statement.

Cuomo administration officials said the governor's plan does not take dollars away from low - income students and will allow even more low - income families to take advantage of state and federal financial aid that's available for higher education.

Sixty - eight percent said his cuts to school aid and tax cuts would convince them to oppose him, while 67 percent said the Committee to Save New York would keep them from pulling the lever for Cuomo, after the pollsters» described the group as a «shadowy» organization «that raised more than $ 17 million from Wall Street, real estate moguls and other business interests to promote his agenda of education cuts and tax breaks.»

The Legislature today, led by the Assembly, reached an agreement on a package of education proposals that will immediately increase state aid to schools, provide that teachers are evaluated on more than a single student test score and ensure local oversight of struggling schools,» United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew said.

Without the $ 440 million from tobacco, his proposed deep cuts to school aid and higher education funding would only get more painful.

The two agree that the state has to do more to ensure that school districts in Dutchess County are getting «their fair share» of state aid, although they differ on how best to reduce the reliance on property taxes to fund education.

As Cuomo seeks to resolve a budget deficit he estimates at more than $ 4 billion, school aid funding for education could also be on the chopping block.

Both proposals are more than Gov. Andrew Cuomo's plan of a $ 1.1 billion spending hike for education aid, with much of that money tied to approving the governor's policy proposals, including bonus pay for high - performing teachers and a strengthening of charter schools.

Senate Education Committee Chairman John Flanagan, however, did expect to see the Senate add $ 217 million more in gap elimination aid than Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposed.

This week development secretary Andrew Mitchell proposed focusing DFID's work on fragile states, girls» education and on making UK aid more effective.

Also at 12:30 p.m., Assembly Education Chair Cathy Nolan and Sen. Kevin Parker will release letters signed by more than 70 legislators in both houses calling for $ 2.4 billion in new school aid with an emphasis on Foundation Aid, Million Dollar Staircase, 3rd Floor, state Capitol, Albaaid with an emphasis on Foundation Aid, Million Dollar Staircase, 3rd Floor, state Capitol, AlbaAid, Million Dollar Staircase, 3rd Floor, state Capitol, Albany.

According to the Citizens Budget Commission, most of the $ 1.4 million education increase in this year's budget is allocated outside Foundation Aid formulas; and as a result, affluent districts benefit proportionately more than the neediest districts.

Long Island school districts stand to recover more than $ 117 million in lost state financial aid during the coming year, according to the region's education leaders who say the money will help compensate for tighter state property tax limits.

This actually gives students more aid to be able to access higher education.

He said though Tamale was a Metropolis, it was bedevilled with poverty, disease and poor education and sanitation infrastructure, which needed more development aid from the country's donor partners.

«Aid contributes to economic growth by giving millions more children an education: so far it has put 33 million more children in the classroom.

The schools were supposed to get around 5.5 billion more dollars in education aid, after the Court of Appeals ruled in 2006 in the Campaign for Fiscal Equity case.

ALBANY - ALBANY — Setting up a budget fight on education, the Democrat - led state Assembly said Thursday it opposed Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's call for a tuition hike at state universities and favored boosting aid to K - 12 schools by $ 2.1 billion — more than double the increase the governor suggested.

«The governor moved more than anyone could have anticipated,» said Billy Easton of the Alliance for Quality Education, one of the groups pushing to restore school aid and social service funding cut over the last three years of fiscal crisis.