Sentences with phrase «more state funds meant»

The city of Syracuse is ready to jump into a competition for more state funds meant to spark the upstate economy.

Not exact matches

This means that there are now more children being educated in state - funded CofE schools, attending compulsory worship each day, that there are people who attend a CofE church each week.

The state faces a $ 4 billion deficit, while ongoing conflicts with Republicans in Washington mean the state could lose even more health care funding.

Several months ago, Paterson — citing the state's $ 9.2 billion budget hole — vowed to cut off funding for the state parks system, meaning that 41 parks and 14 historic sites would be shut down altogether and services cut at 24 more.

Council co-chairman Rob Simpson says that means the stakes are higher this time around, because there are more state funds than ever for the winners to pump into their regional economies.

Even more galling, the Administration's recent budget request would cut funding to the Clean Water State Revolving Fund, by another $ 400 million dollars — that means about a $ 40 million cut for New York.

Syracuse's mayor hopes her appointment to a state infrastructure commission will mean more funding for central New York.

If the State Legislature approves the Assembly's budget increase for education aid — it could mean more funding for Buffalo Public Schools.

According to the state Board of Elections, as of January the state Democratic Senate Campaign Committee had $ 164,163 in its coffers, while the state Senate Republican Campaign Committee had more than $ 3.7 million, which means Republicans have about 22 times as much funding as their blue counterparts.

«It is going to mean more demands for the program and more expenses for the program at a time when the state is all of a sudden eliminating its share of the funding,» said David Hansell, commissioner for the city's Administration of Children's Services, which administers Close to Home.

Mentoring means more than supervising lab work, stated Convocation keynote speaker Shirley Malcolm, head of the Directorate for Education and Human Resource Training at AAAS (which also publishes Next Wave), who serves as PI on the Sloan Foundation grant that currently funds NPA.

[9] These weights mean two states with the same number of poor and non-poor students would get more Title I funds if those students are economically segregated across school districts.

A negative score means that, on average, students in property - poor districts actually receive more state and local funding per pupil than students in more affluent areas do.

The report also states that funding for low prior attainment means that the lowest performing schools in the country are set to gain # 78.5 million more overall than the top performing schools.

Utah is one of only 10 states that have negative wealth - neutrality scores, meaning that, on average, students in property - poor districts actually receive more funding per pupil than students living in wealthy areas.

... teachers believe before adjusting funding formulas, the state needs to ensure adequate — meaning more — funding for schools....

Opting out of the state retirement system also means that charters have more flexibility for reallocating retirement funds into other forms of compensation.

The amendment, which was meant to allocate more equitably to states with rural areas, passed was altered so that states such as New York, Ohio, Maryland and others, would not lose funding immediately, as those states would have under the old Burr amendment.

Despite the state's recent moves, however, it seems the majority of Houston area residents support more funding for pre-K — even if it means higher taxes.

The short story: better than expected income tax revenue means more money in both the State's general fund and School Aid Fund for both the current year and next yfund and School Aid Fund for both the current year and next yFund for both the current year and next year.

«It is bad enough that more than $ 50 million in scarce public funds have been turned over to Jumoke Academy / Fuse, but unless immediate action is taken to reverse the Malloy administration's bad policy decisions, the series of no - bid contracts and State Board of Education votes will mean literally hundreds of millions more will be given to this charter school chain,» Pelto concluded.

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's insistence on increasing funding for charter schools has more than a dozen Democratic legislators questioning whether they can support the next state budget if it means their neighborhood public schools are flat - funded or cut.

State - level disparities between average district and charter school per - pupil funding ranged from 0.1 percent in Tennessee (meaning that, on average, Tennessee charter schools receive slightly more per - pupil funding than district schools) to -58.4 percent in Louisiana (meaning that on average Louisiana charter schools receive less than half the per - pupil funding that district schools receive).

While this rate allows the state to pay off liabilities within the required 30 - year period, it does so at a high cost, precluding Massachusetts from spending those funds on other, more immediate means to retain talented teachers.

When states reduce funding for institutions with lower outcomes, such as graduation rates, without taking student race / ethnicity or income into account, this often means they are defunding institutions with more low - income students and students of color, making matters worse.

«Progressive» school funding means that a state's low - income districts are receiving more funding per student than high - income districts.

If you wanted to, you could feel free to lump those «medium predictability» items into the emergency fund, but it just means you have to spend more time and effort thinking about the state of the fund.

Retro - active changes in support mechanisms in many Member States, together with the lack of long term certainty by means of 2030 renewable energy targets, increase the costs of capital and make the involvement of public banks in renewable energy upfront funding even more crucial today than a few years ago».

RECOMMENDATION 21.4 To address the more pressing gaps in services, the Australian, State and Territory Governments should provide additional funding for civil legal assistance services in order to: • better align the means test used by legal aid commissions with that of other measures of disadvantage • maintain existing frontline services that have a demonstrated benefit to the community • allow legal assistance providers to offer a greater number of services in areas of law that have not previously attracted government funding.