Sentences with phrase «nonpartisan legislative»

A projection released last year by the nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau showed a $ 210 million deficit looming.

A new report from the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's Office says that districts have to maintain an average class size to...

A new report from the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's Office says that districts have to maintain an average class size to get about $ 712 more per average daily attendance, according to the SI&A Cabinet Report.

The nonpartisan Legislative Analyst estimated earlier this month that the state owes schools between $ 4 billion and $ 5 billion in unpaid mandate claims.

(Calif.) Gov. Jerry Brown's cautious revenue projections for the next fiscal year are likely well below what the state will actually collect, the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's office reported late last week.

But according to a careful review by the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst of the past 26 years that Proposition 98 has been law, neither claim holds up.

Topping the to - do list, of course, is the budget, which the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's Office projects will reach $ 12 billion over the next year and a half.

We'll also be contacting the state Department of Finance, the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's Office, the California State Teachers Retirement System, the California Public Employee Retirement System, the Brown administration, state lawmakers and staff from both sides of the aisle, school officials, teachers and their union representatives, parents and interest groups — asking for help understanding this topic and also sharing our findings to seek further comments.

According to the nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau, the voucher program will cost Wisconsin taxpayers over $ 1.1 billion from 2011 through the end of the 2015 - 17 budget cycle.

Applauding the best fiscal outlook for state government in more than a decade, the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst reported Wednesday the minimum funding guarantee for schools next year is likely to be $ 8 billion higher than current spending.

To steady ourselves, we turn to an analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's Office.

To better ensure school districts spend billions of dollars in support of disadvantaged students - as proposed by the governor - lawmakers should adopt compliance requirements similar to the federal Title I program, the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst recommended late last week.

LAO Suggests Curtailing Accreditation of Teacher Prep Programs by CTC A policy paper from the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst released late last week suggests lawmakers consider curtailing the accreditation of teacher training programs by the Commission on Teacher Credentialing.

Opposition to the reserve cap was boosted last week when the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst said the requirement should be repealed.

According to this year's state - sponsored evaluation of charter schools by California's nonpartisan Legislative Analyst, charter schools «are meeting original legislative intent: expanding families» choices, encouraging parental involvement, increasing teacher satisfaction, and raising academic achievement, particularly for certain groups of disadvantaged students.»

The change is expected to add 200 students next year and 400 students the following year at a cost of $ 4.2 million, according to the nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau.

At the same time, the amount of money the state spends on each public school student has decreased by about 4 percent, according to a memo released this week by the nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau at the request of Sen. Janet Bewley, D - Ashland.

Once governor - elect Jerry Brown and the members of the 2011 California Legislature get around to cutting a budget deal next summer - one would hope - there's likely to be about $ 2 billion less than this year in Proposition 98 funding, according to estimates released Wednesday by the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst.

Taxpayers would see the price tag for school vouchers triple under the Senate budget plan, the nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau has discovered.

Before changes made in the late 1990s, special education funds in California were distributed on a cost - based» model but the Legislature moved to a census - based» approach beginning in 1998 - 99 on the theory that the educational costs of students with disabilities would be spread somewhat evenly throughout the overall student population, according to a report from the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst.

A policy paper from the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst released late last week suggests lawmakers consider curtailing the accreditation of teacher training programs by the Commission on Teacher Credentialing.

A: According to an analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau, the bill doesn't define specific policies or actions that would be off limits.

According to the nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau (LFB), the voucher program is estimated to cost Wisconsin taxpayers over $ 1.1 billion between 2011 and the end of the current two - year budget cycle in 2017.

The nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's Office hasn't changed its prediction from last fall that final revenues for this year will be higher than Brown projected, and many districts are hedging their bets, counting on the LAO's analysis.

He or she drafts a bill, with research and technical help from the nonpartisan Legislative Services Agency (LSA).

Michael Kirst responds: Since the state's nonpartisan legislative analyst now forecasts a budget deficit of at least $ 10 billion for 2003, it is unlikely that the impressive spending for education accountability of the past two years will continue.

A report last year from Indiana's nonpartisan legislative staff predicted tens of millions of dollars in costs to adopt new tests, plus additional ongoing costs to administer them.

They like the system so much they haven't even allowed public hearings on bills, AB 185 and SB 163, that would turn this task over to the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau.

The independent, nonpartisan legislative office estimated earlier this month that the bill proposed by Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus, D - Montana, would cost $ 774 billion.

The net total surplus of $ 977 million was fueled by $ 893 million in tax collections above earlier projections, the nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau reported Thursday.

The Tennessee Joint Legislative Services Committee is a nonpartisan legislative service agency serving the members and staff of the Tennessee General Assembly.

Not exact matches

In the US, for instance, a proposal to force California's two nuclear power plants — which generate 16 percent of the state's electricity — to shut down immediately when the Nuclear Waste Act of 2012 becomes law, would cause rolling blackouts, spikes in electricity rates and billions of dollars in economic losses each year, according to the state's nonpartisan analyst, the Legislative Analyst's Office, in November.

The bill assigned the task of drawing legislative boundaries to a nonpartisan, independent agency called the Legislative Servilegislative boundaries to a nonpartisan, independent agency called the Legislative ServiLegislative Services Agency.

Gianaris, for example, noted the assemblyman has been a lead co-sponsor of his independent redistricting bill, which was none too popular among his legislative colleagues until this year's big push for nonpartisan redistricting came along (in no small part thanks to former NYC Mayor Ed Koch and his NY Uprising PAC).

Koch, through his good - government group New York Uprising, released lists Thursday of how candidates responded to his call for legislative district boundaries to be drawn by a nonpartisan commission, tougher governmental ethics rules and a better budget process.

Republicans effectively control 59 of the 98 state legislative chambers, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures; Nebraska has a unicameral, nonpartisan legislature.

ALBANY — Last year, Edward I. Koch placed automated telephone calls to voters on behalf of scores of candidates who signed his pledge to support redrawing Congressional and legislative districts in an independent, nonpartisan manner.

A civic coalition seeking to improve how Albany governs is asking incumbents and candidates for state office this year to pledge publicly to back strict fiscal controls on state spending, stronger ethics and financial disclosure regulations, and a nonpartisan system for drawing legislative and Congressional districts.

Muoio and the nonpartisan Office of Legislative Services predicted a combined $ 180 million difference in revenues over the current and next fiscal years.

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R), who has called for a nonpartisan commission to draw congressional and state legislative districts, called the ruling «a tremendous step forward in the fight for free and fair elections.»

Its failure means that the nonpartisan redistricting commision for the state will not redistrict congressional districts, but only state legislative districts.

Three of the four legislative leaders have signed former NYC Mayor Ed Koch's pledge to reform the redistricting process by handing over control to a nonpartisan commission.

Skelos said he doesn't believe Gov. Andrew Cuomo's bill creates a truly nonpartisan redistricting process, noting the governor — who is currently a Democrat — gets to appoint four individuals to the nominations committee that will eventually select the commission members, while each of the legislative leaders get one appointment each.

Koch is also asking all legislative challengers and incumbents to sign the nonpartisan redistricting pledge, but that won't be sent out until after the budget.

«Unfortunately, the process for filling a state legislative seat in this case is not what it should be: a nonpartisan special election...,» wrote Squadron.

But while there is consensus on the problem being nonpartisan, the copious proposals — and multiple iterations of similar heroin task forces organized by legislative conferences and the governor — are in part indicative of a lack of consensus on the solution.

BY STACY SWIMP Legislative report cards that favors some politicians over others are nothing new, but the NAACP's newest one throws the group's nonpartisan mandate into question.

Going into the elections, the organization NY Uprising asked all candidates to sign a pledge to support nonpartisan redistricting during the following legislative session.

Then lawmakers can take care in establishing a nonpartisan, ethnically and geographically diverse redistricting commission, which can redraw legislative districts in 2015 and thereafter — subject to approval by the Legislature (as New York's Constitution requires).

The Manhattan Democrat and Long Island Republican exchanged heated letters yesterday over what Koch views as the Senate Republicans» renegging on their collective promise to support creation of an independent and nonpartisan commission to draw legislative and congressional lines in time for the 2012 elections.