Sentences with phrase «operating aid the district»

She said that because of the cuts the state began making in school aid after the economic downturn, the net amount of operating aid the district would get next year under Cuomo's budget — $ 217.1 million — would be less than the $ 217.3 million in aid it received in 2008 - 09.

Not exact matches

«Now that the GEA is finally gone for good, state policymakers need to turn their attention to making sure the Foundation Aid formula operates as intended and drives additional resources to high need districts facing enrollment growth,» Borges said.

Incentive Operating Aid is available for fourteen years to reorganized school districts, beginning with the first year of operation as a reorganized district.

«The Governor is right to prioritize helping high need districts, but we would like see more of the increase for all districts targeted to general operating aid.»

«As the chair of the Senate Education Committee, Senator Oppenheimer should be leading efforts to reform the state school aid formula so districts do not have to endure billions in cuts any given year and can operate within the confines of a local property tax cap,» said Cohen.

However, this year's aid offer for the Island's 124 districts is down from the $ 75.3 million expansion in new operating funds that the governor put forward at this time last year, and the $ 105.7 million he proposed the year before.

Some 20 districts lost at least small amounts of operating aid, while other systems enjoyed gains of more than 6 or 7 percent.

Newsday's calculations focus on operating funds, because those are widely considered a more meaningful measure of what a district receives than aid for school construction and renovation, which may or may not go to a district in a given year, depending on whether the work is completed then.

Joseph Dragone, assistant superintendent for business in the Roslyn school system, noted that his district would lose more than 2 percent in operating aid next year based on the governor's plan.

Long Island public school districts would gain an additional $ 75.3 million in combined operating assistance, or a hike of more than 2.8 percent, under the state aid proposal for the 2017 - 18 academic year released by Cuomo's office.

Morris Peters, a spokesman for the Budget Division, acknowledged that poorer districts rely on state aid for a larger share of their operating budgets, but said the cuts were structured «progressively, accounting for each school district's wealth, student need, administrative efficiency and tax burden.

An analysis by AQE found Cuomo's proposed cuts in operating aid average $ 773 per pupil in the 30 urban and suburban school districts classified as «high - need» by the State Education Department that have the greatest concentration of black and Hispanic students.

The district is also anticipating an additional $ 19.3 million in operating aid from the state legislature

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.

In last - minute negotiations, lawmakers and Cuomo agreed on how to divide $ 230 million in restorations of base operating aid for school districts.

Instead of $ 250 million for those grants, they agreed to $ 50 million, freeing up $ 200 million to put back into the basic operating aid to school districts.

Operating aid to individual school districts, including those in Nassau and Suffolk counties, would rise an average 2.3 percent.

Component districts are eligible to receive BOCES operating aid from New York State on most administrative, capital and program expenditures, subject to certain restrictions.

In an unusual and controversial move, the New York State Board of Regents has approved a budget proposal that would require school districts to use 1986 - 87 increases in operating aid solely for the purposes of raising teacher salaries and hiring additional teachers.

Of a total of 155 Chapter 1 schools in the district, 117 — all that are eligible to operate schoolwide projects under existing rules — are using their federal aid to help all their students.

And the district had been operating under state control since 1995 and receiving court - ordered state aid that pushed its per student spending to beyond $ 20,000 a year.

As we reported in the July 18 WEAC Legislative Update, referendum restrictions included in the Senate GOP plan would exclude from «shared cost» any amount levied by a district in a prior year for either operating or debt service costs that were authorized by a referendum if doing so would not increase the district's equalization aid entitlement.

It was designed to recognize and support green school initiatives at the school and school district level and to aid them in adopting practices that will conserve natural resources, promote sustainability and reduce operating costs.

She noted that in all three cases, the district fills in the gap between the amount the schools receive from per - pupil state aid and their actual costs to operate.

In an effort to continue to improve school facilities and lessen the impact of future debt service repaid from the District's operating budget, in FY16, the CPS Board approved for the first time a statutorily — authorized annual Capital Improvement Tax (CIT) levy to aid in funding its ongoing Capital Improvement Program.

In school year 2013 - 14 alone, New York State invested $ 1.26 billion in school facilities aid to school districts where charter schools operate without public facility funding.

I realize that much has changed in the last few years — widespread economic hardship, cuts in state aid by both Democratic and Republican state governments, much slower than anticipated growth in property values,, the opportunity to cut staff compensation under the threat of union busting, dramatic cuts to the revenue limit base — but despite all of these changes, if you go back to the principles and the details of Partnership Plan used to sell the 2008 Operating Referendum (which passed overwhelmingly) I think you can find plenty of justification for increasing property taxes in order to achieve the mission of the district.

Students who leave a public school district to attend a charter school — an independent public school that operates free of district oversight — take with them a slice of state aid that would have gone to the local district.