Sentences with phrase «operating aid to 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.

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

«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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.