Sentences with phrase «pay for the school budget»

At the end of March, the Hoboken school board voted to increase taxes by 4 percent to pay for the school budget, which spends $ 23,716 per student, the second highest in the state of New Jersey.

Not exact matches

Schools tend to appreciate outside help, especially when the budget may not allow for much legroom to pay for this help.

In other words, it's up to each school district, and by extension the community that agrees to its budget, to figure out how to cover the debts of kids who can't pay for meals.

We sat down with our kids and looked closely at their day - to - day lives and then decided on what we would pay for such as clothing, cell phone plans and after - school activities and sports fees and then gave them a budget for the rest such as entertainment (the price of a movie ticket once a month), gifts (birthdays, holidays, church), their craving for school cafeteria food — which we capped at twice a week — plus a small stipend.

The jolt in demand for government - subsidized meals comes as many school programs are struggling to balance their food service budgets because of higher costs and a decline in paying customers, school nutrition advocates said.

Local authorities also use their high needs budget to pay for central services relating to SEND and AP, as permitted by the School and Early Years Finance (England) Regulations 2015.

And in a large urban district like mine, where over 80 % of our kids are economically disadvantaged and a universal, in - class breakfast is the norm among our 300 schools, paying for that 1/2 cup increase is likely to be a big drain on our school food budget.

As labor accounts for about the same amount as the typical school district pays for food (about 44 % of the budget for the program), it is impossible to determine if other schools or other districts could try to do a similar program with a local restaurant, or even just with their own chef and cooking facilities, unless they know the labor costs.

Labor costs often amount to as much as half of the budget for a school nutrition department, but salary for cafeteria workers varies greatly, with some districts paying close to minimum wage for entry level workers, while others may pay closer to $ 15 - 20 per hour even for those workers still at first step.

This funding can come in the form of a state reimbursement for free and reduced price meals paid on top of the Federal reimbursement; for example, the state of California is supposed to give schools an extra.219 for every meal served to a qualifying low income child (in fact, due to the ongoing budget crisis in California, that reimbursement has not always been paid for every qualifying meal in recent years.)

The mid year financial report released by Cuomo's budget office says options to close the gap include more cuts to state agencies, delaying payments to local governments and schools, suspension of some construction projects, and even borrowing money short term to pay for operating expenses.

Cuomo's plan includes $ 1 billion more for schools and the extension of an additional tax on New York's highest income earners, known as the millionaire's tax, in order to pay for education spending and close a $ 3.5 billion budget gap.

What are we doing about failing schools, how do we pay teachers and what we are paying for are questions that are implicitly raised in every budget.

The compensation package was captured as judgement debt in the 2018 budget of the GES and expected to be paid by the end of March for the release of the vehicles to facilitate the smooth running of the school.

The state funding would be available for counties, cities, towns and school districts to replace property taxes paid by electric generating facilities that close on or after June 25, 2015, according to the budget bill.

In the budget presentation, the governor is expected to explain how he's going to pay for programs announced earlier this month in his State of the State message, including an expanded school day and school year.

It was also advertised as a way to end the horse - trading that's been a part of pay raises for decades — in 1987, Mario Cuomo linked a salary increase to ethics reforms, and the 1998 pay hike was accompanied by the creation of the state's first charter schools, a bill pushed by dairy farmers, and an agreement to give the comptroller authority to withhold legislators» paychecks in years when budgets are late.

The budget also includes $ 100 million for school resource officers, but school and law enforcement officials say that is not enough to pay for one officer at each of the state's public schools.

That was the same year legislators did a deal with then - GOP Gov. George Pataki that raised their base pay by 38 percent to its current level ($ 79,500) in exchange for agreeing to forgo their paychecks in the event of late budgets and the creation of charter schools in New York.

And we've seen incredible sums ploughed into pet projects - more than # 100 million spent on installing elected police commissioners — money that could have paid for 3,000 new police constables - # 600 million added to the free schools budget in November — money that could pay for the extra 100,000 primary school places we so desperately need - and # 1.8 billion set aside for the costs of NHS reorganisation — half of which would keep 6,000 nurses in post for three years

Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan drew a line in the sand for upcoming state budget negotiations: There will be no deal without paying school districts back for years of previous cuts.

Senate Republicans entered budget negotiations with a wish list of more than a dozen items to benefit the charter school sector, but in the end they settled for $ 54 million in additional funding for charter schools paid for by the state Senate out of its discretionary fund and a renewal of some of the previous budget's pro-charter policies.

That agenda fails to pay the city the $ 2.5 billion in state aid that schools are owed from the 2006 settlement of the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit, despite a $ 5 billion state budget surplus.

• Proposition 3 - Authorize the Canastota Central School District to levy and collect an annual tax, year after separate and apart from the annual school district budget in the amount of $ 334,822 which will be paid to the Canastota Public Library for support and mainteSchool District to levy and collect an annual tax, year after separate and apart from the annual school district budget in the amount of $ 334,822 which will be paid to the Canastota Public Library for support and mainteschool district budget in the amount of $ 334,822 which will be paid to the Canastota Public Library for support and maintenance.

Cannon, 62, a longtime West Ender and ex-mayoral candidate with a background in municipal finance, tells voters he would be a «fresh voice» on the board and suggests slashing «bloated» administrative costs to help pay for school programs that budget cuts have phased out.

- GDP per capita is still lower than it was before the recession - Earnings and household incomes are far lower in real terms than they were in 2010 - Five million people earn less than the Living Wage - George Osborne has failed to balance the Budget by 2015, meaning 40 % of the work must be done in the next parliament - Absolute poverty increased by 300,000 between 2010/11 and 2012/13 - Almost two - thirds of poor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a decade

The mayor repeatedly declined to say how much the city currently spends per year on tuition for students who are approved for reimbursement for private school education, but according to the city's Independent Budget Office, the city is estimated to have paid out more than $ 200 million in reimbursements this year.

Expressing anger at what he called austerity budgets from Cuomo, Hawkins said that the Governor, «Cut taxes for the rich and paid for it by cutting our schools.»

The burden of paying for education has shifted increasingly from state to local property taxpayers, creating funding problems for the schools and an unfair distribution of the cost of education, according to state Sen. Cecilia Tkaczyk, speaking at a budget forum she held at the senior center Sunday, March 23.

Originally, cuts to the budget of the city's Administration for Children's Services would have eliminated $ 91 million in funding that paid childcare costs for 16,000 low - income children so that their parents could work or go to school.

This year's push by parents and educators for additional state funding for public schools paid off when the governor and Albany lawmakers on April 1 finalized a new state budget that contained a $ 1.4 billion increase in state education funding, with $ 525 million going to New York City public schools.

The effect of the Triborough Amendment is significant: Edmund J. McMahon, senior fellow at the Empire Center for New York State Policy, a conservative research group, has estimated that longevity - based pay increases for teachers, guaranteed by the amendment even after contracts expire, add $ 300 million to school budgets annually.

During the press conference, de Blasio noted that the State Senate allocated $ 540 million in its budget for his five - year proposal to pay for full - day pre-K for all 4 - year - olds as well as expanded after - school programs.

Our political work and lobbying in Albany have paid off: Governor Cuomo and the state Legislature reached a budget agreement on April 2 that is the best we have had for our schools in a decade.

The state budget that Mr. Cuomo and legislative leaders announced later that month prohibited the city from charging charters rent and required it to find public school space for them or pay much of the cost for a private location.

Calling the Albany budget crisis and its threat to rob city schools of as much as $ 600 million in state aid «the most dangerous thing this union has faced in 30 years,» UFT President Michael Mulgrew told the April 21 Delegate Assembly that members had to redouble their efforts to get the message out to elected officials that «children can't be made to pay for the mistakes of Wall Street.»

The new state budget seeks to change that by setting aside $ 350,000 to pay for outreach coordinators who will focus on enrolling new students from under - represented middle schools.

Increase the NHS and overseas aid budgets more rapidly than those used to pay for - say - schools, policing and defence?

The budget also has $ 67 million for arming school staff, $ 8 million in pay raises for juvenile detention and probation officers and a 36 percent pay increase for Florida Supreme Court justices who will now make more than $ 220,000 annually.

«We need a budget proposal from the governor and legislature that finally pays the money owed to our children and prioritizes schools that need funding the most,» said Zakiyah Ansari, the advocacy director of the Alliance for Quality Education, at a Jan. 10 press conference outside City Hall to kick off a new push for public school funding in Albany.

Cuomo's plan includes $ 1 billion more for schools and the extension of an additional tax on New York's highest income earners, known as the millionaires» tax, to pay for education spending and close a $ 3.5 billion budget gap.

The more positive budget outlook makes it easier for Walker to deliver on a variety of promises, including raising money for K - 12 schools, cutting University of Wisconsin tuition and paying for roads without raising taxes.

As we are beginning to develop our budget for the upcoming school year, we will be paying particular attention to the extent to which we rely on fund balance.

President Obama's Fiscal Year 2014 budget proposal reflects a strong commitment to supporting research at our public universities while also providing financial assistance to help students pay for school.

However, I do agree that quality of education for public schools shouldn't vary, but unfortunately in NYC our teachers are paid close to nothing (constantly getting laid off because of budget cuts), as well as our NYPD.

Consequently, most charter school operators are forced to pay for facilities costs out of an already slim operating budget.

But 99 percent of students qualify for free or reduced - price lunch, so the school can't expect parents to pay for monthly broadband access, yet the school doesn't have the budget to pay for it, either.

It had also called for a return to pay awards being funded by the government — rather than them falling as an extra cost on already stretched school budgets.

Additionally, the STRB has accepted the Department for Education's position that the pay awards can be managed without any more funding — effectively meaning a further cut to school budgets.

Hands on Banking is a free, bilingual financial education program that provides practical lessons in areas such as managing your cell phone bill, saving and paying for an education beyond high school, living on your own, including the money basics of housing and transportation; creating a budget and living within your means, buying a car, opening bank accounts, establishing, building and managing credit; and avoiding debt problems, according to Wells Fargo.