Not exact matches
To ensure that taxpayers and the vulnerable populations served by these agencies receive the maximum value for the funds paid, Governor Cuomo is proposing the following reforms beginning
in 2012 - 13: • At least 85
percent of every
public dollar will be spent on direct services, not
administration.
The city could also suffer a loss of almost 40
percent of the $ 1.5 billion
in public assistance grants the Human Resource
Administration hands out to more than 600,000 New Yorkers.
ALBANY, NY (09/10/2014)(readMedia)-- Zephyr Teachout's stunning 35
percent of the vote and Tim Wu's 40
percent in yesterday's primary election affirms the political power and clout of the new
Public Employees Federation, under the leadership of the Kent / Garcia
administration.
That's right, while the state has spent 7.5
percent more than it did at the beginning of the Cuomo
Administration, students have been forced to pay more and the state has shortchanged
public colleges
in the budget.
The state senator, whose turf covers not Maspeth but neighborhoods like Bayside and Whitestone, read a scripted speech that sounded like a laundry list of middle - class outer borough complaints against the present
administration: from de Blasio's «narrow - minded anti-motorist» Vision Zero program, to his opposition to bringing the city into line with the rest of the state's two
percent property tax cap, to his allegedly insufficient support for co-ops and small senior centers, to the influence of high - power political consultants at City Hall, to the lack of
public transit options
in the deepest reaches of the city (which the state controls), to his purported failure to shield small businesses from rent hikes, to — yes — his scrapped plans to convert the Holiday Inn into a homeless shelter.
«If you think Common Core snuck up on families with the less than 1
percent of education dollars the Obama
administration dangled
in front of states, just wait until more
public and private schools are directly accepting federal control through federal vouchers and the next Democratic
administration decides they want to tell these schools what to teach kids.»
Nina Rees, president and CEO of the National Alliance for
Public Charter Schools, shared some recent public charter school accomplishments including that six out of the top 10 high schools in the U.S. are charter schools (US News and World Report); Colorado recently passed a law equalizing funding for charters and traditional public schools; the new administration has proposed an increase in spending for charter schools by 50 percent; and the creation of a unified traditional public school - charter board in Los An
Public Charter Schools, shared some recent
public charter school accomplishments including that six out of the top 10 high schools in the U.S. are charter schools (US News and World Report); Colorado recently passed a law equalizing funding for charters and traditional public schools; the new administration has proposed an increase in spending for charter schools by 50 percent; and the creation of a unified traditional public school - charter board in Los An
public charter school accomplishments including that six out of the top 10 high schools
in the U.S. are charter schools (US News and World Report); Colorado recently passed a law equalizing funding for charters and traditional
public schools; the new administration has proposed an increase in spending for charter schools by 50 percent; and the creation of a unified traditional public school - charter board in Los An
public schools; the new
administration has proposed an increase
in spending for charter schools by 50
percent; and the creation of a unified traditional
public school - charter board in Los An
public school - charter board
in Los Angeles.
Teachers have been calling attention to the problem of overtesting
in public schools for years, and this weekend the Obama
administration finally responded by releasing a plan to reduce testing, saying no more than two
percent of classroom instruction time should be spent on tests.
«93
percent were not long
in the Utah
public education system and only 7
percent moved into
administration or other specialist roles,» says Nicholson.
When it comes to their new proposed education agenda, it is bad enough that Malloy and Wyman plan to give more money to the privately owned but publicly funded charter school industry while making the deepest cuts
in state history to Connecticut's
public schools, but
in a little understood piece of proposed legislation, the Malloy
administration is trying to sneak through legislation that would give his Commissioner of Education and the political appointees on his State Board of Education a new mechanism they would use to punish taxpayers
in certain communities where more than 5
percent of parents opt their children out of the wasteful and destructive Common Core SBAC testing program.
Their legislative agenda also includes taking away local citizen control of
public schools and supporting the Malloy
administration's effort to punish school districts
in which more than 5
percent of the parents opt their children out of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) testing scheme.
After hearing a brief description of the Common Core, criticized by some conservatives as a federal takeover of local
public schools because the Obama
administration is pushing for the change, 69
percent of California residents interviewed said they supported the standards, Baldassare said
in a news release.
State Sen. Teresa Ruiz (D - Essex), the legislator most credited for the new tenure law, said yesterday
in some of her first
public comments on the regulations that the
administration's plans to base 35
percent of certain teachers» evaluations on state test scores, starting next year, may be too ambitious.
The work is part of the Art
in Architecture program, developed under the Kennedy
administration, which sets aside 0.5
percent of the estimated cost of federal construction projects for
public art.
But
in March 2016, the
administration backtracked, removing the Atlantic despite strong statewide
public support for offshore development
in North Carolina (64
percent), South Carolina (67
percent) and Virginia (65
percent).
Now, New Jersey faces
public health crises: a 35
percent increase
in cases of bacterial STDs since 2009, and an increase
in breast and cervical cancer cases with a disproportionate impact on communities of color, including an alarming 25.1
percent increase
in Latinas — but the Christie
administration has busily found reasons to downplay these alarming statistics.