Sentences with phrase «said state funding»

He said state funding for school district bond repayments has fallen from 44 percent to 7 percent over the last 15 years.

A metro Detroit newspaper and the Senate Minority Leader said state funding cuts are a reason some public school districts are in financial distress.

On the other, board members said state funding must follow the child.

However, Mahoney said state funding was put on hold because of objections from Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner, who has questions about traffic, parking and costs to the city.

Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo says the state funding through the Citizen Empowerment Tax Credit has gone to towns that have dissolved a village within their boundaries.

Nancy Miller, head of a nonprofit that provides services for the blind, says state funding was essential when her organization built a new vocational center for young people in Rockland County.

A source close to the project said the state funds would be used only to build the infrastructure of the project — like the public parking garage and storm protections — not any of the buildings or the hotel.

Developers of the project and the ESD said the state funds are being used to improve the infrastructure around the project — not the actual outlet building or hotel.

SUNY Board member Hank Dullea, who is a former top aid to Governor Andrew Cuomo's father, former Governor Mario Cuomo, says state funding has decreased over the past couple of decades, and students have had to pick up the slack.

SUNY Board Member Hank Dullea, who is a former top aide to Governor Andrew Cuomo's father, former Governor Mario Cuomo, says state funding has decreased over the past couple of decades, and students have had to pick up the slack.

It says state funding for pre-K programs increased by nearly $ 480 million — or 6.8 percent — from a year earlier.

Most Californians say state funding for their local public schools is inadequate, and most favor ballot proposals likely to increase it, according to PPIC's 12th annual survey on Californians and education.

Charter school families say state funding formula is unconstitutional Eileen Buckley, WBFO 88.7 — September 17, 2014

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Mr Dobbins said that, while the technology had been well received by Federal and State governments in Australia, the company had received no funding to develop or implement the system.

«I think many states would have a serious challenge in providing 80 % of funding for viable infrastructure projects,» said one lobbyist closely involved in tracking the issue, referring to the component of the White House plan that caps federal investment at 20 %.

The lobbyist said that rural states would be most adversely impacted, noting that even though Trump's plan includes $ 50 billion in federal funding for rural infrastructure projects, that may be a high enough compensatory figure.

Edwin Williamson, a former State Department legal adviser who has reviewed the agreement, said that Tillerson agreed to put the cash he gets from Exxon in a trust that will invest only in Treasury securities and diversified mutual funds.

The state government is at odds with the Commonwealth over plans to shelve the second stage of the $ 1.7 billion Perth Freight Link, with the federal minister for cities saying today the funding agreement was for both stages of the project, not just stage 1.

«I think in Mexico we should move towards regulating it at state level,» he said in an interview late on Wednesday, calling it «illogical» to divert funds from fighting kidnapping, rape and murder to arrest people using marijuana.

WASHINGTON, April 19 - The United States and Colombia on Thursday cited new evidence of fraud in Venezuela's food import program for the needy, saying part of the funds often ended up in the hands of corrupt government officials after being funneled through businesses in nearby countries.

Ahlborn has stated he has more than 400 investors willing to buy into the project — and says the Hyperloop could potentially sell energy by producing more power than it needs — but even at the lowest possible estimate, it's unclear whether the project would be able to attract enough funding to get off the ground.

A year ago, after the company announced it had raised $ 50 million in Series D funding, Wojcicki said that they were focused on lowering cost to bring in more users — a million by the end of 2013 was the company's stated goal.

Mayor David Bing plans to challenge the census findings, saying the city can qualify for more federal and state funding if it can get its population count to 775,000.

Officials in charge of overseeing the $ 180.7 billion New York State Common Retirement Fund wanted to invest more in markets outside the U.S. and decided it was best to outsource the task to a company that had the skills and resources to put money to work quickly, staff in the New York comptroller's office said.

«With more states implementing tuition limits, even as state funding remains constrained, the recent credit strengthening of the financially leading publics will moderate,» the report said.

COPENHAGEN, Oct 11 - PensionDanmark became the latest manager of retirement funds to branch out in the hunt for higher returns, saying it would invest 1.6 billion euros in energy infrastructure in Europe and the United States.

The federal government has called on businesses, local and state governments, and residents of the tourist areas to help fund the program, and the rule of law and political institutions still need to be strengthened, said de la Madrid.

Wang Yiming, deputy head of the Development Research Centre of China's State Council, said at the forum that although many belt and road projects were funded by major financial institutions — including the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, New Development Bank, China Development Bank (CDB), the Export - Import Bank of China and the Silk Road Fund — there was still a huge funding gap of up to US$ 500 billion a year.

Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos» Blue Origin company in Washington state received NASA funding in the early rounds of competition, then said it would continue working on its own, unfunded by the government.

But, four sources familiar with Elliott's thinking said Europe offered a lot of scope, as fewer activist funds operated there than in the United States, and European companies have been subject to the attentions of activists for less time.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Apple chief executive Tim Cook, the first openly gay CEO of a Fortune 1,000 company, is donating money to help fund a gay rights initiative in his native Alabama and two other Southern states, organizers said Thursday.

When lumped in with still - rising federal levies like the Universal Services Fund, they add 12 percent to the average American's cell bill and as much as 19 percent in many of our most populous states, says Scott Mackey, economist and partner with government affairs firm Kimbell Sherman Ellis.

University President Garrey Carruthers said a $ 10 million state funding cut in October has added urgency to a top - to - bottom review for new efficiencies.

Brun de Pontet says the nature of the funding needs to be clearly stated.

Russia has banned a charity founded by hedge fund billionaire George Soros, saying it posed a threat to state security and the Russian constitution.

Despite the delay, state pension funds will be paid in full by the end of fiscal 2016, Munger said at a news conference in Chicago.

Currently, Kabbage serves 115,000 small businesses in the United States and has provided more than $ 3.5 billion in funding to small and medium - sized companies, Frohwein said.

Analysts said that although steps taken by the European Central Bank and European policymakers last year, such as formally setting up a bailout fund to provide assistance to troubled member states, provided a degree of support to markets, the euro now looked poised for a period of volatility.

While Congress is threatening to play hardballwith the states and cut off supplemental funding for educational programs and unemployment benefits, Gross says he doubts that would come to pass.

«The FOP is very concerned that the partial or total elimination of SALT deductions will endanger the ability of our state and local government to fund these (law enforcement) agencies,» said the letter, distributed to reporters.

But a recent estimate suggests otherwise, saying expansion of Medicaid could save the state close to $ 1 billion through federal matching funds.

Bitstamp CEO Nejc Kodrič said that all other funds held by the bitcoin exchange are secure in cold storage, stating:

The fund counts sovereign wealth funds including China Investment Corp (CIC) and Singapore state investor Temasek as well as Japan's Mitsui & Co Ltd as investors, said two of the people.

A civil complaint filed by Justice Department officials in the United States said that some of the funds landed in the hands of Mr. Najib's friends and associates as well as officials and executives from Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth fund.

«The First Home Club offers the chance for borrowers to receive matching funds toward a down payment in the state of New York,» said Drew Sandholm with Quontic Bank in New York.

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The MainStay S&P 500 index fund charged 35 basis points when similar funds from Vanguard Group could be had for 2 basis points and from State Street Global Advisors for 4 basis points, the complaint says.

Jeff Dion, National Compassion Fund director, said that funding would come from programs run by the federal and state governments.

The company said in September that it would pitch in $ 50,000 to supplement $ 300,000 in Washington State funding for a study of how to link the Pacific Northwest to Vancouver via high - speed rail.

Simmons, who solicited over $ 6 million in investments for a hedge fund, misappropriated nearly $ 2 million of these funds for his own use and that of a co-conspirator, said Geoffrey Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York.