Sentences with phrase «said state funding cuts»
A metro Detroit newspaper and the Senate Minority Leader said state funding cuts are a reason some public school districts are in financial distress.
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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.
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.
Mayor Bloomberg said this morning he is becoming increasingly pressimistic that the city and state will get the FMAP funds they had expected to receive from Washington, DC, and he has directed his agency commissioners to start preparing for more cuts as a result.
Schneiderman said he successfully protected cost - sharing subsidies under the Affordable Care Act as well, which if had been eliminated would have resulted in huge cuts in healthcare funding to the state.
«Working together, our accomplishments are many ---- a game - changing property tax cap, record support for schools and elimination of the GEA, a 20 - percent middle class income tax cut, six straight budgets that have held the line on spending, targeted investments that will create jobs and revitalize our economy, and critical road and bridge funds for every region of the state,» he said.
In addition to potential changes to the Affordable Care Act, which could cost the state billions in federal funding, Cuomo said there likely could be cuts to housing programs and energy assistance for the poor.
Cuomo said this summer he's crafting a congestion pricing plan for the city as a means to cut traffic and raise funding for the beleaguered, state - run Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
If the state were to actually cut $ 250 million from the MTA, said Russianoff, «It would be very bad, worse than what we sustained with the $ 100 million hit from the raid on their dedicated funds.»
While Collins says he has House leadership support for cutting federal reimbursements to state Medicaid funding derived from counties in the sales tax, the Senate side is still debating how states would be impacted.
De Blasio said he is «ready» to take legal action against U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who is threatening to take funds from so - called sanctuary cities by cutting a federal program that helps cities and states fight crime.
Valesky said that freedom since the IDC formed in 2011 has allowed him to cut better deals when it comes to state funding for local schools, healthcare organizations and nonprofits.
State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman sounded the alarm about the deep cuts at a canal - side press conference last week, saying the slashed funding would send New York «back to the bad old days of choking smog and rampant pollution.»
The state Assembly's Democratic Speaker Carl Heastie said he doubted lawmakers would have to convene a special session before January's scheduled start of the 2018 regular legislative session — unless there's an unexpected cut in federal funding.
For districts that get most of their funding from the state, it will mean, he said, some school officials will have to cut programs or staff because they will be forced to plan conservatively in what they might get from Albany if a state budget goes unresolved until May 31.
New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio wants to pay for pre-K for New York City children by raising New York City income taxes on households earning more than $ 500,000 saying that if state funding gets cut, pre-K for New York City children will still be funded.
Although a 50 percent cut in funding from New York State prompted Ulster County to shift administration of mental health clinics to a privately operated agency, the county still has mental health resources available for families and adolescents, said county Health Commissioner Dr. Carol Smith.
Recently at the Business Council of New York State's annual meeting, business leaders conceded that the $ 15 an hour minimum wage phase in is likely to be approved by the legislature, and they said they were seeking sweeteners in the legislation to mitigate its effects including new business tax cuts and a youth employment fund.
The plan does not make the charters eligible for state building aid to make up for the mayor» scapital funding cut, sources said.
Last week, after Cuomo introduced a budget with cuts to state funding for Medicaid and the City University of New York that de Blasio said would be «debilitating» for the city's finances, the governor walked back his proposals and said the plan was to look for efficiencies in both systems.
«Many states would be forced to kick low - income and disabled people off their health care coverage once federal funding for the Medicaid program is cut, as this Senate bill would do,» said Chris Shelton, president of the Communications Workers of America.
And he said the state's over $ 4 billion projected deficit and potential funding cuts aren't helping either.
The state's comptroller is siding with Governor Cuomo over concerns that federal health care cuts will damage New York's budget, but he says the governor's budget experts should have saved more money in rainy day funds.
The latest version of a plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act is now dead in Congress, but New York Governor Andrew Cuomo remains worried about another potential cut in federal funds to hospitals that he says will blow a hole in the state budget.
Throughout budget negotiations budget writers said members projects were cut and priorities were reshuffled to fund the $ 400 million «Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Act,» which included $ 67 million for a controversial program to arm school personnel and more funding for mental health services in schools across the state.
It will slightly cut overall spending for the second year in a row while limiting growth in state spending — sans federal funds — to just under 2 %, Skelos said.
Putnam said he didn't know why lawmakers would cut funding to state colleges, but called their decision «short - sighted.»
Cuomo's office says the measure would cut billions in health care funding for the state each year, rising to as much as $ 19 billion a year by 2026.
«As a direct result of the amendment introduced by Congressmen Faso and Collins, this provision alone would cut Medicaid funding for New York by $ 2.3 billion and cripple hospitals, nursing homes, and assisted living facilities across the state,» Cuomo said.
«Pension fund managers across the country have cut or eliminated exposure to these overpriced and underperforming investments, while the Office of the New York State Comptroller has stood still and spent pension system funds chasing performance that continues to fall far short,» said Financial Services Superintendent Maria Vullo.
State lawmakers are decrying a plan in the governor's proposed budget they say would cut funding and services for cancer patients.
«As my office's legal guidance makes clear, President Trump lacks the constitutional authority to broadly cut off funding to states and cities just because they have lawfully acted to protect immigrant families,» Schneiderman said.
«The President lacks the constitutional authority to cut off funding to states and cities simply because they have lawfully acted to protect immigrant families — as described in the legal guidance my office issued last week,» Schneiderman said.
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said the administration will «strip federal grant money from sanctuary states and cities that harbor illegal immigrants» and will «figure out how we can defund those streams, look at those funding streams and figure out how they can be cut off.»
State Education Commissioner John King Jr. said he was also grateful for the emergency funds and blamed a «structural imbalance in funding for the past several years» for «the difficult decision» to cut the exams.
The mayor said Cuomo has gone after him many times — including when the state suddenly stepped up inspections and sought to cut off funding of city homeless shelters in May.
A source close to the negotiations said that all three sides were close to agreement on a mechanism that would allow the state to respond to a drop in federal Medicaid funding by initially trying to find a legislative solution or, if one could not be reached, empowering the executive branch to make an across - the - board cut to service providers to make up the shortfall.
He says the panel does have to consider the money, at a time when the state has not fulfilled a court order that said the state needed to spend billions of more dollars school funding, and at a time when a new property tax cap might lead to lay offs of teachers and school program cut backs.
Mayoral aides say they were counting on hikes in state funding; Cuomo's budget cuts $ 659.4 million — a nearly $ 2 billion swing.
Mayor de Blasio said Tuesday there's «no excuse» for the state's «dangerous» decision not to hand over millions in federal funds for New York City's cash - strapped public hospitals — a move Gov. Cuomo said is necessary due to federal cuts.
Mayor Bill de Blasio said he is «ready» to take legal action against U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who is threatening to take funds from so - called sanctuary cities by cutting a federal program that helps cities and states fight crime.
«While millions of immigrants across the State are eager to learn English and improve their community and economic standing, Governor Pataki is defying the State Legislature and cutting vital funding intended to help immigrants and all low - income New Yorkers,» said Jose Davila, State Government Affairs Representative for the New York Immigration Coalition.
Cuomo, in his own statement, said the amendment «threatens to slash an additional $ 2.3 billion in Medicaid funding for the state, leading to devastating cuts to our hospitals, nursing homes, and home care providers.»
Cuomo says he may have to call a special session in December to deal with potential funding cuts from Washington that he deemed a «federal assault» on New York, saying all hospitals will «need to find savings» and work with state and local governments to make ends meet due to the reductions.
A federal judge hammered an attorney for California over the state's push for a court order immediately reinstating «Obamacare» subsidies cut off by the Trump administration, saying California and other states had protected consumers from the loss of the funding.
«This makes no sense - the Governor insists that mental health providers share info with government officials - but cuts mental health funding at the state level while empowering his commissioner to close facilities at his sole discretion,» said Erie County Sheriff Tim Howard.
But Democratic leaders and Malloy said the proposed $ 300 million cut in state funding for the University of Connecticut and other spending reductions were unacceptable.
«It's not sustainable, and what they do is they keep pushing the cost down to the local taxpayer, saying, «We cut at the state level», which is true, but somehow it has to get funded, which really pits the taxpayer against the school district,» Brown said.
New York state's comptroller is siding with Governor Andrew Cuomo over concerns that federal health care cuts will damage New York's budget, but he says the governor's budget experts should have saved more money in rainy day funds.
New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said in a statement that Trump does not have the authority to cut off this funding.