Sentences with phrase «saying local governments and school districts»

When the comptroller announced the system earlier this year, he said those local governments and school districts identified as experiencing fiscal stress would be offered an array of services from his office, including budget reviews and multi-year financial planning.

Not exact matches

The governor said the state is «living in the margin of our means» and now has run out of money three times — including today (he didn't elaborate), forcing him to hold back scheduled payments to school districts and local governments.

Another noteworthy development: The Long Island senators are now saying a tax cap is unlikely not only in this budget, but in this entire session due to the lack of mandate relief to soften the blow for school districts and local governments.

We now have to rein in local government and school district spending,» he said in Lake Placid.

He said the state should also enact a single payer health care plan that would eliminate the counties» contribution to the Medicaid program as well as the private health insurance bills that local governments and school districts now pay for their employees.

Hawkins urged lawmakers to not extend Cuomo's 2 % property tax cap program, which he said does not relieve the fiscal crises faced by many local governments and school districts across the state.

The Cuomo Administration report has angered business groups, who say the study is skewed, and does not look at impacts a two thirds wage hike would have on small business owners, small farms, and local governments and school districts.

Cuomo would apply his property tax cap to school districts, local governments and county governments, the source said.

«I think the most important thing is finally holding local governments and school districts accountable,» said Sen. Jeff Klein, D - Bronx, an early supporter of the tax cap.

«The passage of Proposal One is a big win for local governments, school districts, and taxpayers across New York State,» Cuomo said.

But the cap has come under criticism, too, from local government advocates and school districts who say it has made raising revenue too difficult.

Cuomo only asking the people to support the cap without any mention of mandate relief is the hamburger bun without the burger and simply fuels the opposition's (they say mandate relief before tax cap) claim that tax cap alone is a big - government scheme to take power away from and defund local towns and school districts and increase the power of the larger state government which created the property tax problem in the first place by passing the mandates which are the biggest property tax drivers and now refuses to change those mandates.

To help those bodies, Republicans pushed for concessions that they say will help local governments and school districts deal with the tax cap.

Schuler said the Chamber agrees with school districts and local governments in their call for state mandate relief to help lower costs but that can not be an excuse for property tax increases.

The governor threatened to hold back on payments to school districts and local governments, a move that his critics said he didn't have the legal authority to do.

Floss says the money could also be used to replenish reserve funds for local governments and school districts, who've had to draw down their reserves in recent years to pay for operating expenses.

Anthony J. Picente Jr. went on to say «We have seen partnerships with local government, county government, the state of New York, School Districts and non-profit organizations like Utica Safe Schools have successl in developing our youth and preventing youth violence.

«Decade after decade, mandates have been piled on local governments and school districts, straining budgets and increasing pressure on taxpayers,» Cuomo said.

«The recent statewide growth in and impact of tax exempt entities severely erodes the tax base of local governments and school districts, unfairly transfers the tax burden to remaining homeowners and businesses, and further compromises New York's position as a fair and competitive environment in which to live and invest,» Teresi said in October as part of his budget address.

It's not the ideal scenario, said DiNapoli, and will likely be manifested at the local level in cutbacks in aid to local governments and school districts.

Local school district trustees in Toronto, along with those in the Ottawa - Carleton and Hamilton - Wentworth systems, defied the Progressive Conservative government by refusing to submit balanced budgets in July to protest what they say is an inadequate school finance system.

With the tremendous pressure — and guidelines from the federal government, state governments, and local school districts — principals are often not sure what matters most and what will improve academic achievement at their schools, Hood said.

Barely more than one third said it was false that the federal government requires all states to use the Common Core standards (it does not), just 15 percent said it was false that the federal government will receive detailed data on the test performance of individual students in participating states (it will not), and fewer than half said it was true that states and local school districts can decide which textbooks to use under Common Core (they can).

Fellow board member Peter Sobol said though the law was billed as providing budget relief for school districts and local government, it could end up being harder on budgets as districts develop compensation models that combine their desire to reward good teachers and the need to keep them.

«Lower class sizes are desired, but how the legislature has chosen to implement them presents significant challenges for districts and will result in either local budget cuts or local governments may have to increase taxes to pay for this change,» said Todd LoFrese, assistant superintendent for support services for Chapel Hill - Carrboro City Schools.

In which they said «state governments and local districts need to do a much better job overseeing these schools, which now educate more than two million students.