Sentences with phrase «school aid cut»

Local educators have been trying this year, so far without success, to get lawmakers to restore $ 30 million in state school aid cut last year.

Both leaders are attempting to restore up to $ 300 million of Cuomo's proposed $ 1.5 billion school aid cut, though they differ significantly over which regions should get the most money.

The average proposed School Aid cut for the same districts under the Governor's budget is over $ 1,438,000.

-- $ 600 million — including $ 177 million for New York City — of the Governor's $ 1.4 billion in devastating school aid cuts is restored, providing direct classroom support and property tax relief to working families throughout New York State.

The budget will include a complete end to the school aid cuts under gap elimination adjustment, a move that impacts predominantly suburban school districts.

«If Albany moves forward with the school aid cuts proposed by the Governor, New York City may have to lay off 6,400 teachers — the first teacher layoffs in New York City since the 1970s,» the letter reads.

Albany, New York — In a move that veteran lawmakers called «unprecedented», Governor Andrew Cuomo sent his Lieutenant Governor, Robert Duffy, to defend his proposed school aid cuts to a joint hearing of the legislature's education and fiscal committees.

Albany, New York — A major New York State union is going on the air with televisions ads to try to convince state lawmakers to continue a tax on the wealthy instead of adopting Governor Cuomo's billion and half dollars in school aid cuts.

The bills were based, by law, on the spending plan Paterson first proposed in January, but they restored some of his school aid cuts, eliminated his tax cap and took out a proposal to allow SUNY and CUNY the ability to raise tuition unilaterally — basically all the stuff that might possibly have compelled any of the members to explain anything difficult to their constituents.

Then came the big one: school aid cuts, authorization to sell wine in grocery stores and a property tax cap, all rolled into a single extender.

If the Budget Director applied this rationale to the State budget, $ 3.5 billion in State closing funds balances from this year would obviate the need for any school aid cuts, statewide.»

Republican lawmakers were clearly less than impressed with Malloy's proposals for municipal and school aid cuts, several of which were rejected by the legislature last year.

A bumper sticker reading Tax the Rich is left on a governors mansion sign after a Saturday march protesting Gov. Andrew Cuomo's school aid cuts in Albany Saturday 02/19/2011.

The Fiscal Policy Institute joined with the Alliance for Quality Education and other groups to publicize the grim truth about Governor Paterson's $ 2.5 billion in school aid cuts.

Final State Budget Plan Includes Billions in Tax Increases and School Aid Cuts — Still No Cap on Local Property Taxes

The Buffalo News reports the issue has come to the forefront as school districts say proposed state school aid cuts would force a new round of layoffs in the coming year.

The Assembly wants to restore some of Mr. Paterson's school aid cuts, while the Senate is insisting on some form of property tax relief.

It's because of the Best Communities for Music Education designation that our music programs have been able to withstand dramatic school aid cuts.

Not exact matches

However, the philanthropic agenda didn't match other things that were going on in the city, like the state cutting $ 56 million in school aid, she said.

Look it up for yourself: the GOP has cut school lunch programs, Aid to dependent children, Planned Parenthood health care which provides medical care for expectant mothers (under the guise that they perform a limited number of abortions annually), Medicare programs which provides health care to the children who were born in the past because they weren't aborted, WIC which provides food to Women, Infants and Children... one could go on.

But with roughly half of all departmental spending in ringfenced areas like schools, the NHS and aid spending, the remaining departments will have to make cuts of around 3.6 %.

Despite this, their detailed tax policies are a net giveaway of 0.1 % of national income, their detailed social security measures would only provide a tenth of the cuts that they have said they want to deliver, and their commitments on aid, the NHS and schools would (relative to a real freeze) increase spending on these areas by 0.3 % of national income.

The Syracuse Republican insisted the conference had to remain united on the minimum wage vote, which was packaged with a boost in school aid and an elimination of education cuts GOP lawmakers had pushed for since last year.

Senate Finance Chairman John DeFrancisco (R - Syracuse) got things going last month when he suggested that Medicaid rather than school aid should take the brunt of budget cuts.

DeFrancisco, the Senate deputy leader, said it's going to be difficult to find cuts even in the largest portion of the budget: school aid.

Schools Chancellor Joel Klein told City Council members the $ 500 million cut in state aid coupled with increasing costs will leave the Department of Education $ 750 million short in fiscal 2011.

«If allowable levy growth remains restricted, school districts will have to increasingly depend on overrides, state aid growth, and expenditure cuts to balance their budgets, a credit negative,» Moody's found.

ALBANY — Gov. David A. Paterson has reportedly put off what would unquestionably be a bloody fight with lawmakers over cuts to school aid — at least for the moment.

The Democrats under Sheldon Silver don't want aid to schools cut?

Senate Republican President Len Fasano says cuts to municipal aid and school funding have been restored.

«As always, you have to make decisions about how much you can afford to do in school aid and how much money you have to put aside for the potential impact of federal cuts in Medicaid and in health care,» Assembly Majority Leader Joe Morelle (D - Irondequoit) said last week.

Cuomo mentioned the salary of a Syosset schools superintendent, Carole Hankin, who earns $ 386,868 a year, as an example of where education officials might consider cutting to make up for the loss of state aid they are expected to suffer during this budget cycle.

Iannuzzi has been one of the few outspoken critics of Governor Andrew Cuomo and his proposed budget, which cut state aid to schools by 2.7 % or about $ 1.3 billion.

He also said there are «loose ends» that still remain to be tied up, but school aid is «pretty much closed down» with a tentative agreement to restore some $ 250 million worth of the $ 1.5 billion Cuomo cut.

But 64 percent oppose Cuomo's proposed $ 1.5 billion reduction in state aid to school districts, and 56 percent oppose his 10 percent cut to SUNY and CUNY.

The superintendent of Rockville Center schools, who earns $ 310,000 a year, thinks Cuomo's cap is a «distraction» from the fight over $ 1.5 billion in education aid cuts.

Lawmakers said they were still working out exactly how school aid would be distributed; Heastie said there was yet not a deal over how much money would flow through the Foundation Aid formula, which prioritizes need and so helps urban districts, as opposed to restoring cuts from the Gap Elimination Adjustment, which hit suburban areas hardeaid would be distributed; Heastie said there was yet not a deal over how much money would flow through the Foundation Aid formula, which prioritizes need and so helps urban districts, as opposed to restoring cuts from the Gap Elimination Adjustment, which hit suburban areas hardeAid formula, which prioritizes need and so helps urban districts, as opposed to restoring cuts from the Gap Elimination Adjustment, which hit suburban areas hardest.

The governor's budget, which includes a 3.1 percent increase in school aid, a two - year property tax freeze and phased - in business tax cuts, offers something for everyone in a year where Cuomo and all 213 members of the legislature are up for reelection.

«As the chair of the Senate Education Committee, Senator Oppenheimer should be leading efforts to reform the state school aid formula so districts do not have to endure billions in cuts any given year and can operate within the confines of a local property tax cap,» said Cohen.

The governor's budget, which includes a 3.1 percent increase in school aid, a two - year property tax freeze and phased in business tax cuts, offers something for everyone in a year where Cuomo and all 213 members of the legislature are up for reelection.

«Instead, she has voted to eliminate property tax relief, increase state spending, increase taxes, and cut state school aid — and we still have no property tax cap.»

The governor, in a conference call with reporters, refrained from saying whether he'd favor more dramatic steps, such as cutting school aid or freezing overall spending.

The $ 145.3 billion spending plan increases school aid next year by just under $ 1 billion (which school boards say is not enough) and over the next five years commits to build thousands of units of affordable housing for the homeless, contribute $ 8.3 billion to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, spend $ 22 billion on upstate roads and bridges, cut taxes for small businesses and create a rebate for Thruway toll payers.

ALBANY — After a two - hour debate that touched on climate change and several anti-Semitic incidents at the City University of New York, Republicans in the state Senate endorsed a one - house budget resolution that shifts costs to New York City, increases aid for public schools and cuts taxes for middle - income New Yorkers.

The poll cited seven different possible rationales for rejecting Cuomo: the Moreland Commission scandal, cuts in school aid, tax cuts, his alliance with a «shadowy» group called the Committee to Save New York, his donations from Republicans including the Koch Brothers and Ken Langone, his support for charter schools, and his «values,» which show he «caters to the wealthy and corporations.»

Public - school funding is safe so far, according to Paterson, but big cuts in discretionary funding, local government aid, and health care are on the horizon.

Randi Weingarten, president of the United Federation of Teachers, criticized the Senate version of the bill for cutting about $ 40 billion from money «targeted to help states avoid drastic education cuts and teacher layoffs,» as well as $ 20 billion from construction aid to schools and colleges and $ 1 billion from new aid for Head Start and other early childhood education programs.

SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher said cuts to programs that help disadvantaged high school students gain the opportunity to attend college, as well as reductions to federal college aid and cuts to medical research, including cancer research, would have a huge negative impact on New York's colleges.

I believe if we continue doing what we're doing the state goes down the road to ruin,» Cuomo said during a speech formally announcing the austere plan, which also calls for a massive government restructuring, the merger or consolidation of 11 state agencies into four, and a 10 percent cut in aid for SUNY and CUNY schools.

Sixty - eight percent said his cuts to school aid and tax cuts would convince them to oppose him, while 67 percent said the Committee to Save New York would keep them from pulling the lever for Cuomo, after the pollsters» described the group as a «shadowy» organization «that raised more than $ 17 million from Wall Street, real estate moguls and other business interests to promote his agenda of education cuts and tax breaks.»