Sentences with phrase «school aid cuts»

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.

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 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.

«It is very important to the real estate industry so it is likely to be considered on the Senate Republican «list» in negotiations, along with eliminating prior school aid cuts and various tax cuts,» he said.

It is important that you know, the GEA was an unfair school aid cut, enacted in 2010 by the New York City legislators who, at the time, controlled the Senate, the Assembly and the Governor's office.

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

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 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.

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.

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 governor's school aid cuts would equal 0.77 percent of Syosset's general fund budget.

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

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