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He also referenced the fact that New York is now one of three states placed on a watch list for losing hundreds of millions of Race to the Top dollars by US Education Secretary Arne Duncan because it has «hit a roadblock» on significant policy provisions of qualifying for the aid, including establishment of the peformance evaluation system and creation of a database to track student records across school districts.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is proposing an increase in school aid of over three - quarters of a billion dollars, a rise of about 3 percent over last year, but some say that's not enough to meet school districts» rising costs.

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.

Cuomo is also trying to shake up education policy, by threatening to withhold hundreds of millions of dollars in increases in school aid from schools that don't agree on teacher evaluation plans with teachers.

Meanwhile, a budget watchdog group said the state could still spend more money on the poorest schools and save hundreds of millions of dollars if only it reconfigured the formula for distributing school aid.

New York state owes NYC public schools nearly $ 3 billion dollars but has yet to comply with the court order mandating that aid.

Many schools plan to add new student programs and services next year, aided by millions of dollars in fresh financial assistance from Albany, as well as reductions in state pension costs.

Governor Cuomo is proposing an increase in school aid of over three - quarters of a billion dollars or around 3 % from last year, but some say that's not enough to meet school districts» rising costs.

The spokesman, Scott Reif, noted that resolution provided hundreds of millions of dollars in additional school aid, more than what Cuomo proposed in pre-K spending and an expansion of the EPIC prescription drug program for seniors.

That same stubborn attitude on the Mayor's part now means that our schools will suffer a loss of millions of dollars in state aid.

Public schools in the city of Yonkers will get an additional $ 25 million dollars in aid, but Cuomo had to abandon a last minute proposal to give an additional $ 75 million dollars to struggling upstate schools.

Education advocates, including Billy Easton of the Alliance for Quality Education, says the $ 807 million dollar school aid increase Cuomo is seeking is less than half of what's needed just to maintain the current level of teachers and programs.

The law, which reduces the amount of state aid received by school districts, was first imposed in the 2010 to help close New York State's multi-billion dollar deficit by taking funding away from schools.

The leaders of school districts, teachers unions, and parents are presenting a united front in calling for $ 2.2 billion dollars more school aid next year.

Governor Cuomo is proposing an increase in school aid of over three - quarters of a billion dollars, or around three percent from last year, but some say that's not enough to meet school districts» rising costs.

Governor Cuomo has proposed increasing school aid by $ 800 million dollars in the new state budget, lawmakers have requested a few hundred million more.

The law, which was passed in 2010, withheld aid to school districts to help close New York State's multi-billion dollar deficit.

Vos said replacing money generated from the property tax levy with state dollars is a better approach to property tax relief than trying to do it through the school aid formula, which he said results in winners and losers across the state.

Critics questioned the need to make the payments at a time when the state has taken drastic money - saving steps, such as delaying billions of dollars in aid payments to local school districts, to try to close a $ 9 billion deficit.

``... His opponent, who has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars of his own money and gotten nowhere, is seeking to join the same New York City - dominated conference that enacted the job - killing MTA payroll tax, took the STAR rebate checks away from seniors and homeowners, and shifted school aid to New York City at Long Island's expense.»

The pro-Cuomo Committee to Save NY is backing up a recent TV spot supporting the governor's proposed education aid cuts with a mailer that accuses school superintendents of going behind closed doors and «taking money out of classrooms — but putting hundreds of thousands of dollars in their own pockets.»

At the same time, Cuomo's budget office did not release the school aid runs — projected dollar amounts for districts so they can begin to budget for the next school year.

Also at 12:30 p.m., Assembly Education Chair Cathy Nolan and Sen. Kevin Parker will release letters signed by more than 70 legislators in both houses calling for $ 2.4 billion in new school aid with an emphasis on Foundation Aid, Million Dollar Staircase, 3rd Floor, state Capitol, Albaaid with an emphasis on Foundation Aid, Million Dollar Staircase, 3rd Floor, state Capitol, AlbaAid, Million Dollar Staircase, 3rd Floor, state Capitol, Albany.

Parara already receives some partial scholarship dollars from Say Yes Buffalo so the tuition plan would not affect her, but she said it's only fair private schools get the needed financial aid to assist other students.

Nixon's criticism mirrored an op - ed she published last month that slammed Cuomo for his support of charter schools and for proposing to eliminate the so - called Foundation Aid formula for funding public schools, which critics argued would deprive districts of billions of dollars that they are still owed under 2006 court decision that found the state had underfunded public education.

This follows Cuomo's about - face on boosting state help for the New York City Housing Authority, and his support for a billion - dollar hike in state school aid — all moving to grab issues Nixon had raised.

The governor says schools that achieve their agreements early, by September, will get credit toward a competition for $ 250 million dollars in grants that Cuomo intends to award, as part of his school aid budget.

And he opened the door to increasing school aid funding beyond the governor's $ 769 million dollar proposal.

His house has some disagreements with the Governor's plan, including Cuomo's desire to award $ 250 million dollars in school aid on a competitive basis.

Billy Easton, with the Alliance for Quality Education, says last year, Cuomo presided over a budget that cut $ 1.3 billion dollars in aid to schools.

The schools were supposed to get around 5.5 billion more dollars in education aid, after the Court of Appeals ruled in 2006 in the Campaign for Fiscal Equity case.

Flanagan had publicly said that the Senate would not approve a budget unless the budget totally eliminated something called the Gap Elimination Adjustment, which took millions of dollars in school aid away from suburban and rural school districts.

Nolan and many of her colleagues have signed a letter seeking $ 1.9 billion additional dollars in school aid in the new budget.

Governor Andrew Cuomo has proposed s $ 991 million dollar increase in school aid, a figure the leader of the State Association of School Business Officials has called «woefully inadequate.&school aid, a figure the leader of the State Association of School Business Officials has called «woefully inadequate.&School Business Officials has called «woefully inadequate.»

While Buffalo schools are looking for millions of dollars more from Albany in the annual school aid budget fight, the district is diving into the intricacies of its spending and hoping to knock millions off its costs.

The 31 - page document, apparently drafted after the Senate and Assembly approved one - house budget bills of their own last week, lays out in intricate detail where each chamber and the governor stand on dozens of outstanding budget issues, from billions of dollars in school aid to cuts in welfare checks to rules for marine fishery licenses.

Ultimately, after final budget negotiations last year, Ossining received an additional $ 2.2 Million dollars in Foundation Aid, yet remained one of the most underfunded Foundation Aid school districts in the state.

Here is a comparison between the proposed budget for aid to schools in dollars for 2011 - 12 and what that aid is currently.

E. Indebtedness contracted for school purposes, evidenced by bonds, to the extent to which state aid for common schools, not exceeding two million five hundred thousand dollars, shall meet the interest and the annual requirements for the amortization and payment of part or all of one or more issues of such bonds.

He also provided specifics for a few things he's been talking about for a while, like education — he wants to increase school aid by about a billion dollars — but especially homelessness, an issue he's been sparring about with Mayor Bill de Blasio.

Both houses of the Legislature are also weighing whether to seek to override Mr. Paterson's continuing vetoes of their earmarks — often termed pork - barrel spending — as well as his veto this week of hundreds of millions of dollars in extra school aid that lawmakers had sought to restore.

The letter hits the state for not meeting a court order to provide needy schools that were traditionally underfunded billions of dollars more in aid, an obligation Cuomo has repeatedly argued has been met.

Cuomo said it would finance middle - class tax cuts approved by the governor and state Legislature last year and help pay for a billion - dollar increase in school aid.

Referendum # 1 also means hundreds of millions of dollars in new school aid, property tax relief, and aid to local governments.

Cuomo says it would finance middle class tax cuts approved by the governor and legislature last year, and to help pay for a billion dollar increase in school aid.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has proposed raising aid to schools by just under a billion dollars this year.

Schools across New York, including districts right here in Cortland County are owed millions of dollars in state aid.

Both the Assembly and the Senate significantly increase school aid spending from Governor Cuomo's budget, with the Assembly recommending a $ 1.8 billion dollar increase, and the Senate prosing $ 1.9 billion more dollars.

«That is millions and millions of additional dollars that can be provided to local school districts to help defray any costs that may exist as a cost of a consolidation and provide additional aid and assistance directly to student care... The money sits in the New York State budget.

He says Question 2 could eventually see hundreds of millions of dollars in state aid follow students to charter schools, threatening the status quo.»