Sentences with phrase «school aid plan»

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The school can make you eligible for federal aid again as long as you adhere to the academic plan.

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.

Religion News Service: Fred Phelps» son condemns Westboro's plan to picket Newtown funerals The estranged son of a Kansas pastor famous for protesting the funerals of soldiers and AIDS victims has condemned his family's plans to picket the funerals of the 26 people — including 20 children — who were killed when a gunman stormed a Connecticut elementary school.

In 1951 the nation's scholarship program was opened up to qualifying students who wanted to attend private secondary schools; the government also began providing for children attending all elementary schools a minimal supplementary aid in a form similar to the tuition voucher plans presently under discussion in several American states.

There is a general lack of first aid, injury recognition and management knowledge among high school and youth coaches, with some youth sports programs lacking even a basic emergency medical plan.

New York's first - in - the - nation free college tuition plan was enacted just weeks before the May 1 deadline for most students to decide where they will matriculate, a choice that for many families involves weighing one school's financial aid package against another's.

Assembly Democrats in April begrudgingly approved an spending spending plan that linked a boost in school aid to the adoption of education policy changes opposed by teachers unions.

School aid, up $ 202 million over the governor's original proposal for next year, and $ 2.2 billion across the four - year plan, accounts for most of the difference.

Local school districts are preparing for another tight budget season this year, with minimal state aid increases projected in Gov. Andrew Cuomo's tentative spending plan and a cap of less than 2 percent on tax levy growth.

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.

The letter, written by Sen. Todd Kaminsky, a Democrat elected in a special election in April, pointed out that only 121 of the state's 700 - plus school districts so far have submitted evaluation plans that are required in order to receive a portion of state aid.

This could mean less money for costly items in the spending plan like school aid, which increased this year by more than 6 percent.

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.

ALBANY — Several education groups are criticizing Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposal that New York's largest school districts submit school - level funding plans for state approval or risk losing increases in aid.

House and Senate Republicans offered two different versions of no - tax - increase budget plans Tuesday that they insist can solve the state's projected two - year, $ 5 billion deficit without savage reductions in state aid to cities and towns and school funding.

He says he even plans to increase aid to schools by as much as five percent from the current year.

ALBANY — Governor Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders have agreed on a framework for the state budget with at least a $ 1.4 billion increase in school aid, a plan to allow the state education department to develop the new teacher evaluation system and tighter disclosure requirements for lawmakers.

The $ 530 million includes $ 254 million that the city has to contribute to an $ 836 million short - term emergency plan unveiled by MTA chairman Joe Lhota to fix the city's beleaguered subway system — which has been plagued by delays and service problems over the last several months — and $ 140 million less than the city had expected to receive in state aid for city schools.

There's been talk of a package of bills that would include pay raises for lawmakers as well as a minimum wage increase, and perhaps a plan for more charter schools or even other unrelated issues like the Dream Act, which would give college aid to children of immigrants.

«If we rewind back to the first year of implementation, districts had to put these plans in place under threat of losing a state aid increase,» said David Albert, spokesman for the New York State School Boards Association.

The declaration came just hours before he convened legislative leaders in a closed - door meeting to detail plans to slash $ 10 billion in planned expenses, including aid to schools, hospitals and local governments.

Earlier this year, and as part of Race to the Top requirements, the state did direct New York school districts develop their own teacher evaluation systems, known as annual professional performance reviews plan (APPR), lest the districts risk losing additional available state aid.

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.

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.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's plan for the 2018 - 19 school year, rolled out in his annual budget message on Tuesday, would raise operating aid in Nassau and Suffolk counties to a total $ 2.86 billion.

ALBANY — A new, well - financed partnership plying both fundamentals of democracy and modern high - stakes lobbying plans to bring Albany's fight over public school aid into New Yorkers» homes.

Cuomo says under his plan the state operating budget increases by less than 2 percent while increasing school aid and Medicaid funding at approximately 4 percent.

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.

The $ 77.7 billion spending plan, up 3.6 percent from last year, also includes a spate of new social programs that would aid homeless New Yorkers, spur prison reforms and expand literacy programs in public schools.

Joseph Dragone, assistant superintendent for business in the Roslyn school system, noted that his district would lose more than 2 percent in operating aid next year based on the governor's plan.

MANHATTAN — Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposed a plan to slash billions from the state's budget, including a 2 percent cut in Medicaid spending, a $ 1.5 billion reduction in school aid and nearly 10,000 state worker layoffs, according to a plan unveiled Tuesday.

In a little over a month, voters in most school districts go to the polls to decide yes or know on that district's spending plan and five of them in Erie County have less state aid to work with in the recently approved state budget In Erie County, Sweet Home sees the biggest cut in overall state...

While waiting for district - by - district allotment information, sources said Buffalo Public Schools are in line for a 3.36 percent school aid hike from the current year, up $ 6.8 million over Cuomo's plan in January.

At nearly the same time, about a thousand members of the city teachers union arrived in Albany to rally for more education aid and against Cuomo's plans, which include tougher teacher evaluations and more charter schools.

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced a deal on a $ 168.3 billion spending plan that increases school aid by $ 1 billion, restructures the state tax code to respond to changes in Washington, directs money to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority by raising fees on taxis and Uber rides and paves the way for the use of eminent domain near Penn Station.

The Assembly has proposed a spending plan that would provide $ 25 billion in total school aid, about $ 1.8 billion more than the previous year, but that budget was not supported by the senate or Gov. Cuomo.

«I've kept my promise to fight for Long Island by voting over 175 times against raising taxes, delivering a $ 20 million increase in aid for South Shore schools, and passed a plan to prevent corrupt pols from receiving taxpayer funded pensions.

If you want to give money out to schools give it out through the Foundation Aid formula not a convoluted plan that gives more to high wealth / high spending suburbs.

Both proposals are more than Gov. Andrew Cuomo's plan of a $ 1.1 billion spending hike for education aid, with much of that money tied to approving the governor's policy proposals, including bonus pay for high - performing teachers and a strengthening of charter schools.

WNY teachers, School Board members and administrators plan to ramp up their voices during the next month to air their displeasure with a decision by Cuomo to tie increases in school aid to his controversial education aSchool Board members and administrators plan to ramp up their voices during the next month to air their displeasure with a decision by Cuomo to tie increases in school aid to his controversial education aschool aid to his controversial education agenda.

Bloomberg will likely issue a plea for lawmakers to restore some of NYC's $ 300 million in aid to localities Gov. Andrew Cuomo axed in his 2011 - 2012 spending plan and also ask for the repeal of «last in, first out» rule when it comes to laying off public school teachers, which he says the governor's cuts will force him to do if they're allowed to stand.

Maryvale School District officials are asking residents to write letters to state representatives to encourage Cuomo to release figures on the planned state financial aid.

Jim Tallon, a former assemblyman and chair of the Board of Regents» state aid committee, expressed broad criticisms of Cuomo's budget proposal, arguing the spending plan should have included more information about the distribution of funding and more money for pre-K for upstate school districts.

Democratic lawmakers expressed disapproval for the education reform measures included in the spending plan, which boosts school aid by $ 1.3 billion over last year.

Enacting the evaluation measures by November will give school districts a planned boost in education aid.

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.

Earlier this year, the state did mandate that New York school districts develop their own teacher evaluation systems, known as annual professional performance reviews plan (APPR), or risk losing additional state aid.

During negotiations, two basic things happened to affect the financial plan Cuomo sought: the Senate rejected most of the tax hikes he proposed — such as closing a loophole on third party internet sales on sites such as Amazon — and lawmakers nearly doubled what the school aid increase that Cuomo planned in January.

The $ 100 million is in addition to the $ 1.3 billion aid increase schools got in the state budget, as well as the $ 75 million in additional funding included in the spending plan for the state's most severe «failing» schools.

Kingston City School District officials said this week the $ 137.5 million Kingston High School Second Century Capital Plan will have to go five years deeper into the century in order to get the most out of the state aid funding the bulk of the project.