Sentences with phrase «school budget addresses»

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo has pushed for reform of the state's «failing» schools, outlining the receivership plan in his 2015 combined policy and budget address and in his 2016 address pushing for further funding to turn the schools into community schools.

The state should adopt the Executive Budget's formula improvements that better address poverty and district need, while also taking steps to ensure that students receive additional resources — especially in schools that serve low - income students and students of color.

Gov. David Paterson proposes a $ 5 billion deficit reduction plan to address this year's budget gap, including a $ 223.2 million cut to New York City schools.

The conference is still seeking an end to the gap elimination adjustment for school districts, which Cuomo's budget only partially addresses.

As you'll recall, Cuomo made an example of Carole G. Hankin, the schools superintendent in Syosset on Long Island, during his budget address on Feb. 1.

Recall Cuomo's 2011 - 12 budget address in which he singled out superintendents — particularly Syosset's Carole Hankin, whose more than $ 500,000 in salary and benefits is the highest in the state — as a prime example of wasteful spending by school districts.

Sen. John Flanagan told me during a CapTon interview last night that he's open to the idea of a salary cap for public school superintendents, whose compensation was targeted by Gov. Andrew Cuomo during his budget address last week.

While de Blasio noted the increased funding heading toward the renewal schools that are the focus of much Department of Education effort and outside scrutiny, there are other key school - related additions to the budget, including $ 6.6 million for the DOE to «hire 50 additional physical education teachers and conduct a comprehensive needs assessment to address barriers and move schools toward full physical education compliance.»

«Per this budget agreement the city will continue to play the primary role in determining the ways to best address those struggling schools,» Mr. de Blasio said.

The governor's budget address started with a focus on the possible tax code changes, and it was going smoothly until Cuomo proposed a 3 percent increase in school funding, 1010 WINS» Al Jones reported.

Division of Budget spokesman Morris Peters released the following statement last week addressing the lack of school aid runs: «There's no need to have school aid runs until we have agreement on getting the reforms that the governor has asked for.»

Cuomo's budget provides 4.4 percent more aid to schools and would fund his proposal from the State of the State address for longer school days and school years.

Cuomo is expected to call for greater teacher accountability this month in his combined State of the State and budget address on Jan. 21, including an overhaul of how teachers and schools are rated.

We used that decision - making power to deliver on promises we had made to the electors: rapid demographic change had led to a shortage of local primary school places, so in the last four years we used the Council's resources to expand local primary schools to create twice as many; concerns about a scruffy and run down high street were addressed by comprehensive neighbourhood renewal; and pressure on household budgets was relieved by freezing the council tax and the cost of resident's parking permits.

«The NASUWT predicted that the funding changes, driven by a desire by the Department for Education to mask the level and impact of cuts to school and local authority budgets, would result in those who needed the support to address their needs losing it.

While Rosenthal has worked to create new school space in the district and carefully (too slowly, to some) move along a school district rezoning plan to address racial segregation in nearby schools, she has also used her background to hold the de Blasio administration accountable related to the budget and contracting practices through her committee work.

Cuomo took an aggressive position during his budget and policy address Wednesday, threatening to withhold a significant funding increase for schools if lawmakers don't approve his controversial reform proposals, such as an amendment to the state's teacher - evaluation system that would increase the ratings» reliance on standardized testing.

The metaphors were clear and painful for Mayor Bill de Blasio's first budget war with Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a master of Albany's byzantine backrooms — Mr. Cuomo, a fellow Democrat, had schooled the upstart Mr. de Blasio this year, securing new and unprecedented protections for charter schools, denying Mr. de Blasio a tax hike to fund his universal prekindergarten expansion and swatting away a demand for a municipal minimum wage increase barely after the words had left the mayor's mouth at his maiden State of the City address.

Gov. Cuomo is expected to call for more of the privately run public schools in his annual budget address next week.

«We call on the governor to amend his executive budget proposal to include a state aid proposal that allocates and distributes to school districts the approximate $ 1.1 billion school aid increase cited in his State of the State address,» they wrote.

The K - 12 budget's Foundation Aid increase of $ 700 million will help address the resource needs of New York's public schools, which remain among the most inequitably funded in the nation.

Cuomo is tying much of the increase to approval of his education policy changes in this year's budget, including a new teacher evaluation system, addressing failing schools by having them taken over by a state monitory and a strengthening of charter schools.

School officials in neighboring districts said they're evaluating the best course of action to address the latest budget constraint.

Additional Investments in NYC Public Schools: This budget will start to address space conditions in the city's schools, reducing overcrowding and the use of trSchools: This budget will start to address space conditions in the city's schools, reducing overcrowding and the use of trschools, reducing overcrowding and the use of trailers.

Alleviating Overcrowding: This budget will start to address space conditions in the city's schools, reducing overcrowding and the use of trailers as classrooms with $ 4.4 billion capital investment in new space, including class size reduction.

Multiple Council members also addressed what they see as underinvestment in city youth, particularly the Summer Youth Employment Program and afterschool programs under School's Out New York City (SONYC), key issues the Council had highlighted in its preliminary budget response.

Budget director Robert Megna said during a briefing with reporters after the address that school districts will be able to submit proposals asking for the money, and the state will try to «accommodate» those with «reasonable plans.»

In his State of the State address on Jan. 21, Governor Andrew Cuomo tied $ 1.1 billion in additional state education aid to the passage of his «reform» proposals in the state budget: individual merit pay, more charter schools, punishing struggling schools, and making teacher evaluation hinge on state test scores.

Addressing the crowd, State Assembly Speaker Carl E. Heastie pledged his house of the Legislature would defend public schools in the budget negotiations.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo promised more money for city schools next year in his budget address on Jan. 17, a welcome reversal after three years of budget cuts.

De Blasio did not address the victory charter school advocates scored in the state budget announced Saturday, even as pro-charter forces heaped praise on the agreement reached between state legislators and Cuomo.

In addition to addressing the budget situation, the state Legislature enacted the pension modifications that the city and the UFT negotiated last June in the agreement that restored the post-Labor Day school start.

Walsh said he would partner with Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs to address Syracuse's budget deficit.

In his first budget address to the legislature, Murphy said he would use the extra revenue to ramp up state aid for school districts, increase funding for the beleaguered NJ Transit and a make a larger payment into the cash - strapped public worker pension system.

This will address small scale maintenance costs, alleviating pressures on school budgets.

Mr. Cuomo's budget proposal would let municipalities and school districts address rising pension costs by borrowing more now — which will mean paying more later on, as interest rates, now at historic lows, are sure to rise.

«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.

Throwing down the gauntlet before the governor's budget address, parents and other education advocates on Jan. 10 called on the state to pay the billions of dollars it owes New York City public schools.

Throwing down the gauntlet before the governor's budget address on Jan. 13, parents and other education advocates on Jan. 10 called on the state to pay the billions of dollars it owes New York City public schools.

In conversations with Gotham Gazette, City Council members Julissa Ferreras - Copeland, chair of the finance committee, and Daniel Dromm, education committee chair, said that one of their top priorities during budget season will be addressing school overcrowding through the Department of Education's capital spending plan.

On the morning his administration unveiled its budget request for the 2012 fiscal year, US President Barack Obama was addressing students at a school with a specialized science and technology programme in Baltimore, Maryland.

Key recommendations for government in the report that won API support were: for play to be embedded within a Whole Child Strategy under the aegis of a Cabinet Minister for Children responsible for cross ‑ departmental roll out and co-ordination; for government to require local authorities to prepare children and young people's plans including strategies to address overweight and obesity with its physical, mental and emotional consequences; for funding for play to be ring - fenced within local authority budgets; to address barriers to outdoor play for children of all ages and abilities; to extend the Sport England Primary Spaces and Sport Premium programmes to all schools with a broader scope to incorporate a wide variety of physical literacy activities including play; to communicate through public information campaigns to parents and families the value of active outdoor play, including risk or benefit assessment; and to improve public sector procurement practice for public play provision.

One area that needs to be addressed is how school and colleges spend their Special Education Needs budget.

The funding differences are even more stark: if a new school is opening under the free school programme the capital funding comes from the generous free school budget but if a local authority is opening a new school, the funding must come from either general local authority funds (the calls upon which of course are many), or more likely from «targeted basic need funding», which is funding provided by the DfE to address the shortage of school places.

«Among the obstacles: budgeting for the higher costs of purchasing and preparing more healthful foods; coaxing children to accept the more healthful options; and addressing the multitude of ways that unhealthful foods and drinks are sold or served outside of school meals, from classroom birthday parties to school - wide bake sales and sporting events,» the report says.

This did not go unnoticed by Malcolm Trobe, interim general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, who believes that the budget «fails to address that fact that schools and colleges are severely underfunded».

«The government must address the funding crisis in schools — freezing school budgets in a time of rising inflation will only make the journey more difficult.

According to the British Educational Suppliers Association (BESA), more than 50 per cent of learning time in UK classrooms is now spent using technology.This is hugely encouraging, but with school budgets under intense pressure, it's imperative that tech's potential to address inequalities, reverse negative trends and raise educational attainment continues to be realised, and stud

But a climate of reduced budgets has seen schools turning to their outside spaces to alleviate the pressures of overcrowded classrooms and there is little sign on the horizon of schools being offered any real help in addressing this problem.

The Brockton Enterprise reports that the Brockton School Committee is looking at several cost - cutting options to address a budget deficit of $ 8 million to $ 9 million.