Sentences with phrase «school budget proposals»

Included in that budget were several common - sense charter school budget proposals that would reduce bureaucracy, streamline operations, and provide charter schools with new cash flow options.

If Mechanicville's school budget proposal passes as expected Tuesday, the district will hire a full - time school resource officer starting in the fall.

Not exact matches

Of course, the federal budget proposal eliminates student loan assistance, so hopefully they can use their degrees right out of high school and not see a need to continue their education.

Referendum proposals seeking property tax increases to bolster sagging school, library, municipal and park district budgets will be on the Nov. 4 ballot in more than two dozen towns, villages and cities throughout Will and southern Cook Counties.

I recently interviewed Norma Zeller, president of the New York School Nutrition Association (NYSNA), about the budget proposal.

Remember when Obama rolled out his proposal for increasing the school - lunch budget, and lots of folks, including me, groaned that it wasn't nearly enough?

First, the House Republicans» proposal will raise the threshold on the Community Eligibility Provision, or CEP, causing school meal participation to fall dramatically and causing schools to have a harder time balancing their cafeteria budgets.

In this post, I tried to sort out some inaccurate news accounts about Trump's 2018 budget proposal and its effects on school meals and other federal child nutrition programs.

Voters across the state decide on their respective school district budget proposals and board member elections today.

The budget proposal was issued by Trump last week and before the shooting at a high school in Florida that killed 17 people.

The governor's offensive began with a Sunday statement from Budget Director Robert Mujica about a proposal to combat educational inequality not with more funding — as school advocates and Nixon have called for — but by granting the state power to review and veto plans by large districts to distribute it among schools.

Some of these proposals have come and gone over the years, and they are a reminder that budgets, school funding, ethics and campaign finance reform aren't the only issues politicians deal with.

It is school district budget voting Tuesday across New York State, with a range of spending proposals, school board candidates and capital budget proposals being put to the voters for their approval.

Residents across the Southern Tiers took to the polls Tuesday to cast their vote for several school district budget proposals.

Also at 6:30 p.m., NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer and Assembly members Robert Carroll and Jo Anne Simon co-host a town hall meeting about concerns over President Donald Trump's budget proposals, John Jay High School, 237 Seventh Ave., Brooklyn.

Most school districts in New York this month are putting their budget proposals before voters for approval.

School budgets are proposals at this point and will be submitted to voters May 16.

ALBANY, N.Y. — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo vowed to fight back against Washington Republicans on Tuesday with a $ 168 billion state budget proposal that lays out spending on schools and mass transit while also confronting greater uncertainty in federal funding.

The proposal also calls to use the $ 50 million allocated in this year's budget for an indoor pool to build an aquatic center at the Michael J. Petrides school.

An official from Cuomo's office told POLITICO the proposal would focus more on the methodology of how districts are distributing funds, and wouldn't infringe on voter rights as local voters approve the district budget as a whole and not how resources are distributed by school building.

In recent weeks, as Nixon began her upstart campaign, Cuomo has been talking about a budget proposal that would require school districts within cities with a population of more than 125,000 people — New York City, Buffalo, Syracuse, Yonkers and Rochester — to submit an annual plan detailing the allocation of local, state and federal funds by school building.

«We look forward to the Governor's State Aid and budget proposals, which we hope will include a level of education funding sufficient to meet the needs of every student throughout our State, particularly those in schools with the greatest needs.»

However, this proposal is a distraction from the difficulties his budget would now cause for schools and the students they serve.»

The governor's Executive Budget proposal would increase school aid by $ 1.07 billion.

At 5 p.m., Washington Heights residents demonstrate against Gov. Andrew Cuomo's budget proposals; in front of Gregorio Luperon High School, 165th Street and Amsterdam Avenue, Manhattan.

At 6 p.m., parents, community leaders, educators; the Rev. Mike Walrond; Manhattan BP Gale Brewer; former NYC Councilman Robert Jackson and others attend an AQE - organized town hall meeting criticizing Cuomo's education budget proposals, Wadleigh Secondary School for the Performing & Visual Arts, 215 W. 114th St., Harlem.

Cuomo would increase education aid in the state budget by as much as $ 1.1 billion, but much of the funding is linked to his policy proposals, which also include a strengthening of the state's charter schools.

We won't know exactly how much money the governor plans to give schools until he unveils his budget proposal next week.

The union and its allies, he noted, pushed back against about a dozen pro-charter school proposals that state Senate Republicans made a concerted effort to include in the final budget bill.

Spending would increase by 3.23 percent under a $ 34.77 million budget proposal adopted Tuesday by the Tonawanda City School Board.

Either option for the school aid increase would be higher than the $ 1.1 billion Cuomo proposed in his executive budget, and higher than what was announced earlier this month when lawmakers were given a preliminary sketch of how much additional funds above Cuomo's proposal would be available for each area of the budget.

Cuomo's previous proposal, which he included in the state budget before it was rejected by lawmakers, offered $ 50 million each for donors to scholarship funds and public schools, up to $ 100 million total.

The proposals would also strengthen the role of School Leadership Teams, composed of both teachers and administrators, by making school budgets more transparent and by increasing staff voice in the selection of princSchool Leadership Teams, composed of both teachers and administrators, by making school budgets more transparent and by increasing staff voice in the selection of princschool budgets more transparent and by increasing staff voice in the selection of principals.

Also missing from the state budget deal is Mr. Cuomo's proposal to increase the cap on charter schools, which will be taken up after the budget.

Assembly: Increases school aid $ 334 million over Executive budget proposal.

The budget proposal increases school aid by $ 991 million in the coming fiscal year; it would channel that increase through several formulas but does not completely cover the Gap Elimination Adjustment, whose demise is a major priority of Republicans in the State Senate.

Late last month, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration broke with the longstanding tradition of providing school districts across New York State with «runs,» the projected aid increases, based on the governor's education funding proposal, which district officials use to help shape their own budgets.

Griswold will start the school year without an education budget in place, as voters rejected the fourth Board of Education budget proposal at a July 22 referendum by a 981-1022 margin.

The only current Senate proposal on mayoral control would extend the system just a year, with the new condition that city school budgets would have to be approved by the Legislature.

One proposal in the Senate would have extended mayoral control for a year and mandated that city school budgets be approved by Albany, a bill that de Blasio called «unacceptable.»

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.

In announcing his $ 68.7 billion budget proposal, Mayor Bloomberg proposes cutting early childhood and after school programs — for the fifth straight year.

Thursday's City Council schedule will include a meeting of the Committee on Governmental Operations for its preliminary budget oversight hearing; a meeting of the Committee on Veterans to consider a resolution «calling upon the New York State Legislature to pass and the Governor to sign S. 752, the Veterans» Education Through SUNY Credits Act»; and a meeting of the Committee on Education to consider multiple resolutions, including one «calling upon the New York State Legislature to reject any attempt to raise the cap on the number of charter schools,» one «calling upon the Department of Education to amend its Parent's Bill of Rights and Responsibilities to include information about opting out of high - stakes testing and distribute this document at the beginning of every school year, to every family, in every grade,» and one «calling upon the New York State Legislature to eliminate the Governor's receivership proposal in the executive budget for New York City.»

Despite the weather, residents overwhelmingly approved budgets and other proposals for their school districts.

Typically, schools use the governor's budget proposal as a working point for crafting budgets, but this year Cuomo has proposed tying $ 1.1 billion in school aid increases to his education reforms, including teacher evaluations.

Lawmakers in the next few weeks will consider a proposal to reverse a change to the STAR, or School Tax Reduction, program that was earlier rejected by the Legislature but ended up in the budget anyway.

School districts once again will be setting their budget proposals that will limit the amount they can increase property taxes to under 2 percent.

First, for those that say the budget proposal is «too hot,» the governor made funding of schools more progressive and therefore the increase is prudent and necessary to maintain progressivity.

As local school districts await word from Albany on state aid, some are developing multiple budget proposals based on best, worst and most likely scenarios.

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.