The immense pressure on
school budgets resulting from the current funding crisis means that it is imperative that new funding is available to all schools to fund these increases.
Also, Tim Kremer from the NYS School Boards Association breaks down
the school budget results across the state.
WAMC's David Guistina speaks with Miles Reed, Editor of The Daily Gazette, about the region's
school budget results.
Despite a greater share of funding proposed to be allocated to disadvantaged pupils, the research finds that the overall impact of redistributing
the schools budget results in shifting funding away from the most disadvantaged pupils «towards what is considered the «just about managing» group».
Not exact matches
Christy Clark is starving our
schools, and as a
result, family
budgets are taking a hit.
But if Congress increases reimbursement rates without reforming the use of federal funds in
school food
budgets, the end
result could be significant costs to taxpayers coupled with little improvement in the quality of meals served.
When the Senate one - house
budget was passed, Avella said he had not changed his mind about either charter
schools or co-locations, but wanted to vote «yes» because he believed the plan would
result in more money for NYC
schools overall.
On Monday, Governor Paterson suggested the people of New York would be «very surprised» by the
results of yesterday's
school budget votes.
A failure to pass the expenditure without a
budget in place would have effectively shut down state government;
resulting in possible
school and hospital closures, unpaid unemployment benefits and much more.
To help achieve the Governor's goal of encouraging efficiency and
results, the Executive
Budget allocates $ 250 million to be awarded on a competitive basis to
school districts that demonstrate significant improvement in their student performance outcomes and another $ 250 million to be awarded on a competitive basis to
school districts that undertake long - term structural changes which reduce costs and improve efficiency.
He used de Blasio as a foil during a dust - up over charter
schools earlier this year that
resulted in extraordinary giveaways to charters in the state
budget.
The final
budget will change some elements of Common Core, but will keep intact, for now, teacher evaluations tied partly to standardized test
results of students in public
schools.
As with music and sport these are subjects that have been severely affected, if not entirely axed, as a direct
result of cuts to
schools and local authority
budgets.
New York's political leaders were on track to extend the court order to apply to all
schools in the state and to fulfill the monetary obligation, but it was derailed after the 2008 recession and
resulting state
budget crisis.
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«Governor Paterson predicted a massive taxpayer revolt would
result in
school budgets being rejected, but this was not the case.
Cuomo saw both his job performance and favorability ratings jump following the
budget battle, even though voters believe their local
schools and hospitals lost out as a
result of the on - time spending plan passed by the Legislature.
Take a deeper look into the crosstabs... 41 % think New York's citizens were losers as a
result of the
budget and 57 % think their local
school district were losers.
The Kingston City
School District's proposed $ 150.17 million 2014 - 15
budget got a warm reception at the polls, gliding to a hassle - free 2,040 - 1,422 win Tuesday, May 20, according to unofficial
results.
Labour, under attack for ploughing money into education but failing to produce
results, says spending on
schools (but not the entire education
budget) will continue to rise by more than inflation.
Another complicating factor for
schools budgets, and the state
budget, is the new federal tax law that
results in the limits on deductions for state and local taxes, including
school property taxes.
For all of your hometown
school budget votes, you can see the results on our School District Voting Results
school budget votes, you can see the
results on our School District Voting Result
results on our
School District Voting Results
School District Voting
ResultsResults page.
Oral Questions - Assisting families facing homelessness as a
result of housing benefit changes due in April - Baroness Turner of Camden; Face - to - face careers guidance for all young people in
schools - Baroness Jones of Whitchurch; Effects of local council tax support schemes on poverty - Lord McKenzie of Luton; Representations received from the public on the negotiations for the new EU
budget perspective period to 2020 - Lord Dykes
«The reforms in this
Budget build upon measures implemented last year to create an educational system that ensures every child has an opportunity to succeed, and holds
schools and teachers accountable for the
results they achieve.»
«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.
The
result comes as
school districts next year will have to submit
budgets with a cap that is virtually at zero, due to the low rate of inflation.
The
School Board Association's Tim Kremer says a survey of the state's school districts finds that the vast majority are budgeting within the strictures of the tax cap, and as a result, 93 percent expect their budgets to be approved by voters on M
School Board Association's Tim Kremer says a survey of the state's
school districts finds that the vast majority are budgeting within the strictures of the tax cap, and as a result, 93 percent expect their budgets to be approved by voters on M
school districts finds that the vast majority are
budgeting within the strictures of the tax cap, and as a
result, 93 percent expect their
budgets to be approved by voters on May 21.
The weather is making headlines this morning, and has
resulted in the cancelation and / or postponing of a number of planned events — including today's joint legislative
budget hearing on the housing portion of the executive spending plan — as well as
school closings.
In Gov. Andrew Cuomo's angry ultimatum on education, he inserted $ 8 million into his executive
budget to fix the state's lowest - performing
schools using «receivership,» a strategy with two decades worth of weak
results.
For all New Yorkers, the
result will be a Legislature with fewer middle - aged lawmakers still trying to balance family
budgets and dealing with emerging issues seen firsthand by having children in
school.
As a
result of
budget negotiations with Labour's Welsh Government who have been one seat short of a majority we have led
budget negotiations that have delivered substantial extra finance for the region's
schools, discounted bus travel for over 24,000 of the region's young people, and so much more which would not be happening without the Welsh Lib Dems.
Now a combination of Quomo's low ball
budget proposal along with the poorly constructed tax cap in place
school local
school districts need to portray the extremely unpopular cuts they now face (loss of electives and AP options; cuts to music, art and athletics; increased class size) as being directly the
result of decisions made by our legislators in Albany.
This half a billion pound black hole in the education
budget means that
schools will be further out of pocket as a
result.»
The executive director of the New York State
School Boards Association, Tim Kremer, tells WAMC's Brian Shields the initial results show 630 school districts budgets were approved with 30 rej
School Boards Association, Tim Kremer, tells WAMC's Brian Shields the initial
results show 630
school districts budgets were approved with 30 rej
school districts
budgets were approved with 30 rejected.
It took a little longer, but our hard work yielded
results: The new state
budget increases education aid by $ 1.1 billion, which includes $ 700 million in additional foundation aid for
school districts.
In the report on South Huntington, which covered July 2014 through December 2015, auditors said the
school board and district officials overestimated general fund appropriations in the last three adopted
budgets,
resulting in operating surpluses totaling approximately $ 10.6 million.
In Montauk, auditors found that
school officials overestimated appropriations in the adopted
budgets from 2012 - 13 through 2014 - 15,
resulting in a cumulative operating surplus of about $ 1 million.
As a
result, the city
budget for the construction of new
schools was reduced to $ 3.3 billion over 10 years.
Voters in New York's suburban, rural and smaller city
school dis tricts approved 92 percent of proposed
school budgets on Tuesday, according to preliminary
results.
In addition, the
Budget puts forward the state's largest investment in education to date, including an increase of more than 5 % in
school aid; statewide, universal full - day Pre-k; a bond act to modernize classrooms; as well as signature reforms to fix Common Core implementation and protect students from unfair high stakes test
results; and strengthen and support Charter
Schools.
«While music programs are often the first to be cut when the
school budget is tight, these results highlight music's place in the high school curriculum,» said Nina Kraus, senior study author and director of Northwestern's Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory at the School of Communic
school budget is tight, these
results highlight music's place in the high
school curriculum,» said Nina Kraus, senior study author and director of Northwestern's Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory at the School of Communic
school curriculum,» said Nina Kraus, senior study author and director of Northwestern's Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory at the
School of Communic
School of Communication.
It added: «It is vital to carry out research into what proportion of a
school's
budget is used to provide health or social care services, or is spent on dealing with behaviours that
result from a lack of preventative work in mental health.»
Despite this, 45 per cent believe that as a
result of
budget constraints, it will enable «more resourcefulness in their
school».
TES has reported that Tony Foot, director of the Department for Education's funding group, is under «no illusion» about the financial challenges
schools are due to face as a
result of rising costs and real terms
budget cuts.
The Museum
School is also one of the district's 15 «theme» and partnership schools — which include a school in a zoo and one in a nature center — created as part of a turnaround strategy after a 20 - year decline that resulted in the closure of 35 schools, $ 100 million in budget cuts, and loss of 1,000 jobs, 600 of them tea
School is also one of the district's 15 «theme» and partnership
schools — which include a
school in a zoo and one in a nature center — created as part of a turnaround strategy after a 20 - year decline that resulted in the closure of 35 schools, $ 100 million in budget cuts, and loss of 1,000 jobs, 600 of them tea
school in a zoo and one in a nature center — created as part of a turnaround strategy after a 20 - year decline that
resulted in the closure of 35
schools, $ 100 million in
budget cuts, and loss of 1,000 jobs, 600 of them teachers.
Included in the two - year state
budget is a provision that more than quadruples the size of the EdChoice Scholarship Program over the next two years, ultimately
resulting in up to 60,000 students having access to private
school choice by the 2012 - 2013
school year.
Accountable for the
results of all students in the team, multi-classroom leaders also earn supplements that thus far have averaged 20 percent (and up to 50 percent) of teacher pay, within the regular
school budget.
The Ed
School, like most graduate
schools, has a limited financial aid
budget, which can
result in a gap for some students.
Assigning a failing grade to a
school as a
result of high - stakes testing may be politically embarrassing, but it usually has no effect on
school budgets and almost never has any meaningful consequences for individual teachers.