After
several years of budget cuts, the 2014 - 2015 biennial budget invests in things like home visiting and education that can help improve the quality of life for our state's children and families.
And these days, it all comes on the heels of
several years of budget cuts.
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Several years of budget cuts and many elected officials and pundits saying very negative things about teachers in general — there is a general feeling, at least among the educators I know, that public education is under attack in NC.
Not exact matches
ALBANY — With an election -
year budget that pledges future funding for popular pre-kindergarten programs and a multi-
year package
of tax
cuts, Gov. Andrew Cuomo is living in the future, touting programs now that won't take effect for
several years.
«This
budget was an opportunity to reverse the loss
of 30,000 after - school seats
cut over the past
several years,» de Blasio said in a statement, adding that without asking the wealthiest New Yorkers to pay more in taxes, the
budget «affirmed a status quo that continues to leave working families behind.»
ALBANY — Many
of the major parameters that Gov. Andrew Cuomo will announce in his executive
budget proposal on Tuesday afternoon are already known: continued growth in Medicaid and education spending, a suite
of tax
cuts worth $ 2 billion over the next
several years and a to - the - bone spending posture that holds state agency
budgets flat for at least the third
year in a row.
The mayor, who said he's had
several private conversations with Cuomo about the proposed
cuts to CUNY and Medicaid, said he had not spoken with the governor and was not made aware in advance
of the
budget's release about the proposed debt savings clawback, which could cost New York City an estimated $ 650 million over a three -
year period.
The House
budget also included
several cuts that will affect the rural (and non-rural) public schools, including
cuts to teacher's assistant funding by $ 53 million over the next two
years and the elimination
of pay bonuses for new teachers with master's degrees.