Sentences with phrase «state budget fight»

CHICAGO In recent weeks, Chicago students led several protests focused on the ongoing state budget fight and the dire need for more funding for the city's public schools.

Pennsylvania has the largest funding gap between wealthy and low - income school districts of any state in the country, a problem exacerbated by the current impasse in the state budget fight.

The build will require lots of volunteers of every skill level to construct signs, banners, posters, etc. in anticipation of this long state budget fight.

He worked closely with a newly formed lobbying entity, the business - backed Committee to Save New York, encouraging them to become involved in the annual state budget fight.

State budget fights wax and wane with the time of year, but the state's energy wars continue year - round.

With almost all state budgets fighting against a deficit, and some in deep trouble, it makes for interesting and ugly politics.

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'' The government sector has been a drag, there is still one more budget fight coming in the next few weeks and that's going to be a challenge, but if we get through that we are into the part of the election cycle where government drag turns into a small boost, we are already seeing some rehiring at the state and local level and that is significant as well.»

The Gates Foundation has quickly become a major influence upon global health; the approximately US$ 800 million that the foundation gives every year for global health approaches the an - nual budget of the United Nations World Health Organization (193 nations) and is comparable to the funds given to fight infe - ctious di - sease by the United States Agency for International Development.

«As the Legislature looks to return to Albany in the coming days to finalize the remaining piece of the state budget, I wish to inform residents in the 58th Senate District that I will unreservedly continue my fight for the inclusion of UB 2020 Flexibility and Economic Growth Act in our final negotiations,» Stachowski said in a statement.

The budget resolution backed by Republicans in the state Senate on Thursday rejects $ 1 billion in tax increases while also seeking to spend $ 265 million on fighting the opioid addiction epidemic and bolster school security in the wake of a high school shooting in Florida.

The inclusion of extending high tax rates on wealthy earners in Gov. Andrew Cuomo's 2017 - 18 budget proposal has the potential to set up an ideological fight over economics with Republicans in the state Senate.

Several central and northern New York legislators are praising the state's new budget as a win for the region's schools, but they say it was a hard - fought battle that is not over yet.

«I was shocked to learn that the state's budget process is a sham that mirrors the deceptive practices I fought to change in the private sector,» Cuomo said, referring to Wall Street abuses he challenged in his previous job as New York's attorney general.

Fights over a new fee on opioid sales, school safety issues, education requirements for yeshivas and the amount of taxes that should be extracted from a major health insurance sale remained some of the sticking points late Thursday in efforts to finalize a $ 168 billion 2018 - 19 state budget.

However, even if the Legislature won, Benjamin said, the decision would only apply to extenders and not the budget itself — and the legal fight likely wouldn't improve the already acrimonious climate at the Capitol, which is contributing to the ever - later state budget.

And while I am flattered by their support, this would be a very difficult time for me to divert my attention from deliberations on the state budget, to a political fight for what could easily turn out to be a very short term in the House of Representatives.»

Meanwhile, Republican legislative leaders promised to fight funding, arguing it should come exclusively from private investors, especially with the state's deepening budget troubles.

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 state's budget process is a sham that mirrors the deceptive practices I fought to change in the private sector,» Cuomo declared.

«The Assembly showed admirable leadership this session by including speed safety camera expansion in their one - house budget, but petty politics and obstructionism led by a single state senator means that family members and victims of traffic violence will have to continue their fight during the legislative session,» a press release by Transportation Alternatives stated.

If Gov. Cuomo and the Legislature are serious about streamlining the budget then CoBIS ought to be abolished and its resources reallocated by the State Police to proven crime - fighting programs.

Though Governor Andrew Cuomo has expressed support for instituting a congestion pricing program to reduce street congestion in Manhattan and create a dedicated source of revenue for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), and said that he is fighting for such a scheme in state budget negotiations, the governor has recently indicated that he may only be able to win a modest first step, raising the ire of those expecting more.

Reginald Brown, community leader for VOCAL - NY, announces plans to stay at the Capitol until the New York State budget includes more money to fight HIV / AIDS.

She says the remaining fight is over how much control Cuomo's budget department has in handing out the funds, and whether total cost for counties» legal defense services would be financed by the state, or only a portion.

ALBANY — The state Assembly's Brooklyn delegation has written to Speaker Carl Heastie asking that the chamber fight Gov. Cuomo's budget proposal to require online marketplaces like Etsy and Amazon to collect sales taxes on any transaction involving buyers from New York.

I led the fight to expand this cut to the entire state and it is one piece of the budget that could work for jobs.

With less than two months before the state budget is due, Governor Cuomo and education groups remain at odds, with the state teacher's union calling the fight a «war,» and Cuomo calling the teachers and their allies a bloated bureaucracy.

Insiders said Cuomo is determined to avoid the long budget delays that have plagued and crippled the state for nearly three decades as budget fights between governors and the Legislature went as late as mid-August.

It's time our elected officials stand up for public school students and fight for this funding in the current state budget.»

If budgets are statements of values, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo clearly values the fight he is waging against a federal tax bill he views as both onerous and directed at states like New York.

De Blasio and Cuomo, who have been fighting since the beginning of the mayor's tenure, recently spoke about the state budget.

The union's targeting of Miner - who spoke at a Fight for $ 15 rally in February at a Syracuse church - shows the no - holds - barred fight going on over the proposed minimum wage hike as the state's top political leaders are negotiating whether it will be included in the state buFight for $ 15 rally in February at a Syracuse church - shows the no - holds - barred fight going on over the proposed minimum wage hike as the state's top political leaders are negotiating whether it will be included in the state bufight going on over the proposed minimum wage hike as the state's top political leaders are negotiating whether it will be included in the state budget.

Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner called on New York state legislators to enact different types of government reform to fight corruption in a testimony to the New York State Legislature's Joint Budget Committee on Mostate legislators to enact different types of government reform to fight corruption in a testimony to the New York State Legislature's Joint Budget Committee on MoState Legislature's Joint Budget Committee on Monday.

The budget negotiations will take on a more urgent dimension in the coming weeks and lawmakers could fight the governor on taxes (the Assembly wants to increase taxes on the rich; the Senate has stated opposition to a tax hike or extension of the current rates), as well as education spending.

The state's teachers union is already gearing up for a major fight this budget season on education issues after Cuomo declared he wanted to end the «public monopoly» on education through a strengthening of charter schools.

The state Assembly's Brooklyn delegation has written to Speaker Carl Heastie asking that the chamber fight Cuomo's budget proposal to require online marketplaces like Etsy and Amazon to collect sales taxes on any transaction involving buyers from New York.

The governor's veto of a bill that would have created a new class of safety net hospitals and required the state to provide increased Medicaid reimbursement to those facilities that meet the new definition sets the stage for a Medicaid budget fight.

«New York City had a tremendous amount at stake in this state budget, from dangerous cuts that would have imperiled key city services, to real opportunities to fight inequality and lift up working people,» Mr. de Blasio said in a statement.

Mayoral control is set to expire in June, after state pols passed on a proposal to avoid a protracted fight by including a temporary extension in the state budget.

Legally, the state budget must be balanced — but already health - care and teacher's unions have laid the groundwork to fight him on this.

This year, we have a real chance of making New York the 38th state with early voting, and we'll keep fighting to make sure this commonsense reform is included in the final budget.»

ALBANY - ALBANY — Setting up a budget fight on education, the Democrat - led state Assembly said Thursday it opposed Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's call for a tuition hike at state universities and favored boosting aid to K - 12 schools by $ 2.1 billion — more than double the increase the governor suggested.

The ride - hailing fight moved from Albany to local counties after statewide authorization was included in the state budget passed in late April.

With less than two months before the state budget is due, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and education groups remain at odds, with the state teacher's union calling the fight a «war,» and Cuomo calling the teachers and their allies a bloated bureaucracy.

Past efforts have included fighting for more education funding in the state budget and better governance rules over city schools.

The budget also extends a higher tax rate on millionaires for two years, a measure Republicans fought, saying it will chase high earners out of the state.

Pennsylvania's Democratic governor is fighting over the state budget with the Republican - controlled legislature.

The group, a nonprofit advocacy organization formed in 2001 and historically funded by teachers unions, has long offered itself as a voice for parents and communities of color and, as such, has also been a thorn in the side of successive state and city governments, consistently pushing for more funding in the state budget to meet the needs of underserved schools and fighting against school closures and charter schools.

Many say they are exhausted from the budget fights and constantly having to explain cuts in state services to their constituents.

But with an April 1 deadline for the budget, he has an uphill fight to sway Republicans who control the State Senate.