Sentences with phrase «state funding for school district»

He said state funding for school district bond repayments has fallen from 44 percent to 7 percent over the last 15 years.

Senator Michael Ranzenhofer said, «The final plan secures our fair share of state funding for our school districts in Western New York, and restores funding — initially cut under the Executive Budget proposal — to our local public libraries.

In the 2018 state budget negotiations, a rewrite to fix an inequitable sharing of state funding for school districts reached the top of the agenda.

Provide at least a cost - of - living increase to the Basic Subsidy and Special Education line items, which will help to mitigate the seriously negative effects of last summer's huge cut in state funding for school districts.

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The problem is that the state - mandated pension plans for school - district employees are defined benefit plans, which means the amount of future benefits is guaranteed and has to be funded by the taxpayers and / or investment income.

Raymond Abbott's name appeared as lead plaintiff in a court case brought by Camden and several other poor school districts against the State of New Jersey, demanding that the state provide equal funding for all schState of New Jersey, demanding that the state provide equal funding for all schstate provide equal funding for all schools.

Additional accountability requirements: N.J.S.A. 18A: 33 - 15 to 18 (2007) requires new school districts participating in any of the federally funded Child Nutrition Programs to submit their local policies to the state Department of Agriculture for a compliance check with the state's NJ School Nutrition / Wellness Policy (2005), which contains policy content requirements that go beyond Sectioschool districts participating in any of the federally funded Child Nutrition Programs to submit their local policies to the state Department of Agriculture for a compliance check with the state's NJ School Nutrition / Wellness Policy (2005), which contains policy content requirements that go beyond SectioSchool Nutrition / Wellness Policy (2005), which contains policy content requirements that go beyond Section 204.

Although the state has surplus funds, there has been no consideration for increasing state aid to help school districts finance the needed improvements to the school lunch programs.

The grant will allow us to continue our work funding alternative breakfast programs; to date, the Partners for BIC have helped 36 school districts in 18 states feed over 63,000 additional students at school breakfast.

As states prepare to implement ESSA in the upcoming school year, many — like Kentucky — have been gathering feedback from stakeholders and creating state accountability plans, and school districts are beginning to identify priorities for funding at the school level.

So far 47 states and the District of Columbia have sought federal funds for character education programs in schools.

Learn about possible opportunities in your state for funding Breakfast in the Classroom programs in high free and reduced schools and school districts.

If bringing breakfast to the classroom has been on your wish list, and you live in one of our ten target states — Ohio, Oklahoma, Missouri, Utah, Texas, Idaho, Mississippi, Louisiana, North Carolina, Nebraska — please register now for our Tuesday, March 28 webinar to learn how you can apply for grant funding for your school or district.

The Court of Appeals dismissed the bulk of a lawsuit contending the state hasn't lived up to a 2006 court mandate to increase funding for New York City schools by $ 1.9 billion, and by extension, funding for school districts throughout the state.

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.

Worked with the Legislature and Governor to approve legislation that continues the appointment of monitors in East Ramapo, provides new oversight authority for the monitors and the Department over the school district's budget, and provides $ 3 million in state funds to restore and expand educational programming for the public schools within the district;

On his website, Nicodemo lists five major issues that impact his district, including getting state funding for Yonkers schools, stricter gun laws, human and LGBT rights, education and fighting for unions and organized labor.

The budget reflects no funding increase for the school district, due to the state's delay in passing its budget, Miner said.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo Tuesday announced $ 35 million in funding available for high - need school districts across the state to establish after - school programs.

He said that the district would appreciate more state funding for school resource officers, or SROs.

Per - pupil funding levels should be adequate across all programs and settings — both school districts and community based organizations — in order to support high - quality pre-k for 3 - and 4 - year - olds, and the state should establish a timeline for ensuring adequate resources while expanding access to all eligible children, particularly in high - need communities.

Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R,C,I - Glenville) today is calling on New York State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia to stop intimidating New York parents and school districts with threats of pulling funding from schools with high percentages of students who opt out of grades 3 - 8 Common Core standardized tests — in essence, telling them to stop trying to «kill the messenger» for their introduction of a flawed system.

«About half the items that we currently offer will be gone next year, so we're trying to find products that meet the standards,» said Mark Bordeau, senior director of food services for the Broome - Tioga Board of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES), a state - funded entity that offers shared services to 14 school districts in the southern tier.

Assemblyman Clifford Crouch of the 122nd Assembly District told of efforts to change the formula used to determine state funding for schools.

ALBANY — Several education groups are criticizing Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposal that New York's largest school districts submit school - level funding plans for state approval or risk losing increases in aid.

She spoke at a press conference Monday organized by the Alliance for Quality Education, an activist group that pushes for more state funding for schools and has said that the current funding distribution favors wealthy, white districts over poor areas with people of color.

Nevertheless, advocates have pushed him to spend more, arguing urban and rural school districts have been left short changed by the state's complicated formula for funding schools.

He joined us to discuss funding for school districts in the state.

Michael Rebell, an attorney who won a landmark case requiring the state to fund school districts more equitably, and Randi Weingarten, president of a national teachers» union, wrote in appendices to the report that they agree with much of the group's findings, including recommendations for increased access to pre-kindergarten, technology and learning models that connect high school and college, and merit pay for teachers.

While Cuomo claims the state has thrown money at these schools for too long, Baker calculated that 12 of the 17 lowest - performing school districts cited by Cuomo are among those with the largest state funding shortfalls, based on student need.

For districts that get most of their funding from the state, it will mean, he said, some school officials will have to cut programs or staff because they will be forced to plan conservatively in what they might get from Albany if a state budget goes unresolved until May 31.

He has also enacted tax caps to undermine the ability of local schools districts to make up for the state's funding shortfall.

Nixon has been very close with the Alliance for Quality Education, an organization that has been pushing the state to fulfill the terms of a lawsuit over equitable funding for school districts.

When asked what issues he would focus on to serve specifically the town / village of Harrison, Buchwald said that he would continue to push for the passage of a local hotel occupancy tax, attempt to relieve some of the property tax burden specific to Harrison, seek funding to repave the state roads within the town, and continue his support of the «great Harrison Central School District.»

«I think what I mean is we have a problem in this state in terms of how schools are funded and how much onus there is on property taxpayers from districts,» she said in that Albany news conference that called for state school aid in the state budget.

The County will work with the towns, villages, and school districts of Rockland to develop detailed proposals for implementing these ideas and identifying significant savings from shared services which can be eligible for funding from New York State.

The state funding would be available for counties, cities, towns and school districts to replace property taxes paid by electric generating facilities that close on or after June 25, 2015, according to the budget bill.

The STAR program provides a state - funded offset for property - based school taxes through payments the state sends to school districts each year that are then subtracted from a homeowner's bill.

Disappointed that only 15 schools in his 87th Assembly District applied for the funding — through the State as well as from the Municipal Facilities Program, Sepulveda stated, «It is a shame that many other schools passed on this opportunity.»

The schools in the Syracuse City School District have about $ 11,000 less funding for each student than wealthier schools in the state, according to a WSKG news article.

«As soon as you start coupling tests with state funding or grading a school or district against another school or district, we feel that the tests were never designed for that purpose,» Paz said.

Some school groups said the funding was not adequate, and expressed loud concerns over a new requirement for larger school districts — and eventually all school districts — to submit plans to state officials detailing how they would allocate money on a school level.

Cabrera has slammed Rivera for what he claims is a failure to bring capital funds for schools and playgrounds back to the district, even though state legislators don't receive the individualized disbursements of public cash (often called member items) that Council members do.

Assemblyman Sam Roberts took a shot at Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner and NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio for their critique of state education funding, saying their proposal would hurt Upstate school districts.

Advocates of increasing education funding had a setback yesterday, as the state's highest court narrowed a lawsuit that sought more money for school districts statewide.

If approved by voters those propositions will: 1) Create a redistricting commission to draw the new state legislative and House of Representatives» district lines every 10 years, with the commission members appointed by the state legislative leaders, 2) amend the current constitutional requirement of distributing paper versions of proposed bills to state legislators to allow for electronic distribution and 3) authorize New York State to borrow up to $ 2 billion for school funding, with a stated purpose of «improving learning and opportunity for public and nonpublic school students», including the purchase of equipment, expanding school broadband access, building classrooms for pre-K and replacing trailers and installing «high - tech security features.&rstate legislative and House of Representatives» district lines every 10 years, with the commission members appointed by the state legislative leaders, 2) amend the current constitutional requirement of distributing paper versions of proposed bills to state legislators to allow for electronic distribution and 3) authorize New York State to borrow up to $ 2 billion for school funding, with a stated purpose of «improving learning and opportunity for public and nonpublic school students», including the purchase of equipment, expanding school broadband access, building classrooms for pre-K and replacing trailers and installing «high - tech security features.&rstate legislative leaders, 2) amend the current constitutional requirement of distributing paper versions of proposed bills to state legislators to allow for electronic distribution and 3) authorize New York State to borrow up to $ 2 billion for school funding, with a stated purpose of «improving learning and opportunity for public and nonpublic school students», including the purchase of equipment, expanding school broadband access, building classrooms for pre-K and replacing trailers and installing «high - tech security features.&rstate legislators to allow for electronic distribution and 3) authorize New York State to borrow up to $ 2 billion for school funding, with a stated purpose of «improving learning and opportunity for public and nonpublic school students», including the purchase of equipment, expanding school broadband access, building classrooms for pre-K and replacing trailers and installing «high - tech security features.&rState to borrow up to $ 2 billion for school funding, with a stated purpose of «improving learning and opportunity for public and nonpublic school students», including the purchase of equipment, expanding school broadband access, building classrooms for pre-K and replacing trailers and installing «high - tech security features.»

Local school districts typically struggle to make up for major state funding cuts on their own.

Filings at the state Board of Elections show NYSUT's Fund For Great Public Schools super PAC has invested in both mailers and TV ad production over the last week to knock Republican Chris Jacobs and boost Small's chances in the battleground district.

The final measures passed Sunday by the Senate provide for the flow of funds to state agencies, money to be sent to school districts, public college tuition to be cut or raised for students depending on their family incomes, and non-fiscal matters, including the legalization of ride - hailing upstate.

At least 11 school districts that originally planned to apply for state pre-K grants won't seek the funding, and it's likely more will decide against participating as local administrators struggle with the timing and reimbursement structure of the program.