Sentences with phrase «state school aid cut»

Local educators have been trying this year, so far without success, to get lawmakers to restore $ 30 million in state school aid cut last year.

The Buffalo News reports the issue has come to the forefront as school districts say proposed state school aid cuts would force a new round of layoffs in the coming year.

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However, the philanthropic agenda didn't match other things that were going on in the city, like the state cutting $ 56 million in school aid, she said.

-- $ 600 million — including $ 177 million for New York City — of the Governor's $ 1.4 billion in devastating school aid cuts is restored, providing direct classroom support and property tax relief to working families throughout New York State.

Albany, New York — A major New York State union is going on the air with televisions ads to try to convince state lawmakers to continue a tax on the wealthy instead of adopting Governor Cuomo's billion and half dollars in school aid State union is going on the air with televisions ads to try to convince state lawmakers to continue a tax on the wealthy instead of adopting Governor Cuomo's billion and half dollars in school aid state lawmakers to continue a tax on the wealthy instead of adopting Governor Cuomo's billion and half dollars in school aid cuts.

Schools Chancellor Joel Klein told City Council members the $ 500 million cut in state aid coupled with increasing costs will leave the Department of Education $ 750 million short in fiscal 2011.

«If allowable levy growth remains restricted, school districts will have to increasingly depend on overrides, state aid growth, and expenditure cuts to balance their budgets, a credit negative,» Moody's found.

Cuomo mentioned the salary of a Syosset schools superintendent, Carole Hankin, who earns $ 386,868 a year, as an example of where education officials might consider cutting to make up for the loss of state aid they are expected to suffer during this budget cycle.

Iannuzzi has been one of the few outspoken critics of Governor Andrew Cuomo and his proposed budget, which cut state aid to schools by 2.7 % or about $ 1.3 billion.

But 64 percent oppose Cuomo's proposed $ 1.5 billion reduction in state aid to school districts, and 56 percent oppose his 10 percent cut to SUNY and CUNY.

«As the chair of the Senate Education Committee, Senator Oppenheimer should be leading efforts to reform the state school aid formula so districts do not have to endure billions in cuts any given year and can operate within the confines of a local property tax cap,» said Cohen.

«Instead, she has voted to eliminate property tax relief, increase state spending, increase taxes, and cut state school aid — and we still have no property tax cap.»

ALBANY — After a two - hour debate that touched on climate change and several anti-Semitic incidents at the City University of New York, Republicans in the state Senate endorsed a one - house budget resolution that shifts costs to New York City, increases aid for public schools and cuts taxes for middle - income New Yorkers.

Randi Weingarten, president of the United Federation of Teachers, criticized the Senate version of the bill for cutting about $ 40 billion from money «targeted to help states avoid drastic education cuts and teacher layoffs,» as well as $ 20 billion from construction aid to schools and colleges and $ 1 billion from new aid for Head Start and other early childhood education programs.

I believe if we continue doing what we're doing the state goes down the road to ruin,» Cuomo said during a speech formally announcing the austere plan, which also calls for a massive government restructuring, the merger or consolidation of 11 state agencies into four, and a 10 percent cut in aid for SUNY and CUNY schools.

Korn also notes that declining state aid and further action by school districts have cut about 10,000 teaching jobs in 700 school districts in recent years, mostly by eliminating unfilled positions.

MANHATTAN — Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposed a plan to slash billions from the state's budget, including a 2 percent cut in Medicaid spending, a $ 1.5 billion reduction in school aid and nearly 10,000 state worker layoffs, according to a plan unveiled Tuesday.

State spending rose slightly and the cut to public school aid ranks as the steepest percentage drop in a generation.

In a little over a month, voters in most school districts go to the polls to decide yes or know on that district's spending plan and five of them in Erie County have less state aid to work with in the recently approved state budget In Erie County, Sweet Home sees the biggest cut in overall state...

But Democrats, who run the Assembly, continue to argue that most increased education funding should go to the highest - need schools, which would happen if it were put in the «foundation» funding pot by which most state aid is allocated, and which also was cut drastically during the economic downturn.

If the Budget Director applied this rationale to the State budget, $ 3.5 billion in State closing funds balances from this year would obviate the need for any school aid cuts, statewide.»

This year, the state budget impasse, the proposed $ 1.4 billion cut in school aid and the lack of a state budget forced school districts and taxpayers to absorb cost increases alone.

Oswego, NY — Mexico School Superintendent Nelson Bauersfeld discusses possible mid-year state education aid cuts.

He said that provides the state with more options, including delaying school aid rather than cutting it and risking a further «drag on the economy.»

The 2016 - 17 budget included a roughly $ 1.4 billion increase in school aid — including all aid categories, a $ 627 million increase in Foundation Aid, and $ 434 million to restore recession - era cuts put in place to help fill the state's revenue shortfall through the gap elimination adjustment (GEA) formuaid — including all aid categories, a $ 627 million increase in Foundation Aid, and $ 434 million to restore recession - era cuts put in place to help fill the state's revenue shortfall through the gap elimination adjustment (GEA) formuaid categories, a $ 627 million increase in Foundation Aid, and $ 434 million to restore recession - era cuts put in place to help fill the state's revenue shortfall through the gap elimination adjustment (GEA) formuAid, and $ 434 million to restore recession - era cuts put in place to help fill the state's revenue shortfall through the gap elimination adjustment (GEA) formula.

Morris Peters, a spokesman for the Budget Division, acknowledged that poorer districts rely on state aid for a larger share of their operating budgets, but said the cuts were structured «progressively, accounting for each school district's wealth, student need, administrative efficiency and tax burden.

An analysis by AQE found Cuomo's proposed cuts in operating aid average $ 773 per pupil in the 30 urban and suburban school districts classified as «high - need» by the State Education Department that have the greatest concentration of black and Hispanic students.

Because less wealthy schools rely more heavily on state aid, Cuomo's cuts would affect them more.

The superintendents said schools would be limited in their ability to raise taxes to make up for any state cuts in school aid.

Since then, Democrats, Republicans and Malloy have been unable to reach a consensus on taxes, aid to municipalities, school funding, support for UConn and cuts in state services, among other things.

Isn't there ANY independent, honest, and believable source of analysis that can cut through all this hooha and simply lay out the truth about the impact of state aid to education and proposed school budget cuts??

Are school district reserves high enough to cover state cuts, and efficiencies in management available that would make teacher cuts unnecessary, as Cuomo administration staffers maintain, or are these areas so thin that the scale of reduced state aid made teacher layoffs unavoidable, as school advocates claim?

Flanagan defended the overall budget deal, arguing that Republicans were able to secure an extra $ 155 million in state operating aid for Long Island schools and a tax cut for households earning up to $ 300,000.

«The state's budget includes a $ 248 million increase in school aid, $ 212 million more for the state takeover of Medicaid, and $ 60 million in additional tax revenue — calling this significant increase a cut is disingenuous and the city should check its math.»

In addition to scrapping the Common Core, Hawkins would improve schools by restoring aid cut during the state's economic downturn, encouraging desegregation through voluntary interdistrict transfers and returning curriculum decisions to local school boards.

The cap, which enjoys broad popular support, faces its biggest hurdle among those in the base of the Assembly Democrats, who say a cap would harm school districts who are already facing deep cuts due to a reduction in state aid.

The $ 2.7 billion state legislators carved from the budget last week includes delays in aid to Queens hospitals, but saves jobs in the borough and avoids mid-year cuts to schools, according to area lawmakers.

Khoury said district officials from those school districts are expected to explain how they are trying to «fix the ship» with duct tape but have found the duct tape has run out since state lawmakers cut promised aid.

«Angle's radical plans to eliminate the Department of Education would cost Nevada college students more than $ 500 million in financial aid like Pell grants, and hundreds of millions for our state's elementary and secondary schools — all at a time when our students can least afford such draconian cuts,» Reid campaign spokesman Kelly Steele said in a statement.

Last week, Mr. Cuomo proposed major cuts to Medicaid, school aid and the state work force, while inviting unions to come to him with their own proposals to save money.

In interviews with over a dozen state committee members, Capital heard common frustration with Cuomo's fiscal record — he blocked an income tax hike on wealthy city residents, cut corporate taxes, reduced school aid in 2011 (and slowly dialed it back up), reduced pensions for newly hired public workers and pushed for a cap on local property tax increases.

In 2011, Cuomo decided to cap growth in education spending at the rate of New Yorkers» personal income growth, and he cut state aid accordingly for the 2011 - 12 school year by $ 1.3 billion.

While it would be the third consecutive aid boost for schools, many are still struggling to recover from several years of cuts and a state - mandated property - tax cap.

Cuomo said it would finance middle - class tax cuts approved by the governor and state Legislature last year and help pay for a billion - dollar increase in school aid.

To help balance a $ 3 billion deficit in the 2011 - 13 budget, caused by munificent tax cuts to upper - income earners and corporations, Gov. Scott Walker and his Republican lawmakers cut state aid to schools by $ 792 million over two years.

Despite a 4.4 percent increase in state education aid, the city cut its contribution so spending on schools will hardly budge.

With the $ 600 million in «foundation aid» meant to go to the classroom channeled into deficit reduction instead, and school spending flat this year even as costs rose, speakers charged that the present state education appropriation itself amounted to a cut.

Schools are trying to recover from years of state aid cutbacks when many districts drew down their fund balance and reserves and cut programs, draining resources.

Credit for sparing midyear state aid cuts to schools goes not just to state Assembly and Senate lawmakers but to UFT and community members who bombarded the governor and their local legislators with 5,710 faxes each, demanding that Albany protect the classroom.

State aid to city schools was cut by nearly $ 400 million.