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.
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.
Not exact matches
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) formu
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) formu
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) formu
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) 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.