Sentences with phrase «unfunded federal mandates»

Republican lawmakers claimed another victory last week when the House passed a bill to restrict unfunded federal mandates to states on a 360 - to - 74 vote.

So that state and local governments can remain financially sound enough to support good schools, Congress should keep its promise to end unfunded federal mandates.

Not exact matches

For purposes of the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act, as well as Executive Order 12875, the final rule extending the applicability date does not include any federal mandate that we expect would result in such expenditures by State, local, or tribal governments, or the private sector.

Counties across New York State are forced to operate under tight budgets due to numerous unfunded state and federal mandates.

More than 90 percent of the annual county budget pays for unfunded state and federal mandates.

Mayor Bill de Blasio unveiled an $ 89.06 billion executive budget proposal for the 2019 fiscal year on Thursday, decrying new spending that the city must undertake to meet shortfalls and unfunded mandates imposed by the new state budget approved last month, and cautioning of federal actions that could affect the city's fiscal future.

Keep taxes low, despite pressure to pay for unfunded mandates from the state and federal governments and the skyrocketing cost of medical insurance for our employees.

Speaking to educators gathered in his city on Oct. 23 for a Council of the Great City Schools conference, Mayor Richard M. Daley called the federal school improvement law an «unfunded mandate,» and he urged the group's members to work together to revise it.

Although the claim of «unfunded mandate» has been asserted almost since the day NCLB was signed into law, School District of the City of Pontiac et al. v. Spellings constitutes the first major legal challenge to the historic education law to be filed in federal court.

The agreement to toss whole chunks of the landmark law reflects a rare political convergence, uniting liberals who decried rote testing regimes, conservatives who wanted the federal government out of education, state officials angry about unfunded mandates and powerful teachers unions who said NCLB punished them, rather than giving them needed assistance.

Doesn't faze the rich communities any, but for the rest of us, it's killing the middle class and still not generating enough funding for teachers and schools to keep pace with rising standards, a reform agenda gone awry, unfunded state and federal mandates, and ever increasing student poverty.

The school system and public education advocates believe the county commissioners — by way of the local taxpayers — are the «last line of defense» against reduced state and federal funding and other unfunded state mandates.

I should clarify districts may get some money for the state but it never covers all the unfunded state and federal mandates and to pull off all the test prep, testing, software, hardware, etc... there will be cuts and it is never at the top... always the front line workers, including paraprofessional, secretaries, aides, etc..

At a time when education is acknowledged as a priority for America's success and competitiveness, NSBA believes that it is imperative that federal policy — including implementation of the child nutrition reauthorization — assures that educational systems are supported, not undermined by unfunded mandates or under - resourced requirements.

An unfunded mandate is a legal obligation that the federal or state government requires municipalities to complete for which no funds are provided.