Sentences with phrase «upstate schools»

Both candidates agree that the smaller upstate school districts are more negatively affected by the cuts.

And finally, to the benefit our funding - deprived upstate schools, I will fight for our schools to no longer rely on property taxes for the bulk of their funding.

Jim Tallon, a former assemblyman and chair of the Board of Regents» state aid committee, expressed broad criticisms of Cuomo's budget proposal, arguing the spending plan should have included more information about the distribution of funding and more money for pre-K for upstate school districts.

But residents like you and I in upstate school districts — in a chorus with New Yorkers from throughout the state — should be reminding their senators:

The Alliance for Quality Education and other groups complained about the current schedule, and representatives of upstate school districts said cash - flow problems would hinder their ability to apply for or set up new pre-K programs.

Ward says upstate school districts traditionally raise taxes by five to six percent a year, often because they are committed by contracts.

The same goes for universal pre-K, a wasteful babysitting program, mandated by the NYC majorities in the legislature and universally detested by upstate school districts.

May upstate school superintendents don't feel their districts fared well in Cuomo's proposed 2014 - 15 budget.

Public schools in the city of Yonkers will get an additional $ 25 million dollars in aid, but Cuomo had to abandon a last minute proposal to give an additional $ 75 million dollars to struggling upstate schools.

In New York, similar rules are already in place, and they're at work every day at one upstate school where technology is everywhere.

But Assembly Democrats are also wary of Cuomo potentially linking the $ 100 million upstate school fund to the passage of education tax credit, which is being pushed by private and parochial schools.

A conservative Cornell University student says she was harassed and threatened after she appeared on a Fox News segment last year and voiced objections to what she saw as liberal bias in coursework at the prestigious upstate school.

It's still not known whether the governor would get his wish to have greater control over the exact school aid distributions for New York City schools and large upstate school districts, including Rochester, Buffalo and Syracuse.

The parents and children in Utica and seven other upstate school districts involved in the so - called «Small Cities Lawsuit» say their fight for obtaining more education funding is not done yet.

ALBANY — Few upstate school districts plan to launch full - day pre-kindergarten programs in September, even though Governor Andrew Cuomo and lawmakers provided $ 40 million in the state budget for that purpose.

He pointed to less money for upstate school districts and transportation during the brief Democratic takeover of the Senate following the 2009 «coup,» adding a repeat will result in «unacceptable» policies for western and upstate New York.

As I read some of the stories of upstate school districts bemoaning the potential for a property tax cap, I see the alternative as LARGE property tax increases.

Officials in four upstate school districts...

Some upstate school districts and colleges have already decided to cancel classes for today in advance of the storm.

Under that agreement, New York City schools will get $ 51 million, Long Island schools will get $ 45 million and upstate schools will get $ 134 million.

Much of it will be sent back to upstate schools.

I have been and plan to continue to push for state support for mandate relief; fair funding for rural and upstate schools.

But Elizabeth Morris (a pseudonym) taught in an upstate school district that couldn't point to terrific student outcomes to offset the stigma that might accompany a low score.