Sentences with phrase «where more state funds»

There are clearly areas where more state funds are needed.

Not exact matches

Even more critical is the pension fund crisis across the United States, where private, state, and local pensions face a funding shortfall exceeding $ 7 trillion according to credit agency Moody's.

He concluded that, based on the current stated amount of underfunding at every big pension fund, if the Dow / SPX declined 10 % or more over a sustained period of time — where «sustained period» is defined as 3 - 4 month — every public pension fund in the country would collapse.

This is all the more important in a defined contribution (DC) world, where the individual - with help from employer contributions and tax rebates - is responsible for accumulating sufficient funds to supplement the UK state pension.

Research from the good - government group Citizens Union confirms that the New York City elections, where public funding is already in place, allow for greater voter choice and more electoral competition, when compared with New York State races.

Still, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's spending proposal includes a dozen more pots of state funds in which it is not entirely clear where the money will be ultimately spent.

· Allowing counties an option to modify how they fund state mandated pension contributions · Providing counties more audit authority in the special education preschool program · Improving government efficiency and streamlining state and local legislative operations by removing the need for counties to pursue home rule legislative requests every two years with the state legislature in order to extend current local sales tax authority · Reducing administrative and reporting requirements for counties under Article 6 public health programs · Reforming the Workers Compensation system · Renewing Binding Arbitration, which is scheduled to sunset in June 2013, with a new definition of «ability to pay» for municipalities under fiscal distress, making it subject to the property tax cap (does not apply to NYC) where «ability to pay» will be defined as no more than 2 percent growth in the contract.

We are also entitled to ask where, if Labour is really committed to the new politics, are any of the other measures deemed essential by reformers, such as sorting out the House of Lords, devolving power to local government, a written constititution, more representative MPs in terms of gender and race, and state funding of political parties?

Funded by Ackerman and a secretive group of backers that is reported to have pledged or loaned the group $ 20 million, AE is already spending millions on paid petition gatherers in several states, including California where it is about to start handing in more than a million - and - a-half signatures.

He wouldn't, however, say where the breakdown is, or commit to any specific solution during the interview, including whether the state would fund more supportive housing, which has been one of the points of contention between Cuomo and de Blasio.

More than a dozen funding streams from various state agencies were consolidated into one process under one application, repackaged into a single, efficient process that culminates in an annual ceremony where Cuomo handed out the awards.

Mr. de Blasio appears to have grown more acutely mindful of areas where his agenda overlaps with Mr. Bloomberg's legacy: his aim to extend mayoral control of schools, for instance, and, recently, holding out to extract more concessions from state government in a deal on mass transit funding.

There would be more of these schools with larger enrollments if all states had open enrollment where adequate funding followed students to cover the costs to educate them.

Second, Don McAdams, founder of the Center for Reform of School Systems, argued that philanthropy typically entails limited dollars in the grand scheme of things, but has an outsized influence because this money is nimble and can be used to drive a state or a district's reforms, where it's hugely difficult to redeploy more than a sliver of public funds.

«We've been blessed with numerous grants that have brought us state - of - the - art technology for our math and science classrooms,» Green said, «but we're in need of more technology tools for language arts and social studies, where external funding isn't always easy to acquire.»

But even where political or practical reasons make a formula more compelling, states need not automatically turn those funds over to districts.

Education advocates are also looking to address the teacher shortage and for more transparency and accountability on where state funds are spent.

«Often, the school board and district staff are considered no more than middlemen in the education enterprise, passing federal and state funds on to schools - where the «real work» of education takes place - and keeping track of school compliance with federal and state laws, regulations and policies.»

Edgar also worked as the policy director for Californians for Justice where he partnered with organizations like California Teachers Association, Ed - Trust West, and the American Civil Liberties Union to make state Local Control Funding Formula regulations more inclusive of the community.

The school districts shaded in dark green are where more than 75 % of the 4 year olds attend a universal pre-K program funded by the state.

States and LEAs will have more flexibility in how and where they use Title I funds in the 2015 - 16 and 2016 - 17 school years.

It's a commitment that allows the state to more equitably distribute funds for public schools as well, filling in gaps where local property taxes would otherwise generate insufficient funds to guarantee a sound basic education for every child.

The centerpiece of Brown's plan is the Local Control Funding Formula, which rolls virtually all of the state's current maze of spending on schools into a more simplified block grant system where districts with higher numbers of English learners and students receiving subsidized meals would be provided additional dollars.

The change in attitude about capital funding was never more clear than one day this summer in Ohio, where state support for school construction funding was insignificant until about five years ago.

The numbers are even more impressive given the funding challenges facing the district in recent years, where rising teacher pension costs and declining state support have forced endless borrowing, budget cuts and layoffs, escalating tensions with the local teachers union.

The school leaders emphasized that the proposed $ 93 million cut to the Geographic Cost of Education Index — the component of the state's funding formula that gives more money to school districts where the cost of educating students is higher — would disproportionaly impact their students, and thwart their efforts to close the achievement gap for their poorest and academically challenged students.

This is the auditorium of Rockville Centre's South Side High School on Jan. 13, where approximately 120 students, teachers and education advocates witnessed the latest front in what has been an all - out war against Common Core, the education reform created by the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers and financed with more than $ 4 billion of «Race to the Top» funds as part of the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach signs a pledge not to hike taxes at a press conference where he attacked Gov. Jeff Colyer for what he said was essentially forcing a tax increase to pay for more school funding.

In western North Carolina's Macon County, the school district is dealing with an even more dire situation, where they exceed the state's funding cap on special needs by several percentage points.

That translates into more lost local revenue in an environment where state school funding still has not recovered fully from the impacts of the Great Recession — when we learned that municipalities were not well positioned to make up for lost state funds.

ESSA provides much more flexibility and discretion to the states about how federal education funds are spent, allowing funds to be spent where they are needed most.

When it comes to their new proposed education agenda, it is bad enough that Malloy and Wyman plan to give more money to the privately owned but publicly funded charter school industry while making the deepest cuts in state history to Connecticut's public schools, but in a little understood piece of proposed legislation, the Malloy administration is trying to sneak through legislation that would give his Commissioner of Education and the political appointees on his State Board of Education a new mechanism they would use to punish taxpayers in certain communities where more than 5 percent of parents opt their children out of the wasteful and destructive Common Core SBAC testing prostate history to Connecticut's public schools, but in a little understood piece of proposed legislation, the Malloy administration is trying to sneak through legislation that would give his Commissioner of Education and the political appointees on his State Board of Education a new mechanism they would use to punish taxpayers in certain communities where more than 5 percent of parents opt their children out of the wasteful and destructive Common Core SBAC testing proState Board of Education a new mechanism they would use to punish taxpayers in certain communities where more than 5 percent of parents opt their children out of the wasteful and destructive Common Core SBAC testing program.

While overall career growth for ECE employees is high, recent graduates of an ECE program should ideally look for work in population centers where the total population growth is higher or in states that have more robust funding for ECE programs.

Malloy's failure to properly fund the state's magnet schools didn't stop him from attending the recent ribbon cutting at the new Connecticut River Academy Magnet School's $ 57 million school building in East Hartford where he told students, «This is our gamble, our bet, our investment in your future, that is saying that we want Connecticut to be as successful as it ever was, in fact we want it to be more successful... You have the opportunity to see the tone, to make sure that each student that follows you understands how high the bar has been set.»

The situation is more favorable in Rhode Island, where the apparent absence of Koch - funded interference may have been a key factor in attracting the wind developer Deepwater Wind to the state.

Part of the duty of the ALEC state chairs is to solicit funds from corporations for the ALEC «scholarship fund,» which raises more than $ 600,000 per year and which enables legislators to travel for free to ALEC conferences, where they meet with lobbyists from corporations like Peabody Energy, Exxon Mobil and Koch Industries.

Prior to joining Evercore, David was a Senior Investment Officer with the New York State Common Retirement Fund, where he invested more than $ 1.7 billion globally on behalf of the Fund.