The incredible shrinking school budget increase
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- April
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Some interesting numbers from Albany reporter Cara Matthews in her Albany Watch post. She reports that this year’s report cards on proposed school spending shows that districts would increase spending by an average of 2.35 percent, and the average tax levy would go up 1.89 percent. Seems that suburban districts, like Rockland’s, are adjusting to the times. In 2004-05, the average spending increase was 6.29 percent, and the average statewide tax levy for that budget year was 8.26 percent. It’s going in the right direction, for sure, and many Rockland districts seem to be in line with the new numbers.
Of course, the bigger issue is the property tax-based funding of schools, and municipalities, in New York state. That, of course, is the big fish.
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on Thursday, April 30th, 2009 at 7:53 pm by Nancy Cutler.
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Anyone care to look into why the private school district of Kyras Joel has received a 66% increase in state and federal aid, from roughly 4 million dollars to roughly 6.74 million dollars? All that money less than 300 students. Could that money not be spread out amongst PUBLIC districts instead?
P.S. – It’s not just an Orange County issue. It is STATE money which should be disbursed elsewhere.