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Fiscal Year 2024 Executive Budget: NYC Department of Education Overview
May 22, 2023
The fiscal year 2024 budget is nearly $500 million below the current projection for fiscal year 2023—$300 million less federal pandemic aid and $300 million less City funds, offset by $100 million more State aid.
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CBC: Cuomo's proposal makes school aid formula inequities permanent
February 09, 2017
CBC describes how school aid proposal extends inequities.
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Education Issues and Priorities in 2017
A Conversation with State Education Commissioner Elia
January 06, 2017
From school board oversight to lawsuits over funding for persistently failing schools and now possible changes to SUNY tuition, there is a lot going on in education right now. And there will likely be even more as the legislature returns.
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David Friedfel Discusses School Aid with Capitol Pressroom
December 21, 2016
David Friedfel, the Director of State Studies for the Citizens Budget Commission, explained a CBC report that argues that the Foundation Aid Formula, which is used to determine state funding for school districts, is skewed to favor some wealthy districts while shortchanging some poorer districts.
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A Primer on New York State School Aid
January 11, 2016
This school year New York State will spend $23.5 billion on aid to school districts, accounting for 25 percent of the state-funded operating budget. The State’s role in K-12 public education is critical to offsetting disparities in local wealth and student need, yet numerous problems remain in the state school aid formulas. In advance of the Governor’s budget proposal for next year, this primer outlines how state school aid functions and how to better target state resources.
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Statement Urging City Council to Reject Proposed Grants for School Transportation Employees
August 20, 2014
The City Council should reject proposed legislation that would provide grants to pay higher wages and benefits to certain school transportation service employees than those required by the City's contracts with the private bus companies that employ them.