It is also the mayor's final budget plan before he leaves office and includes the elimination of 2,000 teaching positions, CBS 2's Tony Aiello reported. (newyork.cbslocal.com)
Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos said yesterday that people were «too tied» to calling it Tier Six and said his Republican conference plans to suggest cost - saving measures that may go into the final budget plan, due April 1. (nystateofpolitics.com)
There's also a dispute between Sampson and Silver on how to fund what is now expected to be as much as a $ 1 billion shortfall in anticipated federal Medicaid aid, an enormous loss at a time when politically nervous lawmakers are looking to add education funding to the final budget plan. (nypost.com)