«The court said the state is not meeting its constitutional obligation on funding in needy school districts,» Mulgrew said. (uft.org)
In addition to the usual arguments about how such a system diverts funds from needy school districts and / or skims away the best students and their highly - involved parents (an argument that is also applied to charter schools yet, strangely, not to NYC ’s (newyorkschooltalk.org)
Cuomo's plan would spend $ 1.5 billion over five years, with $ 100 million in the first year targeting needy school districts. (nystateofpolitics.com)