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A complaint filed in the Southern District of California on Thursday charges Vincent Ramos, the founder and CEO of Canada - based Phantom, with racketeering conspiracy to conduct enterprise affairs, as well as conspiracy to distribute narcotics, and aiding and abetting.

A vote on a separate piece of legislation Paterson will be sending up to delay $ 1.5 billion worth of education aid payments to school districts could be more problematic — particularly since this is an election year and few lawmakers are going to want to take that potentially troublesome vote.

He also referenced the fact that New York is now one of three states placed on a watch list for losing hundreds of millions of Race to the Top dollars by US Education Secretary Arne Duncan because it has «hit a roadblock» on significant policy provisions of qualifying for the aid, including establishment of the peformance evaluation system and creation of a database to track student records across school districts.

School districts are due to adopt the new teacher evaluation criteria by November or miss out on a boost in education aid.

Iannuzzi was on CapTon earlier this week to discuss the possibility of a new legal challenge of what education advocates say is a long - standing inequity in the state's foundation aid formula that disproportionately hurts low - income districts.

The foundation aid increase backed by the Assembly stands at $ 1.2 billion, a figure backed by public education advocates who say the state is not spending enough on poor and high - needs school districts.

Bellone has been pushing for the resignation of District Attorney Tom Spota and his deputy, Chris McPartland, for the last several months, but increased those calls following their indictments on charges they aided in the cover up of the Suffolk police chief's beating of a suspect in custody.

Foundation aid funding is typically seen as helping poorer school districts around the state that can not rely as heavily on revenue from property taxes.

New York voters will head to the polls next Tuesday, May 16, to vote on school budgets that are benefiting from a $ 1 billion boost in state aid and a more flexible property tax cap, with just 12 districts seeking a 60 percent vote to override the cap.

The final amount will be calculated after the district knows how much state aid it will receive — a figure that relies upon agreement on the state budget by Cuomo and the state legislature.

Local school districts are preparing for another tight budget season this year, with minimal state aid increases projected in Gov. Andrew Cuomo's tentative spending plan and a cap of less than 2 percent on tax levy growth.

The conversation also touched on the considerable amount of NYS aid that is available to school districts considering reorganization.

Since the state implemented a property tax cap, school districts have increasingly become reliant on state aid.

«Although school districts more reliant on state aid derive a greater benefit from the current environment of low levy growth and increased state revenues, property taxes have traditionally been a more stable source of revenue than state aid.

«Growth in state aid revenue has outpaced levy growth, which generally benefits districts that are more reliant on state revenues and challenges districts more dependent on property taxes,» Moody's found.

With the cap levy progressively lower each year since it's been in effect, state aid has grown, making districts more reliant on funding from Albany.

«If allowable levy growth remains restricted, school districts will have to increasingly depend on overrides, state aid growth, and expenditure cuts to balance their budgets, a credit negative,» Moody's found.

Continued dependence on state aid growth to enhance revenues and balance budgets exposes districts to state - level budget strain.»

Senate Democrats on Tuesday renewed their push to have the submission of teacher performance reviews no longer be linked to a boost in state aid for school districts.

Once those numbers are finalized, school districts can base their budgets on how much aid they will receive from the state.

To a large extent, state fiscal policies have caused great pressure on property taxes in needy cities, counties and school districts, including decisions: to reduce revenue sharing; to decrease the share of local school budgets covered by state aid, to divide the non-federal share of Medicaid costs without considering ability to pay, and to allocate STAR benefits... (read more)

Blame them for the school budget you voted on Tuesday with no idea how much state aid your district will really get, or what your taxes will be.

State leaders, however, are close to an agreement on spending $ 300 million for pre-Kindergarten programs for New York City, with other districts receiving aid as long as they demonstrate a willingness for pre-K in their area.

«The data shows school districts continue to be in a prolonged period of fiscal stress due to the continuation of the Gap Elimination Adjustment (GEA), failure to fully fund the Foundation Aid formula and cap on local revenues,» said Michael J. Borges, NYSASBO's Executive Director.

«For example, legislators may choose to send mail to seniors regarding the EPIC program or STAR rebates; younger people about college loan forgiveness programs or people in various school districts on education aid.»

He expected school aid «runs» — charts that delineate how much money each school district will get broken down by the various funding formulas — would be available on Monday.

The net effect is that districts find themselves more dependent on state aid than ever before.

«I think what I mean is we have a problem in this state in terms of how schools are funded and how much onus there is on property taxpayers from districts,» she said in that Albany news conference that called for state school aid in the state budget.

Newsday's calculations focus on operating funds, because those are widely considered a more meaningful measure of what a district receives than aid for school construction and renovation, which may or may not go to a district in a given year, depending on whether the work is completed then.

He has therefore called for support from partners and stakeholders to come to the aid of the district as the operations of the miners was wreaking havoc on productive farmlands and destroying their water bodies»

On the Island, that meant an extra $ 155 million in aid to the 124 districts, a 6.16 percent increase — the greatest boost from the state since the economic downturn of 2008.

Bruce Singer, Sachem's associate superintendent for business, said the district's tentative decision to try to exceed its cap could be reviewed if Sachem receives enough extra state aid to compensate for the restrictions on local tax revenues.

Late last month, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration broke with the longstanding tradition of providing school districts across New York State with «runs,» the projected aid increases, based on the governor's education funding proposal, which district officials use to help shape their own budgets.

Joseph Dragone, assistant superintendent for business in the Roslyn school system, noted that his district would lose more than 2 percent in operating aid next year based on the governor's plan.

The two agree that the state has to do more to ensure that school districts in Dutchess County are getting «their fair share» of state aid, although they differ on how best to reduce the reliance on property taxes to fund education.

In a little over a month, voters in most school districts go to the polls to decide yes or know on that district's spending plan and five of them in Erie County have less state aid to work with in the recently approved state budget In Erie County, Sweet Home sees the biggest cut in overall state...

That means districts will be almost entirely dependent on the state to cover rising salaries and other education costs, school administrators said, and Cuomo's budget provides less than half the financial aid needed.

The existing Foundation Aid Formula does not properly calculate the local contribution and has too many floors, ceilings, phase - ins, and add - ons that distort the final aid distribution, driving too much funding to wealthy districts.5 The Executive Budget imposes an additional calculation on top of the existing distributions and increases funding to all districts including those that are affluent and not in need of further State suppoAid Formula does not properly calculate the local contribution and has too many floors, ceilings, phase - ins, and add - ons that distort the final aid distribution, driving too much funding to wealthy districts.5 The Executive Budget imposes an additional calculation on top of the existing distributions and increases funding to all districts including those that are affluent and not in need of further State suppoaid distribution, driving too much funding to wealthy districts.5 The Executive Budget imposes an additional calculation on top of the existing distributions and increases funding to all districts including those that are affluent and not in need of further State support.

«Not having state aid figures to craft a budget is especially difficult for districts that rely most heavily on state aid.

If Flanagan is so intent on keeping this seat he had better start realizing that our upstate rural school districts need a fair distribution of school aid.

Anticipating less state aid and property tax revenue, the Syracuse City School District is counting on its own fund balance and state legislators to make up the difference in next year's school budget.

Meanwhile, on the thorny issue of charter school funding — a tuition aid un-freeze that would see aid increase by $ 1,500 per student paid out by a school district — a potentially large hit for any locality, including $ 200 million for New York City — the proposal would be to have flat funding for charters this year.

The post goes on from there, addressing the governor's assertion on the percentage of expenditures devoted to classroom instruction versus administrative costs, as well as his insistence that districts can make up the difference in lost aid with reserve funds and economize by reducing waste, fraud and abuse.

As local school districts await word from Albany on state aid, some are developing multiple budget proposals based on best, worst and most likely scenarios.

Maryvale School District officials are asking residents to write letters to state representatives to encourage Cuomo to release figures on the planned state financial aid.

Comptroller Tom DiNapoli's office on Friday released a report assessing the impact of federal aid on New York's local governments and schools districts, finding they rely on more than $ 11 billion combined in 2015.

ALBANY — Governor Andrew Cuomo on Sunday proposed a $ 100 million fund to aid underperforming schools «north of the Bronx,» a large chunk of which would help close a $ 28 million deficit in Yonkers, the state's fifth - largest school district.

«That means that we can now focus our efforts in the coming years on getting New York City schools the Campaign for Fiscal Equity money they are still owed and building equity into the state aid formula so that poor school districts get more state aid than wealthier ones,» Mulgrew said.

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By raising the threshold amount from $ 100,000 to $ 250,000, «districts could make critical capital improvements in a more timely manner and receive state aid much faster,» she said, a measure that would also save the state money on interest payments.