Hawkins» platform includes a call for a $ 15 hourly minimum wage rate, a ban on hydrofracking, using government money to hire unemployed workers for public projects, a single - payer healthcare program, rejecting the Common Core teaching standards (and the federal money that came with them), refiguring
school aid to give more help to poorer
districts and raising taxes on the
richest New Yorkers.
Is this proposed measure really simply a way to protect property -
rich «Basic
Aid»
school districts where local property tax revenues exceed the amounts
districts would otherwise receive from the usual state funding formulas?