Not exact matches
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.
Gov. David Paterson will ask the Legislature to let him
delay some $ 1.5 million worth of school
aid payments due June 1.
• $ 700 in education -
aid cuts and a
delay of some already - promised
payments.
Critics questioned the need to make the
payments at a time when the state has taken drastic money - saving steps, such as
delaying billions of dollars in
aid payments to local school districts, to try to close a $ 9 billion deficit.
The county was hurt by
delayed state
aid payments, averaging more than $ 38 million in each of the fiscal years 2006 through 2010.