Governor Doug Ducey signed the K - 12 portion of the state budget on Thursday, May 3 and, in the process, approved the most unprecedented
education funding increase in recent history.
Also at 11 a.m., Schenectady City School District Superintendent Larry Spring holds a press conference on the
local education funding increase with Sen. Jim Tedisco, and Assemblymen Angelo Santabarbara and Phil Steck, and Schenectady Mayor Gary McCarthy, Mont Pleasant Middle School Library Media Center 1121 Forest Rd., Schenectady.
WASHINGTON — Several members of the Congressional committees that oversee social - service spending last week criticized education lobbyists here for using what one member termed «pressure tactics» to
protect education funding increases.
But the administration is so committed to incentives that it even provided Congress with one: Obama proposed a $ 1 billion
education funding increase if lawmakers this year finish a rewrite of the No Child Left Behind law.
The proposed amendment by Reps. Lynn Woolsey, D - Calif., and Chris Van Hollen, D - Md., to move annual
special education funding increases to the mandatory, rather than discretionary, side of the federal budget was defeated on a party - line vote.
The budget projects a $ 1.6 billion deficit, which will be addressed in part by rollbacks of previously planned K - 12
education funding increases.