As
the major areas of contention become clear, some remain from recent years, while others are new, and questions loom over the city budget cycle due to uncertainty in Washington, D.C., state funding shifts being proposed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, and a slowing city economy.
In South Dakota and elsewhere, the use of student test scores to evaluate teacher effectiveness is
a major area of contention.
Amazon feels publishers get too much of the revenue from e-books, so that was
another major area of contention.
Not exact matches
But there are some
major areas of disagreement - such as Whitman's
contention that only 60 percent
of education spending reaches the classroom and thus suggesting the rest is wasted.