It remains to be seen how much of these policy items Cuomo will put into his proposed budget — where the law gives him an upper hand over legislators, who can
modify budget amounts but can't strip away his language from the larger spending plan — and which he will pursue on a parallel track.
In 1998, Houston implemented a
modified version of WSF, known as student - based
budgeting, in which a base
amount is set per student and a percentage added for each special need, such as bilingual education.