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Erie County Legislator Kevin Hardwick announces that Erie County is calling on New York State to finally end the Gap Elimination Adjustment Law that drastically reduced the amount of aid to school districts for the past six years.

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Revised Statute 167.273 (1990) makes available additional state aid to local school districts for a program of parent education established in one or more high school that service pregnant teens and teen parents enrolled as pupils in the district.

Adding pressure to the state Legislature, the AQE released a report that shows how much they believe the state owes each of the 700 school districts in aid — and links it to each lawmaker's district.

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.

He also referenced the fact that New York is now one of three states placed on a watch list for losing hundreds of millions of Race to the Top dollars by US Education Secretary Arne Duncan because it has «hit a roadblock» on significant policy provisions of qualifying for the aid, including establishment of the peformance evaluation system and creation of a database to track student records across school districts.

In his campaign, McGrath has used de Blasio as a boogeyman for the suburban Senate district, raising the specter of a Democratic - controlled Senate being beholden to the liberal New York City mayor and costing Nassau County precious school aid.

«This is to help school districts, our school aid is not perfect and it's really an opportunity to plug perhaps some of the inequities that have occurred in the school districts,» Skelos sid.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is proposing an increase in school aid of over three - quarters of a billion dollars, a rise of about 3 percent over last year, but some say that's not enough to meet school districts» rising costs.

Excludes the Putnam School District in Washington County, which would receive a 35 percent increase in Foundation Aid due to a $ 75,000 allocation of community schools funds.

Former Governor George Pataki's School Tax Relief (STAR) program, passed in 1997 and fully phased in by 2002, actually does reduce most homeowners» tax bills, through the mechanism of sending added aid to school districts that are required to use the money to finance a partial homestead tax exemSchool Tax Relief (STAR) program, passed in 1997 and fully phased in by 2002, actually does reduce most homeowners» tax bills, through the mechanism of sending added aid to school districts that are required to use the money to finance a partial homestead tax exemschool districts that are required to use the money to finance a partial homestead tax exemption.

While some of these changes have merit, the Governor should limit school aid growth and make reforms to the distribution of aid to better direct it to the neediest districts.

• Redesigning Education: Noting that New York is first in spending but 34th in results, Governor Cuomo proposed restructuring a portion of our education aid to create incentives that reward school districts for improving student performance and implementing management efficiency policies.

Incentive Operating Aid is available for fourteen years to reorganized school districts, beginning with the first year of operation as a reorganized district.

The conversation also touched on the considerable amount of NYS aid that is available to school districts considering reorganization.

The letter, written by Sen. Todd Kaminsky, a Democrat elected in a special election in April, pointed out that only 121 of the state's 700 - plus school districts so far have submitted evaluation plans that are required in order to receive a portion of state aid.

«If Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposed state aid allocation to Central New York School districts were a birthday present, it would be a pair of socks.»

Senate Democrats on Tuesday renewed their push to have the submission of teacher performance reviews no longer be linked to a boost in state aid for school districts.

In addition to the deadline extension for developing the evaluation regulations, lawmakers want to unlink the adoption of the evaluation criteria by school districts to a boost in state education aid.

Governor Cuomo is proposing an increase in school aid of over three - quarters of a billion dollars or around 3 % from last year, but some say that's not enough to meet school districts» rising costs.

To a large extent, state fiscal policies have caused great pressure on property taxes in needy cities, counties and school districts, including decisions: to reduce revenue sharing; to decrease the share of local school budgets covered by state aid, to divide the non-federal share of Medicaid costs without considering ability to pay, and to allocate STAR benefits... (read morTo a large extent, state fiscal policies have caused great pressure on property taxes in needy cities, counties and school districts, including decisions: to reduce revenue sharing; to decrease the share of local school budgets covered by state aid, to divide the non-federal share of Medicaid costs without considering ability to pay, and to allocate STAR benefits... (read morto reduce revenue sharing; to decrease the share of local school budgets covered by state aid, to divide the non-federal share of Medicaid costs without considering ability to pay, and to allocate STAR benefits... (read morto decrease the share of local school budgets covered by state aid, to divide the non-federal share of Medicaid costs without considering ability to pay, and to allocate STAR benefits... (read morto divide the non-federal share of Medicaid costs without considering ability to pay, and to allocate STAR benefits... (read morto pay, and to allocate STAR benefits... (read morto allocate STAR benefits... (read more)

Third, to ensure ongoing compliance with the implementation of the evaluation system, school districts will continue to remain ineligible for annual state education aid increases if the district fails to implement their approved evaluation system.

Even though it's four lawmakers, the letter is reminder of the power of the so - called «Long Island Nine» a voting bloc of Republican senators from Long Island who often push for education aid and assistance to the school districts of Suffolk and Nassau counties.

«The data shows school districts continue to be in a prolonged period of fiscal stress due to the continuation of the Gap Elimination Adjustment (GEA), failure to fully fund the Foundation Aid formula and cap on local revenues,» said Michael J. Borges, NYSASBO's Executive Director.

Robert Lowry, deputy director of the New York State Council of School Superintendents, said a threat of losing state aid is more detrimental to districts than unions, so it puts school administrators at a disadvantage during negotiaSchool Superintendents, said a threat of losing state aid is more detrimental to districts than unions, so it puts school administrators at a disadvantage during negotiaschool administrators at a disadvantage during negotiations.

Under the proposal, municipalities and school districts that stay within the two - percent cap would then be eligible for a certain amount of aid to lower their tax levy to prior year levels in the program's first two years.

«As the chair of the Senate Education Committee, Senator Oppenheimer should be leading efforts to reform the state school aid formula so districts do not have to endure billions in cuts any given year and can operate within the confines of a local property tax cap,» said Cohen.

The law, which reduces the amount of state aid received by school districts, was first imposed in the 2010 to help close New York State's multi-billion dollar deficit by taking funding away from schools.

«If we rewind back to the first year of implementation, districts had to put these plans in place under threat of losing a state aid increase,» said David Albert, spokesman for the New York State School Boards Association.

Governor Cuomo is proposing an increase in school aid of over three - quarters of a billion dollars, or around three percent from last year, but some say that's not enough to meet school districts» rising costs.

Earlier this year, and as part of Race to the Top requirements, the state did direct New York school districts develop their own teacher evaluation systems, known as annual professional performance reviews plan (APPR), lest the districts risk losing additional available state aid.

Breen was referring to a lack of additional state aid to municipalities, (AIM), and the fact that the Yonkers Public Schools did not receive additional education aid above and beyond the xx increases given to school districts statewide.

Newsday's calculations focus on operating funds, because those are widely considered a more meaningful measure of what a district receives than aid for school construction and renovation, which may or may not go to a district in a given year, depending on whether the work is completed then.

Yes she did, she supported the reduction of school aid, but that only shifted the burden from the state to the school district and did nothing to reduce expenses at the state level.

Late last month, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration broke with the longstanding tradition of providing school districts across New York State with «runs,» the projected aid increases, based on the governor's education funding proposal, which district officials use to help shape their own budgets.

The two agree that the state has to do more to ensure that school districts in Dutchess County are getting «their fair share» of state aid, although they differ on how best to reduce the reliance on property taxes to fund education.

a $ 1 billion hike in state aid to New York's 700 public school districts for a total of $ 26.7 billion.

In a little over a month, voters in most school districts go to the polls to decide yes or know on that district's spending plan and five of them in Erie County have less state aid to work with in the recently approved state budget In Erie County, Sweet Home sees the biggest cut in overall state...

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.

Meanwhile, on the thorny issue of charter school funding — a tuition aid un-freeze that would see aid increase by $ 1,500 per student paid out by a school district — a potentially large hit for any locality, including $ 200 million for New York City — the proposal would be to have flat funding for charters this year.

We do know, however, that due to opposition in both houses, education spending in the budget is no longer linked to the reforms, and lawmakers expect to have a district - by - district breakdown of school aid — also known in Albany as «school runs» — in the coming days.

About 68 percent of the restored education aid would be sent to schools districts north of NYC, Skelos said, explaining: «What we're doing is we are essentially restoring shares to the cuts.

The state Senate voted (again) to end gap elimination aid — a policy that allowed the state to withhold a portion of school funding from local districts to prop up the state's overall budget.

In a news conference outside of the Senate chamber, school organizations called for a bump in state aid for districts of $ 2.2 billion in the coming 2016 - 17 budget year, along with a complete elimination of the so - called Gap Elimination Adjustment while also pledging to fully fund Foundation Aid that helps poorer districaid for districts of $ 2.2 billion in the coming 2016 - 17 budget year, along with a complete elimination of the so - called Gap Elimination Adjustment while also pledging to fully fund Foundation Aid that helps poorer districAid that helps poorer districts.

School districts in the mid-Hudson region are looking at a collective state aid hike of more than $ 30 million to a total of nearly $ 970 million.

ALBANY — Governor Andrew Cuomo on Sunday proposed a $ 100 million fund to aid underperforming schools «north of the Bronx,» a large chunk of which would help close a $ 28 million deficit in Yonkers, the state's fifth - largest school district.

This year, the state budget impasse, the proposed $ 1.4 billion cut in school aid and the lack of a state budget forced school districts and taxpayers to absorb cost increases alone.

«Some of the other key pieces of legislation in this budget is continuing the monitor in the East Ramapo School District as well as a fund, a dedicated fund, of $ 3 million to keep full - day kindergarten, programs like music and art, as well as an increase in foundation aid of about $ 1 million for East Ramapo as well.

As the school year starts, many school districts across the state still need to grapple with the issue of a teacher evaluation system, especially if they want to continue to receive state aid.

There are still some details to be worked out, including the specific amounts of school aid to each district in the state from a $ 1.5 billion increase, but Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie says the deal is mostly complete.

Nixon's criticism mirrored an op - ed she published last month that slammed Cuomo for his support of charter schools and for proposing to eliminate the so - called Foundation Aid formula for funding public schools, which critics argued would deprive districts of billions of dollars that they are still owed under 2006 court decision that found the state had underfunded public education.