The council questions Cuomo's claim that schools have received «
tremendous» increase in funding over the past decade, noting, for example, that aid increased 1.9 percent in 2009 - 10 largely because
federal stimulus cash averted the need for layoffs that would have been caused by the $ 1.1 billion worth of
cuts proposed by then - Gov.
That provision led to this year's
federal rule requiring 54.5 mpg by 2025, a
tremendous victory that will
cut greenhouse gas emissions from cars and light trucks in half by 2025 and reduce emissions by 6 billion metric tons.