Stewart-Cousins, Breslin and Tkaczyk push for school funding
They’re asking for non-specific increases in Foundation Aid, the
main source of state money to schools, and restorations of cuts
that were made through the Gap Elimination Adjustment —
reductions in state funding to districts that began in the
2009-10 school year to help the state close it’s own budget gap.
Cuomo’s budget would increase spending on education by $807
million, but advocates and the Board of Regents have called for
a $1.3 billion boost.  3 25 14 Letter to Governor and Leg
Leaders on Upstate Schools by tulocalpolitics    1. Sherman K.
Wisely says:      I understand NY schools are in dire straits.
But what is the point of cutting educational spending in 2011 to
the tune of $1.3 billion, if you are going to spend the next
three budgets cycles raising funding, and then taking it to new
heights (should this $1.3 billions of additional funding be
appropriated in the current budget)? Didn’t we all agree that we
fund education at hire rate