Per my post below regarding money that Cuomo and NYS owes our schools, Spackenkill UFSD is owed $3,417,709. Pojo reports that the State owes Dutchess Co schools millions (breakdown listed below): ALBANY – New York has skipped out on $5.9 billion in school funding in recent years, leading to inequities in aid between rich and poor districts and causing cuts in programs, education groups contended in a report Thursday. New York spends the most per capita in the nation on its schools, $19,076 per student, and pumps more than $22 billion a year into education, including a 5 percent increase in the current fiscal year. But the labor-backed Alliance for Quality Education and other advocates said the state is still falling short. The groups charged that New York hasnt upheld a 2006 court order to increase aid to schools by $5.5 billion by 2011 and has also not repaid schools for cuts made during the recession. For public schools in Dutchess County, $84.3 million is owed, according to the report. The amounts range from $481,109 for Webutuck Central School District to $26,296,067 for Wappingers Central School District. Systemic underfunding is leaving a generation of students in high-need schools without access to the sound basic education which is their constitutional right, the report said. The report said the funding disparities are pronounced in lower wealth districts compared to richer ones. For small cities and suburbs deemed by the state as having high need, the amount owed to them is 3.3 times greater than of wealthy districts. For the Big Four school districts of Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and Yonkers, the amount is 2.8 times larger than wealthy districts. New York froze state aid to schools in the 2009-10 fiscal year then cut it by nearly $3 billion in the following two years, mainly to districts base aid. The report said that about $1 billion has yet to be recouped, and 69 percent of schools have less classroom operating aid than they did in 2008. About 43 percent of the aid the groups said is due to the schools would go to New York City. The majority of aid the groups said is owed to districts comes from the 2006 settlement, so-called foundation aid, saying about $4.8 billion has yet to be realized. Groups are suing to get the state to pay up. The report said that Binghamton city schools are short $21 million, while its about $13 million in Elmira schools and $4.7 million in Ithaca. The most due in Westchester County is $47 million in Yonkers, the report contended. Rochester city schools are short $134 million. Cuomo has said that school aid continues to grow, up nearly $3 billion over the past three years. But he has argued that the spending hasnt led to better results because New York is in the middle of the nation in performance. In November, voters will decide on a $2 billion bond initiative to improve school technology. Its not about more money gets us more results, Cuomo said in a radio interview in January. Because if that was the case, our students would be doing better than any students in the country; because we are spending more than anyone else. poughkeepsiejournal/story/news/local/new-york/2014/08/07/new-york-education-money/13750545/ MONEY OWED Below is a breakdown of the amount owed to local school districts from the state, according to the Alliance for Quality Education. DUTCHESS COUNTY Arlington $19,421,152 Beacon $6,465,583 Dover $3,529,083 Hyde Park $7,426,930 Millbrook $1,522,030 Pawling $1,346,339 Pine Plains $1,067,001 Poughkeepsie $11,389,904 Red Hook $989,679 Rhinebeck $967,472 Spackenkill $3,417,709 Wappingers $26,296,067 Webutuck $481,109 Ulster County Highland $4,118,450 Kingston $12,003,047 Marlboro $3,815,938 New Paltz $2,725,243 Report: NYS is BILLION$ behind in adequately funding schools so that schools can meet Constitutional obligation to provide a sound basic education to our students manifesting in cut art, music and sports programs, firing of teachers and large class sizes among other things. aqeny.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/REPORT-NY-Billions-Behind.pdf
Posted on: Fri, 08 Aug 2014 06:19:37 +0000
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