A large majority of New York City residents think the non-Indian gambling casinos authorized by Proposal One on next week’s statewide ballot will bring in “significant new revenue for New York state and local governments,” according to a New York Times-Siena poll released Tuesday. Read More
Earnings for the 384,186 school employees has been updated at SeeThroughNY. Read More
The Bedford school district’s new three-year teachers contract, which the Board of Education is expected to approve Wednesday, does not do away with automatic salary increases after all, The Journal News has learned... Read More
One of teaching’s most hallowed traditions may be on the way out under a new contract that is on the table in a northern Westchester County district. Read More
The only school district in Western New York to be operating on a contingency budget for the upcoming school year granted its superintendent a pay raise and new benefits... Read More
Per-pupil funding and expenditures in New York schools grew steadily during the 2000s, with local revenues accounting for the largest proportion of most districts’ aid, according to a report this week from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The report shows that certain areas of the state have consistently higher per-pupil funding and spending. But western New York districts typically received and spent less than districts in other parts of the state, according to the report. Victor schools in Ontario County fell into the lowest categories, receiving and spending less than $15,000 per student. Read More
The New York State Board of Regents this month celebrated the season of giving by calling on Gov. Pataki and the Legislature to giftwrap another $1.45 billion in state aid to public schools next year -- an 11 percent hike on top of this year's record $1.16 billion increase, which brought total school aid to $13.6 billion. Read More
There are a whole lot of ways to close a $4.9 billion gap in a $40 billion budget, as Mayor Bloomberg demonstrated once again this week. He wants to balance the budget without imposing economically devastating tax hikes. Read More