The governor has rejected that would undermine the intent of New York's newly enacted property tax cap by allowing school districts to issue 15-year bonds to cover a portion of their rising teacher pension costs. The Executive Chamber's news rele Read More
A property tax cap hasn't even passed both houses yet (as of late Thursday), and already the state Senate has slipped through a bill that would allow school districts to circumvent it. The measure immediately was referred to the Assembly Ways & Read More
This quotes Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver as saying the agreed-upon property tax cap will expire in five years. If that's true, the cap is not worth the paper it's written on--since, as explained and , one house of the Legislature will be able Read More
The Beekmantown Central School District made when preparing its voting machines prior to their school budget vote back in May. At least one of the three machines understated -- by $2 million -- the cost of the proposed budget (and a second proposi Read More
Proposed school tax levies in New York for 2011-12 would rise by an average of 2.9 percent**, well above Gov. Cuomo's proposed 2 percent tax levy cap, according to the Property Tax Report Card released this morning by the state Education Department. Read More
A Wisconsin school official who backed Gov. Scott Walker's collective bargaining reforms in that state has been named superintendent of schools in Westchester County's Katonah Lewisboro School District, despite mass protests organized by local teachers' unions. Read More
We’ve been calling on the state Legislature to implement a policy of “proactive disclosure” of public information – and the Niskayuna Central School District has just helped bolster our case. Recently, a local taxpayer questioned the size of increases in administrative salaries. She based her analysis on... Read More
School districts outside New York City could issue bonds to finance up more than $1 billion in teacher pension contributions over the next two years under a bill promoted by the statewide teachers' union, the Wall Street Journal reports today. Read More