Add the Bethlehem Central School District to the small, but growing, list of public entities taking action to bring spending in line with economic reality. Officials of the Albany area school district that they had implemented a voluntary sala Read More
Voters in New York's suburban, rural and smaller city school districts approved 92 percent of proposed school budgets yesterday, according to the New York State School Boards Association. This is above the historical average approval rate of 83 percent... Read More
Some thoughts on Governor Paterson's today that he expects his forthcoming 2010-11 Executive Budget to result in a 2011-12 "surplus" of $1 billion that he will propose using for "property tax relief" in the form of a new "circuit-breaker" income tax Read More
Buried in is an incredible set of special concessions to unionized school teachers in New York. None of these changes were contained in Governor Paterson's original "pension reform" proposal, . The worst of the giveaways to teachers in the final Read More
Governor Paterson has now all but formally abandoned . Instead, he has tucked a hopelessly byzantine variation of the cap into that would kick in when (or if) the state ever has some extra money sitting around again. So, in place of Paterson is Read More
By lifting its cap on charter schools and allowing test score gains to be considered in teacher evaluations, New York State could ultimately grab a share of the federal government's $4 billion in "Race to the Top" funding for educational improvement. Read More
New York led the nation in K-12 education spending per pupil in 2006-07, according to . The Empire State's school spending of $15,981 per pupil was 65 percent above the national average of $9,666. New York's total school spending of nearly $51 bi Read More
Detroit's school system may soon follow GM and Chrysler into bankruptcy -- and it may be only the first of many such public-sector insolvencies around the country. Some experts say the Detroit case could be the first in a string of Ch Read More