Thursday, April 25, 2024 | St. Lawrence County, NY
By ANDY GARDNER MASSENA -- The Board of Education Finance Committee chairman says the new budget will include cuts if the governor’s office doesn’t release state aid runs by the end of the …
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By ANDY GARDNER
MASSENA -- The Board of Education Finance Committee chairman says the new budget will include cuts if the governor’s office doesn’t release state aid runs by the end of the month.
Cuomo has threatened to not give a state aid increase this year if his education reform package doesn’t pass. It includes a new, tougher teacher evaluation system based more heavily on students’ standardized test scores. His office is withholding 2015-2016 state aid estimates.
“We have to plan for a zero-percent increase in state aid. This is going to mean some cuts,” Finance Committee Chairman Loren Fountaine said. “We’re not going to put those cuts out right now.”
He said the committee next meets at the end of the month and if they have the estimates, they can work around slashing anything.
“Hopefully something will be done by then,” Fountaine said. “Until something shakes loose in Albany, we’re looking at zero (percent aid increase).”
