Governor Paterson has proposed mid-year cuts in school aid. Among his proposals:
Reduce Formula-Based Aid. Reductions of state aid to school districts, ranging between 3 percent and 10 percent for individual districts. Consistent with the principles underlying School Aid, the level of reductions would be based on each individual school district's educational needs and their fiscal capacity to meet those needs. Measures used to allocate the percentage reduction include school district wealth, concentration of at-risk students, and residential property tax burden. (2008-09 School Year Savings: $800 million, 2009-10 School Year Savings: $800 million).
How much aid does the Newburgh School District get? Here are some excerpts from
http://www.nysed.gov/stateaid/dist/exec08/441600.html:
DISTRICT CODE: 441600
DISTRICT NAME: NEWBURGH2008-09 ESTIMATED AIDS:
FOUNDATION AID 93,734,763Total including Universal Pre-K, Transportation, BOCES, Building Reorg Incentive, etc:
TOTAL W/ BLDG, REORG, EX 132,558,846
The mid-year cuts are unlikely to be passsed by the New York State Legislature.