Education Reports
Will Education Funding Promises be Broken?
2008 – February 14 Will Education Funding Promises be Broken? (click to download PDF) For fourteen years the Campaign for Fiscal Equity school-funding lawsuit faced a series of appeals and delays that stymied fair school funding reform. The New York State Court of Appeals ruled in the CFE case that the state was failing to [...]
Are We Investing In Our Children? A State-of-the-State Report on Children in New York
2006 – October 24 Are We Investing In Our Children? A State-of-the-State Report on Children in New York (click to download PDF) The U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services, Education and Labor provide needed resources to ensure that New York’s children and families have the support necessary to allow them to thrive and be [...]
New York State’s Dual Crises: Low Graduation Rates and Rising School Taxes
2006 – May 18 New York State’s Dual Crises: Low Graduation Rates and Rising School Taxes (click to download PDF) New York State’s school funding system faces dual crises. First is the failure to provide children with a “meaningful high school education,” also called a “sound, basic education,” as mandated by the state constitution and [...]
Report Cards On School Funding Plans: 2004
2004 – June 6 Report Cards On School Funding Plans: 2004 (click to download PDF) This is the grading scheme for the report cards developed by the Public Policy and Education Fund (PPEF) and released by the Alliance for Quality Education (AQE) on June 9, 2004 on plans advanced by the Senate, Assembly, and the [...]
Schools, Taxes and the New York Economy: An Economic Analysis of a Balanced Budget Alternative to the Governor’s School Aid Cuts
2003 – April 4 Schools, Taxes and the New York Economy: An Economic Analysis of a Balanced Budget Alternative to the Governor’s School Aid Cuts (click to download PDF) New York State tax revenues have declined precipitously over the last several years. Rather than growing at a rate that approximates the rate of growth in [...]
Separate And Unequal: Pataki’s Budget Cuts Hit Struggling Schools the Hardest
2003 – March 19 Separate And Unequal: Pataki’s Budget Cuts Hit Struggling Schools the Hardest (click to download PDF) On January 8th, in his “State-of-the-State& quot; address, Governor Pataki promised the children of the state that he would provide them with “first-class” schools. Just three weeks later, the Governor broke that promise. The Governor’s Executive [...]
The State of Our Schools: The Effect of the “Bare-Bones” Budget on New York School Districts
2002 – January 7 The State of Our Schools: The Effect of the “Bare-Bones” Budget on New York School Districts (click to download PDF) In two days, the Governor will deliver his “State-of-the-State& quot; address to a joint session of the State Legislature and to the people of the State. The main purpose of the [...]
Upstate, Downstate: How Southern Tier Schools Will Benefit from School Funding Reform
2001 – February 21 Upstate, Downstate: How Southern Tier Schools Will Benefit from School Funding Reform (click to download PDF) The landmark State Supreme Court decision issued on January 10, 2001 could have an enormous positive impact on the quality of education for children across New York State. In his decision in Campaign for Fiscal [...]
