Upstate, Downstate: How Southern Tier Schools Will Benefit from School Funding Reform

(Released February 21, 2001) 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 Equity v. State of New York, Judge Leland DeGrasse affirmed the constitutional right of every child in New York State to receive a sound basic education, and ordered the New York State Legislature to establish a new state education funding formula by...