No Funding, No Fairness: The State of Our Schools in 2004

(Released October 4, 2004) This report is the third in a series of reports that analyze the impact of state policy decisions on school districts and school children across the State of New York. This report was written by Bob Cohen of the Public Policy and Education Fund, Inc. (PPEF) based on data, tables, and charts provided by Frank Mauro, the Executive Director of the Fiscal Policy Institute (FPI). PPEF supports community organizing, research, and public education on issues of concern to low...

No Funding, No Fairness: The State of Our Schools in 2004

(Released October 4, 2004) Executive Summary: This report is the third in a series of reports that analyze the impact of state policy decisions on school districts and school children across the State of New York. This October 4, 2004 report, written by the Public Policy and Education Fund, examines what really happened to state school aid in 2004-05, the school year that followed the state Court of Appeals’ landmark June 2003 Campaign for Fiscal Equity (CFE) decision. We looked at the...