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 funding in 2004-05 from two broad perspectives: the increases in state aid provided to school districts throughout the state, and the critical issue of adequate funding underlying CFE: the need to base state aid on the relative needs of children in school districts around the state, and on the relative ability of districts to raise revenue.

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