Distilling Rhetoric & Research on NY State Education Spending
This is another one of those mundane school finance formula posts. This one is focused on media and political spin in New York State around the recently adopted state budget and proposed school aid cuts.
Yesterday, I had the displeasure of reading a New York Post piece in which New York Governor Cuomo and the Post were validating how and why the proposed budget cuts would not and should not compromise the quality of New York State public schools. But this article – both the Post explanations and especially the Governor’s spokespersons explanations present a massive distortion of how the proposed cuts actually affect different types of districts across New York State.
Let’s break it down:
Political Spin
Here’s the public appeal, political spin on why cutting state aid to schools in New York really causes no harm:
The state’s student population dropped to 2.7 million from 2.8 million — or 4.6 percent — during that period.
