What's happening
This bill adjusts New York City's school district funding requirement by tying it to inflation and increasing it by $2.2 billion above the 2006-07 level.
Why it matters
Links school funding for NYC to inflation using the local Consumer Price Index. , ensuring that the minimum required city contribution will automatically increase with the cost of living—potentially stabilizing purchasing power for schools over time.
Mandates an increase of $2.2 billion above 2006-07 funding levels. , addressing concerns that baseline funding has not kept pace with needs or prior commitments from the state’s 2007 education finance reforms.
Excludes debt service and pension costs from the mandated funding calculation. , focusing the required spending increase directly on educational services and not on broader municipal financial obligations.
Sets a precedent for more formula-driven, transparent school funding policies. , which could reduce political wrangling over annual education budgets and provide more predictability for long-term planning in the nation’s largest school district.
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Increase NYC School Funding
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6 Co-sponsors
2 Multi-sponsors
History
- Referred to education
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STATE OF NEW YORK
947
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 14, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. L. ROSENTHAL, BENEDETTO, DINOWITZ, LENTOL, CRES- PO, GOTTFRIED, COLTON -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. GLICK, PERRY -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to adjusting the maintenance amount for the city school district of the city of New York
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Paragraph b of subdivision 5-a of section 2576 of the education law, as added by chapter 91 of the laws of 2002, is amended to read as follows:
b. The city amount shall not be less than the city amount appropriated in the base year as determined at the time of adoption of the budget for the ensuing fiscal year[. Provided, however, in] adjusted to reflect the five year average percentage change in the consumer price index for all urban consumers in the New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island portion of the New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, New York-New Jersey- Pennsylvania metropolitan statistical area, (CPI-U) as such is defined by the United States department of labor and to include an additional two billion two hundred million dollars in excess of the total amount of expenditures for the two thousand six--two thousand seven base year pursuant to section thirteen-a of part B of chapter fifty-seven of the laws of two thousand seven, subject to the provisions of this section. In accordance with subparagraph (ii) of paragraph a of this subdivision, the city of New York's contribution of two billion two hundred million dollars, pursuant to section thirteen-a of part B of chapter fifty-seven of the laws of two thousand seven shall not include city payments to bond or note holders for debt service or payments for employee pension benefits. In the event the total amount of city funds relied upon to balance such budget is lower than the total amount of city funds appropriated in the base year, determined at the time of adoption of such budget, the city amount may be reduced by up to the same percentage as
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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the overall percentage decrease in city funds between the base year and the ensuing fiscal year.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided however, that the amendments to paragraph b of subdivision 5-a of section 2576 of the education law as made by section one of this act shall not affect the repeal of such subdivision and shall be deemed repealed therewith.
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