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School Budget
Vote Tuesday, May
17th
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 LI School Budget Vote 2016-17 and Trustee Elections Long Island School budget 2016-17 totals… $12,176,299,433
Nassau 2016-17 School budget
totals… $5,647,371,304
Suffolk 2016-17 School budget
totals…$6,434,841,367
Long Island 2016-17 tax levy ... $8,402,538,076
Nassau 2016-17 tax levy…$4,421,9153,014
Suffolk 2016-17 1ax levy…$4,117,493,167
Projected Long
Island 2016-17 enrollment…442,786
Projected Nassau
2016-17 enrollment … 198,225
Projected
Suffolk 2016-17 enrollments …241,380 For
detailed Excel list of all LI School District 2016-17 Budgets
For
the last 10 years of NYS school budgets
For
the last 10 years of NYS School Aid
or all LI
School websites
LI School Budget Vote 2015-16 and Trustee Elections
LI School Budget Vote 2014-5 and Trustee Elections |
| Support Taxpayer and Mandate Relief Bill A4856 |
Taxpayers
should not pay more or children get less because of law that hinder negotiationMore than 1.6
million people have left New York State between 2000 and 2010, taking with them $97
billion in adjusted gross income. They
left because we are the highest taxed State in the union. The three drivers of perpetual tax increases are Mandatory
Arbitration, Triborough Amendment, and Pensions. Michael Fitzpatrick’s Bill A8602 is
the solution. A
panel of leaders comprised from the Empire Center, NYS School Boards
Association, Center for Cost Effective Government, Local Government leaders, Taxpayer
advocates and Business Groups will express their views, listen to yours and ask
for your support this legislation.
for bill .
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| PASS THE EDUCATIONAL INVESTMENT TAX CREDIT BILL |
Tell the Governor, Speaker & Majority leader to Pass the Bill It has the potential to generate $300
million in voluntary contributions to support K-12 education and lower school
taxes
You can call the Governor
at 518-474-8390 or email him at Governorcontactform.php
You can contact
Senator Skelos at 516-766-8383 or email him at skelos@nysenate.gov
You can contact
Speaker Heasiter at 212-312-1420 or email him at speaker@assembly.state.ny.us
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STOP Common Core
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The State and Federal Constitutions both prohibit Federal
involvement in education. The Framers considered federal involvement tantamount
to giving the government the hearts and minds of our children.
Changing curriculum or standardizing tests do not address the
reasons our students do not test as well as students from other countries. Our
Policy of Inclusion cannot be measured against countries that don't offer it.
Problems associated with U.S. student development include: children have been
given Rights they are not mature enough to understand; social and economic
imbalances which create vastly different learning environments; the
teacher-parent relationship is not as good as it once was and differs from classroom
to classroom; and each student is unique and will reach his/her greatest
potential uniquely.
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| TRIBOROUGH MUST GO |
New York’s Triborough
Amendment, mandates that public employees are entitled
to automatic salary increases and fringe benefits,
regardless of changing fiscal conditions or changing local priorities and
regardless of an expired contract. Triborough creates a disincentive for teachers to accept terms and conditions less costly than
those allowed in their previous contract and that drastically limits the
employer (ttaxpayers), ability to negotiate changes in a depressed economy. Recently, the impact
of the Triborough Amendment was felt when Governor Cuomo attempted to
negotiate a less costly contract with a union. He
failed. In union,Answer was We have the Triborough Amendment- why do this to ourselves? |
| WE NEED PENSION REFORM NOW |
Best Practices
For Public Pension Transparency
Governor lays down
the law with pension padders
The Utah Pension Model
Public pensions will clobber LI
Wage freeze for public sector
Jumbo
pensions' spark state funding debate
Annual LI
retired Teacher & Administrator TRS pensions
Annual LI
Retired NYS employee pensions |
| UNDERSTANDING THE TAC CAP |
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a school district submits a budget that is within the cap, a simple
majority vote can pass it. If it fails, the school district may have a
second vote, but if the second vote fails, or the district chooses not
to resubmit the budget, the tax levy will be frozen at the previous year’s level. Likewise,
if a school district submits a budget that exceeds the cap, a super
majority vote of 60% is needed for passage. If it fails, the district
may have a second vote. If the budget fails twice, or the district
chooses not to resubmit, the tax levy will be frozen at the previous year’s level. |
| Municipal spending,
member Items, Salaries |
Benjamin
Franklin The new republic could
survive only if the people were virtuous in the sense of attention to
civic duty and rejected corruption.
NY
Public Payroll Clips (state-local
union contracts -salaries + much more)
Cuomo’s Project
Sunlight (state-local member
items + much more)
NYS
Open Book (county,
school, town and special
district actual spending)
NYS
Public Pension Calculator) |
| Kerby's
Korner (research,
news clips & wow ) |
Kerby’s korner NYS Education Statistics simplified
Tax
Savvy’s truth about US educational
results
The clock is running out for Long Island
Ten
Legislative Ideas To Reduce School Taxes |
| Salaries - Report Cards |
For
NYS Administration Salaries
For
your District's
Teacher-Administrator Gross
Salaries For your Superendent
& Teachers Contracts & Salaries The union is the students and taxpayers biggest problem The union is about power and teachers not students
For Per Pupil Spending
For School Status 1999-2010
For Tax Report Cards
For
NYSED Management Services (Great
serch site)
For School Report Cards
For all LI
School budgets-
taxes-salaries
For Long Island’s Educational
structure |
| Curriculum |
2010 State Needs Improvement List 2011 National HS Rankings 'Hard Truth' on Education (WSJ) Newsday on Education Test Scores Regents Eyes New Diploma
LIFER on Curriculum
Long Island Index Report...
Failure in Education
Report Sees a Failure in
Educating All Students The problem with teacher unions |
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