Brewster Board of Education Addresses Cuomo's Budget

Katherine Pacchiana:

The board also expressed concern about the $1.3 billion earmarked for education in the federal stimulus package that was supposed to be distributed in addition to the state education budget. Instead, that money was used to substitute for state education allocations.

"This is an alarming trend," said Board President Stephen Jambor. "While it makes great headlines to blame the schools, it is underhanded to underfund us in the first place. Your state taxes keep going up the hill to Albany. We have to get busy in fighting back because push has come to shove."

These issues have been detailed in a letter to the governor which was personally delivered by Sandbank. A copy of the letter will be posted on the district's website.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at February 7, 2011 1:53 AM
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