It's the Speaker, Sen. Majority Leader and the Governor in control. Items are kept in committee until the leader allows them out on the floor for vote. Governor in other states saying how business friendly we are - write letters to other states. Two-thirds of last year's revenue came from property tax not state aid. Why are we funding schools in this manner where it sets-up inequities in basic treatment of kids.
Kids are kids are kids are kids.
Cities where large federal facilities get money from federal government to offset the inequality. Watervliet gets federal moneys for arsenal. The claim is that we get job benefits. Other areas get state offset aid. Beacon almost has same size of state aid and they get the state aid that we don't.