Extend programs for disability and need for summer. Increase aid for ERSP interventions before a child is classified. Expand Academic Intervention Services. Increase School Library Support Aid for services, staff aid, and computer hookups. Although 680 school districts receive state aid, only 38 use formulas.
Many districts are capped.
The proposal would increase the caps over a 5-year transition period. Due to the increased number of charter applications, SED is seeing larger impacts on funding issues. Many complaints are from the Republican Senators. New York State Teacher's Workforce Hamp Lankford and Jim Wyckoff of the Education Finance Research Consortium, University at Albany, SUNY, presented a workshop on New York State's Teacher Workforce. They probably will not suffer from a teacher shortage.