Is Governor Pataki really using the Standard & Poor’s study as the basis for his proposed Sound Basic Education Plan?
May 2004. In presenting his "5-Year Sound Basic Education Financing Plan," Governor Pataki claimed that it was based on the Standard and Poor's estimate of the Resource Gap between current school district education spending and the projected amount needed to attain the Regents' Education Standards. This is one of the four educational standards for which Standard and Poor's attempted to estimate the resource gap for the state as a whole and for selected districts. The Governor claimed that the Resource Gap under this scenario was [...]