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New National Report Offers Sobering Look at Trends in New York’s Early Childhood Education Workforce

September 15, 2005. This issue of Fiscal Policy Note$ takes a look at a comprehensive new report, Losing Ground in Early Childhood Education, from the Economic Policy Institute, the Keystone Research Center, and the Foundation for Child Development. Among the findings: qualifications decline among early childhood education workers with less one fourth now having college degrees. Since the early 1980s, there has been a large and unsettling dip in the qualifications of the early childhood education workers in New York. The share of New York [...]

Fiscal Policy Institute2025-04-04T14:27:53-04:00September 15th, 2005|Economic Trends & Policy, Education, Labor Market & Workforce, Reports, Briefs and Presentations, Social Policy|

Funding a Sound Basic Education for All New York’s Children

June 2005. This issue brief is an updated and condensed version of FPI's original January 1999 report on this subject. The update is based on: the Campaign for Fiscal Equity's Schools for New York's Future Act, FPI's analysis of the fiscal implications of that proposal, and the Institute for Taxation and Economic Policy's April 2005 report, Achieving Adequacy: Tax Options for New York in the Wake of the CFE Case. Read the brief >>

Fiscal Policy Institute2024-12-18T12:30:24-05:00June 10th, 2005|Education, Reports, Briefs and Presentations, Social Policy|

Simulations of the fiscal impact of the Schools for New York’s Future Act

March 25, 2005. District by district impact of the Schools for New York's Future Act, prepared by FPI for the Campaign for Fiscal Equity.

Fiscal Policy Institute2024-12-18T12:30:25-05:00March 25th, 2005|Education, Reports, Briefs and Presentations, Social Policy|

Balancing New York State’s 2005-2006 Budget in an Economically Sensible Manner

January 25, 2005. The Fiscal Policy Institute's briefing on Governor George E. Pataki's Executive Budget and alternative approaches to balancing New York State's 2005-2006 budget. See pages 16 through 24 for FPI's analysis of the economic impact of the Legislature's 2003 decisions to add two temporary top rates to the state income tax and avoid deep cuts in aid to public schools. See pages 33 through 37 for FPI's analysis of the Governor's school aid proposals for 2005-2006. Briefing book on the 2005-2006 executive budget [...]

Fiscal Policy Institute2025-04-04T14:27:55-04:00January 25th, 2005|Education, Reports, Briefs and Presentations, Social Policy, State Budget, Tax & Budget, Tax Policy|

Calculating the Cost of a Sound Basic Education

November 17, 2004. A supplemental affidavit submitted by FPI to the three court-appointed referees in the landmark school funding adequacy case (Campaign for Fiscal Equity vs. New York State). This supplemental affidavit and an earlier October 26, 2004 affidavit were prepared in response to questions from the referees regarding regional cost indices, the state government's "cost effectiveness" filter and weightings for poverty and other special needs. In these affidavits, Mauro responds to questions from the referees regarding regional cost indices, the "cost effectiveness" filter and [...]

Fiscal Policy Institute2024-12-18T12:30:26-05:00November 17th, 2004|Education, Reports, Briefs and Presentations, Social Policy|

Early Investment in Kids = Huge Payoff to Taxpayers

October 19, 2004. New York press release: A new study being released today by the Economic Policy Institute finds that increased federal and state investments in comprehensive high quality early childhood development programs would more than pay for themselves – generating more than $2 in returns to taxpayers for every $1 invested. The overall economic benefits would be even greater – more than $8 in benefits to society for each $1 invested. The report, Exceptional Returns: Economic, Fiscal, and Social Benefits of Investment in Early [...]

Fiscal Policy Institute2025-04-04T14:27:55-04:00October 19th, 2004|Education, Press Releases, Social Policy|

No Funding, No Fairness: The State of Our Schools in 2004

October 4, 2004. This new report by the Public Policy and Education Fund (PPEF) shows that little if any progress was made in 2004 and 2005 with respect toward one of the most critical issues facing New York's educational system: the failure to adequately tie state school aid funding levels to student needs and district funding capacity. The report debunks several of the myths surrounding the educational funding reform movement. In contrast to what some may say - that only a small number of districts [...]

Fiscal Policy Institute2024-12-18T12:30:27-05:00October 4th, 2004|Education, Reports, Briefs and Presentations, Social Policy|

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 [...]

Fiscal Policy Institute2025-04-04T14:27:56-04:00May 1st, 2004|Education, Reports, Briefs and Presentations, Social Policy|

The Southern Tier and School Finance Reform

April 1, 2004. The 68 school districts in the 9-county Binghamton-Ithaca-Elmira-Corning area are among the state's neediest. The overwhelming majority of would benefit from reforming New York state''s school funding system. Brief >>

Fiscal Policy Institute2024-12-18T12:30:28-05:00April 1st, 2004|Education, Reports, Briefs and Presentations, Social Policy|

Schools, Taxes and the New York Economy

April 24, 2003. A balanced budget alternative to the Governor’s school aid cuts. Based on an economic impact analysis prepared for FPI by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, this report, released jointly by FPI and the Alliance for Quality Education, shows that the Governor's school aid cuts are "job killers" in the short run and even worse for the state's economy over time. The economic benefits of restoring the Governor's school aid cuts far outweigh the effects of an income tax increase to [...]

Fiscal Policy Institute2024-12-18T12:30:30-05:00April 24th, 2003|Education, Social Policy, State Budget, Tax & Budget, Tax Policy|

The State of Our Schools Part 2: The Combined Effect of the “Bare Bones” Budget and the Governor’s Proposed State Aid Freeze

April 17, 2002. FPI's analysis of the combined effect of the 2001-2002 "Bare Bones" Budget and the Governor's proposed 2002-2003 state aid freeze on New York State school districts and students was presented in a new report from the Alliance for Quality Education and the Public Policy and Education Fund. This analysis shows that under the Governor's proposed budget, 6 out of 7 school children in the state are in school districts that will receive less aid in 2002-2003 under the Governor's proposed budget than [...]

Fiscal Policy Institute2024-12-18T12:30:51-05:00April 17th, 2002|Education, Reports, Briefs and Presentations, Social Policy, State Budget, Tax & Budget|

The State of Our Schools: The Effect of the “Bare-Bones” Budget on New York School Districts

January 8, 2002. The Fiscal Policy Institute did the data analysis for this new report from the Alliance for Quality Education and the Public Policy and Education Fund. It shows that 81% of New York State's school children are in school districts that are getting less state aid per pupil this year than last year, when adjusted for inflation. Also see: Impact of the 2001-2002 Bare Bones Budget County by County. Update: April 17, 2002.

Fiscal Policy Institute2024-12-18T12:30:52-05:00January 8th, 2002|Blog, Education, Social Policy, State Budget, Tax & Budget|

Impact of the 2001-2002 Bare Bones Budget on School Districts, County by County

August 2001. Click on the county you are interested in to download a PDF file summarizing the impact of the Bare Bones Budget on the school districts in that county. Counties Albany Allegany Broome Cattaraugus Cayuga Chautauqua Chemung Chenango Clinton Columbia Cortland Delaware Dutchess Erie Essex Franklin Fulton Genesee Greene Hamilton Herkimer Jefferson Lewis Livingston Madison Monroe Montgomery Nassau Niagara Oneida Onondaga Ontario Orange Orleans Oswego Otsego Putnam Rensselaer Rockland St. Lawrence Saratoga Schenectady Schoharie Schuyler Seneca Steuben Suffolk Sullivan Tioga Tompkins Ulster Warren Washington [...]

Fiscal Policy Institute2025-04-04T14:27:59-04:00August 29th, 2001|Education, Reports, Briefs and Presentations, Social Policy, State Budget, Tax & Budget|

School Finance Reform Victory

January 10, 2001. Today, the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, a coalition of parent organizations, community school boards, concerned citizens and advocacy groups won a major victory at the State Supreme Court in their challenge to the way in which New York State funds elementary and secondary education. In his 180-page decision, Justice Leland DeGrasse gave the New York State legislature until September 15, 2001, to draw up a new funding system that meets the following five requirements: Ensuring that every school district has the resources [...]

Fiscal Policy Institute2024-12-18T12:30:55-05:00January 10th, 2001|Blog, Education, Social Policy|