Improving New York: Funding Public Higher Education
January 25, 2009. Peter Pollak of empirepage.com interviews David Dyssegaard Kallick.
New York’s Underinvestment in Public Higher Education
January 15, 2009. After more than a decade of financial support falling short of growing enrollment, the executive budget calls for cuts to SUNY and CUNY - at the same time that more students seek post-secondary opportunities during the economic downturn. Governor Paterson's proposed 2009-2010 budget features reductions in state aid to CUNY and SUNY, despite a projected increase in enrollment for 2009-2010. This report details the context for the cuts - a decade of underinvestment - and makes the economic case for supporting public [...]
Will Education Funding Promises be Broken?
February 14, 2008. FPI prepared the data for this report this report from the Alliance for Quality Education - showing that the proposed cuts in foundation aid in the executive budget disproportionately hurt students from poor households. The districts outside of New York City with the highest proportion of poverty (districts in which, on average, 60 percent of students live in poverty) face 20 percent of the proposed cuts despite having only 15 percent of all students in the state. New York City students (of [...]
The advantages of a career pathways job training program
January 24, 2008. Statement of Trudi Renwick, Senior Economist Before the Assembly Standing Committee on Higher Education. Such a program would contribute to a comprehensive strengthening of New York's postsecondary education system.
Property Taxes on Long Island: Zeroing in on the Problems and Solutions
October 15, 2007. This report takes a fresh look at the property tax "crisis" and finds that: flawed evaluations have resulted in flawed solutions, taxpayers in poorer districts struggle the most, and voters in wealthy districts choose to pay for high quality schools while voters in poorer districts have a much higher rate of rejecting school budgets. Two oft-touted reforms have a negative impact on local control and school equity; circuit breaker reform in contrast can be well targeted to those who need relief most. [...]
Pre-K Investment Yields Bonuses for Children, Families, Communities and State and Federal Government
May 3, 2007. A new study from the Economic Policy Institute, Enriching Children, Enriching the Nation, was co-released in New York by FPI and Winning Beginning New York. The question asked is whether pre-K pays for itself - and the answer is remarkable. Pre-K pays for itself not once, not twice, but 12 times over! New York press release >>
How to Reduce the Pressure on the Property Tax and Ease the Fiscal Burden on Struggling Local Governments
January 10, 2007. The four-part plan supported by FPI: implement a statewide solution to CFE; increase state's share of Medicaid and base counties' shares on ability to pay; restore commitment to revenue sharing; and eliminate the significant disparities in the STAR program. Prepared for the Center on Governmental Research conference on reforming property taxes in New York.
New York State’s Dual Crises: Low Graduation Rates and Rising School Taxes
May 18, 2006. A new report issued by the Public Policy and Education Fund of New York with the assistance of the Fiscal Policy Institute.
Balancing New York State’s 2006-2007 Budget in an Economically Sensible Manner
January 31, 2006. The Fiscal Policy Institute's analysis of Governor George E. Pataki's Executive Budget and alternative approaches to balancing New York State's 2006-2007 budget. (See pages 28, 29 and 42 through 57 for analysis of school funding issues.) Briefing book on the 2006-2007 executive budget >>
Fair Taxes: The Key to Better Schools
Fall 2005. A training curriculum prepared by the Public Policy and Education Fund of New York and the Fiscal Policy Institute.
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 [...]
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 >>
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]