Dramatic Move in School Financing

New York state will soon see a new system of school finance, one that will surely be noticed across the country. The system's regents have decided to work from a zero-based budget analysis, meaning that the next budget will have no basis on old budgets. They have been conducting an in-depth analysis of that a "good education" should cost based on well performing districts, and the new budgets will be based upon those figures.

For those of you who may not know, Texas will be instituting a new system of school finance this spring during a legislative special session (the previous Robin Hood plan is to be scrapped by 2005).

New York Regents to Propose Overhaul in School Financing
- posted by JW Walthall at 11:14 PM | Permanent Link | 1 comments