Comments on: The Changing World http://heop.org/blog/featured-articles/the-changing-world/ A Better Future Through a Better Education Sat, 29 May 2010 00:41:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Sazzad Hossain http://heop.org/blog/featured-articles/the-changing-world/comment-page-1/#comment-10 Sazzad Hossain Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:49:01 +0000 http://heop.org/?p=86#comment-10 Charter school funding will be “frozen” for next year to this year’s funding levels, which is a substantial cut of $40 million from the preliminary 2009-10 figures issued last month, according to the state budget agreement among20the Assembly, Senate and Governor Paterson. We urge charter school parents, trustees and supporters to call the offices of Gov. Paterson and Senate Majority Leader Malcolm Smith and urge them to stop this funding cut! Gov. Paterson and Sen. Smith have been charter school supporters – yet the same Gov. Paterson and Sen. Smith agreed to cut charter funding by more than $40 million even as they increased state aid to school districts by $1.2 billion! The state teachers union (NYSUT) urged the legislature to freeze charter funding, and the Governor and legislature complied. They need to be contacted in the next 24 hours to live up to their commitment to charter schools and restore the funding charter schools were promised! Gov. Paterson’s phone number is (518) 474-8390 [fax: (518)-474-1513]; Sen. Malcolm Smith’s Albany office phone is (518) 455-2701 [fax: (518) 455-2816]. A freeze means that the preliminary calculation for 2009-10 charter payments by school districts would not take effect and result in a funding cut. As an example, a single charter school with 300 students next year, scheduled to receive $990 per student increase, would lose $297,000! Issue Background As you know, charter tuition payments from the students’ district of residence are the primary source of funding. By contrast, school districts can levy taxes to make up a state funding shortfall. Additionally, federal funding is an increasing revenue source for school districts, which will receive millions extra from the federal economic stimulus bill approved last month. Charter school funding will be “frozen” for next year to this year’s funding levels, which is a substantial cut of $40 million from the preliminary 2009-10 figures issued last month, according to the state budget agreement among20the Assembly, Senate and Governor Paterson.

We urge charter school parents, trustees and supporters to call the offices of Gov. Paterson and Senate Majority Leader Malcolm Smith and urge them to stop this funding cut!

Gov. Paterson and Sen. Smith have been charter school supporters – yet the same Gov. Paterson and Sen. Smith agreed to cut charter funding by more than $40 million even as they increased state aid to school districts by $1.2 billion! The state teachers union (NYSUT) urged the legislature to freeze charter funding, and the Governor and legislature complied.
They need to be contacted in the next 24 hours to live up to their commitment to charter schools and restore the funding charter schools were promised!

Gov. Paterson’s phone number is (518) 474-8390 [fax: (518)-474-1513]; Sen. Malcolm Smith’s Albany office phone is (518) 455-2701 [fax: (518) 455-2816].
A freeze means that the preliminary calculation for 2009-10 charter payments by school districts would not take effect and result in a funding cut. As an example, a single charter school with 300 students next year, scheduled to receive $990 per student increase, would lose $297,000!

Issue Background

As you know, charter tuition payments from the students’ district of residence are the primary source of funding. By contrast, school districts can levy taxes to make up a state funding shortfall. Additionally, federal funding is an increasing revenue source for school districts, which will receive millions extra from the federal economic stimulus bill approved last month.

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