Kenneth Lovett in The New York Daily News reports that though voters approved a $2 billion bond act in 2014 for schools to buy new technology, "not a dime has been spent on the effort." And only about 50 of the state's 700 school districts have submitted applications for the money. "It was clear from the beginning there was no clamor for the money," said E.J. McMahon, of the Empire Center for New York State Policy says in the Daily News story. "It was contrived (in 2014) out of the blue by the governor to serve an election-year purpose. It was basically there to create a pretense for a paragraph in the governor's campaign literature." Cuomo spokesman Richard Azzopardi said a panel will meet soon to approve the first round of funding. The story says school districts would have to spend their own money under the plan, before being paid back by the state. Read the full story in The Daily News.