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State school aid cuts: the real numbers revealed

Feb 05, 2011 3:13 pm
Under Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposed budget, New York's school districts would be hit with a $1.5 billion cut in state aid for the 2011-12 school year. However, those cuts won't take effect unless approved by the state Legislature. LoHud.com has put up a database that shows how much each school district in the state could lose in funding under the proposed cuts. In Columbia County, the amount of aid coming from the state to Ichabod Crane School District in Kinderhook would drop from $13,067,676 to $11,327,337, a loss of $1,740,339, or 13.32% of their current aid package; in Hudson, aid would go from $20,993,870 to $19,292,336, a loss of $1,701,534 or 8.10% of what the district gets now; in Chatham, this year's $6,581,604 in aid would be $5,877,148 for the coming year, a cut of $704,456 or 10.70%; in Germantown, the current figure of $4,854,985 would become $4,378,482, a drop of $476,503, or 9.81% in aid; in Taconic Hills, a current aid figure of $10,067,763 would become $9,637,360, a loss of $430,403 or 4.28%, while in New Lebanon, the cut would be from $3,508,895 to $3,282,705, a loss of $226,190 or 6.45%. In Greene County, the Cairo-Durham School District will see its aid drop from $14,240,653 to $12,217,446, a cut of $2,023,207, or 14.21%; Catskill will see its aid go from $16,143,409 to $14,703,411, a cut of $1,439,998 or 8.92%; in Coxsackie-Athens, aid will go from $8,448,344 to $7,261,513, a loss of $1,186,831 or 14.05% in school aid; in Greenville, the amounts go from $10,654,474 to $9,619,096, a drop of $1,035,378 or 9.72%; Hunter-Tannersville will see aid go from $2,510,875 to $1,934,974, a cut of $575,901 or 22.94%; while at Windham-Ashland-Jewett, the aid goes from $1,450,874 to $1,187,609, a cut of $263,265 or 18.15%. Other involved districts in our coverage area include Ravena-Coeymans-Selkirk, where state aid goes from $16,907,275 to $14,503,308, a cut of $2,403,967 or 14.22%; and the Dutchess County district of Pine Plains, where aid shifts from $6,265,215 to $5,647,884, a cut of $617,331 or 9.85%.