Kyle Adams reports in The Daily Mail state Senator Cecilia Tkaczyk (KAT-chik) visited the Cairo-Durham Central School Board of Education meeting Thurs., Mar. 28. The first-term lawmaker is beginning a tour of the 24 school districts located within the 46th Senate District. Under the recently adopted state budget, the Cairo-Durham district will see an increase of $400,000 in state aid. It is too early to know how the increase will impact the district's 2013-14 spending plan. Tkaczyk and school board members agreed that while the increase was welcome, it is still not enough. Superintendent Mary Fassett said the additional funds are not enough to curtail some of the cuts the district will need to make. One of Tkaczyk's first acts as a senator was to call for an increase state aid to schools. She is a former member of the Duanesburg school board. Tkaczyk intends to visit every school district in her five-county district as her schedule allows. Read the full story in The Daily Mail.