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Summing up the cuts for our local schools

Mar 31, 2011 6:39 am
An actual list of what cuts to state education aid will be affecting which school districts, statewide, accompanied the final budget figures and bills voted on in Albany late on March 30. Here is how it breaks down for Columbia and Greene Counties, in broad strokes:
Taconic Hills: State aid went up $188,540, a rise of 1.97 percent. This has the effect of a 0.58 percent hike in a total $32 million annual budget.
Chatham: The district loses $326,701 in state school aid, or a drop of 5.17 percent. That represents a 1.22 percent drop in a total $26.6 million annual budget.
Germantown: State school aid will drop by $22,286, or 4.74 percent. That's 1.6 percent in a total $13.6 million budget.
Hudson: They will lose $1,025,346, or 5.03 percent of their total from this year. That's 2.5 percent of their $41 million annual budget.
Ichabod Crane School District, in Kinderhook, is losing $588,691 in school aid, or 6.67 percent, representing 2.22 percent of their $37.3 million annual budget.
New Lebanon will see their state school aid drop by 2.61 percent, or $88,808, representing 0.7 percent of their annual $12.6 million budget.
Cairo-Durham School District will lose $1,474,442 of school aid, of 10.8 percent, which represents 5.31 percent of their $27.7 million annual budget.
Catskill will see their school aid drop $531,981, or 3.48 percent from this year's figures, representing a 1.5 percent drop in their total $35.4 million budget.
Coxsackie-Athens School District will see figures drop $632,384, or 7.62 percent, representing 2.5 percent of their $25 million budget.
Greenville will see a $574,683 drop in state school aid, down 5.6 percent from this year. That's 2.2 percent of their annual $26 million budget.
Hunter-Tannersville will have a $472,417 cut in school aid, or 19.2 percent from this year's figures. That's 3.6 percent of their annual $13 million budget.
Windham-Ashland-Jewett will see a $174,781 cut in state aid, or 12.4 percent from this year. That's 1.65 percent of their total $10.5 million annual budget.
More on exact breakdowns of these figures, and other cuts, in the coming days...