Midday Magazine - Tim Kremer, New York State School Boards Association
As some education advocates praise the additional school funding announced as part of the New York State budget agreement, schools must now work through their own budgets, while, for the first time,...
View ArticleTim Kremer - executive director, the New York State School Boards Association
School budget votes will be held across New York next Tuesday, and this will be the first year that districts must comply with the states new two percent property tax cap. Most of the school budgets to...
View ArticleRichard Iannuzzi - Taking New York's Tax Cap to Court
The New York State United Teachers Union today filed suit in New York State Supreme Court in Albany to challenge the state's the 2% property tax cap enacted in June 2011. WAMC's Brian Shields was...
View ArticleRichard Iannuzzi: Standing Up for Equity in Education
Many listeners of this radio station awakened recently to the news that the teachers union has gone to court seeking to have New York State’s property tax cap declared unconstitutional. The property...
View ArticleNY School Districts Ready For Budget Re-votes
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — New York School districts that saw budgets fail in May will put plans up for new votes Tuesday. Under the state's tax cap law, school districts have two chances to get budgets...
View ArticleCuomo Starts New Push For Tax Freeze Proposal
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is starting a new push for his property tax freeze plan, while counties in the state say they have a better idea, which they say could result in lower property taxes in...
View ArticleBusiness Groups Knock Cuomo's Tax-Freeze Plan
Both houses of the New York state legislature are making changes to Andrew Governor Cuomo’s tax freeze plan in their budget proposals. And now, small business groups are speaking out, saying the...
View ArticleCuomo Announces Property Tax Credit Plan
Governor Andrew Cuomo says he’ll address in his new budget proposal what he considers to be New York’s number one problem, highest in the nation property taxes.
View ArticleCuomo Introduces Property Tax Credit Plan
Calling it the “major problem facing the state,” Governor Andrew Cuomo announced a plan to reduce New York’s highest in the nation rate of property taxes for some homeowners. But the program was not...
View ArticleMost Municipalities, School Districts Followed Tax Cap
New York tax officials say 84 percent of municipal governments and 97 percent of school districts have maintained the 2 percent property tax cap that entitles residents to state tax credits. Executive...
View ArticleCuomo Promotes Tax Cap Extension
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is promoting extending the New York’s property tax when it expires next year.
View ArticleMunicipalities And Workers Seek Changes To The Property Tax Cap
Leaders of all of the state’s local governments, as well as unions representing teachers and public workers, are warning state lawmakers not to simply renew the state’s property tax cap without some...
View ArticleTax Cap Pinch Causing Concern
Local governments and schools say they are struggling over a property tax cap that will allow what amounts to a zero percent increase in tax levies in the coming year. But Governor Cuomo says they’ll...
View ArticleNYS Comptroller Watching Troy Budget Yet To Be Resolved
As Troy makes efforts to solve its latest financial crisis, WAMC's Capital Region Bureau Chief Dave Lucas has an update on the New York state Comptroller's municipal audit of the Collar City.
View ArticleFew New York School Budgets Will Seek To Exceed Tax Cap
Voters in relatively few New York school districts will be asked to approve budgets that exceed the state's property tax cap.
View ArticleMorning Headlines With Miles Reed Of The Daily Gazette
WAMC's David Guistina speaks with Miles Reed, Editor of The Daily Gazette , about today's headlines, including New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's State of the State Address and b ugdet proposal Tuesday....
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