ALBANY—The Public Policy Institute has developed the following side-by-side comparison of the education reform and financing proposals advanced by the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, and by Governor Pataki's Commission on Education Reform.
The Campaign for Fiscal Equity the plaintiff in the case in which the Court of Appeals found that the state has failed to provide a sound, basic education for children in New York City has released some of its proposals in a series of news releases and news conferences in recent weeks; more are expected shortly
Governor
Pataki's Commission on Education Reform said today that the
state's schools need additional spending of somewhere between
$2.5 billion and $5.6 billion, phased in over the next five
years, if they are to meet the needs of students in high-poverty
and other stressed school systems
Despite the “crushing” burden Medicaid imposes
on New York taxpayers, “little has been done to bring
the costs under control,” largely because of the politically
powerful hospital workers union, according to a Gannett News
Service report
The number of obese and overweight adults in Upstate New
York increased by nearly a quarter-million from 1997 to 2002,
costing New Yorkers more than $6 billion a year in related
health-care costs, according to a study by Excellus BlueCross
BlueShield
ALBANY—New York State's workers' compensation system needs fundamental
reforms that will rein in the state's above-average cost without undermining
essential benefits, The Business Council told the state Legislature today.
"New York helped reduce its costs by enacting a first round of essential
reforms in 1996
New York lawmakers are in a deep fiscal hole, and need to
stop digging in deeper, said E.J. McMahon, a senior fellow
at the Manhattan Institute, speaking at The Business Council’s
annual Small Business Day.
In his presentation, titled “New York’s Busted
Budget,” McMahon noted that New York State’s budget
is growing at a rate the economy cannot and will not be able
to sustain
Speaking
at The Business Council's annual Small Business Day, Governor
Pataki today proposed a workers' compensation reform package
that would increase benefits while enacting reforms that would
ultimately cut employers' costs by 15 percent
New
York will not merely "throw money" at schools as its
seeks to comply with a court order that the state do more
to ensure a sound basic education for New York City students,
Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno told business leaders
Tuesday
How
companies that sell goods and services to New York State can
comply with new contract-disclosure requirements will be the
subject of a series of Business Council seminars scheduled
for Albany and Long Island in April
ALBANYElementary schools in Albany, Erie, Oswego, Queens, the Bronx,
and Delaware counties will receive The Business Council's 2004 Pathfinder
Award in separate ceremonies in late March and early April. The award
honors schools that show high improvement from one year to the next as
measured by their students' scores on state tests