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Empire Center for Public Policy, 2019
Over the past seven years, New York's cap on local property tax levies has generated billions of dollars in savings for homeowners and businesses, compared to previous trends. The cap has been especially effective in restraining school property taxes, which have long been the largest and fastest-growing component of New York's tax burden. The cap…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Schools, Taxes, Educational Finance, School Taxes
Thompson, Samuel Melton, IV – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This study analyzed the plausibility of merging school districts in New York State. The study considered how consolidation impacts finance, instruction, demographics, and enrollment for 56 public schools in Nassau County of the Long Island region of New York State. It also draws comparisons for county-, township-, and regionally-based school…
Descriptors: School District Reorganization, County School Districts, Consolidated Schools, Feasibility Studies
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Silverman, Robert Mark – Journal of Education Finance, 2011
This article examines voting results for school district budgets in New York from 2003-2010. Despite annual local property tax increases, 91.9% of proposed school district budgets were approved by voters during the period examined. Using data from the New York State Education Department (NYSED) and the American Community Survey (ACS), several…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Voting, School Taxes, Budgets