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Download full textWiderquist, Karl – 2001
New York State's School Tax Relief Aid (STAR) heavily favors wealthier districts, partially reversing equalizing effects that state aid is designed to have. Normally state school aid helps bring less wealthy school districts closer to the standard of wealthier districts. It increases and makes up the lost revenue from taxpayers in the state as a…
Descriptors: Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Finance Reform
Widerquist, Karl – Educational Priorities Panel, 2001
A proposal in the New York State Assembly in 2000 considered eliminating Tax Equalization Aid to school districts in order to fund the elimination of aid caps, called Transition Adjustment. In response to that proposal, this report examines the equalizing or disequalizing effects of three types of New York state aid to school…
Descriptors: State Schools, Tax Rates, Tax Effort, State Aid
