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Download full textEmpire 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
Direct linkSilverman, 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
Peer reviewedKearney, C. Philip – Journal of Education Finance, 1995
Examines Michigan's attempt to abolish the school property tax and implications for New York State policymakers. Michigan substantially reduced the local property tax for local school operations, adopted a permanent set of tax and revenue limits, and devised a problematic assessment cap. Totally eliminating the local school property tax may be…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Finance Reform, Property Taxes
New York State Education Dept., Albany. – 1995
This document contains eight articles that offer a nonpartisan evaluation of the pros and cons associated with tax reforms. They were written by members of the Technical Study Group, which was established by the New York State Department of Education in 1994 to examine the generation of revenue for public education. The work of the study group…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Finance Reform, Fiscal Capacity
Ambrosie, Frank – School Business Affairs, 1983
Discusses alternative sources for school funding to replace the traditional heavy reliance on local property taxes and addresses the problem of financial inequity between school districts. Proposes complete state financing of all school districts and an increased state income tax as possible alternatives to local property tax-based school funding.…
Descriptors: Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Full State Funding
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
