The Rockefeller wonks on Monday issued their 314-page findings without fanfare.
Frustrated with the state’s archaic formula for dispensing $25 billion in “Foundation Aid,” lawmakers and Gov. Hochul commissioned the Rockefeller Institute of Government, a research shop within the state university system, to have a look.But true to their penchant for following data wherever they lead, they bravely exposed the rotten underbelly of a public-education system lawmakers at best have been afraid to confront and at worst have purposefully concealed to benefit the teachers’ unions.
In every year, New York spent more than any other state, and by 2022 was spending 36% more than neighboring Massachusetts and close to double the national average. And even if the administrative overhead costs of schools were entirely deleted from its ledger, the Empire State would still outspend all but a few states.
Calls for a study came after Gov. Hochul sought a pair of modest tweaks to the Foundation Aid formula: one, a change to the inflation adjustment; the other, an end to a “save harmless” provision that essentially had the state sending hundreds of millions to shrinking school districts for imaginary students.Lawmakers screamed bloody murder at the prospect of students in some of the nation’s wealthiest districts getting less funding.
Yet it was careful to stay in its lane, as it explained how New York’s education spending came to be disconnected from reality, while avoiding the question of how little a return New York gets for its “investment.”
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