Statement from DFER’s Joe Williams on attempts to eliminate Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s competitive grants for public school districts:
“Eliminating these grants to hard-working school districts is exactly the wrong way to go if you are trying to convince taxpayers that our public schools are worth funding at higher levels. This is not money that would be thrown at the same old crap. Taxpayers very much want to support their public schools, but they keep telling us in community after community that they care how the moolah is being spent. The Governor took a huge step in the right direction by linking funding to innovation and success. Walking away from that principle will have disastrous consequences for the long-term fiscal sustainability of our state’s struggling public education systems.”