RELEASE: AQE Reacts to Senate Vote on “Bullet Aid” for Schools

May 2, 2012 Legislative & Political Updates

 AQE Reacts to Senate Vote on so-called “Bullet Aid” for Schools

For Immediate Release: Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Contact: Billy Easton, Executive Director, Alliance for Quality Education 518-432-5315

“There is no doubt the bullet aid will be welcome, and is sorely needed, in those classrooms that happen to be located in the right political zip codes. But the return to the most partisan of methodologies for distributing school aid is a real step backwards,” said Billy Easton, Executive Director, Alliance for Quality Education. “The bottom line is that repeated cycles of classroom cuts and recent changes in state policy have crippled the State’s commitment to objective and fair school funding and to quality education for all students. We need to get back on track with the statewide system of objective, fair and adequate classroom funding that was enacted to settle the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit–otherwise we will see even more cuts to everything from full-day kindergarten to college advance placement courses.”

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